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Swaddling, Judith
THE ANCIENT OLYMPIC GAMES
Minor shelfwear. Small chip to spine. Gift card to R. E. Fantham affixed to titlepage. ; In this revised and all-colour edition of her indispensable guide to the ancient Games, Judith Swaddling traces their mythological and religious origins, and describes the events, the sacred ceremony and the celebrations that were an essential part of the Olympic festival. A large, detailed model based on modern research and excavation reconstructs the site of ancient Olympia, where alongside religious and civic buildings there grew an elaborate sports complex with a stadium for 40,000 spectators, indoor and outdoor training facilities, hot and cold baths, a swimming pool and a race-course. Later chapters cover the diet and medical treatment of athletes, sponsorship, patronage, propaganda and revivals of the Games and a brand new chapter, based on the lateste research discusses the literary sources for the Olympic Games. The expanded final chapter on the modern Games is written in collaboration with Stewart Binns, an expert in this field who has worked closely with the International Olympic Committee over many years, and has been revised to bring the story up to the preparations for the London 2012 Games. Illustrated with gorgeous, full-colour photography and covering thousands of years of Olympic history, this fascinating book is essential reading for anyone interested in the Olympic Games. ; 9.6 X 7.5 X 0.6 inches; 120 pages
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Hannestad, Niels
ROMAN ART AND IMPERIAL POLICY
Book has some edgewear and rubbing. ; A look at the Architecture, coins, friezes, statuary and frescoes and how the Romans cleverly used these forms to disseminate their ideals and how this influenced Rome's development from republic to an empire. ; Jutland Archaeological Society publications; 485 pages
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Miller, Stephen G.
ARETE Greek Sports from Ancient Sources.
Minor shelfwear. Gift inscription from author to Jenifer [Neils] on titlepage. ; From the informal games of Homer's time to the highly organized contests of the Roman world, Miller has compileda trove of ancient sources: Plutarch on boxing, Aristotle on the pentathlon, Philostratos on the buying and selling of victories, Vitruvius on literary competitions, and Xenophon on female body building. Arete offers readers an absorbing lesson in the culture of Greek athletics from the greatest of teachers, the ancients themselves, and demonstrates that the concepts of virtue, skill, pride, valor, and nobility embedded in the word arete are only part of the story from antiquity. ; 235 pages; Signed by Author
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Rodenwaldt, Gerhart
ALTDORISCHE BILDWERKE IN KORFU
Pages tanned. Wraps have 5 cm tear to top of spine. Scholar's name to titlepage (Cedric Boulter). Creasing to wraps. ; 27pp + 36pls. ; Bilderhefte Antike Kunst. V; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; 27 pages
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Pollitt, J. J.
THE ART OF ROME. C. 753 B. C. -337 A. D. Sources and Documents
Creasing to wraps. Scholar's name to ffep (Jenifer Neils). ; Sources and Documents in the History of Art Series; 252 pages; Collection of the most important ancient texts relating to early Roman art, including numerous references to painting, portrait sculpture and statues, buildings, public works, etc. , with introduction, translations from the Greek and Roman texts, and notes by J. J. Pollitt. Biographical notes on Greek and Roman authors; index of artists; geographical index.
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Pendlebury, J. D. S.
THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF CRETE An Introduction
Highlighting to some pages. Creasing to wraps. Scholar's name to ffep (Jenifer Neils). ; With 50 plates, 53 text illustrations and 24 maps. An account of the culture of Crete from the earliest times down to the Roman Age and is concerned with the material aspects of Cretan archaeology. ; 400 pages
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Gardiner, E. Norman; (Steven G. Miller, Preface)
ATHLETICS OF THE ANCIENT WORLD
Light pencilling. Small stain to titlepage. ; Reprint of the 1930 ed. , with a new preface by S. G. Miller. Xviii, 246pp, illustrated. ; 246 pages
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Vermeule, Cornelius C.
GREEK AND ROMAN SCULPTURE IN AMERICA Masterpieces in Public Collections in the United States and Canada
Spine is sunned and discolored with creasing. 1 corner of front wrap slightly chipped. ; Published in collaboration with the J. Paul Getty Museum. ; 1.25 x 11.5 x 9 Inches; 406 pages
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Garland, Robert
THE GREEK WAY OF LIFE From Conception to Old Age
Creasing to spine and front wrap. Scholar's initial to inner cover (Jenifer Neils). Pen markings to a few pages with notes in ink to rear endpapers. ; 0.75 x 8.75 x 5.75 Inches; 376 pages; Garland's book is a survey of the major life experiences which constituted the social reality of classical Greece. The method of analysis is dense description assembled mostly from classical literary and philosophic sources and broken down into the general topics of conception and pregnancy, birth, childhood, coming of age, early adulthood, and elders and the elderly. What emerges is a conception of the human being as a social animal par excellence whose nature was largely realized in the attainment of paradigmatic social roles: military service for men and childbearing for women. Among the subtopics are Greek medical ideas, the roles of women and children, marriage, care of the elderly, and the role of religious ideas.
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Pollitt, Jerome Jordan
ART IN THE HELLENISTIC AGE
Creasing to wraps. Light chipping to corners. Pencilling to a couple of pages. ; 344 pages; 'The best reason to study Hellenistic art is for its own sake' writes Professor Pollitt in the Preface to Art in the Hellenistic Age. 'But', he continues, 'I would suggest that there is an additional quality that should make the art of the Hellenistic age of particular interest to modern audiences: the fact that in background and content it was the product of an age in many ways similar to our own ... The result of the historical conditions (of the age) was an art which, like much modern art, was heterogenous, often cosmopolitan, increasingly individualistic, and frequently elite in its appeal'. This book is an interpretative history of Greek art during the Hellenistic period - i.e. from the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC, to the establishment of the Roman Empire at the end of the first century BC - which also explores ways in which that art is an expression of the cultural experience and aspirations of the Hellenistic age.
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Brunnsaker, Sture
THE TYRANT-SLAYERS OF KRITIOS AND NESIOTES A Critical Study of the Sources and Restorations
Creasing along lower edges of wraps. Pages uncut. Appear unread. ; Skrifter Utgivna Av Svenska Institutet I Athen / Acta Instituti Atheniensis Regni Sueciae, Series in 4°, XVII; 188 pages
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Trendall, A. D.
GREEK VASES IN THE LOGIE COLLECTION
Wraps a bit scuffed and rubbed. Small tear near head of spine (1 cm). Minor bumping to upper corner. ; 83pp + 40pls. Covers smudged, else VG.; 83 pages
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Golden, Mark
SPORT IN THE ANCIENT WORLD FROM A TO Z
DJ has creasing along top edge. ; 9.4 X 6.3 X 0.7 inches; 208 pages
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Bugh, Glenn Richard
THE HORSEMEN OF ATHENS
Light Pencilling to a few pages. DJ has light soiling and DJ spine browned. ; Princeton Legacy Library, 941; 9.4 X 6.1 X 0.9 inches; 304 pages
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Hawhee, Debra
BODILY ARTS Rhetoric and Athletics in Ancient Greece
9.2 X 6.3 X 0.9 inches; 240 pages
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Carratelli, Pugliese G. , Adamesteanu, D. , Forti, L. , Frajese, A. , Gigante, M. , Giorgio Gullini, Piero Orlandini, Claude Rolley, Attilio Stazio, Arpad Szabo & Lucia Vagnetti.
MEGALE HELLAS Storia E Civiltà Della Magna Grecia
Text in Italian. Booklet laid in which includes introduction, preface and captions of illustrations in the book, in English, French & German. Very light bump to 1 corner. DJ has light chipping along upper edge of rear DJ. With small tears along lower edge of dedication page. ; Very heavy book. Extra shipping charges may apply. ; Antica Madre; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 747 pages
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Carratelli, Pugliese G. , Bonacasa, Gullini, Giuidice, Et Al.
SIKANIE Storia E Civiltà Della Sicilia Grecia
Text in Italian. Booklet laid in which includes introduction, preface and captions of illustrations in the book, in English, French & German. Very light shelfwear to book. DJ has minor chipping along upper edge of rear DJ. DJ has a couple of tears. DJ flap creased and not sitting square. ; Very heavy book. Extra shipping charges may apply. ; Antica Madre; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 747 pages
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Rhodes, P. J.
THE GREEK CITY STATES A Source Book
Very light creasing to rear wrap. ; 356 pages; Political activity and political thinking began in the cities and other states of ancient Greece, and terms such as tyranny, aristocracy, oligarchy, democracy and politics itself are Greek words for concepts first discussed in Greece. Rhodes presents in translation a selection of texts illustrating the formal mechanisms and informal workings of the Greek states in all their variety. From the states described by Homer out of which the classical Greeks believed their states had developed, through the archaic period which saw the rise and fall of tyrants and the gradual broadening of citizen bodies, to the classical period of the fifth and fourth centuries, Rhodes also looks beyond that to the Hellenistic and Roman periods in which the Greeks tried to preserve their way of life in a world of great powers. For this second edition the book has been thoroughly revised and three new chapters added.
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Snodgrass, Anthony M.
ARMS AND ARMOUR OF THE GREEKS
Minor shelfwear. ; Aspects of Greek & Roman Life Series; 151 pages; Traces the development of Ancient Greek armaments from the Mycenae period to Macedon, and discusses the role that military events played in the history of the Greeks. 60 illustrations.
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Chase, George Henry
THE SHIELD DEVICES OF THE GREEKS In Art and Literature
Spine just slightly dulled. ; Unchanged Reprint of 1902. Looks at the choice of shields among the Greeks. ; 8.75 x 0.25 x 5.75 Inches; 90 pages
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Garlan, Yvon; Lloyd, Janet (Tr. )
SLAVERY IN ANCIENT GREECE Revised and Expanded Edition
Old price sticker to ffep. Scholar's initial to inner cover (Jenifer Neils). Spine slightly sunned. Tiny stain to base of textblock. ; Emphasizing the variety of systems of servitude, the author surveys the development of chattel slavery and then describes several cases in which entire communities were subjected. Next he considers the theories by which the Greeks justified the enslavement of particular peoples, and points out the absence of slavery in some Greek conceptions of utopia. He also discusses such topics as the condition of slaves in the various poleis, the role played by slaves in political life and in civic defense, the rarity of genuine slave revolts, and the means by which slaves and Helots sometimes reached accommodation with their masters. ; 0.75 x 9.25 x 6.25 Inches; 310 pages
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Loraux, Nicole & (translated by Alan Sheridan)
THE INVENTION OF ATHENS The Funeral Oration in the Classical City
Very minor shelfwear to book. Dustjacket has minor shelfwear. DJ spine is a little browned and faded. ; 512 pages; How does the funeral oration relate to democracy in ancient Greece? How did the death of an individual citizen-soldier become the occasion to praise the city of Athens? In The Invention of Athens, Nicole Loraux traces the different rhetoric, politics, and ideology of funeral orations--epitaphioi--from Thucydides, Gorgias, Lysias, and Demosthenes to Plato. Arguing that the ceremony of public burial began circa 508-460 BCE, Loraux demonstrates that the institution of the funeral oration developed under Athenian democracy. A secular, not a religious phenomenon, a literary genre with fixed rhetoric effects, the funeral oration was inextricably linked to the epainos--praise of the city--rather than to a ritualized lament for the dead as is commonly assumed. Above all, the funeral oration celebrated the city of Athens and the Athenian citizen. Loraux interprets the speeches from literary, anthropological, and political perspectives. She explains how these acts of secular speech invented an image of Athens often at odds with the presumed ideals of democracy. To die in battle for the city was presented as an act of civic choice--the "fine" death that defined the citizen-soldier's noble, aristocratic ethos. At the same time, the funeral oration cultivated an image of democracy at a time when there was, for example, no formal theory of a respect for law and liberty, the supremacy of the collective and public over the individual and the private, or freedom of speech.
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Snowden, Jr. , Frank M.
BLACKS IN ANTIQUITY Ethiopians in the Greco-Roman Experience
Shelfwear to book. Faint creasing to wraps. Spine sunned. Scholar's name to ffep (Jenifer Neils). Light pencilling to a few pages. ; Xxii, 364pp, illustrated. The Africans who came to ancient Greece and Italy participated in an important chapter of classical history. Although evidence indicated that the alien dark- and black-skinned people were of varied tribal and geographic origins, the Greeks and Romans classified many of them as Ethiopians. In an effort to determine the role of black people in ancient civilization, Mr. Snowden examines a broad span of Greco-Roman experience--from the Homeric era to the age of Justinian--focusing his attention on the Ethiopians as they were known to the Greeks and Romans. The author dispels unwarranted generalizations about the Ethiopians, contending that classical references to them were neither glorifications of a mysterious people nor caricatures of rare creatures. Mr. Snowden has probed literary, epigraphical, papyrological, numismatic, and archaeological sources and has considered modern anthropological and sociological findings on pertinent racial and intercultural problems. He has drawn directly upon the widely scattered literary evidence of classical and early Christian writers and has synthesized extensive and diverse material. Along with invaluable reference notes, Mr. Snowden has included over 140 illustrations which depict the Negro as the Greeks and Romans conceived of him in mythology and religion and observed him in a number of occupations--as servant, diplomat, warrior, athlete, and performer, among others. Presenting an exceptionally comprehensive historical description of the first major encounter of Europeans with dark and black Africans, Mr. Snowden found that the black man in a predominantly white society was neither romanticized nor scorned--that the Ethiopian in classical antiquity was considered by pagan and Christian without prejudice. ; 364 pages
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Anderson, J. K.
ANCIENT GREEK HORSEMANSHIP
DJ has many tears and chipping- a bit tattered. DJ is price-clipped. Faint rubbing to boards. A couple of corners lightly bumped. Scholar's name to ffep (Jenifer Neils). ; 329 pages; Examines both archaeological and literary data and to make possible a new understanding of the role of the horse in Greek war tactics, travel, sports, and major festivals.
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Hanson, Victor Davis
WARFARE AND AGRICULTURE IN CLASSICAL GREECE
Faint sunning to spine. ; The ancient Greeks were for the most part a rural, not an urban, society. And for much of the Classical period, war was more common than peace. Almost all accounts of ancient history assume that farming and fighting were critical events in the lives of the citizenry. Yet never before have we had a comprehensive modern study of the relationship between agriculture and warfare in the Greek world. In this completely revised edition of Warfare and Agriculture in Classical Greece, Victor Davis Hanson provides a systematic review of Greek agriculture and warfare and describes the relationship between these two important aspects of life in ancient communities. With careful attention to agronomic as well as military details, this well-written, thoroughly researched study reveals the remarkable resilience of those farmland communities. ; 0.87 x 9.25 x 6.12 Inches; 281 pages
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Fisher, N. R. E.
SLAVERY IN CLASSICAL GREECE
Scholar's initial to inner cover (Jenifer Neils). ; Emphasizing the variety of systems of servitude, the author surveys the development of chattel slavery and then describes several cases in which entire communities were subjected. Next he considers the theories by which the Greeks justified the enslavement of particular peoples, and points out the absence of slavery in some Greek conceptions of utopia. He also discusses such topics as the condition of slaves in the various poleis, the role played by slaves in political life and in civic defense, the rarity of genuine slave revolts, and the means by which slaves and Helots sometimes reached accommodation with their masters. ; Classical World Series; 8.3 X 5.4 X 0.4 inches; 128 pages
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Webster, T. B. L.
LIFE IN CLASSICAL ATHENS
Scholar's name to ffep (Jenifer Neils). ; 192 pages
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Goldhill, Simon & Robin Osborne (Eds. )
PERFORMANCE CULTURE AND ATHENIAN DEMOCRACY
Book is fine. DJ spine is sunned and discolored. ; 9.3 X 6.1 X 1.1 inches; 430 pages
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Worley, Leslie J.
HIPPEIS The Cavalry of Ancient Greece
DJ spine a bit sunned. Faint shelfwear to DJ. Lower corners edgeworn. ; History And Warfare; 9.1 X 6.0 X 1.0 inches; 241 pages
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Ducat, Jean
SPARTAN EDUCATION Youth and Society in the Classical Period
DJ spine a bit sunned. ; 9.2 X 6.0 X 1.0 inches; 362 pages
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Cartledge, Paul
SPARTAN REFLECTIONS
Book is fine. DJ has very light shelfwear; The complex and distinctive Spartan tradition has been a prominent theme in western thinking from antiquity to today. Sparta is also one of a handful of ancient Greek cities with enough existing evidence for historians to create a realistic social portrait. Over the past quarter-century Paul Cartledge has established himself as the leading international authority on ancient Sparta. Spartan Reflections is a superb collection of his essays—two are published here for the first time, and the rest, often difficult to locate, have been revised and updated for publication in book form. Giving us a real sense of what Sparta was like as a culture, these essays constitute a fascinating introduction to and overview of ancient Spartan history and its reception. This collection, unique in breadth and scope, will be an essential source for anyone interested in this idiosyncratic society. Cartledge brings us up to date on what is known about the most important and intriguing aspects of Sparta: its military development, questions of gender and sexuality, and the difficult problem of artistic and literary aspects of Sparta. We learn about the institutions that distinguished Sparta from other city-states, including its religion, education process, degree of literacy, secret service, unusual system of servitude, and institutionalized pederasty. Throughout, Cartledge also makes important comparisons with Athens, helping us grasp what is really striking about Sparta. Cartledge's writing is clear and engaging as he draws from myriad sources both ancient and modern, as well as from political and cultural theory. These essays, together with their magisterial bibliography, demonstrate his remarkable scholarly and intellectual range. Spartan Reflections will be an important source on the most significant issues in Sparta scholarship today as well as a fascinating look at this culture for general readers. ; 358 pages
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Hanson, Victor Davis
WARS OF THE ANCIENT GREEKS
Very Light shelfwear. ; This brilliant account covers a millennium of Greek warfare. With specially commissioned battle maps and vivid illustrations, Victor Davis Hanson takes the reader into the heart of Greek warfare, classical beliefs, and heroic battles. This colorful portrait of ancient Greek culture explains why their approach to fighting was so ruthless and so successful. Development of the Greek city-state and the rivalries of Athens and Sparta. Rise of Alexander the Great and the Hellenization of the Western world. Famous thinkers—Sophocles, Socrates, Demosthenes—who each faced his opponent in battle, armed with spear and shield. Unsurpassed military theories that still influence the structure of armies and the military today. ; Smithsonian History of Warfare; 240 pages
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Hanson, Victor Davis; John Keegan (Intro. )
THE WESTERN WAY OF WAR Infantry Battle in Classical Greece
Minor shelfwear to book. DJ has a couple of small tears and very light chipping. ; 244 pages; Second Edition. The Greeks of the classical age invented not only the central idea of Western politics--that the power of state should be guided by a majority of its citizens--but also the central act of Western warfare, the decisive infantry battle. Instead of ambush, skirmish, maneuver, or combat between individual heroes, the Greeks of the fifth century b. C. Devised a ferocious, brief, and destructive head-on clash between armed men of all ages. In this bold, original study, Victor Davis Hanson shows how this brutal enterprise was dedicated to the same outcome as consensual government--an unequivocal, instant resolution to dispute. The Western Way of War draws from an extraordinary range of sources--Greek poetry, drama, and vase painting, as well as historical records--to describe what actually took place on the battlefield. It is the first study to explore the actual mechanics of classical Greek battle from the vantage point of the infantryman--the brutal spear-thrusting, the difficulty of fighting in heavy bronze armor which made it hard to see, hear and move, and the fear. Hanson also discusses the physical condition and age of the men, weaponry, wounds, and morale. This compelling account of what happened on the killing fields of the ancient Greeks ultimately shows that their style of armament and battle was contrived to minimize time and life lost by making the battle experience as decisive and appalling as possible. Linking this new style of fighting to the rise of constitutional government, Hanson raises new issues and questions old assumptions about the history of war.
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Raubitschek, A. E. ; Dirk Obbink & P. A. Vander Waerdt (Eds. )
THE SCHOOL OF HELLAS Essays on Greek History, Archaeology, and Literature
DJ spine a bit sunned. Old price sticker to DJ. ; This collection of writings presents the work of one of the most influential classical scholars of this century. The editors bring together for the first time Raubitschek's most significant publications, gathered from diverse and in many cases inaccessible sources. The selections include "The Treaties Between Persia and Athens," "The Peace Policy of Pericles," "Corinth and Athens Before the Peloponnesian War," "The Origin of Ostracism," "Theophrastos on Ostracism," "The Case Against Alcibiades," "The Priestess of Pandrosos," "The New Homer," "The Eleusinian Spondai," "The Speech of the Athenians at Sparta," "Andocides and Thucydides," and numerous book reviews. Together the essays provide rich insights into the ancient authors and monuments as they were meant to be understood in antiquity. ; 9.2 X 6.4 X 1.2 inches; 384 pages
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Powell, Anton
THE GREEK WORLD
Light shelfwear. Spine sunned. ; Routledge Worlds; 9.6 X 6.5 X 1.7 inches; 640 pages
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Loraux, Nicole & Caroline Levine & Froma I. Zeitlin
THE CHILDREN OF ATHENA Athenian Ideas About Citizenship and the Division Between the Sexes
Very minor shelfwear. Spine slightly sunned. Scholar's initial to inner cover (Jenifer Neils). ; According to one myth, the first Athenian citizen was born from the earth after the sperm of a rejected lover, the god Hephaistos, dripped off the virgin goddess Athena's leg and onto fertile soil. Henceforth Athenian citizens could claim to be truly indigenous to their city and to have divine origins that bypassed maternity. In these essays, the renowned French Hellenist Nicole Loraux examines the implication of this and other Greek origin myths as she explores how Athenians in the fifth century forged and maintained a collective identity. ; 296 pages
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Austin, M. M. & P. Vidal-Naquet
ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL HISTORY OF ANCIENT GREECE: An Introduction
Former owner's name on ffep. Light glue stains to spine. Minor shelfwear otherwise. ; 416 pages
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Green, Peter
ALEXANDER OF MACEDON, 356-323 B.C. A Historical Biography
Minor shelfwear. Foxing to textblock. Minor shelfwear to DJ. ; Until recently, popular biographers and most scholars viewed Alexander the Great as a genius with a plan, a romantic figure pursuing his vision of a united world. His dream was at times characterized as a benevolent interest in the brotherhood of man, sometimes as a brute interest in the exercise of power. Green, a Cambridge-trained classicist who is also a novelist, portrays Alexander as both a complex personality and a single-minded general, a man capable of such diverse expediencies as patricide or the massacre of civilians. Green describes his Alexander as "not only the most brilliant (and ambitious) field commander in history, but also supremely indifferent to all those administrative excellences and idealistic yearnings foisted upon him by later generations, especially those who found the conqueror, tout court, a little hard upon their liberal sensibilities. " This biography begins not with one of the universally known incidents of Alexander's life, but with an account of his father, Philip of Macedonia, whose many-territoried empire was the first on the continent of Europe to have an effectively centralized government and military. What Philip and Macedonia had to offer, Alexander made his own, but Philip and Macedonia also made Alexander form an important context for understanding Alexander himself. Yet his origins and training do not fully explain the man. After he was named hegemon of the Hellenic League, many philosophers came to congratulate Alexander, but one was conspicuous by his absence: Diogenes the Cynic, an ascetic who lived in a clay tub. Piqued and curious, Alexander himself visited the philosopher, who, when asked if there was anything Alexander could do for him, made the famous reply, "Don't stand between me and the sun. " Alexander's courtiers jeered, but Alexander silenced them: "If I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes. " This remark was as unexpected in Alexander as it would be in a modern leader. For the general reader, the book, redolent with gritty details and fully aware of Alexander's darker side, offers a gripping tale of Alexander's career. Full backnotes, fourteen maps, and chronological and genealogical tables serve readers with more specialized interests.; 8.5 x 1.5 x 5.75 Inches; 617 pages
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Fornara, Charles W. (edited and translated by)
ARCHAIC TIMES TO THE END OF THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR
Minor shelfwear to book. Spine sunned. ; Translated Documents of Greece and Rome 1; 231 pages; The first volume is devoted to the period which begins with the era of Greek colonization and ends with the close of the Peloponnesian War in 404 B. C. Charles Fornara has gathered together material compiled from inscriptions, ancient encyclopedias, scholia, and similar sources. The material, much of it translated by him for the first time, covers not only events of national significance - wars and treaties, the founding of towns and colonies, the dedication of temples - but also presents such records of daily life as ration lists, wine trade regulations, inventories of treasure, drinking songs, and financial records. The documents are accompanied by a brief commentary, which is basically intended to clarify obscurities in the text. An extensive glossary and indexes explain obscure terms of Greek social and governmental structure and permit detailed prosopographical analysis.
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Andrewes, Antony
THE GREEK TYRANTS
Underlining in pen to some pages. Scholar's name to ffep (Jenifer Neils). ; Important for Greek politics. ; Harper Torchbooks; 164 pages
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Weinstock, Stefan
DIVUS JULIUS
E Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers and pocket. Front hinge cracked but holding. Minor rubbing to boards. ; This book is about Roman religion in the age of Caesar, beginning with the ancestral cults of the Gens Julia at Bovillae and ending with the new cult of Divus Julius all over the Roman Empire. It deals with the old gods, politico-religious ideas, and ruler cult. Caesar is at the centre, as religious reformer rather than modern rationalist. This aspect of him, though remote and unfamiliar, rounds out the portrait of Caesar as the founder of the Empire of which one may get an occasional glimpse in the later writings of Mommsen but which has since been too seldom presented. ; 490 pages
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Trendall, A. D & T. B. L. Webster
ILLUSTRATIONS OF GREEK DRAMA
DJ has minor edgewear with creasing along top edge. ; 12.0 X 9.0 X 0.6 inches; 159 pages
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Hubbard, Thomas K.
HOMOSEXUALITY IN GREECE AND ROME A Sourcebook of Basic Documents
Spine slightly sunned. ; 9.1 X 6.4 X 1.6 inches; 600 pages
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Peradotto, John & David Konstan
INDO-EUROPEAN ROOTS OF CLASSICAL CULTURE [ARETHUSA 13.2]
Minor browning to spine and rear wrap. Minor shelfwear. Scholar's blindstamp to ffep (Robert Brown). Small pen mark written to front wrap '6' ; [135]-313 pp. ; Arethusa. Vol. 13, No. 2, Fall 1980; Vol. 13.2; 178 pages; Introduction (p. 135) Konstan, David; The Problem that was Greece: Some Observations on the Greek Tradition from the Standpoint of the New Comparative Mythology (p. 141) Littleton, C. Scott; Patroklos, Concepts of Afterlife, and the Indic Triple Fire (p. 161) Nagy, Gregory; Indo-European Dimension of Herakles in "Iliad" 19.95-133 (p. 197) Davidson, Olga Merck; "Skeptouchoi basileis" [Greek]: An Argument for Divine Kingship in Early Greece (p. 203) Mondi, Robert; Ares: A Reflex on the Indo-European War God? (p. 217) Strutynski, Udo; L'Utilisation de la trifonctionnalité d'origine indo-européenne chez les auteurs grecs classiques (p. 233) Sergent, Bernard; An Enigmatic Indo-European Rite: Paederasty (p. 279) Bremmer, Jan; Ideology, Tripartition and Ovid's "Metamorphoses" (p. 299) Rhorer, Catherine.
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Gerson, Lloyd P.
PLOTINUS The Arguments of the Philosophers
Very faint shelfwear; Plotinus (ca. 205–270) is widely considered the father of Neoplatonism. Much of our biographical information about Plotinus comes from Porphyry's preface to his edition of Plotinus' Enneads. ; 10 x 1.25 x 6.5 Inches; 338 pages
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Spann, Philip O.
QUINTUS SERTORIUS AND THE LEGACY OF SULLA
Former owner's bookplate to ffep. Faint rounding to upper corners. Minor creasing to DJ. ; When people think of the great generals of the Late Roman Republic, most think of Pompey The Great and Julius Caesar but there were other more obscure men who were just as great in their military prowess such as Lucullus. Another one of those men was Quintus Sertorius, the last Marian general who successfully repelled every commander sent against him in Spain for almost 12 years. Phillip Spann does a great job at bringing this facinating character out of obscurity: recounting his exploits and exploring what his true motives may have been. ; 239 pages
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Golden, Mark
SPORT IN THE ANCIENT WORLD FROM A TO Z
Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers. Former reference copy. ; 9.4 X 6.3 X 0.7 inches; 208 pages
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Bagnall, Roger S.
THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE PTOLEMAIC POSSESSIONS OUTSIDE EGYPT
Very Light foxing to top of textblock. Tiny red pen mark to rear endpaper (arrow). Minor shelfwear. ; Looks at the history and administration of the provinces of the Ptolemaic Empire outside Egypt including: Cyrenaica, Cyprus, Phoenicia, Palestine, Coele-Syria, and various parts of Asia Minor and the Greek Islands also looks at Coinage. ; Columbia Studies in the Classical Tradition IV; 301 pages
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Wiseman, T. P.
CATULLAN QUESTIONS
Light browning to wraps. Former owner's name to ffep in black marker. ; Contents: The Problem; The Polymetric Short Poems (1-60) ; The Long Poems and the Epigrams (61-116) ; Chronological Consequences; Lesbia--When? Lesbia--Who? Index of Catullan passages. ; 70 pages
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Lord, Albert Bates
EPIC SINGERS AND ORAL TRADITION
A couple of corners slightly creased. Former owner's name to ffep (Roland LeBlanc). ; Albert Bates Lord here offers an unparalleled overview of the nature of oral-traditional epic songs and the practices of the singers who composed them. Shaped by the conviction that theory should be based on what singers actually do, and have done in times past, the essays collected here span half a century of Lord's research on the oral tradition from Homer to the twentieth century. Drawing on his extensive fieldwork in living oral traditions and on the theoretical writings of Milman Parry, Lord concentrates on the singers and their art as manifested in texts of performance. In thirteen essays, some previously unpublished and all of them revised for book publication, he explores questions of composition, transmittal, and interpretation and raises important comparative issues. Individual chapters discuss aspects of the Homeric poems, South Slavic oral-traditional epics, the songs of Avdo Metedovic, Beowulf and Anglo-Saxon poetry, the medieval Greek Digenis Akritas and other medieval epics, central Asiatic and Balkan epics, the Finnish Kalevala, and the Bulgarian oral epic. ; Myth And Poetics; 9.1 X 6.3 X 0.9 inches; 280 pages
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