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1984Some spotting to boards. Foxing to top of textblock. DJ a bit browned. Dustjacket is protected in mylar. ; This book brings a new approach to the study of the early Greek lyric poets. Podlecki has chosen to examine the life and works of the leading poets of the eighth to fifth century B. C. In the context of the military and historical events of the period. ; 1 x 9.5 x 6.5 Inches; 282 pages
1987Light shelfwear else Fine. ; Contents: homer and the lyric poets; Organization of a Lyric Poem; Elegy and the Genres of Archaic Greece. Appendix: Periodic Structures in Archaic Poetry. ; Phoenix Supplementary Volume XXI; 162 pages
1974Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (Robert Brown). Else very light shelfwear. ; 174 pages
1991Scholar's name to ffep (Robert Brown). Creasing and a bit of chipping to corners of wraps. Minor shelfwear. Some pencil notes to text. ; 234 pages; Sappho sang her poetry to the accompaniment of the lyre on the Greek island of Lesbos over 2500 years ago. Throughout the Greek world, her contemporaries composed lyric poetry full of passion, and in the centuries that followed the golden age of archaic lyric, new forms of poetry emerged. In this unique anthology, today's reader can enjoy the works of seventeen poets, including a selection of archaic lyric and the complete surviving works of the ancient Greek women poets--the latter appearing together in one volume for the first time. Sappho's Lyre is a combination of diligent research and poetic artistry. The translations are based on the most recent discoveries of papyri (including "new" Archilochos and Stesichoros) and the latest editions and scholarship. The introduction and notes provide historical and literary contexts that make this ancient poetry more accessible to modern readers. Although this book is primarily aimed at the reader who does not know Greek, it would be a splendid supplement to a Greek language course. It will also have wide appeal for readers of' ancient literature, women's studies, mythology, and lovers of poetry.
1991Scholar's name to ffep (Robert Brown). Light edgewear to corners of wraps. Minor shelfwear. Tiny stain to foreedges. ; 234 pages; Sappho sang her poetry to the accompaniment of the lyre on the Greek island of Lesbos over 2500 years ago. Throughout the Greek world, her contemporaries composed lyric poetry full of passion, and in the centuries that followed the golden age of archaic lyric, new forms of poetry emerged. In this unique anthology, today's reader can enjoy the works of seventeen poets, including a selection of archaic lyric and the complete surviving works of the ancient Greek women poets--the latter appearing together in one volume for the first time. Sappho's Lyre is a combination of diligent research and poetic artistry. The translations are based on the most recent discoveries of papyri (including "new" Archilochos and Stesichoros) and the latest editions and scholarship. The introduction and notes provide historical and literary contexts that make this ancient poetry more accessible to modern readers. Although this book is primarily aimed at the reader who does not know Greek, it would be a splendid supplement to a Greek language course. It will also have wide appeal for readers of' ancient literature, women's studies, mythology, and lovers of poetry.
2001Faint creasing through pages. Creasing to wraps. ; 2nd printing. Traces Sappho's reception in English literature; Poetica 27; 144 pages
1982Scholar's blindstamp and name to ffep (Robert Brown). Minor edgewear to wraps. 2 tiny chips to spine. ; Princeton Series of Collected Essays; 356 pages
1944Wraps are browned and chipping with small tears. V1: a couple of faint dampstains to front wrap. Pages browned. V2: pages tanned. Some pencil notes and underlining. Chipping to base of spines with a little loss of spine cover. Good to VG. ; V1: (1944) . V2: 1946 ; Collezione Filologica 4; Vol. 1/2/2022; 237 pages
1970Former owner's name on ffep. A few minor scratches to boards. Top of spine bumped. ; Commentary on the Archaic Greek Poets with original Greek Text. ; 436 pages
1975Rubbing and colour loss to spine. Else Minor shelfwear. ; Text in latin; Apparatus in Latin. ; Bibliotheca Scriptorum Graecorum Et Romanorum Teubneriana; 1.2 x 8.3 x 5.6 Inches; 190 pages
1979Former owner's name on inner cover. Former owner has written the year of birth of the author on title page else Fine. ; This book is an attempt to understand in what senses the tragic odes are lyrical and in what ways their lyricism contributes to tragic drama as a whole. ; 241 pages
1996Very minor rubbing and a couple of scratches to DJ. ; 0.87 x 8.98 x 6.22 Inches; 220 pages; This book focuses on the hymns, mimes and erotic poems of the Greek poet Theocritus, and examines how Theocritus uses the traditions of earlier Greek poetry to recreate past forms in a way that exploits the new conditions under which poetry was written in the third century BC. Recent papyri have greatly increased our understanding of how Theocritus read archaic poetry, and these new discoveries are fully drawn on in a set of readings that will change the way we look at Hellenistic poetry.
1990Dustjacket has minor shelfwear and rubbing. Top corner lightly bumped. ; 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. ; 1.75 x 9.75 x 6.5 Inches; 414 pages
195225 pages of latin text have mild underlining and a few words in pen. Light pencil annotations on a few pages. Shelfwear and moderate rubbing to boards. Former owner's name on ffep. Notes in pen on ffep. Boards have faded somewhat. Good working copy. ; Latin Text with Extensive Commentary in English. ; 208 pages
1926Minor shelfwear. Light edgewear to spine ends. Boards are faded. Former owner's name on ffep. Inked translated poetry on back fep. Light pencil notes on about 10 pages. ; Latin Text with Extensive Commentary in English. ; 208 pages
1983DJ has mild creasing and shelfwear. Back upper corner is rubbed with colour loss. Former owner's name stamped on inner cover. Minor shelfwear. ; Examines the most important of the poets' themes-- love, wine, athletics, politics, friends and enemies, gods and heroes, life and death, poetry and music--. The texts are all printed in the original with accompanying translations. ; 320 pages
1934Wraps are worn, torn and chipped. Browning to wraps. Interior is still very good. Light pencil underlining and marginalia on a few pages. ; A reevaluation of Theognis; From the Proceedings of the British Academy; 21 pages
1922Shelfwear with boards slightly cocked. Light edgewear to spine ends. Boards are stained with ink stain to back board. Former owner's name on ffep. Light pencil notes on some pages. ; Latin Text with Extensive Commentary in English. ; 208 pages
1983DJ has mild creasing and shelfwear. Small stain to textblock. ; Examines the most important of the poets' themes-- love, wine, athletics, politics, friends and enemies, gods and heroes, life and death, poetry and music--. The texts are all printed in the original with accompanying translations. ; 320 pages
1958Notes in text in pen about 10 pages. Additional notes in pencil in text. Former owner's name on ffep. Fading to letters on spine. Book itself is VG. ; Greek texts from Greek poets with english notes. ; 112 pages
1945Corners are bumped. Endpapers tanned. Author's inscription in ink on ffep. ; Signed by Author on ffep to scholar E. T. Owen. ; Sather Classical Lectures; 302 pages; Full account of the quality and methods of the lyric poet. Norwood insists on studying Pindar as a poet and exhibits his poetical qualities with precision, fullness and lucidity, and makes any comparisons with other poets: Greek, Roman, English, German, French, and Italian. ; Signed by Author
1905Former owner's initials in pencil to ffep. Heavy Foxing to ffeps. Pencil notes in margins. Pencil and red pencil underlining on a few pages in greek text. ; Greek text with facing English translation. Extensive English Introduction and Commentary. ; 524 pages
1979DJ has minor edgewear and rubbing. ; This book is an attempt to understand in what senses the tragic odes are lyrical and in what ways their lyricism contributes to tragic drama as a whole. ; 241 pages
1987Minor rubbing to extremities. ; Contents: homer and the lyric poets; Organization of a Lyric Poem; Elegy and the Genres of Archaic Greece. Appendix: Periodic Structures in Archaic Poetry. ; Phoenix Supplementary Volume XXI; 162 pages
1966Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). ; Die 2. Auflage ist ein Unveränderter Nachdruck der 1. Auflage, die 1913 erschien. ; 330 pages