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Lysias; Evelyn S. Shuckburgh
LYSIAE (LYSIAS) : ORATIONES XVI With Analysis, Notes, Appendices, & Indices
Extensive notes in pencil, some underlining and a few notes in ink. Spine is discolored. General shelfwear. ; Greek text with English commentary. ; 383 pages
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Catullus; Francis P. Simpson
SELECT POEMS OF CATULLUS Edited with Introductions, Notes, and Appendices
25 pages of latin text have mild underlining and a few words in pen. Light pencil annotations on a few pages. Shelfwear and moderate rubbing to boards. Former owner's name on ffep. Notes in pen on ffep. Boards have faded somewhat. Good working copy. ; Latin Text with Extensive Commentary in English. ; 208 pages
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Catullus; Francis P. Simpson
SELECT POEMS OF CATULLUS Edited with Introductions, Notes, and Appendices
Minor shelfwear. Light edgewear to spine ends. Boards are faded. Former owner's name on ffep. Inked translated poetry on back fep. Light pencil notes on about 10 pages. ; Latin Text with Extensive Commentary in English. ; 208 pages
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Jouguet, Pierre
L'IMPÉRIALISME MACÉDONIEN ET L'HELLÉNISATION DE L'ORIENT Avec 7 Plances (9 Figures) Et 4 Cartes Hors Texte
Gorgeous leather spine has wear along ends and rubbing. Minor browning to pages. Former owner's bookplate on inner cover. ; L'Évolution De L'Humanité. Synthèse Collective XV.
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Rufinus; Denys Page
THE EPIGRAMS OF RUFINUS Edited with an Introduction and Commentary
Dustjacket spine is sunned. Dustjacket has minor shelfwear and rubbing to extremities. ; Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries; 124 pages; Nothing is known of the Greek poet Rufinus other than that he was the author of a collection of thirty-nine epigrams. In fact he is such an insubstantial figure that his date has been placed at various points within nearly half a millennium. Professor Page here presents a text of Rufinus' poems and a concise commentary on them. In his introduction he considers the criteria by which a date may be established and finds evidence in favour of the fourth century AD.
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Euben, J.Peter
GREEK TRAGEDY AND POLITICAL THEORY
Former owner's name on ffep. Book has minor shelfwear and rubbing. ; 336 pages; In this collection of eleven essays, contemporary politics and political theory are juxtaposed with the themes, form, and institutional place of Greek tragedy. Articles by Charles Segal, Anthony J. Podlecki, Froma Zeitlin, Michael Davis, Warren J. Lane and Ann M. Lane, Joel D. Schwartz, Laura Slatkin, J. Peter Euben, Arlene W. Saxonhouse, Stephen G. Salkever.
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Hantos, Theodora
RES PUBLICA CONSTITUTA Die Verfassung des Dictators Sulla
Book has minor shelfwear and rubbing. ; Hermes: Zeitschrift Für Klassische Philologie. Einzelschriften Heft 50; 176 pages
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Westlake, H. D.
THESSALY IN THE FOURTH CENTURY B.C
Former owner's name on inner cover. Former classics scholar's name on ffep (S M Sherwin-White). Light foxing to textblock. ; Deals with the fourth century and concentrates on Jason of Pherae. Contents: The Country, The People, Larisa and Lycophron of Pherae, Jason and the Unification of Thessaly, Jason and the Greek World, Alexander and Anarchy, Philip and the End of Thessalian Freedom, The Archonship of Philip, Alexander the Great and After. ; 248 pages
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Treston, Hubert Joseph
POINE A Study in Ancient Greek Blood-Vengeance
Former owner's name on ffep. Very light foxing to textblock. Very light shelfwear. ; 3 main sections: Poine in Homer; Poine from Homer to Dracon; Poine in Attic Tragedy. ; 427 pages
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Menander; Colinus Austin (Colin Austin) (ed.)
MENANDRI ASPIS ET SAMIA I: Textus (Cum Apparatu Critico) Et Indices & II: Subsidia Interpretationis
Volume I: has underlining in pencil on a few pages. Former owner's name on title-page and inner wraps. Small tear to top to spine. Rubbing and shelfwear to wraps. Volume II: Former owner's name on inner cover. Clean text; Greek text with critical apparatus in Latin. X, 105 pp. , indexes + viii, 108 pp; 2 Volume Set
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Bouchier, Edmund Spenser
SPAIN UNDER THE ROMAN EMPIRE With a Map
Light foxing to ffeps. Minor edgewear to extremities. ; A history of Spain which following the fall of Carthage came under Roman control, the author examines the history of the Roman period, as well as the antiquities and remains of Roman influence and the effect of Rome on Spanish language and literature. Includes a single fold-out map. ; 200 pages
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Gabba, Emilio; (Trans. Cuff, P. J. )
REPUBLICAN ROME The Army & the Allies
Former owner's name on ffep. Very minor shelfwear else fine. Dustjacket has minor shelfwear and rubbing. ; Book describes Marius' army reforms in 107 BC onward to the political significance of the Roman army in the last century of the Republic. Analyzes the Social War and Sertorius' Spanish revolt. Further chapters on Drusus' tribunate programme and recruitment to Senate and Sulla 's attitude to the Equites. ; 282 pages
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Muller, Frank G. J. M.
THE SO-CALLED PELEUS AND THETIS SARCOPHAGUS IN THE VILLA ALBANI
Iconological Studies in Roman Art , No Iconological Studies in Roman Art , No 1; 0.9 x 8.9 x 6 Inches; 179 pages; In this iconological study, the author demonstrates the invalidity of the current interpretation of the relief on the so-called Peleus and Thetis sarcophagus in the Villa Albani in Rome, an interpretation which goes back to Winckelmann. By applying a modern art-historical method, he arives at a fundamentally new interpretation. It becomes clear that the splendid sarcophagus in the Villa Albani is highly characteristic of ‘academic’ art of the Hadrianic era. The unique nature of the representation on the Albani sarcophagus, which consists mainly of allegorical figures, makes it an excellent point of entry for the interpretation of mythological scenes applied in a funerary context.
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White, K. D.
FARM EQUIPMENT OF THE ROMAN WORLD
Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers and pocket. Dustjacket taped down to boards. ; Equipment and instruments which were for the most part used in processing and storage as opposed to cultivation. ; 275 pages
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Vickers, Brian
TOWARDS GREEK TRAGEDY Drama, Myth, Society
Comparative Tragedy, I; 666 pages; Contents: I Tragedy and reality 1 Metaphysics and mystiques 2 Suffering and sympathy 3 Society, religion and the individual; II Tragedy and myth 4 Myth: function and analysis 5 Structure and ethics in Greek myth 6 Myths in tragedy; III Tragic form and tragic feeling 7 The Oresteia: nature versus perversion 8 Helplessness and power in Greek tragedy: suppliant, protector; oppressor, revenger 9 Sophocles: suffering integrity 10 Four 'Electra' plays. Conclusion. Appendices I Else on katharsis II Kirk on myth III Matriliny, patriliny, and the erosion of a parent.
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Cohen, Edward E
ANCIENT ATHENIAN MARITIME COURTS
233 pages; Athens was the dominant maritime power in the West from the eighth to fourth centuries BCE. Athenian preeminence insured that its maritime law was accepted throughout the Mediterranean world. Indeed, its influence outlasted Athens and is the only area of classical Greek law that wasn't replaced entirely by Roman models. Codified during the Roman period in the Rhodian Sea laws, it went on to influence the subsequent development of European commercial and maritime law. Cohen explores the development of Athenian maritime law, the jurisdiction and procedure of the courts and the Athenian principles that have endured to the present day.
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Meltzer, Gary S.
EURIPIDES AND THE POETICS OF NOSTALGIA
0.94 x 9.06 x 6.69 Inches; 278 pages; Branded by critics from Aristophanes to Nietzsche as sophistic, iconoclastic, and sensationalistic, Euripides has long been held responsible for the demise of Greek tragedy. Despite this reputation, his drama has a fundamentally conservative character. It conveys nostalgia for an idealized age that still respected the gods and traditional codes of conduct. Using deconstructionist and feminist theory, this book investigates the theme of the lost voice of truth and justice in four Euripidean tragedies. The plays' unstable mix of longing for a transcendent voice of truth and skeptical analysis not only epitomizes the discursive practice of Euripides' era but also speaks to our postmodern condition. The book sheds new light on the source of the playwright's tragic power and enduring appeal, revealing the surprising relevance of his works for our own day.
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Plescia, Joseph
THE OATH AND PERJURY IN ANCIENT GREECE
Dustjacket has shelfwear and rubbing. Dustjacket has a little chipping and a couple of closed tears along bottom edge. ; 116 pages; The oath has played an important role not only in Greek society, but also in other societies throughout history. This study provides necessary information about the legal and social role of the oath in ancient Greece and background information about the role of the oath in other societies throughout history.
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Jones, A. H. M.
THE HERODS OF JUDAEA
Discoloration to spine. Former owner's name on ffep. Light spotting to boards. Inner hinge is slightly cracked but book is solid. Light browning to inner covers. One map has minor writing in black ink in margin "=modern Amman (in Jordan). ; First chapter deals with Antipater; the next three chapters are devoted to the life of his more famous son, Herod the Great. Then follows the history of the three sons of Herod (Philip, Antipas, and Archelaus) , between whom the kingdom was divided and of the Roman procurators, amongst them Pontius Pilate, who succeeded Archelaus. Sixth chapter describes the meteoric career of Agrippa I. The last traces the gradual exacerbation of Jewish nationalism under the renewed Roman rule and the unavailing efforts of Agrippa II to stem the revolt which brought about the final destruction of the Temple. ; 271 pages
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Watson, George Ronald
THE ROMAN SOLDIER
Dustjacket has minor fading to spine. Light shelfwear. ; This book is a study of the life and training of the Roman soldier from enlistment to discharge. Covers the period of the Empire to the accession of Diocletian, and pays especial regard to ranks below the centurionate. Takes account not only of the legions and the auxiliary forces, but also of the praetorian guard and the urban cohorts, the Vigiles, and the imperial fleets. ; Aspects of Greek and Roman life; 256 pages
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Hoffmann, Herbert & A. E. Raubitschek (coll.)
EARLY CRETAN ARMORERS With the Collaboration of A. E. Raubitschek
57 pp of plates; Fogg Art Museum Monographs in Art and Archaeology; 69 pages; Some Contents: Descriptive Catalog; Inscriptions; The Technique; Related finds of Cretan Armor; Some Groupings; Representations; Chronology; Appendices: A Mitra inscribed with a Law; The cuirasses of the 'Olympia Group'; Metallographic Examination of Some Fragments of Cretan Bronze Armor from Afrati.
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Thalmann, William G.
DRAMATIC ART IN AESCHYLUS'S SEVEN AGAINST THEBES
Edgewear to corners. Minor shelfwear. Former owner's name on inner cover. ; Professor Thalmann researches Greek epic and drama. In particular, he studies how performances of ancient texts were the occasion for the convergence of class and gender discourses and the role of these texts within contemporary social and political processes. He is also interested in approaches to ancient cultures through anthropology and political theory. ; Yale Classical Monographs; 0.79 x 9.47 x 6.38 Inches; 193 pages
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Fantham, Elaine
COMPARATIVE STUDIES IN REPUBLICAN LATIN IMAGERY
Former owner's name stamped on ffep. ; Analyses the conservative imagery of Terence and of Cicero's letters, contrasting this naturalistic language with the fantasies of Plautus and the formalization of Cicero's speeches. Numerous illustrative passages from Greek New Comedy, Terence, Plautus, and Cicero are reproduced in the text. ; Phoenix supplementary volume, 10; 222 pages
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Kitzinger, Margeret Rachel
THE CHORUSES OF SOPHOKLES' ANTIGONE AND PHILOKTETES Dance of Words
Unwrapped in Plastic. ; Mnemosyne, Supplements. Monographs on Greek and Roman Language and Literature; 0.6 x 9.7 x 6.4 Inches; 146 pages; Dance of Words argues for a fundamental difference in the modes of expression of actor and chorus. The chorus views the action from the perspective of dancers and singers, while the actors' understanding is shaped by the responsibility they have to make things happen. While this responsibility fashions the actors' considerations of cause and effect, linear movement through time and space, and a sense of history, the chorus' sensibilities arise out of the rhythms of its song and movements. Its mode of expression is a particular way of communicating and elaborating on man's place in the larger order, and its view of the action is bounded by the way that song and dance mirror that order.
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Runciman, Steven
MISTRA Byzantine Capital of the Peloponnese
Very minor shelfwear to DJ. Foxing to textblock. ; 160 pages; Mistra and the Byzantine Peloponnese constituted one of the most important (and thriving) of the Empire's surviving provinces. In the early 1400's, when the Turks had already reduced Constantinople itself to an island in an Ottoman sea, the Byzantines were successfully completing their reconquest of the Peloponnese from the descendants of the French knights who had seized it after Constantinople fell to the Fourth Crusade. Mistra remained Byzantine for seven years after the Turks conquered Constantinople itself; Sultan Mehmed II finally extinguished Byzantine rule there in 1460.
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Rostovtzeff, Mikhail I.
THE SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC HISTORY OF THE HELLENISTIC WORLD [3 Volume Set]
Ex-library set with usual stamps and call numbers. Ex-reference set. Tape stains to front and back endpapers. No writing in text of set. Very minor Shelfwear to set. ; 3 Volume Set
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Rostovtzeff, Mikhail I.
THE SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC HISTORY OF THE HELLENISTIC WORLD [3 VOLUME SET]
Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers and pocket. Fraying to spine ends. Rubbing to boards. Vol II has bump along bottom edge of board. ; 3 Volume Set
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Gow, A. S. F. & D. L. Page
THE GREEK ANTHOLOGY (VOLUME II ONLY) The Garland of Philip and Some Contemporary Epigrams. Volume II: Commentary and Indexes
DJ is price-clipped. DJ is chipped at top corners. A couple of small closed tears along bottom edge of DJ. Dustjacket has shelfwear and rubbing. Book has very minor shelfwear. ; Volume 2 ONLY: Commentary and Indexes. ; Volume 2 Only; 1008 pages
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Cicero; W. W. How & A. C. Clark (Intro. )
CICERO: SELECT LETTERS With Historical Introductions and Appendices. Together with a Critical Introduction.
Book has minor shelfwear and rubbing. Minor edgewear to extremities. Volume 2 has Mild fraying to spine ends. Volume 1 has lightly marked pencil notes to portions of text passim. ; 2 Volume Set. Vol. 1: Text & Vol. 2: Notes. ; 2 Volume Set
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Bruce, I. A. F.
AN HISTORICAL COMMENTARY ON THE HELLENICA OXYRHYNCHIA
Book has minor shelfwear and rubbing. ; 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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Grainger, John D.
THE CITIES OF SELEUKID SYRIA
Dustjacket is protected in mylar. ; 1.02 x 8.5 x 5.67 Inches; 264 pages; This book is the first detailed study of the foundation, history, government, growth and decline of the cities founded in Syria by Seleukos I in 301BC shortly after the time of Alexander the Great. It throws new light on an important period in ancient history. In particular, Dr Grainger concentrates on the relationship between the kings and the cities in their kingdoms and reveals that former theories concerning such a relationship require drastic revision. Most importantly the relationship is shown to have been much more to the kings' advantage than previous discussions on Hellenistic states have supposed. He argues in fact that neither the kings nor the cities intended the cities to be autonomous or independent since they were far too reliant on royal support against the enmity of the surrounding population. Evidence for this can be seen in the actions of the cities on the collapse of the Seleukid dynasty in the first century BC; then they were forced to cast about for a new protector and eventually accepted Rome albeit reluctantly. Dr Grainger discusses the differing fate of the cities during this process when some failed altogether, most declined, and only one, Antioch, prospered.
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Crees, James Harold Edward
CLAUDIAN AS AN HISTORICAL AUTHORITY
Light foxing to ffeps. In red cloth with gilt letters on spine. Interior clean and tight. ; Unchanged Reprint of 1908 Edition. ; Studia Historica 62; 259 pages; Estimates the value of Claudian's poems as historical authorities, chiefly for the years 395-404 AD.
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Hammond, N. G. L.
THE MACEDONIAN STATE The Origins, Institutions, and History
Top corner of wrap has slight tear. ; Clarendon Paperbacks; 0.97 x 9.23 x 6.24 Inches; 440 pages; In 338 BC Philip II of Macedon established Macedonian rule over Greece; he was succeeded in 336 by his son Alexander the Great, whose conquests in the twelve years that followed reached as far as the Russian steppes, Afghanistan, and the Punjab, and created the Hellenistic world. The study of Macedonia is now a growing point in ancient history. The first ever history of ancient Macedonia has now been completed in three volumes by N. G. L. Hammond, helped by G. T. Griffith and F. W. Walbank. On the basis of that work Professor Hammond now provides in one volume a history of the Macedonian state and its institutions both in Europe and in the Hellenistic kingdoms in Asia and Egypt, on which much new light has been shed by epigraphic and archaeological discoveries. Those institutions have had a profound influence on subsequent history. Full references are given to the ancient sources of information and to archaeological, numismatic, and epigraphic articles.
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Proctor, Sir Dennis
HANNIBAL'S MARCH IN HISTORY
Book has minor shelfwear and rubbing. Very light foxing to textblock. ; A scholarly chronology and routing of the march. ; 242 pages
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Menander; Colinus Austin (Colin Austin) (ed.)
MENANDRI ASPIS ET SAMIA I: Textus (Cum Apparatu Critico) Et Indices & II: Subsidia Interpretationis
Volume I: has staining to front wrap with minor sticker damage, Light shelfwear. Volume II: Light shelfwear; Greek text with critical apparatus in Latin. X, 105 pp. , indexes + viii, 108 pp; 2 Volume Set
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Levi, Mario Attilio
ERCOLE E ROMA
SC with DJ. Dustjacket has minor shelfwear and rubbing with one small closed tear along top edge. ; Monografie Del Centro Ricerche Di Documentazione Sull'antichità Classica; 148 pages
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Lewis, Naphtali
THE FIFTH CENTURY B.C. Greek Historical Documents
Top corner of wraps creased. Minor shelfwear. Former classics scholar's name on ffep (W. M. McLeod) ; Looks at extant fifth-century documents with particular focus on Athens. Omits major authors to concentrate on lesser lights like Diodorus of Sicily and Pseudo-Xenophon. ; 124 pages
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Reinhold, Meyer
PAST AND PRESENT The Continuity of Classical Myth
Former classics scholar's name on ffep (R. Shepherd). Pencil underlining on a few pages. Edgewear to extremities. Spine sunned. ; Study of mythology; 1.25 x 8.75 x 5.75 Inches; 449 pages
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Rose, H. J.
RELIGION IN GREECE AND ROME With a New Introduction by the Author
Edgewear to extremities. Chipping along spine ends. Former classics scholar's name on ffep (R. Shepherd). Light Pencil marginalia on a few pages. ; 312 pages
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Brauer, George C.
THE AGE OF THE SOLDIER EMPERORS Imperial Rome, A.D. 244-284
Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers and pocket. Minor shelfwear. ; Noyes Classical Studies; 288 pages; Looks at the history of the Roman Empire in the middle part of the third century A. D. From the reign of Philip the Arab to Carus and his dynasty before the reign of Diocletian. Book is heavily illustrated with pictures of coins of the period.
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Merkelbach, R. & M. L. West
FRAGMENTA HESIODEA
Sandpiper Reprint. A complete critical edition of the extant remains of the lost narrative and didactic poems anciently ascribed to Hesiod. Latin preface and critical apparatus. ; 236 pages
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Seltman, Charles Theodore
MASTERPIECES OF GREEK COINAGE Essay and commentary
Book has minor shelfwear and rubbing to extremities. ; 127 pages
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Bolling, George Melville
THE EXTERNAL EVIDENCE FOR INTERPOLATION IN HOMER
Dustjacket has minor shelfwear and rubbing. Light shelfwear to book. ; Special edition for Sandpiper Books. In the quest for the original Homeric text, Bolling's strategy is to begin, not with an 'Ur-text' as some earlier scholars had attempted, but with the poems as they appear at the beginning of our tradition, and to 'remove the accretions stratum by stratum, as in the excavation of a buried temple'. He attempts to reconstruct the earlier texts of the Iliad and Odyssey by not only identifying and eliminating interpolations, but by understanding the traditions of the earlier interpolators and editors and thus establishing a standard for future work. ; 259 pages
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Grimal, Pierre
HELLENISM AND THE RISE OF ROME
Former owner's signature on front free-page. Very light shelfwear. ; 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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Thompson, Edward Maunde
AN INTRODUCTION TO GREEK AND LATIN PALAEOGRAPHY
Former owner's name on ffep. Small bookseller stamp at bottom of title-page. Minor edgewear to corners. Minor rubbing to boards. Gorgeous copy. ; History and Progress of Greek and Latin Palaeography from the earliest periods represented by surviving manuscripts down to the close of the fifteenth century". The core of the book is a selection of 250 facsimiles of manuscripts ranging from Greek cursive papyri to the book-hands of the 15th century, and from Roman cursive writing on tablets and papyri through a succession of Latin book-hands as employed in medieval documents throughout Europe. ; 600 pages
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Hirschfeld, Otto
DIE KAISERLICHEN VERWALTUNGSBEAMTEM BIS AUF DIOCLETIAN
Minor scratches on front board. ; 514 pages
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Proctor, Sir Dennis
HANNIBAL'S MARCH IN HISTORY
Book has minor rubbing. Very light foxing to textblock. Dustjacket is protected in mylar. Dustjacket has light chipping and closed tears. ; A scholarly chronology and routing of the march. ; 242 pages
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Lomas, Kathryn & Tim Cornell
'BREAD AND CIRCUSES' Euergetism and Municipal Patronage in Roman Italy
0.65 x 9.76 x 6.28 Inches; 192 pages; Cities in the ancient world relied on private generosity to provide many basic amenities, as well as expecting leading citizens to pay for 'bread and circuses' - free food and public entertainment. This collection of essays by leading scholars from the UK and USA explores the important phenomenon of benefaction and public patronage in Roman Italy. Ranging from the late republican period to the later Roman Empire, the contributions cover a wide range of topics, including the impact of benefactions and benefactors on the urban development of Roman Italy, on cultural and economic activity, and on the changing role of games and festivals in Roman society. They also explore the relationship between communities and their benefactors, whether these were local notables, senators, or the emperor himself, and examine how the nature of benefaction changed under the Empire.
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Africa, Thomas W
PHYLARCHUS AND THE SPARTAN REVOLUTION
Light browning to wraps. Gift inscription on inner wrap. Light pencil notes on ffep only. Old price in pen. ; University of California Publications in History; 92 pages; Phylarchus was a Greek historical writer whose works have been lost, but not before having been considerably used by other historians whose works have survived.
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Kamm, Antony
JULIUS CAESAR A Life
0.63 x 9.21 x 6.14 Inches; 172 pages; This is a fresh account of Julius Caesar - a brilliant politician and intriguing figure who became sole ruler of the Roman Empire. "Julius Caesar" examines key figures such as Marius, Sulla, Cicero, Mark Antony, Gaius Octavius (emperor Augustus) , Calpurnia and Cleopatra, as well as the unnamed warriors who fought for and against him, and politicians who supported and opposed him. Including new translations from classical sources, Antony Kamm sets Caesar's life against the historical, political and social background of the times and addresses key issues: Did Caesar destroy the Republic? What was the legality of his position and the moral justifications of his actions? How good general was he? What was his relationship with Cleopatra? Why was he assassinated? What happened next? This is Caesar - the lavish spender, the military strategist, a considerable orater and historical writer, and probably the most influential figure of his time - in all his historical glory.
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