Lagerlöf, Margaretha RossholmMareMagnum
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2000Minor scuffing to DJ. ; 0.77 x 8.57 x 6.23 Inches; 212 pages; Margaretha Lagerlöf provides a complete overview of current knowledge of the sculptures of the Parthenon and offers new interpretations of the ancient temple`s sculptural creations in this book. She considers what the sculptures reveal about the Greek sense of democracy, the nature of women`s lives, and the relationship between human beings and the gods.
1931Very minor shelfwear. ; Contents: Quintus of Smyrna and Siege of Troy; Weaver's Life in Oxyrhynchus; Some Ancient Analogues of Consideration; Sources of Aristotle's Poetics; History of the Name of the Temple of Castor in the Forum; Sophocles' Place in Greek Tragedy; "No Trespass" in Latin Linguistics; Leonardo Bruni's Translation of Act I of Plutus of Aristophanes; From Monte Gianicolo; Ancient wit and humor; Cliens in the time of Martial; Papyrus 1804 in the Michigan collection; Aniconic worship Among the Early Romans; Epigraphica; age of Roman Sacrificial Victims. ; 1 x 9.25 x 6.25 Inches
1951Book has minor shelfwear and rubbing. Top corners are bumped. Light browning to textblock. ; 160 pages
1982Very minor shelfwear to DJ. ; Published in collaboration with the J. Paul Getty Museum. ; 1.25 x 11.5 x 9 Inches; 416 pages
1976Book has minor shelfwear and rubbing to boards. One minor bump to top corner. Dustjacket has edgewear with chipping and tears. DJ is price-clipped. One long tear along top of front panel has been repaired by tape else Good. ; After describing in her opening chapters the typical polis, its home government and colonial expansion, and she gives some account of each city-state in Mainland Greece, the Aegean, and the coast of Asia Minor. In detailing its history and local culture, as well as events which had great impact on the period-- the reforms of Solon, the expulsion of tyrants--she seeks to show how each contributed to the structure of Greek society as a whole. We leave it at the end of the sixth century, a country still criss-crossed with local frontiers, but poised now for the defeat of Persia and the Persians. ; 272 pages
1991Dustjacket has minor shelfwear and creasing along bottom of spine. Dustjacket is protected in mylar. Book has minor shelfwear along bottom edge of boards. ; Athens and Sparta is an essential handbook to the study of fifth century Greek history and society. It encourages the reader to engage critically with the evidence, presenting a wide selection of ancient source material along with clear analysis and narrative.; 423 pages
197257 pp of plates; Fogg Art Museum Monographs in Art and Archaeology; 69 pages; Some Contents: Descriptive Catalog; Inscriptions; The Technique; Related finds of Cretan Armor; Some Groupings; Representations; Chronology; Appendices: A Mitra inscribed with a Law; The cuirasses of the 'Olympia Group'; Metallographic Examination of Some Fragments of Cretan Bronze Armor from Afrati.
2007Unwrapped in Plastic. ; Philosophia Antiqua; 0.92 x 9.55 x 7.11 Inches; 512 pages; There has recently been a great deal of scholarship on the origins of rhetoric, as well as on important 4th-century figures, such as Isocrates and Alcidamas. This volumes focuses particularly on the generation before Aristotle wrote his Rhetoric, the central text of ancient Greek rhetorical theory. Individual papers concentrate on different aspects of the Peripatetics' writings, both of Aristotle and Theophrastus, their thoughts on character, emotion, logos, style, and metaphor, the influences of dramatic writings, the relationship with Plato and with the Rhetorica ad Alexandrum, and the historical contexts. Some papers offer close readings of individual passages, while others tease out information based on fragmentary references. All of the papers offer original insights based on a thorough knowledge of the original texts.
1973Corners are bumped. DJ is price-clipped. Dustjacket spine is sunned. One open tear (1 inch) to DJ along upper edge near spine. Mild rubbing to DJ. ; 228 pages; A study of the literary and archaeological (especially artistic) evidence for developments in the warfare of early Greece. Greenhalgh considers in particular the military history of the chariot and mounted horse, both as they were represented in poetry and art and as they were used in reality from about 1100 to 500 B. C.
1983Minor bumping to bottom corners. Light soiling to boards. ; Contents: From Gennetai to Curiales; Vatican Fragments of Greek Political Theory; Peripatetic Constitution; Civic Status in Roman Athens: Cicero Pro Balbo 12.30; Flavius Pantaenus, Priest of the Philosophical Muses; Arrian in two roles; Actuality of Lucian's Assembly of the Gods; Marcus Aurelius and the Philosophical Schools at Athens; Roman Emperors and Athens; Helladarch; Roman Senators from Greece and Macedonia; Areopagus and the Whole City Honor-- M. Ulpius Eubiotus Leurus; Achaia, Greece and Laconica. ; 182 pages
1998Many Pencil underlinings and notes in text. ; 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.
1962Minor bump to top of front board. Book has minor shelfwear and rubbing. ; 496 pages
1971Minor edgewear to top corners. One small tear (1 cm) to front panel at spine. Minor shelfwear to book. ; 159 pages
1960Minor bump to top corner. Minor pencil underlining on a few pages. Scholar's name in pencil to ffep (W. P. Wallace). ; Contents: Origins of the Greek States; The Polis; Federations of States and the Federal State; the World of the Hellenistic States; Basic Facts; Structure and nature of the State; Functions of the State. ; 280 pages
1970DJ is price-clipped. Chipping to head and heel of DJ. Bumping to head of spine. Former owner's bookplate affixed to ffep. ; 326 pages; The long and bitter struggle between the great Persian Empire and the Fledgling Greek states reach its high point with the extraordinary Greek victory at Salamis. The author evokes the whole dramatic sweep of events that the Persian offense set in motion.
1990Studies in Ancient Civilization; 226 pages; Athenian Politics examines the limitations and problems attendant upon the use of traditional sources to understand Athenian history. Presenting, in translation, virtually all the sources from which scholars have drawn their conclusions about ancient Athenian society--from contemporary accounts and stone inscriptions to Egyptian papyri--Stanton challenges the way scholars have viewed ancient Athens. Covering the period from the reforms of Solon to the constitutional changes of Kleisthenes, Athenian Politics explores democracy's paradoxical emergence from the actions of an undemocratic noble elite.
1966Former owner's signature on fly page. Minor bump to base of spine. Light shelfwear. ; 310 pages; Articles by: E L Bennett, jr; J Chadwick; J T Killen; J. -P Olivier; A Bartonek; V Georgiev; F R Hart; M Lejeune; E Risch; P Chantraine; C Gallavotti; A Morpurgo Davies; C J Ruijgh; M S Ruipérez; O Szemerényi; A Heubeck; P H Ilievski; D M Jones; M Lang; S Marinatos; L R Palmer; L J D Richardson.
1903Dustjacket has minor shelfwear and rubbing. Minor edgewear to head and heel of spine. Former owner's name on ffep. ; An introduction to Greek History from the Age of Pericles until the Peloponnesian War. ; University Extension Manuals; 331 pages
1919Minor browning to a few pages. Minor shelfwear else NF. ; Looks at Athens in the Fifth Century ; 310 pages
1962Dustjacket has edgewear with minor chipping and a few tears. DJ is price-clipped. DJ is price-clipped. Book has edgewear to extremities. ; 224 pages; Exploration of the kinds and mysteries of love in ancient Greece from Homer to the comedies of Menander in greek literature. Ranges from the warlike state of Sparta, to Lesbos and to Corinth and Athens.
1972Dustjacket has minor shelfwear and rubbing. DJ has chipped bottom corner. One small tear to top of DJ at head of spine. DJ is price-clipped. ; Unlike the first edition, Shipp examines the language of the Iliad and the Odyssey. ; Cambridge Classical Studies; 392 pages
1969A Few scratches to front panel of DJ. ; Contends that the Athenian aristocratic clansmen were able to transform their religious prominence into political influence. He shows that the chiefs of state, generals, mint-magistrates, and other officials were drawn from the aristocracy generations after Kleisthenes was believed to have broken its power forever. ; Martin Classical Lectures; 126 pages
1970Very minor shelfwear. ; Reprint of the 1898 Edition. Bates provides a handy reference for the tribes that emerged from this early experiment in democracy. Looks at the history and chronology of Antigonis, Demetrias, Ptolemais, Attalis, & Hadrianis and their demes. ; Cornell studies in classical philology, 8; 71 pages
1974Dustjacket has shelfwear and moderate rubbing. Dustjacket has chipping and a few small tears. ; Greek Historical Documents; 149 pages; A collection of Greek public and private documents of the Roman Period either preserved on stone/bronze or on papyrus or on ostraca. Representative samples have been culled along with selections from lesser known authors of the period. Texts are in English.