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198636227Oxford Clarendon Press. 1986. Hardcover. Good in No Dust Jacket dust jacket. Ex-library copy with usual stamps call numbers and pocket. Corners a bit rounded.; 400 pages; The Romans saw an analogy between the ordered workings of the natural universe and the proper functioning of their own expanding empire between orbis and urbs. Philip Hardie's new work explores Virgil's poetic and mythic transformation of this imperialist ideology with reference to such traditions as the poet/cosmologer the use of allegory to extract natural-philosophical truths from mythology and poetry poetic hyperbole and the "universal expression." . 0198140363 . Oxford Clarendon Press hardcover
1962041839New York: University Books 1962 Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Re-issue. Omnibus volume containing the texts of two classic works on Greek religion and mythology : "Epilegomena" is from the first edition published CUP 1921 and "Themis" from the 2nd. edition CUP 1927. This is a genuine book not a version you have to wait to get printed off from digital file . Clean crisp copy. Has a "cancelled stamp" on outside of pages else fine. University Books hardcover
1884000390James R. Osgood and Company 1884. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good. 8vo. pp. 225 1. Original publisher's yellow-green cloth with black oriental design on front cover. Re-hung / re-cased preserving end papers ; small repairs to head and tail caps of spine and to outer corner tips of boards.; spots of wear to extremities; some fading or discoloration along the upper edge of the rear board. Inner hinges are neatly strengthened; color book plate on inside front cover. Pages are clean. This edition contains the JR.O & Co insignia at the bottom of the spine. Lafcadio Hearn's first book. The contents contain supernatural stories based on folklore from Buddhist and Indian literature the Finnish Kalavala The Jewish Talmud Muslim literature Egyptian papyri etc. Many of the stories deal with the themes of the pursuit of wisdom and of the spectral lover. BAL 7912. <br/> <br/> James R. Osgood and Company hardcover
199242999University of Michigan Press. 1992. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Corner creasing to a couple of pages. DJ flap creased. Minor shelfwear to DJ.; Drawing upon extensive illustrations the first portion of Silens in Attic Black-figure Vase-painting explores the narrative content of the many representations of silens. These artistic depictions are the most important surviving source of information about the mythology of silens and they have not previously been studied from this perspective. The second portion of this volume considers the representation of satyr-plays on Athenian vases. The early history of this intriguing dramatic genre has always been problematic and the evidence that the author presents will inspire critical reexamination.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 272 pages . 0472102958 . University of Michigan Press hardcover
2003050425Athens Greece: Hellenic Ministry of Culture 2003. Soft cover. Very Good . 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 227pp. colour photos. Illustrated wrapper w French flaps is clean showing light diagonal crease to bottom front corner. Binding square and not creased. Quarto - 29.5 x 23.5cm. Exhibition catalogue of the 213 works displayed at the Cultural Olympiad 2001-2004 through the Hellenic Ministry of Culture together with an opening series of essays written by specialist researchers and historians. <br/> <br/>The Bull in the Mediterranean World" looks at the male symbolic universe of the ancient cultures around Mare Nostrum - Our Sea - amongst whom the bull acquired a number of different meanings and became a cult object in secular and religious rituals. Hellenic Ministry of Culture paperback
1938w120111996J.J. Augustin Publisher 1938. 460pp. Blue hard back faded spot on lower spine Rebound in library buckrum EX-Library minimal markings VG B & W photos indices for titles and first lines Collection of 180 folk songs and ballads from the Southern Highlands; each with short historical comments research reference known verses and with a few alternate verses and some with music for the tune. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. J.J. Augustin Publisher Hardcover
2004201231-MB12Ashfield Press 2004. Very Good Hardcover . Softcover. Very Good. Ashfield Press Paperback
196415595Latomus. 1964. Softcover. Near Fine. Pages unopened. Very light shelfwear else fine.; Collection Latomus Volume 69; 62 pages . Latomus paperback
38966Oxford Clarendon Press. 1966. Hardcover. Very Good- in No Dust Jacket dust jacket. Former owner's name stamped to base of textblock and inner cover. 1 corner lightly bumped. Minor Discoloration along foreedges of boards. Small tears to cloth at head of spine.; Detailed commentary of the Theogony.; 459 pages . 0198141696 . Oxford Clarendon Press hardcover
40375Oxford Clarendon Press. 1966. Hardcover. Good in No Dust Jacket dust jacket. Ex-library copy with usual stamps call numbers and pocket.; Detailed commentary of the Theogony.; 459 pages . 0198141696 . Oxford Clarendon Press hardcover
43400Oxford Clarendon Press. 1966. Hardcover. Very Good in No Dust Jacket dust jacket. Minor shelfwear. Very minor pencil to a few pages. Former owner's name on ffep. Faint staining to spine.; Detailed commentary of the Theogony.; 459 pages . 0198141696 . Oxford Clarendon Press hardcover
197841890Oxford Clarendon Press. 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Very light pencilling to margins. Scholar's name to ffep Martin Cropp. DJ spine is sunned and discolored. Faint edgewear to DJ.; 414 pages; Hesiod was an ancient Greek poet whose Works and Days discusses agricultural practices and society in general. Classicists and ancient historians have turned to Works and Days for its insights on Greek mythology and religion. The poem also sheds light on economic history and ancient agriculture and is a good resource for social scientists interested in these areas. This translation emphasizes the activities and problems of a practicing agriculturist as well as the larger changing political and economic institutions of the early archaic period. The authors provide a clear accurate translation along with notes aimed at a broad audience. The introductory essay discusses the changing economic political and trading world of the eighth and seventh centuries B. C. E. while the notes present the range and possible meanings of important Greek terms and references in the poem and highlight areas of ambiguity in our understanding of Works and Days. . 0198140053 . Oxford Clarendon Press hardcover
198836444Oxford Clarendon Press. 1988. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Scholar's name to ffeps D. Gerber. Vol. 2 has light bumping to 1 corner. Djs have a few tiny tears.; A three-volume commentary compiled by an international team of scholars includes an introduction discussing previous research on the Odyssey its relation to the Iliad the epic dialect and the transmission of the text. Vol. I: 1988 396 pp ISBN: 0198140371; Vol. II: 1989 300 pp ISBN: 0198140479; Vol. III: 1992 447 pp ISBN: 0198140487;; 3 Volume Set COMPLETE. Commentary on Homer's Odyssey.; 1-3; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 1143 pages . Oxford Clarendon Press hardcover
197033768Wilhelm Fink Verlag. 1970. Hardcover. Near Fine in No Dust Jacket dust jacket. Münchener Archäologische Studien 1; 116 pages . 3770504348 . Wilhelm Fink Verlag hardcover
198726350Cambridge University Press. 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good in Good dust jacket. Pages tanned. Scholar's name to ffep R. E. Fantham. Large tear to DJ repaired with cellotape with a few tears with some loss.; Cambridge Classical Studies; 200 pages; Although Ovid is currently enjoying a new wave of popularity most critics withhold from his poetry the close word-by-word readings that are necessary for a thorough understanding of it. Ovid twice treated the myth of Persephone and Hinds's book is at first a historical inquiry--the most extensive yet done--into the double transformation in Metamorphosis 5 and Fasti 4 of the rape of Persephone one of the great Graeco-Roman myths. The study continues as a critical exploration of Ovid's self-conscious delight in language and in writing manifested in these twin narratives providing a feast for students of both Latin poetry and narratives in general. . 052133506X . Cambridge University Press hardcover
198727103Cambridge University Press. 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Pages tanned. Scholar's bookplate to inner cover G. P. Goold. DJ a bit sunned.; Cambridge Classical Studies; 200 pages; Although Ovid is currently enjoying a new wave of popularity most critics withhold from his poetry the close word-by-word readings that are necessary for a thorough understanding of it. Ovid twice treated the myth of Persephone and Hinds's book is at first a historical inquiry--the most extensive yet done--into the double transformation in Metamorphosis 5 and Fasti 4 of the rape of Persephone one of the great Graeco-Roman myths. The study continues as a critical exploration of Ovid's self-conscious delight in language and in writing manifested in these twin narratives providing a feast for students of both Latin poetry and narratives in general. . 052133506X . Cambridge University Press hardcover
199034305Konrad Triltsch Verlag. 1990. Softcover. Near Fine. Beiträge Zur Archäologie 19; 453 pages . 3878250428 . Konrad Triltsch Verlag paperback
199329701Cambridge University Press. 1993. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Minor Foxing/dustsoiling to top of textblock. Scholar's bookplate to inner cover G. P. Goold. Minor edgewear along lower edge of DJ.; 216 pages; In recent years the subtlety and complexity of Apollonius' Argonautica have been better appreciated but in Dr Hunter's view the purposes and aesthetic of the epic are still not readily understood and much basic analysis remains to be done. The present book seeks to offer some of that analysis and to place the Argonautica within its social and intellectual context. A series of studies deal with notions of heroism; with eros and the suffering of Medea; the role of the divine; poetic voice and literary self-consciousness; and the Ptolemaic context of the poem. A pervasive theme of the book is Apollonius' creative engagement with Homer and a final chapter sketches out an approach to Virgil's use of Apollonius in the Aeneid. The Argonautica emerges as a brilliant and original experiment. This book is the only advanced study of the Argonautica currently available. All Greek is translated. . 0521413729 . Cambridge University Press hardcover
199326384Cambridge University Press. 1993. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Light bumping to lower edge. Pencil marginalia to a couple of pages. Creasing and 1 chip along top edge of DJ.; 216 pages; In recent years the subtlety and complexity of Apollonius' Argonautica have been better appreciated but in Dr Hunter's view the purposes and aesthetic of the epic are still not readily understood and much basic analysis remains to be done. The present book seeks to offer some of that analysis and to place the Argonautica within its social and intellectual context. A series of studies deal with notions of heroism; with eros and the suffering of Medea; the role of the divine; poetic voice and literary self-consciousness; and the Ptolemaic context of the poem. A pervasive theme of the book is Apollonius' creative engagement with Homer and a final chapter sketches out an approach to Virgil's use of Apollonius in the Aeneid. The Argonautica emerges as a brilliant and original experiment. This book is the only advanced study of the Argonautica currently available. All Greek is translated. . 0521413729 . Cambridge University Press hardcover
200537462Cambridge University Press. 2005. Hardcover. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. Very faint shelfwear to book and DJ.; The Catalogue of Women ascribed to Hesiod one of the greatest figures of early hexameter poetry maps the Greek world its evolution and its heroic myths through the mortal women who bore children to the gods. In this collection a team of international scholars offers an attempt to explore the poem's meaning significance and reception. Individual chapters examine the organization and structure of the poem its social and political context its relation to other early epic and Hesiodic poetry its place in the development of a pan-Hellenic consciousness and attitudes to women. The wider influence of the Catalogue is considered in chapters on Pindar and the lyric tradition on Hellenistic poetry and on the poem's reception at Rome. This collection provides a significant approach to the study of the Catalogue.; 360 pages . 0521836840 . Cambridge University Press hardcover
199634087Librairie Droz. 1996. Softcover. Very Good. Spine creased.; Essays in French and English; Recherches Et Rencontres Vol. 7; 8.6 X 5.9 X 0.6 inches; 254 pages . 2600001573 . Librairie Droz paperback
18726377Hermannum Dufft. 1872. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good-. Appears to have been rebound at some point. Original front cover preserved. Foxing throughout. Hand-written spine label with former owner's book number label deleted. Former owner's bookplate on inner cover Dr. H. H. Holwerda. Slight cracking to inner front hinge. Book still solid.; In this edition a genealogical arrangement of the Fabulae has been followed. Latin Text; 172 pages . Hermannum Dufft hardcover
201336889University of California Press. 2013. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Sunning along top edge of DJ. Minor shelfwear to DJ. Minor pencilling to margins of some pages. Scholar's name to ffep Bonnie Maclachlan née Ward.; During the archaic and classical periods Greek ideas about the dead evolved in response to changing social and cultural conditions—most notably changes associated with the development of the polis such as funerary legislation and changes due to increased contacts with cultures of the ancient Near East. In Restless Dead Sarah Iles Johnston presents and interprets these changes using them to build a complex picture of the way in which the society of the dead reflected that of the living expressing and defusing its tensions reiterating its values and eventually becoming a source of significant power for those who knew how to control it. She draws on both well-known sources such as Athenian tragedies and newer texts such as the Derveni Papyrus and a recently published lex sacra from Selinous. Topics of focus include the origin of the goes the ritual practitioner who made interaction with the dead his specialty the threat to the living presented by the ghosts of those who died dishonorably or prematurely the development of Hecate into a mistress of ghosts and its connection to female rites of transition and the complex nature of the Erinyes. Restless Dead culminates with a new reading of Aeschylus' Oresteia that emphasizes how Athenian myth and cult manipulated ideas about the dead to serve political and social ends.; 9.0 X 6.1 X 1.3 inches; 352 pages . 0520217071 . University of California Press hardcover
1949biblio423<p>This is a hardly opened extremely rare copy of an largely unknown Hungarian/Viennese woman surrealist writer who published in Hungarian with this exception. These two early 20th century folk tales reveal a romantic sensibility with fantastic shadings in the vein of Meyrinck even Kafka from a writer virtually unknown in the U.S. She is a discovery waiting to be made for the energetic student of the modern melding of Eastern European artistic traditions.</p><p>Photo on request.</p> Universum Book Publishing Company hardcover
2014190923-MYB12St Louis Missouri: Missouri Botanical Garden Press 2014. Very Good with Very Good dustjacket Hardcover illustrated INSCRIBED by Peter Wyse Jackson. Inscribed. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Missouri Botanical Garden Press Hardcover