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1974DJ is price-clipped. One small closed tear on back panel of DJ. Dustjacket is protected in mylar. Ex-library copy with pocket and stamp to textblock. Tapes stains to boards. ; Compares the British Empire to the Roman Empire in their powers and their disintegration. ; Whidden Lectures; 106 pages
1962Dustjacket has edgewear with minor chipping and a few tears. DJ is price-clipped. DJ is price-clipped. Book has edgewear to extremities. ; 224 pages; Exploration of the kinds and mysteries of love in ancient Greece from Homer to the comedies of Menander in greek literature. Ranges from the warlike state of Sparta, to Lesbos and to Corinth and Athens.
1972Dustjacket has minor shelfwear and rubbing. Minor foxing to DJ. DJ has two long scratches on front panel. Former owner's stamp on titlepage else Fine. ; 81 pages; Corrects the mistaken view of Plato's philosophy of art. Provides a fresh reexamination of Platonic art.
1972Dustjacket has minor shelfwear and rubbing. DJ has chipped bottom corner. One small tear to top of DJ at head of spine. DJ is price-clipped. ; Unlike the first edition, Shipp examines the language of the Iliad and the Odyssey. ; Cambridge Classical Studies; 392 pages
1969A Few scratches to front panel of DJ. ; Contends that the Athenian aristocratic clansmen were able to transform their religious prominence into political influence. He shows that the chiefs of state, generals, mint-magistrates, and other officials were drawn from the aristocracy generations after Kleisthenes was believed to have broken its power forever. ; Martin Classical Lectures; 126 pages
1958Bottom corners have minor bumping. Book has minor shelfwear and rubbing. ; Contents: Homeric criticism: the means and the end; Homer and his Critics in Antiquity; From the Geste de Troie to Bentley; Poet and Painter; Friederich August Wolf; Gladstone's View of Homer; The Epic of the Spade: Henrich Schliemann, The Homeric World; Ulrich Von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff; John Linton Myres; the Last Decade. ; 302 pages
1970Very minor shelfwear. ; Reprint of the 1898 Edition. Bates provides a handy reference for the tribes that emerged from this early experiment in democracy. Looks at the history and chronology of Antigonis, Demetrias, Ptolemais, Attalis, & Hadrianis and their demes. ; Cornell studies in classical philology, 8; 71 pages
1986Dustjacket and book have minor shelfwear. Dustjacket is protected in mylar. ; Signed on ffep by author: "For Al with all best wishes, Charlie". Traces the underlying mythical patterns, implicit poetics, and processes of mythopoesis that animate Pindar's longest and most elaborate victory ode. Particularly concerned with the way in which he incorporates patriarchal and aristocratic ideology, myths of creations and first beginnings, the voyage to the limits of the world, and the myth of the hero. ; 1 x 9.25 x 6 Inches; 223 pages; Signed by Author
1993Dustjacket has minor shelfwear and rubbing. Minor bumping to head of spine. ; Carl Newell Jackson Lectures; 9.5 x 1.5 x 6.75 Inches; 624 pages; From Augustus to Constantine, the Roman Empire in the Near East expanded step by step, southward to the Red Sea and eastward across the Euphrates to the Tigris. In a remarkable work of interpretive history, Fergus Millar shows us this world as it was forged into the Roman provinces of Syria, Judaea, Arabia, and Mesopotamia. His book conveys the magnificent sweep of history as well as the rich diversity of peoples, religions, and languages that intermingle in the Roman Near East. Against this complex backdrop, Millar explores questions of cultural and religious identity and ethnicity--as aspects of daily life in the classical world and as part of the larger issues they raise. As Millar traces the advance of Roman control, he gives a lucid picture of Rome's policies and governance over its far-flung empire. He introduces us to major regions of the area and their contrasting communities, bringing out the different strands of culture, communal identity, language, and religious belief in each. The Roman Near East makes it possible to see rabbinic Judaism, early Christianity, and eventually the origins of Islam against the matrix of societies in which they were formed. Millar's evidence permits us to assess whether the Near East is best seen as a regional variant of Graeco-Roman culture or as in some true sense oriental. A masterful treatment of a complex period and world, distilling a vast amount of literary, documentary, artistic, and archaeological evidence--always reflecting new findings--this book is sure to become the standard source for anyone interested in the Roman Empire or the history of the Near East.
1993Minor shelfwear. ; 1.45 x 8.48 x 5.53 Inches; 460 pages; While most studies of the internal and international conflicts of Rome's 3rd century crisis are recorded in a scattered and unsatisfactory manner, this documentary history of the period brings together the main sources, of which the better ones--those not in Latin-- are not easily accessible. The volume includes translations of such diverse sources as Zosimus, John Malalas, Al-Tabari and Moses of Chorene--documents which, when viewed in combination, provide a clearer picture of this complex, fraught period of Roman history. The editors also provide a selection of inscriptions, papyri and oriental sources, generous notes, a detailed bibliography and maps. Comprehensive in scope, The Roman Eastern Frontier and the Persian Wars covers such topics as the rise of the Sassanians, the Persian expedition of Gordian III, the second and third campaigns of Shapur I against the Roman Empire, the rise and fall of Palmyra, the early and later wars of Constantius II, as well as the Persian expedition of Julian.
1993Minor bump to top corner. Dustjacket has minor rubbing. ; "The Mediterranean World in Late Antiquity: AD 395-600" deals with the period commonly known as "late antiquity" - the fifth and sixth centuries. The Roman Empire in the west was splitting into separate Germanic kingdoms, while the Near East, still under Roman or Byzantine rule from Constantinople, maintained a dense population and flourishing urban culture until the Persian and Arab invasions of the early seventh century. The book is intended for teachers and students in both ancient and medieval history. Averil Cameron places her emphasis on the material and literary evidence for cultural change and offers a new and original challenge to traditional assumptions of "decline and fall" and "the end of antiquity". The book draws on the recent spate of scholarship on this period to discuss in detail controversial issues such as the capacity of the late Roman army, the late antique city and the nature of economic exchange and cultural life. With its extensive annotation, it provides a lively, and often critical introduction to earler approaches to the period. Contents: 1. Constantinople and the eastern empire in the fifth century 2. The empire, the barbarians and the late Roman army 3. Church and society 4. Late Roman social structures and the late Roman economy. 5. Justinian and reconquest 6. Culture and mentality 7. Urban change and the end of Antiquity 8. The Eastern Mediterranean-- settlement and change. ; Routledge History of the Ancient World; 1 x 1 x 5.75 Inches; 251 pages
1989Dustjacket 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
1974Dustjacket has shelfwear and moderate rubbing. Dustjacket has chipping and a few small tears. ; Greek Historical Documents; 149 pages; A collection of Greek public and private documents of the Roman Period either preserved on stone/bronze or on papyrus or on ostraca. Representative samples have been culled along with selections from lesser known authors of the period. Texts are in English.
1992Collection of articles and notes on ancient Crete in the post-Minoan period and have been selected on the basis of their cohesiveness and relevance to the religion, military, foreign affairs, and social structure of Crete. ; 0.8 x 9.1 x 5.9 Inches; 203 pages
1983Very minor shelfwear. ; Reprint of 1878 Edition. 165 pages with 28 pages of plates. ; 165 pages
1970Spine cover is split on one side and half of the other but still attached. Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers and pocket. Rubbing to boards. Edgewear to corners. ; 256 pages; Antimachus of Colophon, Greek poet and grammarian, flourished about 400 BC. Scarcely anything is known of his life. His poetical efforts were not generally appreciated, although he received encouragement from his younger contemporary Plato (Plutarch, Lysander, 18). His chief works were: an epic Thebais, an account of the expedition of the Seven against Thebes and the war of the Epigoni; and an elegiac poem Lyde, so called from the poet's mistress, for whose death he endeavoured to find consolation telling stories from mythology of heroic disasters (Plutarch, Consul, ad Apoll. 9; Athenaeus xiii. 597). Antimachus was the founder of "learned" epic poetry, and the forerunner of the Alexandrian school, whose critics allotted him the next place to Homer. He also prepared a critical recension of the Homeric poems
1966Ex-library copy with one single institution stamp to title-page and pocket with discard stamp to endpage. Minor fading to spine. ; 208 pages; During the last two centuries of the Roman Republic emigration from Italy to the provinces was widespread and increasing. This book is the first to survey the movement throughout the Empire; the emphasis is on private rather than state-organised settlement. The first part is about the Western Mediterranean provinces, whose Romanization began in this period; the second part treats emigration to the Greek East, where, by contrast, the settlers tended to become more and more hellenized. The principal matters considered are the volume of emigration, the kinds of communities formed overseas by the emigrants, their motives and origins, the regions and places settled, the fortunes of the settlers in the upheavals of the late Republican period, and their relations with the people among whom they lived.
1969Dustjacket has edgewear with chipping to top and bottom edges and tiny piece missing from bottom edge. ; First general survey of the development of Roman Army, deals with its organisation, equipment, camps, forts and frontier works as well as its battle and siege tactics. ; 330 pages
1968Top corners mildly bumped. Dustjacket has shelfwear and rubbing to extremities. ; 363 pages; A master of history, law, language, numismatics and epigraphy, Mommsen describes and illuminates the political, social and cultural institutions of the many people of a vast empire.
1966Former owner has deleted his name but left date on ffep. Minor shelfwear. ; 436 pages
1970DJ is price-clipped. Two tears to bottom corner and bottom spine of DJ. Bumping to back corner of book. 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.
1970Adhesive stain on front panel of DJ. Dustjacket has minor shelfwear and rubbing. Book has minor shelfwear. ; Contents: Greek votive statuettes and religious continuity, c.1200-700 BC; The fall of Themistocles; Dike in Aristophanes' clouds; Aristotle and the democratic conception of freedom; Roman and Greece, 196-146 BC; Evidence for legislation by tribunes, 81-70 BC; Ambition in the Georgics: Vergil's rejection of Arcadia; .. Portrayal of autocratic power in Plutarch's Lives; Epistles of Cyprian. ; 221 pages
1967Former owner's name on ffep. Minor bump to head of spine. Spine slightly faded. ; 217 pages
1970Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers and pocket. First 15 pages have a tear that has been repaired with tape; Discusses in considerable detail the major aspects of Roman medicine, which he describes as a synthesis of medical traditions from the Greek, Hellenistic and Roman worlds. ; Aspects of Greek and Roman life; 238 pages
1997Dustjacket is protected in mylar. Minor scuffing to boards. ; 1.1 x 9.2 x 6.2 Inches; 379 pages; The names of early Germanic warrior tribes and leaders resound in songs and legends; the real story of the part they played in reshaping the ancient world is no less gripping. Herwig Wolfram's panoramic history spans the great migrations of the Germanic peoples and the rise and fall of their kingdoms between the third and eighth centuries, as they invaded, settled in, and ultimately transformed the Roman Empire. As Germanic military kings and their fighting bands created kingdoms, and won political and military recognition from imperial governments through alternating confrontation and accommodation, the "tribes" lost their shared culture and social structure, and became sharply differentiated. They acquired their own regions and their own histories, which blended with the history of the empire. In Wolfram's words, "the Germanic peoples neither destroyed the Roman world nor restored it; instead, they made a home for themselves within it. " This story is far from the "decline and fall" interpretation that held sway until recent decades. Wolfram's narrative, based on his sweeping grasp of documentary and archaeological evidence, brings new clarity to a poorly understood period of Western history.