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200441938London: Orion 2004. First edition first prnt. Illustrated by Geoffrey Taylor. Signed by Paver on the title page. Includes an illustrated booklet with the same title containing the first four chapters of the novel and author's note distributed for promotional purposes by Ottaker's. 5.5 x 8.5 inches glossy pictoral stapled wraps. 30pp. The booklet is an unread copy in Fine condition. The book is an unread copy in Fine condition in a Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. First volume in Paver's "Chronicles of Ancient Darkness" series. Paver's first book. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Advance Reader's Excerpt. Orion Hardcover
201215567Éditions Latomus. 2012. Softcover. Fine. Mythos generell und der Troja-Mythos im besonderen der sich vor allem um die Gestalten von Paris und Helena rankt war immer schon offen für unterschiedliche Deutungen konnte daher auch für die Vermittlung politischer oder ideologischer Botschaften „maniuliert“ werden. In diesem Buch werden zwei unterschiedliche und doch vergleichbarte Beispiele präsentiert: Ovid läßt in Heroides 16 und 17 bzw. Heroides 5 Paris und Helena bzw. Die von Paris verlassene Nymphe Oenone den Mythos von Urteil des Paris und dessen Liebe zu Helena jeweils anders erzählen. Es handelt sich dabei nicht bloß um literarisches Spiel sondern Ovid reflektiert auf einer Metaebene allgemein über das Problem der Manipulierbarkeit des Mythos im speziellen des Mythos über Troja und Aeneas durch Vergil zum Zweck panegyrischer Aussagen. Am Ende des 11. Jh. Dichtet Baudri von Bourgueil ebenfalls ein Versepistelpaar in dem er zeigt wie Paris und Helena ihren eigenen Mythos bzw. Dessen allegorische Aussage mißverstehen und derart ins Unglück stürzen. Dasselbe Problem der richtigen d. H. Nicht manipulierenden Deutung von Mythos und der Dichtung die von solchen Mythen handelt liegt auch dem poetischen Brief Baudris an die Nonne Constantia und deren vom Dichter fingierten Antwort zugrunde – ein Problem das Baudri persönlich betraf da er wegen seiner Dichtungen in ovidischem Stil Kritik ausgesetzt war.; Collection Latomus Volume 334; 105 pages . 287031275X . Éditions Latomus paperback
200318729Oxford University Press. 2003. Hardcover. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket. Very faint spotting to top of textblock. Else book is fine. Dustjacket is protected in plastic sleeve.; In this book Andrew Erskine examines the role and meaning of Troy in the changing relationship between Greeks and Romans as Rome is transformed from a minor Italian city into a Mediterranean superpower. The book seeks to understand the significance of Rome's Trojan origins for the Greeks by considering the place of Troy and Trojans in Greek culture. It moves beyond the more familiar spheres of art and literature to explore the countless overlapping local traditions the stories that cities told about themselves a world often neglected by scholars.; 336 pages . 0199240337 . Oxford University Press hardcover
200316159Oxford University Press. 2003. Paperback. Near Fine. In this book Andrew Erskine examines the role and meaning of Troy in the changing relationship between Greeks and Romans as Rome is transformed from a minor Italian city into a Mediterranean superpower. The book seeks to understand the significance of Rome's Trojan origins for the Greeks by considering the place of Troy and Trojans in Greek culture. It moves beyond the more familiar spheres of art and literature to explore the countless overlapping local traditions the stories that cities told about themselves a world often neglected by scholars.; 336 pages . 0199265801 . Oxford University Press paperback
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
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
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
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
2013210705-MB50Three Hands Press 2013. Very Good Hardcover with Very Good dustjacket As New. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Three Hands Press Hardcover
202242479Oxford University Press. 2022. Softcover. Very Good in Near Fine dust jacket. Underlining in pencil to a few pages.; Oxford Classical Monographs; 9.44 X 1.11 X 6.49 inches; 302 pages . 0198864760 . Oxford University Press paperback
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
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
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
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
2004201231-MB12Ashfield Press 2004. Very Good Hardcover . Softcover. Very Good. Ashfield Press Paperback
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
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
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
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
20096721Franz Steiner Verlag. 2009. Softcover. Fine. 183 pages; The constructive and critical-reflexive potential of myth in its varied literary and everyday contexts is the focus of this volume. Taking a wide-ranging interdisciplinary approach the contributions study universal concepts and life models in pre-modern myths from a variety of angles. They focus on humans heroes and gods as the protagonists of myths mythopoietics and the constant actualization instrumentalization transformation and presentation of mythical themes in vase painting architecture and literature. German text. . 3515092943 . Franz Steiner Verlag paperback
201215566Latomus. 2012. Softcover. Fine. Among the stories surrounding the legendary foundation of the city of Rome by the twins Romulus and Remus previous scholarly attention has focused primarily on one scene – the depiction of the she-wolf nursing the twins following their miraculous salvation from the floodwaters of the Tiber. This book examines another event in the cycle the conception of the twins in which the Vestal Virgin Rhea Silvia is visited in her sleep and raped by the god Mars. Some fifty-one examples of the encounter of Mars and Rhea Silvia are analyzed drawn from coins relief sculpture gems wall painting mosaics and pottery covering a time frame from the motif’s origin in the early 1st century B. C. To its disappearance in the late 4th century A. D. An analysis of the scene's iconographical evolution and its documented periods of popularity both in the public and private sphere are associated with contemporary trends in Roman literature religion and art. This monograph on the representation of Mars and Rhea Silvia is not simply a self-contained study of a single motif over a specific time frame. Within the realm of Roman art the book discusses larger issues concerning the relationship between art myth and religion and political propaganda drawing from methodologies of appropriation Kopienkritik word and image semiotics and memory culture. As such the book constitutes a case study whose conclusions may serve as guidelines for the study of Roman art in general.; Collection Latomus Volume 336; 241 pages . 2870312776 . Latomus paperback
200311036Latomus. 2003. Softcover. Fine. Collection Latomus Volume 278; 268 pages . 2870312199 . Latomus paperback
20068233Éditions Latomus. 2006. Softcover. Fine. Collection Latomus Volume 299; 246 pages . 2870312407 . Éditions Latomus paperback
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
200233744Cambridge University Press. 2002. Hardcover. Very Good in No Dust Jacket dust jacket. Minor pencil marginalia to some pages by Jenifer Neils.; Stories take time to tell; Greek and Roman artists had to convey them in static images. How did they go about it How could they ensure that their scenes would be recognized What problems did they have How did they solve them This generously illustrated book explores the ways classical artists portrayed a variety of myths. It explains how formulas were devised for certain stories; how these inventions could be adapted developed and even transferred to other myths; how one myth could be distinguished from another; what links there were with daily life and historical propaganda; the influence of changing tastes and problems still outstanding. Examples are drawn from a wide range of media--vases murals mosaics sarcophagi sculpture--used by the ancient Greeks and Romans. The myths are mostly those that are also easily recognized in later works of art. No previous knowledge of the subject is assumed all examples are illustrated and all names terms and concepts are fully explained. Susan Woodford teaches Greek and Roman art at the University of London and is engaged in research for the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities at the British Museum. A former Fullbright Scholar and Woodrow Wilson Fellow she and is author of The Parthenon Cambridge 1981 The Art of Greece Cornell 1993 An Introduction to Greek Art Cornell 1986 and The Trojan War in Ancient Art Cornell 1993.; 10.2 X 7.2 X 0.9 inches; 332 pages . 0521782678 . Cambridge University Press hardcover
