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1973Foxing/dustsoiling to top of textblock. Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). Light rubbing 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
1921Pages are browned. Inner hinges have been reinforced with tape that has now browned. Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). Lower Corners are a bit edgeworn. Front hinge cracked but holding. Former owner's name stamped to ffep. VG to Good; Text is in German. ; 475 pages
1965Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). Foxing/dustsoiling to top of textblock. Small remainder mark to base of textblock in black marker ('T') . DUstjacket has a few tears and chipping to extremities. DJ spine is lightly browned. DJ is price-clipped. ; The extant manuscripts of Polybius, the Greek historian of Rome, belong to three groups. This is the first study to take account of all the surviving manuscripts. ; Cambridge Classical Studies; 210 pages
1985Foxing/dustsoiling to top of textblock. DJ has chipping to upper corners and minor edgewear. ; A magisterial assessment of the major historian of early Byzantium, by one of today's leading historians of late antiquity. Most of our understanding of the age of Justinian is based on the works of Procopius of Caesarea, the most important Greek historian of late antiquity. Many modern histories of the period virtually paraphrase his major work, the Wars. Today, questions of how we are to reconcile the Wars with Procopius' two minor works-the panegyrical Building and the sensational Secret History, still dominates current scholarship. ; 310 pages
1880Front hinge cracked but holding. Book has been rebound in brown marbled boards with plain brown spine. Typed label (now browned) to spine. Rubbing to extremities. Scholar's name to titlepage (William Harris). Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). Former owners' names to inner cover (E. K. Rand & Clement L. Smith). Titlepage chipped with a bit of loss to edges. ; Lii, 198 pp ; Bibliotheca Scriptorum Graecorum Et Romanorum Teubneriana TEUBNER; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 198 pages
1888Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). Light foxing to top of textblock. Small tear to top of spine (1 cm). ; Greek Text with English Commentary ; 690 pages
1967Bumping to corners. Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). DJ spine a bit browned. Small sticker damage to front panel of DJ. ; Samnites were a tribe, or group of Italian tribes, related to the Latins, the primary ethnic group in the city of Rome. They occupied the more mountainous inland areas of the peninsula and at one time rivaled the Romans in their power--Their defeat and eventual assimilation into a Romanized peninsula was one of the earliest and most significant steps in the establishment of what was to be the Roman Empire. ; 460 pages
1963Minor browning to wraps. Light Shelfwear. Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). ; Beiträge Zur Klassischen Philologie Heft 8; 72 pages
1964Foxing/dustsoiling to top of textblock. Former owner's name in pen to ffep (G. P. Goold). DJ has tears and chipping with tape applied to head of spine. DJ is price-clipped. ; From Abdera (an ancient city in Thrace) to Zeus (chief god of the Greeks) , this authoritative handbook covers all the major aspects of Greek and Roman literature, mythology, and civilization. It features over 950 entries on ancient writers, philosophers, and historians like Homer, Vergil, and Plato; famous as well as lesser-known writings like The Iliad, The Aeneid, and The Bacchae; chief gods and characters of mythology like Aphrodite, Apollo, and Narcissus; important terms and genres like poetic meter, tragedy, and satire; and other topics necessary to understanding the often complicated literature. Major works receive pages of close attention, with detailed summaries, historical and mythological background, scholarly references, critical commentary, and useful translation recommendations. The guidebook also provides insights into the stories, characters, ideas, and terminology that pervade literary classics as well as present-day writing and culture. Written in a lively and engaging style, The Handbook of Classical Literature serves as an accessible and reliable resource for students, scholars, and general readers. ; 468 pages
1886Plain paper wraps. Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). Additional name in ink to ffep. Light foxing. ; Philologische Untersuchungen; 201 pages
1880Spine reinforced with tape. Some loss to wraps with chipping and pieces flecked off. Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). Additional name in ink to ffep. Minor chipping along foreedges of some pages (does not affect text). ; Philologische Untersuchungen; 236 pages
1969Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). Minor shelfwear to book. Foxing/dustsoiling to top of textblock. ; Reprint of 1935 edition. ; 337 pages; Contents: Magic, Omen, and Prophecy; Old Italian Religion--Deities and Cults; Old Italian Religion--Words and Ideas; State-Cult; Graeco-Roman Gods: I. Gods with Roman Names, II. Gods with Greek and Roman Names, III. Gods with Greek Names; Oriental Gods--Cosmological Gods--Worship of the Emperor; Fate and the Gods; The Dead and the Underworld. Appendix: The Meaning of Fortuna in Virgil.
1987Foxing/dustsoiling to top of textblock. DJ has 1 small tear and a bit of rubbing. ; A critical analysis of the poem. ; 9.0 X 6.0 X 1.0 inches; 268 pages
1980Foxing to textblock. Former owner's name to ffep in pen (G. P. Goold). DJ has very minor chipping. Dustjacket spine is sunned. DJ has foxing to obverse of DJ. ; 311 pages
1930Tear to head of spine (2 cm). Former owner's name to front wrap in ink. Creasing to corners of some pages. Chipping to spine ends. ; Bulletin XVII, April 1930; 212 pages
1975Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). Foxing/dustsoiling to top of textblock. DJ has edgewear with one small tear. Some sunning to DJ spine. ; 195 pages; Looks at the XII Tables of Rome that formed the foundation of Western jurisprudence, which include provisions concerning persons, succession and property--the legal topics of greatest importance in early social life.
1956Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). DJ is price-clipped. A few small tears to DJ and some chipping. ; Sather Classical Lectures 29; 285 pages
1984Minor shelfwear. Light foxing to top of textblock. Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). Signed by author to G. P. Goold on ffep. ; Aims at finding the precise limits and rationale, whether aesthetic or semantic, of certain syntactical phenomena in classical Greek poetry. ; Yale Classical Monographs 5; 220 pages; Signed by Author
1961Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers and pocket. Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). Minor chipping to head of spine. ; 220 pages
1957Tape applied to spine ends and to inner joints. Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). Faint creasing to upper corner of some pages. Light edgewear to wraps. ; Articles include: Homer 1930-1956 (Hans Joachim Mette) ; Greek archaeology and Literature 1951-1955 (T. B. L. Webster) ; Nachaugusteische nichtchristliche Dichter I (Rudolf Helm). ; Lustrum 1956/1; 320 pages
1972Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). Light shelfwear to book. DJ has a few small tears and chipping ; 338 pages
1963Light bump to 1 corner. Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). DJ is a bit tattered with chipping with some tears. DJ is fair to good. ; Fresh approach to Roman poetry from Catullus to Ovid. ; 282 pages
1972Light bumping to upper corners. Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). Dustjacket has browning to spine. ; This is the first serious attempt to formulate a system of literary criticism for ancient poetry, derived wholly from ancient evidence. It is based on methods of generic analysis, assignment and interpretation applicable to all Greek and Roman poetry. It outlines what the author deduces are the creative principles informing ancient poets' approach to their subject matter, and establishes criteria that enable an objective discussion of the poems' originality and merit. ; 331 pages
1983Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). Foxing/dustsoiling to top of textblock. ; 0.75 x 9 x 6 Inches; 184 pages; Explores the social institutions, the prevailing social values, and the ideology of the ancient city-state as revealed in Roman comedy. Looks closely at eight plays: Plautus's Aulularia, Asinaria, Captivi, Rudens, Cistellaria, and Truculentus, and Terence's Phormio and Hecyra.
1952Book has minor shelfwear and rubbing. Some pages tanned. Long gift inscription from author to Glen Bowersock. Some browning to DJ. Tape applied to top of DJ. Some chipping and a bit of loss to DJ. ; The study of roman Comedy is a study of the work of two comic poets, Titus Maccius Plautus and Publius Terentius Afer. Looks at the twenty extant plays of Plautus and the six by Terence. Also looks at Greek Comedy and Roman Comedy's influence on later authors. ; 501 pages; Signed by Author