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Antigones by: Steiner, George

Antigones
by: Steiner, George

Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. This book examines the far-reaching legacy of one of the great myths of classical antiquity. According to Greek legend, Antigone, daughter of Oedipus, secretly buried her brother in defiance of the orders of Creon, king of Thebes. Creon sentenced Antigone to death, but, before the order could be executed, she committed suicide. The theme of the conflict between Antigone and Creon - between the state and the individual, between young and old, between men and women - has captured the Western imagination for more than 2,000 years. Antigone and Creon are as alive in the politics and poetics of our own day as they were in ancient Athens. Here, Steiner examines the treatment of the Antigone theme in Western art, literature and thought, leading us to look again at the unique influence Greek myths exercise on twentieth-century culture.

Record # 382610

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Apuleius and The Golden Ass (INSCRIBED COPY)by: Tatum, James

Apuleius and The Golden Ass (INSCRIBED COPY)
by: Tatum, James

Hardcover. Ithaca NY, Cornell University Press, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY TATUM on the front fly leaf. In this readable and scholarly work, Tatum looks at the enduring appeal of Apuleius' novel, the sophistication and artistry the work, and places The Golden Ass within its ancient contexts. This is the first book-length study of The Golden Ass. It is aimed at both specialists and a general audience.

Record # 396554

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Crown of Song: Metaphor in Pindarby: Deborah Steiner

Crown of Song: Metaphor in Pindar
by: Deborah Steiner

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.

Record # 386845

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Dialogues of Plato, The: Translated into English with Analyses and Introductions - Third Edition (5 Vols.)by: Jowett, B.

Dialogues of Plato, The: Translated into English with Analyses and Introductions - Third Edition (5 Vols.)
by: Jowett, B.

Hardcover. New York, Oxford University Press, 3rd Ed., 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Five volumes complete, 594, 576, 543. 645 and 593 pages. Olive cloth binding with gilt lettering on spine, top edge gilt.Couple hinges tender. Bright, clean set. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 403353

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Gore Vidal and Antiquity: Sex Politics and Religion by: Broughall, Quentin

Gore Vidal and Antiquity: Sex Politics and Religion
by: Broughall, Quentin

Hardcover. NY/Oxford UK, Routledge, 1st, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards, 190 pages. This book examines Gore Vidal's lifelong engagement with the ancient world. Incorporating material from his novels, essays, screenplays and plays, it argues that his interaction with antiquity was central to the way in which he viewed himself, his writing, and his world. Divided between the three primary subjects of his writing - sex, politics, and religion - this book traces the lengthy dialogue between Vidal and antiquity over the course of his sixty-year career. Broughall analyses Vidal's portrayals of the ancient past in novels such as Julian (1964), Creation (1981) and Live from Golgotha (1992). He also shows how classical literature inspired Vidal's other fiction, such as The City and the Pillar (1948), Myra Breckinridge (1968), and his Narratives of Empire (1967-2000) novels. Beyond his fiction, Broughall examines the ways in which antiquity influenced Vidal's careers as a playwright, an essayist and a satirist, and evaluates the influence of classical authors and their works upon him. Clean copy.

Record # 385386

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Hesiod and the Language of Poetryby: Pietro Pucci

Hesiod and the Language of Poetry
by: Pietro Pucci

Hardcover. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press , 1st, 1977, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers, silver lettering, 152 pages. Light pencil marking in text.

Record # 381685

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Origen on First Principles. Being Koetschau's Text of the De Principiis Translated Into English, Together With an Introduction and Notesby: De Lubac Henri; Butterwort

Origen on First Principles. Being Koetschau's Text of the De Principiis Translated Into English, Together With an Introduction and Notes
by: De Lubac Henri; Butterwort

Hardcover. Gloucester MA, Peter Smith , reprint, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 342 pages. Pink cloth with black lettering on spine. Light pencil marking to about 15 pages, spine fading, otherwise very good.

Record # 382049

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Origen on First Principles. Being Koetschau's Text of the De Principiis Translated Into English, Together With an Introduction and Notesby: De Lubac Henri; Butterwort

Origen on First Principles. Being Koetschau's Text of the De Principiis Translated Into English, Together With an Introduction and Notes
by: De Lubac Henri; Butterwort

Hardcover. Gloucester MA, Peter Smith , reprint, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 342 pages. Beige cloth with black lettering on spine. Light underlining to about 10 pages, otherwise clean.

Record # 372388

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Scholarship and Controversy: Centenary Essays on the Life and Work of Sir Kenneth Doverby: Halliwell, Stephen (Editor), and Stray, Christopher (Editor)

Scholarship and Controversy: Centenary Essays on the Life and Work of Sir Kenneth Dover
by: Halliwell, Stephen (Editor), and Stray, Christopher (Editor)

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.

Record # 385385

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Selections from Polybiusby: Strachan-Davidson (Ed.), James Leigh

Selections from Polybius
by: Strachan-Davidson (Ed.), James Leigh

Hardcover. Oxford UK, Claredon Press, 1st, 1888, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 690 pages plus 3 folding maps in rear. Greek text with English introduction and commentary. Ex-library copy with light stamping, residue. Rebound with spine labels. Clean, unmarked text.

Record # 405795

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Sidetrippingby: Gatewood, Charles and William S. Burroughs

Sidetripping
by: Gatewood, Charles and William S. Burroughs

Softcover. San Francisco, Last Gasp, reprint, 2001-06-01, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, unpaginated. Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. A first hand account of the 60s and 70s counterculture seen through the eyes of pioneering photographer Charles Gatewood and legendary writer Williams S. Burroughs.

Record # 350349

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Siva's Warriors: The Basava Purana of Palkuriki Somanatha (Princeton Library of Asian Translations)by: Somanatha, Palkuriki

Siva's Warriors: The Basava Purana of Palkuriki Somanatha (Princeton Library of Asian Translations)
by: Somanatha, Palkuriki

Hardcover. US, Princeton University Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 321 pages. Faint smoke (tobacco) smell. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket and light soil to fore edge, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 462681

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The Golden Ass of Lucius Apuleius by: Apuleius; William Adlington, Translator; F. J. Harvey Darton, Editor;

The Golden Ass of Lucius Apuleius
by: Apuleius; William Adlington, Translator; F. J. Harvey Darton, Editor;

Hardcover. NY, Hogarth Press, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in cloth with dark green buckram spine with gold lettering on the spine, no DJ, deckled edges. 359 pages, 6 full page plates and chapter head drawings by Philip Hagreen. Uncommon edition. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 383351

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The Odyssey of Homer by: Lattimore, Richmond/Homer

The Odyssey of Homer
by: Lattimore, Richmond/Homer

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1967, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket. Brown cloth stamped in gilt, 374 pages. The first printing of the standard translation into modern English of Homer's Odyssey. 'The best translation there is of a great, perhaps the greatest, poet. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 383752

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The Penelopiadby: Atwood, Margaret

The Penelopiad
by: Atwood, Margaret

Hardcover. NY, Canongate, 2nd pr., 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. A re-telling of the story of Odysseus, with his wife Penelope and her twelve maids narrating from their viewpoint and with their insights. Previous owner's inscription on half-title page, otherwise clean.

Record # 396562

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The Preface to the Aeneis of Virgil (1718) Augustan Reprint Society Publication Number 214-215 by: Trapp, Joseph/ Kelsall, Malcolm (Intro)

The Preface to the Aeneis of Virgil (1718) Augustan Reprint Society Publication Number 214-215
by: Trapp, Joseph/ Kelsall, Malcolm (Intro)

Softcover. Los Angeles, Augustan Reprint Society, reprint, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Facsimile reprint of 18th century edition; stapled wraps; 66 clean, umarked pages, plus introduction by Malcolm Kelsall. Clean copy.

Record # 386975

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Thomas Hobbes Translations of Homer: 1. The Iliad & 2. The Odyssey [Clarendon Edition of the Works of Thomas Hobbes Vols. XXIV & XXV (24 & 25)by: Thomas Hobbes, Homer

Thomas Hobbes Translations of Homer: 1. The Iliad & 2. The Odyssey [Clarendon Edition of the Works of Thomas Hobbes Vols. XXIV & XXV (24 & 25)
by: Thomas Hobbes, Homer

Hardcover. UK, Clarendon Press Oxford, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Two hardcover volumes in bright dust jackets. 406, 327 pages. Hobbes translated the Homeric poems into English verse during the course of the 1670s, when he was already well into his eighties. These texts constitute his most extensive single undertaking as well as his last major work. Editor Eric Nelson also offers a detailed analysis of the translations themselves, identifying the numerous instances in which Hobbes rewrites the poems in order to bring them into alignment with his views on politics, rhetoric, aesthetics, and theology. Hobbes's Iliads and Odysses of Homer, Nelson suggests, should be regarded as a continuation of Leviathan by other means. Clean, like-new. DUE TO WEIGHT DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 386142

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Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Traditionby: Gale, Monica R.

Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition
by: Gale, Monica R.

Softcover. Cambridge UK/US, Cambridge University Press, reprint, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 321 pages. Virgil's agricultural poem, the Georgics, forms part of a long tradition of didactic epic going back to the archaic poet Hesiod. This book explores the relationship between the Georgics and earlier works in the didactic tradition, particularly Lucretius' De Rerum Natura ("On the Nature of Things"). It is the first comprehensive study of Virgil's use of Lucretian themes, imagery, ideas and language; it also proposes a new reading of the poem as a whole, as a confrontation between the Epicurean philosophy of Lucretius and the opposing world views of his predecessors. Clean copy.

Record # 383255

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Virgil's Book of Bucolics, the Ten Eclogues Translated into English Verse: Framed by Cues for Reading Aloud and Clues for Threading Texts and Themesby: Van Sickle, Jo

Virgil's Book of Bucolics, the Ten Eclogues Translated into English Verse: Framed by Cues for Reading Aloud and Clues for Threading Texts and Themes
by: Van Sickle, Jo

Hardcover. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, bound in publisher's cloth backed boards and issued without a jacket. 260 pages. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 378313

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