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18972 volumes. 8vo. Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers. Bookplate of University of London King's College for Women Library. Light foxing to inner covers. Minor edgewear to extremities. ; I: The records of Oscan, Umbrian and the Minor Dialects, including th Italic glosses in ancient Writers and the local and personal names of the dialectal areas. II: An Outline of the grammar of the Dialects, Appendix, Indices and Glossary. ; 2 Volume Set; 8vo
1977Minor Shelfwear to boards. 2 small spots to bottom textblock. ; Aspects of Greek and Roman life; 221 pages
1969Rubbing to DJ has cause colour loss along spine and edges. Light Edgewear to DJ. Former owner's name on ffep. ; Plus pull-out map and 57 b&w plates. This is the first general study of Roman Dalmatia to appear for more than eighty years, and it draws extensively on the recent research of Yugoslav and other European scholars. Introductory chapters deal with the Roman conquest and organization of the province. The Roman administration and garrison is examined in detail with emphasis on its contribution to the development of institutions of local government. There are sections on the identity, society, and economy of the native peoples at the time of the Roman conquest. ; History of the Provinces of the Roman Empire; 572 pages
1998Very light shelfwear to DJ. Remainder mark to top of the textblock. ; Sather Classical Lectures; 1.12 x 9.25 x 6.25 Inches; 384 pages; Modern readings of ancient Athenian drama tend to view it as a presentation of social or moral problems, as if ancient drama showed the same realism seen on the present-day stage. Such views are belied by the plays themselves, in which supremely violent actions occur in a legendary time and place distinct both from reality and from the ethics of ordinary life. Offering fresh readings of Attic tragedy, Anne Pippin Burnett urges readers to peel away twentieth-century attitudes toward vengeance and reconsider the revenge tragedies of ancient Athens in their own context. After a consideration of how our view of Elizabethan drama has obscured an accurate view of the ancient tragedies, Burnett reviews early Greek notions of vengeance as expressed in the Odyssey, Heracles' tales, Pindar's odes, Attic judicial processes, and the legend of Harmodius and Aristogeiton. Then, setting aside post-Platonic and Judeo-Christian notions of criminality, she provides new interpretations of all the Attic tragedies in which revenge is a central theme: Aeschylus' Libation Bearers, Sophocles' Ajax, Electra, and Tereus, and Euripides' Children of Heracles, Hecuba, Medea, Electra, and Orestes. Burnett shows that for the ancients, revenge meant a redress of imbalances in both human and divine worlds, achieved through human actions. The vengeful heroines thus appear in a new light. Electra, Hecuba, Medea, and others cease to be the picture of depravity in dramas that are grotesque and sensational, and are instead representative human figures who respond with grandeur to the outsize demands of necessity and supernatural powers.
1986Very light chipping to head of spine ; 176 pages; First comprehensive analysis of the language employed by Ammianus to expound the major themes of his history including the reigns of Constantius II, Julian, Jovian, Valentinian I, Valens, and Gratian.
1999Former owner's name on ffep. Dustjacket has very minor shelfwear. ; 1 x 9.25 x 6.25 Inches; 277 pages; How did the Romans build and maintain one of the most powerful and stable empires in the history of the world? This illuminating book draws on the literature, especially the historiography, composed by the members of the elite who conducted Roman foreign affairs. From this evidence, Susan P. Mattern reevaluates the roots, motivations, and goals of Roman imperial foreign policy especially as that policy related to warfare. In a major reinterpretation of the sources, Rome and the Enemy shows that concepts of national honor, fierce competition for status, and revenge drove Roman foreign policy, and though different from the highly rationalizing strategies often attributed to the Romans, dictated patterns of response that remained consistent over centuries. Mattern reconstructs the world view of the Roman decision-makers, the emperors, and the elite from which they drew their advisers. She discusses Roman conceptions of geography, strategy, economics, and the influence of traditional Roman values on the conduct of military campaigns. She shows that these leaders were more strongly influenced by a traditional, stereotyped perception of the enemy and a drive to avenge insults to their national honor than by concepts of defensible borders. In fact, the desire to enforce an image of Roman power was a major policy goal behind many of their most brutal and aggressive campaigns. Rome and the Enemy provides a fascinating look into the Roman mind in addition to a compelling re-examination of Roman conceptions of warfare and national honor. The resulting picture creates a new understanding of Rome's long mastery of the Mediterranean world.
1983Minor bumping to bottom corners. Light soiling to boards. ; Contents: From Gennetai to Curiales; Vatican Fragments of Greek Political Theory; Peripatetic Constitution; Civic Status in Roman Athens: Cicero Pro Balbo 12.30; Flavius Pantaenus, Priest of the Philosophical Muses; Arrian in two roles; Actuality of Lucian's Assembly of the Gods; Marcus Aurelius and the Philosophical Schools at Athens; Roman Emperors and Athens; Helladarch; Roman Senators from Greece and Macedonia; Areopagus and the Whole City Honor-- M. Ulpius Eubiotus Leurus; Achaia, Greece and Laconica. ; 182 pages
1949Light browning to ffep. Former owner's bookplate on ffep "Prof. Alexander G. McKay" else Fine. ; Map intact; Sets out why the Romans first conquered and remained in the island; then in what ways its occupation proved useful and profitable to them; finally, what they bequeathed to us. ; Gregynog Lectures, 1949; 89 pages
1973DJ is price-clipped. Top of spine is bumped. Mild soiling to DJ. ; Combats the common notion that the Thebaid is an exercise in anachronism, an episodic narrative of the Theban saga. He shows that the poem can and indeed must be reat as an elaborate and sustained allegory of the emotions-- a study in the extremes of human behaviour. ; 366 pages
1998Many Pencil underlinings and notes in text. ; 1.2 x 9.2 x 6.3 Inches; 264 pages; This book traces Pericles' development from a somewhat hesitant, though left-leaning politician, to a mature statesman fully committed to expanding Athens' maritime empire and using the material benefits of that empire to improve the ordinary lives of Athenian citizens. Anthony J. Podlecki depicts Pericles actions and interactions with a large and varied circle of friends, acquaintances, and political adversaries and demonstrates how his circle advised and influenced his development as a leader.
1972One closed tear (1 ") to top of front panel of DJ. Pencil underlining in text. 2 pages have underlining in green ink. ; Contents: The women of the Bible and Greece; the women of Rome; children and slaves; prophets and philosophers; religious minorities; aspirants to statehood. A Synoptic view of non-violent civil disobedience in the Ancient World. Draws on Greek and Roman studies-- theological, legal historical, literary, dramatic and popular. ; 167 pages
1962Minor bump to top of front board. Book has minor shelfwear and rubbing. ; 496 pages
1965Adhesive stains along inner cover. Former owner's name on ffep. Pages are uncut in text. Light browning to wraps. ; Texte en français. ; Publications De L'Université De Dijon; 302 pages
1885Chipping to wraps. Small pieces of front wrap are missing. Back wrap is no longer present. All pages are intact. Pencil underlining on a few pages. ; Texte en français. ; Bibliothèque Des Ecoles Françaises D'Athènes Et De Rome; 190 pages
1971Minor edgewear to top corners. One small tear (1 cm) to front panel at spine. Minor shelfwear to book. ; 159 pages
1929Former owner's name on ffep. Wear to head of spine. Light foxing to prelims. ; 92 pages
1965Light shelfwear. ; 259 pages
1965Minor Shelfwear. ; Reprint of the 1890 edition. Greek text with English commentary. ; 272 pages
1970Very minor shelfwear. Previous owner has marked "London 1971" on ffep. ; Looks at the history of the dance of the chorus rather than its words, in so far as we can apprehend it from the metre, which controlled the feet of the dancers as well as organizing the words of the song, and in so far as we can see it on Greek vases and reliefs. ; 240 pages
1960Minor bump to top corner. Minor pencil underlining on a few pages. Scholar's name in pencil to ffep (W. P. Wallace). ; Contents: Origins of the Greek States; The Polis; Federations of States and the Federal State; the World of the Hellenistic States; Basic Facts; Structure and nature of the State; Functions of the State. ; 280 pages
1969Light shelfwear. Dustjacket has a few closed tears. ; Contents: Horace and his Lyre; Was Horace a Musician; The Aeolic Odes: Sapphic ode, Alcaic ode, Asclepiad ode; Composing in horatian Metres; A Demonstration; An Anthology. ; 268 pages
1965Minor Shelfwear to book. Light browning to DJ. Plastic is lifting off DJ. Small tear to back corner near spine. Minor edgewear to DJ. ; During the thousand years which separate Homer from Plotinus, the Greeks and Romans not only created two great literatures and most of our literary genres; they also developed theories of literature and methods of criticism. These, though very different from our own, have nevertheless greatly influenced modern thinking, especially during the early centuries of our modern literatures. Poets like Pindar, Aristophanes and Horace, philosophers like Plato, aristotle and Philodemus, orators like Cicero and Quintilian, literary scholars like Dionysius of Halicarnassus and Longinus, all these have left us records of their various points of view. In this book Professor Grube, who is a recognized authority in this field, gives us a clear, full and reliable analysis of the ancient critical texts, and traces the birth and developments of critical thinking thoughout the classical centuries. ; 372 pages
1961Very light Edgewear to upper corners else Fine. ; A Greek to Latin Lexicon of Pindar's vocabulary. ; 8vo; 498 pages
1970DJ is price-clipped. Chipping to head and heel of DJ. Bumping to head of spine. Former owner's bookplate affixed to ffep. ; 326 pages; The long and bitter struggle between the great Persian Empire and the Fledgling Greek states reach its high point with the extraordinary Greek victory at Salamis. The author evokes the whole dramatic sweep of events that the Persian offense set in motion.