Fowler, William WardeMareMagnum
Gagey, Pr Roland :Livre Rare Book
Scandales (Les) des couvents.
1955Best.-Nr. 828Paris, chez l’auteur, s.d. (circa 1955), in-8, br., 303 pp.
Librairie Ancienne Clagahé · Saint Symphorien d’Ozon, Frankreich30,00 €
1969Light foxing to endpapers. Minor shelfwear. ; Unchanged Reprint of 1914 edition. ; Select Biobiographies Reprint Series; 167 pages
1984Scholar's small bookplate to ffep (R. E. Fantham). DJ has edgewear with creasing along top edge. ; Perhaps no country has ever received a larger stimulus from its myths and legends than ancient Rome. The myths first inventors are still unidentifiable and faceless but we can identify the successive stages in the evolution of these stories in a way that is possible for no other mythology. ; 293 pages
2006Gift inscription from author to R. E. Fantham on ffep. Top corners lightly bumped. Minor shelfwear to book. Scuffing and light scratches to DJ. Damp-staining and rippling to lower edges of DJ. Light edgewear to DJ. ; 348 pages; The sanctuary dedicated to Diana at Aricia flourished from the Bronze age to the second century CE. From its archaic beginnings in the wooded crater beside the lake known as the 'mirror of Dianea' it grew into a grand Hellenistic-style complex that attracted crowds of pilgrims and the sick. Diana was also believed to confer power on leaders. This 2007 book examines the history of Diana's cult and healing sanctuary, which remained a significant and wealthy religious center for more than a thousand years. It sheds light on Diana herself, on the use of rational as well as ritual healing in the sanctuary, on the subtle distinctions between Latin religious sensibility and the more austere Roman practice, and on the interpenetration of cult and politics in Latin and Roman history.; Signed by Author
2002Faint staining to lower section of front inner cover and small stain (1cm) to first 2 pages. Staining to lower section of DJ (the reverse section cannot be seen unless DJ is removed). Small scratches to rear panel of DJ. ; Routledge Classical Monographs; 288 pages; Valerius Maximus was an indefatigable collector of historical anecdotes illustrating vice and virtue. His Memorable Deeds and Sayings are unparalleled as a source for the opinions of Romans in the early empire on a vast range of subjects. Mueller focuses on what Valerius can tell us about contemporary Roman attitudes to religion, attacking several orthodoxies along the way. He argues that Roman religion could be deeply emotional. That it was possible to believe passionately in the divinity of the emperor - even when, like Tiberius, he was still alive - and that Rome's gods and religious rituals had an important role in fostering conventional morality. The study further explores elements of ancient rhetoric, Roman historiography, and Tiberian Rome. The fact that Valerius was a contemporary of Jesus means his work is also valuable in reflecting the attitudes and beliefs of the ruling class to which Christ and his followers were politically subject, and which formed the background to the growth and persecution of Christianity.
1959Bumping to upper corners. Faint bump to head of spine. DJ is present but missing rear panel. DJ is in poor condition. Scholar's name to ffep (G. M. Paul). ; Princeton Monographs in Art and Archaeology XXXIII; 112 pages
1962Scholar's name to ffep in pencil (R. G. M. Nisbet). Small faint stain to textblock. Light shelfwear. Light pencil markings to margins of a few pages. DJ has a few tears, chipping and rubbing. ; 347 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
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
1979Book has very light shelfwear. ; 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
200364pp, illustrated.; Vol. 20; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; 64 pages
1960Very light staining to edges of boards. Minor shelfwear to book. Dustjacket has edgewear with chipping and tears. DJ is browned with some waterstaining. ; Handbuch Der Altertumswissenschaft V. Abt. 4. Teil; 445 pages
1960Former owner's bookplate and name on ffep. Book has light shelfwear. DJ has edgewear with light chipping. Light browning to DJ spine. ; Handbuch Der Altertumswissenschaft V. Abt. 4. Teil; 445 pages
1978Minor spotting to endpapers and on a couple of pages. Light bumping to top of spine. Foxing to spine. ; Wege Der Forschung 372 (CCCLXXII) ; 556 pages
1986Minor edgewear. Slight yellowing to wraps. ; Alternate ISBN: 2728301107. ; Images à L'Appui, 1; 212 pages
1988Gift inscription from Grottanelli to ffep to scholar. Back endpaper is torn along foreedge and creased (likely closed improperly) else Fine. DJ has chipping with a few small tears and rubbing. ; Collezione Storica; 307 pages; Signed by One Author
1986Sections of wraps and spine are sunned and a little discolored. Small tear to top of spine (2 cm). Faint creasing to wraps. ; Xii, 145 p. , 75 p. Of plates; Istituto Universitario Orientale. Annali. Sezione Di Archeologia E Storia Antica. N. 3.; 145 pages
1853Best.-Nr. R77338Paris, Ladrange 1853 Complet en 2 tomes: vii,404 + 383 [ii] pp., 23cm., br.orig., tome 2 non coupé, rousseurs, bon état, R77338
1853Complet en 2 tomes: vii,404 + 383 [ii] pp., 23cm., br.orig., tome 2 non coupé, rousseurs, bon état, R77338
2016New English Paperback. Pbo. Demy 8vo. (21 x 14 cm). In Turkish. 272 p. Saman gözü: Yaratanin teni dogadir. A study on shamanic rituals.
2015New English Paperback. Pbo. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In Turkish. 136 p., ills. Samanlar ve semboller. Kaya resmi ve göstergebilim. Shamans and symbols: Rock pictures and semiology.
2005Very faint dustsoiling to top of textblock. Else book is fine. Dustjacket is protected in mylar. ; In Sanctified Violence in Homeric Society, Margo Kitts focuses on oath-making narratives found in the Iliad through which she articulates a theory of ritualized violence. She analyzes ritual paradigms, metaphors, fictions, and poetic registers as oath-making principles, which she then traces through Homeric references and texts from the ancient New East. Discussing ritual features that are common to acts of religious violence throughout the world, Kitts makes use of the theory of ritual performance as communication. ; 258 pages
1996Faint creasing to wraps. Minor shelfwear. ; Heavy book ; 302 pages
2001DJ spine sunned. ; We often think of classical Greek society as a model of rationality and order. Yet as Walter Burkert demonstrates in these influential essays on the history of Greek religion, there were archaic, savage forces surging beneath the outwardly calm face of classical Greece, whose potentially violent and destructive energies, Burkert argues, were harnessed to constructive ends through the interlinked uses of myth and ritual. For example, in a much-cited essay on the Athenian religious festival of the Arrephoria, Burkert uncovers deep connections between this strange nocturnal ritual, in which two virgin girls carried sacred offerings into a cave and later returned with something given to them there, and tribal puberty initiations by linking the festival with the myth of the daughters of Kekrops. Other chapters explore the origins of tragedy in blood sacrifice; the role of myth in the ritual of the new fire on Lemnos; the ties between violence, the Athenian courts, and the annual purification of the divine image; and how failed political propaganda entered the realm of myth at the time of the Persian Wars. ; 0.63 x 9.32 x 6.3 Inches; 152 pages
1955Best.-Nr. 828Paris, chez l’auteur, s.d. (circa 1955), in-8, br., 303 pp.
1958Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). 2 corners lightly bumped and along upper edge of front board. ; Xii, 354pp. ; 272 pages