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Hornblower, Simon & Elaine Matthews (Eds. ) GREEK PERSONAL NAMES Their Value as Evidence
The British Academy & Oxford University Press 2000 0197262163 / 9780197262160 Hardcover Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
Dustjacket has minor shelfwear and rubbing. One corner very lightly bumped else fine. ; Proceedings of the British Academy 104; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 192 pages; Within the great diversity of their world, the assertion of origin was essential to the ancient Greeks in defining their sense of who they were and how they distinguished themselves from neighbours and strangers. Each person's name might carry both identity and origin - 'I am' . . . inseparable from 'I come from' . . . Names have surfaced in many guises and locations - on coins and artefacts, embedded within inscriptions and manuscripts - carrying with them evidence even from prehistoric and preliterate times. The Lexicon of Greek Personal Names has already identified more than 200,000 individuals. The contributors to this volume draw on this resource to demonstrate the breadth of scholarly uses to which name evidence can be put. These essays narrate the stories of political and social change revealed by the incidence of personal names and cast a fascinating light upon both the natural and supernatural phenomena which inspired them. This volume offers dramatic illumination of the ways in which the ancient Greeks both created and interpreted their world through the specific language of personal names.
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Hornblower, Simon & Elaine Matthews (Eds. ) GREEK PERSONAL NAMES Their Value as Evidence
The British Academy & Oxford University Press 2000 0197262163 / 9780197262160 Hardcover Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket
Dustjacket has 1 tear to head of spine and 1 tear to bottom rear corner. Top edge of front board very lightly bumped else fine. Signed by Elaine Matthews to ffep. ; Proceedings of the British Academy 104; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 192 pages; Within the great diversity of their world, the assertion of origin was essential to the ancient Greeks in defining their sense of who they were and how they distinguished themselves from neighbours and strangers. Each person's name might carry both identity and origin - 'I am' . . . inseparable from 'I come from' . . . Names have surfaced in many guises and locations - on coins and artefacts, embedded within inscriptions and manuscripts - carrying with them evidence even from prehistoric and preliterate times. The Lexicon of Greek Personal Names has already identified more than 200,000 individuals. The contributors to this volume draw on this resource to demonstrate the breadth of scholarly uses to which name evidence can be put. These essays narrate the stories of political and social change revealed by the incidence of personal names and cast a fascinating light upon both the natural and supernatural phenomena which inspired them. This volume offers dramatic illumination of the ways in which the ancient Greeks both created and interpreted their world through the specific language of personal names.; Signed by One Author
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Houston, S. D. MAYA GLYPHS
University of California Press / British Museum 1989 0520067711 / 9780520067714 Paperback Very Good with no dust jacket
Foxing to textblock. ; Reading the Past, Vol. 7; 64 pages
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Houston, S. D. MAYA GLYPHS
University of California Press / British Museum 1989 0520067711 / 9780520067714 Paperback Very Good with no dust jacket
Minor underlining in black pen to about 3 pages. Former owner's name to half-title. Minor wear to corners of first few pages. ; Reading the Past, Vol. 7; 64 pages
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Humez, Paul Alexander LATIN FOR PEOPLE Latina Pro Populo
Back Bay Books 1978 0316381497 / 9780316381499 Paperback Very Good+
Faint crease to spine. Scholar's name to half-title (Robert Brown). Else fine. ; Alexander and Nicholas Humez have fashioned an easy-going and satisfying introduction to the language that is the wellspring of the mother tongue. Their brief history of Classical and Vulgar Latin, explanation of the language's grammatical and sound systems, translation exercises, synopsis of grammar, and glossaries of Latin-English and English-Latin will enhance our understanding of every aspect of literature and the world of ideas. In addition, Latin for People contains two closing chapters, hailed as 'invaluable' by The Classical Outlook: one that translates all the readings in the book and one that suggests further readings. ; 206 pages
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Immerwahr, Henry R. ATTIC SCRIPT A Survey
Oxford Clarendon Press 1990 0198132239 / 9780198132233 First Edition Hardcover Very Good in Good+ dust jacket
Former scholar's name on ffep (P. Stork). Top corner has light bumping. Dustjacket has a few small tears and chipping. ; Oxford Monographs on Classical Archaeology; 286 pages; This study places the inscriptions found on Athenian vases in the context of the early development of writing in Athens. Focusing on the period from the invention of the alphabet in the 8th century B.C. to the early 4th century B.C., when the local alphabet had been supplanted by the common Ionic script, the book presents inscriptions on stone, both public and private, scratched inscriptions on pottery, including the political ostraca, and some inscriptions on lead tablets. Although the vase inscriptions are brief, they number in the thousands and give an accurate picture of the art of writing and the state of literacy in the Classical Period.
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Immerwahr, Henry R. ATTIC SCRIPT A Survey
Oxford Clarendon Press 1990 0198132239 / 9780198132233 First Edition Hardcover Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). Top textblock has a bit of foxing. Dustjacket has creasing along lower rear edge. ; Oxford Monographs on Classical Archaeology; 286 pages; This study places the inscriptions found on Athenian vases in the context of the early development of writing in Athens. Focusing on the period from the invention of the alphabet in the 8th century B.C. to the early 4th century B.C., when the local alphabet had been supplanted by the common Ionic script, the book presents inscriptions on stone, both public and private, scratched inscriptions on pottery, including the political ostraca, and some inscriptions on lead tablets. Although the vase inscriptions are brief, they number in the thousands and give an accurate picture of the art of writing and the state of literacy in the Classical Period.
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Jespersen, Otto THE PHILOSOPHY OF GRAMMAR
George Allen & Unwin, Ltd. 1958 Hardcover Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket
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Katsouris, Andreas G. LINGUISTIC AND STYLISTIC CHARACTERIZATION - TRAGEDY AND MENANDER
University of Ioannina 1975 Softcover Very Good Signed by Author
Gift inscription from author to ffep. Spine and part of rear wraps are sunned. Minor shelfwear with creasing to corners. Small closed tear to base of spine (3 cm). Light tanning to pages. ; Centres upon the problem of how an author exploited language to underline a person's characteristic or emotion. ; University of Ioannina. Philological Periodical of the School of Philosophy ; Dodone ; Supplement No. 5; 211 pages; Signed by Author
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Kennedy, George A. ART OF PERSUASION IN GREECE
Princeton University Press 1963 0691060088 / 9780691060088 Hardcover Near Fine in Very Good- dust jacket Signed by Author
Dustjacket is protected in mylar. DJ has rubbing and edgewear to corners. 2 closed tears along DJ spine. ; Signed by author on ffep to Paul Fenimore Cooper, jr. ; 350 pages; Explores rhetorical theory and practice from the fifth to first centuries B. C. Begins with the practical, creative rhetoric of the pre-Socratic era, progresses through the time of Aristotle and the Attic orators, and concludes with the ossification of rhetoric into a sterile, pedantic discipline during the Hellenistic period. ; Signed by Author
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Kennedy, George A. ART OF PERSUASION IN GREECE
Routledge & Kegan Paul 1963 0691060088 / 9780691060088 Hardcover Very Good+ in Good+ dust jacket
Scholar's name to ffep (Catherine Rubincam). Very light shelfwear to book else fine. DJ has edgewear and rubbing with a couple of long closed tears (3 cm). ; 350 pages; Explores rhetorical theory and practice from the fifth to first centuries B. C. Begins with the practical, creative rhetoric of the pre-Socratic era, progresses through the time of Aristotle and the Attic orators, and concludes with the ossification of rhetoric into a sterile, pedantic discipline during the Hellenistic period.
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Kennedy, George A. ART OF PERSUASION IN GREECE
Princeton University Press 1963 0691060088 / 9780691060088 Hardcover Good+ with no dust jacket
Underlining in marker to some pages with notes to endpapers. Former owner's name on inner cover and on ffep. Foxing to top of textblock. ; 350 pages; Explores rhetorical theory and practice from the fifth to first centuries B. C. Begins with the practical, creative rhetoric of the pre-Socratic era, progresses through the time of Aristotle and the Attic orators, and concludes with the ossification of rhetoric into a sterile, pedantic discipline during the Hellenistic period.
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Kennedy, George A. ART OF PERSUASION IN GREECE
Routledge & Kegan Paul 1974 0691060088 / 9780691060088 Hardcover Very Good with no dust jacket
Minor shelfwear. Foxing to top of textblock. ; 350 pages; Explores rhetorical theory and practice from the fifth to first centuries B. C. Begins with the practical, creative rhetoric of the pre-Socratic era, progresses through the time of Aristotle and the Attic orators, and concludes with the ossification of rhetoric into a sterile, pedantic discipline during the Hellenistic period.
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Kennedy, George A. GREEK RHETORIC UNDER CHRISTIAN EMPERORS
Princeton University Press 1983 0691101450 / 9780691101453 Softcover Very Good
Creasing to spine. Minor edgewear to extremities. ; Comprehensive treatment on Greek rhetoric from late antiquity and including both pagan and Christian literature from AD 300 to 1300.; History of Rhetoric, Vol 3.; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 333 pages
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Kennedy, George A. THE ART OF RHETORIC IN THE ROMAN WORLD 300 B. C. - A. D. 300
Princeton University Press 1972 0691100039 / 9780691100036 First Edition Softcover Near Fine in Good dust jacket
Minor rubbing and shelfwear to wraps. DJ has edgewear with light chipping and a couple of small tears. ; Traces the development of Greek and Latin oratory and rhetorical theory from 300 BC to AD 300. During that period, he shows, the art of persuasion the Romans inherited from the greeks gradually became an art more concerned with the secondary characteristics of rhetoric: style and artistic effort. ; 0.76 x 9.2 x 6.1 Inches; 658 pages
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Kennedy, George A. THE ART OF RHETORIC IN THE ROMAN WORLD 300 B. C. - A. D. 300
Princeton University Press 1972 0691100039 / 9780691100036 Softcover Very Good+
Very Minor shelfwear to wraps. Scholar's name to ffep (Robert Brown). ; Traces the development of Greek and Latin oratory and rhetorical theory from 300 BC to AD 300. During that period, he shows, the art of persuasion the Romans inherited from the greeks gradually became an art more concerned with the secondary characteristics of rhetoric: style and artistic effort. ; 0.76 x 9.2 x 6.1 Inches; 658 pages
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Kennedy, George A. THE ART OF RHETORIC IN THE ROMAN WORLD 300 B. C. - A. D. 300
Princeton University Press 1972 0691035059 / 9780691035055 First Edition Hardcover Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
Rubbing and light edgewear to DJ. DJ is price-clipped. Light foxing to inner covers. Spotting to boards. Small bump to top of spine. Bookstore sticker on inner cover. ; Traces the development of Greek and Latin oratory and rhetorical theory from 300 BC to AD 300. During that period, he shows, the art of persuasion the Romans inherited from the greeks gradually became an art more concerned with the secondary characteristics of rhetoric: style and artistic effort. ; 0.76 x 9.2 x 6.1 Inches; 658 pages
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King, L. W. ASSYRIAN LANGUAGE Easy Lessons in the Cuneiform Inscriptions
Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner 1901 0404113516 / 9780404113513 Hardcover Very Good- with no dust jacket
Light browning to ffeps. Ex-library copy with institution bookplate on inner cover, call number to spine, stamp to textblock and pocket. Slight bubbling to cloth. Back inner hinge is slightly cracked. Binding is still solid. Edgewear to extremities. ; Books on Egypt and Chaldaea Vol. V; 216 pages
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Kirk, G. S. (Ed. ) THE LANGUAGE AND BACKGROUND OF HOMER Some Recent Studies and Controversies
W. Heffer & Sons Ltd. 1964 Softcover Very Good-
Underlining in pencil on a few pages. Light edgewear to wraps. Wraps a little browned. Scholar's name to ffep (G. De Montmollin). Institution stamp to ffep (Woodbury Library. Dept. Of Classics. University of Toronto). No other markings. ; 13 Articles on Homer's background and linguistics, all reprinted from journals; Views and Controversies about Classical Antiquity; 217 pages
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Kullman, Dorothea (Ed. ) THE CHURCH AND VERNACULAR LITERATURE IN MEDIEVAL FRANCE
Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies (PIMS) 2009 0888441657 / 9780888441652 Hardcover Fine with no dust jacket
Studies and Texts - Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies 165. Toronto Studies in Romance Philology I; 304 pages; The rapid rise of vernacular literature in medieval France, within a culture which continued to acknowledge Latin as its vehicular language, is a fact that literary historians tend too easily to take for granted. Within a relatively short period, stretching roughly from the end of the eleventh century to the thirteenth century, French and Occitan literatures acquired an output and a level of sophistication that made them the leading models for other European literatures. New genres and new subject matters appear one after the other; new ideologies (such as the concept of love developed by the troubadours) are first expressed in vernacular creations; and even learned Latin authors soon feel obliged to take notice of these developments. Should we describe this astonishing chapter of cultural history as the development of a ?lay?, or ?profane?, literature alongside a Church-dominated learned and religious one, or as the emancipation of vernacular literature from the tutorship of the Church? Is the borderline between ?lay? and ?religious? texts and genres really as clear-cut as some literary histories would make us believe? How then did these new genres of written literature come into being in a culture in which the Church held the monopoly on education, including training in writing? Did the Church as an institution play any role in the birth and expansion of vernacular literature? In the present volume, specialists from the disciplines of linguistics, literature, history and musicology address the various aspects of this complex of questions. The examples studied here are witnesses not only to a constant interaction between lay and religious cultures but also to the productive tension that resulted from the particular situation of the Church in medieval France.
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Kurylowicz, Jerzy L'ACCENTUATION DES LANGUES INDO-EUROPÉENNES
Wroclaw Krakow 1958 Hardcover Very Good in Good dust jacket
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Lanman, Charles Rockwell SANSKRIT READER Text and Vocabulary and Notes
Harvard University Press 1997 0674789008 / 9780674789005 Hardcover Very Good with no dust jacket
Light spotting to boards. Scholar's name to ffep (Robert Brown). ; The Reader is designed to serve as an introduction to the subject for the students and to provide knowledge of Sanskrit to the teachers of high schools, academies and colleges. The work helps to correct some of the false notions which are prevalent respecting the relations of Sanskrit to other languages of the Indo-European family. It also keeps to save the literature from undue depreciation and from exaggerated praise. The author has made selections from various Sanskrit writings keeping two aims in mind-firstly to provide abundant material for thorough drill in the language of classical period; and secondly, to furnish a brief introduction to the works of the Vedic period, Mantra, Brahmana and Sutra best suited for beginners. Among the Vedic hymns (or Mantra material) are, first, some of the easiest: then some taken an account of their poetic or dramatic merit, or their ethical interest and finally some taken because of their historical importance. For the most part, a repetition of the hymns given by Delbruck and Bohtlingk in their chrestomathies have been avoided. The Brahmana pieces are chosen in such a way as to show the relation of this kind of literature to the hymns or Mantras. The selections from the Grihya-sutras are the two most interesting chapters of Indian private antiquities, the wedding and the burial service. Care has been taken that all the stanzas here citied by their first words should be given in full among the selections of the hymns. ; 1.21 x 9.22 x 6.18 Inches; 446 pages
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