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Updike, John
The Centaur
"The story concerns George Caldwell, a school teacher, and his son Peter, outside of Alton (i.e., Reading), Pennsylvania. The novel explores the relationship between the depressive Caldwell and his anxious son... One thing George and Peter share is the desire to get out, to escape their hometown. Updike drew on the myths of antiquity in an attempt to turn a modern and common scene into something more profound, a meditation on life and man's relationship to nature and eternity. George is both the Centaur Chiron and Prometheus (some readers might see George's son Peter as Prometheus), Mr. Hummel, the automobile mechanic, is Hephaestus (AKA Vulcan); and so forth. The novel's structure is unusual; the narrative shifts...from describing the characters as George, Vera, and the rest, to the Centaur, Venus, and so forth" Neat tight copy Book
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Wolfe,Humbert [ed]
Others Abide [Poems from the Greek Anthology]
"These translations are in the order of the Loeb edition of the Greek Anthology, The translator's aim has been to follow the original as close as he could " 119p. Slight soiling to cream coloured boards and minor wear to spine. Gift inscription -1928 - to previous owner -on ffep Book
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Russell, William F.
Classic Myths To Read Aloud
The great stories of Greek and Roman mythology specially arranged to be read aloud. 264p. Small remainder mark, else fine Book
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Chaidemenos, Nikos
Hellas Anothen: Oikismoi
Beautiful photographs of Greek villages and houses as seen in the "Hellas Above " series featuring aerial photographs by Nikos Chaidemenos and Giannis Giannelos and the archives of Miltos Publishing. 144p.llus [col] [NO copies found in WorldCat] Book
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Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di
The Leopard
" a novel by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa that chronicles the changes in Sicilian life and society during the Risorgimento. Published posthumously in 1958 by Feltrinelli, after two rejections by the leading Italian publishing houses...it became the top-selling novel in Italian history and is considered one of the most important novels in modern Italian literature' Translated from the Italian by Archibald Colquohoun with an introduction by A.L.Rowse..282p. Time Reading Program Special edition. Book
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Kallen, Evelyn
Ethnicity and Human Rights in Canada
Extensively revised and updated, this human rights study presents new material on the legal protection of rights in Canada's post-Charter era. 327p. bibliography . index Crisp ight copy, but has previous owners name and s few paragraphs highlighted, Excellent readyiog vopy Book
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Arystofanes [Aristophanes]
Komedie: Acharniancy- Rycerze-Chmury-Bojomira (Lysisyrate)
Aristophanes' Comedies translated into Polish by Stefan Shebrny. Includes : Acharniancy [ Acharnians] Rycerze [Hippeis] Chmury [Nepheli] Bojomira [Lysistrata] .463p. Corners slightly bumped, else fine. [8 copies found in WorldCat] Book
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Ziatas, Christos
He Ismeria Ton Eskimoon
Poetry by Greek Canadian author born in Romania, Unpaginated AnAn unbound textblock purchased from printer [Only ONE copy found in WorldCat] Book
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Ziatas, Christos
He Isemeria Ton Eskimoon
Poetry by Greek Canadian author born in Romania, Unpaginated An edited proof copy purchased from printer- some pages marked OK in red. [Only ONE copy found in WorldCat] Book
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Korkolopoulou, Dionysiou
Argyroi Gamoi : Poiemata
43p. [NO books by this author found in WorldCat] Book
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Symigdalas, Antones N.
Mia Phone Anthropias : Dokimio
Self published from a typescript. Inscription on title page. 34p. Slight damage to card cover, else fine [NO copies found in WorldCat] Book
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Bates, Ronald
The Wandering World
Ronald Gordon Nudell Bates (1924-1995), a poet, literary critic and Professor of English was born in Regina Saskatchewan in 1924. He earned a B.A. (1948), at Victoria College, University of Toronto, and M.A. and Ph.D also from the University of Toronto. His teaching career was spent at the University of Upsala (Sweden), the University of Toronto and University of Western Ontario. A member of P.E.N., selected publications of his poetry include The wandering world (1959) the author's first book of poetry This copy is signed on the title page. Some of the poems were inspired by Greek mythology .60p. Clean tight copy, but ffep is missing, else near fine Book
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Hope, Thomas
Costumes of the Greeks and Romans
An unabridged republication of a work originally published in1812 in 2 volumes as "Costumes of the Ancients" but now printed as a single volume. Carefully copied from ancient vases and statuary by Thomas Hope (1770-1831) a British collector and designer , these engravings combine unusual clarity of style with unquestioned authenticity.Over 700 illustrations depict all classes and occupations. xlvii.+ 300 plates. Book
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Eikones Tis Athenas / Images of Athens 1999
This Calendar [Himerologia] for1999 was piblished by the National Gallery and the Alexander Soutzos Museum on the theme "Images of Arhens: A large format [unused] desk diary and address book, illustrated with lovely etchings and paintings of Athens by Greek and visiting artists.Captions in Greek and English. A nice gift item. Unpaginated. [NO copies found in WorldCat Book
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Euripides
Alcestis
Translated into English rhyming verse with explanatory notes by Gilbert Murray Vintage student copy, annotations, shabby cover, Book
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Euripides
Alcestis and Other Plays : Hippolytus,Iphigenia in Tauris,AlcestisHecabe,Electra,Heracles
Vintage Penguin [# L31] 165p.Paper age toned Book
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Euripides
Alcestis
Translated into English rhyming verse with explanatory notes by Gilbert Murray.82p. notes. From the Library of Grace Irwin . Vintage copy slight shelf wear else near fine. Book
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Euripides
Rhesos
97p. notes. Ex-Library
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Mellersh, H E L [Harold Edward Leslie]
From Ape Man to Homer. The story of the beginnings of western civilization
Book club edition [originally published by Robert Hale]. This copy has a label of the "Canadian Bookclub Centre, Montreal" on the title page obscuring the details of the Scientific Book Club. London.222p. illus, else as new Book
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Wilson, John R (ed)
Euripides' Alcestis (Twentieth Century Interpretations series)
A collection of critical essays by well-known scholars. 122p. Neat tight copy,apaper age toned Book
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Euripides
Euripides III : Hecuba, Andromache, The Trojan Women,Ion.
Collection of Euripides plays - Contains : Hecuba (trans William Arrowsmith) Andromache (trans. John Frederick Nims) The Trojan Women (trans Richmond Lattimore) Ion (trans Ronald Frederick Willetts) in the "Complete Greek Tragedies" series edited by David Grene and Richmond Lattimore. / Clean and tight except for underlining in the Trojan Women. Book
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Euripides
Euripides V : Electra, The Phoenician Women, The Bacchae
Collection of Euripides play - Contains : Electra (trans Emily Townsend Vermeule) The Phoenician Women (trans Elizabeth Wyckoff) The Bacchae (trans William Arrowsmith) in the "Complete Greek Tragedies" series edited by David Grene and Richmond Lattimore (this copy with some pencil underlining and notes) Book
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Euripides
Rhesos
Neat tight copy, ffep missing, one library stamp, otherwise clean, crisp, unmarked.97p. Ex-Library
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Menander ; Theophrastus
Menander: Plays & Fragments; Theophrastus: The Characters
Penguin Classics L 193 Book
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Menander
The Dyskolos (Trans Carroll Moulton)
In 1959 an archaeological dig unearthed the complete text, written on papyrus, of Menander's comedy The Dyskolos; this was the first complete work ever found by Menander, the a Greek dramatist and the best-known representative of Athenian New Comedy. A verse translation -a "superb modern rendering" of a lost Greek comedy recovered from thr papyrus. Book
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Menander (Trans .Gilbert Murray)
The Arbitration (Epitrepontes)
"The Epitrepontes of Manander : the fragments translated and the gaps conjecturally filled in by Gilbert Murray" 125p. Vintage copy, clean and unmarked ,slight chipping at foot of spine . Book
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Sappho
The Love Songs of Sappho
Translated with introduction and notes by Paul Roche "This Mentor edition comprises all the important poems of Sappho, including the latest released OPxyrhynchus papyrus" 224p.Papaer age tpned, else as new Book
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Cook,Robert & Cook,Kathleen
Southern Greece : An Archaeological Guide (Attica,Delphi and the Peloponnese)
Comprehensive, illustrated survey of the major archeological sites in southern Grece. 217p. platues, diagrams.maps.bibliography.index. Book
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Solomos,Alexis & Felheim,Marvin (Trans)
Living Aristophanes
Analysis and criticism of Aristophanes as a working dramatist written by a noted Greek director of Aristophanic comedy, this book offers a unique and refreshing approach to the eleven extant plays of the great dramatist. The author's purpose is to bring Aristophanes to life for the modern theatre.Translation and adaptation by Alexis Solomod and Marvin Fellhem,320p.notes, index. Book
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Seltman,Charles
Women in Antiquity
Vintage paperback copy. 184p. Illus.plates bibliography. index Book tight and unmarked but paper age toned, else near finr Book
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Tyrrell, William Blake & Brown, Frieda S.
Athenian Myths and Institutions: Words in Action
"This book provides an introduction to the critical interpretation of Athenian myths. It does not retell the various myths under consideration, but rather examines the myths from a variety of perspectives, including the traditional historical and literary-critical interpretations, as well as the more modern approaches of anthropologists, feminist critics, and in particular, the work of the French structuralists Jean-Pierre Vernant, Marcel Detienne, and Pierre Vidal-Naquet. " 229p. bibliography.index Book
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McLeish,Kenneth
The Theatre of Aristophanes
'Aristophanes is the first creative genius in Western stage comedy.Drawing on his experience as scriptwriter, producer and actor, Kenneth McLeish analyses Aristophanes' art, and the unique performing traditions of Greek Old Comedy.192p.biibliography.index Crisp copy, unmarked except for name of previous owner. Book
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Van Steen, Gonda A.H.
Venom in Verse : Aristophanes in Modern Greece
"Aristophanes has enjoyed a conspicuous revival in nineteenth and twentieth-century Greece. [This is] the first critical analysis of the role of the classical Athenian playwright in modern Greek culture, explaining how the sociopolitical "venom" of Aristophanes' verses remains relevant and appealing to modern Greek audiences." 284p. bibliography.index Book
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Aristophanes
Lysistrata
Reprinted from "Aristophanes : the Eleven Comedies" Translated by Sir Louis Sterling?] originally published by The Athenian Society. London 1912.This edition in the Dover Thrift Editions series 1994 54p. Book
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Aristophanes
Ladies Day (Thesmophoriazusae)
An amusing translation of Aristophanes "Thesmophoriazusae" in which a bunch of feisty Athenian dames discover an interloper at their female only fertility festival. The author's send up of the poetic excesses of fellow dramatist Euripides is well rendered by this translator for a contemporary audience to enjoy.134p, notes index Very crisp copy, almost as new. Book
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Aristophanes
Two Plays : Peace and Lysistrata
145p. map [Almost as new] Book
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Aristophanes
Aristophanes Against War: The Archanians - The Peace - Lysistrata.
157p. Book
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Bernal, Martin
Black Athena : The Afrocentric Roots of Classical Civilization Volume I - The Fabrication of Ancient Greece. 1785-1985
Imaginative thesis that "challenges the whole basis of the question of what is classical about Classical civilization, arguing that it has deep roots in Afroasiatic cultures with these influences being systematically ignored, denied or suppressed since the eighteenth century - chiefly for racist reasons." 575p.bibliography. index. Book
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Aristophanes
The Birds
Reprinted from "Aristophanes : the Eleven Comedies" Translated by Sir Louis Sterling?] originally published by The Athenian Society. London 1912.This edition in the Dover Thrift Editions series 1999.48p. 54p. Book
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Morrison, J. S.; Rankov, N. B.; Coates, J. F.
The Athenian Trireme : The History and Reconstruction of an Ancient Greek Warship
"Shortly before the successful launch of the "Olympias" a reconstructed Greek warship, the first edition of "The Athenian Trireme" was published, providing historical and technical background to the reconstruction of the ship in a Greek shipyard. Since then 5 seasons of experimental trials have been conducted on the ship under oar and sail, and the lessons learned have been supplemented by historical, scientific and physiological research over the last 15 years. for this second edition the text has been recast and a number of substantive changes have been made in the light of the sea trials and new research. In addition there is an entirely new chapter which describes the trials of Olympias in detail, reports the performance figures obtained and outlines the changes which the authors would wish to incorporate in any second reconstruction. There are 19 new illustrations, including 11 photographs of Olympias at sea demonstrating features of the design which could only be represented by drawings in the first edition. 319p. illus.bibliography.index Book
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Lloyd,Alan
Marathon : The Story of Civilizations on Collision Course
The author sets the historical background to this clash of cultures , contrasting the might of the Persian Empire with the evolving institutions of the Greek city-state... as the Greeks win against all odds, and set a precedent ...that kept the Eastern empire out of Europe and ensured that the Greek way of life would set the pattern for Western culture . 216p.plates bibliography.211p. plates bibliography Book
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Plutarch [Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus]
Lives of the Noble Greeks ( A selection)
Theseus, Lycurgus, Solon, Themistocles, Pericles, Alcibiades, Timoleon, Alexander, Demosthenes. 383 p, index Clean, crisp copy. Book
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Aristophanes
Lysistrata
Plays for Performance Series." "Aristophanes' great anti-war drama glorifies the power of fertility in the face of destruction. Mr. Rudall's new translation recaptures the splendid variety of diction in Aristophanes, so that instead of a heavily poetic presentation the play becomes highly theatrical" 65p. Book
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Sprague De Camp, L.
The Ancient Engineers
Engineering in the ancient world from the Pyramids to Byzantium, including architecture,agriculture,weaponry,transportation. 408p. plates.diagrams.bibliography.index. Book
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Casson, Lionel
The Ancient Mariners : Seafarers and Sea Fighters of the Mediterranean in Ancient Times
Glossary of Greek and Latin Nautical Terms286p. plates glossary index maps on end papers. Tight sound copy, text clean, complete, no underlinings, minimal library marks. Ex-Library
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Sprague De Camp, L
The Ancient Engineers
Engineering in the ancient world from the Pyramids to Byzantium, including architecture,agriculture,weaponry,transportation. Pbk. 450p. plates.diagrams.bibliography.index. Book
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Haxton, Brooks (translator)
Dances for Flute and Thunder : Praises, Prayers and Insults - Poems from the Ancient Greeks
: A contemporary poet presents lively, free-spirited translations of great poetry from the ancient Greeks, in an anthology that features 38 works including classical lyrics and epigrams by poets ranging from Sappho to Theokritos. 84p. Book
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Weigall, Arthur
Sappho of Lesbos: Her Life and Times
A solid, scholarly and interesting biography of this poetess, including 'Every known fragment of Sappho's poetry is quoted in full .(using) the Greek text as edited by J.M.Edmonds in his Lyra Greca" . The notion that there were two Sapphos- - one the poet and the other the courtesan-is discussed and dismissed. 319p.frontis. plates, maps,index. Cloth binding fading along spine Book
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Weigall, Arthur
Sappho of Lesbos: Her Life and Times
(Small stamp on title page states " Canadian Edition For Sale in Canada only") A solid, scholarly and interesting biography of this poetess, including "Every known fragment of Sappho's poetry is quoted in full .(using) the Greek text as edited by J.M.Edmonds in his Lyra Greca" . The notion that there were two Sapphos-one the poet and the other the courtesan-is discussed and dismissed."With 13 reproductions from sketches and photographs" 328p. plates, maps,index. Name of previous owner, Rear end paper missing Book
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Williamson, Margaret
Sappho's Immortal Daughters
She lived on the island of Lesbos around 600 B.C.E. She composed lyric poetry, only fragments of which survive. And she was--and is--the most highly regarded woman poet of Greek and Roman antiquity. Little more than this can be said with certainty about Sappho, and yet a great deal more is said. Her life, so little known, is the stuff of legends; her poetry, the source of endless speculation. This book is a search for Sappho through the poetry she wrote, the culture she inhabited, and the myths that have risen around her. It is an expert and thoroughly engaging introduction to one of the most enduring and enigmatic figures of antiquity. Margaret Williamson conducts us through ancient representations of Sappho, from vase paintings to appearances in Ovid, and traces the route by which her work has reached us, shaped along the way by excavators, editors, and interpreters. She goes back to the poet's world and time to explore perennial questions about Sappho: How could a woman have access to the public medium of song? What was the place of female sexuality in the public and religious symbolism of Greek culture? What is the sexual meaning of her poems? Williamson follows with a close look at the poems themselves, Sappho's "immortal daughters." 196p.plates bibliography. index Book
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