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1971Creasing to top corners. Old price sticker to front wrap. Scholar's name to ffep (Robert Brown). ; Ann Arbor Paperbacks; 119 pages; Examining the revolution wrought by Catullus in Latin poetry, this volume encapsulates the way in which principles of modern literary criticism could be applied to classical poetry, without ditching the sound philological scholarship of the classical tradition. In its day this book led the way in showing the philogically trained student how to be a critic; equally it can show the critically trained student the importance of a sound philogical base today
1985Scholar's name to ffep (Robert Brown). DJ has minor shelfwear. ; Contents: The Imperial Family, The Imperial Household, Senators, Equites, The Armed Forces, The Imperial Administration, Kings, Cities and Towns & Society and Economy. Index of Personal Names ; 352 pages; Inaccessible sources are collected and translated, less well-known literary evidence is included: for example, the significant poetry of Crinagoras and Calpurnius Siculus.
1985Scholar's name to ffep (Robert Brown). Spine slightly discolored. ; This book is a study of the life and training of the Roman soldier from enlistment to discharge. Covers the period of the Empire to the accession of Diocletian, and pays especial regard to ranks below the centurionate. Takes account not only of the legions and the auxiliary forces, but also of the praetorian guard and the urban cohorts, the Vigiles, and the imperial fleets. ; Aspects of Greek and Roman life; 256 pages
1986Scholar's blindstamp and name to ffep (Robert Brown). Dustjacket has minor shelfwear and rubbing. ; Little has been published on the Roman family, a subject of central importance to political as well as social history. It was the family that determined political power; it was within the family that the distinctive relationships of one citizen to another were forged and exemplified. The Family in Ancient Rome provides an overview of the state of research by presenting some of the most important work being done in this area. In addition to a survey of the literature on all aspects of the Roman family, the book begins with a general picture of the main features of the family. More specialized essays deal with the legal evidence, wills and property rights which were of particular importance for the position of women; with the link between property disposition, dowry, and divorce; with the authority of the male head of the household and its relation to political power; with the status of children born of unions between slaves and citizen; and with the rearing of, and attitudes toward, children. ; 288 pages; Isbn: 0801418739
19822 corners chipped/ small tear. Else minor shelfwear. Scholar's name to ffep (Robert Brown). ; 224 pages; In this probing study, Starr covers the whole sweep of imperial Roman history, analyzing the binding forces of government and the army as initated by Augustus, the maturing of these forces under subsequent emperors, and the eventual collapse of this network in the western provinces. Not simply a chronological summary, the book explores in piquant, telling detail the elements and institutions that shaped the empire's history.
1974Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (Robert Brown). Else very light shelfwear. ; 174 pages
1961Creasing to lower corner of front wrap and first couple of pages. Minor rubbing to wraps. Old price sticker to front wrap. Scholar's name to half-title (Robert Brown). ; A Perpetua Book; 315 pages
1965Minor shelfwear. Spine sunned and a bit creased. Light bump to top of spine. Scholar's name to half-title (Robert Brown). ; 243 pages; This is a shortened and rearranged version of The Songs of Homer. The literature of the western world begins with one of its greatest achievements. The stories of the wrath of Achilles and its consequences, and of the wanderings of Odysseus, have been admired from ancient times to the present day. The two great epics can be read and enjoyed, unreflectingly, as tales of adventure; or they can be studied as literature, yielding, as insight and understanding grow, a deeper and more permanent pleasure. Professor Kirk's book is the means to this pleasure. It is a vivid and comprehensive account of the background and development of the Homeric poems and of their quality as literature. The epics are seen primarily as oral poetry, sung for centuries by illiterate singers; and from this view rises discussion of the problems of authorship and transmission. The historical, archaeological and linguistic evidence is also examined; and the possible contributions of the Mycenaean period and of the subsequent Dark Age are shown in a fresh light.
1998Minor shelfwear to book and DJ. Scholar's name to ffep (Robert Brown). ; 1.25 x 10 x 6.75 Inches; 371 pages; British historian Davidson takes us inside classical Greece's brothels, bedrooms, drinking parties and banquets in this rarefied scholarly inquiry. His aim is not merely to depict Athenians as pleasure seekers but to overturn the current notion, purveyed by Michel Foucault and others, that Athens was a "phallocratic" society permeated with an ethos of penetration and domination, a homosexual-leaning culture polarized between adult male citizens and all others: Slaves, women, boys, foreigners. He largely succeeds on all counts, bringing to convivial life a predominantly heterosexual society where classes mingled easily; cultured courtesans bedded leading figures like Pericles and Alcibiades; and wives participated fully in sexual pleasures. Drawing on ancient treatises, pamphlets, comic plays, poems and speeches, Davidson investigates the classical Greeks' indulgences, including their mania for eating fish, A luxury viewed as hedonistic, And their tolerance for booze and sex (though sex addicts were considered to have a lower capacity to resist the natural pleasures). His intriguing study serves up a banquet of arcane lore.
19682 hole punches to rear wrap. A couple of tiny stains to foreedges. Some wear and chipping to corners of wraps. Scholar's name to ffep (Robert Brown). ; Provides an introduction to the Troy Epics, the cultures out of which they evolved and their relevance to Homer's audiences of the tenth Century BC and the Twentieth century AD. ; The Griffin Author Series; 217 pages
1970Light Edgewear to extremities. Small gold stamped stamped to front wrap. ; Harper Torchbooks; 312 pages
1995Light shelfwear. Tiny corner creased to a couple of pages. Small chip to rear wrap with laminate lifting from corner. ; Lancaster Pamphlets; 128 pages; This pamphlet places Augustus Caesar firmly in the context of his own times. It explores the background to his spectacular rise to power, his political and imperial reforms, the creation of the Respublica of Augustus, and the legacy he left to his successors. By examining the hopes and expectations of Augustus' contemporaries and his own personal characteristics of statesmanship and unscrupulous ambition, Shotter reveals that the reasons for Augustus' success lie partly in the complexity of the man himself, and partly in the unique nature of the times in which he lived.
1957Minor shelfwear to book. Former owner's name on ffep. Scholar's name to ffep (Robert Brown). Pages a little tanned. Minor rubbing to boards. Small bump to lower edge of front board. ; A survey of classical culture and history from the time of Homer to the fall of Athens in 404 B. C. Includes politics and government, poetry and drama, philosophy and science, religion and mythology. ; The World Histories of Civilization; 211 pages
2007Very light shelfwear to book and DJ. Dustjacket is protected in mylar. Scholar's name to ffep (Robert Brown). ; The Art of Love celebrates the bi-millennium of Ovid's cycle of sophisticated and subversive didactic poems on love, traditionally assumed to have been brought to completion around AD 2. Ars Amatoria (The Art of Love) and Remedia Amoris (Cures for Love) , which purport to teach young Roman men and women how to be good lovers, were partly responsible for the poet's exile from Rome under the emperor Augustus. None the less they exerted great influence over ancient and later love poetry. This is the first collection in English devoted to the poems, and brings together many of the leading figures in the field of Latin literature and Ovidian studies from the British Isles, Germany, Italy, and the United States. It offers a range of perspectives on the poetics, politics, and erotics of the poems, beginning with a critical survey of recent research, and concluding with papers on the ancient, medieval, and modern reception of the poems. ; 387 pages
1993Light edgewear. Scholar's name to ffep (Robert Brown). ; Hellenistic Culture & Society , No 9; 0.9 x 8.8 x 6 Inches; 293 pages; In a 1988 conference, American and British scholars unexpectedly discovered that their ideas were converging in ways that formed a new picture of the variegated Hellenistic mosaic. That picture emerges in these essays and eloquently displays the breadth of modern interest in the Hellenistic Age. A distrust of all ideologies has altered old views of ancient political structures, and feminism has also changed earlier assessments. The current emphasis on multiculturalism has consciously deemphasized the Western, Greco-Roman tradition, and Nubians, Bactrians, and other subject peoples of the time are receiving attention in their own right, not just as recipients of Greco-Roman culture. History, like Herakleitos' river, never stands still. These essays share a collective sense of discovery and a sparking of new ideas--they are a welcome beginning to the reexploration of a fascinatingly complex age.
1986Dustjacket has some light chipping and minor shelfwear. ; Looks at the military collapse as the explanation for the fall of the Roman Empire. Looks at key personalities from Julian the Apostate and Alaric the Visigoth to the battle of Adrianople and the sack of Rome. ; 192 pages
1981Spine sunned with some creasing. Minor shelfwear. Scholar's blindstamp and name to ffep (Robert Brown). ; 284 pages; Greek and Roman Slavery brings together fresh English translations of 243 texts and inscriptions on slavery from fifth and fourth century Greece and Rome. The material is arranged thematically, offering the reader a comprehensive review of the idea and practice of slavery in ancient civilization.
1981Upper corner crease to front wrap and creasing to spine. Minor shelfwear. Scholar's blindstamp and name to ffep (Robert Brown). ; Book traces the process by which a pagan Empire ruled from Rome developed into a Christian Empire ruled from Constantinople. This process came to fulfilment in the fourth and fifth centuries. It is the primary thesis of this book that the fundamental social and administrative changes which made it possible had taken place before the end of the third century. ; 370 pages
1983Wraps have yellowing. Minor shelfwear. Scholar's blindstamp to ffep (Robert Brown). ; If a scholar wishes to create a picture of a topical society in all its aspects, there is little of what he needs to know that he cannot know, although there may still be much that he cannot understand. For the history of Greece and Rome, there is a great deal that is simply unknowable. From the end of the archaic age of Greece, there is an unbroken sequence of works by Greek and, later, Roman historians down to the end of antiquity. Their vision and range of interest were often limited and much of what they produced has been lost. Some help may be derived from the documentary material supplied in antiquity, material that was the product of officials organising public activities, or heads of families organising their affairs, or individuals leaving their mark on the world. Beyond this, the evidence of archaeology and numismatics may also be helpful. The four essays in this book set out to characterise the nature of the ancient literary tradition, the inscriptional material, the archaeological and numismatic evidence and to explain how and for what purposes they may be used. Chapters on Literature, Epigraphy, Archaology and Numismatics. ; The Sources of History - Studies in the Uses of Historical Evidence; 252 pages
1960Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (Robert Brown). Tiny chip to upper edge of rear board. Minor shelfwear. DJ has chipping and tears to spine ends and corners. DJ is browned. ; Commentary for Agamemnon. Greek Text with Extensive English Commentary. ; 240 pages
1991Scholar's name to ffep (Robert Brown). Creasing and a bit of chipping to corners of wraps. Minor shelfwear. Some pencil notes to text. ; 234 pages; Sappho sang her poetry to the accompaniment of the lyre on the Greek island of Lesbos over 2500 years ago. Throughout the Greek world, her contemporaries composed lyric poetry full of passion, and in the centuries that followed the golden age of archaic lyric, new forms of poetry emerged. In this unique anthology, today's reader can enjoy the works of seventeen poets, including a selection of archaic lyric and the complete surviving works of the ancient Greek women poets--the latter appearing together in one volume for the first time. Sappho's Lyre is a combination of diligent research and poetic artistry. The translations are based on the most recent discoveries of papyri (including "new" Archilochos and Stesichoros) and the latest editions and scholarship. The introduction and notes provide historical and literary contexts that make this ancient poetry more accessible to modern readers. Although this book is primarily aimed at the reader who does not know Greek, it would be a splendid supplement to a Greek language course. It will also have wide appeal for readers of' ancient literature, women's studies, mythology, and lovers of poetry.
1991Scholar's name to ffep (Robert Brown). Light edgewear to corners of wraps. Minor shelfwear. Tiny stain to foreedges. ; 234 pages; Sappho sang her poetry to the accompaniment of the lyre on the Greek island of Lesbos over 2500 years ago. Throughout the Greek world, her contemporaries composed lyric poetry full of passion, and in the centuries that followed the golden age of archaic lyric, new forms of poetry emerged. In this unique anthology, today's reader can enjoy the works of seventeen poets, including a selection of archaic lyric and the complete surviving works of the ancient Greek women poets--the latter appearing together in one volume for the first time. Sappho's Lyre is a combination of diligent research and poetic artistry. The translations are based on the most recent discoveries of papyri (including "new" Archilochos and Stesichoros) and the latest editions and scholarship. The introduction and notes provide historical and literary contexts that make this ancient poetry more accessible to modern readers. Although this book is primarily aimed at the reader who does not know Greek, it would be a splendid supplement to a Greek language course. It will also have wide appeal for readers of' ancient literature, women's studies, mythology, and lovers of poetry.
1998Very light bumping to a couple of corners. Scholar's bookplate to ffep (Robert Brown). Dustjacket has minor shelfwear with creasing along upper edge. ; Roman Imperial Biographies; 0.95 x 9.43 x 6.38 Inches; 271 pages; Augustus, the heir to Julius Caesar, was the guiding light in the transformation of the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire. In this biography, Pat Southern traces the life and works of the emperor chronologically, presenting idealogy and events as they occurred from Augustus' point of view, including his transition from heir and successor of Julius Caesar to head of the new Principate and his development of the Roman Empire. Augustus did not have a master plan of politics and legislation, but instead, he had to wait and occasionally change course before he settled on a version of government that the Senate and people found acceptable. While there have been many books covering the political, social, and aesthetic culture of the Augustan Age, this is the first book to present the life of Augustus, the man.
1977Minor shelfwear to book. Spine ends sunned and a bit discolored. Scholar's blindstamp and name to ffep (Robert Brown). DJ has chipping and a few tears with 2 cm torn strip at top of spine. Rubbing to DJ spine with a bit of colour loss. ; Luce Considers to what extent Livy may be said to have been in control of his historical material. What is the significance, the author asks, of the units by which Livy structured his history? How did he go about preparing himself to write, and what methods did he use in the course of actual composition? Did he have an interpretation of his own concerning the overall course of Roman History, and, if so, how did it affect his selection and arrangement of material? ; 322 pages
19061 page corner clipped (does not affect text). Spine has been crudely repaired with clear page but spine cover mostly gone. Edgewear to corners. A few stamps of Dept Lib. Of Greek and Latin Dept of Columbia Univ. A few pages have light notes in ink (neat handwriting). Titlepage has a tear along part of the gutter. Scholar's blindstamp to ffep (Robert Brown). Still solid. Fair to Good. ; Latin text with English notes and introduction. ; 445 pages