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2015Faint shelfwear. Very light scuffing to spine. ; De L'Archéologié à L'Histoire; 9.4 X 6.1 X 1.3 inches; 386 pages
1990Creasing to corners of wraps. Minor shelfwear. ; 316 pages
1980Scholars' bookplate to inner cover (Slater & Dunbabin). Foxing to textblock. Some foxing. ; 8.4 X 5.8 X 0.2 inches; 83 pages
1980Scholars' bookplate to inner cover (Slater & Dunbabin). Foxing to textblock. Some foxing. ; Unchanged Reprint of 1918 ed. ; 8.5 X 5.8 X 0.4 inches; 136 pages
1978Foxing to top of textblock. Light edgewear to boards. ; Geschichte Der Leibesübungen 2; 347 pages
1996Gift inscription from author in pen to half-title. Minor edgewear and creasing to wraps. ; 78 plates at end. ; 272 pages
2004Very minor shelfwear. ; 8.0 X 5.1 X 0.6 inches; 256 pages
1992Minor creasing to spine and rear upper corner of wraps. ; Pp. 190, xxv, 68. Contributions in English, French, German, Greek, and Italian. Archaeology and history of the Olympic Games in ancient and modern times. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 258 pages
1992Minor edgewear to wraps. Minor crease to front wrap. ; Heavy book. ; Folio 13" - 23" tall; 424 pages
200410.6 X 7.5 X 0.4 inches; 150 pages
2006Very light shelfwear. ; 11.8 X 8.1 X 0.6 inches; 176 pages
1964Foxing to inner covers. Scholar's name to ffep (Cedric Boulter). Minor shelfwear. ; 244 pages
1993Gift inscription from author to Jenifer [Neils]. Light pen and pencil markings to a few pages. ; Mnemosyne. Bibliotheca Classica Batava. Supplementum; 9.5 X 6.3 X 0.9 inches; 240 pages; Signed by Author
1963Chipping to spine ends. Edgewear along spine cover. Foxing to boards and inner pastedowns. Pages tanned. Scholar's name to ffep (Cedric Boulter). ; 143 pages
1988Minor shelfwear to book and DJ. Dustjacket is protected in plastic sleeve. ; 8.7 X 6.2 X 0.8 inches; 136 pages
1972Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers and pocket. Small tear to DJ. Tape stains to boards. ; Reprint of the 1972 ed. 288pp, ill. ; Aspects of Greek and Roman Life; 288 pages; Sporting activity in Greece and Rome, from the first Olympic Games in 776 BC to chariot racing during the Byzantine era. The book treats not only sports history, but its philosophy and psychology as well.
1990Gift inscription to Jenifer Neils from Kyle to ffep.. Faint creasing along top edge of DJ. ; The Walter Prescott Webb Memorial Lectures Number 24; 9.2 X 6.3 X 0.7 inches; 168 pages
2004Light shelfwear to book. Pencilling to a few pages. Red pen correction to 1 page. Spine very slightly slanted. DJ is rubbed with minor shelfwear and creasing with 1 small tear. ; A considerable number of academic and popular studies on ancient sports have been, and are due to be, published in this Athenian Olympic year (throwing the opening statement of this book into some doubt: `Ancient Greek athletics as a field of study does not suffer from overpopulation') but this study stands out among the best. Miller draws on recent archaeological and historical discoveries to discuss in comprehensive detail all aspects of games and athletic competitions in ancient Greece. Throughout Miller places athletics in its social context because, as he argues, sport was one of the ways in which Greeks could aspire to their cultural ideal, to be civilised men. Supported by numerous photographs, often in colour, and illustrations of sites and objects that depict competitions, the scholarly text describes in fascinating detail the origin of athletics, the Olympic Games and other festivals, the role of women in this male domain, the relationship between an athlete and a hero, Greek recreation, the gymnasium, sport as entertainment, professional athletes and the political side to competitions. Includes a glossary. ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; 288 pages
1987Very minor shelfwear to book. Minor pencilling to a couple of pages. DJ has a couple of small tears. DJ has light staining to rear panel. ; Xviii, 202pp, illustrated. A leading authority on classical games here provides a comprehensive study of the practice of combat sports in the ancient civilizations of Greece, Rome, and the Near East. Describing and analyzing the sports of boxing, wrestling, stick-fighting, and pankration, Michael B. Poliakoff discusses such topics as the function of competition and violent games in ancient society; on the social background of the participants, showing the broad spectrum of Greek athletic personnel; on the significance of the appearance of combat sport in myth and literature; and on the alleged cultic functions of the ancient combat sports. The book is copiously illustrated with photographs of numerous objects rarely or never before published. ; 202 pages
2011Very light creasing along top edge to DJ. ; Part I: Competition in comparative perspective: 1. Rivalry in history: an introduction (Hans van Wees) 2. Fame and prizes: competition and war in the Neo-Assyrian empire (Karen Radner) 3. Levels and strategies of competition in the Aztec Empire (Frances F. Berdan) Part II: Competition in Greece: 4. Ancient Greek competition - a modern construct? (Christoph Ulf) 5. Conflict and community in the Iliad (William Allan and Douglas Cairns) 6. Peer-polity interaction and cultural competition in sixth-century Greece (Sara Forsdyke) 7. Competitive delights: the social effects of the expanded programme of contests in post-Kleisthenic Athens (Nick Fisher) Part III: Competition in Rome: 8. Lotteries and elections: containing elite competition in Venice and Rome (Henrik Mouritsen) 9. Keeping up with the Joneses: competitive display within the Roman villa landscape (Hannah Platts) 10. Competitiveness and anti-competitiveness in Philostratus’ Lives of the Sophists (Jason Konig); 320 pages; Ancient peoples, like modern, spent much of their lives engaged in and thinking about competitions: both organised competitions with rules, audiences and winners, such as Olympic and gladiatorial games, and informal, indefinite, often violent, competition for fundamental goals such as power, wealth and honour. The varied papers in this book form a case for viewing competition for superiority as a major force in ancient history, including the earliest human societies and the Assyrian and Aztec empires. Papers on Greek history explore the idea of competitiveness as peculiarly Greek, the intense and complex quarrel at the heart of Homers Iliad, and the importance of formal competitions in the creation of new political and social identities in archaic Sicyon and classical Athens. Papers on the Roman world shed fresh light on Republican elections, through a telling parallel from renaissance Venice, on modes of competitive display of wealth and power evident in elite villas in Italy in the imperial period, and on the ambiguities in the competitive self-representations of athletes, sophists and emperors.
20129.2 X 6.1 X 1.3 inches; 448 pages
2003Faint shelfwear. ; Excavations of the Athenian Agora Picture Book No. 25; 8.5 X 5.5 X 0.1 inches; 32 pages
2000Underlining in pen and notes to some pages. Scholar's initial to inner cover (Jenifer Neils). ; Key Themes In Ancient History; 8.7 X 5.9 X 0.6 inches; 232 pages
2008Minor shelfwear. Small chip to spine. Gift card to R. E. Fantham affixed to titlepage. ; In this revised and all-colour edition of her indispensable guide to the ancient Games, Judith Swaddling traces their mythological and religious origins, and describes the events, the sacred ceremony and the celebrations that were an essential part of the Olympic festival. A large, detailed model based on modern research and excavation reconstructs the site of ancient Olympia, where alongside religious and civic buildings there grew an elaborate sports complex with a stadium for 40,000 spectators, indoor and outdoor training facilities, hot and cold baths, a swimming pool and a race-course. Later chapters cover the diet and medical treatment of athletes, sponsorship, patronage, propaganda and revivals of the Games and a brand new chapter, based on the lateste research discusses the literary sources for the Olympic Games. The expanded final chapter on the modern Games is written in collaboration with Stewart Binns, an expert in this field who has worked closely with the International Olympic Committee over many years, and has been revised to bring the story up to the preparations for the London 2012 Games. Illustrated with gorgeous, full-colour photography and covering thousands of years of Olympic history, this fascinating book is essential reading for anyone interested in the Olympic Games. ; 9.6 X 7.5 X 0.6 inches; 120 pages
2004Minor shelfwear. Gift inscription from author to Jenifer [Neils] on titlepage. ; From the informal games of Homer's time to the highly organized contests of the Roman world, Miller has compileda trove of ancient sources: Plutarch on boxing, Aristotle on the pentathlon, Philostratos on the buying and selling of victories, Vitruvius on literary competitions, and Xenophon on female body building. Arete offers readers an absorbing lesson in the culture of Greek athletics from the greatest of teachers, the ancients themselves, and demonstrates that the concepts of virtue, skill, pride, valor, and nobility embedded in the word arete are only part of the story from antiquity. ; 235 pages; Signed by Author