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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
2009149886<p><strong>THE GREEK FOLK SONG - From 1821 to the 1950's</strong></p><p>In greek. Hard cover 30x25 cm 376 pp. ill.; net weight 2340 gr.</p><p><em>Ένα βιβλίο για την ιστοÏία του ÎµÎ»Î»Î·Î½Î¹ÎºÎ¿Ï Ï„ÏÎ±Î³Î¿Ï…Î´Î¹Î¿Ï ÏŒÏ€Ï‰Ï‚ αυτό διαμοÏφώθηκε από την πεÏίοδο της ΕθνεγεÏσίας μÎχÏι και το Ï€Ïώτο ήμισυ του 20Î¿Ï Î±Î¹ÏŽÎ½Î±. ΚαταγÏάφεται η ποÏεία του ÎµÎ»Î»Î·Î½Î¹ÎºÎ¿Ï Ï„ÏÎ±Î³Î¿Ï…Î´Î¹Î¿Ï ÏƒÎµ σχÎση με τα ιστοÏικά γεγονότα και τις κοινωνικÎÏ‚ συνθήκες κάθε εποχής. Το πλοÏσιο εικονογÏαφικό υλικό που συνοδεÏει και συμπληÏώνει το κείμενο Ï€ÏοÎÏχεται κατά κÏÏιο λόγο από το Ελληνικό Λογοτεχνικό και ΙστοÏικό ΑÏχείο Ε.Λ.Ι.Α. καθώς και από άλλα ιδιωτικά και δημόσια αÏχεία.</em></p><p>==============================================================</p><p><strong><em><strong>The shipping cost estimated by the system covers books weighing up to 750 gr.; a surcharge depending on the actual weight and destination applies for heavier books.</strong></em></strong></p> Commercial Bank of Greece hardcover
2021S6656<p>Athens 2021. <strong>In Greek</strong>. Soft cover 24 cm 504 pp. ill. ISBN: 9789609826174.<br /><br />Therasia is a suitable field for the observation of small island communities having preserved significant traces of a cultural landscape connected with the diachronic ekistic history of the island the uses of land and the perception and experience of the space by human communities on the past. These traces have been recorded in the context of the Island Cultures in a Diachronic Perspective: The Case of Therasia research project and the ongoing excavations on the island. This volume focusses on the geological archaeological and historical research carried out on Therasia in order to gain an understanding of the history of the landscape in the longue duree from prehistory to the 21st century. The research combines archaeological survey geological and geophysical study and excavation methods while the investigation of the available historical sources and archival research complete the wide range of sources data and perspectives.</p> Ta Pragmata paperback
2015S1087<p>An illustrated folk-tale of Cyprus. Multilingual greek-english-french-russian edition. Soft cover 28 cm 84 pp.; net weight 490 gr.</p><p>======================================================</p> paperback
2006PO-14London U.K.: Continuum Publishing 2006. This volume brings together research from international scholars focusing attention on the longevity and complexity of Blake`s reception in Japan and elsewhere in the East. It is designed as not only a celebration of his art and poetry in new and unexpected contexts but also to contest the intensely nationalistic and parochial Englishness of his work and in broader terms the inevitable passivity with which Romanticism and other Western intellectual movements have been received in the Orient. 348 pgs. Illustrated. Dustjacket in mylar. First Edition. Hard Cover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Continuum Publishing 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
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
2011157534<p>In English. Hard cover 28x25 cm 296 pp. 170 images; net weight 2110 gr. ISBN: 978-960-6878-37-4.</p><p>For many centuries the chest was the only piece of storage furniture to be found in the Greek home. Highly valuable as a functional item its connection with a wide range of everyday events and the most important stations in a person’s life birth marriage and death gave the chest at a very early date a more profound symbolical meaning in the imagination of the Greek people. Using this observation as their starting point the authors of the book go beyond the systematic presentation of the general typological features of Greek chests and their local variations. Drawing on rich seams of Greek folklore and the fruits of many years of field research in every corner of Greece they offer an in-depth interpretation of the wealth of decoration found on chests in the hope of providing a key that will unlock the secrets of these forgotten pieces of furniture and draw out the treasures of the Greek psyche that lie concealed within them.</p><p>.</p><p>.</p><p>================================================</p><p><b>IMPORTANT: The shipping cost in not included in the price. You will have to approve it at confirmation of the order.</b></p> Kapon 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
2002260492Lancaster: Scotforth Books 2002. 1st. Hardback. Fine/Fine. First edition hardback 2002 with unclipped jacket. In overall fine unread condition. Binding tight and appears almost unopened. Internally clean no annotation or inscriptions; text and illustrations bright and clear throughout. Photographs available. Not an old library book. Scotforth Books 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
2003104410<p>Benaki Museum 2003. Bilingual Greek-English edition. Soft cover 22x24 cm 76 pp. 49 color photos. The book portrays typical scenes from pastoral life and in particular the process of making cheese on the high meadows madares of the central White Mountains of Crete through the lens of Alexis Vallianos. The photographs are preceded by two texts about the history of the province of Sfakia and the life of the shepherds in the region.</p><p>"<em><strong>Sfakia. Quesos tradicionales. Los "mitata" de la zona central de las Montanas Blancas": </strong></em>La publicacion refleja a traves de la camara de Alexis Vallianos escenas caracteristicas de la vida de los pastores y especialmente del proceso de elaboracion del queso en los valles Madares de la zona central de las Montanas Blancas de Creta. A las fotografias preceden textos de dos escritores relativos a la historia de la zona de Sfakia y a la vida de los pastores de la region.</p> Benaki Museum 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
2001S6655<p>In French and modern Greek. Facsimile reprint of the first edition Μaisonneuve & Cie Libraires Editeurs Paris 1874. Brand new. Soft cover 21 cm 376 pp.</p><p>". Le "Recueil de chansons populaires grecques" aujourd' hui epuise et insuffisamment connu; et ce qui en fait le prix c' est moins encore la partie grecque deja tres interessante en elle-meme puisqu' elle est principalement composee de textes inedits rapportes d' Orient au XVIe siecle par Augier Busbeeq que la traduction francaise mise par Legrand en tete de ces chansons. Ceux-la seuls qui s'y sont essayes peuvent se rendre compte des multiples difficultes d'une pareille entreprise. Les idees que les Grecs aiment a mouler dans leur vers de quinze syllabes ne sont pas toujours poetiques; I' evenement le plus futile de la vie journaliere est souvent pour eux matiere a versification; c'est le rhythme et l'heureux choix de quelques mots composes qui font alors le charme de ces sortes de productions.".</p><p>==================================================================</p><p><b>IMPORTANT: The shipping cost is an important parameter of this order; it is in NOT included in the price and depends on the actual weight and destination; you will have to approve it after the confirmation of the order. You may ask for an estimate before placing the order at: dem.siatras@gmail.com</b></p> paperback
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
2007122438Athens: Indictus 2007. Brand new. Contes de Mycono. In greek. Soft cover book 2 CDs 24 cm 726 pp.; illustrated by Genevieve Couteau & Z. Iosefides. Indictus paperback
201824313U<p><em><strong>The Verses of the Songs of the Traditional Cypriot Marriage 4 VOLS.</strong></em></p><p>Nicosia 2018. In Greek. Four volumes. Soft cover 24 cm 1560 pp. ISBN: 9789925742103.</p><p><strong>VOL. 1:</strong> Τα Ï„ÏαοÏθκια του αντÏοΰνου<br /><strong>VOL. 2:</strong> Τα Ï„ÏαοÏθκια του γαμπÏοÏ<br /><strong>VOL. 3: </strong>Τα Ï„ÏαοÏθκια της νÏφης<br /><strong>VOL. 4: </strong>Τα Ï„ÏαοÏθκια του γάμου</p><p>.</p><p>.</p><p>==============================================================</p><p><b>IMPORTANT: The price does NOT include the shipping cost which depends on actual weight and destination. You will receive a message after placing the order with the exact cost and the options available; then you will have to approve / reject this cost; you may also ask about this cost before placing the order at dem.siatras@gmail.com .</b></p> 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
2004201231-MB12Ashfield Press 2004. Very Good Hardcover . Softcover. Very Good. Ashfield Press Paperback
