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20048224Peeters Publishers. 2004. Softcover. Very Good. Crease along front wrap else fine.; 345 pages; This Festschrift honours the Dutch Latinist Ben Hijmans. Besides his studies on Seneca and Ovid Hijmans published numerous articles on Apuleius' works. In 1973 he initiated the research project Groningen Commentaries on Apuleius and until his retirement he was editor-in-chief of the series of commentaries issued from that research project. This collection of essays contains a number of important new and original articles on Apuleius' Metamorphoses on the reception of the Latin novel and on Apuleius' rhetorical work. The book presents original research on Ovid's Metamorphoses and its reception. Other contributions testify to the broader interests of Ben Hijmans and deal with general cultural aspects art history the art of translating archaeology and iconography. Ben Hijmans' fascination with and insight into mythical motifs is reflected not only in articles on Pyramus and Thisbe and Actaeon respectively but also in contributions on Narcissus and on Seneca's mythical tragedies and their transformation in Roman Declamation. . 9042915048 . Peeters Publishers paperback
201042096Ithaca: Centre for Odyssean Studies. 2010. Softcover. Very Good. Very minor pencilling to a few pages.; Essays in English and Greek.; 356 pages . Centre for Odyssean Studies paperback
199236987Paul Astroms Forlag. 1992. Softcover. Very Good. Very faint creasing to corners of wraps.; Skrifter Utgivna Av Svenska Institutet I Athen / Acta Instituti Atheniensis Regni Sueciae Series in 8° XI; 209 pages . 9179160255 . Paul Astroms Forlag paperback
200512188Brill. 2005. Hardcover. Near Fine in No Dust Jacket dust jacket. Gift inscription to R. E. Fantham from author on ffep includes tipped-in note from author. Dust-soiling to one small area of textblock.; This book analyses the mythical and legendary narratives in Ovid's Fasti as narrative and concentrates on the neglected literary aspects of these stories. It combines traditional tools of literary criticism with more modern techniques taken especially from narratology and intertextuality. From a narratological viewpoint it covers important features such as aperture closure characterization internal narrators description space time and cinematic technique. On the intertextual level it examines the narratives' complex relationship with Virgil Livy and Ovid's own earlier works. Recent criticism on the Fasti has addressed various elements religious historical political astronomical etc. but detailed narrative study has been wanting. This book fills that gap to provide a more informed and balanced appreciation of this multifaceted poem aimed at classicists and literary critics in general for whom all the Latin is translated.; Mnemosyne: Bibliotheca Classica Batava Supplementum; 306 pages; Signed by Author . 9004143203 . Brill hardcover
198922071University of Wisconsin Press. 1989. Hardcover. Near Fine in Good dust jacket. 1 corner very lightly bumped. Else book is fine. DJ has a few tears and creasing.; Xxi 418pp nicely illustrated.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; 418 pages . 0299115305 . University of Wisconsin Press hardcover
1980002450New York NY U.S.A.: Rizzoli International Publications Incorporated 1980. 304pp 400 illustrations maps glossary notes index. Large format illustrated hardcover with dust jacket in very good condition. A comprehensive survey of world mythology. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Rizzoli International Publications, Incorporated hardcover
200437235Cambridge University Press. 2004. Hardcover. Very Good in Good dust jacket. Scholar's name to ffep Bonnie Maclachlan née Ward. Pencil marginalia to a few pages. Chipping and a few small tears to DJ.; 6.25 X 1 X 9 inches; 292 pages . 0521834341 . Cambridge University Press hardcover
19711085The Johns Hopkins University Press. 1971. Hardcover. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. Dustjacket has a few small nicks and tears at the top of the spine. DJ is price-clipped.; This books consists of a series of 35 scholarly articles written by near eastern specialists on the occasion of the 80th birthday of William Albright now deceased one of the foremost experts in near eastern studies in the last century.; 503 pages; Some Articles include: Passive and Ergative in Hebrew; Phoenician Elements in Isaiah; A re-study of an Elephantine Aramaic Marriage Contract; Redaction of the Plague Narrative in Exodus; History and Cult in the Old Testament; Yahweh and Mari; Punic Art in Italy; Edom and Judah in the Sixth-Fifth Centuries B. C; Scene on the drinking mug from Ugarit; Remarks on Comparative Mythology; Ugaritic Texts and Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible; Formation of the Feminine in Semitic Languages; Gilgamesh. There are many more articles in English German and French. . 0801812356 . The Johns Hopkins University Press hardcover
2004201231-MB12Ashfield Press 2004. Very Good Hardcover . Softcover. Very Good. Ashfield Press Paperback
200439082University Press of America. 2004. Softcover. Near Fine. 388 pages; In dramatic representations and narrative reports of inner deliberation the Odyssey displays the workings of the human mind and its hero's practical intelligence epitomized by anticipating consequences and controlling his actions accordingly. Once his hope of returning home as husband father and king is renewed on Calypso's isle Odysseus shows a consistent will to focus on this purpose and subordinate other impulses to it. His fabled cleverness is now fully engaged in a gradually emerging plan as he thinks back from that final goal through a network of means to achieve it. He relies on "signs"—inferences in the form "if this then that" as defined by the Stoic Chrysippus—and the nature of his intelligence is thematically underscored through contrast with others' recklessness that is failure to heed signs or reckon consequences. In Homeric deliberation the mind is torn between competing options or intentions not between "reason" and "desire." The lack of distinct opposing faculties and hierarchical organization in the Homeric mind far from archaic simplicity prefigures the psychology of Chrysippus who cites deliberation scenes from the Odyssey against Plato's hierarchical tri-partite model. From the Stoics there follows a psychological tradition leading through Hobbes and Leibniz to Peirce and Dewey. These thinkers are drawn upon to show the significance of the conception of "thinking" first articulated in the Odyssey. Homer's work inaugurates an approach that has provoked philosophical conflict persisting into the present and opposition to pragmatism and Pragmatism can be discerned in prominent critiques of Homer and his hero which are analyzed and countered in this study. . 076183026X . University Press of America paperback
1954w230632537Bibliotheque De La Pleiade 1954. Volume One 875pp. Volume Two 1145pp. Small red flexi hardbacks DJ's VG ink underlining and notes on c.100pp. index notes and references appendices each volume has two cloth string bookmarks Poems fables plays literature text in French Oeuvres Completes : Vol One : Fables Contes et Nouvelles Vol Two : Oeuvres Diverses . Hard Covers. Very Good/Very Good. Bibliotheque De La Pleiade
189544723Philadelphia: George W. Jacobs. & Co. 1895. 12mo. xxxvi 392 pp. plus 4 pp. publ. ads. 150 text illusts. Illust. gray cloth silver red & blk lettrng on frnt cvr & spine soot soilng on cvrs edgewear some rubbng slght bmpng to crnrs still a G- copy inscribed by the author on 2nd flyleaf to Miss Anna Springer 1895. First edition inscribed of this fascinating collection of fairy tales based on the author’s naturalist studies of the behaviors of ants and spiders. McCook 1837-1911 is perhaps best remembered for his expansive work American spiders and their spinning work 1889-1893 and he had most of the illustrations executed by Daniel Carter Beard founder of the Boy Scouts of America. George W. Jacobs. & Co., hardcover
196738938Basil Blackwell. 1967. Hardcover. Fine in Very Good dust jacket. DJ is price-clipped. Dustjacket has edgewear with a couple of small tears.; Examines in detail the oracle of Dodona and the chief problems concerning its activity. Combines it with studies of Olympia and Ammon the two other places where the Greeks consulted Zeus.; 294 pages . Basil Blackwell hardcover
45229New York: Garland Publishing Inc. 1990. 1st edition. Garland Folklore Casebooks Vol.5. "The critical theoretical point is that one cannot tell whether or how a folktale is really unique to one culture without knowing if the same tale is found in other cultures." Pp.xviii/405. Tan cloth. VG. New York: Garland Publishing Inc., 1990. hardcover
198810127The Johns Hopkins University Press. 1988. Hardcover. Fine in Very Good dust jacket. Very minor shelfwear to DJ at heel of spine else Fine. DJ has minor discoloration to spine and front panel.; Surveys the literary treatment of the Orpheus myth as the myth of the essence of poetry its ability to encounter the fullest possible intensity of beauty and sorrow and to transform they into song. The first half concentrates on the ancient literary tradiiton. Later chapters focus on the continuities of the myth in modern literature.; 256 pages . 0801837081 . The Johns Hopkins University Press hardcover
198236890University of Toronto Press. 1982. Hardcover. Good in No Dust Jacket dust jacket. Dampstaining to lower corners of last few pages. Does not affect text.; 272 pages; The Myth of Orpheus shaman and teacher musician and lover is the subject of this study. Contents: Orpheus of Virgil and Ovid: flebile nescio quid. W. S. Anderson; Songs of Orpheus and the New song of Christ Eleanor Irwin ; Sparagmos: Orpheus among the Chrisitians Patricia Vicari ; Orpheus and Ficino Warden ; Myth of Orpheus in Italian Renaissance Art 1400-1600 Scavizzi ; Orfeo and Euridice the first two operas Timothy J. McGee ; Orpheus and the Devil in Calderon's El Divino Orfeo c. 1634 Pedro Leon ; Triumph of Art of Death: Orpheus in Spenser and Milton Vicari. . 0802055184 . University of Toronto Press hardcover
198215643University of Toronto Press. 1982. Hardcover. Near Fine in No Dust Jacket dust jacket. Very Minor Shelfwear. Else fine.; 272 pages; The Myth of Orpheus shaman and teacher musician and lover is the subject of this study. Contents: Orpheus of Virgil and Ovid: flebile nescio quid. W. S. Anderson; Songs of Orpheus and the New song of Christ Eleanor Irwin ; Sparagmos: Orpheus among the Chrisitians Patricia Vicari ; Orpheus and Ficino Warden ; Myth of Orpheus in Italian Renaissance Art 1400-1600 Scavizzi ; Orfeo and Euridice the first two operas Timothy J. McGee ; Orpheus and the Devil in Calderon's El Divino Orfeo c. 1634 Pedro Leon ; Triumph of Art of Death: Orpheus in Spenser and Milton Vicari. . 0802055184 . University of Toronto Press hardcover
198217099University of Toronto Press. 1982. Hardcover. Very Good in No Dust Jacket dust jacket. Minor Shelfwear. Faint foxing to top of textblock. Else fine.; 272 pages; The Myth of Orpheus shaman and teacher musician and lover is the subject of this study. Contents: Orpheus of Virgil and Ovid: flebile nescio quid. W. S. Anderson; Songs of Orpheus and the New song of Christ Eleanor Irwin ; Sparagmos: Orpheus among the Chrisitians Patricia Vicari ; Orpheus and Ficino Warden ; Myth of Orpheus in Italian Renaissance Art 1400-1600 Scavizzi ; Orfeo and Euridice the first two operas Timothy J. McGee ; Orpheus and the Devil in Calderon's El Divino Orfeo c. 1634 Pedro Leon ; Triumph of Art of Death: Orpheus in Spenser and Milton Vicari. . 0802055184 . University of Toronto Press hardcover
199826360Cambridge University Press. 1998. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Light bumping to 2 corners. Scholar's name to ffep Elaine Fantham. Minor shelfwear to DJ.; Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics; 304 pages; Book IV of Ovid's celebration of the calendar and the associated legends of the Roman year treats the month of April a particularly happy phase of the Augustan ceremonial year. Around the festival of Venus and the anniversary of the foundation of Rome Ovid retells the legends of Rome's royal founder Romulus and the Trojan hero Aeneas. The introduction and commentary pay special attention to Ovid's art as a poet but aim to provide both the general background and specific explanations of his historical and religious material.; Signed by Editor . 0521445388 . Cambridge University Press hardcover
19945115New York: Derrydale Press 1994 . First Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine/good. 8vo 137 pages green cloth small name label on endpaper; glassine dj torn in the repaired publisher's box lacking one edge panel <br/><br/>Copy no. 149 of 322 copies signed by Alvord on the title-page and by its "sponsor" Harold "Pick" Pickering at the end of his letter. 98 pages on Paul the remainder on the North Woods. The first state of 322 copies signed on the title. . Siegel 81; Frazier A1. Nine charming full-page plates by Alvord with a number of humourous black-and-white sketches. Laid in in a memo from the original owner of the book explaining that Alvord was the brother of her friend Charlotte. Alvord was a commercial artist in Superior Wisconsin and told these stories at the Happy Home Club there. Derrydale Press hardcover
200726601New York: Marshall Cavendish 2007. 1st ed. Hardcover. Fine. Spirin Gennady. 1st ptg. 4to picture book pictorial boards an Arthurian tale illustrated with Gennady Spirin's richly colored paintings and signed by the artist in gold ink on the title page. Fine in fine unclipped dj no previous owner's marks. Signed by Spirin. Marshall Cavendish hardcover
1937410Cambridge University Press. 1937. Hardcover. Very Good in No Dust Jacket dust jacket. Corners are lightly bumped.; 98 pages . Cambridge University Press hardcover
199036912Oxford Clarendon Press. 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. Scholar's name to ffep Bonnie Maclachlan née Ward. DJ has 1 tiny tear 1 cm and faint edgewear.; In the sixth century B. C. Pherekydes of Syros the reputed teacher of Pythagoras and a contemporary of Thales and Anaximander wrote a book about the birth of the gods and the origin of the cosmos. Considered one of the first prose works of Greek literature Pherekydes' book survives only in fragments. Drawing on these fragments as well as the ancient testimonies Schibli here reconstructs the theo-cosmological schema of Pherekydes. From the mythopoeic creation account colorful narratives of a divine marriage and a battle of the gods and his remarks on the soul Pherekydes emerges as a figure who moved between myth and philosophy and as an important witness to early Greek thought in its various manifestations.; 0.82 x 8.62 x 6.18 Inches; 240 pages . 0198143834 . Oxford Clarendon Press hardcover
2005w201029005Hatje Cantz 2005. 80pp. Beige cloth hardback with DJ VG small red ink mark on spine edge Collection of portraits by Irving Penn while in the West African country Dahomey in 1967 Photographs of Dahomey 1967 . Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Hatje Cantz Hardcover
19809303E. J. Brill. 1980. Softcover. Good. Scholar's name to ffep with his underlining and marginalia in red and black pen. Small stains to back wrap. No other defects.; Studies in Greek and Roman Religion Vol 1; 264 pages; Collection of Wagenvoort's papers in an English translation. . 9004061959 . E. J. Brill paperback
