Starr, Chester G.MareMagnum
18.567 Ergebnisse
1977Minor shelfwear to book. DJ has a couple of small scratches to front panel and edgewear. ; 267pp.; 267 pages
1924Boards a bit edgeworn. Former owner's name stamped to ffep (now deleted). Scholar's name to ffep (Christian Habicht). Pages a bit browned. Some pencil underlining. ; 477pp. ; Vol. 1 Only; Vol. 1; 477 pages
1888Scholar's name to ffep (Christian Habicht). Contents shaken, textblock is broken in two between pps 64-65. A reading or working copy only. A bit of pencilling. ; 172pp. ; 172 pages
1907Pencil underlining and notes (many notes in pencil to rear inner cover). Scholar's name to ffep in pencil (W. P Wallace). Boards worn with tears along backstrip. Inner hinges cracked. Corners and spine ends edgeworn. Very faint dampstaining to lower corner of a few pages. ; Grote's History of Greece is one of the classic works of historical interpretation and scholarship. George Grote - banker, MP and a founder of London University - was the first historian to give a high value to the Greek creation of democracy, and this aspect of his work is closely relevant to current debates about democracy in our times. This abridgement of the original twelve volume work, which was made in the early years of the century and published by George Routledge and sons, is now available again and makes accessible the essential Grote. ; 812 pages
1894Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). Rear hinge cracked. Else minor shelfwear. ; Xcii, 244 pp ; Vol. 6
1961Scholar's name to ffep (Philippa Goold née Forder). Spine a bit browned. Foxing/dustsoiling to top of textblock. Light pencilling to a couple of pages. ; Euripides is here studied as a great artist of the theatre, and no attempt is made to discover his personal views and beliefs. Indeed, the author insists that such attempts have been made too frequently, and that they have obscured the greatness of the plays as works of art. Each play is discussed in turn as a piece of literature, with the emphasis on dramatic structure and development. ; 456 pages
1964All volumes have permanent marker to bottom of textblock (with a few pages have black maker to lower edge- does not affect text). Feps excised of all volumes (possibly ex-library at one time? ). DJ flaps are pasted down to inner covers. Else VG. ; 3 Volume Set; 1779 pages
1966Spine slightly faded. Hard bump to lower corner of book with creasing through some pages. ; Xvii, 158pp, illustrated. ; 158 pages
1983Foxing/dustsoiling to top of textblock. Minor Foxing to DJ. ; 98pp, illustrated.; 98 pages; Study of Epidauros near Athens Greece which was the primary sanctuary of Asklepios, the Greek God of healing and the archaeological evidence of ceremonial processions, ritual feastings, sacrifices and athletic competitions
1989Small tear to foreedge of 1 page (1 cm) with minor creasing to a few pages. DJ has minor edgewear with small sticker stain to rear panel. ; This volume gathers together eighteen essays including 'Have we Homer's Iliad?', 'Landscape in Greek Poetry', 'The Two Voices of Virgil's Aeneid', 'Thucydides' Use of Abstract Language', three posthumous works on Virgil, Thucydides, and Homer, and his famous introduction to his father Milman Parry's classic book The Making of Homeric Verse, which he wrote just before his death. ; 1 x 9 x 6 Inches; 352 pages; This book presents the collected papers of Adam Parry, a brilliant young classical scholar who died prematurely in 1971. A professor at Yale, and lecturer in London, he wrote a number of highly respected articles in major classics journals on subjects ranging from Homer (his special interest) to Attic tragedy, Thucydides, Plato, and Virgil.
1986Former owner's name on ffep. Minor bumping to 1 corner and edge of front board. DJ has a minor shelfwear. ; 446pp, illustrated.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; 882 pages
1968Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). Light foxing to textblock. DJ has a few small tears ; For classical scholars and others interested in metric. ; 236 pages
1997Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers and pocket. Book has been rebound in olive green boards. ; 0.75 x 9.5 x 6.5 Inches; 247 pages; This collection of essays, reflecting a diversity of approaches, examines Greece and archaelogical theories regarding the birth of classical civilization. It covers four main topics, evidence for the rise of the polis, artistic form and iconography, cults, and issues of poetry and narrative.
1971Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers and pocket. Many stamps to first few pages and textblock "Booksale". Spine a bit sunned. ; This volume is concerned with the foundations laid by Greek poets and scholars in the last three centuries B. C. For the whole future of classical scholarship. It starts with a brief survey of the pre-Hellenistic ages in Greece and a few hints at the oriental background. Then the author makes full use of the available evidence, especially that of the papyri, to demonstrate the fresh start made by Hellenistic poets after 300 B. C. And to describe the essential achievements of five generations of creative scholars in Alexandria and of their epigoni down to the age of Augustus. ; 9.75 x 0.75 x 6.5 Inches; 311 pages
1961Scholar's stamp and name to ffep (H. J. Mason). Clean text. Minor rubbing. ; Reprint of the 1927 ed. 111pp. ; 111 pages
1987Foxing to top of textblock. Minor shelfwear to book and DJ. ; Describes the forms of patronage from Homer's time to the Hellenistic period, focusing on Homeric bards, the lyric poets, Pindar, Theocritus, and the Alexandrian poets and scholars. Gold then discusses patronage in Rome from the dramatists in the third century B. C. To the later republican poets such as Catullus, Lucretius, and the elegists. ; 267 pages
1991Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). Foxing/dustsoiling to top of textblock. Erratum page tipped in. ; 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
1981light shelfwear to book. Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). DJ has minor shelfwear. ; Identifies and analyses the main themes of classical literature against their historical background. Study of Ancient criticism in English. ; 219 pages
1998Inscribed by author on ffep. Else unmarked, near Fine. ; 225pp, with 4pp English summary. ; Thesis/dissertation; 225 pages; Signed by Author
1972Foxing to textblock. Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). DJ spine is browned. Dustjacket has light chipping. ; Unlike the first edition, Shipp examines the language of the Iliad and the Odyssey. ; Cambridge Classical Studies; 392 pages
1958Foxing to textblock. Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). Slight spine slant. DJ is somewhat tattered with chipping and tears. Includes clipped obituary tipped in. ; 315pp + plates + map. 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. ; 315 pages
1969Light shelfwear. Some foxing. ; Contents: Epic Cycle; Works and Days; Hesiodic Theogony, Shield of Heracles; Homeric Hymns; Homeric Hymn to Apollo; Homeric Hymn to Demeter; Hexameter in the Hands of the Philosophers. ; 201 pages
Spine a bit sunned with 2 small dampstains. Neat pencil underlining to some pages. ; The Modern Library; 885 pages
1968Foxing/dustsoiling to top of textblock and light foxing passim. Some edgewear to DJ with some colour loss to spine. Light chipping to DJ. ; Contents include: Rediscovery of Crete; The Trojan war; thucydides the Moralist; Socrates and Athens; Plato and Practical Politics; Diogenes the Cynic; Etruscans and Early Rome; Emperor Diocletian; Manpower and the Fall of Rome; ; 228 pages
1990Foxing/dustsoiling to top of textblock. 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.