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2005rif. 37462Cambridge University Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. Hardcover. Very faint shelfwear to book and DJ.; The Catalogue of Women ascribed to Hesiod one of the greatest figures of early hexameter poetry maps the Greek world its evolution and its heroic myths through the mortal women who bore children to the gods. In this collection a team of international scholars offers an attempt to explore the poem's meaning significance and reception. Individual chapters examine the organization and structure of the poem its social and political context its relation to other early epic and Hesiodic poetry its place in the development of a pan-Hellenic consciousness and attitudes to women. The wider influence of the Catalogue is considered in chapters on Pindar and the lyric tradition on Hellenistic poetry and on the poem's reception at Rome. This collection provides a significant approach to the study of the Catalogue.; 360 pages . 2005. 0521836840 . Cambridge University Press hardcover
1967rif. 37494Pantheon Books. Very Good in Fair dust jacket. Hardcover. Minor shelfwear to book. Scholar's name stamped to ffep Stéphane Krésic. DJ is somewhat tattered with tears and chipping.; The Sanctuary of Eleusis near Athens was the center of a religious cult that endured for nearly two thousand years and whose initiates came from all parts of the civilized world. Looking at the tendency to 'see visions' C. Kerenyi examines the Mysteries of Eleusis from the standpoint not only of Greek myth but also of human nature.; Bollingen Series LXV Vol 4; 257 pages . 1967. Pantheon Books hardcover
1993rif. 37528Cornell University Press. Very Good. Softcover. Minor edgewear with laminate lighting along edges. Scholar's name to ffep Bonnie Maclachlan née Ward.; Twelve Essays address such subjects as the influence of Dionysus on Greek tragedy and art his connection with mystery religions and concepts of the afterlife and the spread of his cult to Etruria.; Myth and Poetics; 344 pages . 1993. 0801480620 . Cornell University Press paperback
1978rif. 37534Yale University Press. Near Fine with no dust jacket. Hardcover. 178 pages . 1978. 0300019408 . Yale University Press hardcover
1963rif. 37929Berlin: Weidman / Apud Weidmannos. Very Good with no dust jacket. Hardcover. Minor bump to 1 corner. Slight sunning to spine.; Parallel text in Greek and Latin; prolegomena and epimetra in Latin.; 254 pages . 1963. Weidman / Apud Weidmannos hardcover
1976rif. 38160E. J. Brill. Very Good. Softcover. Minor sheflwear. Gift inscription from author to ffep.; Mnemosyne Bibliotheca Classica Batava : Supplementum 42; 5.9 X 0.3 X 9.1 inches; 100 pages; Signed by Author . 1976. 9004047212 . E. J. Brill paperback
1986rif. 38422Oxford Clarendon Press. Good with no dust jacket. Hardcover. Ex-library copy with usual stamps call numbers and pocket.; 400 pages; The Romans saw an analogy between the ordered workings of the natural universe and the proper functioning of their own expanding empire between orbis and urbs. Philip Hardie's new work explores Virgil's poetic and mythic transformation of this imperialist ideology with reference to such traditions as the poet/cosmologer the use of allegory to extract natural-philosophical truths from mythology and poetry poetic hyperbole and the "universal expression." . 1986. 0198140363 . Oxford Clarendon Press hardcover
1994rif. 38856Princeton University Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. Hardcover. Light shelfwear to book and DJ.; 280 pages; Covering material as diverse as curse tablets coins tattoos and legal decrees Deborah Steiner explores the reception of writing in archaic and classical Greece. She moves beyond questions concerning ancient literacy and the origins of the Greek alphabet to examine representations of writing in the myths and imaginative literature of the period. Maintaining that the Greek alphabet was not seen purely as a means of transcribing and preserving the spoken word the author investigates parallels between writing and other signifiers such as omens tokens and talismans; the role of inscription in religious rites including cursing oath-taking and dedication; and perceptions of how writing functioned both in autocracies and democracies. Particularly innovative is the suggestion that fifth-century Greek historians and dramatists portrayed writing as an essential tool of tyrants who not only issue written decrees but also "inscribe" human bodies with brands and cut up land with compasses and rules. The despotic overtones associated with writing inform discussion of its function in democracies. Although writing could promote equal justice ancient sources also linked this activity with historical and mythical figures who opposed the populist regime. By examining this highly nuanced portrayal of writing Steiner offers a new perspective on ancient views of written law and its role in 5th-century Athenian democracy. . 1994. 0691032386 . Princeton University Press hardcover
1967rif. 38938Basil Blackwell. Fine in Very Good dust jacket. Hardcover. DJ is price-clipped. Dustjacket has edgewear with a couple of small tears.; Examines in detail the oracle of Dodona and the chief problems concerning its activity. Combines it with studies of Olympia and Ammon the two other places where the Greeks consulted Zeus.; 294 pages . 1967. Basil Blackwell hardcover
1983rif. 36975University of California Press. Near Fine in Good dust jacket. Hardcover. Scholar's name to ffep Bonnie Maclachlan née Ward. Dustjacket has a couple of large tears with chipping.; Blood sacrifice the ritual slaughter of animals has been basic to religion through history so that it survives in spiritualized form even in Christianity. How did this violent phenomenon achieve the status of the sacred This question is posed in Walter Burkert's famous study.; 360 pages . 1983. 0520036506 . University of California Press hardcover
1991rif. 36993Oxford University Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. Hardcover. Very minor shelfwear to book and DJ.; "Much influenced by structuralism she insisted long before it was fashionable to do so that cultural products - texts images myths rituals - do not bear their meaning on their face but need to be decoded: the title of a collection of her essays Reading Greek Culture 1991 summed up her approach."; 336 pages . 1991. 0198147503 . Oxford University Press hardcover
1992rif. 36987Paul Astroms Forlag. Very Good. Softcover. Very faint creasing to corners of wraps.; Skrifter Utgivna Av Svenska Institutet I Athen / Acta Instituti Atheniensis Regni Sueciae Series in 8° XI; 209 pages . 1992. 9179160255 . Paul Astroms Forlag paperback
1990rif. 37083Cornell University Press. Very Good with no dust jacket. Hardcover. Very Light shelfwear. Scholar's name to ffep Bonnie Maclachlan née Ward.; Myth and Poetics; 382 pages . 1990. 0801419859 . Cornell University Press hardcover
2004rif. 37235Cambridge University Press. Very Good in Good dust jacket. Hardcover. Scholar's name to ffep Bonnie Maclachlan née Ward. Pencil marginalia to a few pages. Chipping and a few small tears to DJ.; 6.25 X 1 X 9 inches; 292 pages . 2004. 0521834341 . Cambridge University Press hardcover
1987rif. 37250Croom Helm. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Hardcover. Light Bmp to head of spine. Scholar's name to ffep D. Gerber. Else Minor shelfwear. DJ has minor shelfwear.; Interpretations of Greek Mythology first published in1987 builds on the innovative work of Walter Burkert and the ‘Paris school’ of Jean-Pierre Vernant and represents a renewal of interpretation of Greek mythology. The contributors to this volume present a variety of approaches to the Greek myths all of which eschew a monolithic or exclusively structuralist hermeneutic method. Specifically the notion that mythology can simply be read as a primitive mode of narrative history is rejected with emphasis instead being placed on the relationships between mythology and history ritual and political genealogy. The essays concentrate on some of the best known characters and themes – Oedipus Orpheus Narcissus – reflecting the complexity and fascination of the Greek imagination. The volume will long remain an indispensable tool for the study of Greek mythology and it is of great interest to anyone interested in the development of Greek culture and civilisation and the nature of myth.; 294 pages; The volume's fundamental concern is with how the Greeks conceptualized the experience of poetry and debated the values of that experience. The book's organizing theme is a recurrent Greek dialectic between ideas of poetry as on the one hand a powerfully enthralling experience in its own right a kind of 'ecstasy' and on the other a medium for the expression of truths which can exercise lasting influence on its audiences' views of the world. Citing a wide range of modern scholarship and making frequent connections with later periods of literary theory and aesthetics Halliwell questions many orthodoxies and received opinions about the texts analysed. The resulting perspective casts new light on ways in which the Greeks attempted to make sense of the psychology of poetic experience - including the roles of emotion ethics imagination and knowledge - in the life of their culture . 1987. 0709932707 . Croom Helm hardcover
1993rif. 37307The Johns Hopkins University Press. Very Good in Good dust jacket. Hardcover. Very light shelfwear to book. Scholar's name to ffep Bonnie Maclachlan née Ward. Dustjacket has tears chipping and creasing. Rear panel of DJ has some dampstaining.; 836 pages; Early Greek Myth is a much-needed handbook for scholars and others interested in the literary and artistic sources of archaic Greek myths -- and the only one of its kind available in English. Timothy Gantz traces the development of each myth in narrative form and summarizes the written and visual evidence in which the specific details of the story appear. . 1993. 080184410X . The Johns Hopkins University Press hardcover
1987rif. 37317Croom Helm. Very Good in Good dust jacket. Hardcover. Minor sheflwear to book. Scholar's name to ffep Bonnie Maclachlan née Ward. DJ has some dampstaining; Interpretations of Greek Mythology first published in1987 builds on the innovative work of Walter Burkert and the ‘Paris school’ of Jean-Pierre Vernant and represents a renewal of interpretation of Greek mythology. The contributors to this volume present a variety of approaches to the Greek myths all of which eschew a monolithic or exclusively structuralist hermeneutic method. Specifically the notion that mythology can simply be read as a primitive mode of narrative history is rejected with emphasis instead being placed on the relationships between mythology and history ritual and political genealogy. The essays concentrate on some of the best known characters and themes – Oedipus Orpheus Narcissus – reflecting the complexity and fascination of the Greek imagination. The volume will long remain an indispensable tool for the study of Greek mythology and it is of great interest to anyone interested in the development of Greek culture and civilisation and the nature of myth.; 294 pages; The volume's fundamental concern is with how the Greeks conceptualized the experience of poetry and debated the values of that experience. The book's organizing theme is a recurrent Greek dialectic between ideas of poetry as on the one hand a powerfully enthralling experience in its own right a kind of 'ecstasy' and on the other a medium for the expression of truths which can exercise lasting influence on its audiences' views of the world. Citing a wide range of modern scholarship and making frequent connections with later periods of literary theory and aesthetics Halliwell questions many orthodoxies and received opinions about the texts analysed. The resulting perspective casts new light on ways in which the Greeks attempted to make sense of the psychology of poetic experience - including the roles of emotion ethics imagination and knowledge - in the life of their culture . 1987. 0709932707 . Croom Helm hardcover
1988rif. 37326Routledge. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. First Edition. Hardcover. Dustjacket has minor shelfwear Scholar's name to ffep Bonnie Maclachlan née Ward.; 236 pages; In antiquity a considerable number of books of prophecies went under the general title of "Sibylline Oracles". Rulers as significant as Augustus consulted them in time of danger or crisis for advice and prognoses. Increasing numbers of "ex post facto" prophecies laying a particular interpretation on facts of recent history came to be attributed to one of the mysterious Sibyls. Perhaps the most famous of these is the Cumaean Sibyl who guides the hero in the sixth book of Vergil's "Aeneid" . In fact she was somewhat unusual in her similiarity to other oracular prophetesses such as the Pythia. For where the latter prophesied in response to particular inquirers one of the distinguishing characteristics of Sibyls was that they composed discursive verses for distribution to the world at large. This Professor Parke's last book which was virtually complete on his death in 1986 is an account of a subject both rarely treated in recent decades and difficult to access for all but the most expert. In its pursuit of the sometimes elusive Sibyls it ranges from Heraclitus to Eusebius from Archaic Asia Minor to Christian Rome. This book should be of interest to undergraduates postgraduates and academics of classics. . 1988. 0415003431 . Routledge hardcover
1988rif. 36444Oxford Clarendon Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Hardcover. Scholar's name to ffeps D. Gerber. Vol. 2 has light bumping to 1 corner. Djs have a few tiny tears.; A three-volume commentary compiled by an international team of scholars includes an introduction discussing previous research on the Odyssey its relation to the Iliad the epic dialect and the transmission of the text. Vol. I: 1988 396 pp ISBN: 0198140371; Vol. II: 1989 300 pp ISBN: 0198140479; Vol. III: 1992 447 pp ISBN: 0198140487;; 3 Volume Set COMPLETE. Commentary on Homer's Odyssey.; 1-3; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 1143 pages . 1988. Oxford Clarendon Press hardcover
2010rif. 36752Oxford University Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Hardcover. Some pencilling. DJ has some creasing along upper edge. DJ spine sunned.; 9.3 X 1.2 X 6.5 inches; 224 pages . 2010. 0195339363 . Oxford University Press hardcover
1921rif. 36800Oxford Clarendon Press. Very Good with no dust jacket. Hardcover. Endpapers lightly browned. Scholar's name to ffep D. Gerber. Very solid condition.; 1970 Reprint of 1921 edition.; The Gifford Lectures Delivered in the University of St. Andrews in the Year 1920; 434 pages . 1921. Oxford Clarendon Press hardcover
1990rif. 36828Walter De Gruyter. Very Good with no dust jacket. Hardcover. Very minor shelfwear.; Untersuchungen Zur Antiken Literatur Und Geschichte - Band 35; 6.14 X 0.75 X 9.21 inches; 301 pages . 1990. 3110122316 . Walter De Gruyter hardcover
1989rif. 36827Routledge. Very Good in Near Fine dust jacket. Hardcover. Very faint shelfwear to book and DJ. Scholar's name to ffep D. Gerber.; 8 X 2 X 10 inches; 256 pages . 1989. 0415012635 . Routledge hardcover
1982rif. 36890University of Toronto Press. Good with no dust jacket. Hardcover. Dampstaining to lower corners of last few pages. Does not affect text.; 272 pages; The Myth of Orpheus shaman and teacher musician and lover is the subject of this study. Contents: Orpheus of Virgil and Ovid: flebile nescio quid. W. S. Anderson; Songs of Orpheus and the New song of Christ Eleanor Irwin ; Sparagmos: Orpheus among the Chrisitians Patricia Vicari ; Orpheus and Ficino Warden ; Myth of Orpheus in Italian Renaissance Art 1400-1600 Scavizzi ; Orfeo and Euridice the first two operas Timothy J. McGee ; Orpheus and the Devil in Calderon's El Divino Orfeo c. 1634 Pedro Leon ; Triumph of Art of Death: Orpheus in Spenser and Milton Vicari. . 1982. 0802055184 . University of Toronto Press hardcover
1990rif. 36912Oxford Clarendon Press. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. First Edition. Hardcover. Scholar's name to ffep Bonnie Maclachlan née Ward. DJ has 1 tiny tear 1 cm and faint edgewear.; In the sixth century B. C. Pherekydes of Syros the reputed teacher of Pythagoras and a contemporary of Thales and Anaximander wrote a book about the birth of the gods and the origin of the cosmos. Considered one of the first prose works of Greek literature Pherekydes' book survives only in fragments. Drawing on these fragments as well as the ancient testimonies Schibli here reconstructs the theo-cosmological schema of Pherekydes. From the mythopoeic creation account colorful narratives of a divine marriage and a battle of the gods and his remarks on the soul Pherekydes emerges as a figure who moved between myth and philosophy and as an important witness to early Greek thought in its various manifestations.; 0.82 x 8.62 x 6.18 Inches; 240 pages . 1990. 0198143834 . Oxford Clarendon Press hardcover
