Wunderlich, Hans-GeorgMareMagnum
The Secret History
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. In Very Good slipcase with slight wear and scuffing. 152 pages. 6 1/4"w x 9"h. Illustrations.
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Pastedown has piece missing from top of inner cover (2"). Dustjacket has minor shelfwear and rubbing. DJ spine is slight discolored. DJ has one small closed tear (1cm) ; Argues that Arthur Evans excavations at the Palace of king Minos at Knossos at Crete were instead at a necropolis. ; 367 pages
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. In Very Good slipcase with slight wear and scuffing. 152 pages. 6 1/4"w x 9"h. Illustrations.
Small format book about archaeological discoveries in Greece, but full of fascinating details and with interesting contemporary illustrations and good photographs. Translation of a book originally published in France by Gallimard. 175p. plates (some col.) bibliography. index. Book
Creasing to front wraps. Minor shelfwear. ; 192 pages
Creasing to front wraps. Minor shelfwear. ; 192 pages
Minor shelfwear. Supplement tipped in. ; 192 pages
Foxing to book. Scholar's bookplate to ffep (Philippa Goold née Forder). DJ has light edgewear and chipping. ; 454 pages; A fascinating biography, published to coincide with an exciting national television special and a major international art exhibition bringing hundreds of stunning royal relics from the Alexandrian age to Washington, D. C.' s National Gallery of Art, as well as to museums in Chicago, Boston, and San Francisco.
1 corner bumped. DJ has light edgewear and chipping with a couple of small tears. ; 454 pages; A fascinating biography, published to coincide with an exciting national television special and a major international art exhibition bringing hundreds of stunning royal relics from the Alexandrian age to Washington, D. C.' s National Gallery of Art, as well as to museums in Chicago, Boston, and San Francisco.
Former owner's name on ffep. Pencil underlining and marginalia on a few pages. Chipping to head and heel of spine. Spine is faded. ; With 32 full page illustrations from photographs. Looks at the archaeology, culture and history of Minoan Crete. ; 315 pages
"'The Sea! The Sea! ' tells the story of 'Thalatta! Thalatta!', the shout first uttered on a mountains in eastern Turkey by the famous Ten Thousand, the army of Greek mercenaries whose adventures in what are now Turkey, Syria and Iraq were described by the Athenian historian and philosopher Xenophon. The shout itself has had an extraordinary afterlife, playing a persistent part in the European and American cultural tradition over the last two hundred years. Tim Rood tells its story for the first time, taking in literary masterpieces by writers such as Heine, Shelley and Joyce, books of travel and adventure set in the Middle East and elsewhere, articles in Victorian periodicals, popular romance novels, newspaper editorials at the time of the British evacuation from Dunkirk, a painting by the nineteenth-century artist Benjamin Robert Haydon, an unpublished radio play by Louis MacNeice, and a modern novel and film which transfer Xenophon's story to New York City. 262p. illus. bibliography.index Book
Since Sandy Frederick first set foot on the volcanic Greek isle of Thera, this breathtaking place of ancient myth and mystery has haunted her dreams. Joining her estranged, obsessed father on a dive to find astonishing secrets from the ocean"s floor, she cannot shake the feeling that she was meant to be here; that some ancient, inscrutable power is calling to her. But there are others who have been eagerly waiting for her arrival to drag her into a tangled and terrifying web of secrets, dark superstition, betrayal, blood, and death. And suddenly Sandy"s heritage and her destiny could be her doom.342p, As new except for remainder matk. Book
Novel set in the Crete during WW II and the resistance to the German invasion. Vintage copy with some slight foxing to end papers and edges of pages.. 310p. Book
Minor scuffing to DJ. ; 0.77 x 8.57 x 6.23 Inches; 212 pages; Margaretha Lagerlöf provides a complete overview of current knowledge of the sculptures of the Parthenon and offers new interpretations of the ancient temple`s sculptural creations in this book. She considers what the sculptures reveal about the Greek sense of democracy, the nature of women`s lives, and the relationship between human beings and the gods.
Some underlining and notes by Jenifer Neils to some pages. Handwritten pages and review of book by Neils tipped in. Else VG. Light edgewear to DJ. ; 0.77 x 8.57 x 6.23 Inches; 212 pages; Margaretha Lagerlöf provides a complete overview of current knowledge of the sculptures of the Parthenon and offers new interpretations of the ancient temple`s sculptural creations in this book. She considers what the sculptures reveal about the Greek sense of democracy, the nature of women`s lives, and the relationship between human beings and the gods.
Sm. 8vo., First Edition, with 40 pages of plates and illustrations in the text; original series binding of pictorial boards, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. King Penguin 76.
Sm. 8vo., First Edition, with 40 pages of plates and illustrations in the text; original series binding of pictorial boards, a very good, bright copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. King Penguin 76.
Very light shelfwear to book. DJ has minor edgewear with a bit of chipping. DJ spine browned. ; 39pp + 40pp of plates. ; King Penguin Books, No.76; 79 pages
Fraying to top of spine with 3 inch tear along joint of backstrip, else VG. Contents sound and tight. With the ownership name of Ann Perkins to ffep. Corners a bit rounded. ; Revised ed. Xi, 259pp, + plates with 818 illustrations. ; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; 259 pages
Minor shelfwear to book. Scholar's name to ffep (Jenifer Neils). DJ is tattered with chipping and tears. Stapled review of book tipped in. ; Revised ed. Xi, 259pp, + plates with 818 illustrations. ; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; 259 pages
Book is fine. DJ has one small tear. ; The School of History fully encompasses recent scholarship in history, literature, and archaeology. Munn's impressive mastery of the huge number of sources and publications informs his substantial contributions to our understanding of this democracy transformed by war. Immersing us fully in the intellectual foment of Athenian society, The School of History traces the history of Athens at the peak of its influence, both as a political and military power in its own time and as a source of intellectual inspiration for the centuries to come. ; 525 pages
Book is fine. DJ has very minor shelfwear . ; The School of History fully encompasses recent scholarship in history, literature, and archaeology. Munn's impressive mastery of the huge number of sources and publications informs his substantial contributions to our understanding of this democracy transformed by war. Immersing us fully in the intellectual foment of Athenian society, The School of History traces the history of Athens at the peak of its influence, both as a political and military power in its own time and as a source of intellectual inspiration for the centuries to come. ; 525 pages
Light bumping to upper corners. Light chipping to 1 corner of DJ. ; This collection of writings presents the work of one of the most influential classical scholars of this century. The editors bring together for the first time Raubitschek's most significant publications, gathered from diverse and in many cases inaccessible sources. The selections include "The Treaties Between Persia and Athens," "The Peace Policy of Pericles," "Corinth and Athens Before the Peloponnesian War," "The Origin of Ostracism," "Theophrastos on Ostracism," "The Case Against Alcibiades," "The Priestess of Pandrosos," "The New Homer," "The Eleusinian Spondai," "The Speech of the Athenians at Sparta," "Andocides and Thucydides," and numerous book reviews. Together the essays provide rich insights into the ancient authors and monuments as they were meant to be understood in antiquity. ; 9.2 X 6.4 X 1.2 inches; 384 pages
DJ spine a bit sunned. Old price sticker to DJ. ; This collection of writings presents the work of one of the most influential classical scholars of this century. The editors bring together for the first time Raubitschek's most significant publications, gathered from diverse and in many cases inaccessible sources. The selections include "The Treaties Between Persia and Athens," "The Peace Policy of Pericles," "Corinth and Athens Before the Peloponnesian War," "The Origin of Ostracism," "Theophrastos on Ostracism," "The Case Against Alcibiades," "The Priestess of Pandrosos," "The New Homer," "The Eleusinian Spondai," "The Speech of the Athenians at Sparta," "Andocides and Thucydides," and numerous book reviews. Together the essays provide rich insights into the ancient authors and monuments as they were meant to be understood in antiquity. ; 9.2 X 6.4 X 1.2 inches; 384 pages
Light browning to endpapers. Some fraying to spine ends. Corners somewhat edgeworn. Some shelfwear. ; 490 pages
From a major new Greek writer, never before translated, a wide-ranging, muck-raking, beautifully written novel about the unsolved murder of an American journalist in Greece in the forties. In 1948, the body of an American journalist is found floating in the bay off Thessaloniki. A Greek journalist is tried and convicted for the murder . . . but when he is released twelve years later, he claims his confession was the result of torture.Flash forward to modern day Greece, where a young, disaffected high school student is given an assignment for a school project: find the truth. Based on the real story of famed CBS reporter George Polk [ Journalism's prestigious Polk Awards were named after him] who was investigating embezzlement of U.S. aid by the right-wing Greek government, Nikolaidou's novel is a sweeping saga that brings together the Greece of the post-war period with the current era, where the country finds itself facing turbulent political times once again.Told by key players in the story - the dashing journalist's Greek widow; the mother and sisters of the convicted man; the brutal Thessaloniki Chief of Police; a U.S. Foreign Office investigator - it is the modern-day student who is most affecting of them all, as he questions truth, justice and sacrifice . . . and how the past is always with us. The author won the 2010 Athens Prize for Literatur/ 247p. Name on ffep, else New. Book
