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1977Scholar's blindstamp to ffep (Jenifer Neils). Light creasing to top edge of DJ. ; 405pp, illustrated. ; 405 pages
1971Very Minor shelfwear to book. Scholar's name to ffep (Jenifer Neils). DJ has some tears and chipping. ; This edition includes ninety-five texts covering the period from 750 B. C. Through the end of the Peloponnesian War in 404 B. C. ; 308 pages
1991Minor shelfwear. Foxing to textblock. Minor shelfwear to DJ. ; Until recently, popular biographers and most scholars viewed Alexander the Great as a genius with a plan, a romantic figure pursuing his vision of a united world. His dream was at times characterized as a benevolent interest in the brotherhood of man, sometimes as a brute interest in the exercise of power. Green, a Cambridge-trained classicist who is also a novelist, portrays Alexander as both a complex personality and a single-minded general, a man capable of such diverse expediencies as patricide or the massacre of civilians. Green describes his Alexander as "not only the most brilliant (and ambitious) field commander in history, but also supremely indifferent to all those administrative excellences and idealistic yearnings foisted upon him by later generations, especially those who found the conqueror, tout court, a little hard upon their liberal sensibilities. " This biography begins not with one of the universally known incidents of Alexander's life, but with an account of his father, Philip of Macedonia, whose many-territoried empire was the first on the continent of Europe to have an effectively centralized government and military. What Philip and Macedonia had to offer, Alexander made his own, but Philip and Macedonia also made Alexander form an important context for understanding Alexander himself. Yet his origins and training do not fully explain the man. After he was named hegemon of the Hellenic League, many philosophers came to congratulate Alexander, but one was conspicuous by his absence: Diogenes the Cynic, an ascetic who lived in a clay tub. Piqued and curious, Alexander himself visited the philosopher, who, when asked if there was anything Alexander could do for him, made the famous reply, "Don't stand between me and the sun. " Alexander's courtiers jeered, but Alexander silenced them: "If I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes. " This remark was as unexpected in Alexander as it would be in a modern leader. For the general reader, the book, redolent with gritty details and fully aware of Alexander's darker side, offers a gripping tale of Alexander's career. Full backnotes, fourteen maps, and chronological and genealogical tables serve readers with more specialized interests.; 8.5 x 1.5 x 5.75 Inches; 617 pages
1963Underlining in pen to some pages. Scholar's name to ffep (Jenifer Neils). ; Important for Greek politics. ; Harper Torchbooks; 164 pages
2002Small bump to foreedge of front cover. Faint bump to base of spine. ; Mnemosyne , Vol Suppl. 233; 378 pages; What was funny about ancient jokes, and why? Why did the Roman state legislate to curb the behaviour of its obscenely rich and powerful elite, if it never really expected such laws to be obeyed? Why did it oppress the poor, and lavish public child support on them? These are important questions, but ancient Greeks and Romans could never have thought of them. They never questioned the right of the rich to be rich. They could not improve their understanding of Homeric gift-giving with the experience of ritualized friendship among the Trobriand islanders. Such questions and such answers can only come from those who live after the ancient past. This volume honours the well-known Dutch epigraphist and ancient historian H. W. Pleket. Ten substantial essays reflect his wide range, from early Greece to the Roman Empire, and his taste for comparative economic and social history.
1967Minor creasing to head of spine, else minor shelfwear. ; 20pp, 64pp of plates. ; Monumenta Graeca Et Romana Volume V 1; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
1985Very minor shelfwear. Scholar's name to ffep (Jenifer Neils). ; Reprint of the 1964 ed. 160pp, illustrated.; 160 pages
1913Foreedges of boards have chipping with a bit of loss. Tear to spine (with some loss of spine cover). Fraying to spine ends. ; x, 340pp, 137 illustrations. ; 340 pages
1986Book is near fine. DJ has chipping to spine ends and minor edgewear. ; Xvii, 182pp, illustrated. Contributors include Raubitschek, Jameson, J. K. Anderson, Gordon, McPhee, Trendall, et al. 23 essays. ; 182 pages
2000DJ has 1 small tear to lower rear edge and creasing to edges. ; The ideas of circumnavigation suggested by the title of this volume of essays, presented to one of the world's leading Classical archaeologists, conjures up the sense of excitement associated with a voyage of discovery. Over 40 friends and former doctoral students whose work was supervised by John Boardman during his time as Lincoln Professor of Classical Archaeology and Art at Oxford University (1978-1994) have contributed essays on topics close to his heart. Now holding academic posts worldwide, they all recall with pleasure the enthusiasm and encouragement of their former teacher. ; 1.65 x 10.57 x 7.73 Inches; 416 pages
1989Upper corners bumped. Minor creasing to DJ. ; 8.0 X 7.8 X 0.4 inches; 110 pages
1997Very minor shelfwear. ; World of Art; 216 pages
1986Faint staining to front board. Author's gift inscription to Jenifer Neils on ffep. ; 162 pages; Signed by Author
1954Tears to joints of spine cover with some adhesive stains. Glue stains from removed plate to front inner cover. Small strip of head of spine is torn. Boards yellowed? Internally vg. ; Folio 13" - 23" tall; 380 pages
1918Dampstaining and mildewing to boards of some volumes. Volumes range from G+ to fair. Some hinges cracked. Some discolorations to spines. Not pretty. ; Everyman's Library
1965Minor scuffing along spine. Scholar's name to ffep (Jenifer Neils). ; CHAPTER 1: PERSIA, FROM XERXES TO ALEXANDER: Xerxes and his successors; enterprise of Cyrus; battle of Cunaxa; retreat of the Ten Thousand to Trapezus (Kurdistan etc..) ; From Trapezus to Pergamum; Great king and his Satrapies; Artaxerxes III and the reconquest of Egypt CHAPTER II: THE ASCENDACY OF SPARTA: Lysander's settlement; spartan home affairs; Sparta's dependents in the greek homeland (Thebes, Athens, Thessaly etc..) ; Sparta's relations with Persia; Persian Thalassocracy; Corintian War (fall of Pausanias, battle of Corinth etc..) ; New Pact between Sparta and Persia (Thrasybulus etc. ) ; CHAPTER III THE SECOND ATHENIAN LEAGUE : General condition of Greece in 386 B. C. ; Sparta's Policy of Precautions; Rise of Thebes; New Athenian Thalassocracy; Jason of Pherae (siege of Corcyra etc. ) CHAPTER IV THEBES The Battle of Leuctra; theban ascendacy in Northern Greece; disruption of the Peloponnesian league; diplomatic failures of Thebes; Failure of Arcadian Imperialism; Battle of Mantinea; Decline of the Athenian Naval League; CHAPTER V DIONYSIUS OF SYRACUSE: Carthaginian invasions 409-406 B. C. ; Rise of Dionysius, 405 B. C. ; dionysius and the Sicels, 403 B. C. ; First war with Carthage, 398-392 B. C. ; Italian wars of Dionysius and his later wars with Carthage; Relations with Eastern Greece; Death of Dionysius, 367 B. C. ; Estimate of Dionysius; CHAPTER VI EGYPT TO THE COMING OF ALEXANDER: The Achaemenid Rule (Athenians in Egypt Herodotus jews at Syene etc..) ; last native Monarchy; Coming of Alexander; Retrospect (Libyans, and Ethiopians Demotic literature, Egyptian religion etc..) ; CHAPTER VII: THE INAUGURATION OF JUDAISM: Historical outlines (Nehemiah, benevolence of Persia, Samaritan schism, Ezra etc. ) ; jews and their neighbours; Edom and Samaria (desolation of Judah and Jerusalem etc..) ; Religious tendencies (Jewish self-consciousness etc. ) ; Priestly source and the Pentateuch; CHAPTER VIII THE RISE OF MACEDONIA Greek World at the Accession of Philip; early years of Philip's reign, 359-356 B. C. ; war of Athens and her allies, 357-5 B. C. ; sacred war down to 353 B. C. ; philip's activities in Thrace and Thessaly down to 352 B. C. ; Athenian policy: Aristophon, Eubulus, Demosthenes; Sacred war continued; olynthian war; peace of philocrates, and the end of the sacred war; CHAPTER IX MACEDONIAN SUPREMACY IN GREECE: Years of Nominal Peace between Philip and Athens, 346-3 B. C. ; relations of Philip and the greek cities with Persia; struggle in Thrace and the Chersonese, 342-339 B. C. ; Amphissean War: Chaeronea (338 B. C. ) ; After Chaeronea; death of Philip. Characters of Philip and Demosthenes; CHAPTER X: SICILY, 367 TO 330 B. C. Dionysius the Second (plato Dion etc..) ; Enterprise of Dion; Timoleon: delivery of Syracuse (Carthaginian activity) ; Timoleon Settlement of Sicily; Southern italy; CHAPTER XI: THE ATHENIAN PHILOSOPHICAL SCHOOLS: philosophy of Socrates; Plato the early dialogues; Academy dialogues of the middle period (Republic Phaedo, meno, Symposium, Phaedrus) ; Later dialogues (Timaeus, Philebus) ; Aristotle; Form and matter, the actual and potential; objects and methods of science; cosmology; biology and psychology; ethics and politics; peripatetic school at Athens; CHAPTER XII: ALEXANDER: THE CONQUEST OF PERSIA Alexander's early years; preparations for invading persia; granicus and asia minor; battle of issus; administration of asia minor; tyre and egypt; battle of Gaugamela; death of Darius; CHAPTER XIII: ALEXANDER CONQUEST OF THE FAR EAST: Alexander, Philotas, and Parmenion; conquest of Turkestan; Cleitus, Callisthenes, and alexander's divine descent; india, from Bactria to the Jhelum; India from Jhelum to Beas; to Patiala; Punjab, Punjabi; Gedrosia and Susa; Alexander's Deification and death (Arabia and Arabian Expedition) ; Alexander's character and policy; finance and new cities (coinage) ; Empire: Alexander's personality; CHAPTER XIV: GREECE 335 TO 321 B. C. : the Feeling in Greece (antipater etc..) ; lycurgus and Athens; Agis III of Sparta; Prosecution of Demosthenes (Ctesiphon, on the Crown etc. ) ; Affair of Harpalus; lamian War (Hellenic league etc..) ; CHAPTER XV: THE HERITAGE OF ALEXANDER: Question of the succession; perdiccas; antipater's regency; polyperchon and Greece; eumenes and antigonus; cassander and the coalition; antigonus' first struggle for the empire; kingdom; cassander and Ptolemy; Defeat and Death of Antigonus; CHAPTER XVI; GREEK POLITICAL THOUGHT AND THEORY IN THE FOURTH CENTURY: Political thought of the fourth century; Xenophon and Isocrates; Plato and Aristotle; end of the Polis, and its political theory; CHAPTER XVII: Greek Art and Architecture: Classical Sculpture (Praxiteles, Scopas, Timotheus: Cephisodotus, Lysippus Attic grave reliefs; Fourth Century Doric Architecture; Corinthian capital; ionic architecture in Asia; civil buildings LIST OF TABLES, MAPS, PLANS : March of the Ten Thousand; Asia Minor; Second Athenian League; Central and north eastern peloponnese; plain of Mantinea and Tegea; Dominions of Dionysius; Central Greece; Alexander's Route; plans of temples etc.. ; Cambridge Ancient History Series; 37 pages
1965Minor scuffing along spine. Scholar's name to ffep (Jenifer Neils). Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (Jenifer Neils). Upper corner of book creased. Pen underlining and marginalia to a few pages. ; CHAPTER 1: PERSIA, FROM XERXES TO ALEXANDER: Xerxes and his successors; enterprise of Cyrus; battle of Cunaxa; retreat of the Ten Thousand to Trapezus (Kurdistan etc..) ; From Trapezus to Pergamum; Great king and his Satrapies; Artaxerxes III and the reconquest of Egypt CHAPTER II: THE ASCENDACY OF SPARTA: Lysander's settlement; spartan home affairs; Sparta's dependents in the greek homeland (Thebes, Athens, Thessaly etc..) ; Sparta's relations with Persia; Persian Thalassocracy; Corintian War (fall of Pausanias, battle of Corinth etc..) ; New Pact between Sparta and Persia (Thrasybulus etc. ) ; CHAPTER III THE SECOND ATHENIAN LEAGUE : General condition of Greece in 386 B. C. ; Sparta's Policy of Precautions; Rise of Thebes; New Athenian Thalassocracy; Jason of Pherae (siege of Corcyra etc. ) CHAPTER IV THEBES The Battle of Leuctra; theban ascendacy in Northern Greece; disruption of the Peloponnesian league; diplomatic failures of Thebes; Failure of Arcadian Imperialism; Battle of Mantinea; Decline of the Athenian Naval League; CHAPTER V DIONYSIUS OF SYRACUSE: Carthaginian invasions 409-406 B. C. ; Rise of Dionysius, 405 B. C. ; dionysius and the Sicels, 403 B. C. ; First war with Carthage, 398-392 B. C. ; Italian wars of Dionysius and his later wars with Carthage; Relations with Eastern Greece; Death of Dionysius, 367 B. C. ; Estimate of Dionysius; CHAPTER VI EGYPT TO THE COMING OF ALEXANDER: The Achaemenid Rule (Athenians in Egypt Herodotus jews at Syene etc..) ; last native Monarchy; Coming of Alexander; Retrospect (Libyans, and Ethiopians Demotic literature, Egyptian religion etc..) ; CHAPTER VII: THE INAUGURATION OF JUDAISM: Historical outlines (Nehemiah, benevolence of Persia, Samaritan schism, Ezra etc. ) ; jews and their neighbours; Edom and Samaria (desolation of Judah and Jerusalem etc..) ; Religious tendencies (Jewish self-consciousness etc. ) ; Priestly source and the Pentateuch; CHAPTER VIII THE RISE OF MACEDONIA Greek World at the Accession of Philip; early years of Philip's reign, 359-356 B. C. ; war of Athens and her allies, 357-5 B. C. ; sacred war down to 353 B. C. ; philip's activities in Thrace and Thessaly down to 352 B. C. ; Athenian policy: Aristophon, Eubulus, Demosthenes; Sacred war continued; olynthian war; peace of philocrates, and the end of the sacred war; CHAPTER IX MACEDONIAN SUPREMACY IN GREECE: Years of Nominal Peace between Philip and Athens, 346-3 B. C. ; relations of Philip and the greek cities with Persia; struggle in Thrace and the Chersonese, 342-339 B. C. ; Amphissean War: Chaeronea (338 B. C. ) ; After Chaeronea; death of Philip. Characters of Philip and Demosthenes; CHAPTER X: SICILY, 367 TO 330 B. C. Dionysius the Second (plato Dion etc..) ; Enterprise of Dion; Timoleon: delivery of Syracuse (Carthaginian activity) ; Timoleon Settlement of Sicily; Southern italy; CHAPTER XI: THE ATHENIAN PHILOSOPHICAL SCHOOLS: philosophy of Socrates; Plato the early dialogues; Academy dialogues of the middle period (Republic Phaedo, meno, Symposium, Phaedrus) ; Later dialogues (Timaeus, Philebus) ; Aristotle; Form and matter, the actual and potential; objects and methods of science; cosmology; biology and psychology; ethics and politics; peripatetic school at Athens; CHAPTER XII: ALEXANDER: THE CONQUEST OF PERSIA Alexander's early years; preparations for invading persia; granicus and asia minor; battle of issus; administration of asia minor; tyre and egypt; battle of Gaugamela; death of Darius; CHAPTER XIII: ALEXANDER CONQUEST OF THE FAR EAST: Alexander, Philotas, and Parmenion; conquest of Turkestan; Cleitus, Callisthenes, and alexander's divine descent; india, from Bactria to the Jhelum; India from Jhelum to Beas; to Patiala; Punjab, Punjabi; Gedrosia and Susa; Alexander's Deification and death (Arabia and Arabian Expedition) ; Alexander's character and policy; finance and new cities (coinage) ; Empire: Alexander's personality; CHAPTER XIV: GREECE 335 TO 321 B. C. : the Feeling in Greece (antipater etc..) ; lycurgus and Athens; Agis III of Sparta; Prosecution of Demosthenes (Ctesiphon, on the Crown etc. ) ; Affair of Harpalus; lamian War (Hellenic league etc..) ; CHAPTER XV: THE HERITAGE OF ALEXANDER: Question of the succession; perdiccas; antipater's regency; polyperchon and Greece; eumenes and antigonus; cassander and the coalition; antigonus' first struggle for the empire; kingdom; cassander and Ptolemy; Defeat and Death of Antigonus; CHAPTER XVI; GREEK POLITICAL THOUGHT AND THEORY IN THE FOURTH CENTURY: Political thought of the fourth century; Xenophon and Isocrates; Plato and Aristotle; end of the Polis, and its political theory; CHAPTER XVII: Greek Art and Architecture: Classical Sculpture (Praxiteles, Scopas, Timotheus: Cephisodotus, Lysippus Attic grave reliefs; Fourth Century Doric Architecture; Corinthian capital; ionic architecture in Asia; civil buildings LIST OF TABLES, MAPS, PLANS : March of the Ten Thousand; Asia Minor; Second Athenian League; Central and north eastern peloponnese; plain of Mantinea and Tegea; Dominions of Dionysius; Central Greece; Alexander's Route; plans of temples etc.. ; Cambridge Ancient History Series; 37 pages
1967Light edgewear to wraps. Faint creasing to upper corner. Scholar's bookplate to ffep (Jenifer Neils). ; 153 pages
1997Very faint foxing to textblock else fine. ; Provides an overview of recent trends in Greek and Roman studies over the past ten years. Sections include Greece (Kurt A. Raaflaub) , the Hellenistic Age (Stanley M. Burstein) , the Roman Republic (Allen M. Ward) , and the Roman Empire (Ramsay MacMullen) . ; Publication of the Association of Ancient Historians 5; 107 pages
1996Front inner hinge torn but very solid, else Fine. Light edgewear to DJ now in plastic sleeve. ; 240pp, profusely illustrated. Cloaked in mystery for the past 50 years, the legendary Gold of Troy is now on display at the Pushkin Museum in Moscow. This handsome volume, the official catalog of the Pushkin exhibition, tells the compelling tale of these ancient artifacts and how they were discovered by the wealthy German businessman Heinrich Schliemann. ; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; 240 pages
1995Still sealed in plastic; Dutch Monographs on Ancient History and Archaeology; 10.25 x 1 x 6.5 Inches; 286 pages; The Athenian sophist Philostratus completed a romanticised biography of Apollonius of Tyana in the second or third decade of the third century A. D. One of the most striking aspects of the presentation of this firstcentury Pythagorean sage and miracleworker in the Vita Apollonii (VA) is his role as ‘politically active philosopher’. Not only does the protagonist of the VA regularly intervene in situa-tions of conflict in Greek cities and instruct their citi-zens on how they ought to live together, but he also appears in contact with Parthian and Indian kings and Roman emperors. The present study deals with this promi-nent facet of Philostratus’ portrait of the Tyanean sage. There are three main issues. The first is the question of the extent to which the Apollonius tradition provided support for the image of the contacts of the protagonist of the VA with cities and monarchs. The second is consideration of how the author dealt with and elaborated these elements in his source material. The third is the question of to what extent the protagonist of the VA may be regarded as a spokesman for the explicit political views of Philostratus. In other words, the aim is to analyse the image of the protagonist of the VA as a ‘politically active philosopher’ as the result of the interaction between the traditions associated with a sage and miracleworker who was regarded as a representative of Pythagorean wisdom, on the one hand, and the paideia, cultural baggage and mentality of a sophist, on the other.
1994Faint foxing to textblock. Else minor shelfwear. ; Clarendon Paperbacks; 1.06 x 8.52 x 5.48 Inches; 440 pages; Background Ancient Greece was permeated by music, and the literature teems with musical allusions. For most readers the subject has remained a closed book. Now in Paperback Here at last is a paperback edition of this clear, comprehensive account that presupposes no special knowledge of music. Topics covered include the place of music in Greek life; instruments; rhythm; tempo; modes and scales; melodic construction; form; ancient theory and notation; and historical development. Thirty surviving examples of Greek music are presented in modern transcription with analysis, and the book is fully illustrated. A brief Epilogue sets Greek music in the wider context in a border zone between Afro-Asiatic and European culture.
1997Very faint foxing. 1 corner lightly edgeworn. ; 0.92 x 9.18 x 6.11 Inches; 320 pages; Cheese, wine, honey and olive oil--four of Greece's best known contributions to culinary culture- -were already well known four thousand years ago. Remains of honeycombs and of cheeses have been found under the volcanic ash of the Santorini eruption of 1627 BC. Over the millennia, Greek food diversified and absorbed neighboring traditions, yet retained its own distinctive character. In Siren Feasts, Andrew Dalby provides the first serious social history of Greek food. He begins with the tunny fishers of the neolithic age, and traces the story through the repertoire of classical Greece, the reputations of Lydia for luxury and of Sicily and South Italy for sybaritism, to the Imperial synthesis of varying traditions, with a look forward to the Byzantine cuisine and the development of the modern Greek menu. The apples of the Hesperides turn out to be lemons, and great favour attaches to Byzantine biscuits. Fully documented and comprehensively illustrated, scholarly yet immensely readable, Siren Feasts demonstrates the social construction placed upon different types of food at different periods (was fish a luxury item in classical Athens, though disdained by Homeric heroes? ). It places diet in an economic and agricultural context; and it provides a history of mentalities in relation to a subject which no human being can ignore.
1965Minor scuffing along spine. Scholar's name to ffep (Jenifer Neils). Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (Jenifer Neils). Upper corner of book creased. Pen underlining and marginalia to some pages. Small stain to front wrap. ; Cambridge Ancient History Series; 68 pages
1953Ex-library copy with usual stamps. Call numbers and pocket have been removed. Minor discoloration to boards. Stamp to ffep. ; Contents: Greek Lands and Greek People; Value of Ancient history; ancient geography in modern education; geography in relation to history and literature; geographical study of Greek and Roman culture; geographical aspect of greek colonization; geographical distribution of the greek city-states; causes of rise and fall in the population of the ancient world; position of the greek kingdom in the eastern mediterranean; marmara region; islands of the aegean; dodecanese. ; 381 pages