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1988Small quarto in illus orange wraps; xiii, 242 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, 1 map, portraits ; 22 cmindex Translation of: Kretikos Mantatophoros, originally published in1955. "George Psychoundakis was a twenty-one-year-old shepherd from the village of Asi Gonia when the battle of Crete began: "It was in May 1941 that, all of a sudden, high in the sky, we heard the drone of many aeroplanes growing steadily closer." The German parachutists soon outnumbered the British troops who were forced first to retreat, then to evacuate, and Crete fell to the Germans. So began the Cretan resistance and the young shepherd's career as a war-time runner. In this unique account of Resistance life, Psychoundakis records the daily life of his fellow-Cretans, his treacherous journeys on foot from the eastern White Mountains to the western slopes of Mount Ida to transmit messages and transport goods, and his enduring friendships with British officers (like his eventual translator Patrick Leigh Fermor) whose missions he helped to carry out with unflagging courage, energy, and good humor"óPublisher. / World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Greece -- Crete.† World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives.† Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 -- Mouvements de rÈsistance -- GrËce -- CrËte.† Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 -- RÈcits personnels.† War -- Underground movements.†Personal narratives.† Greece -- Crete.† Resistance movements Personal observations.
1947Large octavo in grey-blue printed wraps In Modern Greek. Scarce. Series: Laographia; Parartema, 4. || Greek language -- Versification.
1961Quarto in offwhite printed wraps; 165 p., illus., ports. 25 cm. In Modern Greek. Scarce. Several b/w photographs. || Folklore -- Greece -- Naupaktia. Naupaktos (Greece).
1958Quarto in pale tan printed wrappers ; [209]-256 p. In Greek, Modern. Series: Hetaireia Thrakikon Meleton [Demosieumata]; 69. || Lyric poetry
1966Two quarto volumes in red printed, illus wraps; 960 p. [total] ; fold out color maps two both vols (laid in at rear vol B); b/w illus (mainly maps) throughout; index at end of Tomos B Rare thus. Two volume set not located in WorldCat. Appears to be complete in two volumes. In Greek. Signed by author on title page, Tomos A ; with author's calling card attached with paperclip. A massive work on Byzantine history (Byzantium ; Constantinople ; Mediterranean )
1954Large octavo in pale green printed DJ and identical paper wrappers; 395p
1926Volume in 16° legatura editoriale rigiida, pagine 172. Legatura salda,pagine sane.COMPLETO
1990Very minor shelfwear. ; 0.75 x 8.75 x 5.75 Inches; 288 pages; In this unusual synthesis of political and socio- economic history, Philip Manville demonstrates that citizenship for the Athenians was not merely a legal construct but rather a complex concept that was both an institution and a mode of social behavior. He further shows that it was not static, as most scholarship has assumed, but rather has slowly evolved over time. The work is also an explanation of the origins and development of the polis.
1948Light rubbing to corners. One corner mildly bumped. Minor shelfwear. ; For classical scholars and others interested in metric. ; 236 pages
1987Inscribed by author to Christian Habicht on title, else unmarked. Covers creased. Backstrip sunned. First few pages have mild corner crease. ; 606pp. ; Colección De Estudios; 606 pages; Signed by Author
2009Light bumping to base of spines of both volumes. ; 2 volumes, 850pp. Meletemata, 47. L'auteur s'emploie à identifier et situer, dans l'espace et dans le temps, les ethné grecs apparus avant c.a. 1100/1050 de l'ère préchrétienne, sur la base à la fois d'éléments de tradition et d'indices onomastiques, culturels, institutionnels, dialectaux et autres, tous établis suivant de règles uniformes et après discussion critique détaillée. Les vingt-cinq chapitres, pour autant d'ethnè identifiés, sont précédés d'une introduction touchant : (1) à l'arrivée des Protogrecs, (2) à l'image d'un ethnos grec à l'âge du Bronze, et (3) aux normes à appliquer, et suvis de conclusions générales par trois unités thématiques : (1) description de chaque ethnos identifié, (2) pays où il se laisse repérer et dates respectives, et (3) les étapes de son expansion et, le cas échéant, sa diffusion.; 2 Volume Set (2 Vol. ). Meletemata 47; Vol. 1/2/2022; 850 pages
1969Chipping to extremities. Spine creased. Shelfwear. A bit of underlining in pencil to a few pages. Scholar's name to ffep (Robert Brown). ; Vol. 2; 453 pages; These volumes provide supplementary historical readings with a wealth of materials for the understanding of history, its continuing problems, and the craft of the historican. It includes both the pertinent ancient sources, in translation, and a wide spectrum of modern historical viewpoints.
1982Light spotting to rear board. Else very light shelfwear with a bit of pencilling. Minor shelfwear to DJ with light sunning to DJ spine. ; Identifies and analyses the main themes of classical literature against their historical background. Study of Ancient criticism in English. ; 219 pages
1962Scholar's name to ffep (D. De Montmollin). Light spotting to boards. Minor pencilling to a few pages. ; Vol. 1; 1.38 x 9 x 6 Inches; 558 pages; All volumes of Professor Guthrie's great history of Greek philosophy have won their due acclaim. The most striking merits of Guthrie's work are his mastery of a tremendous range of ancient literature and modern scholarship, his fairness and balance of judgement and the lucidity and precision of his English prose. He has achieved clarity and comprehensiveness.
1998Minor creasing to ffep. Else book is fine. DJ has minor shelfwear. ; Heraclides Ponticus (387 - 312 BCE) , also known as Heraklides, was a Greek philosopher who lived and died at Heraclea, now Eregli, Turkey. He has frequently been hailed as the originator of the heliocentric theory. Though this is now generally doubted, he did anticipate the thinking of later astronomers. Heraclides' father was Euthyphron, a wealthy nobleman who sent him to study at the Academy in Athens under its founder Plato and under his successor Speusippus, though he also studied with Aristotle. According to the Suda, Plato, on his departure for Sicily in 360 BCE, left his pupils in the charge of Heraclides. Speusippus, before his death in 339 BCE, had chosen Xenocrates as his successor but Xenocrates narrowly triumphed in an ensuing election against Heraclides and Menedemus. A punning on his name, dubbing him Heraclides "Pompicus, " suggests he may have been a rather vain and pompous man and the target of much ridicule. However, Heraclides seems to have been a versatile and prolific writer on philosophy, mathematics, music, grammar, physics, history and rhetoric, notwithstanding doubts about attribution of many of the works. It appears that he composed various works in dialogue form. The main source of this biographical welter is the collection by Diogenes Laërtius. His major distinction is that he realised, as the result of observation, that Venus and Mercury orbit the Sun as satellites. Some writers have seen this as evidence that he originated the heliocentric theory prior to Aristarchus of Samos and Nicolaus Copernicus. However, it is now generally believed that he was proposing an essentially geocentric model in which those planets orbit the Sun but the Sun, in turn, orbits the Earth along with the Moon, a theory later revived by Tycho Brahe. He was also the first to put forward the theory that the Earth rotates on its axis once a day. Of particular significance to historians is his statement that fourth century Rome was a Greek city. ; 178 pages; Sandpiper reprint.
1924Minor shelfwear and rubbing. ; 471 pages
1988The Aim of this study is to build up an accurate picture of the soldier and politician by scrutiny of the main sources -- Livy, Plutarch and Polybius (the last of whom worked under the direct patronage of Paullus). Contents: Polybius and the Image; Livy and the Image; Plutarch and the Image; Another Look. ; 8vo; 171 pages
1964Creasing along spine. ; Using evidence from archaeology and the recently deciphered Linear B tablets the author examines Mycenean civilization and the subsequent literary traditions in the Homeric epics. ; 333 pages
2003Failure of Empire is the first comprehensive biography of the Roman emperor Valens and his troubled reign (a. D. 364-78). Valens will always be remembered for his spectacular defeat and death at the hands of the Goths in the Battle of Adrianople. This singular misfortune won him a front-row seat among history's great losers. By the time he was killed, his empire had been coming unglued for several years: the Goths had overrun the Balkans; Persians, Isaurians, and Saracens were threatening the east; the economy was in disarray; and pagans and Christians alike had been exiled, tortured, and executed in his religious persecutions. Valens had not, however, entirely failed in his job as emperor. He was an admirable administrator, a committed defender of the frontiers, and a ruler who showed remarkable sympathy for the needs of his subjects. In lively style and rich detail, Lenski incorporates a broad range of new material, from archaeology to Gothic and Armenian sources, in a study that illuminates the social, cultural, religious, economic, administrative, and military complexities of Valens's realm. Failure of Empire offers a nuanced reconsideration of Valens the man and shows both how he applied his strengths to meet the expectations of his world and how he ultimately failed in his efforts to match limited capacities to limitless demands. ; 1.35 x 9.86 x 6.24 Inches; 454 pages
1998Very light bumping to top front corner. Small tiny tear to DJ at upper front corner else Fine. ; 1.2 x 9.2 x 6.3 Inches; 264 pages; This book traces Pericles' development from a somewhat hesitant, though left-leaning politician, to a mature statesman fully committed to expanding Athens' maritime empire and using the material benefits of that empire to improve the ordinary lives of Athenian citizens. Anthony J. Podlecki depicts Pericles actions and interactions with a large and varied circle of friends, acquaintances, and political adversaries and demonstrates how his circle advised and influenced his development as a leader.
1969Very minor shelfwear else Fine. ; The first of the modern biographies of great Hellenistic kings is surely W. W. Tarn's Antigonos Gonatas, originally published in 1913. Tarn's book is biography on a grand scale; he aims not only to recount Antigonos' political career, but to bring to life the man and his times, and there is no missing his genuine admiration for his subject. ; 501 pages
1988Very minor shelfwear else Fine/Fine. ; The Aim of this study is to build up an accurate picture of the soldier and politician by scrutiny of the main sources -- Livy, Plutarch and Polybius (the last of whom worked under the direct patronage of Paullus). Contents: Polybius and the Image; Livy and the Image; Plutarch and the Image; Another Look. ; 8vo; 171 pages
1991Very Minor bump to base of spine. Light shelfwear to DJ. Gift inscription from author to Fergus Millar on ffep. ; First full-length interpretation of the foundation sets out a completely new methodology for analysing large inscriptions, and challenges some of the basic assumptions scholars have made about the origins and significance of the "Second Sophistic". Argues that Ephesians used their past to define their present during the Roman Empire, and his study sheds new light on how second-century Greeks established and maintained their identities in relation to Romans, Christians and jews. ; 1 x 9 x 6 Inches; 192 pages; Signed by Author
1957Very minor shelfwear to book else Fine. (tattered DJ included). ; Ostrogorsky succinctly traces the intricate thousand-year course of the Byzantine Empire. ; Rutgers Byzantine series; 624 pages
1977Scholars' bookplate to inner cover. DJ is yellowed. Dustjacket has minor shelfwear and rubbing with one chip to upper corner. Bottom of spine rubbed. ; Parke was an authority on Greek religion and gives an account of the chief ceremonial occasions of ancient Athens in their order in the calendar. The festivals he surveys exhibit an extraordinary variety of activity associated with different religious cults. ; Aspects of Greek & Roman Life; 208 pages