Softcover. Lanham, University Press of America, 1st, 1983, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 311 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON FRONT ENDPAPER. Light foxing to edges and covers. Clean, unmarked copy.
Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 4th pr., 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, maroon cloth with gilt lettering on spine, 581 pages. B&W diagrams/illustrations in text. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Ithaca NY, Cornell University Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a dust jacket with mild fading to spine. 224 pages. Clean copy.
Softcover. University of Toronto Press, reprint, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 279 pages. Anaxagoras of Clazomenae (circa. 500 B.C.-428 B.C.) was reportedly the first Presocratic philosopher to settle in Athens. He was a friend of Pericles and his ideas are reflected in the works of Sophocles and Aristophanes. Anaxagoras asserted that Mind is the ordering principle of the cosmos, he explained solar eclipses, and he wrote on a myriad of astronomical, meteorological, and biological phenomena. His metaphysical claim that everything is in everything and his rejection of the possibility of coming to be or passing away are fundamental to all his other views. Because of his philosophical doctrines, Anaxagoras was condemned for impiety and exiled from Athens. This volume presents all of the surviving fragments of Anaxagoras's writings, both the Greek texts and original facing-page English translations for each. Generously supplemented, it includes detailed annotations, as well as five essays that consider the philosophical and interpretive questions raised by Anaxagoras. Also included are new translations of the ancient testimonia concerning Anaxagoras's life and work, showing the importance of the philosopher and his ideas for his contemporaries and successors. This is a much-needed and highly anticipated examination of Anaxagoras of Clazomenae, one of the forerunners of Greek philosophical and scientific thought. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Columbia University Press, 1st, 1960, Hardcover, blue cloth covers with gilt lettering to spine, 249 pages, two b&w plates. Through criticism and analysis of ancient traditions, Kahn reconstructs the pattern of Anaximander's thought using historical methods akin to the reconstructive techniques of comparative linguists. Name on front fly leaf, light pencil marking to a dozen pages. Cloth spine faded.
Hardcover. New York , Metropolitan Museum of Art/Abrams, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 305 pages plus bibliography. The richest collection outside of Cyprus of Cypriot antiquities. Built up by General Luigi Palma di Cesnola as the first director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, he acquired most of the art between 1879 and 1900 with works dating from 2500 B.C. to A.D. 300. Over 450 color images with map of the regions from which the art was acquired, this represents an essential item for a knowledge of the art of Cyprus in antiquity in all its forms.
Hardcover. Chicago, Argonaut Inc, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Hardcover, stated First American Edition. "A New Illustrated Edition Containing: 'Greek Dress' by Ethel Abrahams; 'Chapters on Greek Dress' by Lady Evans." Edited by Marie Johnson. Navy cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Illustrated with 20 plates and with several full-page and in-text illustrations. Combines two works on the history of ancient fashion.
Softcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton Universirty Press, 1st pbk, 1987, Softcover, 457 pages. With a new bibliographic essay by Wilbur R. Knorr. Translated by C. Dikshoorn. Reviewers praised this "brilliant analytic summary," "An edition and study of Archimedes' known works in which theorems are translated literally while a special notation, avoiding some of the implications of algebraic symbolism, is used to present paraphrases of the proofs." Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. Clean copy.
Hardcover. London, England, Oxford at the Clarendon Press, Reprint, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 528 pages. Hardcover. A Revised Text with Introduction and Commentary. Previous owner's name on front flyleaf and initials on front dust jacket cover. Red cloth cover boards, gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped, Bookstore tag on front flap, dj has some agewear. Reprinted lithographically from sheets of the 1924 first edition.
Hardcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 275 pages. Discusses dance as an integral part of the work of the Greek lyric poet Pindar. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Bloomington IN, Indiana University Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 199 pages, scattered maps & drawings & figures. The authors selected five reasonably well excavated settlements in southern and central Greece to stand as the exemplars for the contemporary situation and the ongoing transformations of Greek society between 1200 and 700 B.C. (?) Thus, for the late-thirteenth to twelfth centuries there is Mycenae; Nichoria for the eleventh; Athens for the tenth; Lefkandi for the ninth; Corinth for the eight; and Ascra for the early seventh. Each settlement?s particular situation provides them with an opportunity to expand on how this is similar or not to the situations of other, contemporary settlements as well as to the larger picture and trends of cultural transformation. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 166 pages. Pindar (c. 518-438 B.C.), one of ancient Greece's most famous lyric poets, is perhaps best known for his victory (epinicean) odes, written to honor the winners at various sets of games, such as the Olympiad. In Crown of Song, Deborah Steiner's study of these odes, she writes "If Pindar is remote from us in genre, his style strikes the reader as vivid and immediate. And in my reading of the epinicean odes, it is the poet's use of metaphor that accounts for the dynamic quality of his verse." Steiner begins her analysis by exploring both ancient and modern theories of metaphor, and then turns to specific imagery employed by the poet--plant life, athletics, minerals and numerous others--as a way of understanding how these metaphoric complexes function in the poet's praise of the victor, his assertion of his own place as perpetuator of the victor's immortal fame, and in his vision of human achievement and glory in the context of mortal life and immortal gods. Written in a lively, readable style, Crown of Song opens up the sometimes difficult verse of this celebrated ancient poet to modern readers. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Cambridge, MA, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1st Edition, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 154 pages. Hardcover. Navy blue cloth cover boards, title on spine in white and small gilt design on front cover board. Previous owner's name on front flyleaf. Light pencil marks (erasable) throughout. Binding tight. Spine straight. This small book, the last work of a world-renowned scholar, has established itself as a classic. It provides a superb overview of the vast historical process by which Christianity was Hellenized and Hellenic civilization became Christianized.
Hardcover. Oxford UK, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a dust jacket with mild fading. 175 pages. The ancient Greek philosopher Epicurus (341-271/0 BCE) has attracted much contemporary interest. Tim O'Keefe argues that the sort of freedom which Epicurus wanted to preserve is significantly different from the 'free will' which philosophers debate today, and that in its emphasis on rational action, has much closer affinities with Aristotle's thought than with current preoccupations. His original and provocative book will be of interest to a wide range of readers in Hellenistic philosophy. Clean copy.
Softcover. Athens, Benaki Museum, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 334 pages, softcover exhibition catalog, b&w illustrations. Printed on glossy stock. Sculpture, pottery, vases, jewelry and other art from ancient Greece and the Cycladic civilization. Previous owner's embossed stamp on front fly leaf, otherwise clean, very good.
Hardcover. London, D. Browne et al., 2nd Ed., 1749, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two volumes complete. Vol. 1: 323 pages, folding map in front in very good condition. Vol. 2: 275 pages. Bound in calf with gilt rules, ribbed spines. Covers with light edgewear,hanging on but gutters cracked. Previous owner's signature, bookplate on front end paper, Volume 2 is missing front fly leaf, same page in Volume 1has about one inch trimmed from top. Internally, both volumes in excellent condition with firm bindings.
Hardcover. Los Angeles, Getty Museum, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 448 pages, many b&w and color plates. This book celebrates the athletes, the games the sanctuaries, the cities and, above all the inspiring spirit of the ancient Greeks. Bright, clean copy in a similar dust jacket.
Hardcover. Dublin, Dolmen Editions, First Edition, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 78 pages. Hardcover. Limited to 650 copies. Black cloth boards with white printed decoration & white titles to spine. Ink paintings by Louis le Brocquy in black & white throughout. Previous owner's bookplate to front endpaper. Clean, unmarked, tight copy. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Harry Abrams, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 216 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED ON TITLE PAGE. Clean, tight copy.
Softcover. NY, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 238 pages. Illustrated profusely in b&w and 16 plates in color. An exhibition sponsored by the government of the Republic of Greece and the Musee du Louvre. Metalwork, bronze, clay, marble: all manner of objects 4th millennium B.C. to 4th century B.C.
Hardcover. London, England, Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1st Edition, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 619 pages. Hardcover. Previous owner's name and info on front flyleaf. Red cloth cover boards, gilt title on spine, some shelf wear, fading, fraying to bottom of spine, Spine slightly cocked. Gutter split at half title page. Deckled edges with offset pages. pages and edges have some tanning from age, doesn't affect text. Light pencil (erasable) notes throughout.
Softcover. Indianapolis, Hackett Publishing, reprint, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 330 pages. "In Ancient Greece, as today, popular moral attitudes differed importantly from the theories of moral philosophers. While for the latter we have Plato and Aristotle, this insightful work explores the everyday moral conceptions to which orators appealed in court and political assemblies, and which were reflected in nonphilosophical literature. Oratory and comedy provide the primary testimony, and reference is also made to Sophocles, Euripides, Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, and other sources. The selection of topics, the contrasts and comparisons with modern religious, social and legal principles, and accessibility to the non-specialist ensure the work's appeal to all readers with an interest in ancient Greek culture and social life." Clean copy.
Hardcover. London, Oxiford University Press, Reprint, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 2111 pages. Blue cloth cover. Gilt titles on spine. Extremely sun-faded spine. Slight wear and soiling to front and back cover. Overall a nice, tight copy. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, After her grandfather's death, eight-year-old Sophia fulfills his last request and journeys to Greece with her mother to see the land where her roots are. Color art by Karen Barbour.
Hardcover. NY, Arno Press, reprint, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth. Black and gilt spine lettering. Clean copy. Illustrated with maps (some fold-out), plans, and more than 1700 other illustrations. Includes Index and Appendices. Preface by Prof. Rudolf Virchow. First published in 1881, this is Schliemann's narrative of his excavations in the Troad. 800 pages plus 38 plates. Bright, clean copy.
Hardcover. London, Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies, 1st, 1903 1904, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two years (1903 and 1904) bound in one volume. Handsome half black calf with raised bands on spine along with red label and gilt lettering. Part one for 1903: 373 pages plus 13 full-page b&w and color plates. Part two for 1904: 354 pages plus 14 b&w (including 2 fold-outs). Former university library with minimal stamping to edge of text block and on bookplate inside front cover. Sticker residue to bottom of spine.
Hardcover. London, Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies, 1st, 1905 1906, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two years (1905 and 1906) bound in one volume. Handsome half black calf with raised bands on spine along with red label and gilt lettering. Part one for 1905: 382 pages plus 13 full-page b&w plates and 1 color fold-out. Part two for 1906: 303 pages plus 16 b&w and 2 color plates. Former university library with minimal stamping to edge of text block and on bookplate inside front cover. Sticker residue to bottom of spine.
Hardcover. London, Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies, 1st, 1913 1914, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two years (1913 and 1914) bound in one volume. Handsome half black calf with raised bands on spine along with red label and gilt lettering. Part one for 1913: 410 pages plus 22 full-page b&w plates. Part two for 1914: 362 pages plus 20 b&w plates. Plus a 164 page catalogue of lantern slides in the Society's collection. Former university library with minimal stamping to edge of text block and on bookplate inside front cover. Sticker residue to bottom of spine.
Hardcover. London, Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies, 1st, 1915 1916, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two years (1915 and 1916) bound in one volume. Handsome half black calf with raised bands on spine along with red label and gilt lettering. Part one for 1915: 290 pages plus 9 full-page b&w plates. Part two for 1916: 417 pages plus 9 b&w plates. Former university library with minimal stamping to edge of text block and on bookplate inside front cover. Sticker residue to bottom of spine. Chip to calf at top of spine.
Softcover. London, Black Dog Publishing, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 192 pages. Softcover. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Mapping the Invisible: EU-Roma Gypsies takes the reader on a visual journey across Europe with a focus on its fastest-growing ethnic minority: the Roma. This publication is the result of a unique partnership called EU-ROMA formed by a group of architects, designers and artists wishing to raise awareness to the diversity and richness of the Roma people. The book shows us the EU-ROMA projects conducted together with the gypsy communities in Romania, Greece, Italy and the UK.
Hardcover. London, Jonathan Cape Ltd], 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 373 pages. 50 line and 24 halftone illustrations. In this text, the author argues that the celebrated archaeologist, Sir Arthur Evans, who at the turn of the century claimed to have discovered the labyrinth which housed the Minotaur, was in fact a fabulist. MacGillivray uses Evans's own papers as evidence for his exposee.
Hardcover. NY, Arno Press, reprint, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth. Black and gilt spine lettering. 404 pages plus plates at back. 27 pages of plates and illustrations; Preface by W.E. Gladstone, M.P. Reprint of author's 1880 edition. Issued without a dust jacket. Schliemann's account of his excavations at the Greek Bronze Age citadel site of Mycenae. He carried out these excavations from 1876 to 1878, and were less damaging than those of his first excavations at Troy from 1871 to 1874. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York , Century Company, 1st, 1913, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 268 pages. 48 B/W photographs and color illustrations by Jules Guerin. Front end papers show remnants of inscription and sticker paper. Blue cloth covers with gold ornamental design and lettering on front and spine. Some foxing on pages. Rare and in very good condition.
Softcover. Souix City IA, Parnassos Press, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 312 pages. This book is born from a desire to understand how Plato influenced and was influenced by the intellectual culture of Western Greece, the ancient Hellenic cities of Sicily and Southern Italy. In 2018, a seminar on Plato at Syracuse was organized, in which a small group of scholars discussed a new translation of the Seventh Letter and several essays on the topic. The essays consider the historical, political, and philosophical implications of Plato's involvement in Syracuse. They also look at the reception of his voyage among fellow philosophers, ancient and modern. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Cambridge UK, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 218 pages. The Timaeus-Critias is concerned with cosmology and Plato's claim that its central task is to articulate the way in which the cosmos manifests the values of goodness and beauty. This book examines this important dialogue in its entirety using current methods of Platonic scholarship. Arguing that Aristotle's physics is far closer to the Timaeus than usually realized, the study's other prominent findings reinforce the dialogue's essentially moral message, and clarify its literary character.
Softcover. Las Vegas, Parmenides Publishing, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 246 pages. Plato's Parmenides presents the modern reader with a puzzle. Noted for being the most difficult of Platonic dialogues, it is also one of the most influential. This new edition of the work includes the Greek text on facing pages, with an English translation by Arnold Hermann in collaboration with Sylvana Chrysakopoulou. Hermann's Introduction provides an overview and commentary aimed at scholars and first time readers alike.
Softcover. NY, Oxford University Press, reprint, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 384 pages. Plato is the best known and most widely studied of all the ancient Greek philosophers. Malcolm Schofield, a leading scholar of ancient philosophy, offers a lucid and accessible guide to Plato's political thought, enormously influential and much discussed in the modern world as well as the ancient. Schofield discusses Plato's ideas on education, democracy and its shortcomings, the role of knowledge in government, utopia and the idea of community, money and its grip on the psyche, and ideological uses of religion. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. Berkeley CA, University of California Press, 1st, 1928, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine, 127 pages plus index. Stamped name , pencil notations on front endpapers, several pages. Mild shelf wear, first signature loose.
Hardcover. London, Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1st Edition, 1887 and 1902, Volume 1: 577 pages. Introduction to the Politics. Published 1887. Volume 2: 418 pages. Prefatory Essays, Books I and II, Text and Notes. Published 1887.nb Volume 3: 603 pages. Two Essays, Books III, IV, and V, Text and Notes. Published 1902. Volume 4: 708 pages. Essay on Constitutions, Books VI-VIII, Text and Notes. Published 1902. Previous owner's marginal notes and light underlining within. Blue cloth binding. Gilt lettering on backstrip. Black end pages in volumes 1&2. Pages have some slight tanning from age. Binding is tight. Spines straight. "With an Introduction, Two Prefatory Essays and Notes Critical and Explanatory". DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Softcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, reprint, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 355 pages. Proclus was the last major Neo-Platonic philosopher of importance before the Academy was closed by the Christian emperor Justinian in the 6th century. He wrote many works, including long commentaries on Plato's dialogues and a commentary on the Elements by Euclid. This translation by Morrow, a leading Classicist, contains a good introductory essay on Proclus's philosophy of mathematics, along with other scholarly aids such as a biblography. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. London, Duckworth, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket with fading to spine. A magisterial assessment of the major historian of early Byzantium, by one of today's leading historians of late antiquity. Most of our understanding of the age of Justinian is based on the works of Procopius of Caesarea, the most important Greek historian of late antiquity. Many modern histories of the period virtually paraphrase his major work, the Wars. Today, questions of how we are to reconcile the Wars with Procopius' two minor works-the panegyrical Building and the sensational Secret History, still dominates current scholarship. 297 pages. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Cambridge University Press, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, dust jacket with light fading to spine, 212 pages, b&w illustrations. In this book, Gabriel Herman offers a new interpretation of Greek xenia, a term traditionally rendered as 'guest-friendship'. Drawing on contemporary literary sources and inscriptions as well as anthropology, sociology, and comparative evidence from other times, he shows that xenia was a bond of fictitious kinship akin to godparenthood, rather than a tie of hospitality or ordinary 'friendship'. Starting off from this proposition, he develops a dynamic model of the formation of elite relationships and values. He explores the concepts of obligation and loyalty, gift and bribe, treason and patriotism, and places the Greek city within a new context of power relations. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Bloomsbury Academic, 1st, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glazed pictorial boards, 362 pages. The essays collected in this volume were written to mark the centenary of the birth of Sir Kenneth Dover, one of the twentieth centurys most influential classical scholars. Between them, they explore the two major sides of his career: his groundbreaking scholarship on Greek language, literature and history, and the more public-facing roles he assumed in universities and at the British Academy which brought him into the national spotlight, not without some notoriety, in his later years.The contributors consider the various facets of Dover's life and work from a range of perspectives which reflect the burgeoning field of the history of scholarship. Some contributors were students and colleagues of Dovers at different stages of his career, while others are themselves leading experts in areas of Classics to which he devoted his energies. Chapters on his academic publications and on the controversies he faced in the public realm are not bland celebrations of his legacy but offer critical assessments of his motivations and achievements, cumulatively demonstrating that there is much to be learned not just about Dover himself but also about the fields he helped to shape. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, reprint, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 625 pages, 700 b&w plates. Light edgewear to dust jacket, small tear; previous price sticker on front flap. Foxing to top edge. Else a clean, tight copy.
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