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1976Wide range of topics relating to ancient Greek life and culture: Greeks in Settlement/ The Plow and the Mind/ Who Bought What and Why/ War/ More War/ Greeks and Myth/ Proper Conduct and Sexual More/ Myth and the Womb of Philosophy/ Magic Science and Disease/ On the Poetic and the Sublime.312 p. maps. bibliography.index Book
1975Sarah Pomeroy has consulted archaeological data, documents, historical writing, and the literature of the high civilization of Greece and Rome with minute attention. Her book is free of anachronistic speculation about what women must have felt, speculation projected back from our age to the past. She does not draw large conclusions or form sweeping generalizations, but the details she has gathered here speak for themselves and do not readily leave the mind. Included are photographs, endnotes, a bibliography, and an index. Wide ranging examination of the evidence for the various roles and perceptions of women in Greek and Roman society. 265p. plates.bibliography.index Book
1971Facsimile of the edition first published by Richard Bentley in 1842 NOTE: This is part 3 of a 3 volume set - and will NOT be sold separately. . Volume 3 is stuffed with fascinating details on such things as "smiths, cutlers, armourers, mining, charcoal making. house-builders, cabinet-makers, turners, musical instrument makers, potters, glass-workers. druggists, collectors of simples. weavers, glovers, sock-makers, cordwainers, tanners, hatters, dyers of purple. fishermen" 475p. Book
1971Facsimile of the edition first published by Richard Bentley in 1842 NOTE: This is part 2 of a 3 volume set - and will NOT be sold separately.Volume 2 is stuffed with fascinating details on such things as " Marriage, women, dress, housing, furnishing, food, entertainment and also of rural life including gardens, orchards, vineyards,,agriculture, pastoral life." 433p. Book
1971Facsimile of the edition first published by Richard Bentley in 1842 NOTE: This is part 1 of a 3 volume set - and will NOT be sold separately.Volume 1 is stuffed with fascinating details on such things as " People and their customs, places Athens, Sparta, children,toys, education,sports, hunting, philosophy, arts, literature, religion" 424p. Book
1999"Four well-known classicists have taken the traditional chronology of Greek history texts and written a much-needed overview for modern students. By means of a chapter structure that is well designed and logical, they take us through each period of Greek history . Each chapter begins with a discussion of the sources for that period and includes annotated endnotes that deal extensively with recent scholarship. Unlike many other histories, the book goes into depth on the Hellenistic period, as well as the Bronze and Dark Ages. Although the Spartans and Athenians naturally dominate, the authors consider Sparta before Athens, reflecting the order in which the moderns have admired them. An appropriate balance is found between political, social, and cultural history, and the authors display no outlandish prejudices to derail this noble effort" 512p. illus. bibliography.index Text clean and neat, but some minor scuffing to paper wraps Book
2004"Four well-known classicists have taken the traditional chronology of Greek history texts and written a much-needed overview for modern students. By means of a chapter structure that is well designed and logical, they take us through each period of Greek history . Each chapter begins with a discussion of the sources for that period and includes annotated endnotes that deal extensively with recent scholarship. Unlike many other histories, the book goes into depth on the Hellenistic period, as well as the Bronze and Dark Ages. Although the Spartans and Athenians naturally dominate, the authors consider Sparta before Athens, reflecting the order in which the moderns have admired them. An appropriate balance is found between political, social, and cultural history, and the authors display no outlandish prejudices to derail this noble effort" 512p. illus. bibliography.index Text clean and neat, but some minor scuffing to paper wraps Book
1999"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
1964"A fascinating study of love customs - both in and our of wedlock - in a land where sex was never called a sin" Exceptionally clean and crisp vintage pbk 159p. Book
1984Five works by Plato recording the remembered dialogues of Socrates and his friends, and of his trial and death. Translated and with an introduction by Hugh Tredennick. 199p, Neat,tight unmarked pages Book
1969Series Ancient Culture and Society A survey of labour, agriculture and manufacturing in the ancient world. Translated from the French by Janet Lloyd. 126p. maps, plates. .bibliography .index Neat tight copy with some underlining. Book
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
1992The ancient Athenians were "quarrelsome as friends, treacherous as neighbors, brutal as masters, faithless as servants, shallow as lovers--all of which was in part redeemed by their intelligence and creativity." Thus writes Philip Slater in this classic work on narcissism and family relationships in fifth-century Athenian society. Exploring a rich corpus of Greek mythology and drama, he argues that the personalities and social behavior of the gods were neurotic, and that their neurotic conditions must have mirrored the family life of the people who perpetuated their myths. The author traces the issue of narcissism to mother-son relationships, focusing primarily on the literary representation of Hera and the male gods and showing how it related to devalued women raising boys in an ambitious society dominated by men. "The role of homosexuality in society, fatherless families, working mothers, women's status, and violence, male pride, and male bonding--all these find their place in Slater's analysis, so honestly and carefully addressed that we see our own societal dilemmas reflected in archaic mythic narratives all the more clearly." 513p. bibliography. index. Clean,neat tight copy but with pencilled notes and underlinings Book
1964239p. illus plates bibliography. index Crisp tight copy, tiny mark and slight scuffing at spine, else fine Book
2002The story of an unspoiled island and an English family making a home by the Aegean Sea. In the early 1960s Emma Tennant's parents, on a cruise, spotted a magical bay and decided to build a house there. This book is the story of that house, Rovinia, set above the bay in Corfu where legend has it Ulysses was shipwrecked and found by Nausicaa, daughter of King Alcinous. It is also the story of the couple who have been at Rovinia since the feast in the grove that followed the roof-raising-Maria, a miraculous cook and the presiding spirit of the house, and her husband, Thodoros-and of the inhabitants of the local village, high on the hill above the bay. Tennant offers us the delights of quotidian adventures-salt water in the well, roads to nowhere, collapsing walls-all hilariously presented. That the house is still lived in and loved, with new generations coming to understand the delights of Corfu, is a tribute to the people and a special landscape which is distinctly Greek. Full of color and contrast, A House in Corfu shows the huge changes in island life since the time of the Tennant's arrival, and celebrates, equally, the joy of belonging to a timeless world: the world of vine, olive, and sea205p. Book
1988"The scent of oranges and almonds.The luxurious sheen of fresh-pressed olive oil.The intoxicating sweetness of a cake called "the Triumph of Greed".Criminals who gun down entire convoys of police. Religious festivals at which celebrants tidy up their family tombs and make archangels dance in the village piazza. Tales like these, along with all the myriad sights, flavors and fragrances of Sicily, burst from the pages of this gem of contemporary travel writing " 334p. bibliography index. Fine but for name of previous owner Book
1965"Here at last is a knowledgable, entertaining and thoroughly practical introduction to Greece for the ordinary visitor." As well as the usual information for tourists it has informed observations on Greek culture and customs, and is written with charm and the local knowledge of a long term resident Philhellene. 258p. illus bibliography. index. Dj price clipped, slight sunning d along spine. Obituary and signed letter from author laid in. Book
1969"A portrait of the manners, morals, habits qualities and defects of tody'a Hellenes" The author casts a skeptical as well as sypathetic eye on his fellow Greeks (written just as the Junta took control in 1967) 120p. index (bookplate inside cover) Book
1971Informed and very interesting. "The narrative describes charactersitics of the country and people of Greece, tells something of their culture. The book covers a twelvemonth's journey in Greece. The reader may therefore see the country in all seasons, witnessing some of the people's religious and folk festivals in passing." Signed by author on title page. 369p. plates bibliography. index.[ 3 copies found in WorldCat Book
1977" .defines the basic and distinctive features of Greek society during the late archaic and classical eras .a survey of the Greek world according to its functional and occupational categories, and he examines in turn the tribes,landowners,peasants,colonists,traders, craftsmen,slaves,soldiers and sailors aho composed one of the greatest civilizations in history. 323p. plates.bibliography.index Book
2002"A clear and comprehensive guide to the religious and secular life of the Greek-American community," including naming a baby, planning a baptism, observing name days, baking communion bread, buying popular Greek music [it Includes the melody lines for several song] what to say (in Greek) on special occasions, and much more.This book is a treasury of lore and practical information that will be indispensable to anyone marrying into a Greek family as well as to Greek Americans eager to learn more about their heritage. 230p. New in original shrink wrap. Book
2000Joice Nankivell was born in Australia and during her long and eventful life was in Ireland during the troubles, joined with her husband Stanley Loch in the Quaker missions that were sent to help the Polish devastated by World War I, and then to Greece to assist with the population displaced from Asia Minor. After which she and her husband settled into an old Byzantine tower at Prosforion, on the border with Mt.Athos where she established a rug weaving workshop for the refugee women. During World War II she helped Jewish refugees get to Israel.. Well deserving her status as "the most decorated Australian woman." 360p.plates[some color] maps Book
1991In this collection leading anthropologists provide a comprehensive yet highly nuanced view of what it means to be a Greek man or woman, married or unmarried, functioning within a complex society based on kinship ties. Exploring the ways in which sexual identity is constructed, these authors discuss, for example, how going out for coffee embodies dominant ideas about female sexuality, moral virtue, and autonomy; why men in a Lesbos village maintain elaborate friendships with nonfamily members while the women do not; why young housewives often participate in conflict-resolution rituals; and how the dominant role of mature married householders is challenged by unmarried persons who emphasize spontaneity and personal autonomy. This collection demonstrates that kinship and gender identities in Greece are not unitary and fixed: kinship is organized in several highly specific forms, and gender identities are plural, competing, antagonistic, and are continually being redefined by contexts and social change. Contents: Part One : Gender and kinship in marries life Part Two ; Gender, Kinship and Religion: 'Reconstructing' the Anthropology of Greece by Jill Dubisch; Cosmos and Gender in Village Greece by Juliet du Boulay; Silence, Submission and subversion: Towards a Poetics of Womenhood by Michael Herzfeld; The Resolution of a Conflict through song in Greek Ritual Therapy by Loring Danforth; The Limits of K inship by Roger Just. PART TWO GENDER AND KINSHIP OUTSIDE MARRIAGE: Sisters in Christ: Metaphors of kinship among Greek nuns by A Marina Iossafides; Friends of the Heart: Male Commensal Solidarity, Ge nder and kinship in Aegean Greece by Evthymios Papataxiarchis: Going out for Coffee? Contesting the Grounds of Gendered Pleasures in evryday Sociability by Jane Cowan; Hunters and Hunted: Kamaki and t he ambiguities of sexual Predation in a Grek Town by Sofka Zinovieff; Gender, Sexuality and the Person in Greek Culture by Peter Loizos and Evthymios Papataxiarchis.259p. plates. bibliography.index Book
1894Ancient Greek life interpreted from the evidence of ancient authors.495p. index. Nice decorative gilded binding with the same design as "Rambles & Studies in Greece' Macmillan 1892. Very slight wear on exterior with corners bumped . Book
1981Illustrated guide to the folk arts and crafts on display at the Peloponnesian Folklore Foundation / Peloponnesiakon Laographikon Hidryma. 86p. illus. Book