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Very minor shelfwear else Fine. Scholar's name on ffep (Douglas LePan). ; Contains, in chronological order, all the articles, review articles and reviews published by L. E. Woodbury from 1945 to 1989. Mainly focused on Greek Poetry especially Pindar. ; Scholars Press Homage Series; 629 pages
For thousands of years, and in many different cultures, cities, and states, individuals have consulted oracles in time of need. In this fascinating exploration of the history and enduring popularity of oracles, Michael Wood examines how they are interpreted and why.The inherent ambiguity of many oracular pronouncements and the ingenuity and tendentiousness of many readings of them form the basis for Woods analyses of oracles, both real and imagined. Using examples from actual oracles at Delphi, Dodona, and in pre-Hispanic America to fictional-but influential-oracles in literature from Oedipus to Macbeth, Wood combines storytelling and commentary to provide an entertaining and concise account of humanitys persistent faith in signs. He also looks at later instances of oracles, arguing that consultations have evolved in many ways over the years, and that echoes and survivals of old practices in modern literature and popular culture.continue to exert an important influence over human civilization. Lively, engaging, and remarkably revealing, The Road to Delphi shows an ancient art at work in many times and places, and invites us to think again about the ways in which we deal with our longing for the certainties we know we cant have.271p. bibliography. index Book
Light browning to pages. Rubbing to extremities. Light creasing to front wrap. ; Looks the unprecedented prominence Athenian democracy gave to free labour. ; 224 pages
'When Matthew loses a tooth, Jessica decides to make the Tooth Fairy's visit doubly worthwhile. Fantastic for encouraging children to keep their teeth clean enough to warrant a place in the 'hall of perfect teeth'. Book
Where do balloons go at bedtime? Matthew has the answer but, as usual, his bossy older sister Jessica needs to see the proof. A fun book that takes the reader on a journey to the imaginary land of Balloonia. Book
Very minor shelfwear to DJ. ; 208 pages; In 404 BCE the Peloponnesian War finally came to an end, when the Athenians, starved into submission, were forced to accept Sparta's terms of surrender. Shortly afterwards a group of thirty conspirators, with Spartan backing ("the Thirty") , overthrew the democracy and established a narrow oligarchy. Although the oligarchs were in power for only thirteen months, they killed more than 5 percent of the citizenry and terrorized the rest by confiscating the property of some and banishing many others. Despite this brutality, members of the democratic resistance movement that regained control of Athens came to terms with the oligarchs and agreed to an amnesty that protected collaborators from prosecution for all but the most severe crimes. The war and subsequent reconciliation of Athenian society has been a rich field for historians of ancient Greece. From a rhetorical and ideological standpoint, this period is unique because of the extraordinary lengths to which the Athenians went to maintain peace. In Remembering Defeat, Andrew Wolpert claims that the peace was "negotiated and constructed in civic discourse" and not imposed upon the populace. Rather than explaining why the reconciliation was successful, as a way of shedding light on changes in Athenian ideology Wolpert uses public speeches of the early fourth century to consider how the Athenians confronted the troubling memories of defeat and civil war, and how they explained to themselves an agreement that allowed the conspirators and their collaborators to go unpunished. Encompassing rhetorical analysis, trauma studies, and recent scholarship on identity, memory, and law, Wolpert's study sheds new light on a pivotal period in Athens' history.
Former owner's name and author's signature on ffep else fine. DJ has very minor shelfwear. ; 208 pages; In 404 BCE the Peloponnesian War finally came to an end, when the Athenians, starved into submission, were forced to accept Sparta's terms of surrender. Shortly afterwards a group of thirty conspirators, with Spartan backing ("the Thirty") , overthrew the democracy and established a narrow oligarchy. Although the oligarchs were in power for only thirteen months, they killed more than 5 percent of the citizenry and terrorized the rest by confiscating the property of some and banishing many others. Despite this brutality, members of the democratic resistance movement that regained control of Athens came to terms with the oligarchs and agreed to an amnesty that protected collaborators from prosecution for all but the most severe crimes. The war and subsequent reconciliation of Athenian society has been a rich field for historians of ancient Greece. From a rhetorical and ideological standpoint, this period is unique because of the extraordinary lengths to which the Athenians went to maintain peace. In Remembering Defeat, Andrew Wolpert claims that the peace was "negotiated and constructed in civic discourse" and not imposed upon the populace. Rather than explaining why the reconciliation was successful, as a way of shedding light on changes in Athenian ideology Wolpert uses public speeches of the early fourth century to consider how the Athenians confronted the troubling memories of defeat and civil war, and how they explained to themselves an agreement that allowed the conspirators and their collaborators to go unpunished. Encompassing rhetorical analysis, trauma studies, and recent scholarship on identity, memory, and law, Wolpert's study sheds new light on a pivotal period in Athens' history. ; Signed by Author
23x15 cm. 775 [xvi+759] pages. Hardcover. Cover slightly stained.First blank page torn. Else in good condition. PLEASE NOTE: This item is overweight. We may ask for extra shipping costs.
Dustjacket is protected in mylar. Minor scuffing to boards. ; 1.1 x 9.2 x 6.2 Inches; 379 pages; The names of early Germanic warrior tribes and leaders resound in songs and legends; the real story of the part they played in reshaping the ancient world is no less gripping. Herwig Wolfram's panoramic history spans the great migrations of the Germanic peoples and the rise and fall of their kingdoms between the third and eighth centuries, as they invaded, settled in, and ultimately transformed the Roman Empire. As Germanic military kings and their fighting bands created kingdoms, and won political and military recognition from imperial governments through alternating confrontation and accommodation, the "tribes" lost their shared culture and social structure, and became sharply differentiated. They acquired their own regions and their own histories, which blended with the history of the empire. In Wolfram's words, "the Germanic peoples neither destroyed the Roman world nor restored it; instead, they made a home for themselves within it. " This story is far from the "decline and fall" interpretation that held sway until recent decades. Wolfram's narrative, based on his sweeping grasp of documentary and archaeological evidence, brings new clarity to a poorly understood period of Western history.
"These translations are in the order of the Loeb edition of the Greek Anthology, The translator's aim has been to follow the original as close as he could " 119p. Slight soiling to cream coloured boards and minor wear to spine. Gift inscription -1928 - to previous owner -on ffep Book
An anthology of different translations of ancient Greek poems."The order in which the translations are printed follows that of the Loeb edition, except for the first two poems." This appears to be earlier than the poems included"Others Abide" 1927.Tightly stitched text block in paper over board covers, handwritten label with this title. 30p.No publisher, No date. slight foxing [ There is no title page and the last poem [p 31] is missing and it appears to a rebind of the Ernest Benn edition c.1924-26 . Book
Endpapers browned. Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). Front hinge just starting to crack. Minor rubbing to boards. (possibly rebound? ) ; Full title continues: sive de Operum Homericorum prisca et genuina forma variisque mutationibus et probabili ratione emendandi. Volumen I ; 307 pages
Lower corners lightly bumped. Foxing/dustsoiling to top of textblock. Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). DJ has minor edgewear. ; This edition is meant to take the Prolegomena accessible to modern readers. The introduction sets Wolf's ideas in their historical context. The translation provides a guide to the Latin text of his work. ; 280 pages
Shelfwear (light curling of bottom corner of first few pages) and rubbing to wraps. Scholar's name on ffep (Jasper Griffin). Light marginalia in pencil in Griffin's hand. ; Beiträge Zur Klassischen Philologie Heft 34; 155 pages
Scholars' name to ffep (Mark Golden). Very light shelfwear to book. ; Exchanges of women between men occur regularly in Greek tragedy—and almost always with catastrophic results. Instead of cementing bonds between men, such exchanges rend them. They allow women, who should be silent objects, to become monstrous subjects, while men often end up as lifeless corpses. But why do the tragedies always represent the transferal of women as disastrous? Victoria Wohl offers an illuminating analysis of the exchange of women in Sophocles' Trachiniae, Aeschylus' Agamemnon, and Euripides' Alcestis. She shows how the attempts of women in these plays to become active subjects rather than passive objects of exchange inevitably fail. While these failures seem to validate male hegemony, the women's actions, however futile, blur the distinction between male subject and female object, calling into question the very nature of the tragic self. What the tragedies thus present, Wohl asserts, is not only an affirmation of Athens' reigning ideologies (including its gender hierarchy) but also the possibility of resistance to them and the imagination of alternatives. ; 332 pages
Gift inscription from author to ffep. Light shelfwear. ; Drama Beiträge Zum Antiken Drama Und Seiner Rezeption Beiheft 7; 400 pages; Signed by Author
123pp., 21cm., Doctoral Dissertation (Inaugural-Dissertation der Philosophischen Fakultät der Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg), softcover, stamp at verso of title page, text is clean and bright, P112780
E. J. Brill, Leyden. 1946. In-8 Carré. Broché. Bon état. Couv. convenable. Dos satisfaisant. Quelques rousseurs. 210 pages. Het Schrift en de Klankleer. Declinatio. Nomina. Adverbia. Thematische Coniugatie...
Light browning to wraps. Former owner's name to ffep in black marker. ; Contents: The Problem; The Polymetric Short Poems (1-60) ; The Long Poems and the Epigrams (61-116) ; Chronological Consequences; Lesbia--When? Lesbia--Who? Index of Catullan passages. ; 70 pages
Light discoloration to spine. Scholar's name to inner cover (J. B. Clinard). ; 212 pages; Consists of twelve separate but inter-connected essays on poetry and personalities in late-republican Rome. Contents: The two worlds of Titus Lucretius; Cinna the Poet; Structural Patterns in Catullus; Catullus, 'poem 68'; Lesbia and her Children; Who was Gellius? The Good Goddess; The Go-Between; Two friends of Clodius in Cicero's Letters; Clodius at the Theatre; Pyxis Caeliana; The Last of the Metelli.
Light discoloration to spine. Scholar's initials to ffep (P. G. Walsh). Includes tipped-in typed letter from Wiseman to Walsh. ; 212 pages; Consists of twelve separate but inter-connected essays on poetry and personalities in late-republican Rome. Contents: The two worlds of Titus Lucretius; Cinna the Poet; Structural Patterns in Catullus; Catullus, 'poem 68'; Lesbia and her Children; Who was Gellius? The Good Goddess; The Go-Between; Two friends of Clodius in Cicero's Letters; Clodius at the Theatre; Pyxis Caeliana; The Last of the Metelli.
Small stain to foreedge of last few pages. Else very light shelfwear. ; 212 pages; Consists of twelve separate but inter-connected essays on poetry and personalities in late-republican Rome. Contents: The two worlds of Titus Lucretius; Cinna the Poet; Structural Patterns in Catullus; Catullus, 'poem 68'; Lesbia and her Children; Who was Gellius? The Good Goddess; The Go-Between; Two friends of Clodius in Cicero's Letters; Clodius at the Theatre; Pyxis Caeliana; The Last of the Metelli.
Very light rubbing else Fine. ; Heidelberger Althistorische Beitrage Und Epigraphische Studien Band 47; Vol. 47; 283 pages; English summary: Human perception includes the division of space into left and right. In general, left holds a negative connotation: A clumsy man appears linkisch in German, links meaning left, and the term translates as awkward. If you conned him, he has been gelinkt. For a long time this negative coloring was also closely associated with the image of left-handers: Left-handers were often regarded as disabled, appeared awkward and antisocial, and were exposed to discrimination. To understand the people of ancient Greece and Rome, one must understand the role right and left played in their perception and evaluation of the world. Henning Wirth studies the following questions from an ancient historical perspective: How did the Greeks and Romans perceive left? What role was provided to the left hand in a dominantly right-handed world, where the right hand attested Godly effectiveness? And how does one explain the phenomenon of left-handedness and assessment of left-handed people? German text. German description: Zur menschlichen Wahrnehmung gehort die Einteilung des Raumes in links und rechts. Dabei ist links in der Regel negativ konnotiert: Ein ungeschickter Mensch erscheint alinkisch. Hat man ihn betrogen, so hat man ihn agelinkt. Lange Zeit war diese Negativfarbung auch eng mit dem Bild uber Linkshander verknupft: Linkshander galten oftmals als behindert, erschienen asozial und ungeschickt und waren Diskriminierungen ausgesetzt. Will man den Menschen der griechischen und romischen Antike verstehen, muss man nachvollziehen, welche Rolle rechts und links in seiner Wahrnehmung und Bewertung der Welt spielten. Aus althistorischer Perspektive untersucht Henning Wirth hier folgende Fragen: Welche Vorstellungen besassen Griechen und Romer von links' Welche Rolle war in einer mehrheitlich aus Rechtshandern bestehenden Welt, in der der rechten Hand gottliche Wirkkraft attestiert wurde, fur die linke Hand vorgesehen' Und wie erklarte man sich das Phanomen der Linkshandigkeit und bewertete linkshandige Menschen'
pp. [8], 587, [101]. Text in Greek and Latin on opposite pages. No extra engraved title as in some copies. Numerous typographic borders. Some pages set as typographic designs. Small 8vo. 158 mm. Early full leather binding; lacking 2" of leather at the tail of the spine. Text generally browned and loose, but not brittle, nor with any substantial loss. Numerous early manuscript notations and ownerships, including: Ambrose Lewis, 1657; Thomas Answorth, 1708; Jacob Dickinson, 1763; and Enoch Walker. An interesting copy of a very interesting book. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! SMALL BOX 5
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