Monro, D. B.MareMagnum
1894Light discoloration to spine. Mild shelfwear. Gift inscription with Greek text in black ink to ffep: "J. B. Stoughton Holborn from J. Godfrey Luard. Pau. [? ] January, 1908" pencil name of scholar to ffep (E. Kerr Borthwick). Light foxing to endpages ; Scarce First edition. ; 145 pages
1966Pages are tanned. Wraps have edgewear with light chipping and small tears. 1 tear to front wrap (2cm) ; Università Di Genova - Facoltà Di Lettere; 234 pages
1958Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). 2 corners lightly bumped and along upper edge of front board. ; Xii, 354pp. ; 272 pages
1979Spine sunned. Foxing/dustsoiling to top of textblock. ; SR Supplements 7; 274 pages
1983Foxing to top of textblock. Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). DJ spine a bit sunned. ; A large number of Greek religious poems in hexameter were attributed to Orpheus, as they were to similar miracle-man figures like Bakis, Musaeus, Abaris, Aristeas, Epimenides, and the Sybil. Of this vast literature, only two examples survive whole: a set of hymns composed at some point in the 2nd or 3rd century AD, and an Orphic Argonautica composed somewhere between the 4th and 6th centuries AD. Earlier Orphic literature, which may date back as far as the 6th century BC, survives only in papyrus scraps or in quotations by later authors. ; 296 pages
1979Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). Foxing/dustsoiling to top of textblock. DJ spine sunned. Minor chipping to DJ. DJ is price-clipped. ; 384 pages; This book, published in 1979 , surveys religious attitudes reflected in Latin literature from the late Republic to the time of Constantine. Liebeschuetz focuses on the development of the Roman public religion, particularly the relation between Roman religion and morality.
2014Small chip to base of spine. Else fine. ; The notion of competition has become crucial to our understanding of Greek and Roman religion and is often invoked to explain religous changes and to describe the relationship between various cults. This volume seeks to raise our awareness of what the notion implies and to test its use for the analysis of ancient religions. The papers range from Classical Greece, Hellenistic Babylon, Rome and the Etruscans, to Late Antiquity and the rise of Islam. They seek to determine how much can be gained in each individual case by understanding religious interaction in terms of rivalry and competition. In doing so, the volume hopes to open a more explicit debate on the analytical tools with which ancient religion is currently being studied. Contents: 1. Religion and Competition in Antiquity. An Introduction. David Engels / Peter Van Nuffelen: Religious Rivalry in Seleucid Babylonia. Marduk of Babylon versus Anu of Uruk. Tom Boiy: p. 45 3. Oracles and Oracle-Sellers. An Ancient Market in Futures. Esther Eidinow: p. 55 4. Liberty versus Religious Tradition. Some ‘Impious’ Thinkers in Ancient Greece. Aikaterini Lefka: p. 96 5. Etrusca disciplina and Roman Religion. From Initial Hesitation to a Privileged Place. Dominique Briquel: p. 112 6. Cohabitation or Competition in Ostia under the Empire? Françoise Van Haeperen: p. 133 7. The End of Open Competition? Religious Disputations in Late Antiquity. Peter Van Nuffelen: p. 149 8. Competing Coenobites. Food and Drink in the Lives of Theodoretus of Cyrrhus. Veit Rosenberger: p. 173 9. A Time for Prayer and a Time for Pleasure. Christianity’s Struggle with the Secular World. Ine Jacobs: p. 192 10. The Conquest of the Past. Christian Attitudes towards Civic History. Aude Busine: p. 220 11. Historising Religion between Spiritual Continuity and Friendly Takeover. Salvation History and Religious Competition during the First Millenium AD. David Engels: p. 237 12. Oriental Religions and the Conversion of the Roman Empire. The Views of Ernest Renan and of Franz Cumont on the Transition from Traditional Paganism to Christianity. Danny Praet: p. 285; Collection Latomus Volume 343; 307 pages; Isbn: 9782870312903
2000Dustjacket is protected in mylar. ; Despite the rousing stories of male heroism in battles, the Trojan War transcended the activities of its human participants. For Homer, it was the gods who conducted and accounted for what happened. In the first part of this book, the authors find in Homer s Iliad material for exploring the everyday life of the Greek gods: what their bodies were made of and how they were nourished, the organization of their society, and the sort of life they led both in Olympus and in the human world. The gods are divided in their human nature: at once a fantasized model of infinite joys and an edifying example of engagement in the world, they have loves, festivities, and quarrels. In the second part, the authors show how citizens carried on everyday relations with the gods and those who would become the Olympians, inviting them to reside with humans organized in cities. At the heart of rituals and of social life, the gods were omnipresent: in sacrifices, at meals, in political assemblies, in war, in sexuality. In brief, the authors show how the gods were indispensable to the everyday social organization of Greek cities. ; Mestizo Spaces; 0.71 x 8.5 x 5.56 Inches; 287 pages
1989Minor shelfwear. Scholar's name to ffep (Robert Brown). Edgewear to wraps with a bit of Chipping. Ffep creased. ; 411 pages
1991Minor shelfwear. Boards in plastic sleeve. ; 83 pages
1973Foxing/dustsoiling to top of textblock. Else minor shelfwear to book. Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). DJ has minor shelfwear. DJ is price-clipped. ; English introduction with Latin text and translation. ; 258 pages; Contains two introductory essays on the Prefecture of Rome and on the life of Symmachus. The Latin text is that of Seeck and on the opposite side is an English Translation; Includes glossary that interprets Latin official terms not rendered in the translation, and there is a select general index.
2013Potsdamer Altertumswissenschaftliche Beiträge (Pawb) Band 44; 293 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
2007Entretiens Sur L'antiquite Classique De La Fondation Hardt; 329 pages
1979Scholar's bookplate to ffep (Philippa Goold). DJ spine a bit sunned. ; This book brings together a wealth of out-of-the-way information both on the national peculiarities of the Romans and on their views of the peculiarities of others; the topics range from food and sex habits to astrology and the seven day week, from slavery, snobbery and the problems of exile to ritual murder, euthanasia and suicide. ; 10.25 x 1.25 x 6.5 Inches; 310 pages
1969Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). Minor shelfwear to book. Foxing/dustsoiling to top of textblock. ; Reprint of 1935 edition. ; 337 pages; Contents: Magic, Omen, and Prophecy; Old Italian Religion--Deities and Cults; Old Italian Religion--Words and Ideas; State-Cult; Graeco-Roman Gods: I. Gods with Roman Names, II. Gods with Greek and Roman Names, III. Gods with Greek Names; Oriental Gods--Cosmological Gods--Worship of the Emperor; Fate and the Gods; The Dead and the Underworld. Appendix: The Meaning of Fortuna in Virgil.
1968Minor shelfwear to book. DJ has a few tears, chipping and yellowing. Dustjacket is protected in mylar. ; 193pp, illustrated, + 82pp of b+w plates.; Large 8vo; 193 pages
1926Edgewear to upper corners. Small tears and wear to spine ends with chipping. Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). Light foxing. ; 211 pages
1975Foxing/dustsoiling to top of textblocks with faint foxing passim. Scholar's bookplate to inner covers (G. P. Goold). Faint soiling to boards. ; Reprint of 1879-82 edition ; Roman History Series 4 Vols In 2; Vol. 1/4/2022; 9.3 X 6.8 X 3.5 inches; 1616 pages
1967Light bumping to upper corners. Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). Light foxing to top of textbock. Faint scratch to rear board. ; Unchanged Reprint of 1903 ed. ; 564 pages
1985Textblock cracked between pp 144-145. Foxing/dustsoiling to top of textblock. ; 238 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).
1982DJ protected in mylar. ; xx, 267pp, illustrated, 48pls.; Reports of the Research Committee of the Society of Antiquaries of London No. XL; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; 267 pages
1967Light dampstaining in outer margin and to front wrap, not affecting the text, else VG; 85pp, illustrated. ; Transactions of the American Philological Association Vol. 57, Part 5, 1985; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; 85 pages
200364pp, illustrated.; Vol. 20; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; 64 pages
1979Book has very light shelfwear. Dustjacket has light shelfwear. DJ spine a bit sunned. ; This book brings together a wealth of out-of-the-way information both on the national peculiarities of the Romans and on their views of the peculiarities of others; the topics range from food and sex habits to astrology and the seven day week, from slavery, snobbery and the problems of exile to ritual murder, euthanasia and suicide. ; 10.25 x 1.25 x 6.5 Inches; 310 pages