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Adrados, Francisco Rodriguez
FESTIVAL, COMEDY AND TRAGEDY The Greek Origins of Theatre
Slight sticker residue on spine. Former owner's stamp on fly-page. Foxing to top textblock. ; Analytic Study of Greek Theatre; 470 pages
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Willetts, R. F
ARISTOCRATIC SOCIETY IN ANCIENT CRETE
Large tear to dustjacket at top of spine. Dustjacket has shelfwear and rubbing. Former owner's signature on front fly-page. ; Study of the social, economic, political and legal institutions of Crete from the beginnings of the historical period until the Roman conquest of the Island. ; 280 pages
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King, Katherine Callen
HOMER
Light shelfwear. Light discoloration to bottom of boards. Ex-library copy with a few stamps. Pocket has been removed. ; Three essays written for, and two others translated for the collection are among the 19 studies of the impact of the Iliad and the Odyssey on succeeding ages since the fifth century BC. Among the writers considered are George Chapman (who first translated Homer into English in 1598) , Pope, Milton, Kafka, Goethe, Racine, Keats, Tolstoy, Joyce, and recent Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott . Looks at Homer's influence from Antiquity to the twentieth century. ; Garland Reference Library of the Humanities; 9 x 0.75 x 6 Inches; 330 pages
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Nagy, Gregory
PINDAR'S HOMER The Lyric Possession of An Epic Past
Light soiling to textblock. Light crease to corner. ; Nagy challenges the widely held view that the development of lyric poetry in Greece represents the rise of individual innovation over collective tradition. Arguing that Greek lyric represents a tradition in its own right, Nagy shows how the form of Greek epic is in fact a differentiation of forms found in Greek lyric. ; 1.35 x 9.04 x 6.04 Inches; 414 pages
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Nisetich, Frank J.
PINDAR AND HOMER
Light shelfwear and rubbing. ; Considers four odes which demonstrate how Pindar has borrowed and creatively transformed mythological figures, religious ideas, and epic diction from Homer or the epic cycle. ; AJP Monographs in Classical Philology, No. 4; 9.5 x 0.5 x 6.5 Inches; 112 pages
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Clark, Matthew
OUT OF LINE Homeric Composition Beyond the Hexameter
Very light shelfwear ; Building upon the groundbreaking work of Milman Parry and Albert Lord, "Out of Line" presents a new theory of Homeric composition, focusing upon patterns that extend beyond the boundary of the line and the clause. Matthew Clark takes enjambment as a starting point, analyzing the techniques used by the poet to complete a line that begins with a runover. Clark proceeds to propose two levels of analysis, a "deep-structure" level, which describes the associations of words and ideas before they take metrical form, and a "surface-structure" level, which describes the words as they are employed on any particular occasion. "Out of Line" combines formulaic and metrical analysis, expanding the study of Homeric meter both in practice, by taking into account larger compositional structures such as entire scenes, and in theory, by using the results to test models of formulaic composition. This book is important for students and scholars of Homer, epic, and oral literature. ; 0.83 x 9.29 x 6.19 Inches; 264 pages
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Fenik, Bernard
HOMER AND THE NIBELUNGENLIED Comparative Studies in Epic Style
Bumping to corners. Light soiling to boards. ; A sturyd of certain kinds of artistic design shared by the ancient Greek and medieval European epic. Also looks at Chanson de Roland and Rolandslied. ; Martin Classical Lectures; 0.87 x 9.64 x 6.45 Inches; 230 pages
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Clarke, Howard W.
THE ART OF THE ODYSSEY
Bottom corner of pages are creased else NF. ; Provides criticism, sound scholarship, and systematic explication of the characters, action, events, and artistic devices of the Odyssey. ; 0.29 x 9.03 x 6.01 Inches; 120 pages
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Gentili, Bruno; Cole, A. Thomas
POETRY AND ITS PUBLIC IN ANCIENT GREECE From Homer to the Fifth Century
Light bump to bottom of spine. ; This superb and fascinating book insists upon trying to place the poetry of Sappho, Alcaeus, Pindar, Archilochus, and others within its social and ritual contexts: oral performance, patron/poet relationship, and religious or communal function. Considering the evidence, such efforts must at times rely upon inspiration, but the close textual readings of individual poems, judicious use of anthropological method, and inclusion of many of the recently discovered fragments creates a vivid picture. ; 0.97 x 8.94 x 6.08 Inches; 408 pages
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Vivante, Paolo
THE ILIAD Action As Poetry
Light rubbing to one corner of DJ. ; The author describes the poem's historical context, explores the structure of the narrative and discusses the poetic quality of the work. The book surveys other criticisms of the work, and suggests some of its own. ; Twayne's Masterwork Studies; 9.25 x 0.75 x 5.75 Inches; 150 pages
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Sienkewicz, Thomas J.
CLASSICAL EPIC An Annotated Bibliography
Bibliography of Greek and Roman epic including Homer's Iliad and Odyssey and Vergil's Aeneid; Magill Bibliographies; 1.09 x 9.18 x 6.46 Inches; 265 pages
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Stewart, Douglas J
THE DISGUISED GUEST Rank, Role, and Identity in the Odyssey
Bottom edge of back board shows indentations. DJ is slightly soiled. Dustjacket has a few small nicks and tears. ; Attempts to find the meaning of the Odyssey in its entirety. ; 221 pages
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Mason, Harold Andrew
TO HOMER THROUGH POPE An Introduction to Homer's Iliad and Pope's Translation
Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers and pocket. Dustjacket is protected in mylar. ; As fewer and fewer people learn to read ancient Greek, there is a need for a critical study of the most influential translations that have been made from the major works of ancient Greek literature. Mason’s monograph offers exactly that for readers of the "Iliad" and the "Odyssey. " More particularly, he presents a persuasive argument for reading Alexander Pope’s translation, his accompanying notes, and his "Essay on Criticism. " These merit careful study, for they illuminate Pope’s principles as a translator and constitute one of the most intelligent and penetrating commentaries on the poetic qualities of the epics ever written in English. Mason’s new insights, along with his stringent and lively comments, will bring readers closer to a real understanding of Homer, whether they read him in the original or come to him in translation for the first time. They will also find here a masterly appreciation of Pope. ; 216 pages
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Collins, Christopher
AUTHORITY FIGURES Metaphors of Mastery from the Iliad to the Apocalypse
Reveals how certain strategic metaphors embedded in the early Western literary canon have promoted--and continue to promote--systems of inequality and social control. Collins examines texts ranging from the Homeric epics and the Platonic dialogues to Virgil's "Aeneid" and the "Book of Revelation". Drawing on the linguistic and documentary evidence of usages in early societies, chiefly Greek and Hebrew, Collins has produced a penetrating examination of social and personal structures in those worlds. ; 9.5 x 0.75 x 6.5 Inches; 196 pages
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Louden, Bruce
THE ODYSSEY Structure, Narration, and Meaning
Dustjacket has minor shelfwear and rubbing. ; 0.98 x 9.37 x 6.31 Inches; 208 pages; Bruce Louden's bold re-reading of the Odyssey -- the first attempt in years to map in detail the poem's overall structure -- offers new insights into the artistry of Odysseus' mythic voyage and enriches our understanding of Homer's masterful craftsmanship. Louden's groundbreaking work uncovers an extended narrative pattern, repeated in full three times, which reveals the poem's underlying skeletal structure. This organizational analysis helps to explain the existence of several characters or episodes sometimes dismissed as extraneous, as late additions, or even as corruptions to Homer's original intent. In addition, Louden's discovery strengthens the suggestion that the Odyssey was the product of oral tradition. By repeating this sequence of successive motifs, a single, improvising bard could explore a variety of complex ideas within a poem as long as the Odyssey. Though centrally concerned with the form of Homer's rich and complex plot, Louden's study is not exclusively, or even primarily, formalistic. His investigation involves the study of characters' names, challenges faced by Odysseus, the structure of the poem, and roles assigned to the poem's female characters. Louden's comprehensive achievement gives the reader a fresh perspective on the role of divine hostility and the artistry of an epic survivor on his timeless journey home.
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Vivante, Paolo
THE EPITHETS IN HOMER A Study in Poetic Values
Light soiling to textblock and boards. Former owner's name on ffep; Looks at the noun-epithet phrases in Homer. ; 222 pages
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Korus, Kazimierz
DIE GRIECHISCHE SATIRE Die Theoretischen Grundlagen Und Ihre Anwendung Auf Homers Epik
Front cover has some creasing. Top corner of pages are all creased. Good reading copy. ; Table of Contents: Forschungsstand, Charakter und Ziel der Arbeit; Auf der Suche nach einem eindeutigen Forschungskriterium: Untersuchungen zur Theorie der Menippeischen Satire; Die satirischen Dialoge Lukians; Das Komische in den satirischen Díalogen; Die Unterscheidungsmerkmale der satirischen Strukturen; Die satirischen Strukturen in Homers Epik; Thersites-Szene (Il. II 212-277) ; Das Lied des Demodokos über Ares und Aphrodite (Od. VIII 266-369). ; Prace historycznoliterackie; 144 pages
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Scholten, Joseph B.
THE POLITICS OF PLUNDER Aitolians and Their Koinon in the Early Hellenistic Era, 279-217 B. C.
Light shelfwear to DJ. ; Between 279 and 229 B. C. , the Aitolian koinon, a federation of mountain cantons in west central Greece, expanded to incorporate many of the neighboring lands and peoples lying between the Adriatic and Aegean Seas. This new political configuration contributed to the development of modern systems of federal democracy based on proportional representation. Despite these institutional advances, the Aitolians and their polity are reviled in the ancient historical tradition, which views them as backward, semi-barbarous brigands. The Politics of Plunder is the first English-language book in over a century to examine the political history of the Aitolian koinon in its era of expansion. Joseph Scholten presents a chronological reconstruction of the koinon's course of expansion, synthesizing a number of recent studies covering Aitolian topography, epigraphy, and institutional development that help to compensate for deficiencies in the ancient narrative record. His study is the first to ask how a people and a polity so detested by their contemporaries succeeded in making such fundamental contributions to their regional political culture. Scholten's careful investigation charts a middle course that neither whitewashes the Aitolians nor credulously accepts the biased ancient tradition. This balanced approach provides a much-needed fresh perspective on the Aitolians and their koinon. Discussing the history of the ancient Aegean Greek world and the political, economic, and social history of the Hellenistic Era, this book will interest anyone concerned with those subjects or fascinated by the development of ancient Greek political institutions and theories, particularly federalism. ; Hellenistic Culture and Society; 2.72 x 9.31 x 7.94 Inches; 339 pages
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Ager, Sheila L.
INTERSTATE ARBITRATIONS IN THE GREEK WORLD, 337-90 B.C
Hellenistic Culture and Society; 1.63 x 9.3 x 6.35 Inches; 579 pages; A great deal of information has come to light over the past several decades about the role of arbitration between the Greek states. Arbitration and mediation were, in fact, central institutions in Hellenistic public life. In this comprehensive study, Sheila Ager brings together the scattered body of literary and epigraphical sources on arbitration, together with up-to-date bibliographic references, and commentary.
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Cameron, Alan
CLAUDIAN Poetry and Propaganda At the Court of Honorius
Dustjacket has minor shelfwear and rubbing else NF. ; Later reprint by Sandpiper Books. As a propagandist Claudian offers unique illumination of the intrigues inside and between the rival courts of Milan and Constantinople in the decisive years following the death of Theodosius the Great. Though a Greek by birth, Claudian revived Latin poetry with a flair not seen since the Silver Age- and not to be seen again. This book studies Claudian's political and propagandist techniques, his accounts of Stilico's campaigns and rivals, his debt to Greek rhetorical theory and contemporary poetry, his culture, attitudes to Rome and its problems and, not least, his position as a pagan at a Christian court. ; 508 pages
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Post, Levi Arnold
FROM HOMER TO MENANDER Forces in Greek poetic fiction
Foxing to textblock. Shelfwear and rubbing to boards. Minor edgewear to corners. ; Looks at Greek epic, comedy and tragedy from a single viewpoint. ; Sather classical lectures; 333 pages
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Knight, W. F. Jackson
MANY-MINDED HOMER An Introduction
Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers and pocket. Shelfwear. ; Edited by John D. Christie. Contents: Epic Poetry; Homeric Epic; The Time & Place of Homer; Trojan Story; Homeric Myth & Legend; The Sources of Homer; The Unity of Homer; The Greatness of Homer. ; 224 pages
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Pickman, Edward Motley
THE SEQUENCE OF BELIEF A Consideration of Religious Thought from Homer to Ockham
Spine has discoloration spots and traces of removed call number. Ex-library copy with usual stamps. Light edgewear and rubbing. ; 741 pages
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Beye, Charles Rowan
THE ILIAD, THE ODYSSEY, AND THE EPIC TRADITION
Very light foxing to top of textblock. Minor shelfwear and rubbing. ; 263 pages
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Anderson, Michael John & H. D. F. Kitto
CLASSICAL DRAMA AND ITS INFLUENCE Essays Presented to H. D. F. Kitto in Honour of His Retirement
Book is slightly cocked. Dustjacket has minor shelfwear and rubbing. ; Collection of essays range over the whole field of Drama from the function of the mask in the Greek Theatre to the undermining of the Classical Ideal in the Fair Theatres of Paris in the eighteenth century. ; 277 pages
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Griffith, Mark
THE AUTHENTICITY OF 'PROMETHEUS BOUND'
Soiling to textblock. Light shelfwear else Near Fine ; Still the most comprehensive book on the subject of the authorship of Prometheus Bound. ; Cambridge Classical Studies; 419 pages
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Vermeule, Emily Townsend
GÖTTERKULT
Light soiling. ; Band III, Kapitel V. Contents: Einfuhrung; Minoische Einflusse in der spathelladischen religiosen Tradition; Der mykenische Kult nach den archaologischen Zeugnissen; Der mykenische Kult nach den Linear B-- Dokumenten; Das Dunkle Zeitalter, eine Ubergangsphase; Der Götterkult bei Homer; Kultdenkmaler des homerischen Zeitalters; Zusammenfassrung; Literatur ; Archaeologia Homerica; 205 pages
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Forbes, Robert James
BERGBAU, STEINBRUCHTÄTIGKEIT UND HÜTTENWESEN
Light soiling. A few pages are uncut. ; Band II, Kapitel K. Contents: Bergwerke und Steinbruche; Die vorklassische Entwicklung des Huttenwesens; Metalle; Weiterverabeitung der Rohmetalle; Zusammenfassung; Bergmannische und metallurgische Fachausdrucke; Literatur. ; Archaeologia Homerica: Die Denkmäler Und Das Frühgriechische Epos. ; 43 pages
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Staten, Henry
EROS IN MOURNING From Homer to Lacan
Dustjacket has light rubbing. Light shelfwear. ; Eros in Mourning begins with a reading of the Iliad that shows how Homer, not yet influenced by the ideology of transcendence, analyzes the structure of unassuageable mourning in a way that is as up-to-date as the latest poststructuralism. Then, in readings of Dante, Hamlet, La Princess de Clèves, Heart of Darkness, and Lacan, Staten depicts the "thanato-erotic" hysteria that is set off by the specter of the dead and decomposing body that is also the body of sexual love and which, in the "transcendentalizing" tradition, is more female than male. Yet, St. John, certain troubadours, and Milton offer glimpses of a more affirmative relation to "eros in mourning. " ; 9.5 x 1 x 6.5 Inches; 248 pages
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Fenik, Bernard
HOMER AND THE NIBELUNGENLIED Comparative Studies in Epic Style
A sturyd of certain kinds of artistic design shared by the ancient Greek and medieval European epic. Also looks at Chanson de Roland and Rolandslied. ; Martin Classical Lectures; 0.87 x 9.64 x 6.45 Inches; 230 pages
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Lord, George De Forest
HEROIC MOCKERY Variations on Epic Themes from Homer to Joyce
Dustjacket is price-clipped, and rubbed. ; 8.75 x 0.75 x 5.75 Inches; 162 pages
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Bornemann, Eduard
ODYSSEE INTERPRETATIONEN Zugleich Eine Einführung in Die Sprachlichen Und Sachlichen Probleme Des Epos
Shelfwear. Pages are yellowed. ; 8vo; 171 pages
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Gay, Federico Ferro
LOS FILÓSOFOS PRESOCRÁTICOS De Homero a Demócrito
Shelfwear; In Spanish/ En Espanol; 8vo; 149 pages
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Farnell, Lewis R.
OUTLINE HISTORY OF GREEK RELIGION
Light soiling to covers. Light general wear. ; Unchanged Reprint of 1921. Looks at the Origin of ancient Greek religion, its rites, its influence on society and culture as well as the origins of the gods and myths From Prehistoric Times until after the death of Alexander the Great ; 9 x 0.5 x 6 Inches; 160 pages
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Tod, Marcus Niebuhr
SIDELIGHTS ON GREEK HISTORY Three Lectures on the Light Thrown by Greek Inscriptions on the Life and Thought of the Ancient World.
Unchanged Reprint of 1932. Contents: I. Characteristics and Value of The Evidence Derived from Inscriptions; II. Inter-State Arbitration in the Greek World; III. Clubs and Societies in the Greek World. ; 9.5 x 0.5 x 6.25 Inches; 96 pages
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Hasebroek, Johannes
TRADE AND POLITICS IN ANCIENT GREECE
Checkmarks inscribed on table of Contents. Soiling to boards and textblock. ; Unchanged Reprint of 1933. Translated by L. M. Frazer and D. C. Macgregor. ; 9.25 x 1 x 6.25 Inches; 187 pages
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Rushforth, Gordon McNeil
LATIN HISTORICAL INSCRIPTIONS Illustrating the History of the Early Empire
Underlining in pen on a few pages, otherwise NF. Light foxing to textblock. ; Unchanged Reprint of 1930. Deciphers Latin inscriptions.
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Woolhouse, W. S. B.
HISTORICAL MEASURES, WEIGHTS, CALENDARS AND MONEYS OF ALL NATIONS And an Analysis of the Christian, Hebrew and Muhammadan Calendars (With Tables Up to 2000 A. D. )
Mild staining to pastedowns. Mild staining to boards. ; Unchanged Reprint of 1890. Contents: Standards; Computation of Coins and Bullion; General Principles of Exchange; Measures, Weights and Moneys; II. Measures of Time: Gregorian Calendar; Hebrew Calendar; Mahometan Calendar. ; 8 x 1 x 5 Inches
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Stein, Aurel
ON ALEXANDER'S TRACK TO THE INDUS Personal Narrative of Explorations on the North-West Frontier of India Carried Out Under the Orders of H. M. Indian Government
Light Foxing to textblock. Boards show slight water damage. ; Unchanged Reprint of 1929. Account of the intrepid adventures and amazing discoveries of the great explorer and archaeologist Sir Marc Aurel Stein, who traveled in the footsteps of Alexander the Great; 9.25 x 1 x 6.25 Inches; 182 pages
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Hall, Wade H. (Bullock)
THE ROMANS ON THE RIVIERA AND THE RHONE A Sketch of the Conquest of Liguria and the Roman Province
Light foxing to textblock. Minor shelfwear. ; Unchanged Reprint of 1898. Looks at the history of the Romans on the Italian and Roman Rivieras. ; 9.5 x 0.75 x 0.65 Inches
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Tozer, Henry F.
LECTURES ON THE GEOGRAPHY OF GREECE
Light rippling to front cloth board. ; Unchanged Reprint of 1882. Looks at the geography of Greece including an etymology of place-names and connections to greek Mythology. ; 405 pages
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Kenyon, Frederic G.
BOOKS AND READERS IN ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME
Light soiling. ; Unchanged Reprint of 1932. Although the subject of the book is primarily bibliographical, namely, the methods of book making from the date of Homer until the supersession of papyrus by vellum in the fourth century CE, one of its main objects has been to show the bearings of the material and form of books on literary history and criticism, and to consider what new light has been thrown by recent research on the origin and growth of the habit of reading in ancient Greece and Rome. Contents: 1. The use of books in ancient Greece. 2.The papyrus roll. 3. Books and reading at home. 4. Vellum and the codex. ; 8.5 x 0.75 x 5.75 Inches; 136 pages
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Rose, J. Holland
THE MEDITERRANEAN IN THE ANCIENT WORLD
Light soiling to textblock. ; Unchanged Reprint of 1934. Contents: Mediterranean as the Nursery for Navigation; Graeco-Phoenician Rivalries; The Punic-Roman Struggle for Sicily; Roman Supremacy in the Western Medaiterranean; Roman Supremacy in the Eastern Mediterranean; Mediterranean Empire and its Influence; Notes on References to the Sea in Roman Literature. ; 8.75 x 0.5 x 6 Inches
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Tod, Marcus Niebuhr
GREEK HISTORICAL INSCRIPTIONS From the Sixth Century B. C. to the Death of Alexander the Great in 323 B. C.
Checkmarks in margin on a couple of pages. Front corner is lightly creased. ; Two Volumes in One; 9.5 x 0.5 x 6.25 Inches; 343 pages
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Gilbert, Gustav
THE CONSTITUTIONAL ANTIQUITIES OF SPARTA AND ATHENS
Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers and pocket. Spine is cocked. Corners are bumped. Boards show signs of creasing. Edgewear. ; Reprint edition of 1895. ; 463 pages
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Duckworth, George Eckel
THE NATURE OF ROMAN COMEDY A Study in Popular Entertainment
Corners and spine ends are worn and slightly fraying. Moderate edgewear. Slight Discoloration to front board. ; The study of roman Comedy is a study of the work of two comic poets, Titus Maccius Plautus and Publius Terentius Afer. Looks at the twenty extant plays of Plautus and the six by Terence. Also looks at Greek Comedy and Roman Comedy's influence on later authors. ; 501 pages
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Sullivan, John Patrick
CRITICAL ESSAYS ON ROMAN LITERATURE Elegy and Lyric
Former owner's stamp on fly-page. Bottom corner is bumped. DJ has chipping along top and bottom edges. A couple of small pieces are missing from DJ. ; A collection of chapters on the major lyric and elegiac poets of Rome-- Catullus, Tibullus, Propertius, Ovid and Horace. Translations are provided of all the Latin passages quoted. ; 225 pages
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Robertson, Donald Struan
A HANDBOOK OF GREEK & ROMAN ARCHITECTURE
Book has a bumped corner and bumped bottom back board. Dustjacket has tears and chipping. DJ has some browning. DJ is price-clipped. Former classics professor's stamp on fly-page. ; Looks at the history of Greek, Etruscan and Roman architecture from the earliest period to the foundation of Constantinople. ; 407 pages
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Welles, C. Bradford
ALEXANDER AND THE HELLENISTIC WORLD
Former owner's signature on fly page. Adhesive stain on outer cover from removed call-number. Colour loss to a small portion of front wrap. Former institution's bookplate on inner cover. ; 265 pages
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Jones, A. H. M
ATHENIAN DEMOCRACY
Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers and pocket. Small adhesive stain to spine. Light pencil underlining on a few pages. ; Five essays: The Economic Basis of the Athenian Democracy; The Athens of Demosthenes; Athenian Democracy and its Critics; Social Structure of Athens in the Fourth Century B. C. ; How did the Athenian Democracy Work? ; 198 pages
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