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1979Light discoloration to spine. Dustjacket has a few small nicks and tears. Corners are bumped. Dustjacket has minor shelfwear and rubbing. DJ is price-clipped. ; 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. ; 334 pages
1990Dustjacket has minor shelfwear and rubbing. ; Essays on Greek literature, especially Old Comedy, contributed by Sir Kenneth Dover's colleagues and former pupils in honour of his 70th birthday. ; 1.13 x 9 x 6 Inches; 432 pages
1999Still wrapped in plastic; Plotinus (ca. 205–270) is widely considered the father of Neoplatonism. Much of our biographical information about Plotinus comes from Porphyry's preface to his edition of Plotinus' Enneads. ; 10 x 1.25 x 6.5 Inches; 338 pages
2000Light shelfwear to book. Dustjacket has minor shelfwear and rubbing. ; Sandpiper Reprint of 1972 edition. ; 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.
1984Very light shelfwear. Small tear to head of DJ spine (1cm). ; Aspects of Greek and Roman Life; 10.5 x 0.75 x 7.25 Inches; 272 pages
1969Dustjacket has minor shelfwear and rubbing. DJ has light yellowing to top. Soiling to top of textblock. ; 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
1972Book has sticker stain on inner fly-page. Light chipping to top of dustjacket spine. A few closed tears to back panel. Shelfwear and rubbing to DJ. ; Analyses the conservative imagery of Terence and of Cicero's letters, contrasting this naturalistic language with the fantasies of Plautus and the formalization of Cicero's speeches. Numerous illustrative passages from Greek New Comedy, Terence, Plautus, and Cicero are reproduced in the text. ; Phoenix supplementary volume, 10; 222 pages
1973In endevouring to realize the circumstances of the first European occupation of Cyprus, la Vie Feodale de la Nobless of the period must be described in the light of modern research carried on by innumerable students of mediaeval history during the past half century : Viollet le Duc, Rey, Schlumberger and host of others. This sketch will fulfil its purpose if it serves as a reminder to those curious and interesting associations which link the beautiful island of Cyprus with England. To English-men, the heirs of the Anglo-Normans, such as associations of long ago, continued to some extent by the Levant Company of interviewing centuries, and now consolidated by the island becoming a regular British Colony, must always be of interest. ; Bibliotheca Historica Cypria; 185 pages
1980Exact Reprint of the Tetypeset original (1809) Chicago 1930 ARES PUBLISHERS INC. In his school edict Julian prohibits Christian teachers from using pagan scripts e. G. The Illias, that formed the core of Roman education. This was an attempt to remove some of the power of Christian schools by alienating their students from Roman society, not to mention a satirical attack at what Julian may have viewed as a hypocrisy: Christian schools teaching the Bible as the sole source of knowledge while simultaneously teaching classical pagan texts as well, knowledge of which was needed for success in Roman society. In his tolerance edict of 362, Julian decreed the reopening of pagan temples, the restitution of alienated temple properties, and called back Christian bishops that were exiled by church edicts. The latter was an instance of tolerance of different religious views, but may also have been an attempt by Julian to widen a schism between different Christian sects, further weakening the Christian movement as a whole. ; 8.25 x 0.5 x 5.5 Inches; 119 pages
1965Edgewear to top of DJ's spine. Dustjacket has minor shelfwear and rubbing. ; Looks at the Greek cities in Sicily and southern Italy. A comprehensive survey of Sicilian history, an appreciation of its arts and legends, and a look at its landscapes and ancient monuments. Contents: On names, places, sources. 1). The power of Typhoes. 2). Land of epic heroes. 3). When the Greeks came. 4). Rush of arrival. 5). Hera's Italian votive. 6). Two vigilant enemies. 7). The magnificent tyrants. 8). The western defense. 9). View from Euryalus. 10). The path to empire. 11). Figures of later legend. ; Campus outlines; 219 pages
1965Shelfwear to book. Former owner's signature on front endpaper. DJ has a piece missing from top of spine. DJ is torn along top of spine. Soiling and a few nicks 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
1975Corners are no longer sharp. Closed tear (1") on back cover near spine. ; 52 full page colour plates, and 163 gravure illustrations; 7.25 x 0.75 x 6.25 Inches; 328 pages
1978Slight edgewear. Slight fading to cover gilt. ; Professor Thalmann researches Greek epic and drama. In particular, he studies how performances of ancient texts were the occasion for the convergence of class and gender discourses and the role of these texts within contemporary social and political processes. He is also interested in approaches to ancient cultures through anthropology and political theory. ; Yale Classical Monographs; 0.79 x 9.47 x 6.38 Inches; 193 pages
1988Bowing to front board. Back cover has small indentations throughout. Soiling to text block. ; 432 pages
1962Dustjacket has shelfwear and rubbing. Dustjacket has a few small nicks and tears. DJ is price-clipped. ; 238 pages
1975Slight sticker residue on spine. Former owner's stamp on fly-page. Foxing to top textblock. ; Analytic Study of Greek Theatre; 470 pages
1955Large tear to dustjacket at top of spine. Dustjacket has shelfwear and rubbing. Former owner's signature on front fly-page. ; Study of the social, economic, political and legal institutions of Crete from the beginnings of the historical period until the Roman conquest of the Island. ; 280 pages
1994Light shelfwear. Light discoloration to bottom of boards. Ex-library copy with a few stamps. Pocket has been removed. ; Three essays written for, and two others translated for the collection are among the 19 studies of the impact of the Iliad and the Odyssey on succeeding ages since the fifth century BC. Among the writers considered are George Chapman (who first translated Homer into English in 1598) , Pope, Milton, Kafka, Goethe, Racine, Keats, Tolstoy, Joyce, and recent Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott . Looks at Homer's influence from Antiquity to the twentieth century. ; Garland Reference Library of the Humanities; 9 x 0.75 x 6 Inches; 330 pages
1994Light soiling to textblock. Light crease to corner. ; Nagy challenges the widely held view that the development of lyric poetry in Greece represents the rise of individual innovation over collective tradition. Arguing that Greek lyric represents a tradition in its own right, Nagy shows how the form of Greek epic is in fact a differentiation of forms found in Greek lyric. ; 1.35 x 9.04 x 6.04 Inches; 414 pages
1989Light shelfwear and rubbing. ; Considers four odes which demonstrate how Pindar has borrowed and creatively transformed mythological figures, religious ideas, and epic diction from Homer or the epic cycle. ; AJP Monographs in Classical Philology, No. 4; 9.5 x 0.5 x 6.5 Inches; 112 pages
1997Very light shelfwear ; Building upon the groundbreaking work of Milman Parry and Albert Lord, "Out of Line" presents a new theory of Homeric composition, focusing upon patterns that extend beyond the boundary of the line and the clause. Matthew Clark takes enjambment as a starting point, analyzing the techniques used by the poet to complete a line that begins with a runover. Clark proceeds to propose two levels of analysis, a "deep-structure" level, which describes the associations of words and ideas before they take metrical form, and a "surface-structure" level, which describes the words as they are employed on any particular occasion. "Out of Line" combines formulaic and metrical analysis, expanding the study of Homeric meter both in practice, by taking into account larger compositional structures such as entire scenes, and in theory, by using the results to test models of formulaic composition. This book is important for students and scholars of Homer, epic, and oral literature. ; 0.83 x 9.29 x 6.19 Inches; 264 pages
1986Bumping to corners. Light soiling to boards. ; A sturyd of certain kinds of artistic design shared by the ancient Greek and medieval European epic. Also looks at Chanson de Roland and Rolandslied. ; Martin Classical Lectures; 0.87 x 9.64 x 6.45 Inches; 230 pages
1989Bottom corner of pages are creased else NF. ; Provides criticism, sound scholarship, and systematic explication of the characters, action, events, and artistic devices of the Odyssey. ; 0.29 x 9.03 x 6.01 Inches; 120 pages