Rebound in maroon cloth retaining original spine label and embossed circular ornament on front board.New endpapers.716pp.
Swan Sonnenschein and Co.Ltd., 1908, Cloth, Book Condition: Fine, Jacket Condition: No Jacket. Tenth Edition. Heavy Item Postage Quote. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

ISBN:

Inventory #21679

Price: £ 40.00 GBP ($ 63.20 approx. - € 48.32 approx.)

This volume is designed as a companion to the standard undergraduate mythology textbooks or, when assigned alongside the central Greek and Roman works, as a source-based alternative to those textbooks. In addition to the complete texts of the Homeric Hymns and Hesiod's Theogony, this collection provides generous selections from over 50 texts composed between the Archaic Age and the fourth century AD. Ancient interpretation of myth is represented here in selections from the allegorists Heraclitus, Cornutus and Fulgentius, the rationalists Palaephatus and Diodorus of Sicily, and the philosophers and historians Plato, Herodotus and Thucydides. Appendices treat evidence from inscriptions, papyri and Linear B tablets and include a thematic index, a mythological dictionary, and genealogies. A thoughtful introduction supports students working with the primary sources and the other resources offered here; an extensive note to instructors offers suggestions on how to incorporate this book into their courses. 517pp.
Hackett Publishing Company, 2004, Paperback, Book Condition: As New, Jacket Condition: No d/j as Published. . . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

ISBN: 0872207218

Inventory #22975

Price: £ 10.00 GBP ($ 15.80 approx. - € 12.08 approx.)

305pp.
Farrar,Straus & Giroux, 1988, Paperback, Book Condition: Very Good, Jacket Condition: No d/j as Published. . . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall.

ISBN: 0374519048

Inventory #23759

Price: £ 6.00 GBP ($ 9.48 approx. - € 7.25 approx.)

The ten speeches in this volume illustrate Cicero's entire career and exemplify all the major contexts for his oratory: before the senate, the people, and the courts. They illuminate the major political crises of Cicero's time and offer portraits of many of the major political figures. Several of these speeches also shed light on the most important cultural and literary debates of the late Republic. James Zetzel's general Introduction discusses Cicero's public life; the social, political, and cultural contexts of his speeches; and, the challenges of translating them into modern English. This edition also includes an introduction to each speech, a section on Roman institutions and offices, a chronological table, maps, a bibliography, and a biographical index. 332pp.
Hackett Publishing Co., 2009, Paperback, Book Condition: New, Jacket Condition: No d/j as Published. . . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

ISBN: 9780872209893

Inventory #21799

Price: £ 9.50 GBP ($ 15.01 approx. - € 11.48 approx.)

152pp.Rendered in an idiom drawn from present-day nature guides, gardening handbooks, how-to manuals, and scientific treatises -- and in a style influenced by twentieth-century poetry -- this bold new translation seeks to renew our appreciation of a work often relegated to the pigeonhole of didactic poetry about farming. In doing so, it reveals the Georgics as a remarkable window on Roman conceptions of the natural world and of the place of human life within it -- and also conveys a sense of how daring were Virgil's poetics in their day. Footnotes offer a wealth of information on mythology, agriculture, wildlife, geography, and astronomy while highlighting the technical, scientific, ethnographic, and other registers of the poem.
Hackett Publishing Company, Incorporated, 2002, Cloth, Book Condition: As New, Jacket Condition: No Jacket. . . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

ISBN: 0872206106

Inventory #4038

Price: £ 12.50 GBP ($ 19.75 approx. - € 15.10 approx.)

Aristophanes' comic masterpiece of war and sex remains one of the greatest plays ever written. Led by the title character, the women of the warring city-states of Greece agree to withhold sexual favours with their husbands until they agree to cease fighting. The war of the sexes that ensues makes 'Lysistrata' a comedy without peer in the history of theatre. 126pp.
Hackett Publishing Company, Incorporated, 2003, Cloth, Book Condition: As New, Jacket Condition: No Jacket. . . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

ISBN: 0872206041

Inventory #7990

Price: £ 12.50 GBP ($ 19.75 approx. - € 15.10 approx.)

Designed for students with little or no background in ancient Greek language, history, and culture, this new abridgement presents those selections that comprise Herodotus' historical narrative. These are meticulously annotated, and supplemented with a chronology of the Archaic Age, Historical Epilogue, glossary of main characters and places, index of proper names, and maps. 201pp.
Hackett Publishing Company, Incorporated, 2003, Cloth, Book Condition: As New, Jacket Condition: No Jacket. . . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

ISBN: 0872206688

Inventory #7989

Price: £ 15.00 GBP ($ 23.70 approx. - € 18.12 approx.)

This anthology of articles on the Roman novels of Petronius and Apuleius makes available some of the most useful and important articles published in German and Italian as well as English over the last thirty years. The introduction, by the editor, provides a general assessment of all scholarly work written about the texts from the 1900s to the 1990s, setting the papers usefully in context. The articles in this collection which concern the work of Petronius include a general interpretation of a fragmentary and problematic text, exploration of narrative technique, relation to Menippean satire and recently discovered Greek novel papyri, and realism. On Apuleius, the collection includes pieces on narrative and ideological unity, relation to religion and Platonism, exploration of narrative technique, relation to epic and to the Greek ass stories, to folk-tale, and historical realism. A reflection of the period of rapid expansion of scholarly interest in the area of the ancient novel this book combines the best of current international scholarly interpretation. Slight sticker mark on rear cover. Corners slightly rubbed. 337pp.
Oxford University Press, 1999, Paperback, Book Condition: Very Good, Jacket Condition: No d/j as Published. First Edition. . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

ISBN: 0198721749

Inventory #23202

Price: £ 25.00 GBP ($ 39.50 approx. - € 30.20 approx.)

Written in 1942-43, this book explores France and French culture at a time when France seemed cut off. The book is obsessed with the pleasures of life at a time when nearly all pleasures were forbidden. It proclaims its faith in the unity and continuity of Western culture in its moment of greatest crisis in the war years. Connnolly assumed the name of Palinurus - Aeneas' pilot - to suggest the core of melancholy which lies at the heart of this book. A lament for a vanishing world, this book is also a spiritual odyssey, a meditation on literature, love, nature and religion and a collection of aphorisms and epigrams. N.B. Barcode sticker on inside of rear cover. 142pp.
Pimlico, 1992, Paperback, Book Condition: Very Good, Jacket Condition: No d/j as Published. . . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

ISBN: 0712655158

Inventory #23517

Price: £ 5.00 GBP ($ 7.90 approx. - € 6.04 approx.)

This book contains the complete Greek text of "Plato's Ion", an English translation of it, and an in depth analysis. The Ion is one of the shortest of Plato's dialogues and yet it raises two most critical questions. First, is there an art of "poetry as a whole," that is, is there an art of words and, if so, what is its nature? All acts of language are poetic, and philosophy is impossible without them. Thus arises the second question: does philosophy itself exist only in the use of words, in the question and answer, in the interchange called dialectic. Dialectic is between people, so that it has an essentially social as well as an intellectual dimension, and it is while the conversation continues that philosophy fully exists; it lives in the performance. Ion performs Homer, and Plato (or his reader) performs Socrates. There are similarities - for example, both have musical or metrical structures - but there are also crucial differences - Ion's performance of Homer has hearers; Plato's performance of Socrates has participants. 394pp.
Bibal Press, 2005, Paperback, Book Condition: New, Jacket Condition: . . . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

ISBN: 1930566514

Inventory #15299

Price: £ 15.00 GBP ($ 23.70 approx. - € 18.12 approx.)