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1943Vintage copy of this excellent popular work on traditional English Folk customs and festivals Illustrated with prints & photographs . 152p plates bibliography index. Donor inscription on business card on ffep. Book
2009Introduction " The subject of this book is the imaginative world of an Orthodox Christian village in Greece, and specifically the cosmological, religious and moral imagination associated with the characteristic forms of its life. . . . To become aware of the religious imagination in subsistence villages of this kind in Europe involves engaging with a living reality which is often only seen at a distance, through the prism of debates which remain very much alive in the religious history of the West. With a Greek village this is particularly the case: Greece has remained to many the mother of the western world, whether as the first source of free, rational thought or as the source of the Greek language in which the New Testament was first written. And for this reason western preoccupations with Greece have shaped perceptions of the Greek imagination in distinct ways. .. . .Another great part of Romiosýne is the Byzantine legacy of the Orthodox Christian faith, whose symbols and thought forms are embedded throughout the culture, and Greeks may resist the ethos of the modern European state not only from individualism or scepticism, but also from an Orthodox vision of society. ... I have ...tried to clarify how they relate to the Orthodox understanding of things, so as to provide as complete a picture as is possible in the space available of the Greek religious imagination as I found it within the varied aspects of one community. " Book
(New - will be sent to you direct from the publisher in Greece) fascinating for the student of Aegean history or of the contemporary, but now disappearing, Mediterranean way of life. The author distils her experiences as a traveller and knowledge as an anthropologist in this presentation of Greek village life, revealing the spiritual vision, social dexterity, intuitive symbolic perception and strength of character of these people. Eloquent. Survey of the changing lifestyle of a village in Evia Reprint of 1974 ed. OUP. 296p. illus.bibliography Book
1992Hilarious survey of the habits and behaviour of modern Greeks! A tongue-in-cheek approach to the culture shock. Politics; Driving & Transportation; Shopping; Buying postage stamps; The work ethic & the ego; The law; afterthoughts. Book
2001"The Cultural Influence Of The Ottoman Empire Is The Unifying Factor In This Collection Of Paintings, Drawings, Photographs And Decorative Objects. Subjects Include: Turkish Baths; Ottoman Inspired Western Interiors; Carpets; Silks; Turbans; Iznik Tiles; Coffee; And Tobacco" Book
198296p. Illus (col) Book
1994Facsimile of the Greek portion of the German work 'Das Leben der Griechen und Römer ' [which had been originally published in English by Chatto & Windus 1878]. In its day it was described as "Superbly illustrated with woodcuts from various authoritative sources, the authors have uncovered myriad aspects of Greek life - whether it be the architectural ground plan for one of the oldest Greek temples, or Greek music and education - and have produced a thoroughly researched instructive and entertaining book which will appeal to scholar and layman alike." 293+9p. illus.(B & W) Book
1982This delightful little book, designed in the shape of a gravestone by Jane Knights, contains a new assembly of epitaphs by Fritz Spiegl (flautist, humourist and linguist) some probably fictional, but others - possibly factual- displaying inadvertant humour.Unpaginated paper age-toned, else fine. Book
1980397p. bibliography, index Book
2002319p. plates notes index. As new except for remainder mark Book
1971Good student text - some underlinings, 197p. illus.index Book
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