Hemingway,AmandaMareMagnum
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1984Book
1984Ex-Library
1972Wide ranging, beautifully illustrated survey of the Minoan and Mycenean cultures of the Greek Bronze Age. 174.illus (some col.) bibliography. index Book
1972Wide ranging, beautifully illustrated survey of the Minoan and Mycenean cultures of the Greek Bronze Age.174p+ plates, [some col] bibliography, index. Book
1968Wide ranging, beautifully illustrated survey of the Minoan and Mycenean cultures of the Greek Bronze Age. 303p. plates[ some col] bibliography, index, decorative end papers.. Donor inscription. Crisp neat text. NOTE: Large [26x20x heavy nook [1.2kg] Book
1988"... a comprehensive survey of how the Aegean peoples expressed themselves during a period of some 5000 years after the end of the Bronze Age (circa 1100 BC), and before the rise of Greek art. Work produced in the ambience of the palaces of Crete (including the palace of Minos at Knossos) and of Mycenae on the mainland is fully described and illustrated. For purposes of clarity the arts are considered by function and material rather than by geographical region or chronological period; but the main political upheavals affecting them are kept in mind. Little wall-painting has survived, and the so-called minor arts are examined for the light they thow on it, as well as to assess artistic development in the Aegean as a whole." 311p. illus bibliography index. Text crisp and unmarked, slightly scuffed paper covers.. Book
1966In "an attempt to reconstruct their history .. I have utilized all the knowledge at our disposal in the social religious or economic field ...in an effort to understand .. those far off ancestors of ours to whom we owe Homeric Poetry, the Linear B tablets and Mycenean art" This is a synthesis of the archaeological remains of three Bronze age locations in Greece together with the mythical/historical/ poetical legends associated with them and how Crete, Mycenae and Thebes, might be related to each other. Laid in is a tri-fold sheet with proposed genealogies and chronologies of these sites.Also included is an appendix regarding the decipherment of Linear B. 148p.plates notes, index [ Errata sheet laid in ] Book
1957The vengeance of Lysander of Chios against the Persians. A nice vintage paperback .236p. Book
1968Novel of early medicine, based upon the life of Hippocrates of Kos. Book
2000Brilliant at war, a master of politics, and a charismatic lover, Alcibiades was Athens' favorite son and the city's greatest general. A prodigal follower of Socrates, he embodied both the best and the worst of the Golden Age of Greece. A commander on both land and sea, he led his armies to victory after victory. But like the heroes in a great Greek tragedy, he was a victim of his own pride, arrogance, excess, and ambition. Accused of crimes against the state, he was banished from his beloved Athens, only to take up arms in the service of his former enemies. For nearly three decades, Greece burned with war and Alcibiades helped bring victories to both sides ? and ended up trusted by neither. Narrated from death row by Alcibiades' bodyguard and assassin, a man whose own love and loathing for his former commander mirrors the mixed emotions felt by all Athens, Tides of War tells an epic saga of an extraordinary century, a war that changed history, and a complex leader who seduced a nation.Audio book abridgment in 4 double sided audio cassettes read by Derek Jacobi. Playing time 6 Hours. Audio Book
1994(Harlequin Historical No 236) "She rose from the water like a nymph, dressed only in sea foam and a wild mane of midnight hair. This was Phaedra, a daughter of Sparta, a woman who could easily lure a man into dangerous waters - where Alexander of Athens would willingly drown. He abducted Phaedra as a prelude to battle, then tempted her with his raw virility and laughing blue eyes. But yielding to this golden-haired warrior would betray all that she was. Yet to refuse his love would deny all that she was meant to be!" Book
1970252p. plates.bibliography.index. Book
2003A compact ..."survey of the ancient world, from the birth of Sumerian civilization around 3500B.C. in the Tigris-Euphrates valley ...to the fall of the Roman Empirein A.D. 453. In Antiquity, Cantor covers such subjects as Classical Greece, Judaism, the founding of Christianity, and the triumph and decline of Rome. In this fascinating and comprehensive analysis, the author explores social and cultural history, as well as the political and economic aspects of hisnarrative. He explains leading themes in religionand philosophy and discusses the environment, population, and public health.[He] highlights the great books and ideas of antiquity that continue to influence culture today 240p.index Book
2003This is the true story of the myth makers - Thutmosis, King David, Leonidas, Xerxes, Alexander, Hannibal and the mighty Caesar. Brave and reckless, intelligent and foolish, lucky and ill-fated, their battles were won and lost by ruse, trickery, chance, stupidity and by unsurpassed military brilliance.448p, Book
1979Revolutionary radio-carbon evidence for the revised dating of European prehistoric sites from the neolithic to bronze age periods. 320p. plates bibliography index Book
1995"An aged prophetess at Delphi, the most sacred oracle in ancient Greece, looks back over her strange life as the Pythia, the First Lady and voice of the god Apollo. As a young virgin with disturbing psychic powers, Arieka was handed over to the service of the shrine by her parents. She has now spent sixty years as the very medium, the torn mouthpiece, of equivocal mantic utterances from the bronze tripod in the sanctuary beneath the temple. Over a lifetime at the mercy of god and priest and people she has watched the decay of Delphi's fortunes and its influence in the world. Her reflections on the mysteries of the oracle, which her own weird gifts h av e em bo di ed , a re matched by her feminine insight into the human frailties of the High Priest himself, a true Athenian, whose intriguing against the Romans brings about humiliation and disaster. This extraordinary short novel, left in draft after the author's sudden death in 1993, is a psychological and historical triumph. An absolutely convincing portrait of a woman's experience, something rare in Golding's oeuvre, Arieka the Pythia is one of his finest creations." Name of owner, else fine. Book
2002An astonishing first novel that traces the lives of a Scottish family over a decade as they confront the joys and longings, fulfillments and betrayals of love in all its guises. In June of 1989 Paul McLeod, a newspaper publisher and recent widower, travels to Greece, where he falls for a young American artist and reflects on the complicated truth about his marriage. . ..Six years later, again in June, Paul's death draws his three grown sons and their families back to their ancestral home. Fenno, the eldest, a wry, introspective gay man, narrates the events of this unforeseen reunion. Far from his straitlaced expatriate life as a bookseller in Greenwich Village, Fenno is stunned by a series of revelations that threaten his carefully crafted defenses. . .. Four years farther on, in yet another June, a chance meeting on the Long Island shore brings Fenno together with Fern Olitsky, the artist who once captivated his father. Now pregnant, Fern must weigh her guilt about the past against her wishes for the future and decide what family means to her. In prose rich with compassion and wit, Three Junes paints a haunting portrait of love's redemptive powers. Book
2000Book
1972Neat, tight copy, one library stamp, else near fine Ex-Library
1991Complex novel of intrigue and betrayal with scenes set in Rhodes. "In a suspenseful, classy narrative that affords first-rate entertainment, a young English schoolteacher, Heather Mallender, vanishes on the Greek island of Rhodes. With her at the time was Harry Barnett, who at age 53 feels h is life to have been a succession of small failures. To clear his name, Harry must locate her. But was she kidnapped or murdered, or did she disappear of her own volition? Heather had been seeing a psychiatrist, disconsolate over the death of her sister, the victim of an IRA bomb. As Harry shuttles between England and Rhodes, teasing out the tangled strands of Heather"s fate, he stumbles into a web of betrayal, treachery, love, blackmail and murder. The solution is tied to his close friend and to a pivotal incident in his own childhood. Despite a plot of almost too labyrinthine complexity, this civilized romantic thriller delivers. " Book
1985Set in 1967, the Colonels have seized power in Greece and are brutally determined to hold on to it. Injustice and violence stalk the land. Vangelis, an idealist young lawyer, and his wife Chryssa are drawn slowly into the resistance movement. " A masterly analysis of the human motives that lead to tyranny, feed it - and ultimately destroy it' Book
1985Set in 1967, the Colonels have seized power in Greece and are brutally determined to hold on to it. Injustice and violence stalk the land. Vangelis, an idealist young lawyer, and his wife Chryssa are drawn slowly into the resistance movement. " A masterly analysis of the human motives that lead to tyranny, feed it - and ultimately destroy it' Book
2010'It's ten years since Odysseus and the warrior, Eperitus, joined the heroes of the age to compete for the hand of Helen of Sparta. Settled in his small island kingdom, Odysseus wants nothing more than to rule Ithaca in peace. Meanwhile Eperitus, frustrated at his quiet life, dreams of glory in battle. When the lion-motifed sails of Agamemnon appear on the horizon, Odysseus knows that the time for peace is over and a time of war is beginning. Helen of Sparta has been abducted by a prince of Troy and the hosts of ancient Greece are gathering. As the greatest names flock to join the crusade, only Achilles is missing. Odysseus must use all his wits and cunning to hunt him down and persuade him to join their cause. For without Achilles, the gates of Troy will never fall. Book
1988Having been trained in supernatural knowledge, thirteen-year-old Medea finds herself in a unique position to help when the Greek hero Jason comes to her father's kingdom in search of the Golden Fleece.[Youth fiction] 24.]yOITH fICTIOMRemainder mark on bottom, else fine Book
1990Sequel to 'Goatsong'. Eurpolis of Pallene, Athenian comic dramatist, gentlemen farmer, failed husband and now citizen soldier has survived the disastrous Sicilian campaign, only to be accused of treason on his return to Athens. Hilarious fictional autobiography of Eupolis, rival of Aristophanes inAttic Comedy, and acute observer of the vagaries of Athenian politics. Book