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Segal, Charles
PINDAR'S MYTHMAKING The Fourth Pythian Ode
Dustjacket and book have minor shelfwear. Dustjacket is protected in mylar. ; Signed on ffep by author: "For Al with all best wishes, Charlie". Traces the underlying mythical patterns, implicit poetics, and processes of mythopoesis that animate Pindar's longest and most elaborate victory ode. Particularly concerned with the way in which he incorporates patriarchal and aristocratic ideology, myths of creations and first beginnings, the voyage to the limits of the world, and the myth of the hero. ; 1 x 9.25 x 6 Inches; 223 pages; Signed by Author
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Millar, Fergus
THE ROMAN NEAR EAST 31 BC - AD 337
Dustjacket has minor shelfwear and rubbing. Minor bumping to head of spine. ; Carl Newell Jackson Lectures; 9.5 x 1.5 x 6.75 Inches; 624 pages; From Augustus to Constantine, the Roman Empire in the Near East expanded step by step, southward to the Red Sea and eastward across the Euphrates to the Tigris. In a remarkable work of interpretive history, Fergus Millar shows us this world as it was forged into the Roman provinces of Syria, Judaea, Arabia, and Mesopotamia. His book conveys the magnificent sweep of history as well as the rich diversity of peoples, religions, and languages that intermingle in the Roman Near East. Against this complex backdrop, Millar explores questions of cultural and religious identity and ethnicity--as aspects of daily life in the classical world and as part of the larger issues they raise. As Millar traces the advance of Roman control, he gives a lucid picture of Rome's policies and governance over its far-flung empire. He introduces us to major regions of the area and their contrasting communities, bringing out the different strands of culture, communal identity, language, and religious belief in each. The Roman Near East makes it possible to see rabbinic Judaism, early Christianity, and eventually the origins of Islam against the matrix of societies in which they were formed. Millar's evidence permits us to assess whether the Near East is best seen as a regional variant of Graeco-Roman culture or as in some true sense oriental. A masterful treatment of a complex period and world, distilling a vast amount of literary, documentary, artistic, and archaeological evidence--always reflecting new findings--this book is sure to become the standard source for anyone interested in the Roman Empire or the history of the Near East.
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Dodgeon, Michael H. & Samuel N. C. Lieu (eds. )
THE ROMAN EASTERN FRONTIER AND THE PERSIAN WARS AD 226-363 A Documentary History
Minor shelfwear. ; 1.45 x 8.48 x 5.53 Inches; 460 pages; While most studies of the internal and international conflicts of Rome's 3rd century crisis are recorded in a scattered and unsatisfactory manner, this documentary history of the period brings together the main sources, of which the better ones--those not in Latin-- are not easily accessible. The volume includes translations of such diverse sources as Zosimus, John Malalas, Al-Tabari and Moses of Chorene--documents which, when viewed in combination, provide a clearer picture of this complex, fraught period of Roman history. The editors also provide a selection of inscriptions, papyri and oriental sources, generous notes, a detailed bibliography and maps. Comprehensive in scope, The Roman Eastern Frontier and the Persian Wars covers such topics as the rise of the Sassanians, the Persian expedition of Gordian III, the second and third campaigns of Shapur I against the Roman Empire, the rise and fall of Palmyra, the early and later wars of Constantius II, as well as the Persian expedition of Julian.
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Cameron, Averil
THE MEDITERRANEAN WORLD IN LATE ANTIQUITY AD 395-600
Minor bump to top corner. Dustjacket has minor rubbing. ; "The Mediterranean World in Late Antiquity: AD 395-600" deals with the period commonly known as "late antiquity" - the fifth and sixth centuries. The Roman Empire in the west was splitting into separate Germanic kingdoms, while the Near East, still under Roman or Byzantine rule from Constantinople, maintained a dense population and flourishing urban culture until the Persian and Arab invasions of the early seventh century. The book is intended for teachers and students in both ancient and medieval history. Averil Cameron places her emphasis on the material and literary evidence for cultural change and offers a new and original challenge to traditional assumptions of "decline and fall" and "the end of antiquity". The book draws on the recent spate of scholarship on this period to discuss in detail controversial issues such as the capacity of the late Roman army, the late antique city and the nature of economic exchange and cultural life. With its extensive annotation, it provides a lively, and often critical introduction to earler approaches to the period. Contents: 1. Constantinople and the eastern empire in the fifth century 2. The empire, the barbarians and the late Roman army 3. Church and society 4. Late Roman social structures and the late Roman economy. 5. Justinian and reconquest 6. Culture and mentality 7. Urban change and the end of Antiquity 8. The Eastern Mediterranean-- settlement and change. ; Routledge History of the Ancient World; 1 x 1 x 5.75 Inches; 251 pages
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Wiedemann, Thomas
ADULTS AND CHILDREN IN THE ROMAN EMPIRE
Dustjacket has minor shelfwear and rubbing. ; Reconstructs adults' opinions of what a child was and ought to be trained to become and arrives at a convincing portrayal of the classical concept of childhood and its transformation in the early Christian period. ; 0.75 x 9 x 6 Inches; 256 pages
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Lewis, Naphtali
ROMAN PRINCIPATE: 27 B.C. - 285 B.C.
Dustjacket has shelfwear and moderate rubbing. Dustjacket has chipping and a few small tears. ; Greek Historical Documents; 149 pages; A collection of Greek public and private documents of the Roman Period either preserved on stone/bronze or on papyrus or on ostraca. Representative samples have been culled along with selections from lesser known authors of the period. Texts are in English.
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Spyridakis, Stylianos V.
CRETICA Studies on Ancient Crete
Collection of articles and notes on ancient Crete in the post-Minoan period and have been selected on the basis of their cohesiveness and relevance to the religion, military, foreign affairs, and social structure of Crete. ; 0.8 x 9.1 x 5.9 Inches; 203 pages
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Gardner, Percy & Reginald Stuart Poole (Preface)
CATALOGUE OF GREEK COINS IN BRITISH MUSEUM Seleucid Kings of Syria
Very minor shelfwear. ; Reprint of 1878 Edition. 165 pages with 28 pages of plates. ; 165 pages
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Benecke, E. F. M
ANTIMACHUS OF COLOPHON AND THE POSITION OF WOMEN IN GREEK POETRY A Fragment Printed for the Use of Scholars
Spine cover is split on one side and half of the other but still attached. Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers and pocket. Rubbing to boards. Edgewear to corners. ; 256 pages; Antimachus of Colophon, Greek poet and grammarian, flourished about 400 BC. Scarcely anything is known of his life. His poetical efforts were not generally appreciated, although he received encouragement from his younger contemporary Plato (Plutarch, Lysander, 18). His chief works were: an epic Thebais, an account of the expedition of the Seven against Thebes and the war of the Epigoni; and an elegiac poem Lyde, so called from the poet's mistress, for whose death he endeavoured to find consolation telling stories from mythology of heroic disasters (Plutarch, Consul, ad Apoll. 9; Athenaeus xiii. 597). Antimachus was the founder of "learned" epic poetry, and the forerunner of the Alexandrian school, whose critics allotted him the next place to Homer. He also prepared a critical recension of the Homeric poems
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Wilson, A. J. N.
EMIGRATION FROM ITALY IN THE REPUBLICAN AGE OF ROME
Ex-library copy with one single institution stamp to title-page and pocket with discard stamp to endpage. Minor fading to spine. ; 208 pages; During the last two centuries of the Roman Republic emigration from Italy to the provinces was widespread and increasing. This book is the first to survey the movement throughout the Empire; the emphasis is on private rather than state-organised settlement. The first part is about the Western Mediterranean provinces, whose Romanization began in this period; the second part treats emigration to the Greek East, where, by contrast, the settlers tended to become more and more hellenized. The principal matters considered are the volume of emigration, the kinds of communities formed overseas by the emigrants, their motives and origins, the regions and places settled, the fortunes of the settlers in the upheavals of the late Republican period, and their relations with the people among whom they lived.
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Webster, Graham
THE ROMAN IMPERIAL ARMY Of the First and Second Centuries A. D.
Dustjacket has edgewear with chipping to top and bottom edges and tiny piece missing from bottom edge. ; First general survey of the development of Roman Army, deals with its organisation, equipment, camps, forts and frontier works as well as its battle and siege tactics. ; 330 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
Top corners mildly bumped. Dustjacket has shelfwear and rubbing to extremities. ; 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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Otis, Brooks
VIRGIL A Study in Civilized Poetry
Former owner has deleted his name but left date on ffep. Minor shelfwear. ; 436 pages
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Green, Peter
XERXES AT SALAMIS
DJ is price-clipped. Two tears to bottom corner and bottom spine of DJ. Bumping to back corner of book. Former owner's bookplate affixed to ffep. ; 326 pages; The long and bitter struggle between the great Persian Empire and the Fledgling Greek states reach its high point with the extraordinary Greek victory at Salamis. The author evokes the whole dramatic sweep of events that the Persian offense set in motion.
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Harris, B. F. (ed. )
AUCKLAND CLASSICAL ESSAYS PRESENTED TO E.M. BLAIKLOCK
Adhesive stain on front panel of DJ. Dustjacket has minor shelfwear and rubbing. Book has minor shelfwear. ; Contents: Greek votive statuettes and religious continuity, c.1200-700 BC; The fall of Themistocles; Dike in Aristophanes' clouds; Aristotle and the democratic conception of freedom; Roman and Greece, 196-146 BC; Evidence for legislation by tribunes, 81-70 BC; Ambition in the Georgics: Vergil's rejection of Arcadia; .. Portrayal of autocratic power in Plutarch's Lives; Epistles of Cyprian. ; 221 pages
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MacMullen, Ramsay
SOLDIER AND CIVILIAN IN THE LATER ROMAN EMPIRE
Former owner's name on ffep. Minor bump to head of spine. Spine slightly faded. ; 217 pages
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Scarborough, John
ROMAN MEDICINE
Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers and pocket. First 15 pages have a tear that has been repaired with tape; Discusses in considerable detail the major aspects of Roman medicine, which he describes as a synthesis of medical traditions from the Greek, Hellenistic and Roman worlds. ; Aspects of Greek and Roman life; 238 pages
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Wolfram, Herwig; Thomas Dunlap (Tr. )
THE ROMAN EMPIRE AND ITS GERMANIC PEOPLES
Dustjacket is protected in mylar. Minor scuffing to boards. ; 1.1 x 9.2 x 6.2 Inches; 379 pages; The names of early Germanic warrior tribes and leaders resound in songs and legends; the real story of the part they played in reshaping the ancient world is no less gripping. Herwig Wolfram's panoramic history spans the great migrations of the Germanic peoples and the rise and fall of their kingdoms between the third and eighth centuries, as they invaded, settled in, and ultimately transformed the Roman Empire. As Germanic military kings and their fighting bands created kingdoms, and won political and military recognition from imperial governments through alternating confrontation and accommodation, the "tribes" lost their shared culture and social structure, and became sharply differentiated. They acquired their own regions and their own histories, which blended with the history of the empire. In Wolfram's words, "the Germanic peoples neither destroyed the Roman world nor restored it; instead, they made a home for themselves within it. " This story is far from the "decline and fall" interpretation that held sway until recent decades. Wolfram's narrative, based on his sweeping grasp of documentary and archaeological evidence, brings new clarity to a poorly understood period of Western history.
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Rushforth, Gordon McNeil
LATIN HISTORICAL INSCRIPTIONS Illustrating the History of the Early Empire
Some pages are uncut. Spine is discolored. Rubbing and minor soiling to boards. Edgewear to spine ends. Small tear to cloth along spine (1cm). Overall a solid copy. ; Looks at latin historical inscriptions and deciphers them along with the lessons they teach for modern readers. ; 144 pages
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Kazhdan, Alexander & Giles Constable
PEOPLE AND POWER IN BYZANTIUM An Introduction to Modern Byzantine Studies
Dustjacket has a few small nicks and tears. Dustjacket has shelfwear and rubbing. Dustjacket spine is slightly discolored. Minor waviness to pages. Book has minor shelfwear. ; With an emphasis on an interpretative view of the distinctive nature of Byzantine civilization, this book serves as an introduction to the study of Byzantium. ; Dumbarton Oaks Titles in Byzantine Studies; 0.9 x 9.2 x 6 Inches; 240 pages
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Dunston, A. J.
ESSAYS ON ROMAN CULTURE The Todd Memorial Lectures
Dustjacket has shelfwear and rubbing. Very minor edgewear to extremities. ; Contents: Augustus the Patrician--E. T. Salmon; Lucius Sulla: the Deadly Reformer--E. Badian; On Reading a Horatian Satire: An Interpretation of Sermones 2.6--C. O. Brink; The Character of the Romans in their History and their Literature--F. Adcock; The Initiation of Aeneas--J. Sheppard; A Roman Post Mortem: An Inquest on the Fall of the Roman Republic--R. Syme; The Emperor and his Clients--Harold Mattingly; The Aristocratic Epoch in Latin Literature--R. E. Smith. ; 223 pages
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Hammond, N.G.L.
STUDIES IN GREEK HISTORY A Companion Volume to a History of Greece to 322 B. C.
Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers and pocket. Tape residue on the front and back covers. ; 590 pages; Contents: The Origins of some Mycenaean rulers; The Arrival of Greek Speech in the southern Balkans; The Impulses which Started the Dorian Invasion; The Creation of Classical Sparta; Land and Society in the Athens of Solon; The Chronological Basis of Solon's Reforms; The Campaign and the Battle of Marathon; The Battle of Salamis; The Organization of the Athenian alliance against Persia; Problems of Command in fifth-Century Athens; Personal Freedom and its Limitations in Aeschylus' Oresteia; The Main road from Beoetia to the Peloponnese; Naval Operations off Corcyra; Military Operations in Amphilochia; Diodorus' Narrative of the Third Sacred War; The Victory of Macedon at Chareronea;
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Conway, Robert Seymour
ITALIC DIALECTS Edited with a Grammar and Glossary
2 volumes. 8vo. Ex-library copy with some stamps. There are no call numbers on the spine. Bookplate of monastery on inner cover. Foxing to inner covers. Minor edgewear to extremities. Bumping to top corners. Quite solid condition. ; I: The records of Oscan, Umbrian and the Minor Dialects, including th Italic glosses in ancient Writers and the local and personal names of the dialectal areas. II: An Outline of the grammar of the Dialects, Appendix, Indices and Glossary. ; 2 Volume Set; 8vo
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Tabeling, Ernst
MATER LARUM Zum Wesen Der Larenreligion
Minor shelfwear; Reprint of 1932 Edition in German: Inhalt: Das larenproblem in der modernen Forschung; Mater Larum im Ritual der fratres Arvales; Dea Mania Mater Larum; Acca Larenti(n)a; Dea Tacita; Mater Larum, Mond und Geburt; Genita Mana; Register. ; Ancient Religion and Mythology; 0.5 x 8.7 x 5.5 Inches; 103 pages
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Calhoun, George Miller
ATHENIAN CLUBS IN POLITICS AND LITIGATION
Scratches to front board. ; Reprint of 1913 edition. Looks at the clubs and their influence in Athenian politics and law. ; Research and Source Works Series; 172 pages
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May, James M.
TRIALS OF CHARACTER The Eloquence of Ciceronian Ethos
Scratch to front panel of DJ. Minor rubbing to DJ else NF. ; 0.88 x 9.48 x 6.38 Inches; 224 pages; By its very nature, the art of oratory involves character. Verbal persuasion entails the presentation of a persona by the speaker that affects an audience for good or ill. In this book, James May explores the role and extent of Cicero's use of ethos and demonstrates its persuasive effect. May discusses the importance of ethos, not just in classical rhetorical theory but also in the social, political, and judicial milieu of ancient Rome, and then applies his insights to the oratory of Cicero. Ciceronian ethos was a complex blend of Roman tradition, Cicero's own personality, and selected features of Greek and Roman oratory. More than any other ancient literary genre, oratory dealt with constantly changing circumstances, with a wide variety of rhetorical challenges. An orator's success or failure, as well as the artistic quality of his orations, was largely the direct result of his responses to these circumstances and challenges. Acutely aware of his audience and its cultural heritage and steeped in the rhetorical traditions of his predecessors, Cicero employed rhetorical ethos with uncanny success. May analyzes individual speeches from four different periods of Cicero's career, tracing changes in the way Cicero depicted character, both his own and others', as a source of persuasion, changes intimately connected with the vicissitudes of Cicero's career and personal life. He shows that ethos played a major role in almost every Ciceronian speech, that Cicero's audiences were conditioned by common beliefs about character, and finally, that Cicero's rhetorical ethos became a major source for persuasion in his oratory.
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Stenico, Arturo
ROMAN AND ETRUSCAN PAINTING
Bottom corner is taped. Minor edgewear. Minor creasing to wraps. ; 176 pages of plates. ; Compass History of Art
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Fine, John V. A.
THE ANCIENT GREEKS A Critical History
Minor shelfwear. Small chip along foreedge. Minor edgewear. ; 1.46 x 9.2 x 5.98 Inches; 736 pages; An esteemed teacher offers a major reassessment of the history of Greece from prehistoric times to the rise of Alexander. This is a work of prodigious scholarship written in grand style. John Fine surveys the archaeological work that has revealed so much about the civilization of Crete and Mycenaean Greece, and discusses the age of colonization during which Greek colonies were established from the Crimea to the Nile, from the Caucasus to Spain. Analyzing social and economic developments, as well as foreign and inter-city affairs, he assesses the history, culture, and democracy of Athens, and Sparta's institutions and military exploits; recounts the Greeks' relations and then war with the Persian empire; details alliances, struggles, and the varying fortunes of the Greek city-states; and relates the rise of Macedon. Fine treats the Greeks' story in the context of events elsewhere in the eastern Mediterranean. Throughout he indicates the nature of the evidence on which our present knowledge is based, masterfully explaining the problems and pit-falls in interpreting ancient accounts. The Ancient Greeks is a splendid narrative history and a refreshing reinterpretation that will please students of ancient history, and everyone interested in early civilizations.
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Coleridge, Edward P.
RES GRAECAE Being Brief Aids to the History, Geography, Literature, and Antiquities of Ancient Greece, with Maps and Plans;
Spine is faded. Chipping to cloth at head and heel of spine. Edgewear to corners. Spine slightly cocked. Inner hinge is slightly cracked. Wear to boards. Still a solid copy. ; 236 pages
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Seber, Wolfgang (M. Wolfgangi Seberi Sulani)
INDEX HOMERICUS: INDEX VOCABULORUM IN HOMERI ILIADE ATQUE ODYSSEA Caeterisque Quotquot Extant Poematis. Editio Nova Auctior Et Emendatior
Book has been repaired in its lifetime-- spine has been reinforced and the original spine cover is overlain. Edgewear to corners. Ffep is corner-clipped. Titlepage has small strip removed (1cm) along bottom edge. ; Index of homeric vocabulary in the Iliad and Odyssey. Includes a Latin-English glossary. ; 612 pages
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Partington, J. R.
A HISTORY OF GREEK FIRE AND GUNPOWDER
Inner hinges are cracked exposing webbing. Spine is faded. Shelfwear with bumping to top corners. Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers and pocket. Former call numbers on spine are effaced leaving faded marks. ; Contents: Incendiaries in Warfare; Book of Fires of Mark the Greek; The Legend of Black Berthold; Miscellaneous Treatises on Military Arts; Gunpowder and Firearms I nMuslim Lands; Pyrotechnics and Firearms in China; Saltpetre. Index on Names, of Places and Nationalities, of Greek Words. ; 381 pages
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Park, M. E. & M. Maxey
TWO STUDIES ON THE ROMAN LOWER CLASSES
Minor soiling to textblock. Light shelfwear. ; Two articles from 1918 and 1938 are republished together in this one volume. Contents: The Plebs in Cicero's Day: a Study of their Provenance and of their Employment by Park, Marion Edwards & Occupations of the Lower Classes in Roman Society by Maxey, Mima. ; Roman history; 98 pages
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Bloomer, W. Martin
VALERIUS MAXIMUS AND THE RHETORIC OF THE NEW NOBILITY
Very minor shelfwear to DJ and book else Fine/Fine. ; Throughout the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, Valerius Maximus' Memorable Deeds and Sayings was the most widely read prose after the Bible, but the work's vision of ancient history and its author's literary style have since fallen into disrepute. Bloomer (classics, Stanford U. ) revives the classic to examine how, why, and for whom Maximus composed this collection of rhetorical examples. ; 1.25 x 9.5 x 6.5 Inches; 296 pages
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Phillimore, Johannes Swinnerton
INDEX VERBORUM PROPERTIANUS (INDEX VERBORVM PROPERTIANVS)
Former owner's name on inner cover. Browning to ffeps. Minor edgewear to extremities. Minor bump to bottom corner of boards. ; 8vo; 111 pages
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Junkelmann, Marcus
DIE LEGIONEN DES AUGUSTUS Der Römische Soldat Im Archäologischen Experiment
Minor bump to head of spine. Former owner's name on ffep. ; Text is in German. ; Kulturgeschichte der antiken Welt; 1.46 x 10.2 x 7.17 Inches; 313 pages
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Skydsgaard, Jens Erik
VARRO THE SCHOLAR Studies in the First Book of Varro's De Re Rustica
Discoloration to wraps. Bumping to heel and head of spine. Former owner's name on inner cover. ; A study on the only extant work by the learned polyhistor: Rerum Rusticarum Libri Tres. Contents: Structure; Analytic Method; Exemplification; The Agricultural Calendar with Comments (Philological Method) ; Varro & the Technical Literature; Varro as a Writer; The Roman Scholar; Varro as a Source; Varro and Caesar's Library. ; Analecta Romana Instituti Danici - Supplementum IV; 133 pages
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Rubinstein, Lene
ADOPTION IN IV. CENTURY ATHENS
Former owner's name on inner cover. Minor edgewear and a few minor scratches. ; Contents: Who adopted and who were adopted? Procedures of adoption; Why did the Athenians adopt? ; adoption and epikleroi; Posthumous adoption & intestate heirs; Catalogue of attested adoptions. ; Opuscula Graecolatina; 0.47 x 8.9 x 6.22 Inches; 148 pages
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Grenade, Pierre
ESSAI SUR LES ORIGINES DU PRINCIPAT Investiture Et Renouvellement Des Pouvoirs Impériaux
Former owner's name on ffep. Small piece of spine missing from heel of spine. Light edgewear and browning. Two tears along top edge of spine at hinge (1" each). Wraps firmly attached. ; Bibliothèque Des Écoles Françaises D'Athènes Et De Rome; 495 pages
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Bruce, I. A. F.
AN HISTORICAL COMMENTARY ON THE HELLENICA OXYRHYNCHIA
Dustjacket has one closed tear (1") to front panel and minor chipping to extremities. Dustjacket is protected in mylar. DJ is price-clipped. Former owner's name on ffep. Bookplate on title-page. Minor bumping to corners. ; Cambridge Classical Studies; 190 pages; Commentaries on the Hellenica Oxyrhynchia, an anonymous history of events in the Greek world in the late fifth and early fourth centuries BC, have usually dealt almost entirely with problems of the text. In this book, Dr Bruce has written an historical commentary, basing his work on both the London and Florence papyri, which between them provide all the surviving fragments of the text. Dr Bruce begins with a brief description of the two papyri. He then discusses the Oxyrhynchus historian's style and method - his sources, chronology, bias, interest in causation, etc. The introduction ends with a résumé of the numerous theories of the author's identity (Dr Bruce favours either Cratippus or an author not known to us by name at all). The main part of the commentary is arranged in the form of notes on the sections of the Greek text, with occasional detailed notes on particular words or phrases. There are appendices on the Battle of Sardis and the Constitution of Boeotia; and the book concludes with a full biography. Dr Bruce's book is a complete guide available for further historical study of the Hellenica Oxyrhynchia.
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Mackenzie, Compton
PERICLES
2 White paint marks on back cover else Near Fine. ; Pericles (also spelled Perikles) (ca. 495–429 BC) was a prominent and influential statesman, orator, and general of Athens during the city's Golden Age–specifically, the time between the Persian and Peloponnesian wars. He was descended, through his mother, from the powerful and historically influential Alcmaeonid family. Pericles had such a profound influence on Athenian society that Thucydides, his contemporary historian, acclaimed him as "the first citizen of Athens. " Pericles turned the Delian League into an Athenian empire and led his countrymen during the first two years of the Peloponnesian War. The period during which he led Athens, roughly from 461 to 429 BC, is sometimes known as the "Age of Pericles, " though the period thus denoted can include times as early as the Persian Wars, or as late as the next century. ; 351 pages
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Willoughby, Harold R.
THE FOUR GOSPELS OF KARAHISSAR Volume II: the Cycle of Text Illustrations
Former owner's name on inner cover. Mild browning to ffeps. Very light shelfwear to book. DJ is tattered with open tears & missing a few pieces but mostly complete. ; The Four Gospels of Karahissar is a thirteenth-century codex of the four Gospels in Greek, written in distinguished miniscule script, illustrated with 65 terse miniatures, and introduced by 7 elegant decorative arcades. Iconographically and stylistically its large cycle of text illustrations ranks in importance easily among the first half-dozen sequences miniatured in tetraevangelia. It stands at the very center of an extended, prominent, and singularly interesting family of medieval Greek manuscripts, very intimately related to each other and historically associated with the vicissitudes and policies of the imperial family of Byzantium. ; Volume 2 Only; Vol. 2
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Aloni, Antonio
LE MUSE DI ARCHILOCO
Minor browning to spine. Former owner's name on inner cover. ; Text in Italian ; Opuscula Graecolatina; 0.47 x 7.72 x 5.35 Inches; 174 pages
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Monro, D. B.
THE MODES OF ANCIENT GREEK MUSIC
Light discoloration to spine. Mild shelfwear. Foxing to ffeps. Gift inscription on ffep: "L. W. Hudson from M. T. Tatham"-- M. T. Tatham, a classics scholar at the end of the 19th C. ; Scarce First edition. ; 145 pages
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Monro, D. B.
THE MODES OF ANCIENT GREEK MUSIC
Light discoloration to spine. Mild edgewear to extremities. Foxing to ffeps. ; Scarce First edition. ; 145 pages
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Corcoran, Simon
THE EMPIRE OF THE TETRARCHS Imperial Pronouncements and Government AD 284-324
Very light shelfwear to heel of spine else Fine. ; Oxford Classical Monographs; 1.11 x 8.74 x 5.7 Inches; 424 pages; The era of Diocletan and Constantine is a significant period for the Roman empire, with far-reaching administrative changes that established the structure of government for three hundred years - a time when the Christian church passed from persecution to imperial favour. It is also a complex period of co-operation and rivalry between a number of co-emperors, the result of Diocletian's experiment of government by four rulers (the tetrarchs). This book examines imperial government at this crucial but often neglected period of transition, through a study of the the pronouncement that the emperors and their officials produced, drawing together material from a wide variety of sources: the law codes, Christian authors, inscritpions, and papyri. The study covers the format, composition, and promulgation of documents, and includes chronological catalogues of imperial letters and edicts, as well as extended discussions of the Gregorian and Hermogenian Codes, and the ambitious Prices Edict. Much of this has had little detailed coverage in English before. There is also a chapter that elucidates the relative powers of the members of the imperial college. Finally, Dr Corcoran assesses how effectively the machinery of government really matched the ambitions of the emperors.
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Haase, Wolfgang & Hildegard Temporini
AUFSTIEG UND NIEDERGANG DER RÖMISCHEN (ROEMISCHEN) WELT Geschichte Und Kultur Roms in Spiegel Der Neueren Forschung. Teil II: PRINCIPAT. Band 34: Sprache Und Literatur. 4. Teilband: Einzelne Autoren Seit Der Hadrianischen Zeit Und Allgemeines Zur Literatur Des 2. Und 3. Jahrhunderts (Forts. )
Minor shelfwear and rubbing to DJ. ; Contents include but are not exhaustive: Herodian's Historical Methods and Understanding of History; Erodiano e la crisi dell'impero; Furcht und Schrecken bei Herodian; Claudius Aelianus und sein Werk; Les 'Histoires variees' d'Elien. L'agencement de la mosaique; Asinio Quadrato storico di Filippo l'Arabo; Longinus Platonicus Philosophus et Philologus, II. Longinus Philologus; Menander Rhetor and the works attributed to him; Time and Narrative Technique in Heliodorus' Aethiopica; Etat present des recherches sur Nemesien; Lettura di Reposiano; Alcestis Barcinonensis; Terentianus Maurus...; Apollonius of Tyre: last of the Troublesome Latin Novels; On the fringes of the Canon: Work on the Fragments of ancient Greek Fiction; Emperor and Empire in the works of Greek-speaking Authors of the Third Century AD; W. Curtius Rufus' Historiae Alexandri Magni; Problemi di lingua e stile nei Moralia di Plutarco; Forma letteraria nei Moralia di Plutarco...; ANRW; Vol. 34.4; 2.1 x 9.9 x 7.2 Inches
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Morison, Stanley
POLITICS AND SCRIPT Aspects of Authority and Freedom in the Development of Graeco-Latin Script from the Sixth Century B. C. to the Twentieth Century A. D.
Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers and institution plates. DJ is protected in plastic. Dustjacket has edgewear with minor chipping and a few tears (some repaired with adhesive tape). ; The Lyell lectures; 361 pages; The central argument of Stanley Morison's work is that the development of script (inscriptional, calligraphic or typographical) has been the result of changes in religious or political environment, of friction between church and state, and of the schism between Eastern and Western Christendom. Morison begins with an example of alphabetic forms on a 6th century BC gravestone from Melos and proceeds through commentary on a notable collection of more than 180 illustrated specimens, to trace the career of the Graeco-Roman alphabet up to its use in newspaper typefaces of the 1950s. He also seeks to show that the most widely used printers' typefaces of the twentieth century owe more to their Greek than to their Roman antecedents.
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Kühnert, Barbara, Volker Riedel & Rismag Gordesiani (Eds)
PRINZIPAT UND KULTUR IM 1. UND 2. JAHRHUNDERT Wissenschaftliche Tagung Der Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena Und Der Iwane-Dshawachischwili-Universität Tbilissi, 27. - 30. Oktober 1992 in Jena.
Mild crease to back wrap else Fine ; 332 pages
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Duncan-Jones, Richard
MONEY AND GOVERNMENT IN THE ROMAN EMPIRE
Very light edgewear to corners of wraps. ; 0.69 x 8.96 x 6 Inches; 320 pages; This book discusses minting and financial policy in the first three centuries of the Roman Empire. By studying Roman coin-survivals in a wider context, the author uncovers important facts about the origin of coin hoards of the Principate. The resulting analyses use extensive coin material collected for the first time. Dr. Duncan-Jones builds up a picture of minting, financial policy and monetary circulation that adds substantially to our knowledge and that stands as the only study of its kind for this period.
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Kostial, Michaela
KRIEGERISCHES ROM? Zur Frage Von Unvermeidbarkeit Und Normalität Militärischer Konflikte in Der Römischen Politik
A couple of pencil lines in margins of a few pages. Minor shelfwear to wraps. Light creasing to spine else NF. ; Palingenesia LV; 192 pages
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