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1992Collection of articles and notes on ancient Crete in the post-Minoan period and have been selected on the basis of their cohesiveness and relevance to the religion, military, foreign affairs, and social structure of Crete. ; 0.8 x 9.1 x 5.9 Inches; 203 pages
1970DJ is price-clipped. Two tears to bottom corner and bottom spine of DJ. Bumping to back corner of book. 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.
1973Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers and pocket. Tape residue on the front and back covers. ; 590 pages; Contents: The Origins of some Mycenaean rulers; The Arrival of Greek Speech in the southern Balkans; The Impulses which Started the Dorian Invasion; The Creation of Classical Sparta; Land and Society in the Athens of Solon; The Chronological Basis of Solon's Reforms; The Campaign and the Battle of Marathon; The Battle of Salamis; The Organization of the Athenian alliance against Persia; Problems of Command in fifth-Century Athens; Personal Freedom and its Limitations in Aeschylus' Oresteia; The Main road from Beoetia to the Peloponnese; Naval Operations off Corcyra; Military Operations in Amphilochia; Diodorus' Narrative of the Third Sacred War; The Victory of Macedon at Chareronea;
2003Minor shelfwear. Small chip along foreedge. Minor edgewear. ; 1.46 x 9.2 x 5.98 Inches; 736 pages; An esteemed teacher offers a major reassessment of the history of Greece from prehistoric times to the rise of Alexander. This is a work of prodigious scholarship written in grand style. John Fine surveys the archaeological work that has revealed so much about the civilization of Crete and Mycenaean Greece, and discusses the age of colonization during which Greek colonies were established from the Crimea to the Nile, from the Caucasus to Spain. Analyzing social and economic developments, as well as foreign and inter-city affairs, he assesses the history, culture, and democracy of Athens, and Sparta's institutions and military exploits; recounts the Greeks' relations and then war with the Persian empire; details alliances, struggles, and the varying fortunes of the Greek city-states; and relates the rise of Macedon. Fine treats the Greeks' story in the context of events elsewhere in the eastern Mediterranean. Throughout he indicates the nature of the evidence on which our present knowledge is based, masterfully explaining the problems and pit-falls in interpreting ancient accounts. The Ancient Greeks is a splendid narrative history and a refreshing reinterpretation that will please students of ancient history, and everyone interested in early civilizations.
1898Spine is faded. Chipping to cloth at head and heel of spine. Edgewear to corners. Spine slightly cocked. Inner hinge is slightly cracked. Wear to boards. Still a solid copy. ; 236 pages
1993Former owner's name on inner cover. Minor edgewear and a few minor scratches. ; Contents: Who adopted and who were adopted? Procedures of adoption; Why did the Athenians adopt? ; adoption and epikleroi; Posthumous adoption & intestate heirs; Catalogue of attested adoptions. ; Opuscula Graecolatina; 0.47 x 8.9 x 6.22 Inches; 148 pages
19372 White paint marks on back cover else Near Fine. ; Pericles (also spelled Perikles) (ca. 495–429 BC) was a prominent and influential statesman, orator, and general of Athens during the city's Golden Age–specifically, the time between the Persian and Peloponnesian wars. He was descended, through his mother, from the powerful and historically influential Alcmaeonid family. Pericles had such a profound influence on Athenian society that Thucydides, his contemporary historian, acclaimed him as "the first citizen of Athens. " Pericles turned the Delian League into an Athenian empire and led his countrymen during the first two years of the Peloponnesian War. The period during which he led Athens, roughly from 461 to 429 BC, is sometimes known as the "Age of Pericles, " though the period thus denoted can include times as early as the Persian Wars, or as late as the next century. ; 351 pages
1894Light discoloration to spine. Mild shelfwear. Foxing to ffeps. Gift inscription on ffep: "L. W. Hudson from M. T. Tatham"-- M. T. Tatham, a classics scholar at the end of the 19th C. ; Scarce First edition. ; 145 pages
1894Light discoloration to spine. Mild edgewear to extremities. Foxing to ffeps. ; Scarce First edition. ; 145 pages
1983Pencil underlining on 2-3 pages. Dustjacket has minor shelfwear and rubbing.; In German; 244 pages
1969Minor shelfwear to textblock and boards. ; 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
1980DJ is protected in plastic. ; 160 pages; Mistra and the Byzantine Peloponnese constituted one of the most important (and thriving) of the Empire's surviving provinces. In the early 1400's, when the Turks had already reduced Constantinople itself to an island in an Ottoman sea, the Byzantines were successfully completing their reconquest of the Peloponnese from the descendants of the French knights who had seized it after Constantinople fell to the Fourth Crusade. Mistra remained Byzantine for seven years after the Turks conquered Constantinople itself; Sultan Mehmed II finally extinguished Byzantine rule there in 1460.
1926Gorgeous leather spine has wear along ends and rubbing. Minor browning to pages. Former owner's bookplate on inner cover. ; L'Évolution De L'Humanité. Synthèse Collective XV.
1935Former owner's name on inner cover. Former classics scholar's name on ffep (S M Sherwin-White). Light foxing to textblock. ; Deals with the fourth century and concentrates on Jason of Pherae. Contents: The Country, The People, Larisa and Lycophron of Pherae, Jason and the Unification of Thessaly, Jason and the Greek World, Alexander and Anarchy, Philip and the End of Thessalian Freedom, The Archonship of Philip, Alexander the Great and After. ; 248 pages
1993Minor shelfwear. Light bump to top corner; This study explores how powerful beliefs in One God were used to justify and strengthen empires from 2nd-9th centuries AD, and how tensions between orthodoxy and heresy broke the unitary empires of Byzantium and Baghdad into the more pluralistic commonwealths of Christendom and Islam. ; 9.5 x 0.75 x 6.5 Inches; 224 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.
1980Very minor shelfwear to DJ. Foxing to textblock. ; 160 pages; Mistra and the Byzantine Peloponnese constituted one of the most important (and thriving) of the Empire's surviving provinces. In the early 1400's, when the Turks had already reduced Constantinople itself to an island in an Ottoman sea, the Byzantines were successfully completing their reconquest of the Peloponnese from the descendants of the French knights who had seized it after Constantinople fell to the Fourth Crusade. Mistra remained Byzantine for seven years after the Turks conquered Constantinople itself; Sultan Mehmed II finally extinguished Byzantine rule there in 1460.
1964Ex-library set with usual stamps and call numbers. Ex-reference set. Tape stains to front and back endpapers. No writing in text of set. Very minor Shelfwear to set. ; 3 Volume Set
1941Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers and pocket. Fraying to spine ends. Rubbing to boards. Vol II has bump along bottom edge of board. ; 3 Volume Set
1993Top corner of wrap has slight tear. ; Clarendon Paperbacks; 0.97 x 9.23 x 6.24 Inches; 440 pages; In 338 BC Philip II of Macedon established Macedonian rule over Greece; he was succeeded in 336 by his son Alexander the Great, whose conquests in the twelve years that followed reached as far as the Russian steppes, Afghanistan, and the Punjab, and created the Hellenistic world. The study of Macedonia is now a growing point in ancient history. The first ever history of ancient Macedonia has now been completed in three volumes by N. G. L. Hammond, helped by G. T. Griffith and F. W. Walbank. On the basis of that work Professor Hammond now provides in one volume a history of the Macedonian state and its institutions both in Europe and in the Hellenistic kingdoms in Asia and Egypt, on which much new light has been shed by epigraphic and archaeological discoveries. Those institutions have had a profound influence on subsequent history. Full references are given to the ancient sources of information and to archaeological, numismatic, and epigraphic articles.
1968Former owner's signature on front free-page. Very light shelfwear. ; A study of the Hellenistic world from the death of Alexander the Great and the rise of his successors to the defeat of Hannibal in the Second Punic War. ; Delacorte World History VI; 418 pages
2000Minor scuffing. Adhesive stains to inner covers. ; The successors of Alexander the Great were neither his closest friends nor his most prominent generals. But because these marshals labored in his shadow, their careers and contributions to Alexander's success have been neglected by historians, ancient and modern. The primary aim of this book is to bring them to light. Waldemar Heckel presents an interpretative prosopographical study of more than 130 officers who served Alexander the Great. As such, The Marshals of Alexander's Empire is a revision, a continuation and an expansion of H. Berve's Das Alexanderreich aup prosopographischer Grunlage, volume 2 (Munich, 1926). The Marshals of Alexander's Empire provides the first full discussion in English of the careers of Alexander's Macedonian officers and closest friends. ; 1.2 x 9.3 x 6.1 Inches; 444 pages
1945Text has underlining in pencil on some pages. Former classics scholar's name on ffep (W. P. Wallace). Light shelfwear. ; Looks at the influence of Greek in education and scholarship. ; 255 pages
1995Key Themes in Ancient History; 0.75 x 9.5 x 6.5 Inches; 226 pages; This book examines the legal regulation of violence and the role of litigation in Athenian society. Using comparative anthropological and historical perspectives, David Cohen challenges traditional evolutionary and functionalist accounts of the development of legal process. Examining Athenian theories of social conflict and the rule of law, as well as actual litigation involving the regulation of violence, the book emphasizes the way in which the judicial process operates in an agonistic society.
1960Dustjacket has minor shelfwear and rubbing. Dustjacket has edgewear with light chipping. Minor discoloration to DJ. ; Studia Graeca Et Latina Gothoburgensia, IX; 8vo; 169 pages