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ANCIENT CORINTH A Guide to the Excavations
Some browning and light creasing to wraps. ; 126 pages; Includes fold out map of the excavation site.
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ANCIENT CORINTH A Brief History of the City and a Guide to the Excavations
A few pen marks to last page of text. Creasing to paper wraps. ; 15 pages; Includes fold out map of the excavation site.
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Romilly, Jacqueline de
THE RISE AND FALL OF STATES ACCORDING TO GREEK AUTHORS
Jerome Lectures 11; 108 pages; A survey of how Greek historians explained the conditions of a state's success and the dangers of power.
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Huxley, G. L.
EARLY SPARTA
Upper corners a bit bumped. Else minor shelfwear. ; An account of the Spartans' political and military achievements from the time of the great migrations until the beginning of the Persian wars before 490 BC; 164 pages
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Tomlinson, R. A.
ARGOS AND THE ARGOLID From the End of the Bronze Age to the Roman Occupation
Scholar's name to ffep (Jenifer Neils). Minor shelfwear. ; Describes the region & country of Argos; the relationship between the Argives and their neighbours; and the role of the Argives as the leaders of a 'third force' in mainland Greek history, where they challenged the supremacy of the Spartans in Peloponnesian affairs. ; States and Cities of Ancient Greece; 289 pages
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Stockton, David
THE CLASSICAL ATHENIAN DEMOCRACY
Minor shelfwear to book and DJ. Old price sticker to ffep. ; 0.88 x 8.75 x 5.69 Inches; 214 pages; The Greeks had a word for it, and the word was demokratia, a compound of demos (`the people') and kratos (`power or rule'). But it is significant that the first occurrence of the word in surviving Greek literature is in Herodotus' History, which he was writing during the third quarter of the fifth century BC. It was perhaps coined in the period following the reforms of the last decade of the sixth, which later won fame for Cleisthenes as `the man who gave the Athenians their democracy'. In 431 BC Pericles could claim that the Athenian system of government was unique, and an example to every other society in Greece. It is the object of this book to explain to the modern reader what the institutions of the classical Athenian democracy were, how they worked, and what assumptions underlay them. It is principally concerned with the fully developed democracy of the post-Ephialtic period; but a chapter is devoted to tracing the broad development of the Athenian constitution from the reforms of Solon in the early sixth century to those of Ephialtes in the late 460s, so that the developed democracy can be seen in its proper historical context. Stockton incorporates recent important work by historians, epigraphists, and archaeologists into his study.
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Glotz, Gustave
ANCIENT GREECE AT WORK An Economic History of Greece from the Homeric Period to the Roman Conquest
Light yellowing to spine and rear wraps. Minor shelfwear. ; The Norton Library; 402 pages; This book gives an account of the workaday world which lay behind the political, religious, intellectual, and artistic life of ancient Greece.
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Munn, Mark H.
THE DEFENSE OF ATTICA The Dema Wall and the Boiotian War of 378-375 B. C.
Minor shelfwear to DJ. DJ spine a bit sunned. ; 259 pages; The enigmatic three-mile-long Dema wall in the countryside outside ancient Athens has perplexed archaeologists and historians for decades. When was it built and what role did it play in Greek military history? In a tour de force of archaeological and historical argument, Mark H. Munn establishes the place of the Dema wall in the defense of Athens and offers a completely new perspective on the Boiotian War. Since no ancient reference to the wall survives, scholars have contested the date and purpose of the wall's construction, placing it anywhere between the Geometric Age and Hellenistic eras. While directing the excavation of a watchtower above the wall, Munn's chance discovery of a datable sherd in the wall's remains fixed the date of the wall's construction at 378 B. C. , the onset of the three-year Boiotian War. Munn offers an absorbing narrative account of the war, and his descriptions and effective use of literary extracts render a vivid portrayal of the opposing generals, military tactics, and battle scenes.
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Bury, J. B. & (Rev. by) Russell Meiggs
A HISTORY OF GREECE To the Death of Alexander the Great
Scholar's bookplate to ffep (Jenifer Neils). DJ is price-clipped. Dustjacket has edgewear with chipping and a couple of small tears. ; 925 pages
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Konstan, David
FRIENDSHIP IN THE CLASSICAL WORLD
Very faint shelfwear. ; This book is a history of friendship in Greece and Rome, from the warrior society of the Homeric epics to the time of the Christian Roman Empire. It demonstrates how ancient friendship resembles modern conceptions, and how it evolves in different social contexts. The book sheds new light on such questions as friendship and democracy, the importance of friends in government and in philosophical communities, women's friendships, and the transformation of friendship under the influence of Christian ideas of brotherhood. ; Key Themes In Ancient History; 9.0 X 6.0 X 0.6 inches; 206 pages
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Vidal-Naquet, Pierre; Szegedy-Maszak, Andrew (Tr. )
THE BLACK HUNTER Forms of Thought and Forms of Society in the Greek World
Dustjacket has edgewear with minor chipping and a couple of small tears. Minor discoloration to DJ spine. Slight spine slant. ; With a foreword by Bernard Knox. ; 392 pages; The black hunter travels through the mountains and forests of Greek mythology, living on the frontier of the city-state, of adulthood, of class, of ethics, of sexuality. Taking its title from this figure, The Black Hunter approaches the Greek world from its margins and charts the elaborate system of oppositions that pervaded Greek culture and society: cultivated and wild, citizen and foreigner, real and imaginary, god and man. Organizing his discussions around four principle themes -- space and time; youth and warriors; women, slaves, and artisans; and the city of vision and of reality -- Pierre Vidal-Naquet focuses on the congruence of the textual and the actual, on the patterns that link literary, philosophical, and historical works with such social activities as war, slavery, education, and commemoration. The Black Hunter probes the interplay of world view, language, and social practice "to bring into dialogue that which does not naturally communicate according to the usual criteria of historical judgement.
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Finley, John H. , Jr.
FOUR STAGES OF GREEK THOUGHT
Gift inscription to ffep. Some underlining in ink. ; Looks at the evolution of Greek thought from the age of myth to that of systematic reasoning. Lectures deal successively with Homer, with Aeschylus and Sophocles, with Euripides and Thucydides, and with the age of Plato ; The Harry Camp Lectures at Stanford University 1965; 114 pages
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Dover, K. J.
GREEK POPULAR MORALITY In the Time of Plato and Aristotle
Faint waviness to lower edges of about 5 pages. Small piece torn off to 1 page (1/2 cm). ; 349 pages; In ancient Greece, as today, popular moral attitudes differed importantly from the theories of moral philosophers. While for the latter we have Plato and Aristotle, this insightful work explores the everyday moral conceptions to which orators appealed in court and political assemblies, and which were reflected in non-philosophical literature. Oratory and comedy provide the primary testimony, and reference is also made to Sophocles, Euripides, Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, and other sources. The selection of topics, the contrasts and comparisons with modern religious, social and legal principles, and accessibility to the non-specialist ensure the work's appeal to all readers with an interest in ancient Greek culture and social life.
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Ferguson, John
MORAL VALUES IN THE ANCIENT WORLD
Former owner's name stamped to title page. Some chipping and a few small tears to DJ. DJ has some browning. Small sticker damage to ffep. ; 256 pages
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Raven, Susan
ROME IN AFRICA
Very light edgewear. ; 254 pages; Nearly three thousand years ago the Phoenicians set up trading colonies on the coast of North Africa, and ever since successive civilizations have been imposed on the local inhabitants, largely from outside. Carthaginians, Romans, vandals, Byzantines, Arabs, TUrks, French and Italians have all occupied the region in their time. The Romans governed this part of Africa for six hundred cities, twelve thousand miles of roads and hundreds of aquaducts, some fifty miles long. The remains of many of these structures can be seen today. At the height of its prosperity, during the second and third centuries AD, the area was the granary of Rome, and produced more olive oil than Italy itself. The broadening horizons of the Roman Empire provided scope for the particular talents of a number of Africa's sons: the writers Terence and Apuleius; the first African Roman Emperor Septimius Severus, famous Christian theologians like Tertulllian and Saint Augustine - these are just some who rose to meet the challenges of their age.
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Sternberg, Rachel Hall (Ed. )
PITY AND POWER IN ANCIENT ATHENS
Gift inscription from author to Jenifer Neils on ffep in ink. Faint creasing to upper corner of a few pages. Minor chipping to DJ. ; Arguing that the exercise of power in democratic Athens, especially during its brief fifth-century empire, raised troubling questions about the alleviation and infliction of suffering, this book examines how pity emerged as a timely topic in Atheninan culture. Ten essays examine the role of pity in the literature, art, and society of classical Athens by analyzing evidence from tragedy, philosophy, historiography, epic, oratory, vase painting, sculpture, and medical writings. Athenians had power and used it ruthlessly, but the infliction of suffering did not mesh well with their civic self-images. ; 9.0 X 6.3 X 1.0 inches; 370 pages; Signed by Author
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Sternberg, Rachel Hall
TRAGEDY OFFSTAGE Suffering and Sympathy in Ancient Athens
Tiny stain to ffep. Gift inscription from author to Jenifer Neils on ffep in ink. ; Humane ideals were central to the image Athenians had of themselves and their city during the classical period. Tragic plays, which formed a part of civic education, often promoted pity and compassion. But it is less clear to what extent Athenians embraced such ideals in daily life. How were they expected to respond, emotionally and pragmatically, to the suffering of other people? Under what circumstances? At what risk to themselves? In this book, Rachel Hall Sternberg draws on evidence from Greek oratory and historiography of the fifth and fourth centuries BCE to study the moral universe of the ancient Athenians: how citizens may have treated one another in times of adversity, when and how they were expected to help. She develops case studies in five spheres of everyday life: home nursing, the ransom of captives, intervention in street crimes, the long-distance transport of sick and wounded soldiers, and slave torture. Her close reading of selected narratives suggests that Athenians embraced high standards for helping behavior—at least toward relatives, friends, and some fellow citizens. Meanwhile, a subtle discourse of moral obligation strengthened the bonds that held Athenian society together, encouraging individuals to bring their personal behavior into line with the ideals of the city-state. ; 9.3 X 6.0 X 0.9 inches; 250 pages; Signed by Author
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Burian, Jan & Ladislav Vidman (Eds. )
ANTIQUITAS GRAECO-ROMANA AC TEMPORA NOSTRA Acta Congressus Internationalis Habiti Brunae Diebus 12-16 Mensis Aprilis MCMLXVI
Small tear to rear joint. Some shelfwear. ; Ceskoslovenská Akademie Ved; 585 pages
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Cacouri, Athina & Robert McCabe & (A New Play by John Guare) & Commentaries by Lisa Wace French
MYCENAE From Myth to History
The extraordinary story of the loss and rediscovery of the city that fought Troy, told through archaeology, literature, and poetic black-and-white photographyThe Mycenaean civilization flourished more than 800 years before the classical Greeks, with a complex society, strong artistic tendencies, and a distinct system of writing. Famous for its lion gate and citadel, Mycenae was long believed to be the city that fought Troy in Homer’s epic, the Iliad. But after flourishing nearly three thousand years ago the society vanished, becoming nothing more than a legend. Mycenae: From Myth to History brings readers into the heart of this mystery, as it was being solved, through lively text, stunning photographs, and an original take on Greek history and mythology. ; 10.8 X 8.8 X 1.3 inches; 288 pages
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Choremi, Alkestis
ATHENA - TO LIKNO TES DEMOKRATIAS / ATHENS: THE BIRTHPLACE OF DEMOCRACY
Bilingual edition Greek and English. ; Exhibition catalogue to commemorate Hellenic Presidency of the European Union. ; Oblong Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 31 pages
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Pandermalis, Dimitrios; Bernard Choremis, Christina Vlassopoulos
THE NEW ACROPOLIS MUSEUM Design and Original Exhibits from the Acropolis Collection.
Minor shelfwear. ; Exhibit at Onassis Cultural Center, New York, March 6 - April 9, 2003; Oblong Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 31 pages
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Morris, Sarah P.
THE BLACK AND WHITE STYLE Athens and Aigina in the Orientalizing Period
Scholar's blindstamp to ffep. Else minor shelfwear. DJ has very light chipping with a couple of small closed tears. ; Yale Classical Monographs 6; 208 pages; Xii + 134 pp. & 27 plates, 4to. Reexamines the origins and artists of the finest Athenian achievement of the seventh century--Protoattic vase painting.
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Kurtz, Donna
THE RECEPTION OF CLASSICAL ART IN BRITAIN An Oxford Story of Plaster Casts from the Antique
Very faint shelfwear. ; The first volume in the series Studies in the History of Collections, this work places archaeology, history of art, and British antiquarianism in the wider context of Europe's cultural heritage. The Story focuses on antique sculpture, the principal type of classical art known to artists, collectors and scholars from the Renaissance until the later nineteenth century. Includes a complete catalogue of the Ashmolean Museum's casts and a fascinating Chronological Chart. ; BAR British Series 308. Studies in the History of Collections I; 11.6 X 8.4 X 1.3 inches; 472 pages
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Gagarin, Michael & Elaine Fantham (Eds. )
THE OXFORD ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME [7 VOLUME SET]
Faint creasing to spine of 1 volume. Else volumes are fine. ; The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome is the clearest and most accessible guide to the world of classical antiquity ever produced. This multivolume reference work is a comprehensive overview of the major cultures of the classical Mediterranean world--Greek, Hellenistic, and Roman--from the Bronze Age to the fifth century CE. It also covers the legacy of the classical world and its interpretation and influence in subsequent centuries. The Encyclopedia brings the work of the best classical scholars, archaeologists, and historians together in an easy-to-use format. The articles, written by leading scholars in the field, seek to convey the significance of the people, places, and historical events of classical antiquity, together with its intellectual and material culture. Broad overviews of literature, history, archaeology, art, philosophy, science, and religion are complimented by articles on authors and their works, literary genres and periods, historical figures and events, archaeologists and archaeological sites, artists and artistic themes and materials, philosophers and philosophical schools, scientists and scientific areas, gods, heroes, and myths. Areas covered include: --Greek and Latin Literature--Authors and Their Works--Historical Figures and Events--Religion and Mythology--Art, Artists, Artistic Themes, and Materials--Archaeology, Philosophers, and Philosophical Schools--Science and Technology--Politics, Economics, and Society--Material Culture and Everyday Life; 7 Volume Set; Vol. 1/7/2022; 12.0 X 11.0 X 9.5 inches; 3408 pages
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Alfieri, Nereo & Paolo Enrico Arias
SPINA Die Neuentdeckte Etruskerstadt Und Die Griechischen Vasen Ihrer Gräber
Scholar's name to inner cover (Cedric Boulter). Ink revisions (By Boulter? ) to a few pages of plates [references]. ; 64 pages, [127] plates; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 64 pages
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Paine, Wesley & Brad Forrister (Eds. )
THEATRE PARTHENOS An Introduction to Greek Theatre
16 pp pamphlet put out for introducing readers to the Greek Theatre. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 16 pages
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Bury, J. B. & Russell Meiggs
A HISTORY OF GREECE To the Death of Alexander the Great
Rear Hinge cracked. Scholar's name to ffep (Jenifer Neils). Some pencil underlining. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 577 pages
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Whitehead, David
THE DEMES OF ATTICA, 508/7-CA. 250 B.C. A Political and Social Study
Very minor shelfwear. DJ spine slightly sunned. ; 515 pages
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Green, Peter
CLASSICAL BEARINGS Interpreting Ancient History and Culture
Foxing/dustsoiling to top of textblock. Scholar's name to ffep in pen (G. P. Goold). Very Minor shelfwear to DJ. ; In this collection of sixteen literary and historical essays, Peter Green informs, entertains, and stimulates. He covers a wide range of subjects, from Greek attitudes toward death to the mysteries of the Delphic Oracle, from Tutankhamun and the gold of Egypt to sex in ancient literature, from the island of Lesbos (where he once lived) to the challenges of translating Ovid's wit and elegant eroticism into present-day English verse, from Victorian pederastic aesthetics to Marxism's losing battle with ancient history. This third volume of Green's essays (several previously unpublished) reveals throughout his serious concern that we are, in a very real sense, losing the legacy of antiquity through the corrosive methodologies of modern academic criticism. ; 328 pages
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Stewart, Andrew
FACES OF POWER Alexander's Image and Hellenistic Politics
Light edgewear and faint creasing to DJ. ; Hellenistic Culture and Society; 545 pages; Alexander the Great changed the face of the ancient world. During his life and after his death, his image in works of art exerted an unprecedented influence on marbles, bronzes, ivories, frescoes, mosaics, coins, medals, even painted pottery and relief ware. Alexander's physiognomy became the most famous in history. But can we really know what meaning lies behind these images? Andrew Stewart demonstrates that these portraits wildly divergent in character, quality, type, provenance, date, and purpose actually transmit not so much a likeness of Alexander as a set of carefully crafted cliches that mobilize the notion "Alexander" for diverse ends and diverse audiences. Stewart discusses the portraits as studies in power and his original interpretation of them gives unprecedented fullness and shape to the idea and image called "Alexander."
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Davies, J. K.
DEMOCRACY AND CLASSICAL GREECE
Pages tanned. Faint underlining in ink and pencil to a few pages. ; Fontana History of the Ancient World; 0.88 x 8.25 x 5.42 Inches; 328 pages; The art of classical Greece and its political and philosophical ideas, have had a profound influence on Western civilization. It was in the fifth and fourth centuries BC that this culture reached its zenith, and it is this period that is examined in this book. The art of classical Greece, and its political and philosophical ideas, have had a profound influence on Western civilization. It was in the fifth and fourth centuries BC that this culture - material, political and intellectual - reached its zenith, and it is this period that is examined in this book.
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Murray, Oswyn
EARLY GREECE
Pages tanned. Minor ink notes and underlining. Spine sunned. ; Fontana History of the Ancient World; 320 pages; Within the space of 300 years, up to the great Persian invasion of 480BC, Greece was transformed from a simple society into a sophisticated civilization which dominated the shores of the Mediterranean. This book places the development of Greece in the context of Mediterranean civilization. Within the space of three centuries, up to the great Persian invasion of 480BC, Greece was transformed from a simple peasant society into a sophisticated civilization which dominated the shores of the Mediterranean from Spain to Syria and from the Crimea to Egypt - a culture whose achievements in the fields of art, science, philosophy and politics were to establish the canons of the Western world. The author of this book places this development in the context of Mediterranean civilization, providing an account of the transformation that launched Western culture.
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Havelock, Christine Mitchell
HELLENISTIC ART The Art of the Classical World from the Death of Alexander the Great to the Battle of Actium.
Else book has light shelfwear. DJ is tattered with tears and chipping and with some loss. Scholar's name to ffep (Jenifer Neils). ; 283pp, illustrated. ; 283 pages
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Walker, Henry John
THESEUS AND ATHENS
Review of book tipped in. Dustjacket has faint creasing; 0.85 x 9.32 x 6.32 Inches; 240 pages; Theseus is celebrated as the greatest of Athenian heroes. This work explores what he meant to the Athenians at the height of their city-state in the fifth century B. C. Assembling material that has been scattered in scholarly works, Henry Walker examines the evidence for the development of themyth and cult of Theseus in the archaic age. He then looks to major works of classical literature in which Theseus figures, exploring the contradictions between the archaic, primitive side of his character and his refurbished image as the patron of democracy. His ambiguous nature as outsider, flouting accepted standards of behavior, while at the same time being a hero-king and a representative of higher ideals, is analyzed through his representations in the work of Bacchylides, Euripides, and Sophocles. This is the only work of scholarship that examines the literary representation ofTheseus so thoroughly. It brings to life a literary character whose virtues, flaws, and contradictions belong in no less a degree to his creators, the people of Athens.
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Fol, Aleksandur & Ivan Marazov
THRACE & THE THRACIANS
Book and DJ has minor shelfwear. ; An illustrated account of the Thrace and the Thracian world from an artistic and archaeological perspective. ; 160 pages
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Vermeule III, Cornelius C.
GREEK, ETRUSCAN & ROMAN ART The Classical Collections of the Museum of Fine Arts,
Chipping and edgewear along spine (with colour flecking off). Some creasing to spine. Scholar's name to ffep (Jenifer Neils). ; 290 pages
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Olivová, Vera
SPORTS AND GAMES IN THE ANCIENT WORLD
Minor shelfwear to book. DJ has laminate lifting to front panel and some scratches to rear panel. Some staining to reverse of rear panel of DJ. ; 11.2 X 8.4 X 0.8 inches; 207 pages
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Dillon, Sheila
ANCIENT GREEK PORTRAIT SCULPTURE Contexts, Subjects, and Styles
Lower corners a bit bumped. Underlining and some light marginalia in ink to some pages (20-25 pages) with notes in ink to rear endpaper. Else VG . DJ has a couple of small tears. ; Xx, 217pp, illustrated. This book offers a new approach to the history of Greek portraiture by focusing on portraits without names. Sheila Dillon considers the few original bronze and marble portrait statues preserved from the Classical and Hellenistic periods together with the large number of Greek portraits known only through Roman copies. This study calls into question two basic tenets of Greek portraiture: first, that it was only in the late Hellenistic period, under Roman influence, that Greek portraits exhibited a wide range of styles, including descriptive realism; and second, that in most cases, one can easily tell a subject's public role from the visual traits used in this portrait. The sculptures studied here instead show that the proliferation of portrait styles takes place much earlier, in the late Classical period, and that the identity expressed by these portraits is much more complex and layered than has previously been realized. ; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; 217 pages
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Thompson, David
THE IDEA OF ROME From Antiquity to the Renaissance
Old price stickers to wraps and ffep. ; 7.8 X 5.3 X 0.6 inches; 211 pages
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Beye, Charles Rowan
ODYSSEUS A Life
Book is fine. DJ is creased. ; Everyone knows something about Odysseus: how he defeated the Trojans in a surprise attack with a massive wooden horse, wandered the Mediterranean seas for years trying to get home, confronted the Cyclops, and killed the suitors of his faithful wife Penelope back at his Ithaca palace. Odysseus turns up everywhere: Homer's epics The Iliad and The Odyssey, Tennyson's poem 'Ulysses' (the Roman name for Odysseus) , Constantine Cavafy's Ithaca, and more. Even the Coen brothers based a film, O Brother Where Art Thou, on his voyage. But no one has chronicled Odysseus' life from start to finish -- until now. In this entertaining 'biography,' Charles Beye fills out the story of this extraordinary figure, at the same time portraying Odysseus' evolution through the course of a strange and adventuresome life, at times so remote, at times so immediate in the contemporary perspective.; 8.6 X 5.9 X 0.8 inches; 224 pages
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Walker, Susan & Andrew Burnett
THE IMAGE OF AUGUSTUS
Faint yellowing to rear wraps. ; Few rulers have surpassed the first Roman Emperor Augustus in the use of visual propaganda. The images he chose for his portraits, and the designs stamped on his coins or carved on his public monuments, were skilfully chosen to cloak the reality of his power by setting the benefits of his autocracy against a Republican façade. This book introduces the historical background to Augustan portraiture and illustrates the development of the emperor's public image from the beginning of his career in 44 BC to the posthumous portraits which likened him to a god. Includes images of coins of Alexander the Great, Seleucus, Julius Caesar and others. ; 47 pages
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Dreyfus, Renée, & Ellen Schraudolph (Eds. )
PERGAMON The Telephos Frieze from the Great Altar. Volume I
Very Minor shelfwear. ; 120pp, illustrated.; Volume 1 Only. ; Vol. 1; Oblong Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 120 pages
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Käppeli, Robert; Ernst Berger
KUNSTWERKE DER ANTIKE
Small chip to lower edge of rear wrap. ; N, d. ( c. 1962). Exhibition catalog. C. 130pp, profusely illustrated. ; Oblong 8vo 8" to 9" tall; 130 pages
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Lawrence, A. W.
GREEK AIMS IN FORTIFICATION
Light tanning to pages. Faint crease to ffep. DJ has very minor shelfwear. ; “This study explores a neglected aspect of history: the precautions upon which depended the existence of city-states, great and small, and even of a few rustic communities. Social as well as political stresses impelled the ancient Greeks to build innumerable fortifications of astonishing diversity; the book refers, merely for points of special interest, to hundreds of remains still visible in the homeland, many along the Turkish and the Italian coasts, and some in countries as remote as Spain and Afghanistan. ”; 552 pages
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Davies, Malcolm & Jeyaraney Kathirithamby
GREEK INSECTS
Old price sticker to front inner cover. Minor shelfwear to DJ. ; 208 pages; This authoritative study of Greek insects treats not only the obvious questions of their identity--in modern terms of species and genera--but also such topics as the etymologies (both formal and popular) of the various insect names, the folklore, religious and other signficant associations, and the differences in attitude shown toward them by the ancient and modern world. Patterned after two famous studies by D'Arcy Thompson--A Glossary of Greek Birds and A Glossary of Greek Fishes--this volume provides a meticulous survey of the topic, examining the ancient literature and the enormous secondary literature connected with it, as well as the most recent scientific findings. Like Thompson's glossaries, this work focuses primarily on evidence from literature and art, with later evidence brought in only when needed for a full understanding of the facts. Compiled by a classics scholar working with a zoologist, this glossary provides alphabetically-arranged entries on such common insects as the ant, the louse, the butterfly, the wasp, the bedbug, the cricket, and the praying mantis. The first comprehensive study on this subject, Greek Insects belongs on the bookshelf of every Greek scholar, and it will be of considerable interest to educated readers.
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Robertson, Noel
FESTIVALS AND LEGENDS The Formation of Greek Cities in the Light of Public Ritual
Large stamp to verso of dedication page for the John Deyell company with number written in. Else book is fine. ; An important contribution to social history, linking the life and nature of the polis with its festivals and rituals and the legends which went with them and used for the elucidation of a state's self-identity. ; Phoenix Supplementary Volume; 1 x 9.5 x 6.5 Inches; 287 pages
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Parke, H. W.
GREEK ORACLES
Yellowing to wraps. Pencil underlining to a few pages. Scholar's name to ffep (Jenifer Neils). ; Gives a general picture of oracular activity up to the end of paganism. Delphi is the most famous oracle but recent archaeology gives further indications of the history of other oracles. Parke discusses the various methods of divination and the changes in importance and popularity of the different centres. ; 160 pages
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Bowden, Hugh
CLASSICAL ATHENS AND THE DELPHIC ORACLE Divination and Democracy
This book provides an exploration of the Oracle of Apollo at Delphi, where the god Apollo was believed to speak to inquirers through his priestesses. In particular, it examines Athens' use of the oracle c. 500-300 BC. Demonstrating the importance of communication with the gods, and doing their will, in classical Athenian society, Hugh Bowden concludes that ancient Athens was not a secular Westernized democracy as we understand the term today. ; 8.4 X 5.4 X 0.6 inches; 206 pages
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Price, Simon
RELIGIONS OF THE ANCIENT GREEKS
Minor creasing to front wrap. A few pages have pencil underlining. ; This is a book about the religious life of the Greeks from archaic times to the fifth century AD, looked at in the context of a variety of different cities and periods. Simon Price examines local practices and concepts in the light of general Greek ideas, relating them to such issues as gender roles, political life, and the trial of Socrates. He lays emphasis on the reactions to Greek religions of ancient thinkers--Greek, Roman and Christian. The evidence drawn on is of all kinds: literary, inscriptional and archaeological. ; Key Themes in Ancient History; 230 pages
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John Boardman & Jasper Griffin & Oswyn Murray (Eds. )
THE OXFORD HISTORY OF THE CLASSICAL WORLD
Small bump to lower edge of front board. DJ has chipping and small tears along top edge. Minor creasing to DJ. ; 446pp, illustrated.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; 882 pages
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