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2016The extraordinary story of the loss and rediscovery of the city that fought Troy, told through archaeology, literature, and poetic black-and-white photographyThe Mycenaean civilization flourished more than 800 years before the classical Greeks, with a complex society, strong artistic tendencies, and a distinct system of writing. Famous for its lion gate and citadel, Mycenae was long believed to be the city that fought Troy in Homer’s epic, the Iliad. But after flourishing nearly three thousand years ago the society vanished, becoming nothing more than a legend. Mycenae: From Myth to History brings readers into the heart of this mystery, as it was being solved, through lively text, stunning photographs, and an original take on Greek history and mythology. ; 10.8 X 8.8 X 1.3 inches; 288 pages
1975Rear Hinge cracked. Scholar's name to ffep (Jenifer Neils). Some pencil underlining. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 577 pages
1984Pages tanned. Faint underlining in ink and pencil to a few pages. ; Fontana History of the Ancient World; 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.
1986Pages tanned. Minor ink notes and underlining. Spine sunned. ; Fontana History of the Ancient World; 320 pages; Within the space of 300 years, up to the great Persian invasion of 480BC, Greece was transformed from a simple society into a sophisticated civilization which dominated the shores of the Mediterranean. This book places the development of Greece in the context of Mediterranean civilization. Within the space of three centuries, up to the great Persian invasion of 480BC, Greece was transformed from a simple peasant society into a sophisticated civilization which dominated the shores of the Mediterranean from Spain to Syria and from the Crimea to Egypt - a culture whose achievements in the fields of art, science, philosophy and politics were to establish the canons of the Western world. The author of this book places this development in the context of Mediterranean civilization, providing an account of the transformation that launched Western culture.
1995Review of book tipped in. Dustjacket has faint creasing; 0.85 x 9.32 x 6.32 Inches; 240 pages; Theseus is celebrated as the greatest of Athenian heroes. This work explores what he meant to the Athenians at the height of their city-state in the fifth century B. C. Assembling material that has been scattered in scholarly works, Henry Walker examines the evidence for the development of themyth and cult of Theseus in the archaic age. He then looks to major works of classical literature in which Theseus figures, exploring the contradictions between the archaic, primitive side of his character and his refurbished image as the patron of democracy. His ambiguous nature as outsider, flouting accepted standards of behavior, while at the same time being a hero-king and a representative of higher ideals, is analyzed through his representations in the work of Bacchylides, Euripides, and Sophocles. This is the only work of scholarship that examines the literary representation ofTheseus so thoroughly. It brings to life a literary character whose virtues, flaws, and contradictions belong in no less a degree to his creators, the people of Athens.
1977Book and DJ has minor shelfwear. ; An illustrated account of the Thrace and the Thracian world from an artistic and archaeological perspective. ; 160 pages
1974Light edgewear. ; 116pp, well illustrated. Revised edition of Brief Guide to the department of ancient art. ; 116 pages
1979Light tanning to pages. Faint crease to ffep. DJ has very minor shelfwear. ; “This study explores a neglected aspect of history: the precautions upon which depended the existence of city-states, great and small, and even of a few rustic communities. Social as well as political stresses impelled the ancient Greeks to build innumerable fortifications of astonishing diversity; the book refers, merely for points of special interest, to hundreds of remains still visible in the homeland, many along the Turkish and the Italian coasts, and some in countries as remote as Spain and Afghanistan. ”; 552 pages
1986Old price sticker to front inner cover. Minor shelfwear to DJ. ; 208 pages; This authoritative study of Greek insects treats not only the obvious questions of their identity--in modern terms of species and genera--but also such topics as the etymologies (both formal and popular) of the various insect names, the folklore, religious and other signficant associations, and the differences in attitude shown toward them by the ancient and modern world. Patterned after two famous studies by D'Arcy Thompson--A Glossary of Greek Birds and A Glossary of Greek Fishes--this volume provides a meticulous survey of the topic, examining the ancient literature and the enormous secondary literature connected with it, as well as the most recent scientific findings. Like Thompson's glossaries, this work focuses primarily on evidence from literature and art, with later evidence brought in only when needed for a full understanding of the facts. Compiled by a classics scholar working with a zoologist, this glossary provides alphabetically-arranged entries on such common insects as the ant, the louse, the butterfly, the wasp, the bedbug, the cricket, and the praying mantis. The first comprehensive study on this subject, Greek Insects belongs on the bookshelf of every Greek scholar, and it will be of considerable interest to educated readers.
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
1986Small bump to lower edge of front board. DJ has chipping and small tears along top edge. Minor creasing to DJ. ; 446pp, illustrated.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; 882 pages
1995Minor pen underlining to about 4 pages or so. Minor shelfwear. ; From 'daily life' to 'demography' / Beryl Rawson --Ideology and 'the status of women' in ancient Greece / Marilyn A. Katz --Approaching women through myth : vital tool or self-delusion? / Ken Dowden --Signifying difference : the myth of Pandora / Froma I. Zeitlin --The cults of Demeter and Kore / Lucia Nixon --Women's ritual and men's work in ancient Athens / Lin Foxholl --Women's identity and the family in the classical polis / Sarah B. Pomeroy --Some Pythagorean female virtues / Voula Lambropoulou --Self-help, self-knowledge : in search of the patient in Hippocratic gynaecology / Helen King --Women who suffer from a man's disease : the example of satyriasis and the debate on affections specific to the sexes / Danielle Gourevitch --Re-reading (Vestal) virginity / Mary Beard --Male power and legitimacy through women : the domus Augusta under the Julio-Claudians / Mireille Corbier --Women and elections in Pompeii / Lisa Savunen --A women's voice - Laronia's role in Juvenal Satire 2 / S. H. Braund --Aemilia Pudentilla : or the wealthy widow's choice / Elaine Fattham --Female sancity in the Greek calendar : the Synaxarion of Constaninople / Anna Wilson. ; 271 pages
19951 page is miscut by publisher and is corner creased. Scholar's name to inner cover (Jenifer Neils). Else minor shelfwear. ; Greece and Gender is the title of two interdisciplinary workshops given at the then newly inaugurated Norwegian Institute for classics, archaeology and cultural history at Athens. The first workshop, held in February 1990, brought together people who are interested in the gender aspects of Greek past or present. The next workshop took place a year later, focussing more specifically on the transgressions and ambiguities of gender. Both workshops were initiated by Brit Berggreen, whose fields encompass cultural history, regional ethnology and gender perspectives, but who is a novice to the empirical materials of ancient Greece. From an early stage, Nanno Marinatos took part as a co-organizer, representing ancient archaeology, philology and religion. Without this close cooperation it would not have been possible to produce this publication. ContentsPreface1. BRIT BERGGREEN : Gendering Greece : IntroductionPART I. BATTLE AND HARMONY: GENDER ROLES AND GENDER INVERSION AS AFFIRMATION OF SOCIAL ORDER2. NANNO MARIN ATOS : Battle and harmony. The women in the Odyssey3. HELENE WHITTAKER: Gender roles in the Odyssey4. ANNE-BRITT HØIBYE: A joke with the inevitable: Men as women and women as men in Aristophanes' Thesmophoriazousai and Ekklesiazousai5. SYNNOVE DES BOUVRIE: Gender and the games at Olympia6. BRIT BERGGREEN : Realities and wishful thinking: On the women's celebration of 8th January in contemporary GreecePART II. FANTASY: HERMAPHRODITES AND APHRODITE IN ARMS7. AILEEN AJOOTIAN: Monstrum or Daimon: Hermaphrodites in ancient art and culture8. JOHAN FLEMBERG: The transformations of the armed AphroditePART III. CROSS DRESSING AND GENDER CONFUSION9. JOHN C. B. PETROPOULOS: Transvestite virgin with a cause: The Acta Pauli et Theclae and late antique proto-'feminism'10. KARI VOGT. The "Woman Monk": A theme in Byzantine hagiography11. VOULA LAMBROPOULOU: Reversal of gender roles in Ancient Greece and Venezuela12. M. -G. LILY STYLIANOUDI: On transvestism13. MARIANNE GRODUM: Performance of womanhood: Women contesting gender ideas in modern Greece14. NANNO MARINATOS: Greece and Gender: A synthesis; Papers from the Norwegian Institute At Athens 2; 8.4 X 5.9 X 0.7 inches; 184 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
1996Some pencil notes and marginalia (Jenifer Neils). Some edgewear with laminate lifting along lower edge of rear wrap. Faint creasing. ; This book challenges the widely held view that Greek pottery vases were objects of great value in antiquity, commissioned by rich patrons from the greatest artists of the day. Instead, they are shown to have been simply low cost versions of tableware originally made in silver and gold. Vickers and Gill demonstrates how Greek pottery first came to be regarded as a high value commodity in the eighteenth century thanks to clever, if not fraudulent, sales techniques. They explore the ways in which work in gold and silver influenced painted pottery, and examine the primary sources, both literary and epigraphic, to find what materials the ancients did consider to be important. ; 0.58 x 9.67 x 7.46 Inches; 254 pages
1976Light bump to 1 corner. Light wear to base of spine. Front endpaper tanned. Very Minor shelfwear to book. Former owner's name in pencil to ffep. Dustjacket has edgewear with chipping and small tears. DJ spine slightly sunned. ; One-volume source of information on sites that show remains from the Classical period. Starts from the mid eighth century B. C. Which marks the expansion of Classical culture to the west, with the Hellenic colonization of Sicily and South Italy, and to the eastern shore of the Aegean. Ends with the Sixth century CE but excludes Early Christian sites of the fourth and fifth centuries. ; 1019 pages
1994Dustjacket has edgewear with a couple of small tears. Book has very minor shelfwear. ; The artistic genius of Athens in the fifth century BC reached its peak in the sculpted marble reliefs of the Parthenon frieze. Designed by Phidias and carved by a team of anonymous masons, the frieze adorned the temple of Athena on the Acropolis and represents a festival procession in honour of the Olympian gods. Its original composition and precise meaning, however, have long been the subject of lively debate. Most of what survives of the frieze is now in the British Museum or the Acropolis Museum in Athens; the rest is scattered among a number of European collections. This book reconstructs the frieze in its entirety according to the most up-to-date research, with a detailed scene-by-scene commentary, and the superb quality of the carving is vividly shown in a series of close-up photographs. In his introduction Ian Jenkins places the frieze in its architectural, historical and artistic setting. He discusses the various interpretations suggested by previous scholars, and finally puts forward a view of his own.; Oblong 8vo 8" to 9" tall; 119 pages
1973Front hinge a bit strained. DJ spine dampstained. Old price sticker to front panel. Minor creasing to DJ. ; Oblong 8vo.; 154 pages
1967Scholar's name to ffep (Jenifer Neils). DJ has some tears and chipping. ; With 50 four-colour plates, 71 halftone plates, 77 line illustrations, map and chronological table. Looks at the period from 500 to 325 B. C. ; 288 pages
2004Very faint shelfwear. Faint bump to top of spine. ; Getty Trust Publications: J. Paul Getty Museum; 8.2 X 5.3 X 0.5 inches; 144 pages
1968Book has minor shelfwear. Scholar's name to ffep (Jenifer Neils). Includes slipcase in VG+ condition (minor scuffing). ; Illustrated. ; Art of the World XXV; 224 pages
1990Underlining and notes in pencil to a few pages. Else minor shelfwear. ; 8.5 X 5.6 X 0.8 inches; 194 pages
2003Gift inscription in pen to ffep: "For Peter, with best wishes, John" [Pollini? ]. Else book is fine. ; 9.9 X 7.1 X 0.5 inches; 85 pages
1985Initial in ink to front inner cover 'N' (Jenifer Neils). Very faint dampstaining to front cover. ; Cincinnati Classical Studies New Series Volume V. ; 119 pages
1970Scholar's name to ffep (Jenifer Neils). Minor shelfwear to book and DJ. ; Large 8vo. 281pp, illustrated. Looks at the The Myth of Theseus and the reception of the myth from Bronze Age Greece to the Medieval era. ; Large 8vo; 281 pages