Monro, D. B.MareMagnum
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1894Light discoloration to spine. Mild edgewear to extremities. Foxing to ffeps. ; Scarce First edition. ; 145 pages
1996Very light shelfwear to heel of spine else Fine. ; Oxford Classical Monographs; 1.11 x 8.74 x 5.7 Inches; 424 pages; The era of Diocletan and Constantine is a significant period for the Roman empire, with far-reaching administrative changes that established the structure of government for three hundred years - a time when the Christian church passed from persecution to imperial favour. It is also a complex period of co-operation and rivalry between a number of co-emperors, the result of Diocletian's experiment of government by four rulers (the tetrarchs). This book examines imperial government at this crucial but often neglected period of transition, through a study of the the pronouncement that the emperors and their officials produced, drawing together material from a wide variety of sources: the law codes, Christian authors, inscritpions, and papyri. The study covers the format, composition, and promulgation of documents, and includes chronological catalogues of imperial letters and edicts, as well as extended discussions of the Gregorian and Hermogenian Codes, and the ambitious Prices Edict. Much of this has had little detailed coverage in English before. There is also a chapter that elucidates the relative powers of the members of the imperial college. Finally, Dr Corcoran assesses how effectively the machinery of government really matched the ambitions of the emperors.
1998Minor shelfwear and rubbing to DJ. ; Contents include but are not exhaustive: Herodian's Historical Methods and Understanding of History; Erodiano e la crisi dell'impero; Furcht und Schrecken bei Herodian; Claudius Aelianus und sein Werk; Les 'Histoires variees' d'Elien. L'agencement de la mosaique; Asinio Quadrato storico di Filippo l'Arabo; Longinus Platonicus Philosophus et Philologus, II. Longinus Philologus; Menander Rhetor and the works attributed to him; Time and Narrative Technique in Heliodorus' Aethiopica; Etat present des recherches sur Nemesien; Lettura di Reposiano; Alcestis Barcinonensis; Terentianus Maurus...; Apollonius of Tyre: last of the Troublesome Latin Novels; On the fringes of the Canon: Work on the Fragments of ancient Greek Fiction; Emperor and Empire in the works of Greek-speaking Authors of the Third Century AD; W. Curtius Rufus' Historiae Alexandri Magni; Problemi di lingua e stile nei Moralia di Plutarco; Forma letteraria nei Moralia di Plutarco...; ANRW; Vol. 34.4; 2.1 x 9.9 x 7.2 Inches
1972Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers and institution plates. DJ is protected in plastic. Dustjacket has edgewear with minor chipping and a few tears (some repaired with adhesive tape). ; The Lyell lectures; 361 pages; The central argument of Stanley Morison's work is that the development of script (inscriptional, calligraphic or typographical) has been the result of changes in religious or political environment, of friction between church and state, and of the schism between Eastern and Western Christendom. Morison begins with an example of alphabetic forms on a 6th century BC gravestone from Melos and proceeds through commentary on a notable collection of more than 180 illustrated specimens, to trace the career of the Graeco-Roman alphabet up to its use in newspaper typefaces of the 1950s. He also seeks to show that the most widely used printers' typefaces of the twentieth century owe more to their Greek than to their Roman antecedents.
1995Mild crease to back wrap else Fine ; 332 pages
1998Very light edgewear to corners of wraps. ; 0.69 x 8.96 x 6 Inches; 320 pages; This book discusses minting and financial policy in the first three centuries of the Roman Empire. By studying Roman coin-survivals in a wider context, the author uncovers important facts about the origin of coin hoards of the Principate. The resulting analyses use extensive coin material collected for the first time. Dr. Duncan-Jones builds up a picture of minting, financial policy and monetary circulation that adds substantially to our knowledge and that stands as the only study of its kind for this period.
1995A couple of pencil lines in margins of a few pages. Minor shelfwear to wraps. Light creasing to spine else NF. ; Palingenesia LV; 192 pages
1997Light edgewear to extremities. Minor bump to top corner of first few pages. ; Collection De L'Ecole Française De Rome; 692 pages
1984Minor discoloration to boards. ; 232 pages
1993Very minor rubbing to boards. ; Trierer Winckelmannsprogramm; 36 pages
2001Minor rubbing to boards. ; Hypomnemata; 0.55 x 9.37 x 6.22 Inches; 138 pages
1996Appears to be missing the map else Fine. ; Trierer Historische Forschungen; 300 pages
1987Very light shelfwear to djs. Former owner's name on ffeps of set. ; 3 volume Set in German. 1987-1991. VIII, 411, IX, 481 und VIII, 424 pp; 3 Volume Set. Wege Der Forschung; Vol. 1/3/2022
1983Pencil underlining on 2-3 pages. Dustjacket has minor shelfwear and rubbing.; In German; 244 pages
1976Dustjacket has edgewear with light chipping to head of spine. Dustjacket has minor soiling. ; Vestigia: Beiträge Zur Alten Geschichte; 215 pages
1977Minor edgewear to top edge of DJ. Light rubbing to DJ. Light shelfwear to book. ; Vestigia: Beiträge Zur Alten Geschichte; 167 pages
1986Book has minor shelfwear and rubbing. 2 small tears to cloth at head and heel of spine. ; A look at the Architecture, coins, friezes, statuary and frescoes and how the Romans cleverly used these forms to disseminate their ideals and how this influenced Rome's development from republic to an empire. ; Jutland Archaeological Society publications; 485 pages
1998Very minor edgewear to top corners of DJ else Fine. ; 0.79 x 8.43 x 5.67 Inches; 207 pages; The role of women in Roman culture and society was a paradoxical one. They enjoyed social, material and financial independence yet they were denied basic constitutional rights. Although Roman history is not short of powerful female figures, such as Agrippina and Livia, their power stemmed from their associations with great men and was not officially recognized. Ariadne Staples' book examines how women in Rome were perceived both by themselves and by men through women's participation in Roman religion, as Roman religious ritual provided the single public arena where women played a significant formal role. From Good Goddess to Vestal Virgins argues that the ritual roles played out by women were vital in defining them sexually and that these sexually defined categories spilled over into other aspects of Roman culture, including political activity. Staples provides an arresting and original analysis of the role of women in Roman society, which challenges traditionally held views and provokes further questions.
1969Minor shelfwear to textblock and boards. ; The first of the modern biographies of great Hellenistic kings is surely W. W. Tarn's Antigonos Gonatas, originally published in 1913. Tarn's book is biography on a grand scale; he aims not only to recount Antigonos' political career, but to bring to life the man and his times, and there is no missing his genuine admiration for his subject. ; 501 pages
1993Very light shelfwear to DJ. ; Vol. 1
1998Dustjacket has minor shelfwear and rubbing. ; A large number of Greek religious poems in hexameter were attributed to Orpheus, as they were to similar miracle-man figures like Bakis, Musaeus, Abaris, Aristeas, Epimenides, and the Sybil. Of this vast literature, only two examples survive whole: a set of hymns composed at some point in the 2nd or 3rd century AD, and an Orphic Argonautica composed somewhere between the 4th and 6th centuries AD. Earlier Orphic literature, which may date back as far as the 6th century BC, survives only in papyrus scraps or in quotations by later authors. ; 296 pages; Sandpiper reprint of 1983 Edition.
1979Dustjacket has shelfwear and rubbing. DJ spine is discolored. Dustjacket is protected in mylar. Book has very light shelfwear else fine. ; 346 pages; Follows Greek politics, diplomacy, and interstate relations from the end of the Peloponnesian War in 404 BC to the King's Peace in 386. Assesses the effects of the war on Athens, Sparta, Thebes, Corinth and Persia.
1994Publisher's remainder mark to bottom of textblock (small black dot). Small tear to cloth at base of spine (~1 cm). ; 1.06 x 9.33 x 6.26 Inches; 287 pages; This book provides a detailed analysis of the conventions and techniques of performance characteristic of the Greek theatre of Menander and the subsequent Roman theatre of Plautus and Terence. Drawing on literary and archaeological sources, and on scientific treatises, David Wiles identifies the mask as crucial to the actor's art, and shows how sophisticated the art of the mask-maker became. He also examines the other main elements which the audience learned to decode: costume, voice, movement, etc. In order to identify features that were unique to Hellenistic theatre he contrasts Greek New Comedy with other traditions of masked comedy, and shows how different Roman conventions of performance rest upon different underlying assumptions about religion, marriage and class. David Wiles offers theatre historians and classicists a radical new approach to reading play texts. His book will also be useful to archaeologists seeking to understand what masks mean and how Greek and Roman theatres were used.
1926Stamp to ffep. Book has shelfwear and rubbing. Minor edgewear to spine ends. ; Der Sammlung Orbis Historicus, Band 1; Vol. 1; 159 pages