2005On a late September day in 480 B.C., Greek warships faced an invading Persian armada in the narrow Salamis Straits in the most important naval battle of the ancient world. Overwhelmingly outnumbered by the enemy, the Greeks triumphed through a combination of strategy and deception. More than two millennia after it occurred, the clash between the Greeks and Persians at Salamis remains one of the most tactically brilliant battles ever fought. The Greek victory changed the course of western history -- halting the advance of the Persian Empire and setting the stage for the Golden Age of Athens.In this dramatic new narrative account, historian and classicist Barry Strauss brings this landmark battle to life. He introduces us to the unforgettable characters whose decisions altered history: Themistocles, Athens' great leader (and admiral of its fleet), who devised the ingenious strategy that effectively destroyed the Persian navy in one day; Xerxes, the Persian king who fought bravely but who ultimately did not understand the sea; Aeschylus, the playwright who served in the battle and later wrote about it; and Artemisia, the only woman commander known from antiquity, who turned defeat into personal triumph. Filled with the sights, sounds, and scent of battle, The Battle of Salamis is a stirring work of history. Book

Kalamos Books · Canada25,50 €

Guerber, H. A.MareMagnum

The Myths of Greece and Rome

1918Name/address to front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, clear gilt lettering to front and spine, very slightly rubbed spine ends and no bumping to corners. Untrimmed fore and lower page edges slightly tanned and dusty. 395pp. Label on half-title page states This Edition specially prepared for Subscribers. A very good copy of this classic work.

Godley Books · Regno Unito25,59 €

Dimakopoulou AdrienneLivre Rare Book

chlôrêis aêdôn : pâle rossignol (une étude sémantique)

2010rif. vd57Apolis éditions Dos carré collé 2010 In-12 (15 x 20 cm), dos carré collé, 152 pages ; menues traces de rayures sur les plats, par ailleurs intérieur frais et très bon état général. Livraison a domicile (La Poste) ou en Mondial Relay sur simple demande.

Abraxas-Libris · Bécherel, Francia25,60 €

HOMEREMareMagnum

L'Iliade. Planches hors texte. Pr?face de Jean Giono. Annot? par Raymond Jean.

1949Cartonnage de l'?diteur. 367 pages.

Librairie Pierre Josse · Francia26,00 €

LACARRIERE JacquesLivre Rare Book

PROMENADE DANS LA GRECE ANTIQUE.

1978rif. GR114Paris, Hachette, 1978, in-8o oblong, nombreuses illustr. en sepia, texte en 2 couleurs, 319 p. par un grand ami de la Grece.

Librairie Ancienne Cerat · Chalandri - Athènes, Grecia26,00 €

CAVAIGNAC Eug?neMareMagnum

Histoire de l'Antiquit? Tome III : La Mac?doine, Carthage et Rome. (330-107).

1914Broch?. 486 pages. Mouillure. Rousseurs.

Librairie Pierre Josse · Francia27,00 €

CAVAIGNAC Eug?neMareMagnum

Histoire de l'Antiquit?. Volume II : Ath?nes (480-330).

1913Broch?. 512 pages. Rousseurs.

Librairie Pierre Josse · Francia27,00 €

JANIN JulesMareMagnum

Contes et nouvelles litt?raires. Histoire de la po?sie et de la litt?rature chez tous les peuples. Volume 2. Tomes 3 et 1 (2e s?rie) : Chine, Gr?ce-Hom?re. Sans date.

Broch?. 200 + 221 pages en un volume. Rousseurs.

Librairie Pierre Josse · Francia27,00 €

LES CAHIERS DE L'HISTOIREMareMagnum

Les olympiades. 1 : De la mythologie ? 1912. - 2 : De 1920 ? nos jours. Illustr? de photos en noir dans le texte.

19682 fascicules broch?s. 120 + 122 pages.

Librairie Pierre Josse · Francia27,00 €

SOPHOCLEMareMagnum

Th??tre de Sophocle. Ajax - Electre - Oedipe Roi - Oedipe ? colone - Antigone - Les Trachiniennes - Philoct?te. Sans date. Traduit par Louis Humbert.

1925Reli? demi-basane. 425 pages.

Librairie Pierre Josse · Francia27,00 €

Collas, PericlesAntiquariat.de

A Concise Guide of Delphi. Illustrated with photographs by Dimitrios Harissiadis.

1950rif. ED7-423Athens (Athen), C. Cacoulides Publisher, [ca. 1950]. original cased binding with original dust wrapper, small-8vo, 48 p., numerous photographs by Dimitrios Harissiadis, good copy

ANTIQUARIAT.WIEN Fine Books & Prints - Florian Bernd · Austria27,50 €

Davidson,JamesMareMagnum

Courtesans and Fishcakes : The Consuming Passions of Classical Athens

1977Fascinating investigation of how ancient Athenians looked at food and women and sex. ". new light not only on ancient pleasures but on the Ancient World in general, unearthing surprising insights into Athenian society and the politics of the worl d's first democracy." HC. 372p. illus.bibliography.index. Condition : New Book

Kalamos Books · Canada27,82 €

De Romilly, JacquelineMareMagnum

The Rise and Fall of Greek states According to Greek Authors

1991[Thomas Spencer Jerome Lectures] "The Rise and Fall of States According to Greek Authors is a masterful survey of the manner in which Greek historians, from Herodotus to Polybius, explained the conditions of a state's success and the dangers of power. Both the differences and the similarities among the major authors' ideas are carefully analyzed: the changing notions of excess, or hybris; the common stress on public morality; and the value of goodwill.." 100p. Book

Kalamos Books · Canada27,82 €

Miller, Stephen G.MareMagnum

The Prytaneion: Its Function and Architectural Form

1978"The Prytaneion was a structure central to the civic life of the ancient Greek city-state. In it was housed the hearth of Hestia with its eternal fire symbolizing the well-being of the state. To it were invited distinguished foreign visitors for meals; citizens who had performed some special service to the state were also entertained there. The prytaneion was the 'home' of the state and the architectural manifestation of its life. The obvious ubiquity and importance of the prytaneion in antiquity is not reflected in the pages of modern scholarship, largely because only two structures have been excavated that can be firmly so identified. In this book Mr. Miller seeks to define the functions and the architectural form of the prytaneion by assembling and analyzing historical and epigraphic references to it. His analysis yields explicit references to various architectural parts of the prytaneion as well as a definition of the function of the building from which other architectural elements can be extrapolated. It provides a set of architectural elements essential to any prytaneion and usable as criteria of identification for excavated structures. This book is intended to serve both as a reference work for those interested in ancient civic life and civic architecture and as a guide to investigators of ancient cities still to be excavated."-258p.+ Plates,.illus bibliography index. Book

Kalamos Books · Canada27,82 €

Morrison, J. S.; Rankov, N. B.; Coates, J. F.MareMagnum

The Athenian Trireme : The History and Reconstruction of an Ancient Greek Warship

2000"Shortly before the successful launch of the "Olympias" a reconstructed Greek warship, the first edition of "The Athenian Trireme" was published, providing historical and technical background to the reconstruction of the ship in a Greek shipyard. Since then 5 seasons of experimental trials have been conducted on the ship under oar and sail, and the lessons learned have been supplemented by historical, scientific and physiological research over the last 15 years. for this second edition the text has been recast and a number of substantive changes have been made in the light of the sea trials and new research. In addition there is an entirely new chapter which describes the trials of Olympias in detail, reports the performance figures obtained and outlines the changes which the authors would wish to incorporate in any second reconstruction. There are 19 new illustrations, including 11 photographs of Olympias at sea demonstrating features of the design which could only be represented by drawings in the first edition. 319p. illus.bibliography.index Book

Kalamos Books · Canada27,82 €

Mountfield, DavidMareMagnum

Greek and Roman Erotica

198296p. Illus (col) Book

Kalamos Books · Canada27,82 €

Murray, OswynMareMagnum

Early Greece

1993"Within the space of three centuries, up to the great Persian invasion of 480BC, Greece was transformed from a simple peasant society into a sophisticated civilization which dominated the shores of the Mediterranean from Spain to Syria and from the Crimea to Egypt - a culture whose achievements in the fields of art, science, philosophy and politics were to establish the canons of the Western world. The author of this book places this development in the context of Mediterranean civilization, providing an account of the transformation that launched Western culture. " 353p. illus bibliography.index Book

Kalamos Books · Canada27,82 €

Norwich, John JuliusMareMagnum

Love in the Ancient World

1997"In search of long-lost attitudes to love, lust, passion and desire." Film maker Christopher Miles and historian John Julius Norwich tour the Mediterranean Basin, looking at how ancient civilizations regarded sex and sexuality. They take in European cave paintings, Eygptian cosmologies, the teachings of Plato, and the histories of Plutarch.176p. illus (col) bibliography.index Book

Kalamos Books · Canada27,82 €

Schoder, Raymond VMareMagnum

Wings Over Hellas : Ancient Greece From the Air

1974140 color photo's. 138 line drawings- and one map .Discreet label of previous owner, else as new. Book

Kalamos Books · Canada27,82 €

ArrienLivre Rare Book

Histoire d'Alexandre. L'Anabase d'Alexandre le Grand et l'Inde.

1984rif. 607053Ed. de Minuit 1984 In-8, broché, 394 pp. Ex-dono.

Librairie Le Trait d'Union · Troyes, Francia28,00 €

GRÉGOIRE (Henri), GOOSSENS (R.), MATHIEU (M.)Livre Rare Book

Asklèpios, Apollon Smintheus et Rudra. Etudes sur le dieu à la taupe et le dieu au rat dans la Grèce et dans l'Inde.

rif. 606871Bruxelles, Société d'etudes mythologiques, 1950. In-8 broché, 204-20 pp., 2 cartes h.-t., 11 fig. in-t., index général, index grec, index sanscrit, index sémitique, tables.

Librairie Le Trait d'Union · Troyes, Francia28,00 €

HOMEREMareMagnum

L'odyss?e. Planches hors texte. Texte fran?ais (et notes) ?tabli par Emile Ripert d'apr?s la traduction de Mme Dacier. Pr?face de Roger Vercel.

1948Cartonnage de l'?diteur. 328 pages.

Librairie Pierre Josse · Francia28,00 €

Livre Rare Book

Mélanges offerts à A.M. Desrousseaux par ses élèves, en l'honneur de sa cinquantième année d'enseignement supérieur (1887-1937).

rif. 4675Paris, 1937, Librairie Hachette, br. couv. papier vert, in 8°, 504 pp.

Librairie Art et Arts · Bordeaux, Francia30,00 €

(ARISTOTE) - LAURENT RégisLivre Rare Book

MÉTAPHYSIQUE DU TEMPS CHEZ ARISTOTE. Volume 1 : Recherches historiques sur les conceptions mythologiques et astromomiques précédant la philosophie aristotélicienne.

2021rif. 180102021 Paris, Villegagnons-Plaisance éditions, 2021. Grand in-8 broché de 235 pp., bibliographie in fine. Très bon état, comme neuf.