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Burnett, Anne Pippin THE ART OF BACCHYLIDES
Harvard University Press 1985 0674046668 / 9780674046665 First Edition Hardcover Very Good in Very Good+ dust jacket
Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). Foxing to top of textblock. Very light shelfwear to DJ with 1 tiny chip ; Martin Classical Lectures 29; 224 pages; Anne Burnett shows us the art of Bacchylides in the context of Greek lyric traditions. She discusses the beginnings of choral poetry and the functions of the choral myth; she describes the purposes of the victory song in particular and the practices of Bacchylides and Pindar as they fulfilled their victory commissions. In analyzing individual poems Burnett's approach is two-fold, for each ode is seen as a choral performance reflecting archaic cult practice, while it is also studied as the expression of a particular poetic vision and sensibility. Thus the formal elements of the Bacchylidean victory songs are recognized as the response of a chorus which must give semi-religious praise to a noble athlete or prize-winning prince in times of increasing democracy. At the same time an artistry and an ethic peculiar to Bacchylides are discovered in the manipulation of fictions and mythic materials.
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Burnett, Anne Pippin THREE ARCHAIC POETS Archilochus, Alcaeus, Sappho
Harvard University Press 1983 0674888200 / 9780674888203 Hardcover Good+ with no dust jacket
Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers and pocket. Small sticker stain to front board. Sticker damage to front pastedown. Corners a bit rounded. Lettering to spine a bit rubbed. ; 328 pages; Toward the beginning of the seventh century B. C. There was a flowering of "personal" poetry marked by a passion and a candor that are in striking contrast to the epic tradition. Burnett presents a convincing new interpretation of the three most important poets of the period.
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Burnett, Anne Pippin THREE ARCHAIC POETS Archilochus, Alcaeus, Sappho
Duckworth 1983 0715616943 / 9780715616949 Hardcover Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
Minor shelfwear to book and DJ. Scholar's bookplate to ffep (Philippa Goold). Light edgewear to DJ. ; 328 pages; Toward the beginning of the seventh century B. C. There was a flowering of "personal" poetry marked by a passion and a candor that are in striking contrast to the epic tradition. Burnett presents a convincing new interpretation of the three most important poets of the period.
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Burstein, Stanley M. THE HELLENISTIC AGE FROM THE BATTLE OF IPSOS TO THE DEATH OF KLEOPATRA VII Translated Documents of Greek and Rome, Volume 3
Cambridge University Press 1985 0521236916 / 9780521236911 Hardcover Good with no dust jacket
Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers and pocket. Bumping to top of boards near spine. ; Valuable documentary material is buried in inscriptions and papyri and in the works of Greek and Roman grammarians and scholars, and less well known historians and literary figures, of whose writings only isolated quotations have been preserved. Translated Documents of Greece and Rome has been planned to provide, above all, primary source material for the study of the classical world. It makes important historical documents available in English to scholars and students of classical history. The format of the translations is remarkable in attempting to reproduce faithfully the textual difficulties and uncertainties inherent in the documents, so that the reader without a knowledge of classical languages can assess the reliability of the various readings and interpretations. The author"s purpose in compiling this book is to help the teaching of Hellenistic history ; Translated Documents of Greece and Rome 3; Vol. 3; 196 pages
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Burstein, Stanley M. (Ed) THE HELLENISTIC AGE FROM THE BATTLE OF IPSOS TO THE DEATH OF KLEOPATRA VII Translated Documents of Greek and Rome, Volume 3
Cambridge University Press 1985 052128158X / 9780521281584 Softcover Very Good
Light shelfwear. Gift inscription from editor on half-title. ; Valuable documentary material is buried in inscriptions and papyri and in the works of Greek and Roman grammarians and scholars, and less well known historians and literary figures, of whose writings only isolated quotations have been preserved. Translated Documents of Greece and Rome has been planned to provide, above all, primary source material for the study of the classical world. It makes important historical documents available in English to scholars and students of classical history. The format of the translations is remarkable in attempting to reproduce faithfully the textual difficulties and uncertainties inherent in the documents, so that the reader without a knowledge of classical languages can assess the reliability of the various readings and interpretations. The author"s purpose in compiling this book is to help the teaching of Hellenistic history ; Translated Documents of Greece and Rome 3; Vol. 3; 196 pages; Signed by Editor
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Burton, R. W. B. THE CHORUS IN SOPHOCLES' TRAGEDIES
Oxford University Press 1980 0198143745 / 9780198143741 Hardcover Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). Foxing/dustsoiling to top of textblock. Dustjacket spine is sunned. ; Examines Sophocles' handling of the chorus in his seven extant tragedies. ; 312 pages
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Burton, Reginald W. B. PINDAR'S PYTHIAN ODES
Oxford University Press 1962 0198141580 / 9780198141587 Hardcover Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket
DJ is price-clipped. Tear to DJ along top of spine (3 cm). Light discoloration to DJ spine. Minor edgewear with 1 small closed tear along bottom corner of DJ. Light browning to pages. ; Devotes a chapter to each Pythian Ode, examining its structure and contents as a finished work. Poems are discussed in chronological order of composition, so that the development of Pindar's style and personality may be traced from youth to old age. ; 212 pages
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Burton, Reginald William Boteler THE CHORUS IN SOPHOCLES' TRAGEDIES
Oxford Clarendon Press 1980 0198143745 / 9780198143741 Hardcover Fine with no dust jacket Signed by Author
Gift inscription on ffep to W. S. Barrett from author: "W. S. B. From R. W. B. B. With best wishes-- Feb. 28th, 1980"; 312 pages; Examines Sophocles' handling of the chorus in his seven extant tragedies. ; Signed by Author
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Bury, J. B. THE ISTHMIAN ODES OF PINDAR Edited with Introduction and Commentary
MacMillan and Co. 1892 First Edition Hardcover Good with no dust jacket
Foxing/mottling to inner covers. Corners a little worn. Slight fraying to top of spine. Cloth slightly rising from boards in a few areas. Ownership stamp of T. H. Janssen to ffep. Browning to endpapers. Slight rubbing to boards. Pages slightly tanned. Blue and brown pencil underlining and marginalia on some pages. ; Greek text with extensive English introduction and commentary. ; 194 pages
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Buxton, R. G. A. PERSUASION IN GREEK TRAGEDY A Study of Peitho
Cambridge University Press 1983 0521241804 / 9780521241809 Hardcover Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
Scholar's name to half-title (Martin Cropp). Upper corners a little bumped. Light rubbing to boards. DJ has chipping to corners and spine ends. DJ spine is sunned and discolored. ; One of the difficulties in appreciating the literature of a foreign culture, and even more that of an ancient one, is to be sensitive to the overtones that certain concepts held for the original audience. A distinctive feature of Greek culture was an awareness of the power of words, and an interest in the interrelationships between persuasion (peitho) , deception and violence. These issues figured with some prominence in Greek plays. Dr Buxton maintains that certain aspects of classical tragedy become clearer if we recognise what peitho meant to the Greeks. In the first part of his book, he attempts to 'excavate' the concept of peitho, uncovering its various associations in different areas of experience - politics, rhetoric, love, morality and philosophy. Armed with what he has discovered, he turns in the second part to an analysis of selected plays by Aischylos, Sophokles and Euripides in which persuasion plays a major role. ; 260 pages
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Buxton, R. G. A. SOPHOCLES
Oxford University Press 1984 0903035138 / 9780903035132 Paperback Very Good with no dust jacket
Light rubbing to wraps. ; Greece & Rome New Surveys in the Classics No. 16; 38 pages
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C. Fr. Ameis & F. S. Lehrs & Fr. Dübner & U. Cats Bussemaker & Arminius Koechly (Eds. ) POETAE BUCOLICI ET DIDACTICI Graece Et Latine.
Firmin-Didot Et Sociis 1931 Hardcover Very Good with no dust jacket
Book has been rebound in blue boards with gilt lettering to spine. Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). Pages tanned. ; Theocritus, Bion, Moschus / reconovit et praefatus est C. Fr. Ameis ; Nicander, Oppianus, Marcellus de Piscibus, poeta de Herbis / edidit F. S. Lehrs ; Phile de animalibus, elephante, plantis, etc. / edidit Fr. Dübner ; Poetarum de re physica et medica reliquias / collegit U. Cats Bussemaker ; Aratus, Manethonis, maximi et aliorum astrologia / recensuit et dissertatione instruxit Arminius Koechly. ; Various pagination: (XXXII-86, XIV-178, III-134, LXXVIII-117 p. )
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Cairns, Douglas L. OXFORD READINGS IN HOMER'S ILIAD
Oxford University Press 2002 0198721838 / 9780198721833 Hardcover Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
Book is fine. Dustjacket is protected in plastic sleeve. ; This anthology makes accessible to the reader sixteen of the most important studies of Homer and the Iliad to appear in the last forty years. The essays, by leading Homeric scholars from Great Britain, the United States, and Europe, deal not only with the aesthetics and artistry of the Iliad as a poetic artefact, but with its historical context, its cultural background, and its ethical and political framework. ; Oxford Readings in Classical Studies; 520 pages
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Cairns, Douglas L. OXFORD READINGS IN HOMER'S ILIAD
Oxford University Press 2002 0198721838 / 9780198721833 Hardcover Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket
1 corner lightly bumped. Dustjacket is protected in plastic sleeve. ; This anthology makes accessible to the reader sixteen of the most important studies of Homer and the Iliad to appear in the last forty years. The essays, by leading Homeric scholars from Great Britain, the United States, and Europe, deal not only with the aesthetics and artistry of the Iliad as a poetic artefact, but with its historical context, its cultural background, and its ethical and political framework. ; Oxford Readings in Classical Studies; 520 pages
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Cairns, Francis GENERIC COMPOSITION IN GREEK AND ROMAN POETRY
Edinburgh University Press 1972 0852242247 / 9780852242247 Hardcover Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
Light foxing to top of textblock. Former classics scholar's name on ffep (N. J. Richardson). DJ spine is lightly browned. One small closed tear to DJ along top edge near spine. ; This is the first serious attempt to formulate a system of literary criticism for ancient poetry, derived wholly from ancient evidence. It is based on methods of generic analysis, assignment and interpretation applicable to all Greek and Roman poetry. It outlines what the author deduces are the creative principles informing ancient poets' approach to their subject matter, and establishes criteria that enable an objective discussion of the poems' originality and merit. ; 331 pages
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Cairns, Francis GENERIC COMPOSITION IN GREEK AND ROMAN POETRY
Edinburgh University Press 1972 0852242247 / 9780852242247 Hardcover Very Good in Good+ dust jacket
Edgewear to extremities of book. Light dust-soiling to textblock. Dustjacket has edgewear with chipping and a few small tears ; This is the first serious attempt to formulate a system of literary criticism for ancient poetry, derived wholly from ancient evidence. It is based on methods of generic analysis, assignment and interpretation applicable to all Greek and Roman poetry. It outlines what the author deduces are the creative principles informing ancient poets' approach to their subject matter, and establishes criteria that enable an objective discussion of the poems' originality and merit. ; 331 pages
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Cairns, Francis GENERIC COMPOSITION IN GREEK AND ROMAN POETRY
Edinburgh University Press 1972 0852242247 / 9780852242247 Hardcover Very Good in Very Good+ dust jacket
Light bumping to upper corners. Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). Dustjacket has browning to spine. ; This is the first serious attempt to formulate a system of literary criticism for ancient poetry, derived wholly from ancient evidence. It is based on methods of generic analysis, assignment and interpretation applicable to all Greek and Roman poetry. It outlines what the author deduces are the creative principles informing ancient poets' approach to their subject matter, and establishes criteria that enable an objective discussion of the poems' originality and merit. ; 331 pages
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Cairns, Francis GENERIC COMPOSITION IN GREEK AND ROMAN POETRY
Edinburgh University Press 1972 0852242247 / 9780852242247 Hardcover Very Good in Good+ dust jacket
Light Edgewear to lower corners of book. Paperclip indent to first few pages. Scholar's name to ffep (R. E. Fantham). Dustjacket has edgewear with chipping and a few small tears ; This is the first serious attempt to formulate a system of literary criticism for ancient poetry, derived wholly from ancient evidence. It is based on methods of generic analysis, assignment and interpretation applicable to all Greek and Roman poetry. It outlines what the author deduces are the creative principles informing ancient poets' approach to their subject matter, and establishes criteria that enable an objective discussion of the poems' originality and merit. ; 331 pages
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Cairns, Francis & Malcolm Heath (Eds. ) PAPERS OF THE LEEDS INTERNATIONAL LATIN SEMINAR Tenth Volume 1998: Greek Poetry, Drama, Prose, Roman Poetry
Francis Cairns (Publications) Ltd 1998 0905205952 / 9780905205953 Hardcover Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
Upper corners lightly bumped. Else book is fine. Minor shelfwear to DJ with slight crease along upper edge. ; CONTENTS: Michael Reichel: How oral is Homer's narrative? (1-22) Malcolm Heath: Was Homer a Roman? (23-56) Douglas L. Cairns: 'Aotos', 'Anthos', and the death of Archemorus in Bacchylides' ninth Ode (57-73) J. G. Howie: Thucydides and Pindar: the Archaeology and Nemean 7 (75-130) Ian Rutherford: Theoria as theatre: pilgrimage in Greek drama (131-156) C. Anne Wilson: Wine rituals, Maenads and Dionysian fire (157-168) A. S. Hollis: Nicander and Lucretius (169-184) Ernst A. Schmidt: Freedom and ownership: a contribution to the discussion of Vergil's First Eclogue (185-201) Francis Cairns: Tibullus 2.2 (202-234) Andreas Michalopoulos: Some cases of Propertian etymologising (235-250) Alex Hardie: Horace, the Paean and Roman Choreia (Odes 4.6) (251-293) R. K Gibson: Meretrix or matrona? Stereotypes in Ars Amatoria 3 (295-312) Karl Galinsky: The speech of Pythagoras at Ovid Metamorphoses 15.75-478 (313-336) K. M. Coleman: Martial Book 8 and the politics of AD 93 (337-357) Lindsay Watson: Martial 8.21, literary lusus, and imperial panegyric (359-372) Alain M. Gowing: Greek advice for a Roman senator: Cassius Dio and the Dialogue between Philiscus and Cicero (38.18-29) (373-390). Postscript. Meetings of the Leeds International Latin Seminar, 1988-1998. Contents of PLLS volumes 1-10. Author-index of PLLS volumes 1-10. ; ARCA Classical and Medieval Texts, Papers and Monographs 38; 409 pages
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Cairns, Francis & Miriam Griffin (Eds. ) PAPERS OF THE LANGFORD LATIN SEMINAR, FOURTEENTH VOLUME 2010 Health and Sickness in Ancient Rome. Greek and Roman Poetry and Historiography
Francis Cairns Publications 2010 0905205537 / 9780905205533 Hardcover Fine in Fine dust jacket
ARCA Classical and Medieval Texts, Papers and Monographs 50; 393 pages; Papers of the Langford Latin Seminar 14 contains (in revised, usually enlarged, and annotated form) papers presented at Langford Seminars of the Department of Classics of The Florida State University over the years 2004 to 2008, together with supplementary articles contributed at the request of the editors. Galen in Context (Vivian Nutton, The Wellcome Centre for the History of Medicine, University College London) Pliny and the Pathologies of Empire (Rebecca Flemming, Jesus College, Cambridge) Community Health: Metaphors in Latin Historiography (A. J. Woodman, University of Virginia) Apollo, Aesculapius and the Poetics of Illness in Ovid’s Metamorphoses (Gareth Williams, Columbia University) Medicine in the Life and Works of Plotinus (Svetla Slaveva-Griffin, The Florida State University) Monkey Business in Semonides (fr.7.75) (F. Williams, Trinity College Dublin) Vergil, Georgics 1.489–92: More Blood? (Damien Nelis, Université de Genève) Horace, Scythia, and the East (J. G. F. Powell, Royal Holloway, University of London) An Augustan Hymn to the Muses (Horace Odes 3.4). Part II (Alex Hardie, University of Edinburgh) The Unity of Corpus Tibullianum Book 3: Some Stylistic and Metrical Considerations (Robert Maltby, University of Leeds) Domitianic Themes in Statius’ Silvae (Robin Seager, University of Liverpool) Déjà vu or déjà lu? History as Intertext (Cynthia Damon, University of Pennsylvania)
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Cairns, Francis (Ed. ) PAPERS OF THE LIVERPOOL LATIN SEMINAR SECOND VOLUME 1979 Vergil and Roman Elegy. Medieval Latin Poetry and Prose. Greek Lyric and Drama.
Francis Cairns 1979 0905205030 / 9780905205038 Paperback Good
Chipping to corners. Crease to front lower corner. Some soiling to wraps. Scholar's name to ffep (R. E. Fantham). A couple of small checkmarks in pen to table of contents. ; CONTENTS: Vergil and Roman Elegy. E. L. Harrison: The Noric Plague in Vergil's third Georgic (1-65) H. D. Jocelyn: Vergilius cacozelus (Donatus Vita Vergilii 44) (67-142) T. Krischer: UnHomeric scene-patterns in Vergil (143-54) J. C. Yardley: The door and the lover: Propertius 1,16 (155-62) J. C. McKeown: Ovid Amores 3,12 (163-77). Medieval Latin Poetry and Prose. W. Barr: Claudian's In Rufinum: an invective? (179-90) J. E. Cross: Popes of Rome in the Old English Martyrology (191-211) R. Wright: The first poem on the Cid: the Carmen Campi Doctoris (213-48) K. Bate: Twelfth-century Latin comedies and the theatre (249-62) J. Margetts: Christus vitis, praedicator 'quasi vitis': some observations on Meister Eckhart's Latin sermon style (263-76) J. Foster: Petrarch's Africa: Ennian and Vergilian influences (277-98) Greek Lyric and Drama. J. G. Howie: Sappho Fr. 94 (LP) : farewell, consolation and help in a new life (299-342) W. G. Arnott: Time, plot and character in Menander (343-60) ; ARCA Classical and Medieval Texts, Papers and Monographs 3; 368 pages
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Calder III, William M. ; R. Scott Smith (ed.) THEATROKRATIA Collected Papers on the Politics and Staging of Greco-Roman Tragedy
Georg Olms Verlag 2005 3487128551 / 9783487128559 Hardcover Very Good+ with no dust jacket Signed by Author
Gift inscription to W. J. Slater from Calder III to ffep. Very minor shelfwear. A couple of corrections in pen done in author's hand to 2 pages. ; The volume gathers for the first time thirty-five scattered articles by Calder published 1958-1998 concerned with the political content of selected tragedies and their staging from Thespis to Seneca. An historian seeks to see tragedies in context, whether Pericles’ Athens or Nero’s Rome. He regularly contests the opinio communis. Eumenides protests against Periclean reform. Zeus in Prometheus is the tyrant Demos. Kreon not Antigone is the hero of Antigone. Neoptolemos in Philoctetes is a clever deceiver from the start. Sophocles Oinomaos was the inspiration of the East Pediment at Olympia. Atreus in Seneca’s Thyestes is the model whom Nero is urged to follow. The usual size of the Senecan chorus was three, never fifteen. Thespis’ chorus was six. A careful index locorum antiquorum ends the volume and makes the material easily accessible. ; Spudasmata Band 104; 431 pages; Signed by Author
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Callimachus; Frederick Williams (Ed. ) CALLIMACHUS: HYMN TO APOLLO A Commentary
Oxford Clarendon Press 1978 019814007X / 9780198140078 Hardcover Very Good in Good+ dust jacket
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Cameron, Alan CALLIMACHUS AND HIS CRITICS
Princeton University Press 1995 0691043671 / 9780691043678 Hardcover Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
Book has very light shelfwear. Else fine. DJ has very minor shelfwear. ; Callimachus has usually been seen as the archetypal ivory-tower poet, the epitome if not the inventor of the concept of art for art's sake, author of erudite works written to be read in book form by fellow poets and scholars. However, there is much evidence to suggest a different story: a world of civic festivals rather than books and libraries, a world in which poetry and poets played a central and public role. In the course of the argument, Cameron casts fresh light on the lives, dates, works and inter-relationships of most of the other leading poets of the age. Another axiom of modern scholarship is that the object of Callimachus's literary polemic was epic. Yet Cameron aims to show that the thriving school of epic poets celebrating the wars of Hellenistic kings that has so dominated modern study never existed. Elegy was the fashionable genre of the age and the bone of contention between Callimachus and his rivals (all fellow elegists) was the nature of elegaic narrative. A final chapter sketches some of the implications of this revised view of Callimachus and his world for the interpretation of Roman, especially Augustan, poetry. ; 533 pages
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Cameron, Alan CALLIMACHUS AND HIS CRITICS
Princeton University Press 1995 0691043671 / 9780691043678 Hardcover Very Good+ with no dust jacket
Book has very light shelfwear. Scholar's small bookplate to ffep (R. E. Fantham). Small faint stain to textblock. Minor shelfwear. ; Callimachus has usually been seen as the archetypal ivory-tower poet, the epitome if not the inventor of the concept of art for art's sake, author of erudite works written to be read in book form by fellow poets and scholars. However, there is much evidence to suggest a different story: a world of civic festivals rather than books and libraries, a world in which poetry and poets played a central and public role. In the course of the argument, Cameron casts fresh light on the lives, dates, works and inter-relationships of most of the other leading poets of the age. Another axiom of modern scholarship is that the object of Callimachus's literary polemic was epic. Yet Cameron aims to show that the thriving school of epic poets celebrating the wars of Hellenistic kings that has so dominated modern study never existed. Elegy was the fashionable genre of the age and the bone of contention between Callimachus and his rivals (all fellow elegists) was the nature of elegaic narrative. A final chapter sketches some of the implications of this revised view of Callimachus and his world for the interpretation of Roman, especially Augustan, poetry. ; 533 pages
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Campbell, Brian GREEK AND ROMAN MILITARY WRITERS Selected Readings
Routledge 2004 041528547X / 9780415285476 Paperback Very Good
Chipping to upper corners of wraps. Scholar's name to half-title (Robert Brown). Else very light shelfwear. ; Brian Campbell has selected and translated a wide range of pieces from the ancient military writers who tell us about the technical aspects of military practice and the management of armies. The pieces cover a fascinating range of topics - battle formations and manoeuvres, different types of troops, the art of generalship, methods for conducting and resisting a siege, the construction of artillery and fortifications, and every kind of ploy used by generals to defeat their opponents. Each piece is annotated with further explanation and context, making this an essential resource for everyone studying the army and warfare in the classical age. ; Routledge Classical Translations; 256 pages
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Campbell, David A. GREEK LYRIC POETRY A Selection of Early Greek Lyric, Elegiac and Iambic Poetry
Bristol Classical Press 2003 0862920086 / 9780862920081 Softcover Near Fine
Very Light shelfwear. ; Greek Text of poets with Extensive Commentary in English. Selections from: Archilochus, Callinus, Tyrtaeus, alcman, mimnermus, Solon, Stesichorus, Sappho, Alcaeus, ibycus, anacreon, xenophanes, phocylides, demodocus, theognis, hipponax, simonides, pratinas, timocreon, corinna, bacchylides, praxilla, carmina popularia, scolia. Digitally reprinted. ; 461 pages
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Campbell, David A. THE GOLDEN LYRE The Themes of the Greek Lyric Poets
Duckworth & Company 1983 0715615637 / 9780715615638 Hardcover Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket
DJ has mild creasing and shelfwear. Back upper corner is rubbed with colour loss. Former owner's name stamped on inner cover. Minor shelfwear. ; Examines the most important of the poets' themes-- love, wine, athletics, politics, friends and enemies, gods and heroes, life and death, poetry and music--. The texts are all printed in the original with accompanying translations. ; 320 pages
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Campbell, David A. THE GOLDEN LYRE The Themes of the Greek Lyric Poets
Duckworth & Company 1983 0715615637 / 9780715615638 Hardcover Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket
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