‎Europe‎

‎Hibbert, Christopher‎

‎ROME The Biography of a City‎

‎W. W. Norton & Company. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1985. Hardcover. 0393019845 . Very minor shelfwear to book and DJ. Small note in pen to ffep. ; 387 pages; This beautifully written informative study is a portrait a history and a superb guide book capturing fully the seductive beauty and the many layered past of the Eternal City. It covers 3000 years of history from the city's quasi-mythical origins through the Etruscan kings the opulent glory of classical Rome the decadence and decay of the Middle Ages and the beauty and corruption of the Renaissance to its time at the heart of Mussolini's fascist Italy. Exploring the city's streets and buildings peopled with popes gladiators emperors noblemen and peasants this volume details the turbulent and dramatic history of Rome in all its depravity and grandeur. . W. W. Norton & Company hardcover‎

Référence libraire : 32468 ISBN : 0393019845 9780393019841

‎Holmes, T. Rice‎

‎THE ARCHITECT OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE 27 B. C. - A. D. 14‎

‎Oxford Clarendon Press. Good with no dust jacket. 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. Ex-library copy with usual stamps call numbers and pocket. Front hinge is cracked. Bumping to top of spine. Former owner's name stamped to inner cover. ; 192 pages . Oxford Clarendon Press hardcover‎

Référence libraire : 32536

‎Wiedemann, Thomas‎

‎EMPERORS AND GLADIATORS‎

‎London: Routledge. Near Fine. 1995. Softcover. 0415121647 . Of all aspects of Roman culture the gladiatorial contests for which the Romans built their amphitheatres are at once the most fascinating and the most difficult for us to come to terms with. They have been seen variously as sacrifices to the gods or at funerals to the souls of the deceased; as a mechanism for introducing young Romans to the horrors of fighting; and as a direct substitute for warfare after the imposition of peace. In this original and authoritative study Thomas Wiedemann argues that gladiators were part of the mythical struggle of order and civilisation against the forces of nature barbarism and law breaking representing the possibility of a return to new life from the point of death; that Christian Romans rejected gladiatorial games not on humanitarian grounds but because they were a rival representation of a possible resurrection. ; 198 pages . Routledge paperback‎

Référence libraire : 32542 ISBN : 0415121647 9780415121644

‎Millar Fergus‎

‎THE CROWD IN ROME IN THE LATE REPUBLIC‎

‎University of Michigan Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1998. Hardcover. 0472108921 . Very faint shelfwear to book and DJ. ; The Crowd in Rome in the Late Republic explores the consequences of a democracy in which public office could only be gained by direct election by the people. And while the Senate could indeed debate public matters advise other officeholders and make some administrative decisions it could not legislate. An officeholder who wanted to pass a law had to step out of the Senate-house and propose it to the people in the Forum. In an expansion and revision of his Thomas Spencer Jerome lectures Fergus Millar explores the development of the Roman Republic which by its final years had come to cover most of Italy. To exercise their rights voters had to come to Rome or to live in or near the city as about one third of them did and to meet in the Forum. Millar takes the period from 80 to 50 B. C. the dictatorship of Sulla to Caesar's crossing of the Rubicon and shows how crowd politics was central to the great changes that took place year after year. The volume will interest general readers as well as students of politics and Roman history. Technical terms are explained and foreign words are kept to a minimum. ; Thomas Spencer Jerome Lectures; 1.06 x 9.32 x 6.34 Inches; 256 pages . University of Michigan Press hardcover‎

Référence libraire : 32558 ISBN : 0472108921 9780472108923

‎Cook, S. A. , F. E. Adcock, & M. P. Charlesworth (Eds. )‎

‎THE CAMBRIDGE ANCIENT HISTORY Volume X: the Augustan Empire 44 B. C. - A. D. 70‎

‎Cambridge University Press. Good with no dust jacket. 1952. Hardcover. Scholar's name to ffep in ink D'Arms. Inner hinges weakening. Chipping and small tears to foreedges of maps/foldouts. Some pencil and ink underlining and marginalia. Spine a bit sunned. ; Cambridge Ancient History Series; Vol. 10; 1058 pages . Cambridge University Press hardcover‎

Référence libraire : 32557

‎Sherwin White AN. A. N.‎

‎THE ROMAN CITIZENSHIP‎

‎Oxford University Press Reprints Distributed By Sa. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1996. Second Edition. Hardcover. 0198148135 . Special edition for sandpiper books. ; Oxford University Press Academic Monograph Reprints; 496 pages . Oxford University Press Reprints Distributed By Sa hardcover‎

Référence libraire : 32566 ISBN : 0198148135 9780198148135

‎Radin, Max‎

‎MARCUS BRUTUS‎

‎Oxford University Press. Good with no dust jacket. 1939. Hardcover. Ex-library copy with usual stamps and pocket. Traces of removed call number to spine. Front inner hinge repaired with brown cloth tape. ; 238 pages . Oxford University Press hardcover‎

Référence libraire : 32640

‎Millar, Fergus; Hannah M. Cotton & Guy M. Rogers (Eds. )‎

‎ROME THE GREEK WORLD AND THE EAST Volume I: the Roman Republic and the Augustan Revolution‎

‎Chapel Hill North Carolina U.S.A.: University of North Carolina Press. Very Good. 2002. Softcover. 0807849901 . Very light shelfwear. Spine slightly sunned. ; Xxii 383pp maps. ; Studies in the History of Greece and Rome; Vol. 1; 383 pages; Opening this collection of sixteen essays is a new contribution by Millar in which he defends the continuing significance of the study of Classics and argues for expanding the definition of what constitutes that field. In this volume he also questions the dominant scholarly interpretation of politics in the Roman Republic arguing that the Roman people not the Senate were the sovereign power in Republican Rome. In so doing he sheds new light on the establishment of a new regime by the first Roman emperor Caesar Augustus. . University of North Carolina Press paperback‎

Référence libraire : 32675 ISBN : 0807849901 9780807849903

‎Cameron, Alan‎

‎CLAUDIAN Poetry and Propaganda At the Court of Honorius‎

‎Clarendon Press. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. 0198143516 . Scholar's bookplate to inner cover G. P. Goold. Foxing to textblock. Edgewear to DJ with rubbing and some foxing. ; Later reprint by Sandpiper Books. As a propagandist Claudian offers unique illumination of the intrigues inside and between the rival courts of Milan and Constantinople in the decisive years following the death of Theodosius the Great. Though a Greek by birth Claudian revived Latin poetry with a flair not seen since the Silver Age- and not to be seen again. This book studies Claudian's political and propagandist techniques his accounts of Stilico's campaigns and rivals his debt to Greek rhetorical theory and contemporary poetry his culture attitudes to Rome and its problems and not least his position as a pagan at a Christian court. ; 508 pages . Clarendon Press hardcover‎

Référence libraire : 31569 ISBN : 0198143516 9780198143512

‎Syme, Sir Ronald‎

‎AMMIANUS AND THE HISTORIA AUGUSTA‎

‎Oxford Clarendon Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. 0198143443 . 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 . Oxford Clarendon Press hardcover‎

Référence libraire : 31646 ISBN : 0198143443 9780198143444

‎Julius Caesar; Anne & Peter Wiseman; Barry Cunliffe‎

‎JULIUS CAESAR: THE BATTLE FOR GAUL A New Illustrated Translation‎

‎David R. Godine. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1980. Hardcover. 0879233060 . Light edgewear to DJ. DJ has minor shelfwear. Foxing to textblock. ; 208 pages . David R. Godine hardcover‎

Référence libraire : 31701 ISBN : 0879233060 9780879233068

‎Kroll, Wilhelm‎

‎DIE KULTUR DER CICERONISCHEN ZEIT Erster Und Zweiter Teil. Mit Einem Beitrag Von Reinhard Herbig‎

‎Wissenschlaftliche Buchgesellschaft. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1963. Hardcover. Scholars' bookplate to inner cover. Light foxing to textblock. Spine is sunned. Lettering to spine is effaced. ; Unchanged reprint of 1933 editions. ; 352 pages . Wissenschlaftliche Buchgesellschaft hardcover‎

Référence libraire : 32042

‎Heichelheim, Fritz M. & Cedric A. Yeo‎

‎A HISTORY OF THE ROMAN PEOPLE‎

‎Prentice Hall. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1962. Hardcover. 0133921263 . Foxing/dustsoiling to top of textblock. Scholar's bookplate to inner cover G. P. Goold. DJ has a few small tears with creasing. Dustjacket spine is sunned. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 480 pages; Extensively revised this survey of Roman history takes readers on a fascinating journey from prehistoric Italy to the death of Justinian 565 A.D. Centered around a traditional political and military narrative core it presents in-depth coverage of social economic and cultural developments making continual references throughout of supporting evidence and providing up-to-date explanations based on the evidence and current scholarship.Considers new archaeological evidence advances in historical demography and recently excavated and restudied artifacts to shed new light on our understanding of the origins and early development of Rome. Provides source analyses at the beginning of all major chronological periods constant cross-references to other relevant pages and chronological reminders to keep readers oriented. Rewrites sections on the Regal early Republican and late Imperial periods to incorporate latest research and provide more social and cultural history with major sections added on women and the growth and impact of Christianity. Also includes additional upgraded maps throughout. For historians. . Prentice Hall hardcover‎

Référence libraire : 31247 ISBN : 0133921263 9780133921267

‎Livy; John Briscoe (Ed. )‎

‎TITI LIVI: AB URBE CONDITA AB VRBE CONDITA Libri XLI-XLV. Edidit John Briscoe‎

‎B. G. Teubner. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1986. Hardcover. 3519014912 . Very light edgewear. Scholar's bookplate to inner cover G. P. Goold. ; Bibliotheca Scriptorum Graecorum Et Romanorum Teubneriana TEUBNER; 403 pages . B. G. Teubner hardcover‎

Référence libraire : 31351 ISBN : 3519014912 9783519014911

‎Gold, Barbara K.‎

‎LITERARY AND ARTISTIC PATRONAGE IN ANCIENT ROME‎

‎University of Texas Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1982. Hardcover. 0292746318 . Light dust-soiling to top of textblock. Scholar's name to ffep G. P. Goold. A few pencil notes by him. DJ spine is a bit browned. ; Virgil Horace Catullus Propertius—these are just a few of the poets whose work we would be without today were it not for the wealthy and powerful patrons upon whose support the Roman cultural establishment so greatly depended. Who were these patrons What benefits did they give to whom and why What effect did the support of such men as Maecenas and Pompey have on the lives and work of those who looked to them for aid These questions and others are addressed in this volume which explores all the important aspects of patronage—a topic crucial to the study of literature and art from Homer to the present day. The subject is approached from various vantage points: literary artistic historical. The essayists reach conclusions that dispel the many misconceptions about Roman patronage derived from seventeenth- and eighteenth-century models in England and Europe. An understanding of the workings of patronage is indispensable in helping us see how the Roman cultural establishment functioned in the four centuries of its flourishing and also in helping us read and enjoy specific poems and works of art. A book for all concerned with classical literature art and social history Literary and Artistic Patronage in Ancient Rome not only deepens our understanding of the ancient world but also suggests important avenues for future exploration. ; 200 pages . University of Texas Press hardcover‎

Référence libraire : 30568 ISBN : 0292746318 9780292746312

‎Paul, George MacKay & Michael Ierardi (eds.)‎

‎ROMAN COINS AND PUBLIC LIFE UNDER THE EMPIRE E. Togo Salmon Papers II‎

‎University of Michigan Press. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1999. Hardcover. 0472108751 . 0.72 x 9.48 x 6.2 Inches; 216 pages; Roman coins often shed light on Roman public life and society through the legends portraits and images they bear. The papers collected in this volume were originally presented at the Second E. Togo Salmon Conference on Roman Studies. The eight contributors are specialists in Roman coins or Roman history and in the relations between them. Coins are a unique source of information about the Roman world. In the case of the Roman Empire they were issued by or with the approval of the ruling power. The representations and legends they show therefore present an official view of contemporary affairs. The coins themselves minted for official purposes such as paying the army when studied carefully can help reconstruct official policies. They can also occasionally reveal what monuments now lost may have looked like. It is not infrequent to come across pleas that the ancient historian should make more frequent use of numismatic evidence. These essays make clear that efforts are being made both by numismatists and by historians to bring the two disciplines together. At the same time the papers reveal that the task is by no means a straightforward one. The survival of Roman coins is variable and so attempts to reconstruct the size and distribution of issues calls for skilled and experienced analysis. This collection of papers provides evidence for the kind of deductions that the historian may make from Roman coins as well as the illustrations of the pitfalls that await the unwary. Those interested in Roman history amateur coin collectors and professional numismatists will all find much here to widen their knowledge of the public context of Roman coins. Contributors: William E. Metcalf P. Bruun Barbara Levick R. P. Duncan-Jones Anthony Barrett Duncan Fishwick C. E. King Andrew Burnett. . University of Michigan Press hardcover‎

Référence libraire : 30218 ISBN : 0472108751 9780472108756

‎Terence; C. E. Freeman & Rev. A. Sloman‎

‎P. TERENTI TERENCE: ANDRIA With Notes and Introductions Intended for the Higher Forms of Public Schools‎

‎Oxford Clarendon Press. Good with no dust jacket. 1897. Second Revised Edition. Hardcover. Light edgewear to boards. Some pencil notes to greek text with a bit of inking. Endpapers tanned. ; Extensive English introduction and notes with latin text. ; Clarendon Press Series; 128 pages . Oxford Clarendon Press hardcover‎

Référence libraire : 30452

‎Wells, Colin‎

‎THE ROMAN EMPIRE‎

‎Fontana. Very Good. 1992. Second Edition. Softcover. 0006862527 . Light Creasing to spine. Pages a bit tanned. Very light pencilling; Fontana History of the Ancient World; 366 pages . Fontana paperback‎

Référence libraire : 30515 ISBN : 0006862527 9780006862529

‎Everitt Anthony‎

‎AUGUSTUS The Life of Rome's First Emperor‎

‎Random House Trade Paperbacks. Near Fine. 2006. Softcover. 0812970586 . Xxiii 378pp. He found Rome made of clay and left it made of marble. As Rome’s first emperor Augustus transformed the unruly Republic into the greatest empire the world had ever seen. His consolidation and expansion of Roman power two thousand years ago laid the foundations for all of Western history to follow. Yet despite Augustus’s accomplishments very few biographers have concentrated on the man himself instead choosing to chronicle the age in which he lived. Here Anthony Everitt the bestselling author of Cicero gives a spellbinding and intimate account of his illustrious subject. Augustus began his career as an inexperienced teenager plucked from his studies to take center stage in the drama of Roman politics assisted by two school friends Agrippa and Maecenas. Augustus’s rise to power began with the assassination of his great-uncle and adoptive father Julius Caesar and culminated in the titanic duel with Mark Antony and Cleopatra. The world that made Augustus–and that he himself later remade–was driven by intrigue sex ceremony violence scandal and naked ambition. Everitt has taken some of the household names of history–Caesar Brutus Cassius Antony Cleopatra–whom few know the full truth about and turned them into flesh-and-blood human beings. ; 9.1 X 6.1 X 1.0 inches; 432 pages . Random House Trade Paperbacks paperback‎

Référence libraire : 30506 ISBN : 0812970586 9780812970586

‎Starr, Chester G.‎

‎THE ANCIENT ROMANS‎

‎Oxford University Press. Very Good. 1971. Softcover. 0195014545 . Minor creasing to wraps. ; 8.8 X 6.0 X 1.1 inches; 264 pages . Oxford University Press paperback‎

Référence libraire : 30079 ISBN : 0195014545 9780195014549

‎Millar Fergus & Erich Segal Eds.‎

‎CAESAR AUGUSTUS Seven Aspects‎

‎Oxford Clarendon Press. Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1984. Hardcover. 0198148518 . Scholar's name P. S. Derow to inner cover. Some ink notes and marginalia by Derow. Corners a bit bumped. With a sun-faded dustjacket. Minor edgewear to DJ. ; 0.57 x 8.5 x 5.76 Inches; 232 pages; This book presents seven fresh and original views of Caesar Augustus by an international group of scholars. The papers collected here consider the image which he presented of himself how historians and poets reacted to him the nature of his rule and the representation of the newly-established monarch among his subjects in the provinces. The contributors are well-known historians and scholars: Zvi Yavetz Tel Aviv Fergus Millar Oxford Claude Nicolet Paris Emilio Gabba Pavia Werner Eck Cologne Glen Bowersock Princeton and Jasper Griffin Oxford. . Oxford Clarendon Press hardcover‎

Référence libraire : 29521 ISBN : 0198148518 9780198148517

‎Lucius Annaeus Seneca; Elaine Fantham‎

‎SENECA'S TROADES A Literary Introduction With Text Translation and Commentary‎

‎Princeton University Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1982. Hardcover. 069103561X . Foxing to textblock. Scholar's bookplate to inner cover G. P. Goold. Minor sunning to DJ spine. ; A fresh Latin text of Seneca's Troades and an English version with an extensive introduction and critical commentary. Argues that Troades was not intended for stage production the author also discusses the atmosphere of Rome at the time the play was written when both political and poetic life were felt to be in decline. ; 430 pages . Princeton University Press hardcover‎

Référence libraire : 29251 ISBN : 069103561X 9780691035611

‎Balsdon, J. P.‎

‎ROMANS AND ALIENS‎

‎University of North Carolina Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1979. Hardcover. 0807813834 . Book has very light shelfwear. Dustjacket has light shelfwear. DJ spine a bit sunned. ; This book brings together a wealth of out-of-the-way information both on the national peculiarities of the Romans and on their views of the peculiarities of others; the topics range from food and sex habits to astrology and the seven day week from slavery snobbery and the problems of exile to ritual murder euthanasia and suicide. ; 10.25 x 1.25 x 6.5 Inches; 310 pages . University of North Carolina Press hardcover‎

Référence libraire : 29003 ISBN : 0807813834 9780807813836

‎Ehrenwirth, Ursula‎

‎KRITISCH-CHRONOLOGISCHE UNTERSUCHUNGEN FUR DIE ZEIT VON 1. JUNI BIS ZUM 9. OKTOBER 44 V. CHR.‎

‎Munich. Very Good. 1971. Softcover. Scholar's name to ffep Christian Habicht. Light chipping and rubbing to wraps. ; Xiii 109pp. Diss. Munich 1971. ; Inaugural - Dissertation; 109 pages . paperback‎

Référence libraire : 22828

‎Huzar, Eleanor Goltz‎

‎MARK ANTONY A Biography‎

‎Croom Helm. Very Good. 1978. Softcover. 0709947194 . Creasing to spine. Some edgewear to wraps with a bit of colour loss. ; In a chronological/topical approach Huzar recounts the details of Mark Antony's life and his role in the history of Rome and the Roman Empire. Serves as an excellent introduction to the shifting alliances the feuds and the ambitions of the rival politician-generals who held the fate of the Roman Republic in their hands. ; 347 pages . Croom Helm paperback‎

Référence libraire : 29049 ISBN : 0709947194 9780709947196