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Greenhalgh, P. A. L.
POMPEY The Republican Prince
Red pen line along bottom of textblock. Dustjacket has minor shelfwear and rubbing. ; Authoritative account of Pompey the Great from 58 B. C. Down to his murder in Egypt ten years later. Illustrated with photographs of coins and sculptures. ; 320 pages
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Glover, T. R.
HERODOTUS
Book has shelfwear and rubbing. Light edgewear to spine ends. ; Examines Herodotus and his Histories. ; 301 pages
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Stewart, Roberta L.
PUBLIC OFFICE IN EARLY ROME Ritual Procedure and Political Practice
Light bump to bottom of spine. ; 9.5 x 1.25 x 6.5 Inches; 272 pages; <div>Studies of Roman politics have traditionally emphasized individual personalities or groups of personalities and have explained political behavior in terms of contests for individual power or group power. By contrast, Roberta Stewart focuses on being the religious institution of the "allotment" of duties among elected officials as a primary control on Roman politics. She examines in detail the procedure of allotment, the roles of popular election and allotment in defining public authority and duty, and the relationship between the Roman Senate and elected officials. Allotment is seen to reflect Republican ideology about the divine sanction of Roman leadership, military enterprise, and empire. <br></div><div>Allotment is examined in particular historical contexts, and the successive formations of public office in 444, 367, and 242 b. C. E. Are analyzed as a series of political solutions in an evolving cultural context. The discussion documents the ritual definition of allotments and the historical development of distinctive features of Republican political office: the equal authority of colleagues (collegiality) , the individual authority and accountability for an allotted function (provincia) , the procedural alternative to allotment (comparatio) , and the hierarchy of offices with imperium (the consuls and praetors). Public Office in Early Rome will be of great interest for scholars and students of Roman religion, government, and history. Roberta Stewart is Associate Professor of Classics, Dartmouth College.
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Cumont, Franz Valery Marie
AFTER LIFE IN ROMAN PAGANISM Lectures Delivered At Yale University on the Silliman Foundation
This book has some age wear and browning but generally it is in pretty good condition. Foxing to prelims. Bumping to spine ends and corners. Former owner's bookplate on inner cover. Inside hinge is cracked exposing webbing underneath. Light pencil notes to inner covers-- Text unaffected. ; Examines one of the most colorful historical epochs- between the republican period and the fall of Roman paganism. This was an era when religions, mysteries, and superstition fought, one with the other, for the true answer to the questions of life and after life. ; Mrs. Hepsa Ely Silliman Memorial Lectures
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Wickersham, John & Gerald Verbrugghe
THE FOURTH CENTURY B.C.
Dustjacket is protected in mylar. Dustjacket and book have very minor shelfwear. ; Illuminates the diplomatic narrative of the period covered (403-336 B. C. ). Each of the translations have a commentary in order to supply needed background information and narrative continuity. ; Greek Historical Documents; 129 pages
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Naville, Edouard Henri
THE STORE-CITY OF PITHOM AND THE ROUTE OF THE EXODUS With Thirteen Plates and Two Maps
Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers and pocket. Boards are yellowed. Edgewear to boards. Corners are worn. Former owner's signature has been deleted. Light foxing. ; Contents: Tell-El-Maskhutah; Names of the Ancient City; Description of Pithom; History of Pithom; Monuments Discovered; Geographical Remarks; Route of the Exodus; Ptolemy Philadelphos. ; First Memoir of the Egypt Exploration Fund
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McDonald, William Andrew
THE DISCOVERY OF HOMERIC GREECE
Top Corners are lightly bumped. Small tear to top of spine. DJ has edgewear and rubbing. DJ is price-clipped. ; Looks at the history of Archaeology and the discovery of Mycenaean civilization. ; 476 pages
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Souter, Alexander
NOVUM TESTAMENTUM GRAECE Textui a Retractatoribus Anglis Adhibito Brevem Adnotationem Criticam Subiecit
Light shelfwear. Former owner's stamp to front fly-page. Former owner's signature on fly page.
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Grimal, Pierre
HELLENISM AND THE RISE OF ROME
Former owner's signature on front free-page. Very light soiling. ; A study of the Hellenistic world from the death of Alexander the Great and the rise of his successors to the defeat of Hannibal in the Second Punic War. ; Delacorte World History VI; 418 pages
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Mommsen, Theodor; Edited and with an Introduction By T. Robert S. Broughton
THE PROVINCES OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE The European Provinces. SELECTIONS from the HISTORY of ROME, VOL. 5, BOOK 8
One corner lightly bumped. Former owner's stamp on front free-page. Dustjacket has shelfwear and rubbing causing discoloration to top corner. ; 363 pages; A master of history, law, language, numismatics and epigraphy, Mommsen describes and illuminates the political, social and cultural institutions of the many people of a vast empire.
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Feenstra, R.
COLLATIO IURIS (IVRIS) ROMANI Études Dédiées à Hans Ankum à L’occasion De Son 65e Anniversaire
Unwrapped in Plastic. 2 volume set. ; 2 Volume Set. Studia Amstelodamensia Ad Epigraphicam, Ius Antiquum Et Papyrologicam Pertinentia, 35; 746 pages; Contributors : M. Amelotti, G. G. Archi, P. Birks, Y. Bongert, C. A. Cannata, J. De Churucca, A. Corbino, R. Feenstra, J. Gaudemet, Th. Giménez Candela, W. M. Gordon, A. S. Hartkamp, A. M. Honoré, M. Humbert, G. Klingenberg, R. Knütel, Chr. Krampe, L. Labruna, J. -Ph. Lévy, D. Liebs, J. H. A. Lokin, G. MacCormack, A. D. Manfredini, J. MélÈze Modrzejewski, Th. Mayer-Maly, J. Menner, R. Mentxaka, A. Metro, J. -H. Michel, J. Miquel, P. L. NÈve, D. Nörr, A. D’Ors, ÝG. Pugliese, J. M. Rainer, H. -A. Rupprecht, B. Santalucia, H. C. F. Schoordijk, E. J. H. Schrage, P. J. Sijpesteijn, J. E. Spruit, P. G. Stein, F. Sturm, M. Talamanca, L. Vacca, R. Verstegen, R. Vigneron, A. Wacke, L. Waelkens, W. Waldstein, H. J. Wieling, L. C. Winkel, W. Wolodkiewicz, K. A. Worp, F. B. J. Wubbe, R. Yaron, K. -H. Ziegler, J. Zlinszky.
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Evans, J. A. S. (Ed. )
POLIS AND IMPERIUM Studies in Honour of Edward Togo Salmon
Rubbing on back cover else Fine ; Big names contribute articles to this volume: A. G. McKay, T. Robert S. Broughton, Malcolm F. McGregor, C. D. Gordon, Frank W. Walbank, Mary E. White, Maurice Lebel, Emilio Gabba, M. James Moscovich, E. Badian, G. Hermansen, H. H. Scullard, K. H. Waters, c. M. Wells, E. A. Judge, J. A. S. Evans. ; 317 pages
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Homer; Allen, Thomas W.
HOMERI ILIAS Tomus I: Prolegomena, Tomus II: Libros I-XII Continens, Tomvs III: Libros XIII-XXIV Continens
Light shelfwear to set and djs. ; Special Edition for Sandpiper books ; 3 Volume Set; This Greek text of the Iliad is based on scrupulous collations of papyri and medieval manuscripts begun in 1888, and comprises the complete text of the 1920 with a more elaborate apparatus and volume of the Prolegomena. Some of the author's more notorious hypotheses on the composition and language are mentioned briefly in Prolegomena part V.
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Feder, Theodore H.
GREAT TREASURES OF POMPEII & HERCULANEUM
Light shelfwear. ; Illustrated with 49 color plates, Many full-page size. ; Folio 13" - 23" tall; 104 pages
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McKay, Alexander Gordon
VITRUVIUS, ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER Buildings and Building Techniques in Augustan Rome
Rubbing to wraps else NF. ; Inside the Ancient World; 88 pages
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Bailey, S. K.
ROMAN LIFE AND LETTERS A Reader for the Sixth Form
Spine is sunned. Light foxing. ; 195 pages; Latin passages are introduced with a commentary in English. Glossary and notes are in English.
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Bishop, John
NERO The Man and the Legend
Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers and pocket. End pocket has been removed leaving residue on free end-page. Underlining in red pen on a few pages. Moderate shelfwear to book. Dustjacket is protected in plastic.
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Brown, Peter
AUTHORITY AND THE SACRED Aspects of the Christianisation of the Roman World
Gift inscription on title page else Fine. ; Canto original series; 0.27 x 5.72 x 8.52 Inches; 107 pages; The Christianization of the Roman world lies at the root of modern Europe. Peter Brown's fascinating study examines the factors that proved decisive and the compromises that made the emergence of the Christian conception of existence possible: how the old gods of the Roman Empire could be reinterpreted as symbols to further the message of the Church. Peter Brown also shows how Christian holy men were less representative of a triumphant faith than negotiators of a working compromise between the new faith and traditional ways of dealing with the supernatural worlds.
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Conacher, D. J.
AESCHYLUS' PROMETHEUS BOUND A Literary Commentary
Minor shelfwear. ; Signed by Conacher: "For Robert, with kindest regards, Desmond" ; Canadian University Paperbooks; 0.38 x 7.84 x 5.06 Inches; 198 pages; Provides a throrough analysis of the literary and non-literary aspects of Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound essential for an understanding of the play. ; Signed by Author
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Carcopino, Jerome
CICERO: THE SECRETS OF HIS CORRESPONDENCE [2 VOLUME SET] Vol. I & II
Both volumes have discoloration from exposure to sunlight. Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers and pocket. Else VG. ; 2 Volume Set; Vol. 1/2/2022
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Taylor, Lily Ross
THE DIVINITY OF THE ROMAN EMPEROR
Light pencil underlining on a few pages. Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers and pocket. Corners bumped. Head of spine is slightly frayed. Gilt lettering on spine is faded. Still a solid copy. ; "Establishes the context of worship in the Roman state cult, Taylor brings her readers back a couple of centuries prior, to Alexander's time and other Hellenistic rulers. Then she guides the reader through Rome's Republic, Julius Caesar's attempts to make for himself a divine monarchy, his death and apotheosis. And logically the account follows Caesar's son, Augustus (the divi filius) and the founding of the imperial cult in Rome and throughout the empire. Taylor closes her work with Augustus' deification. "; Philological Monographs of the American Philological Association, No. 1; 296 pages
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Michell, H
THE ECONOMICS OF ANCIENT GREECE
Top of spine is bumped. Shelfwear. ; The history of Greek Economic Life. Contents: Background of Greek Economics; Agriculture; Mining and Minerals; Labour; Industry; Commerce; Trade in Various Products. Greeks and Phoenicians. Piracy; Money and Banking; Public Finance. ; 427 pages
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Flaceliere, Robert
GREEK ORACLES
Dustjacket has small nicks and tears-- chipping along edges. Former owner has corrected the DJ blurb in marker in three spots. Text is free of writing. Book has minor shelfwear and rubbing. ; Translated by Douglas Garman. Looks at the history of divination in Greek Society and politics includes a history of the Oracle at Delphi. ; 92 pages
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Worthington, Ian & John Miles Foley
EPEA AND GRAMMATA. ORAL AND WRITTEN COMMUNICATION IN ANCIENT GREECE Orality and Literacy in Ancient Greece
Mnemosyne, Bibliotheca Classica Batava Supplementum; 0.77 x 9.72 x 6.52 Inches; 224 pages; This volume deals with aspects of orality and oral traditions in ancient Greece, and is a selection of refereed papers from the fourth biennial Orality and Literacy in Ancient Greece conference, held at the University of Missouri Columbia in 2000.The book is divided into three parts: literature, rhetoric and society, and philosophy. The papers focus on genres such as epic poetry, drama, poetry and art, public oratory, legislative procedure, and Simplicius’ philosophy. All papers present new approaches to their topics or ask new and provocative questions.
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Clausing, Roth
THE ROMAN COLONATE The Theories of its Origin
With an introduction by Vladimir G. Simkhovitch. Looks at the development of the institution of the Roman colonate and its intimate connection with the decline of ancient civilization and persistance through most of the Middle Ages. ; Studies in History, Economics, and Public Law, V. 117, No. 1, Whole No. 260; 333 pages
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Courtney, Julia & Paula James
THE ROLE OF THE PARROT IN SELECTED TEXTS FROM OVID TO JEAN RHYS Telling a Story from an Alternative Viewpoint
One small bump along top edge of board else Fine. ; 9 x 0.75 x 6.25 Inches; 227 pages; This book features the efforts of a group of academics from diverse disciplines that have been working together to highlight the presence of the parrot in selected texts across the centuries. Their common purpose is to demonstrate that fictional parrots invariably function as more than decoration, comedy or badges denoting the eccentricity of their human owners. These versatile and talented birds function as markers for subtle literary techniques. Using the parrot as an interpretative tool the focus is on a range of narrative strategies and metaphorical meanings employed by the authors in question and argue that these are embodied in the attributes of the speaking bird who figures significantly in each work. Contents: 1. Two Poetic and Parodic Parrots in Latin Literature by Paula James 2. ‘A Byrde of Paradyse’: - Skelton’s Speke Parot and the Parrots of its Context by Susan Purdie 3. The Nunnery Parrot: Gresset’s Ver-Vert and his English translators by John Gilmore 4. The View from the Perch: Flaubert’s Loulou by Julia Courtney 5. Parrot as Paradigm: Stevenson and others by Julia Courtney 6. Parrots in Children’s Fiction by Hilary Clare 7. Coco: A Parrot of Few Words in Wide Sargasso Sea by Paula James 8. The Scientific Background to Parrots in Literature by Caroline Pond
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Gallavotti, C. and A. Sacconi
INSCRIPTIONES PYLIAE Ad Mycenaeam Aetatem Pertinentes
Dustjacket is protected in mylar. Light edgewear along top edge of DJ. Ffep has wear along inner hinge exposing two small holes (does not extend into text). ; Collection of inscriptions important for Mycenaean studies. Commentary is in Latin. ; Incunabula Graeca Vol. 1; 204 pages
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Carter, Jesse Benedict
THE RELIGIOUS LIFE OF ANCIENT ROME A Study in the Development of Religious Consciousness, from the Foundation of the City Until the Death of Gregory the Great
Book has minor shelfwear and rubbing. ; Reprint of 1911. Chapters Include: Rome and the Etruscans; Rome and Greece: The Religion Of Superstition And The Decline Of Faith; Religion Of The Early Empire; Constantine And Christianity; Julian called the Apostate: Twilight of the Gods; Augustine And The City Of God; Benedict And The Ostrogoths; Gregory And The Lombards: The Preparation For The Holy Roman Empire. ; 270 pages
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Brown, Frank E. & Emeline Richardson & L. Richardson
COSA III: THE BUILDINGS OF THE FORUM Colony, Municipium, and Village
Corners are bumped else NF. Dustjacket has shelfwear and rubbing. Dustjacket has edgewear with light chipping and a couple of small closed tears along bottom edge. ; The Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome Volume XXXVII; 431 pages; Cosa was a Latin colonia founded under Roman influence in southwestern Tuscany in 273 BC, perhaps on land confiscated from the Etruscans. One of the last textual references to Cosa comes from the work of Rutilius Claudius Namatianus in his De reditu suo. In the passage 1.285-90, Rutilius remarks that by 416 the site of Cosa was deserted and could be seen to be in ruins. In the 20th century, Cosa was the site of excavations carried out under the auspices of the American Academy in Rome, initially under the direction of the archaeologist Frank Edward Brown. Excavations (1948-54, 1965-72) have traced the city plan, the principal buildings, the port, and have uncovered the Arx, the forum, and a number of houses. Unexcavated buildings include a bathing establishment, but no trace of a theater or an amphitheater has been found. In the 1990s a limited series of excavations were carried out under the direction of Elizabeth Fentress, then associated with the American Academy in Rome. This latter campaign aimed at understanding the history of the site between the imperial period and the middle agest. Sample excavations took place over the whole site, with larger excavations on the Arx, the Eastern Height and around the Forum.
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Gilliam, J. F
ROMAN ARMY PAPERS
Corners bumped. ; Mavors Roman Army Researches, 2; 471 pages; A collection of 45 previously published articles, reviews and translations by J F Gilliam, all of which retain their original appearance. Over the last sixty year Gilliam has aimed to publish and interpret an important assemblage of documents and papyri from Egypt and the Near East which throw significant light on the structure, working, religion and recruitment of the Roman army.
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Guthrie, W. K. C.
HISTORY OF GREEK PHILOSOPHY Volume I: the Earlier Presocratics and the Pythagoreans
Minor pencil notes. Former owner's name on ffep. A little bit of colour loss to lettering on spine. ; Vol. 1; 1.38 x 9 x 6 Inches; 558 pages; All volumes of Professor Guthrie's great history of Greek philosophy have won their due acclaim. The most striking merits of Guthrie's work are his mastery of a tremendous range of ancient literature and modern scholarship, his fairness and balance of judgement and the lucidity and precision of his English prose. He has achieved clarity and comprehensiveness.
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Lindsay, Jack
THE CLASHING ROCKS A Study of Early Greek Religion and Culture and the Origins of Drama
Spine is lightly faded. Former owner's signature on inner cover. ; 517 pages; Main theme of this book is an inquiry into the nature of the cultural and religious conflicts in the dark age of ancient Greece, out of which the historically known society emerged. Tackles a problem of immense importance to anthropology and literature: the origins of Greek drama.
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Tate, Sir Robert William
CARMINA DUBLINENSIA
Former institution plate on inner cover. Light edgewear with tiny chipping to DJ along bottom. Light shelfwear to book and DJ. ; 150 pages; A collection of English verses translated into Latin or Greek.
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Timpe, Dieter
UNTERSUCHUNGEN ZUR KONTINUITÄT DES FRÜHEN PRINZIPATS
Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers and pocket. It appears that this Softcover book has been rebound into hardcover preserving the original wraps. ; In german. Discusses the continuation of the Principate from the death of Augustus until 68/9 under Vespasian. ; Historia-- Zeitschrift Für Alte Geschichte. Einzelschriften Heft 5; 133 pages
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Berlage, Joannes
COMMENTATIO DE EURIPIDE PHILOSOPHO Specimen Litterarium Inaugurale
Light pencil marginalia. Covers are slightly worn at extremities. May have been rebound at one time. Former institution bookplate on inner cover. Former classics professor signature G. Norwood on ffep from Nov. 1906. Light foxing to inner covers. ; A Doctoral Dissertation submitted on February 11, 1888 at the University of Leiden. Latin commentary on Euripides with passages in Greek. ; 216 pages
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Lieu, Samuel N. C. & Dominic Montserrat
CONSTANTINE History, Historiography and Legend
Former owner's name on ffep has been blacked out else NF. Dustjacket has minor shelfwear and rubbing. ; 0.97 x 8.74 x 5.82 Inches; 260 pages; examines the reign of Constantine, the first Christian emperor and the founder of Constantinople. From a variety of angles: historical, historiographical and mythical. The volume examines the circumstances of Constantine's reign and the historical problems surrounding them, the varied accounts of Constantine's life and the plethora of popular medieval legends surrounding the reign, to reveal the different visions and representations of the emperor from saint and patron of the Western church to imperial prototype. Constantine: History, Historiography and Legend presents a comprehensive and arresting study of this important and controversial emperor.
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Hammond, N. G. L.
THE GENIUS OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT
Former owner's name on ffep. One small bump to top corner. Dustjacket has minor shelfwear and rubbing. ; 9.75 x 1 x 6.5 Inches; 220 pages
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Reece, Richard
THE LATER ROMAN EMPIRE An Archaeology AD 150-600
Dustjacket has minor shelfwear and rubbing. Corners are lightly bumped. Book has minor shelfwear; 208 pages; The core of the later Empire lies somewhere between AD 150 and 600 and it is on the material evidence of this period that this study concentrates. Looks in detail at official sculpture and representation, portraits, painting and mosaics, illuminated manuscripts, churches, silver, coins and economy, and other material culture in addition to having a framework of the period.
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Duckworth, George Eckel
THE NATURE OF ROMAN COMEDY A Study in Popular Entertainment
Book has minor shelfwear and rubbing. Rubbing to extremities; 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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Gomme, A. W.
THE POPULATION OF ANCIENT ATHENS IN THE FIFTH AND FOURTH CENTURIES B.C.
Top of spine is lightly bumped. Former owner's name on ffep. Minor shelfwear. ; Unchanged reprint of 1933 Edition. Looks at the population of Athens in order to answer some fundamental questions as: How was the population distributed? How did it fluctuate? What was the net loss due to the Peloponnesian War? Did the population increase again during the fourth century, between 400 and 322, and how quickly did it decline after that? If the assertion of the oligarchs in 411 that no more than 5000 ever attended the ecclesia, what proportion was that of the whole number? ; 87 pages
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Ruebel, James S.
CAESAR AND THE CRISIS OF THE ROMAN ARISTOCRACY A Civil War Reader
Highlighting on about 6 pages. Pencil notes to latin texts-- student's former copy. Bottom corner of book is worn exposing small part of underlying board-- does not affect the text. ; Oklahoma Series in Classical Culture; 0.89 x 9.33 x 6.29 Inches; 189 pages; Latin selections with extensive English notes and detailed introduction.
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Pedley, John Griffiths
ANCIENT LITERARY SOURCES ON SARDIS
Archaeological Exploration of Sardis Monograph 2; 0.54 x 11.34 x 8.83 Inches; 108 pages; Contents: 1. Early Sardis; 2. From the Accession of Gyges to the Fall of Sardis; 3. From the Persian Conquest to the End of the Seleucid Era; 4. From the Establishment of the Roman Province of Asia to A. D. 284; 5. Topography and Monuments.
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Hurwit, Jeffrey M.
THE ART AND CULTURE OF EARLY GREECE, 1100-480 B.C.
One corner very lightly lifting else Fine. ; This book incorporates the most recent archaeological discoveries and literary scholarship, and offers a broad synthesis of Archaic Greek culture. ; 10 x 1 x 7 Inches; 368 pages
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Millar, Fergus
THE CROWD IN ROME IN THE LATE REPUBLIC
Light shelfwear to book. Former owner's name on ffep. Dustjacket has edgewear to front bottom corner that has been repaired with scotch tape by former owner. ; The Crowd in Rome in the Late Republic explores the consequences of a democracy in which public office could only be gained by direct election by the people. And while the Senate could indeed debate public matters, advise other officeholders, and make some administrative decisions, it could not legislate. An officeholder who wanted to pass a law had to step out of the Senate-house and propose it to the people in the Forum. In an expansion and revision of his Thomas Spencer Jerome lectures, Fergus Millar explores the development of the Roman Republic, which by its final years had come to cover most of Italy. To exercise their rights, voters had to come to Rome (or to live in or near the city as about one third of them did) and to meet in the Forum. Millar takes the period from 80 to 50 B. C. , the dictatorship of Sulla to Caesar's crossing of the Rubicon, and shows how crowd politics was central to the great changes that took place year after year. The volume will interest general readers, as well as students of politics and Roman history. Technical terms are explained, and foreign words are kept to a minimum. ; Thomas Spencer Jerome Lectures; 1.06 x 9.32 x 6.34 Inches; 256 pages
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Calhoun, George M. and Catherine Delamere
A WORKING BIBLIOGRAPHY OF GREEK LAW With an Introduction by Roscoe Pound
Former institution stamps on end-papers. No other ex-lib markings. ; The first volume in Harvard Series of Legal Bibliographies edited by Eldon James, then the Law School's librarian, who provides a general preface. Unchanged Reprint of 1927; Harvard Series of Legal Bibliographies; 8vo; 144 pages
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Adam, Alexander & David Patterson
ADAM'S LATIN GRAMMAR With the Following Additions: the Ancient and Modern Pronunciation of the Latin Language; Observations on the Declinable Parts of Speech, Rules the Government of the Subjuctive Mood; and with Various Improvements and Corrections
Corners are bumped. Edgewear to extremities. Front free endpaper has been torn out leaving small strip. Front hinge is weak and cracked but still attached. Foxing throughout with heavy foxing on a few pages. ; 276 pages
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Seltman, Charles Theodore
MASTERPIECES OF GREEK COINAGE Essay and commentary
Slight discoloration to spine. Boards are bowed slightly. Light shelfwear. ; 127 pages
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Bishop, John
NERO The Man and the Legend
Spine is slightly cocked. Back upper corner is bumped. Former owner's bookplate. ; 208 pages
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Lord, Louis E
THUCYDIDES AND THE WORLD WAR
Text unopened. Boards have light staining. ; Contents: Thucydides and the writing of history; Thucydides' Athens; The Setting; Thucydides Narrative; The History: Attitude toward Science, Economics, Digressions, Thucydides' Style, Character Sketches, Mind of Thucydides; Thucydides and the World War. ; Martin Classical Lectures; 300 pages
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Flinterman, Jaap-Jan
POWER, PAIDEIA & PYTHAGOREANISM Greek Identity, Conceptions of the Relationship between Philosophers and Monarchs and Political Ideas in Philostratus’ Life of Apollonius
Dutch Monographs on Ancient History and Archaeology; 10.25 x 1 x 6.5 Inches; 286 pages; The Athenian sophist Philostratus completed a romanticised biography of Apollonius of Tyana in the second or third decade of the third century A. D. One of the most striking aspects of the presentation of this firstcentury Pythagorean sage and miracleworker in the Vita Apollonii (VA) is his role as ‘politically active philosopher’. Not only does the protagonist of the VA regularly intervene in situa-tions of conflict in Greek cities and instruct their citi-zens on how they ought to live together, but he also appears in contact with Parthian and Indian kings and Roman emperors. The present study deals with this promi-nent facet of Philostratus’ portrait of the Tyanean sage. There are three main issues. The first is the question of the extent to which the Apollonius tradition provided support for the image of the contacts of the protagonist of the VA with cities and monarchs. The second is consideration of how the author dealt with and elaborated these elements in his source material. The third is the question of to what extent the protagonist of the VA may be regarded as a spokesman for the explicit political views of Philostratus. In other words, the aim is to analyse the image of the protagonist of the VA as a ‘politically active philosopher’ as the result of the interaction between the traditions associated with a sage and miracleworker who was regarded as a representative of Pythagorean wisdom, on the one hand, and the paideia, cultural baggage and mentality of a sophist, on the other.
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