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199032142New York [u.a.] : Oxford University Press, 1990. XV, 362 S. (25 cm) Halbleinen / gebundene Ausgabe
Prefazione a cura dello stesso A., rilegatura in mezza tela editoriale, piatti cartonati, marroni e muti, dorso in verde con titoli arancio, sovraccoperta illustrata, con leggere tracce di polvere e normali segni di usura per scaffalatura, pagine ottimamente conservate, fioritura ai tagli e leggermente alle ultime carte. Numero pagine 362 USATO
Illustrated guide to locations of stories in Homer and the Greek dramatists - the geography behind the myths. English translation by Barbara Michaels 144p. illus (some col.) decorated end papers Book
1955008277London: Workers' Music Association Ltd. 1955. Founded in 1936 by composer and radical Alan Bush and still in operation the Workers' Music Association has long been a beacon for the rights and music of workers. This collection consists of 49 issues of the WMA Bulletin from the years 1955 -1959; May-Dec 1955 Annual Report 9 issues; 1956 11 issues including Annual Report; 1957 12 issues; 1958 8 issues; and 1959 9 issues. Additionally 14 related separate pieces of ephemera from both the WMA and Topic Records assorted brochures flyers and price lists. RARE collection individual copies of the Bulletin unfound in online market searches. Overall Very Good or better mailing stampings small corner creases. . First Printing. Stapled. Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Workers' Music Association, Ltd. Paperback books
1955008277London: Workers' Music Association Ltd. 1955. Journal. Very Good. No Binding. First Printing. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Founded in 1936 by composer and radical Alan Bush and still in operation the Workers' Music Association has long been a beacon for the rights and music of workers. This collection consists of 49 issues of the WMA Bulletin from the years 1955 -1959; May-Dec 1955 Annual Report 9 issues; 1956 11 issues including Annual Report; 1957 12 issues; 1958 8 issues; and 1959 9 issues. Additionally 14 related separate pieces of ephemera from both the WMA and Topic Records assorted brochures flyers and price lists. RARE collection individual copies of the Bulletin unfound in online market searches. Overall Very Good or better mailing stampings small corner creases. Workers' Music Association, Ltd. unknown
Minor bump to top of front board. Book has minor shelfwear and rubbing. ; 496 pages
In 8°, bross., pp. 511.Lieve segno di piegatura lungo il dorso, lievi bruniture ai tagli. Buone condizioni.
Epic and tragedy, from Homer's Achilles and Euripides' Pentheus to Marlowe's Tamburlaine and Milton's Satan, are filled with characters challenging and warring against the gods. Nowhere is the theme of theomachy more frequently and powerfully represented, however, than in the poetry of early imperial Rome, from Ovid's Metamorphoses at the beginning of the first century AD to Statius' Thebaid near its end. This book -- the first full-length study of human-divine conflict in Roman literature -- asks why the war against god was so important to the poets of the time and how this understudied period of literary history influenced a larger tradition in Western literature. Drawing on a variety of contexts -- politics, religion, philosophy, and aesthetics -- Pramit Chaudhuri argues for the fundamental importance of battles between humans and gods in representing the Roman world. A cast of tyrants, emperors, rebels, iconoclasts, philosophers, and ambitious poets brings to life some of the most extraordinary artistic products of classical antiquity. Based on close readings of the major extant epics and selected tragedies, the book replaces a traditionally Aeneid-centric view of imperial epic with a richer dialogue between Greek and Roman texts, contemporary authors, and diverse genres. The renewed sense of a tradition reveals how the conflicts these works represent constitute a distinctive theology informed by other discourses yet peculiar to epic and tragedy. Beginning with the Greek background and ending with a look ahead to developments in the Renaissance, this book charts the history of a theme that would find its richest expression in a time when men became gods and impiety threatened the very order of the world. ; 416 pages
1845DEMO015623ILondon: E. Appleyard 1845. Roscoe's Library edition. Hardcover. Very Good. linecuts. 8vo 554 pages half black leather extra gilt spine rehinged <br/><br/>Possibly the first book appearance in English of Sue's August 25 1845 letter to his dedicatee. "This romance was one of the most popular specimens of the roman feuilleton the episodic melodramatic novel published by the cheap dailies of the mid-nineteenth century. The Jew who refused hospitality to Jesus has been doomed to a life of sorrow and wandering until his last descendant shall have died. . It is an interesting very compelling story as good as the best of Alexandre Dumas per - THESAURUS OF BOOK DIGESTS." Illustrated with linecuts. E. Appleyard hardcover
197262267Routledge & Kegan Paul London 1972. Second Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Illustrator: Julio Escamez. Size: 8vo 7 3/4 - 9 3/4". xii 61pp. Internally clean. Binding firm spine slightly cocked. Dust Jacket slightly worn. Boards slightly bowed. Foreword by C. G. Jung. Illustrator: Julio Escamez. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Fiction; Myths Legends & Folklore. ISBN: 0710073410. ISBN/EAN: 9780710073419. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 62267. . 9780710073419 Routledge & Kegan Paul hardcover
Spine sunned. Some scratches to rear board. ; 192pp, some attractive line drawings. ; 192 pages
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slightly dusty top of page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked with well-sunned spine and nick to upper rear edge. 158pp. The Saga of the Men of Waterdale, an Icelandic saga first written down in the 13th century telling of the events and families from the age of sagas - the 9th and 10th centuries.
Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). Clipped obituary of Dimock tipped in. Guide celebrating life of Dimock at Smith College tipped in. Foxing to textblock. DJ spine is sunned and discolored; ; 1.25 x 9.5 x 6.5 Inches; 320 pages; According to Dimock, what gives the Odyssey its unity is Homer's overarching theme of the meaning of pain and suffering in human life.
1951w220331271Fantasy Publishing Co. 1951. 248pp. Small black hardback DJ G with light wear along edges a couplt tiny closed tears and slight stains on back cover stated First Edition inscribed and signed by author owner nameplate on front end page FPCI Fantasy Publishing co. Inc on lower edge of spine no markings in text The Undesired Princess finds the overly practical Rollin Hobart transported to a far-from-sensible world . Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Fantasy Publishing Co. Hardcover
17.5x24.5 cm. XVIII+421 pages. Hardcover. Slight stains on front cover. Spine slightly stained. Else in good condition. PLEASE NOTE: This item is overweight. We may ask for extra shipping costs.
Light shelfwear to book and DJ. ; 280 pages; Covering material as diverse as curse tablets, coins, tattoos, and legal decrees, Deborah Steiner explores the reception of writing in archaic and classical Greece. She moves beyond questions concerning ancient literacy and the origins of the Greek alphabet to examine representations of writing in the myths and imaginative literature of the period. Maintaining that the Greek alphabet was not seen purely as a means of transcribing and preserving the spoken word, the author investigates parallels between writing and other signifiers, such as omens, tokens, and talismans; the role of inscription in religious rites, including cursing, oath-taking, and dedication; and perceptions of how writing functioned both in autocracies and democracies. Particularly innovative is the suggestion that fifth-century Greek historians and dramatists portrayed writing as an essential tool of tyrants, who not only issue written decrees but also "inscribe" human bodies with brands and cut up land with compasses and rules. The despotic overtones associated with writing inform discussion of its function in democracies. Although writing could promote equal justice, ancient sources also linked this activity with historical and mythical figures who opposed the populist regime. By examining this highly nuanced portrayal of writing, Steiner offers a new perspective on ancient views of written law and its role in 5th-century Athenian democracy.
199438856Princeton University Press. 1994. Hardcover. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. Light shelfwear to book and DJ.; 280 pages; Covering material as diverse as curse tablets coins tattoos and legal decrees Deborah Steiner explores the reception of writing in archaic and classical Greece. She moves beyond questions concerning ancient literacy and the origins of the Greek alphabet to examine representations of writing in the myths and imaginative literature of the period. Maintaining that the Greek alphabet was not seen purely as a means of transcribing and preserving the spoken word the author investigates parallels between writing and other signifiers such as omens tokens and talismans; the role of inscription in religious rites including cursing oath-taking and dedication; and perceptions of how writing functioned both in autocracies and democracies. Particularly innovative is the suggestion that fifth-century Greek historians and dramatists portrayed writing as an essential tool of tyrants who not only issue written decrees but also "inscribe" human bodies with brands and cut up land with compasses and rules. The despotic overtones associated with writing inform discussion of its function in democracies. Although writing could promote equal justice ancient sources also linked this activity with historical and mythical figures who opposed the populist regime. By examining this highly nuanced portrayal of writing Steiner offers a new perspective on ancient views of written law and its role in 5th-century Athenian democracy. . 0691032386 . Princeton University Press hardcover
199427436Princeton University Press. 1994. Hardcover. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. Light shelfwear to book and DJ.; 280 pages; Covering material as diverse as curse tablets coins tattoos and legal decrees Deborah Steiner explores the reception of writing in archaic and classical Greece. She moves beyond questions concerning ancient literacy and the origins of the Greek alphabet to examine representations of writing in the myths and imaginative literature of the period. Maintaining that the Greek alphabet was not seen purely as a means of transcribing and preserving the spoken word the author investigates parallels between writing and other signifiers such as omens tokens and talismans; the role of inscription in religious rites including cursing oath-taking and dedication; and perceptions of how writing functioned both in autocracies and democracies. Particularly innovative is the suggestion that fifth-century Greek historians and dramatists portrayed writing as an essential tool of tyrants who not only issue written decrees but also "inscribe" human bodies with brands and cut up land with compasses and rules. The despotic overtones associated with writing inform discussion of its function in democracies. Although writing could promote equal justice ancient sources also linked this activity with historical and mythical figures who opposed the populist regime. By examining this highly nuanced portrayal of writing Steiner offers a new perspective on ancient views of written law and its role in 5th-century Athenian democracy. . 0691032386 . Princeton University Press hardcover
In-8 (cm. 26), legatura editoriale, sovracoperta editoriale illustrata, pp. XIII, (1), 274, con illustrazioni in bianco e nero nel testo ed una ripiegata fuori testo. Introduzione di Paul Radin. Text in English. Ex libris e segnatura al risguardo anteriore. Piccole mancanze alla sovracoperta; peraltro, volume in buono stato di conservazione (good copy).
1981115757ABLondon:, Book Club Associates;, 1981. 22 cm. 183 S. Oln. - OS. Umschlag wenig berieben. Aus der Bibliothek der Autorin und Übersetzerin Verena C. Harksen mit Stempel auf Titel.
Foxing/dustsoiling to top of textblock. Light foxing to endpapers. DJ is price-clipped. DJ spine sunned. Some edgewear to DJ. ; 208 pages
199244138L'Erma di Bretschneider. 1992. Hardcover. Fine in Very Good dust jacket. DJ has faint scratches to front panel.; Studia Archaeologica 59; 158 pages . 8870627306 . L'Erma di Bretschneider hardcover
199218535L'Erma di Bretschneider. 1992. Hardcover. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. Gift inscription from author on ffep. Else Book is fine. DJ has very light edgewear.; Studia Archaeologica 59; 158 pages; Signed by Author . 8870627306 . L'Erma di Bretschneider hardcover
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
196842670Adolf M. Hakkert. 1968. Hardcover. Good in No Dust Jacket dust jacket. Ex-library copy with usual stamps call numbers and pocket. Tears along top of spine cloth joints 4cm . Underlining and notes in pencil to a couple of pages.; Purpose of this study is to inquire into the exact relation between the cult of Dionysus and the tragedies which were performed as part of this cult.; 358 pages . Adolf M. Hakkert hardcover
