‎Grec‎

‎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

‎Pickard-Cambridge, Sir Arthur W.‎

‎DITHYRAMB TRAGEDY AND COMEDY‎

‎Very minor shelfwear to book. DJ has Some tears and chipping to DJ. DJ is price-clipped. DJ is browned. ; Original 1927 Edition ; 346 pages; One of the major scholars of the 1920s and 30s concerned with the origins of Greek drama, Sir Arthur Pickard-Cambridge focused in particular on the evidence derived from archaeological finds and papyri. He describes this history of the earliest stages of Greek drama as "a dispassionate attempt to ascertain historical truth or probability by methods as logical as the subject permits. "The study begins by bringing together what was known of the dithyramb, and argues against Aristotle's statement that tragedy originated from the leaders of the dithyramb, and against the theory put forward by Sir William Ridgeway that it originated in performances at the tombs of dead heroes.‎

‎Schmitt Pantel, Pauline & Georges Duby & Michelle Perrot (Eds. ) & Arthur Goldhammer (translated)‎

‎A HISTORY OF WOMEN IN THE WEST I. from Ancient Goddesses to Christian Saints‎

‎Very light pencilling. DJ has some creasing. ; History of Women in the West; Vol. 1; 572 pages‎

‎Foley, Helene P. (Ed. )‎

‎REFLECTIONS OF WOMEN IN ANTIQUITY‎

‎Spine is sunned and discolored. Scholar's name to ffep (Jenifer Neils). ; Contents: The socio-economic roles of women in Mycenaean Greece : a brief survey from evidence of the Linear B tablets / Jon-Christian Billigmeier and Judy A. Turner The divided world of Iliad VI / Marylin B. Arthur Sappho's private world / Eva S. Stigers Gardens of nymphs : public and private in Sappho's lyrics / Jack Winkler Women and culture in Herodotus' Histories / Carolyn Dewald The concept of women in Athenian drama / Helene P. Foley Travesties of gender and genre in Aristophanes' Thesmophoriazousae / Froma I. Zeitlin Could Greek women read and write? / Susan G. Cole Home before lunch : the emancipated woman in Theocritus / Frederick T. Griffiths Asclepiades' girl friends / Alan Cameron Women in Roman Egypt : (a preliminary study based on papyri) / Sarah B. Pomeroy Etruscan couples and their aristocratic society / Larissa Bonfante. Two matrons of the late republic / Teresa Carp On Creusa, Dido, and the quality of victory in Virgil's Aeneid / Christine G. Perkell Approaches to the sources on adultery at Rome / Amy Richlin. ; 420 pages‎

‎Cameron, Averil and Amélie Kuhrt (Eds. )‎

‎IMAGES OF WOMEN IN ANTIQUITY‎

‎Minor creasing to spine. 1 page is torn out but present. Else Good. ; 323 pages‎

‎Deforest, Mary‎

‎WOMAN'S POWER, MAN'S GAME Essays on Classical Antiquity in Honor of Joy K. King‎

‎Pencil underlining to a couple of pages. Very light shelfwear. ; Woman's Power, Man's Game is a revealing and thoughtful analysis of women in antiquity, as portrayed in classical literature. The book features essays by 12 classicists who provide provocative examinations of significant aspects of female situations in antiquity. Special Features* The Only Women Who Give Birth to Men: A Gynocentric, Cross-Cultural View of Women in Ancient Sparta - Bella Zweig* Re (de) fining Woman: Language and Power in the Homeric Hymn to Demeter - Kristina Passman* Women, Fat, and Fertility: Hippocratic Theorizing and Treatment - Jody Rubin Pinault* The Wandering Womb of Delos - Jon Solomon* Hera, Nurse of Monsters - Joan O'Brien* Clytemnestra's Breast and the Evil Eye - Mary DeForest* Euripides' Medea: Woman or Fiend? - Lena Hatzichronoglou* Propertius, Poetry, and Love - Kathleen McNamee* From a Sure Foot to Faltering Meters: The Dark Ladies of Tibullan Elegy - Brenda H. Fineberg* ''The Master Mistress of My Passion'': The Lady as Patron in Ancient and Renaissance Literature - Barbara K. Gold* Julia in Lucan's Tripartite Vision of the Dead Republic - Emily E. Batinski* Martial's Sulpicia and Propertius' Cynthia Judith P. Hallett ; 8.9 X 6.0 X 0.9 inches; 428 pages‎

‎Yardley, J. C. & Martin Cropp (Eds. ) ; Classical Association Of Canada‎

‎ECHOS DU MONDE CLASSIQUE / CLASSICAL VIEWS XXX, N. S. 5, 1986. No. 1‎

‎Minor shelfwear. ; Women in Antiquity: A Selective (and Subjective) Survey 1979–84 Elaine Fantham; The Gilgamesh Epic and the Iliad John R. Wilson ; Immortalia Ne Desperes Ogden Nash, S. T. T. L. , A. A. R. H. ; Echo and Narcissus: Notes for a seminar on Ovid, Met. 3.339–510 Niall Rudd; Le Destin de Catulle Jean Granarolo; The Computer and Classical Research Roger S. Bagnall; The Coded Message in Ammianus Marcellinus 18.6.17–19 R. C. Blockley ; 109 pages‎

‎Kirk, G. S. & Richard Stoneman (Pref. )‎

‎THE NATURE OF GREEK MYTHS‎

‎Minor shelfwear. Slight spine slant. ; A General analysis of the nature of myth is followed by a splendid account of the Greek myths. ; Barnes & Noble Rediscovers; 9.0 X 6.2 X 1.1 inches; 276 pages‎

‎Bremmer, Jan (Ed. )‎

‎INTERPRETATIONS OF GREEK MYTHOLOGY‎

‎Bmp to upper edge of rear board. Scholar's name to ffep (Jenifer Neils). Else Minor shelfwear. DJ has minor shelfwear. ; Interpretations of Greek Mythology, first published in1987, builds on the innovative work of Walter Burkert and the ‘Paris school’ of Jean-Pierre Vernant, and represents a renewal of interpretation of Greek mythology. The contributors to this volume present a variety of approaches to the Greek myths, all of which eschew a monolithic or exclusively structuralist hermeneutic method. Specifically, the notion that mythology can simply be read as a primitive mode of narrative history is rejected, with emphasis instead being placed on the relationships between mythology and history, ritual and political genealogy. The essays concentrate on some of the best known characters and themes – Oedipus, Orpheus, Narcissus – reflecting the complexity and fascination of the Greek imagination. The volume will long remain an indispensable tool for the study of Greek mythology, and it is of great interest to anyone interested in the development of Greek culture and civilisation and the nature of myth. ; 294 pages; The volume's fundamental concern is with how the Greeks conceptualized the experience of poetry and debated the values of that experience. The book's organizing theme is a recurrent Greek dialectic between ideas of poetry as, on the one hand, a powerfully enthralling experience in its own right (a kind of 'ecstasy') and, on the other, a medium for the expression of truths which can exercise lasting influence on its audiences' views of the world. Citing a wide range of modern scholarship, and making frequent connections with later periods of literary theory and aesthetics, Halliwell questions many orthodoxies and received opinions about the texts analysed. The resulting perspective casts new light on ways in which the Greeks attempted to make sense of the psychology of poetic experience - including the roles of emotion, ethics, imagination, and knowledge - in the life of their culture‎

‎Simon, Erika‎

‎DIE GÖTTER DER RÖMER‎

‎Very light shelfwear to DJ. ; 26 römische Gottheiten sind in diesem Band jeweils in einem eigenen Kapitel behandelt: 12 weibliche und 14 männliche darunter so bekannte wie Jupiter, Juno und Minerva, aber auch weniger prominente wie Mater Matuta, Silvanus und Veiovis; 319 pages‎

‎Mikalson, Jon D.‎

‎ANCIENT GREEK RELIGION‎

‎Underlining and light notes in ink to about 10 or so pages. Else VG; Blackwell Ancient Religions; 240 pages; Provides an introduction to the fundamental beliefs and practices and the major deities of Greek religion. Focuses on Athens in the classical period. Includes detailed discussion of Greek gods and heroes, myth and cult. Includes vivid descriptions of Greek religion as it was practiced. Ancient texts are presented in boxes to promote thought and discussion. Abundant illustrations help readers visualize the rich and varied religious life of ancient Greece.‎

‎Hägg, Robin (Ed. )‎

‎THE ROLE OF RELIGION IN THE EARLY GREEK POLIS Proceedings of the Third International Seminar on Ancient Greek Cult, Organized by the Swedish Institute At Athens, 16-18 October 1992‎

‎Initial in ink to front inner cover 'N' (Jenifer Neils). Else very minor shelfwear. ; Contributors: Irad Malkin; Walter Burkert; François de Polignac; Sanne Houby-Nielsen; Fritz Graf; Allaire Brumfield; Patricia A. Butz; Jan N. Bremmer; kevin Clinton; H. A. Shapiro; Nanno Marinatos; Marcel Piérart. ; Skrifter Utgivna Av Svenska Institutet I Athen / Acta Instituti Atheniensis Regni Sueciae, Series in 8°, XIV; 176 pages‎

‎Blok, Josine H.‎

‎THE EARLY AMAZONS Modern and Ancient Perspectives on a Persistent Myth‎

‎Minor creasing and edgewear to DJ. Very light wear to book. ; Religions in the Graeco-Roman World; 473 pages; The Early Amazons offers a new understanding of the ancient Amazon myth, situating mythical representations in the realm of cultural history. The first section examines how the Amazons have presented a challenge to views on history, myth and gender in classical mythology from the late eighteenth century up to the impact of structuralism. Topics included are nineteenth-century historiography and the interest in linguistics. The second section sheds new light on the culture of archaic Greece, offering a coherent assessment of literary and visual representations. Taking mythical narrative as a form of oral storytelling, it shows the emergence of the Amazon motif and its meaning in the world of epic. Iconographical analysis reveals how the visual arts have made a contribution of their own to the imaginary presence of the Amazons.‎

‎Easterling, P. E. & J. V. Muir (Foreword Sir Moses Finley)‎

‎GREEK RELIGION AND SOCIETY‎

‎Very light shelfwear ; This collection of essays considers many aspects of Greek civil life and reveals how religion manifested itself in institutions, art and literature. Clarifies the more puzzling and elusive elements by tracing the attitudes that lay behind the manifold cults and customs. ; 264 pages‎

‎Vickers, Michael & David Gill & David W. J. Gill‎

‎ARTFUL CRAFTS Ancient Greek Silverware and Pottery‎

‎Some pencil notes and marginalia (Jenifer Neils). Some edgewear with laminate lifting along lower edge of rear wrap. Faint creasing. ; This book challenges the widely held view that Greek pottery vases were objects of great value in antiquity, commissioned by rich patrons from the greatest artists of the day. Instead, they are shown to have been simply low cost versions of tableware originally made in silver and gold. Vickers and Gill demonstrates how Greek pottery first came to be regarded as a high value commodity in the eighteenth century thanks to clever, if not fraudulent, sales techniques. They explore the ways in which work in gold and silver influenced painted pottery, and examine the primary sources, both literary and epigraphic, to find what materials the ancients did consider to be important. ; 0.58 x 9.67 x 7.46 Inches; 254 pages‎

‎Immerwahr, Henry R.‎

‎ATTIC SCRIPT A Survey‎

‎Light bumping to 1 corner. Dustjacket has creasing along upper edge. ; Oxford Monographs on Classical Archaeology; 286 pages; This study places the inscriptions found on Athenian vases in the context of the early development of writing in Athens. Focusing on the period from the invention of the alphabet in the 8th century B.C. to the early 4th century B.C., when the local alphabet had been supplanted by the common Ionic script, the book presents inscriptions on stone, both public and private, scratched inscriptions on pottery, including the political ostraca, and some inscriptions on lead tablets. Although the vase inscriptions are brief, they number in the thousands and give an accurate picture of the art of writing and the state of literacy in the Classical Period.‎

‎Jeffery, L. H.‎

‎THE LOCAL SCRIPTS OF ARCHAIC GREECE A Study of the Origin of the Greek Alphabet and its Development from the Eighth to the Fifth Centuries B. C.‎

‎Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (Donald R. Laing, Jr. ). DJ is tattered with tears, chipping and some loss. ; With 72 plates & table of letters; Oxford Monographs on Classical Archaeology; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 588 pages; Oversized. Overseas postage may be extra.‎

‎Ogden, Daniel‎

‎PERSEUS‎

‎Underlining and light notes in ink to a few pages. ; Gods And Heroes Of The Ancient World; 7.6 X 5.0 X 0.5 inches; 224 pages‎

‎Anderson, Michael J.‎

‎THE FALL OF TROY IN EARLY GREEK POETRY AND ART‎

‎Dustjacket has very minor shelfwear. Review of book (by Jenifer Neils- also her copy) tipped in. ; Oxford Classical Monographs; 0.85 x 8.75 x 5.62 Inches; 304 pages; Greek myth-makers crafted the downfall of Troy and its rulers into an archetypal illustration of ruthless conquest, deceit, crime and punishment, and the variability of human fortunes. This book examines the major episodes in the archetypal myth - the murder of Priam, the rape of Kassandra, the reunion of Helen and Menelaos, and the escape of Aineias - as witnessed in Archaic Greek epic, fifth-century Athenian drama, and Athenian black- and red-figure vase painting. It focuses in particular on the narrative artistry with which poets and painters balanced these episodes with one another and intertwined them with other chapters in the story of Troy. The author offers the first comprehensive demonstration of the narrative centrality of the Ilioupersis myth within the corpus of Trojan epic poetry, and the first systematic study of pictorial juxtapositions of Ilioupersis scenes on painted vases.‎

‎Jenkins, Ian‎

‎THE PARTHENON FRIEZE‎

‎Dustjacket has edgewear with a couple of small tears. Book has very minor shelfwear. ; The artistic genius of Athens in the fifth century BC reached its peak in the sculpted marble reliefs of the Parthenon frieze. Designed by Phidias and carved by a team of anonymous masons, the frieze adorned the temple of Athena on the Acropolis and represents a festival procession in honour of the Olympian gods. Its original composition and precise meaning, however, have long been the subject of lively debate. Most of what survives of the frieze is now in the British Museum or the Acropolis Museum in Athens; the rest is scattered among a number of European collections. This book reconstructs the frieze in its entirety according to the most up-to-date research, with a detailed scene-by-scene commentary, and the superb quality of the carving is vividly shown in a series of close-up photographs. In his introduction Ian Jenkins places the frieze in its architectural, historical and artistic setting. He discusses the various interpretations suggested by previous scholars, and finally puts forward a view of his own.; Oblong 8vo 8" to 9" tall; 119 pages‎

‎Stanford, W. B. & J. V. Luce‎

‎THE QUEST FOR ULYSSES‎

‎Minor shelfwear. DJ has some creasing, chipping and tears. ; 9.6 X 8.3 X 1.1 inches; 256 pages‎

‎Detienne, Marcel & Jean-Pierre Vernant; (translated by Paula Wissing)‎

‎THE CUISINE OF SACRIFICE AMONG THE GREEKS‎

‎Minor shelfwear. Scholar's name to inner cover (Jenifer Neils). ; 284 pages; For the Greeks, the sharing of cooked meats was the fundamental communal act, so that to become vegetarian was a way of refusing society. It follows that the roasting or cooking of meat was a political act, as the division of portions asserted a social order. And the only proper manner of preparing meat for consumption, according to the Greeks, was blood sacrifice. The fundamental myth is that of Prometheus, who introduced sacrifice and, in the process, both joined us to and separated us from the gods—and ambiguous relation that recurs in marriage and in the growing of grain. Thus we can understand why the ascetic man refuses both women and meat, and why Greek women celebrated the festival of grain-giving Demeter with instruments of butchery. The ambiguity coded in the consumption of meat generated a mythology of the "other"—werewolves, Scythians, Ethiopians, and other "monsters." The study of the sacrificial consumption of meat thus leads into exotic territory and to unexpected findings. In The Cuisine of Sacrifice, the contributors—all scholars affiliated with the Center for Comparative Studies of Ancient Societies in Paris—apply methods from structural anthropology, comparative religion, and philology to a diversity of topics: the relation of political power to sacrificial practice; the Promethean myth as the foundation story of sacrificial practice; representations of sacrifice found on Greek vases; the technique and anatomy of sacrifice; the interaction of image, language, and ritual; the position of women in sacrificial custom and the female ritual of the Thesmophoria; the mythical status of wolves in Greece and their relation to the sacrifice of domesticated animals; the role and significance of food-related ritual in Homer and Hesiod; ancient Greek perceptions of Scythian sacrificial rites; and remnants of sacrificial ritual in modern Greek practices.‎

‎Iles Johnston, Sarah‎

‎RESTLESS DEAD Encounters between the Living and the Dead in Ancient Greece‎

‎Very faint shelfwear to DJ. ; During the archaic and classical periods, Greek ideas about the dead evolved in response to changing social and cultural conditions—most notably changes associated with the development of the polis, such as funerary legislation, and changes due to increased contacts with cultures of the ancient Near East. In Restless Dead, Sarah Iles Johnston presents and interprets these changes, using them to build a complex picture of the way in which the society of the dead reflected that of the living, expressing and defusing its tensions, reiterating its values and eventually becoming a source of significant power for those who knew how to control it. She draws on both well-known sources, such as Athenian tragedies, and newer texts, such as the Derveni Papyrus and a recently published lex sacra from Selinous. Topics of focus include the origin of the goes (the ritual practitioner who made interaction with the dead his specialty) , the threat to the living presented by the ghosts of those who died dishonorably or prematurely, the development of Hecate into a mistress of ghosts and its connection to female rites of transition, and the complex nature of the Erinyes. Restless Dead culminates with a new reading of Aeschylus' Oresteia that emphasizes how Athenian myth and cult manipulated ideas about the dead to serve political and social ends.; 9.0 X 6.1 X 1.3 inches; 352 pages‎

‎Schefold, Karl‎

‎THE ART OF CLASSICAL GREECE‎

‎Scholar's name to ffep (Jenifer Neils). DJ has some tears and chipping. ; With 50 four-colour plates, 71 halftone plates, 77 line illustrations, map and chronological table. Looks at the period from 500 to 325 B. C. ; 288 pages‎

‎Woodford, Susan‎

‎THE ART OF GREECE AND ROME‎

‎Wraps yellowed. ; Cambridge Introduction to the History of Art 1; 128 pages; Susan Woodford illuminates the greatness of classical art and architecture and conveys a sense of the excitement that fired the creative artists of the time. The Greeks were quick to challenge time-honoured styles and, stimulated by the problems that sometimes emerged from their daring innovations, they invented solutions that have been considered classics ever since. The Romans recognized the Greek achievement and built on it, adding a talent for organization and flair for architectural construction on a huge scale to create an impressive art of their own.‎