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1991book has one bump to upper edge of front board else fine. Dustjacket has very minor shelfwear with one small scratch to foreedge of back panel. ; 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
1984Faint crease to front wrap. Minor shelfwear. ; Aspects of Greek and Roman Life; 342 pages; In this well-researched and coherent introduction to family life in classical Greece, Mr Lacey explains the structure of the family, the social and economic pressures that affected it, and the complicated legal measures that were devised to regulate and protect it. Even though the family has always been a fundamental institution in Greek society, this is the first study in English devoted to it. This book deals in detail with the family in the archaic and classical ages -- the great era of the city-states. It was during this period that a close and complex relationship existed between the family and the city-state. Each city-state was, in fact, the sum total of the households contained in it, and each household resembled a miniature kingdom, with its own gods and lands, and the head of the house exercised almost royal powers over his children. So powerful and close-knit was the family group that it was regarded by politicians and philosophers, including Plato and Aristotle, as damaging to their ideals of personal detachment and public service, and even as a menace to the unity of the state. Mr Lacey supports his views of family life by quoting and discussing relevant writings of the Greek philosophers and by citing contemporary literature, especially the comedies. He analyzes also the valuable evidence supplied by inscriptions, vase paintings, sculpture, terracottas, and coins, many of which are presented in black-and-white photographs. From ancient times until today, the most pervasive force in Greek life has been the family. This study of its influence in classical Greece makes possible a better understanding of greek history, literature, and art.
2000Dustjacket has 1 tear to head of spine and 1 tear to bottom rear corner. Top edge of front board very lightly bumped else fine. Signed by Elaine Matthews to ffep. ; Proceedings of the British Academy 104; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 192 pages; Within the great diversity of their world, the assertion of origin was essential to the ancient Greeks in defining their sense of who they were and how they distinguished themselves from neighbours and strangers. Each person's name might carry both identity and origin - 'I am' . . . inseparable from 'I come from' . . . Names have surfaced in many guises and locations - on coins and artefacts, embedded within inscriptions and manuscripts - carrying with them evidence even from prehistoric and preliterate times. The Lexicon of Greek Personal Names has already identified more than 200,000 individuals. The contributors to this volume draw on this resource to demonstrate the breadth of scholarly uses to which name evidence can be put. These essays narrate the stories of political and social change revealed by the incidence of personal names and cast a fascinating light upon both the natural and supernatural phenomena which inspired them. This volume offers dramatic illumination of the ways in which the ancient Greeks both created and interpreted their world through the specific language of personal names.; Signed by One Author
1959Former owners' names to ffep. Tape stains to front inner cover and ffep. Pen underlining on some pages. Spine a little sunned. ; General Contents: Early Civilizations of Greece and the Great Migrations (c. 3000-850) ; The Renaissance of Greece (850-546) ; The Triumph of Greece (546-466) ; The great Wars between Athens and Spart (466-404) ; The period fo Transient Hegemonies (404-354) ; Rise and expansion of Macedon; 689 pages
1980Spine is sunned. Scholar's name stamped to ffep (P. Stork). ; Absolute dates of events in ancient history have been difficult to calculate because of the complex adjustments and computations involved. The methods of relative dating developed by archaeologists and of direct dating established by modern science depend upon the interpretation of historical material which is virtually inaccessible. Using dates supplied by the ancients themselves, Bickerman suggests the means to convert them into units of our own dating system, thus providing an invaluable reference for all students of the ancient world. ; Aspects of Greek and Roman Life; 253 pages
1968Very Light stain to base of spine (white). Else book is fine. DJ is price-clipped. DJ has very light edgewear to spine ends. ; Comprehensive study of Greek and Roman philanthropy and social aid. ; Aspects of Greek & Roman Life; 222 pages
1986Pages tanned. Very light shelfwear to DJ. ; This book is about the study and understanding of the history of the Greeks and Romans, about the evidence available to historians and its severe limitations; about the practices of the historians in dealing with the evidence, and about alternative procedures that might be attempted. ; 20 x 20 x 20 Inches; 131 pages
1991Scholar's name to ffep (R. E. Fantham). Very light shelfwear to book else fine. DJ has tear to head of spine with small strip torn off. Light yellowing along top edge of DJ. Includes tipped in offprint review by Richard Martin with his initials to R. E. Fantham. ; Is it fair to judge early Greek rhetoric by the standards of Plato and Aristotle? This text argues that it is not, and yet this is the path taken by current scholarship on the subject. Arguing against this view, this work sees early Greek rhetoric as largely unsystematic efforts to explore, more by means than by precept, all aspects of discourse. Replacing these early text by such treatises as the "Rhetoric" of Aristotle, Cole explains, can only be understood as part of a gradual process, as artistic prose came to be disseminated in written texts and so available in a form that, for the first time, be analyzed, evaluated and closely imitated. ; Ancient Society and History; 191 pages
1990Inscribed by author to R. E. Fantham on ffep. DJ spine is a little sunned. ; Ancient Society and History; 8.75 x 1.25 x 6 Inches; 288 pages; "Mark Golden has produced a superb book, an important substantive and methodological contribution to the social history of ancient Athens and a model for comparable studies. "-- American Historical Review. Ancient Society and History. ; Signed by Author
1984Scholar's name to inner cover (G. L. Huxley). 1 cover very lightly bumped and small abrased spot to edge of rear board else fine. ; The Parastaseis Syntomoi Chronikai (lit. 'Brief Historical Notes') is a remarkable work describing the city and antiquiites of Constantinople. Its Greek is extremely difficult, its content often obscure and the extant text seemingly incomplete. ; Columbia Studies in the Classical Tradition X; 305 pages
1990Spine and part of rear wrap are sunned with discoloration. Some minor creasing to front wrap. Tiny chip to top edge of rear wrap. ; Collection of Papers grouped under the Headings: Testimonia; Mykenaian Boiotia; Sites and History of Boiotia from Protohistoric to Classical Times; Roman Boiotia. ; 291 pages
1974Book is clean and bright. Very minor bump to base of spine else Fine. Dustjacket has minor edgewear with very light chipping and rubbing. Small correction to DJ flap in pen. ; Greek words for colours have long puzzled readers of Greek literary works. Irwin offers that the Greeks saw colour not in terms of spectrum and hue, but in degrees of light and dark, and intensity. ; 242 pages
1971Scholar's name to ffep (Martin Cropp). Small piece of inner cover has affixed to half-title (as published? ). Spine and part of wraps are sunned and discolored. Creasing to rear lower corner. Clean text. Light fraying to spine ends. ; Reprint of 1900 edition. ; Vol. 3
1914Gilt design to front board (Plymouth and Mannamead College). Tear along upper part of joint and chipping and tears to top of spine. Corners lightly edgeworn. Spine is sunned. Front inner hinge is cracked with school prize plate to inner cover. Corner of ffep is torn with former owner's name deleted (black marker). Small tears to a few pages. Browning to endpapers. Light pencil notes on a few pages. Former owner's name on ffep (classics professor). Spine slant; Vol. 1; 251 pages
1996Large stamp to verso of dedication page for the John Deyell company with number written in. Else book is fine. ; An important contribution to social history, linking the life and nature of the polis with its festivals and rituals and the legends which went with them and used for the elucidation of a state's self-identity. ; Phoenix Supplementary Volume; 1 x 9.5 x 6.5 Inches; 287 pages
1992Very light bumping to corners of book. Else fine. DJ has very light shelfwear. ; 0.94 x 8.66 x 5.59 Inches; 304 pages; Among Alexander's successors, Lysimachus is the forgotten man; when he is recalled it is usually as brutal oppressor of the Greeks, or conversely, as a mediocre little man spurred into action only late in life by a domineering woman. As the first full-length study of Lysimachus in the English language, this book aims to reassess Lysimachus' achievements, which although ephemeral, foreshadowed the growth of the Pergamene and Byzantine empires. Helen Lund sets Lysimachus' actions against the background of the early Hellenistic world, marked by extreme political instability and constant warfare, but also by great developments in city building, portraiture and numismatics. Lysimachus' practice in warfare, kingship, and government is compared and contrasted with that of his contemporaries, his predecessors, and his successors in order to set his achievements in the context of a continuum of imperial rule in Asia Minor. The evidence for Lysimachus's rule is set in its literary, political and social context. Covering Lysimachus's rise from governor of the obscure satrapy of Thrace to ruler of a vast Hellespont-centered kingdom, this book analyzes his skills as warrior and diplomat, and examines the factors which motivated him at each stage of his career. Helen Lund discusses images of Lysimachus in literature, his contribution to early Hellenistic kingship ritual and royal propaganda, offering a completely fresh approach to the dynastic struggle which ended his career.
1981Book has very light shelfwear else fine. Dustjacket has very minor shelfwear and rubbing. DJ is price-clipped. ; 1.06 x 8.75 x 5.69 Inches; 480 pages; This book is about much more than `the glory that was Greece'. In this fresh appraisal, replacing the original Legacy of Greece edited by Sir Richard Livingstone in 1921, fourteen distinguished contributors, all specialists in their field, describe a particular aspect of Greek culture, and then assess what later generations have made of this valuable inheritance. The result is a lucid and succinct introduction to how the ancient Greeks lived and thought, and to their influence on the world we know today. The wide range of topics covered includes politics, literature, history, education, philosophy, science, myth, and art and architecture.
1978Small discolored line to rear board else book is fine. DJ has 1 tiny chip and light edgewear. ; 0.88 x 8.25 x 5.42 Inches; 328 pages; The art of classical Greece and its political and philosophical ideas, have had a profound influence on Western civilization. It was in the fifth and fourth centuries BC that this culture reached its zenith, and it is this period that is examined in this book. The art of classical Greece, and its political and philosophical ideas, have had a profound influence on Western civilization. It was in the fifth and fourth centuries BC that this culture - material, political and intellectual - reached its zenith, and it is this period that is examined in this book.
1990Very slight discoloration to spine. Minor spine slant. DJ spine is sunned and faded. Minor shelfwear to DJ. ; Ancient Society and History; 8.75 x 1.25 x 6 Inches; 288 pages; "Mark Golden has produced a superb book, an important substantive and methodological contribution to the social history of ancient Athens and a model for comparable studies. "-- American Historical Review. Ancient Society and History.
1966Wraps have creasing and yellowing. Highlighting to about 10 pages. Scholar's initials to ffep (Hugh J. Mason). Last few pages have short tears to foreedges (no loss of text). ; 160 pages
1970Scholar's label to inner cover (H. J. Mason). Rubbing and scuffing to wraps. Creasing to spine. ; 265 pages
1983Some edgewear to wraps. Minor discoloration to wraps. ; The main aim of this book is to do justice to all the areas of the Mediterranean world in which Greek culture flourished in the fifth and the fourth centuries BC, such as Cyrene, Egypt, Asia Minor, Macedon, Italy and Sicily, as well as Athens, Sparta, and other great city-states of Greece proper, an in so doing the author draws fully on new archaeological and epigraphical evidence. ; 1.14 x 8.51 x 5.48 Inches; 354 pages
1929Spine lightly browned. Tear to bottom of spine (2 cm) with chipping. Clean text. ; Contents: Nature of the Dolphin; Types of the Dolphin in Art. Conventions in the Representation of the Dolphin in Art; Dolphin in Minoan Art; Helladic and Cycladic Art. The Art of Cyprus; Geometric Art; The Dophin in Legend and Literature; Dolphin in Art and in Archaeological Remains of Historical Periods of Greece and Rome. ; Dissertation 1927; 135 pages
1986Dustjacket has very minor shelfwear. Book has very minor shelfwear else Fine. ; 8vo; 189 pages
2000Scholar's small bookplate to ffep (R. E. Fantham). Faint creasing to first few pages. Very light soiling to textblock. DJ has light creasing along top edge with creasing to DJ front flap. ; This collection of essays examines the tradition associated with the ancient Cynics. The contributors to this volume - classicists, comparatists and philosophers - draw on a variety of methodologies to explore the ethical, social and cultural practices inspired by the Cynics. ; Hellenistic Culture and Society; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 465 pages