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Stambaugh, John E.
THE ANCIENT ROMAN CITY
Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). Light yellowing to DJ. ; Stambaugh aims at a comprehensive view of urban life in the ancient Roman world. Offering an overview of political history, liberally seasoned with a survey of the architectural development of Rome, he incorporates a catalog of the best known statesmen and authors; these figures are later invoked for the light they can shed on urban values and perspectives. The book's latter half provides a panorama of various aspects of Roman city living. ; Ancient Society and History; 416 pages
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Edwards, John
LANGUAGE IN CANADA
Top of dustjacket is lightly bumped. ; Canada is a country in which many languages intertwine. French and English are the original "charter" languages, but there is also a large number of aboriginal and immigrant varieties that contribute to the overall picture. This book provides a comprehensive look at all these languages, at how they came into contact--and sometimes conflict--and at the many ways in which they weave themselves through and around the Canadian social fabric. The broader issues of public policy, particularly educational policy and language are also given comprehensive coverage. ; 520 pages
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Champlin, Edward
FINAL JUDGMENTS Duty and Emotion in Roman Wills, 200 B.C.-A.D.
Light rubbing to DJ. Former owner's signature. ; Freed from the familial and social obligations incumbent on the living, the Roman testator could craft his will to be a literal "last judgment" on family, friends, and society. The Romans were fascinated by the contents of wills, believing the will to be a mirror of the testator's true character and opinions. The wills offer us a unique view of the individual Roman testator's world. Just as classicists, ancient historians, and legal historians will find a mine of information here, the general reader will be fascinated by the book's lively recounting of last testaments. Who were the testators and what were their motives? Why do family, kin, servants, friends, and community all figure in the will, and how are they treated? What sort of afterlife did the Romans anticipate? By examining wills, the book sets several issues in a new light, offering new interpretations of, or new insights into, subjects as diverse as captatio (inheritance- seeking) , the structure of the Roman family, the manumission of slaves, public philanthropy, the afterlife and the relation of subject to emperor. Champlin's principal argument is that a strongly felt "duty of testacy" informed and guided most Romans, a duty to reward or punish all who were important to them, a duty which led them to write their wills early in life and to revise them frequently. ; 228 pages
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Boas, Adrian J.
CRUSADER ARCHAEOLOGY The Material Culture of the Latin East
Book has light bumping to corners and spine ends. Otherwise in Near Fine condition . ; One of the most fascinating and intriguing aspects of historical research is the study of how invading societies adapt to a strange environment, undergoing change themselves as well as influencing their new neighbours and surroundings. From the end of the eleventh century there were Christian states in the Levant which were hybrid societies resulting from the meeting of the very different cultures of the East and West. Although a wealth of literature has been written on the Crusading movement affording a clearer picture of what the Crusades entailed, little has been written to illuminate Franish life in “the lands beyond the sea. ” Crusader Archeology draws together recently excavated material from Israel, Cyprus, Syria and Jordan to examine what life was life for the Crusaders in their new territory, and how they were influenced by the local population. Chapters encompass Frankish urban and rural settlements, including agriculture, industry, the differing architecture employed by the military, the church, public and private structures, arts and crafts, leisure pursuits, death and burial customs, and building techniques. This highly illustrated volume comprises a graphic portrayal of the period and makes fascinating reading for all those interested in the Middle Ages, and particularly in the Crusaders. ; 0.98 x 9.5 x 6.47 Inches; 267 pages
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Chance, Jane & Jane Chance Nitzsche
THE GENIUS FIGURE IN ANTIQUITY AND THE MIDDLE AGES
Light Fading to letters on spine. Top corner is lightly bumped. ; Genius, appears in major Latin and vernacular works of the late Middle Ages. Originally a spirit or god that survived in Roman religion for at least seven centuries, its history and significance - religious, philosophical, and literary - have not previously been examined in detail; 0.79 x 9.23 x 6.23 Inches; 201 pages
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Cokayne, Karen
EXPERIENCING OLD AGE IN ANCIENT ROME
Former owner's bookplate on flypage. Dustjacket has minor shelfwear. Top Corners and spine ends are very lightly bumped. ; Old age today can be seen as a demographic timebomb or as a resource of wisdom and experience to be valued and exploited. With a unique emphasis on both the individual and society's responses, Karen Cokayne explores how ancient Rome dealt with the physical, intellectual and emotional implications of the ageing process, and asks how the Romans themselves experienced and responded to old age. Drawing on a wide range of contemporary material - written sources, inscriptions, and visual evidence - the study brings into focus universal concerns, including geriatric illness, memory loss and senility; the status and role of the old, sexuality and family relationships. ; 9.25 x 1 x 6.25 Inches; 240 pages
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Whitley, James; Renfrew, Colin & Wendy Ashmore & Clive Gamble & John O'Shea
STYLE AND SOCIETY IN DARK AGE GREECE The Changing Face of a Pre-literate Society 1100-700 BC
Dustjacket has minor shelfwear and rubbing. ; In this innovative study, James Whitley examines the relationship between the development of pot style and social changes in the Dark Age of Greece (1100-700 BC). He focuses on Athens where the Protogeometric and Geometric styles first appeared. He considers pot shape and painted decoration primarily in relation to the other relevant features - metal artefacts, grave architecture, funerary rites, and the age and sex of the deceased - and also takes into account different contexts in which these shapes and decorations appear. A computer analysis of grave assemblages supports his view that pot style is an integral part of the collective representations of Early Athenian society. It is a lens through which we can focus on the changing social circumstances of Dark Age Greece. Dr Whitley's approach to the study of style challenges many of the assumptions which have underpinned more traditional studies of Early Greek art. ; New Studies in Archaeology; 10.25 x 1 x 7.5 Inches; 245 pages
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Richer, Stephen & Lorna Weir
BEYOND POLITICAL CORRECTNESS Toward the Inclusive University
Minor Shelfwear; This book purports to take its readers beyond political correctness, beyond the predictable polarization of left and right, beyond the polemical hyperbole that has made rational debate a rarity in the culture wars that still beset us. Indeed, the editors explicitly claim to offer 'insight into the values, ideals, and motives of both sides' and thus to transcend the sterile and static opposition between affirmative action and merit, between human rights and academic freedom. ; 9.75 x 1.25 x 6.5 Inches; 272 pages
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Effros, Bonnie
MEROVINGIAN MORTUARY ARCHAEOLOGY AND THE MAKING OF THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES
Clothing, jewelry, animal remains, ceramics, coins, and weaponry are among the artifacts that have been discovered in graves in Gaul dating from the fifth to eighth century. Those who have unearthed them, from the middle ages to the present, have speculated widely on their meaning. This authoritative book makes a major contribution to the study of death and burial in late antique and early medieval society with its long overdue systematic discussion of this mortuary evidence. Tracing the history of Merovingian archaeology within its cultural and intellectual context for the first time, Effros exposes biases and prejudices that have colored previous interpretations of these burial sites and assesses what contemporary archaeology can tell us about the Frankish kingdoms. Working at the intersection of history and archaeology, and drawing from anthropology and art history, Effros emphasizes in particular the effects of historical events and intellectual movements on French and German antiquarian and archaeological studies of these grave goods. Her discussion traces the evolution of concepts of nationhood, race, and culture and shows how these concepts helped shape an understanding of the past. Effros then turns to contemporary multidisciplinary methodologies and finds that we are still limited by the types of information that can be readily gleaned from physical and written sources of Merovingian graves. For example, since material evidence found in the graves of elite families and particularly elite men is more plentiful and noteworthy, mortuary goods do not speak as directly to the conditions in which women and the poor lived. The clarity and sophistication with which Effros discusses the methods and results of European archaeology is a compelling demonstration of the impact of nationalist ideologies on a single discipline and of the struggle toward the more pluralistic vision that has developed in the post-war years. ; 1.05 x 9.24 x 6.38 Inches; 272 pages
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Wiedemann, Thomas
THE JULIO-CLAUDIAN EMPERORS, AD 14-70
Former owner's signature on first end-page. Shelfwear. ; Summarises political events during the reigns of Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius and Nero and the civil wars of the 'year of four emperors'. It considers too the extent to which social factors influenced the imperial household. ; Classical World; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 94 pages
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Starnes, DeWitt T
ROBERT ESTIENNE'S INFLUENCE ON LEXICOGRAPHY
DJ is price-clipped. Dustjacket has a few small nicks and one small tear. Rubbing to DJ. Minor bumping to book. ; Towering above printers of his time and their successors for many years afterward was the figure of Robert Estienne, the great French lexicographer of the sixteenth century, whose contribution to knowledge and its dissemination is the subject of this authoritative book. The span of Robert Estienne's life (1503 - 1559) encompassed the historical epochs and events which shaped his career: the Renaissance, the Reformation, and the invention of printing by movable type. His keen interest in the revival of ancient literatures and languages and his training in the art of printing pointed the road he would travel, and the climate of opinion in the Reformation determined his destiny. Robert Estienne promoted classical learning by printing the works of good authors; to spread knowledge of ancient literature he compiled dictionaries and grammars which were adopted by most of the universities of Europe. His dictionary of proper names of Biblical and classical origin, the Dictionarium historicum ac poeticum, became one of the great source books for later compilers of dictionaries and for authors. Ben Jonson showed familiarity with his texts; Spenser and Milton sometimes set translations of his phraseology directly into their poetry. Perpetuation of the few errors he made is one sure proof that his dictionaries were used and copied. An exemplar of learning in the classics and scripture, he searched in ancient manuscripts to avoid repeating the numerous errors that had crept into Bible translations over hundreds of years. ; 136 pages
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Mossé, Claude
ATHENS IN DECLINE 404-86 B. C.
Discoloration to boards. Foxing to boards and dustjacket. Minor shelfwear and rubbing. ; Looks at the history of Athenian democracy from 404 B. C., when the city capitulated to Sparta down the final collapse and stages of decline. ; 181 pages
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Nagy, Gregory
GREEK DIALECTS AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF AN INDO-EUROPEAN PROCESS
DJ is price-clipped. Previous owner (a linguistics professor) has neatly written his name and date of purchase June 18, 1971 on fly-page. Comments in ink on 2-3 pages by the professor. Small tear at bottom of DJ's spine. Light Yellowing to DJ spine. ; A reformulation of the Indo-European grammatical process known as Sievers' Law. ; Loeb Classical Monographs; 200 pages
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Vatai, Frank Leslie
INTELLECTUALS IN POLITICS IN THE GREEK WORLD From Early Times to the Hellenistic Age
Light shelfwear. DJ has minor shelfwear and rubbing. ; 184 pages; This book is the first to analyse in depth the role of intellectuals in an ancient society. Looks at: Pythagoras, Seven Sages, Archytas, Empedocles, Plato, Dion, Isocrates, Aristotle, Alexander.
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Davis, F. Hadland
MYTHS & LEGENDS OF JAPAN With Thirty-Two Full-Page Illustrations by Evelyn Paul
Foxing to pages and textblock. Moderate shelfwear. Light soiling to boards. ; 432 pages
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Radin, Max
THE JEWS AMONG THE GREEKS AND ROMANS
No DJ as issued. Book has minor shelfwear and rubbing. Light Edgewear to bottom of boards. ; The Jewish People; History, Religion, Literature Series; 421 pages
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Tebrake, William H.
MEDIEVAL FRONTIER Culture and Ecology in Rijnland
Small tear at head of DJ. ; Contents: Part One-- The Historical & Ecological Setting: The Frontier in Medieval Europe; The Setting, Natural History, & Premedieval Settlement of Rijnland; Part Two-- Continuity in Rural Society: Early-Medieval Settlement in Rijnland: The Cultural Context; The Ecological Context; Part Three-- Change in Rural Society: The Reclamation & Settlement of Rijnland's Peat Bogs; Ecological & Cultural Change in Rijnland; Legacy & Significance. ; Environmental History Series; 293 pages
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Dumézil, Georges (Tr. Alf Hiltebeitel)
THE DESTINY OF A KING
The preeminent scholar of comparative studies of Indo-European society, Georges Dumézil theorized that ancient and prehistoric Indo-European culture and literature revolved around three major functions: sovereignty, force, and fertility. This work treats these functions as they are articulated through "first king" legends found in Indian, Iranian, and Celtic epics, particularly the Mahabharata. Dumézil, drawing on an extraordinarily broad range of Indo-European sources from Scandinavia to India and offering an original and provocative analytic method, set a new agenda for studies in comparative oral literature, historical linguistics, comparative mythology, and history of religions. The Destiny of a King examines one of the "little" epics within the Mahabharata—the legend of King Yayati, a distant ancestor of the Pandavas, the heroes of the larger epic. Dumézil compares Yayati's attributes and actions with those of the legendary Celtic king Eochaid Feidlech and also finds striking similarities in the stories surrounding the daughters of these two kings, the Indian Madhavi and the Celtic Medb. When he compares these two traditions with the "first king" legends from Iran, he finds such common themes as the apportionment of the earth and the "sin of the sovereign. " Contents: Yayati and his Sons; Yayati and his Daughter's Sons; Vasu Uparicara; Madhavi; Eochaid Feidlech, His Daughers and his sons; Perspectives. ; 6.89 x 0.81 x 4.18 Inches; 170 pages
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Toynbee, J. M. C.
DEATH AND BURIAL IN THE ROMAN WORLD
DJ is price-clipped. Dustjacket has wear to corners. Front inner hinge is cracked exposing webbing. Book is still solid. ; Describes burial customs and attitudes toward death in the ancient Roman world-- pagan, Jewish and Christian. First deals with burial rites and tombs among the Etruscan antecedents of the Romans, then gives an account of beliefs in the Roman era of life beyond the grave and the problems of the widespread change from cremation to inhumation. Chapters on practices, cemeteries, tombs, funerary gardens, gravestones, and tomb furniture. ; Aspects of Greek and Roman life; 336 pages
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Dunbabin, T. J.
THE WESTERN GREEKS The History of Sicily and South Italy from the Foundation of the Greek Colonies to 480 B.C.
Ex-library copy with usual discard stamps, call numbers and pocket. Light discoloration to spine. ; Looks at the colonial history of Greece in Southern Italy and Sicily, and the development of a culture rivalling that of Greece itself, and the relations of Greeks and native peoples. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 504 pages
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Thornton, M. K. & R. L. Thornton
JULIO-CLAUDIAN BUILDING PROGRAMS A Quantitative Study in Political Management
0.5 x 9.25 x 6.25 Inches; 150 pages; An analysis of the Imperial Policy of Public Programs and of Labor Management. A significant contribution to a better understanding of the Early Empire and to political management in general.
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Rawson, Beryl & Paul Weaver
THE ROMAN FAMILY IN ITALY Status, Sentiment, Space
National University Series; 0.87 x 9.06 x 6.14 Inches; 400 pages; The family continues to be seen as a central institution in Roman as well as modern, Western society. The Roman family is often used as a stereotype, sometimes of severity, sometimes of decadence, with its decline often cited as a cause of wider decline and fall. Definitions and concepts continue to be modified and nuanced, however, as the availability of new evidence and new methodologies make possible a much less simplistic picture. In this volume, the study of family draws on a wide range of disciplines to develop the intertwined themes of status, sentiment, and space. For example, on status there are contributions about Junian Latins and a survey of senators' monuments, while sentiment is represented by a gloomy but convincing picture of old age and a paper on the sentimental ideal which argues that conflict as well as concord is a feature of family life. Space is represented, among others, by the contribution on who commemorates whom in Roman Italy, pointing up the regional variations in custom and the difficulties in tracing complete families. The final contributions focus on the house: how people lived in the Roman house, the use of rooms, and the artefacts that might indicate this use. The book makes use of many types of evidence from the legal and literary to the iconographical and archaeological. Visual and material evidence play an important role in reconstructing real lives in considerable colour and variety. The book moves beyond the city of Rome to the rest of Roman Italy and even into the provinces, just as Roman culture moved outwards and mingled with other cultures. Chronologically too there are new directions, towards the later Empire and Christianity. So, although the contributors do not abandon any of the territory already gained in Rome, nor literary and epigraphical sources, nor the late Republic or early Empire, there is an exciting sense of new discovery.
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Jeffery, L. H.
ARCHAIC GREECE The City-States, c. 700-500 B. C.
Book has minor shelfwear and rubbing to boards. One minor bump to top corner. Dustjacket has edgewear with chipping and tears. DJ is price-clipped. One long tear along top of front panel has been repaired by tape else Good. ; After describing in her opening chapters the typical polis, its home government and colonial expansion, and she gives some account of each city-state in Mainland Greece, the Aegean, and the coast of Asia Minor. In detailing its history and local culture, as well as events which had great impact on the period-- the reforms of Solon, the expulsion of tyrants--she seeks to show how each contributed to the structure of Greek society as a whole. We leave it at the end of the sixth century, a country still criss-crossed with local frontiers, but poised now for the defeat of Persia and the Persians. ; 272 pages
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Arnheim, M. T. W
ARISTOCRACY IN GREEK SOCIETY
Minor Shelfwear to boards. 2 small spots to bottom textblock. ; Aspects of Greek and Roman life; 221 pages
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Stanton, G. R.
ATHENIAN POLITICS C. 800-500 B.C. A Sourcebook
Studies in Ancient Civilization; 226 pages; Athenian Politics examines the limitations and problems attendant upon the use of traditional sources to understand Athenian history. Presenting, in translation, virtually all the sources from which scholars have drawn their conclusions about ancient Athenian society--from contemporary accounts and stone inscriptions to Egyptian papyri--Stanton challenges the way scholars have viewed ancient Athens. Covering the period from the reforms of Solon to the constitutional changes of Kleisthenes, Athenian Politics explores democracy's paradoxical emergence from the actions of an undemocratic noble elite.
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Guerber, H. A.
THE MYTHS & LEGENDS OF GREECE & ROME Their Stories Signification and Origin
Mild Foxing to a few pages and textblock. ; 58 illustrations. Standard work on mythology. ; 395 pages
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Lomas, Kathryn & Tim Cornell
'BREAD AND CIRCUSES' Euergetism and Municipal Patronage in Roman Italy
Minor bump to head of spine and along back edge else Fine. DJ has minor rubbing. ; 0.65 x 9.76 x 6.28 Inches; 192 pages; Cities in the ancient world relied on private generosity to provide many basic amenities, as well as expecting leading citizens to pay for 'bread and circuses' - free food and public entertainment. This collection of essays by leading scholars from the UK and USA explores the important phenomenon of benefaction and public patronage in Roman Italy. Ranging from the late republican period to the later Roman Empire, the contributions cover a wide range of topics, including the impact of benefactions and benefactors on the urban development of Roman Italy, on cultural and economic activity, and on the changing role of games and festivals in Roman society. They also explore the relationship between communities and their benefactors, whether these were local notables, senators, or the emperor himself, and examine how the nature of benefaction changed under the Empire.
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Wiedemann, Thomas
ADULTS AND CHILDREN IN THE ROMAN EMPIRE
Dustjacket has minor shelfwear and rubbing. ; Reconstructs adults' opinions of what a child was and ought to be trained to become and arrives at a convincing portrayal of the classical concept of childhood and its transformation in the early Christian period. ; 0.75 x 9 x 6 Inches; 256 pages
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Fine, John V. A.
THE ANCIENT GREEKS A Critical History
Minor shelfwear. Small chip along foreedge. Minor edgewear. ; 1.46 x 9.2 x 5.98 Inches; 736 pages; An esteemed teacher offers a major reassessment of the history of Greece from prehistoric times to the rise of Alexander. This is a work of prodigious scholarship written in grand style. John Fine surveys the archaeological work that has revealed so much about the civilization of Crete and Mycenaean Greece, and discusses the age of colonization during which Greek colonies were established from the Crimea to the Nile, from the Caucasus to Spain. Analyzing social and economic developments, as well as foreign and inter-city affairs, he assesses the history, culture, and democracy of Athens, and Sparta's institutions and military exploits; recounts the Greeks' relations and then war with the Persian empire; details alliances, struggles, and the varying fortunes of the Greek city-states; and relates the rise of Macedon. Fine treats the Greeks' story in the context of events elsewhere in the eastern Mediterranean. Throughout he indicates the nature of the evidence on which our present knowledge is based, masterfully explaining the problems and pit-falls in interpreting ancient accounts. The Ancient Greeks is a splendid narrative history and a refreshing reinterpretation that will please students of ancient history, and everyone interested in early civilizations.
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Garnsey, P. D. A. & C. R. Whittaker
IMPERIALISM IN THE ANCIENT WORLD The Cambridge University Research Seminar in Ancient History
Dustjacket has minor shelfwear and rubbing. Minor soiling to DJ. Former owner's name on ffep. ; Cambridge Classical Studies; 0.98 x 8.5 x 5.43 Inches; 400 pages; The economics of imperialism, its political background and institutional frameworks, the material benefits it conferred, the ideologies of ruler and ruled - these are some of the more important aspects of imperialism discussed in this volume. In presenting the evidence for ancient imperialims and suggesting concepts and methods of interpretation these articles, which are the work of the Cambridge University Research Seminar in Ancient History, range from New Kingdom Egypt and Carthage, through the classical Greek world of Athens and Sparta, to Macedonia and Rome. This book will be particularly useful to ancient historians but should also interest historian of other periods as well as students of politics. Contents: Imperialism and Empire in New Kingdom Egypt; Carthaginian imperialism in the fifth and fourth centuries; Spartan imperialism; the Fifth-century Athenian empire: a balance sheet; Athens in the fourth century; Antigonids and the Greek States, 276-196 BC; Laus Imperii; Greeks and Romans; The Beneficial Ideology; Rome's African empire under the Principate; Jewish attitudes to the Roman Empire. Articles by : B J Kemp, C R Whittaker, A Andrewes, M I Finley, G T Griffith, J Briscoe, P A Brunt, M H Crawford, V Nutton, P D A Garnsey, N R M de Lange.
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Skydsgaard, Jens Erik
VARRO THE SCHOLAR Studies in the First Book of Varro's De Re Rustica
Discoloration to wraps. Bumping to heel and head of spine. Former owner's name on inner cover. ; A study on the only extant work by the learned polyhistor: Rerum Rusticarum Libri Tres. Contents: Structure; Analytic Method; Exemplification; The Agricultural Calendar with Comments (Philological Method) ; Varro & the Technical Literature; Varro as a Writer; The Roman Scholar; Varro as a Source; Varro and Caesar's Library. ; Analecta Romana Instituti Danici - Supplementum IV; 133 pages
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Assmann, Jan
HERRSCHAFT UND HEIL Politische Theologie in Altägypten, Israel Und Europa
Dustjacket has minor shelfwear and rubbing. Book has very minor shelfwear else fine. ; In German. Der renommierte Ägyptologe Jan Assmann über die politische oder theoretische Legitimation von Herrschaft. Wie seine Studien zu den Wurzeln der Religionen Ägyptens und Israels zeigen, fanden die Staaten- und Rechtsbildungen vor der Entwicklung der religiösen Weltbilder statt. Fundamentale Prinzipien wie Gerechtigkeit, Macht, Solidarität, Schuld, Gesetz und Recht wurden zuerst im Politischen umgesetzt, bevor sie ins Religiöse und Theologische transformiert wurden. ; 1.38 x 9.02 x 5.79 Inches; 338 pages
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Sayles, G. O.
THE FUNCTIONS OF THE MEDIEVAL PARLIAMENT OF ENGLAND
Small corner bump on part of text block. Dustjacket has minor shelfwear and rubbing. ; 1.58 x 9.44 x 6.38 Inches; 450 pages; This series of documents, covering the first hundred years after the Provisions of Oxford in 1258, is given in translation so that all who are interested in the history of parliament but have little Latin and less Old French may consult them.
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White, K. D.
FARM EQUIPMENT OF THE ROMAN WORLD
Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers and pocket. Dustjacket taped down to boards. ; Equipment and instruments which were for the most part used in processing and storage as opposed to cultivation. ; 275 pages
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Lomas, Kathryn & Tim Cornell
'BREAD AND CIRCUSES' Euergetism and Municipal Patronage in Roman Italy
0.65 x 9.76 x 6.28 Inches; 192 pages; Cities in the ancient world relied on private generosity to provide many basic amenities, as well as expecting leading citizens to pay for 'bread and circuses' - free food and public entertainment. This collection of essays by leading scholars from the UK and USA explores the important phenomenon of benefaction and public patronage in Roman Italy. Ranging from the late republican period to the later Roman Empire, the contributions cover a wide range of topics, including the impact of benefactions and benefactors on the urban development of Roman Italy, on cultural and economic activity, and on the changing role of games and festivals in Roman society. They also explore the relationship between communities and their benefactors, whether these were local notables, senators, or the emperor himself, and examine how the nature of benefaction changed under the Empire.
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Champlin, Edward
FINAL JUDGMENTS Duty and Emotion in Roman Wills, 200 B.C.-A.D.
Freed from the familial and social obligations incumbent on the living, the Roman testator could craft his will to be a literal "last judgment" on family, friends, and society. The Romans were fascinated by the contents of wills, believing the will to be a mirror of the testator's true character and opinions. The wills offer us a unique view of the individual Roman testator's world. Just as classicists, ancient historians, and legal historians will find a mine of information here, the general reader will be fascinated by the book's lively recounting of last testaments. Who were the testators and what were their motives? Why do family, kin, servants, friends, and community all figure in the will, and how are they treated? What sort of afterlife did the Romans anticipate? By examining wills, the book sets several issues in a new light, offering new interpretations of, or new insights into, subjects as diverse as captatio (inheritance- seeking) , the structure of the Roman family, the manumission of slaves, public philanthropy, the afterlife and the relation of subject to emperor. Champlin's principal argument is that a strongly felt "duty of testacy" informed and guided most Romans, a duty to reward or punish all who were important to them, a duty which led them to write their wills early in life and to revise them frequently. ; 228 pages
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Weaver, P. R. C.
FAMILIA CAESARIS A Social Study of the Emperor's Freedmen and Slaves
Dustjacket is protected in mylar. DJ is price-clipped. Light browning to back panel. Foxing to textblock. Former owner's name on ffep. ; Shows how the Familia Caesaris differed from other sections of freedmen and slave classes and how even within it there was a considerable degree of social differentiation. ; 342 pages
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Vatai, Frank Leslie
INTELLECTUALS IN POLITICS IN THE GREEK WORLD From Early Times to the Hellenistic Age
Light shelfwear. DJ has minor shelfwear and rubbing. ; 184 pages; This book is the first to analyse in depth the role of intellectuals in an ancient society. Looks at: Pythagoras, Seven Sages, Archytas, Empedocles, Plato, Dion, Isocrates, Aristotle, Alexander.
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Meiggs, Russell
TREES AND TIMBER IN THE ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN WORLD
Light foxing to text block else Fine. Minor shelfwear to DJ. DJ is faded. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 598 pages; This is the first comprehensive study of timber supply and demand in the Near East and the world of ancient Greece and Rome. Drawing from a wide range of literary, epigraphic, and archaeological sources, Meiggs traces changing patterns in their historical setting, and examines the timber requirements of fleets and armies, building, agriculture, and sculpture and furniture. He also draws a tentative outline of the structure of the timber trade, with special emphasis on transport, and determines that the part played by Greece and Rome in deforestation has been greatly exaggerated.
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Varro, Marcus Terentius; Bertha Tilly (Ed. )
VARRO THE FARMER A Selection from the Res Rusticae
Front endpapers foxed. Foxing/dustsoiling to top of textblock. Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). Light shelfwear to DJ with a bit of rubbing and a couple of small tears. ; English and Latin Edition; 370 pages
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Nagy, Gregory
GREEK DIALECTS AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF AN INDO-EUROPEAN PROCESS
Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). Foxing/dustsoiling to top of textblock. Minor shelfwear to DJ. DJ spine is browned. ; A reformulation of the Indo-European grammatical process known as Sievers' Law. ; Loeb Classical Monographs; 200 pages
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Maschke, Richard
ZUR THEORIE UND GESCHICHTE DER RÖMISCHEN AGRARGESETZE
Chipping to wraps with tears to spine ends. Else VG. Scholar's name to ffep (Christian Habicht). ; Vii, 116pp. ; 116 pages
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Cato; Antonius [Antonio] Mazzarino (Ed. )
M. PORCI CATONIS [CATO] DE AGRI CULTURA Ad Fidem Florentini Codicis Deperditi. Iteratis Curis. Edidit Antonius Mazzarino
Very minor shelfwear. Faint bump to 1 corner. Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). Light foxing to top of textblock. ; Latin text with editorial matter in Latin as well. Cxxxv, 138 pp; Bibliotheca Scriptorum Graecorum Et Romanorum Teubneriana TEUBNER; 138 pages
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Golden, Mark
CHILDREN AND CHILDHOOD IN CLASSICAL ATHENS
Foxing/dustsoiling to top of textblock. DJ spine is sunned and faded. Minor shelfwear to DJ. ; Ancient Society and History; 8.75 x 1.25 x 6 Inches; 288 pages; "Mark Golden has produced a superb book, an important substantive and methodological contribution to the social history of ancient Athens and a model for comparable studies. "-- American Historical Review. Ancient Society and History.
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Hopkins, Keith
CONQUERORS AND SLAVES
Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). Minor shelfwear to DJ. ; Sociological Studies in Roman History, Vol. 1; 268 pages; The enormous size of the Roman empire and the length of time it endured call for an understanding of the institutions which sustained it. In this book, Keith Hopkins, who is both classicist and sociologist, uses various sociological concepts and methods to gain new insights into how traditional Roman institutions changed as the Romans acquired their empire. He examines the chain reactions resulting from increased wealth; various aspects of slavery, especially manumission and the cost of freedom; the curious phenomenon of the political power wielded by eunuchs at court; and in the final chapter he discusses the Roman emperor's divinity and the circulation of untrue stories, which were a currency of the political system. Professor Hopkins has developed an exciting approach to social questions in antiquity and his book should be of interest to all students of ancient history and of historical sociology.
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Hesiod; T. A. Sinclair (Ed. )
HESIOD: WORKS AND DAYS
Minor browning to front wrap. Tiny corner-creasing to first few pages. Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). ; Unchanged Reprint of 1932 edition. Extensive English introduction with Greek text and English notes. ; 162 pages
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Nelson, Stephanie A.
GOD AND THE LAND The Metaphysics of Farming in Hesiod and Vergil
In this pathbreaking book, which includes a powerful new translation of Hesiod's Works and Days by esteemed translator David Grene, Stephanie Nelson argues that a society's vision of farming contains deep indications about its view of the human place within nature, and our relationship to the divine. She contends that both Hesiod in the Works and Days and Vergil in the Georgics saw farming in this way, and so wrote their poems not only about farming itself, but also about its deeper ethical and religious implications. Hesiod, Nelson argues, saw farming as revealing that man must live by the sweat of his brow, and that good, for human beings, must always be accompanied by hardship. Within this vision justice, competition, cooperation, and the need for labor take their place alongside the uncertainties of the seasons and even of particular lucky and unlucky days to form a meaningful whole within which human life is an integral part. Vergil, Nelson argues, deliberately modeled his poem upon the Works and Days, and did so in order to reveal that his is a very different vision. Hesiod saw the hardship in farming; Vergil sees its violence as well. Farming is for him both our life within nature, and also our battle against her. Against the background of Hesiods poem, which found a single meaning for human life, Vergil thus creates a split vision and suggests that human beings may be radically alienated from both nature and the divine. Nelson argues that both the Georgics and the Works and Days have been misread because scholars have not seen the importance of the connection between the two poems, and because they have not seen that farming is the true concern of both, farming in its deepest and most profoundly unsettling sense.; 9.1 X 6.1 X 0.9 inches; 272 pages
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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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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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Kirk, G. S.
MYTH Its Meaning and Functions in Ancient and Other Cultures
Light creasing to wraps. Scholar's name to ffep (Jenifer Neils). Rear wrap is browned. ; Contents: Myth, Ritual and Folktale; Levi-Strauss and the Structural Approach; Nature of Myths in Ancient Mesopotamia; Nature and Culture: Gilgamesh, Centaurs and Cyclopes; Qualities of Greek Myths; Tales, Dreams, Symbols: Towards a Fuller Understanding of Myths. ; Sather Classical Lectures; 0.9 x 8.8 x 6.4 Inches; 311 pages
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