‎Anglais‎

‎Euripides; Philip Vellacott‎

‎EURIPIDES: ORESTES AND OTHER PLAYS‎

‎Minor shelfwear. Light chipping to base of spine. ; Penguin Classics; 7.6 X 5.1 X 1.1 inches; 448 pages‎

‎Powell, J. U. & E. A. Barber‎

‎NEW CHAPTERS IN THE HISTORY OF GREEK LITERATURE Recent Discoveries in Greek Poetry and Prose of the Fourth and Following Centuries B. C.‎

‎Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). Former owner's name to ffep. Obituary of Tom Stinton pasted to rear inner cover. Small tear to spine (1 cm). Endpapers tanned. ; Major headings: 1. Moralists; II. Lyric Poetry: 1. Hieratic: the Paean, the Hymn; 2. Personal Lyric; 3. The Nome; III. Comedy; IV. Elegiac and Epic Writers; V. The Mime; VI. History and Biography; VII. Oratory. ; 166 pages‎

‎Syme, Sir Ronald‎

‎AMMIANUS AND THE HISTORIA AUGUSTA‎

‎Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). Foxing/dustsoiling to top of textblock. DJ spine browned. Minor shelfwear. ; Sir Ronald Syme gives us a highly entertaining characterization of the author and his work, together with a sketch of the literary, social and religious context. By comparing it with the Historiae of Ammianus Marcellinus he puts the probable publication date between 392 and 395. For Sir Ronald Syme, it is a historical fiction about gods and bad emperors. The author chose to pass himself off as six biographers. He invented a whole school of precursors as rivals to cite, to confute, to mock and to expose. ; 313 pages‎

‎Thomson, J. A. K.‎

‎THE CLASSICAL BACKGROUND OF ENGLISH LITERATURE‎

‎DJ is price-clipped. DJ Spine is browned. Dustjacket has edgewear with chipping and tears. Minor foxing. Scholar's name to ffep (Philippa Goold née Forder). ; Defines the extent and character of the influence of classics upon English literature. ; 272 pages‎

‎Farrington, Benjamin‎

‎SAMUEL BUTLER AND THE ODYSSEY‎

‎Light foxing. Scholar's name to ffep (E. A. Thompson). Gift inscription from author to Thompson: "With the compliments of the author". Light edgewear to boards. ; 95 pages; Signed by Author‎

‎Miller, Stephen G.‎

‎ARETE Greek Sports from Ancient Sources. (A Second and Expanded Edition)‎

‎Light creasing to spine. Minor shelfwear. Former owner's name to ffep. ; 239 pages; From the informal games of Homer's time to the highly organized contests of the Roman world, Miller has compiled a trove of ancient sources--Plutarch on boxing, Aristotle on the pentathlon, Philostratos on clay dust as an anti-perspirant and on the buying and selling of victories, Vitruvius on literary competitions, Xenophon on female body building. With fully twice as many texts as the highly successful first edition, this new version of Arete offers readers an absorbing lesson in the culture of Greek athletics from the greatest of teachers--the ancients themselves. These sources, which Miller himself has translated, provide unparalleled insights into ancient athletic practices and competitive festivals. They emphasize the fundamental role of athletics in education and shed light on such issues as the role of women in athletics and the politics and economics of the games. Ultimately they demonstrate that the concepts of virtue, skill, pride, valor, and nobility embedded in the word arete and so closely associated in the modern mind with Greek athletics are only part of the story from antiquity.‎

‎Lintott, Andrew‎

‎VIOLENCE, CIVIL STRIFE AND REVOLUTION IN THE CLASSICAL CITY 750-330 BC‎

‎Spine very lightly sunned. Old price sticker to rear wrap. ; Gives a conspectus of violence and civil strife in classical society during the most exciting period of its development. Examines first the extent and function of violence in this form of society and then traces the development of civil strife as the cities become more powerful and politically more sophisticated. Major themes are aristocratic rivalry, the tensions between rich and poor, the link between imperialism and civil strife and the causes of constitutional revolution. ; 289 pages‎

‎Xenophon; Rex Warner & (Intro by George Cawkwell)‎

‎XENOPHON: THE PERSIAN EXPEDITION‎

‎Minor shelfwear. ; Penguin Classics; 7.6 X 5.0 X 1.1 inches; 384 pages‎

‎Brown, R. Allen‎

‎THE NORMANS‎

‎Minor shelfwear to book and DJ. Dustjacket is protected in plastic sleeve. Scholar's name to ffep (Jenifer Neils). ; 10.5 X 7.7 X 0.8 inches; 191 pages‎

‎Sloan, Kim & Andrew Burnett (Eds. )‎

‎ENLIGHTENMENT Discovering the World in the Eighteenth Century‎

‎The Enlightenment was a period of intense activity devoted to discovery and learning about the natural world, the past and other civilizations. Classification, collecting and deciphering were all important stages on the way to understanding the world. The King's Library was built to house the books donated from the royal libraries of King George II and King George III and they epitomize the interest in the late 18th and early 19th centuries in scholarship and study. Aimed at the general reader and relevant to many academic disciplines, this book explores the ways people acquired new information, organized their ideas and reached their conclusions. ; 10.8 X 8.5 X 0.9 inches; 304 pages‎

‎Boswell, James; Frederick A. Pottle (Ed. ) & Christopher Morley (Preface )‎

‎BOSWELL'S LONDON JOURNAL 1762-1763 Now First Published from the Original Manuscript Prepared for the Press, with Introduction and Notes by F. A. Pottle.‎

‎Small tears to head of spine. Lower corners a bit edgeworn. ; The Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell; 370 pages‎

‎Steele, Richard; Joseph Addison Et Al.‎

‎THE SPECTATOR. VOLUME THE FOURTH. [Issues 252- 321. December 1711 - March 1712]‎

‎Full leather binding. 5 raised bands with red leather spine label. Corners and spine ends edgeworn. Gilt ruled boards. Former owner's name in faded ink to titlepage. Dampstaining to a few pages. Browning and foxing to endpapers. ; 303 pp + [9] pp ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall‎

‎Sherk, Robert K. (Ed. & Trans. )‎

‎ROME AND THE GREEK EAST TO THE DEATH OF AUGUSTUS‎

‎Pages yellowed. ; Translated Documents of Greece and Rome 4; 200 pages; This is a collection in English translation of Greek and Latin sources for the study of Greek and Roman history, sources which are mainly inscriptions and papyri. They do not include the major authors such as Polybius and Livy. Where those authors have provided us with the broad outline of the Roman presence in the Greek world, this collection allows the student and reader to penetrate beneath what they have to tell us and to see details otherwise unreported. Much of this documentary material having never before been translated into English, it has been all too often neglected in colleges and universities at all levels. The theme of the present collection is the Roman presence in the Greek East, the nature of the Roman hegemony, the diplomatic moves on both sides, and the reaction of the Greeks, during the period from the last decades of the third century BC to the death of Augustus in AD 14. It includes such materials as treaties of alliance and friendship, honorary decrees, official letters of Roman governors, decrees of the Roman senate, dedications of statues, Roman laws, reports of embassies, religious cults, legal decisions, loyalty oaths to Rome, athletic contests, calendars, and minutes of an audience in Rome given by the emperor. Brief commentary and notes accompany the translations, making this book a collection to be welcomed by students and teachers of ancient history.‎

‎Rabelais, François & J. M. Cohen‎

‎GARGANTUA & PANTAGRUEL The Histories of Gargantua and Pantagruel‎

‎Pages tanned. Creasing to spine and ffep. A bit of colour loss along spine. ; Penguin Classics; 7.6 X 5.0 X 1.3 inches; 720 pages‎

‎Hansen, Mogens Herman; (translated by J. A. Crook)‎

‎THE ATHENIAN DEMOCRACY IN THE AGE OF DEMOSTHENES Structure, Principles, and Ideology‎

‎Creasing to spine. Light creasing to wraps. Minor shelfwear. ; The Ancient World; 410 pages; When democratic rule was ended by the conquering Macedonians in 322, the Athenians had evolved principles and practice of democratic ideology that became the direct inspiration of those liberal ideas cherished by the Western world in the 19th and 20th centuries. Mogens Hansen examines Athenian democracy both as a political system and as an ideology. In describing the former he distinguished between the three major decision-making organs - the Assembly, the Legislators and the Peoples Courts, and the magistrates who were responsible both for preparing the agenda for the legislature and for carrying its decisions into effect. In discussing Athenian democratic ideology Dr Hansen also makes the important distinction between the ideals held by the democrats themselves and those imputed to them by the critics of democracy, principally (and ironically, given that they would barely have survived under any other system) the philosophers. The Athenians conceived liberty both as the ability to participate in the decision-making process, and as the right to live without oppression from the state or other citizens. Equality was conceived not as an equality of nature, but as an equality of opportunity. "The Athenian Democracy in the Age of Demosthenes" is based on more than 30 years sustained research.‎

‎Gelling, Margaret‎

‎SIGNPOSTS TO THE PAST Place-Names and the History of England‎

‎Some foxing. Foxing to top of textblock. Dustjacket is protected in plastic sleeve. ; 8.9 X 6.1 X 1.2 inches; 281 pages‎

‎Cheney, C. R. & Michael Jones‎

‎A HANDBOOK OF DATES For Students of British History‎

‎Foxing to textblock. ; Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks 4; 9.0 X 6.0 X 0.7 inches; 268 pages‎

‎Laing, Lloyd & Jennifer Laing‎

‎THE PICTS AND THE SCOTS‎

‎Dustjacket is protected in plastic sleeve. Very faint foxing. ; 9.8 X 7.0 X 0.9 inches; 172 pages‎

‎Kenyon, Denise‎

‎THE ORIGINS OF LANCASHIRE‎

‎Foxing to textblock. Else very minor shelfwear. ; Origins Of The Shire; 8.4 X 5.9 X 0.7 inches; 202 pages‎

‎Welch, Martin‎

‎ENGLISH HERITAGE BOOK OF ANGLO-SAXON ENGLAND‎

‎Foxing to textblock and endpapers. Minor shelfwear. ; 9.7 X 7.3 X 0.6 inches; 144 pages‎

‎Horace; A. D. Godley (Trans. )‎

‎THE ODES OF HORACE‎

‎Endpapers browned. Former owner's name in ink to Inner cover. Some pencil notes to rear endpaper. A few ink notes. Copyright page shows 1898 but advertisements at end dated 1905 ; English translation only. ; 111 pages‎

‎Wheatley, Henry B. & William Edward Mead & D. W. Nash & J. S. Stuart Glennie‎

‎MERLIN OR THE EARLY HISTORY OF KING ARTHUR A Prose Romance (about 1450-1460 A.D.). Edited from the Unique MS. in the University Library, Cambridge.‎

‎Very light shelfwear. Glue Stains along inner hinges. Textblock has one small stain. ; With an Introduction containing Outlines of the History of the Legend of Merlin. Also Essays on Merlin the Enchanter and Merlin the Bard, & Arthurian Localities. O. S. 21 & 36. Pp 189-776; Early English Text Society; Vol. 2; 587 pages‎

‎Hanson, Victor Davis (Ed. )‎

‎HOPLITES The Classical Greek Battle Experience‎

‎Minor shelfwear with creasing to spine. ; 304 pages; Incorporating research found in ancient literary, iconographic, epigraphic, and archaeological sources, this book explores the experiences of the soldiers who conducted battle on the small plains of ancient Greece. The volume, which draws on the accumulated expertise of nine American and British scholars, emphasizes the actual techniques of fighting and practical concerns as the use of commands, music in warfare, the use of "dog-tags", and ritual on the battlefield.‎

‎Plato; Hugh Tredennick & Harold Tarrant.‎

‎PLATO: THE LAST DAYS OF SOCRATES Euthyphro / Apology / Crito / Phaedo‎

‎Foxing to top of textblock and lightly to endpapers. ; 7.7 X 5.0 X 0.7 inches; 237 pages‎

‎Brewer, Derek (Ed. )‎

‎STUDIES IN MEDIEVAL ENGLISH ROMANCES Some New Approaches‎

‎Foxing to textblock and endpapers. Else minor shelfwear. Dustjacket is protected in mylar. ; 9.3 X 6.4 X 1.0 inches; 205 pages‎