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193013320New York: E. P. Dutton & Co. Inc. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1930. Hardcover. Grey cloth cover with gilt lettering on spine. Cover has minimal wear lettering has darkened and spine faded. Binding sound pages clean and unmarked. Top edge of text block is darkened. Lacking DJ. With 16 plates. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 349 pages . E. P. Dutton & Co. , Inc hardcover
197246327NY: St. Martin's Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Wrinkled half title page in volume II. 1972. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. A four-volume classic of Middle Eastern folklore and literature and what is more commonly referred to as The Arabian Nights. Blue cloth with blue topstain. Vol I: vii 644 pages; Vol II: vi 592 pages; Vol III: vi 569 pages; Vol IV: vii 537 pages. Translator's note and table of contents for each volume. The Mathers translation is for the reader who admires candor and language as well as conduct. Those who comprehend their origin and background will not misunderstand the character of these tales but will enjoy them for what they are - the world's most vivid and absorbing stories. front flap of volume one ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . St. Martin's 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
199533577E. J. Brill. 1995. Hardcover. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. Minor creasing and edgewear to DJ. Very light wear to book.; Religions in the Graeco-Roman World; 473 pages; The Early Amazons offers a new understanding of the ancient Amazon myth situating mythical representations in the realm of cultural history. The first section examines how the Amazons have presented a challenge to views on history myth and gender in classical mythology from the late eighteenth century up to the impact of structuralism. Topics included are nineteenth-century historiography and the interest in linguistics. The second section sheds new light on the culture of archaic Greece offering a coherent assessment of literary and visual representations. Taking mythical narrative as a form of oral storytelling it shows the emergence of the Amazon motif and its meaning in the world of epic. Iconographical analysis reveals how the visual arts have made a contribution of their own to the imaginary presence of the Amazons. . 9004100776 . E. J. Brill hardcover
199518694E. J. Brill. 1995. Hardcover. Very Good in No Dust Jacket dust jacket. Front upper corner bumped and a bit creased. Else light shelfwear.; Religions in the Graeco-Roman World; 473 pages; The Early Amazons offers a new understanding of the ancient Amazon myth situating mythical representations in the realm of cultural history. The first section examines how the Amazons have presented a challenge to views on history myth and gender in classical mythology from the late eighteenth century up to the impact of structuralism. Topics included are nineteenth-century historiography and the interest in linguistics. The second section sheds new light on the culture of archaic Greece offering a coherent assessment of literary and visual representations. Taking mythical narrative as a form of oral storytelling it shows the emergence of the Amazon motif and its meaning in the world of epic. Iconographical analysis reveals how the visual arts have made a contribution of their own to the imaginary presence of the Amazons. . 9004100776 . E. J. Brill hardcover
1911200914-MB15Rand McNally 1911. Very Good Hardcover pictorial cover 12 color plates plus b & w illustrations throughout by Lucy Fitch Perkins . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Illus. by Perkins Lucy Fitch. Rand McNally Hardcover
1954210128-MB71Prague: Artisan Books 1954. Very Good Hardcover color illustrations text in English . First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Cover. Artisan Books Hardcover
199648221Norwalk CT: The Easton Press 1996. 4to. 159 1 pp. Colour frontisp. 6 colour plates. Full burgundy-coloured calf elaborate gilt & red illustrated decorative border on front cover & spine gilt lettering raised bands silk endpapers a.e.g. NF copy. First Easton Press edition of this beloved collection of Fairy Tale stories by the noted author of Babes in Toyland and the wonderful illustrations of Jessie Willcox Smith. The Easton Press, hardcover
191250353Boston: Little Brown and Company. Good with no dust jacket; Usual library stamps and markings pages toned . and finger soiling throughout spine cocked. 1912. First Edition. Hardcover. Ex-library copy rebound in orange patterned reinforced cloth. xii 333pp. Black and white plates and many other smaller elegant illustrations by Alexander Popini. A collection of 41 fairy tales from Grimm and Andersen as well as traditional fairy tales from Greece Norway Roumania Ireland India Turkey China and some other countries. Johnson notes in his introduction that he has edited the stories to remove savagery distressing details and excessive pathos and removed references to cruel fathers and wicked stepmothers. ; Ex-Library; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . Little, Brown, and Company hardcover
20052675D. S. Brewer. 2005. Hardcover. Very Good in No Dust Jacket dust jacket. Library barcode on ffep--however no other library markings. Cloth has a tear along bottom of spine-- 2" but does not cut through the actual board.; The essays in this volume offer a general overview and a number of detailed examinations of Arthur's fortunes in two senses. First is the role of Fortune itself often personified and consistently instrumental in accounts of Arthur's court and reign. More generally the articles trace the trajectory of the Arthurian legend - its birth rise and decline - through the middle ages. The final essay follows the continued turning of Fortune's wheel emphasizing the modern revival and flourishing of the legend. The authors all distinguished Arthurian scholars illustrate their arguments through studies of early Latin and Welsh sources chronicles romances in English French German Italian Latin and Welsh manuscript illustration and modern literary texts.; Arthurian Studies LXIV; 1.02 x 9.21 x 6.22 Inches; 288 pages . 1843840618 . D. S. Brewer hardcover
1979201226-MB37Oxford Univ Press 1979. Fine in Fine dustjacket as new first edition . First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Oxford Univ Press hardcover
183238233Philadelphia: Carey & Lea. Good with no dust jacket. 1832. 1st. Hardcover. Complete in two volumes. Light to moderate spotting. Paper covered boards. Unopened. Half titles present. Morgenthauer vol II c. Sound copies. A novel of 16th century Germany that focuses on the friction between the classes and the darker side of the Reformation. . Carey & Lea 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
1987180527-MYB98Dorset Press 1987. Very Good Hardcover with Very Good dustjacket illustrated folio 491 pages . Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Folio. Dorset Press hardcover
199736084British Archaeological Reports. 1997. Softcover. Very Good. A bit of waviness to some plate pages. Else minor shelfwear.; British Archaeological Reports B. A. R. International Series 671; 11.7 X 8.3 X 0.8 inches; 276 pages . 0860548627 . British Archaeological Reports paperback
1976LILG00002Chicago: Nelson-Hall 1976 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Maroon paper-covered boards textured to resemble cloth light grey endpapers and dust jacket v 188 pp 8 b & w illustrations notes bibliography index. Top edge lightly spotted a bit of wear to head & tail of spine one corner lightly bumped else as new. Price-clipped DJ browned rubbed a bit at joints and corners a bit of soil and a sticker mark on front panel; in Brodart archival cover. Shipping weight 2 lbs. International 1 lb. 8 oz. First Edition. . Near Fine/Near Fine. 22 X 14½ cm. Nelson-Hall Hardcover
196154811Paris: Printed in France at the Imp. M. Gros 155 rue de belleville 1961. 4to. 10 x 10 in. 14 pp unpaginated. Colour-illustrated throughout w/ 10 in. 33 1/3 rpm vinyl LP inserted into rear pocket still retaining original protective sleeve. Colour-illustrated stiff softcovers slight shelfwear NF copy. First edition in English of this Atlas Tale-Spinners interactive version of the beloved fairy tale with voiceovers including Denise Bryer Jocelyn Page Judith Whale Gillian Wood and Peggy Butt. Bryer b. 1928 is perhaps best remembered as the voice actress as Twizzle in the late 1950s Adventures of Twizzle Terrahawks science fiction series as well as the Junk Lady in Labyrinth. Worldcat locates 1 copy National Library of New Zealand. Printed in France at the Imp. M. Gros, 155, rue de belleville, paperback
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
1972210731-MB77Doubleday & Company 1972. Very Good Hardcover with dustjacket color illustrations . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Doubleday & Company Hardcover
1998987Greenwood Press. 1998. Hardcover. Very Good in No Dust Jacket dust jacket. One corner is bumped. Light shelfwear.; Signed by author: "To Lillian Feder-- who helped me find the path that would lead to this book and guided my first steps along the way. With warm regards Lillian"; Contributions to the Study of World Literature; 0.95 x 9.56 x 6.38 Inches; 264 pages; Corti focuses on the meaning and importance of the act of child murder in literary treatments of the ancient myth. She insists on the connection between the structure of tragedy and the psychology of abuse arguing that the tragedy of Medea dramatizes the violent hostility toward children which is always potentially present in patriarchal culture despite the conspicuous emphasis on positive descriptions of parental love in officially sanctioned discourse.; Signed by Author . 0313305366 . Greenwood Press hardcover
197837534Yale University Press. 1978. Hardcover. Near Fine in No Dust Jacket dust jacket. 178 pages . 0300019408 . Yale University Press hardcover
19982961Oxford University Press. 1998. Hardcover. Fine in Very Good dust jacket. Dustjacket has minor shelfwear and rubbing.; A large number of Greek religious poems in hexameter were attributed to Orpheus as they were to similar miracle-man figures like Bakis Musaeus Abaris Aristeas Epimenides and the Sybil. Of this vast literature only two examples survive whole: a set of hymns composed at some point in the 2nd or 3rd century AD and an Orphic Argonautica composed somewhere between the 4th and 6th centuries AD. Earlier Orphic literature which may date back as far as the 6th century BC survives only in papyrus scraps or in quotations by later authors.; 296 pages; Sandpiper reprint of 1983 Edition. . 0198148542 . Oxford University Press hardcover
201433780New York: A.A.Knopf 2014 Book. As New. Hardcover. 1st US Edition. Built in the fifth century b.c. the Parthenon has been venerated for more than two millennia as the West's ultimate paragon of beauty and proportion. Since the Enlightenment it has also come to represent our political ideals the lavish temple to the goddess Athena serving as the model for our most hallowed civic architecture. But how much do the values of those who built the Parthenon truly correspond with our own And apart from the significance with which we have invested it what exactly did this marvel of human hands mean to those who made it In this revolutionary book Joan Breton Connelly challenges our most basic assumptions about the Parthenon and the ancient Athenians. Beginning with the natural environment and its rich mythic associations she re-creates the development of the Acropolis -the Sacred Rock at the heart of the city-state- from its prehistoric origins to its Periklean glory days as a constellation of temples among which the Parthenon stood supreme. In particular she probes the Parthenon's legendary frieze: the 525-foot-long relief sculpture that originally encircled the upper reaches before it was partially destroyed by Venetian cannon fire in the seventeenth century. . The frieze's vast enigmatic procession -a dazzling pageant of cavalrymen and elders musicians and maidens - has for more than two hundred years been thought to represent a scene of annual civic celebration in the birthplace of democracy. But thanks to a once-lost play by Euripides the discovery of which in the wrappings of a Hellenistic Egyptian mummy is only one of this book's intriguing adventures Connelly has uncovered a long-buried meaning a story of human sacrifice set during the city's mythic founding. In a society startlingly preoccupied with cult ritual this story was at the core of what it meant to be Athenian. Connelly reveals a world that beggars our popular notions of Athens as a city of staid philosophers rationalists and rhetoricians a world in which our modern secular conception of democracy would have been simply incomprehensible. The Parthenon's full significance has been obscured until now owing in no small part Connelly argues to the frieze's dismemberment. And so her investigation concludes with a call to reunite the pieces in order that what is perhaps the greatest single work of art surviving from antiquity may be viewed more nearly as its makers intended. Marshalling a breathtaking range of textual and visual evidence full of fresh insights woven into a thrilling narrative that brings the distant past to life The Parthenon Enigma is sure to become a landmark in our understanding of the civilization from which we claim cultural descent. 512p. illus some col bibliographyindex Remainder mark else new . A.A.Knopf hardcover
19707491New Delhi: Hemkunt Press 1970. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Printing of the First Edition. Fine but for traces of wear to extremities and a small scrape on back cover. Hemkunt Press Hardcover
