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1991L'autrice racconta la propria infanzia e giovinezza come una principessa del Belgio fino al matrimonio con Umberto di Savoia.
1980"The third of a trilogy of novels about the rise of the House of Stewart" Book
1985No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked black cloth boards and minor bump to lower front corner. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with a few tiny nicks to edges and corners. 565pp. The saga of America's Kennedy dynasty. Illustrated.
1987Gino Pallotta Gli Agnelli una dinastia italiana. , Newton Compton 1987, La storia di una delle famiglile più ricche e potenti del mondo. Libro usato in buone condizioni. Pagine ingiallite. Tagli regolari impolverati. Copertina rigida e sovraccoperta con alette informative. Buono (Good) . 334
1993DJ has tiny tears to corners (1/2 cm). DJ spine slightly discolored. DJ has minor shelfwear. Small white dots to back board else Fine. Inscribed to Fergus Millar from the editors. ; 261 pages; The empire created by Alexander the Great's general, Seleucus, constituted the largest Hellenistic kingdom of the successor states: yet this is the first substantial treatment of Seleucid history to appear for fifty years. The authors approach this important and successful state from new perspectives, seeing it as part of the Middle Eastern world rather than solely in Greco-Roman terms, and arguing that the Seleucid state is best understood as heir to the great Achaemenid Persian empire and earlier Middle Eastern states. They investigate the economies, social structures, political systems, and cultures of the many peoples making up the empire, and analyze, in the context of colonialism and imperialism, such evidence as exists for cultural changes, including Hellenization. The book makes accessible the great variety of new and important documents that have been recently discovered. It will be welcomed by students, teachers, and all readers with an interest in Hellenistic and Middle Eastern history. ; Signed by Editors
2009Hard Bump to top of spine. Minor bump to base of spine. ; Josef Wiesehofer, Nouruz in Persepolis? Eine Residenz, das Neujahrsfest und eine Theorie; Jerome Gaslain, A propos d'Arsace Ier; Edward Dabrowa, Mithradates I and the Beginning of the Ruler-cult in Parthia; Carlo Lippolis, Notes on the Iranian Traditions in the Architecture of Parthian Nisa; Roberta Menegazzi, La figura del cavaliere nella coroplastica di Seleucia al Tigri; Federicomaria Muccioli, Il problema del culto del sovrano nella regalita arsacide: appunti per una discussione; Gholamreza F. Assar, Some Important Seleucid and Parthian Dates in the Babylonian Goal-Year Texts; Gholamreza F. Assar, Artabanus of Trogus Pompeius' 41st Prologue; Alberto M. Simonetta, The Coinage of the so-called Parthian "Dark Age" Revisited; Gholamreza F. Assar, Some Remarks on the Chronology and Coinage of the Parthian "Dark Age"; Giusto Traina, Note in margine alia battaglia di Carre; Udo Hartmann, Ein Arsakide im Heer des Septimius Severus. Uberlegungen zu den Hintergrunden des zweiten Partherkrieges; Electrum / Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, Instytut Historii 15; 266 pages
1990Former owner's bookplate to inner cover (crossed with one line). Scholar's name to ffep (E. Badian). Top corners slightly bumped. ; The biblical portrayal of Achaemenid rulers / Peter R. Ackroyd --Persian decor in Cyropaedia: some observations / Chr. Tuplin --Cyrus in Italy: from Dante to Machiavelli : some explorations of the reception of Xenophon's Cyropaedia / Heleen Sancisi-Weerdenburg --Annius of Viterbo on Persian history: the success story of a fifteenth century forgery / Geert Harmanny --Brissonius: de Regio Persarum principatu libri tres (1590) / David Lewis --Two views on Persian history in eighteenth century England / Maria Brosius --Die Orientalen auf Thorvaldsens Alexanderfries / P. Calmeyer / Alexander and Babylon / Amélie Kuhrt --Models of the Orient in the art history of the Orient-Alizing period / Ann C. Gunter --Zur Geschichte der Begriffe 'Arier' und 'arisch' in der deutschen Sprachwissenschaft und Althistorie des 19 und der ersten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts / Josef Wiesenhöfer --Groningen 1987: libres réflexions / Pierre Briant. ; Achaemenid History Vol. 5; Vol. 5; 170 pages
1998Light scuffing else fine. ; Study of the political relations between two ancient great powers in the Mediterranean, Rome and Ptolemaic Egypt. The period of time concerned was characterized by the expansion of Roman power and, from the end of the third century onwards, the decay of the great Hellenistic states. ; Commentationes Humanarum Litterarum 111; 301 pages
1986Pages Very slightly tanned. Else fine. ; The third volume, published in two parts, is an account of every aspect of Iranian civilisation from the death of Alexander in 323 BC to the advent of Islam in the seventh century AD. This complex period, of major importance in Iranian history and extending for almost a thousand years, encompasses the reigns of the Seleucid, the Parthian, the Kushan and Sasanian dynasties. As additions to the general objectives of these volumes, Professor Yarshater has included in this volume chapters on the institutional, administrative, legal, numismatic, linguistic and literary aspects of the period; and he further develops the scope of the volume by including studies of Iran's interaction with neighbouring societies, of Iran's mythical and legendary history, and of Iranian settlements outside the geographical boundaries of Iran and Afghanistan. This volume is the most comprehensive study published of this very important period of Iran's history. ; The Cambridge History of Iran; Vol. 3.2; 883 pages
1967Very light shelfwear to book. DJ has some minor staining to front panel. ; xvii, 129pp, + 9 plates.; Yale Near Eastern Researches 1; 129 pages
1970Inscribed by the author on title, else unmarked. Faint creasing to corners of wraps. ; Diss. Munich, 1970. Ix, 124pp, folding map. Publication information includes the following note: "Notdruck [das Original ging beim erstem Drucker verloren]." ; Inaugural - Dissertation; 124 pages
1968Minor shelfwear with a couple of corners lightly bumped. DJ is somewhat tatty with tears, chipping and rubbing. ; A study of the Hellenistic world from the death of Alexander the Great and the rise of his successors to the defeat of Hannibal in the Second Punic War. ; Delacorte World History VI; 418 pages
1972Inscribed by the author to Christian Habicht on ffep. Some minor ink notes on front cover and in the text, else VG. Creasing to lower corners of wraps. ; 43pp. Modern Greek text with Summary in English. ; 43 pages; Signed by Author
1999DJ in mylar; Cleopatra was intimately involved in the critical years that saw the Roman Republic transformed into the Roman Empire. How this transition appeared to the Queen of Egypt - and the part she played in it - is the subject of Pat Southern's engrossing new biography. Descended from the first Ptolemy, one of the companions of Alexander the Great, Cleopatra was the last in a long line of Macedonian rulers of Egypt. It was Julius Caesar's involvement in an Alexandrian civil war that led to her being set up as Queen of Egypt. She also had an affair with Caesar, by whom she produced a son Ptolemy Caesar, better known as Caesarion. A good linguist, intelligent and shrewd, she soon proved herself an able administrator - and ruthless when necessary. For two years she was a guest of Caesar's in Rome, but on his assassination she returned to Alexandria - where in turn Mark Antony was to become her geust and lover. Over the years of their acquaintance they produced three children. However, Roman sensibilities were greatly disturbed by the Donations of Alexandria whereby Antony distributed vast areas of the east to Cleopatra and their children, and their behavior allowed Octavian (the future emperor Augustus) to brand the Egyptian Queen as the arch enemy, worse than Hannibal, nearer than the Parthians and powerful because she had access to Antony's legions. ; 160 pages
1990Dustjacket is protected in mylar. ; 1.02 x 8.5 x 5.67 Inches; 264 pages; This book is the first detailed study of the foundation, history, government, growth and decline of the cities founded in Syria by Seleukos I in 301BC shortly after the time of Alexander the Great. It throws new light on an important period in ancient history. In particular, Dr Grainger concentrates on the relationship between the kings and the cities in their kingdoms and reveals that former theories concerning such a relationship require drastic revision. Most importantly the relationship is shown to have been much more to the kings' advantage than previous discussions on Hellenistic states have supposed. He argues in fact that neither the kings nor the cities intended the cities to be autonomous or independent since they were far too reliant on royal support against the enmity of the surrounding population. Evidence for this can be seen in the actions of the cities on the collapse of the Seleukid dynasty in the first century BC; then they were forced to cast about for a new protector and eventually accepted Rome albeit reluctantly. Dr Grainger discusses the differing fate of the cities during this process when some failed altogether, most declined, and only one, Antioch, prospered.
1972Minor browning to spine. Former classics scholar's name on ffep (P. S. Derow). Creasing to last 3 pages and wraps along upper corner else minor shelfwear. ; In german. Discusses the continuation of the Principate from the death of Augustus until 68/9 under Vespasian. ; Historia-- Zeitschrift Für Alte Geschichte. Einzelschriften Heft 20; 229 pages
2000Very slight shelfwear else Fine. ; Phoenix Supplementary Volume; 300 pages; Scholars have long known that the Egyptian Ptolemaic monarchy underwent a transformation between 323 and 30 BC. The queens of that dynasty started as subordinates of the kings but ended as their superiors. Exactly when and how this change occurred has proven problematic for modern scholars. R. A. Hazzard argues that this change was put in motion by Ptolemy II, who glorified his sister ArsinoT and made acceptable a civilian style of kingship based on piety towards his real and mythical ancestors. Ptolemy's support and elevation of his sister inspired the queens of the line to assert themselves at the expense of their male associates. The process culminated in the absolute rule of Kleopatra VII after 47 BC. Hazzard presents a clear argument based on the numismatic, epigraphical, papyrological, literary, and historical sources.
1989Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers to DJ and traces of removed circulation pastedown. A few cellotape stains to inner covers else Book is VG. ; 1.25 x 9.5 x 6.5 Inches; 376 pages; The city of Memphis on the Nile, which had often served as capital in the long period preceding Egypt's conquest by Alexander the Great, became the country's "second city" following the founding of Alexandria. Drawing on archaeological findings and on an unusual combination of Greek and Egyptian evidence, Dorothy Thompson examines the city's economic life and the character of its multi-racial society in the era from Alexander to Augustus. Memphis under the Ptolemies will interest students of intercultural relations and will be essential reading for Egyptologists, papyrologists, and historians of the Hellenistic world, including those concerned with religion. The relationship of the native population with the Greek-speaking immigrants is illustrated in Thompson's analysis of the position of Memphite priests within the Ptolemaic state. Egyptians continued to control mummification and the cult of the dead; the undertakers of the Memphite necropolis were barely touched by things Greek. The cult of the living Apis bull also remained primarily Egyptian; yet on death the bull, deified as Osorapis, became Sarapis for the Greeks. Within this god's sacred enclosure, the Sarapieion, is found a strange amalgam of Greek and Egyptian cultures.
1968Light shelfwear. Small bibliographical reference to front wrap in pen. Spine browned. Ink underlining on about 2 pages. ; Università Degli Studi Di Padova Pubblicazioni Dell'istituto Di Storia Antica ; Vol. VI; 141 pages
2013Book is fine. DJ has 1 small tear (1 cm) to lower rear corner and very light shelfwear. ; This edited collection addresses the role of ritual representations and religion in the epic poems of the Flavian period (69-96 CE) : Valerius Flaccus' Argonautica, Silius Italicus' Punica, Statius' Thebaid, and the unfinished Achilleid. Drawing on various modern studies on religion and ritual, and the relationship between literature and religion in the Greco-Roman world, it explores how we can interpret the poets' use of the relationship between gods and humans, cults and rituals, religious activities, and the role of the seer / prophet and his identification with poetry. Divided into three major sections, the volume includes essays on the most important religious activities (prophecy or augury, prayers and hymns) and the relationship between religion and political power under the Flavian emperors. It also addresses specific episodes in Flavian epic which focus on religious activities associated with the dead and the Underworld, such as purification, necromancy, katabasis, suicide, and burial. It finally explores the role of gender in ritual and religion. ; 432 pages
1981Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). Foxing to top of textblock. DJ is price-clipped. DJ spine sunned. ; Extensive commentary and historical introduction to Books 35-37 of Livy. Covers the years 195 to 189 B. C. , and much of the narrative concerns the prelude to and course of the war with the Seleucid King Antiochus III. Book xxxiv contains a detailed account of Cato's campaign in Spain, for which it is argued Livy consulted the works of Cato himself. ; 462 pages
1963Creasing and rubbing to wraps. Heavy pencilling. Former owner's bookplate on front cover. Former owner's name on ffep. Old price in marker to inner cover. Fair to good. ; The standard textbook for the central period of Roman history. Covers the decline and fall of the Republic and the establishment of the Pax Romana under the early Principate. ; University Paperbacks 56; 460 pages
1991Very faint shelfwear. ; Unchanged Reprint of 1931 ed. ; 8.4 X 5.9 X 0.7 inches; 638 pages
1967Lower corners bumped. Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). Foxing/dustsoiling to top of textblock. DJ has a bit of browning. ; Papyrologica Coloniensia Vol. III; 294 pages
2010The Poison King describes a life brimming with spectacle and excitement. Claiming Alexander the Great and Darius of Persia as ancestors, Mithradates inherited a wealthy Black Sea kingdom at age fourteen after his mother poisoned his father. He fled into exile and returned in triumph to become a ruler of superb intelligence and fierce ambition. Hailed as a savior by his followers and feared as a second Hannibal by his enemies, he envisioned a grand Eastern empire to rival Rome. After massacring eighty thousand Roman citizens in 88 BC, he seized Greece and modern-day Turkey. Fighting some of the most spectacular battles in ancient history, he dragged Rome into a long round of wars and threatened to invade Italy itself. His uncanny ability to elude capture and surge back after devastating losses unnerved the Romans, while his mastery of poisons allowed him to foil assassination attempts and eliminate rivals. ; 448 pages
