Very light edgewear else Fine. Former owner's name on ffep. ; 129 pages; Anderson's narrative in The Art of the Aeneid provides the modern reader fresh insights into Vergil, into the Aeneid. His analysis illuminates the literary and historical context and covers each of the twelve books of one of the greatest and most enduring works of Latin literature. View More...
Minor pencil marginalia to some pages. ; 129 pages; Anderson's narrative in The Art of the Aeneid provides the modern reader fresh insights into Vergil, into the Aeneid. His analysis illuminates the literary and historical context and covers each of the twelve books of one of the greatest and most enduring works of Latin literature. View More...
One small chip to DJ else Fine. ; Classics and Contemporary Thought; 1.57 x 9.37 x 6.31 Inches; 494 pages; The Roman empire remains unique. Although Rome claimed to rule the world, it did not. Rather, its uniqueness stems from the culture it created and the loyalty it inspired across an area that stretched from the Tyne to the Euphrates. Moreover, the empire created this culture with a bureaucracy smaller than that of a typical late-twentieth-century research university. In approaching this problem, Clifford Ando does not ask the ever-fashionable question, Why did the Roman empire fall? Rather... View More...
Early English Text Society No. 287; 233 pages; Two English versions of Aelred of Rievaulx's treatise on the ordering of the external and inner life of an anchoress, De Instututione Inclusarum, edited by John Ayto and Alexandra Barratt; includes critical introduction, select bibliography, note on the texts, notes, glossary. View More...
Light bumping to bottom corners else Fine. ; Early English Text Society No. 283; 394 pages; Once owned by the Catholic and Royalist bibliophile Sir Kenelm Digby (1603?1665) , this manuscript was among those Digby gave to Oxford University's Bodleian Library in 1634. Hence Bodleian Library MS Digby 133 lends its name to an eclectic group of religious plays that makes up one of two important late medieval dramatic anthologies (the other is the Macro Plays). View More...
Scholar's name on ffep (A. J. Marshall). Light shelfwear to book. Top edge of DJ has been crudely reinforced with cellotape with a few small tears. ; 1964 reprint of 1934 edition. Contents: Tiberius and his Successor; The first Three years at Rome; Gaius in Germany and Gaul; Conspiracies, Murder- -and the Succession; Gaius and the Jews; The Government of Gaius; The Character of Gaius. ; 184 pages View More...
Scholar's bookplate to ffep (Mary E. White). Light dust-soiling to top of textblock. Chipping and small tears to spine ends with one small piece missing to bottom edge. Light chipping to DJ corners. ; 1964 reprint of 1934 edition. Contents: Tiberius and his Successor; The first Three years at Rome; Gaius in Germany and Gaul; Conspiracies, Murder- -and the Succession; Gaius and the Jews; The Government of Gaius; The Character of Gaius. ; 184 pages View More...
Vol I.1: light rubbing to DJ has caused some colour loss. Small tear to top of DJ (1 cm). Light edgewear. VG. Book has very light shelfwear NF. Vol I.2: very light shelfwear NF. No DJ. Vol. II: Fine in Fine DJ. ; Vol I.1: ISBN: 0197222773, 1976, 359 pp. Vol I.2: ISBN: 019722282X, 1980, 331 pp & Volume II: ISBN: 0197223265, 2004, 451 pp; Early English Text Society No. 275, No. 280 & No. 323; 337 pages; Dives and Pauper is an encyclopaedic prose commentary on the ten commandments, cast as a dialogue between a wealthy layman and his instructor, a poor priest, perhaps a mendicant friar. It was com... View More...
Very light bump to top of spine else Fine. DJ has very light shelfwear. ; Early English Text Society No. 307; 368 pages; This is the first edition of a translation into English of an Old French Commentary on the Penitential Psalms, made in the fifteenth century by Dame Eleanor Hull, wife of Sir John Hull, a retainer of John of Gaunt. Eleanor Hull was a devout laywoman, lady-in-waiting to the second wife of Henry IV, who spent some of her life in Sopwell Priory, a house of Benedictine nuns attached to St. Albans Abbey. She is the first woman to have made translations into English whose name is ... View More...
Early English Text Society No. 295; 68 pages; This is a new critical edition of A Famylyer Dyaloge of the Freende and the Felaw, a late 15th-century translation of the Latin work Dialogus familiaris amici et sodalis (c. 1425) by Alain Chartier. The prose work forcefully laments the ruinous conditions in France brought about by the corruption and vices of the rulers, army, and common people in the early 15th century. View More...
Vol. I: book has Bump to base of spine NF. DJ spine is lightly discolored with rubbing (with colour loss) VG. Vol; Vol I: 1973, 264 pp ISBN: 019722722; Vol II: 1980, 260 pp ISBN: 0197222838 ; Early English Text Society No. 270 & No. 281; Three Fifteenth-century English translations of the prose works of Alain Chartier honoured by the rhetoricians as the 'father of French eloquence' are edited here for the first time. View More...
Small tear at bottom of backstrip. Minor shelfwear otherwise. ; British Archaeological Reports (B. A. R. ) Supplementary Series 6; 248 pages View More...
Dustsoiling to top of textblock. Minor shelfwear. ; This book is an exploration of the process and consequences of the campaigns of Alexander the Great of Macedon (who reigned from 336 to 323 BC) , focusing on the effect of his monarchy upon the world of his day. A detailed running narrative of the actual campaigns from the Danube to the Indus is complemented and enlarged upon by thematic studies on the reaction in Greece to Macedonian suzerainty, the administration of the empire, the evolution of the Macedonian army and its role as the instrument of conquest, and on the origins of the ruler c... View More...
Vol I: Fine in NF DJ. Vol II: one corner bumped else Fine. NF in NF DJ. ; Vol 1: ISBN: 019722315X, 1998, 443 pp & Vol 2: ISBN: 0197223168, 1999, 444-941 pp. ; Early English Text Society No. 311 & No. 312; 941 pages; This is a previously unpublished fifteenth-century book of knowledge, written in verse in question-and-answer form and enclosed in a framing adventure story. The English version is adopted from an Old French source. It covers a wide range of topics and is of interest as an index of popular beliefs in the Middle Ages. Volume I includes an introduction. Volume II contains the remaind... View More...
Hard bump to front bottom corner that has extended to first few pages. DJ has some edgewear with a couple of small closed tears. DJ has rubbing in places (with some colour loss). ; Early English Text Society No. 264; 273 pages View More...
Early English Text Society No. 294; 392 pages; This book brings together a wide range of late Middle English sermons distinctively "Lollard" in their intense preoccupation with the role of the preacher and the exposition of the scriptures. The work encompasses sixteen gospel sermons, an optional expansion, and the Sermon of Dead Men--a funeral sermon with a lengthy discourse on the Four Last Things (Death, Judgement, the Pains of Hell, and the Joys of Heaven)--in addition to introductory sections, a glossary, notes, and a two-part Index of Scriptural Texts, one sermon-by-sermon, the other alph... View More...
Scholar's name to ffep (R. Develin). Mild bump to one corner. Light shelfwear ; De Ste Croix has always been controversial and this book is no exception. Using evidence that most scholars would agree on, de Ste Croix gives some new twists to previous, standard interpretations. A good start to anyone wanting to investigate social history either in the ancient world or common themes/trends in human history. ; 1.79 x 9.31 x 6.07 Inches; 732 pages View More...
Light shelfwear with minor creasing and scuffing. ; Translated Documents of Greece and Rome 1; 231 pages; The first volume is devoted to the period which begins with the era of Greek colonization and ends with the close of the Peloponnesian War in 404 B. C. Charles Fornara has gathered together material compiled from inscriptions, ancient encyclopedias, scholia, and similar sources. The material, much of it translated by him for the first time, covers not only events of national significance - wars and treaties, the founding of towns and colonies, the dedication of temples - but also presents ... View More...
Some shelfwear with creasing and scuffing. Some staining. ; Translated Documents of Greece and Rome 1; 231 pages; The first volume is devoted to the period which begins with the era of Greek colonization and ends with the close of the Peloponnesian War in 404 B. C. Charles Fornara has gathered together material compiled from inscriptions, ancient encyclopedias, scholia, and similar sources. The material, much of it translated by him for the first time, covers not only events of national significance - wars and treaties, the founding of towns and colonies, the dedication of temples - but also p... View More...
Dustjacket has minor shelfwear and rubbing. Light edgewear to book. ; This is the first critical edition of a set of regulations for the secular clergy prepared by Wulfstan, Bishop of Worcester and Archbishop of York, in the early years of the eleventh century. ; Early English Text Society No. 266; 118 pages View More...
Very light shelfwear to book else Fine. Dustjacket is rubbed causing some colour loss. DJ has one small tear to upper front corner (1cm) . Light edgewear. ; This is the first critical edition of a set of regulations for the secular clergy prepared by Wulfstan, Bishop of Worcester and Archbishop of York, in the early years of the eleventh century. ; Early English Text Society No. 266; 118 pages View More...
Very light shelfwear to DJ else Fine. ; Early English Text Society S. S. 18; 856 pages; This is the third and final volume in the Early English Text Society's edition of AElfric's Catholic Homilies, a set of preaching texts in two series composed in Old English around 900 for the use of preachers throughout England. This final volume gives an account of the origin, function, and dating of the Catholic Homilies and their Latin sources; a detailed commentary on all eighty homilies; and a glossary of all words occurring in the text. View More...
Light bump to base of spine. Minor shelfwear. ; This edition is based on the same manuscripts as Thorpe's but the text here is improved in a number of ways; it includes the passages of Gospel translation which Thorpe omitted; it retains the manuscript punctuation, which is clear and helpful once its principles are mastered; it introduces a number of emendations based on collations of all the other manuscripts; it corrects Thorpe's errors of transcription; and an effort is made to assure that the arrangement of the homilies is closer to Aelfric's intentions. ; Early English Text Society S. S. 5... View More...
Very light shelfwear. Light knock to top of spine. ; The Ayenbite of Inwyt (literally Prick (or Remorse) of Conscience) is a confessional prose work written in a Kentish dialect of Middle English. ; Early English Text Society No. 278; Vol. 2; 338 pages View More...
Crease to DJ flap. One corner of book bumped. ; 698 pages; An anthology of the great chroniclers of the ancient world includes selections from such early Greek and Roman historians as Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, Julius Caesar, Livy, Plutarch, Tacitus, and others. View More...
Small chip missing from bottom back edge of DJ. Dustjacket is protected in mylar. Bottom corners slight bumped. Ffep has corner clipped (probably to remove former owner's name). ; Thorough description and assessment of the Roman army, its organization, staffing, management, finance, and relationship with Roman leaders from Julius onward. ; 364 pages View More...
Former owner's bookplate on inner cover. Minor shelfwear to book. DJ has 1 tear (2 cm) and some chipping. ; Thorough description and assessment of the Roman army, its organization, staffing, management, finance, and relationship with Roman leaders from Julius onward. ; 364 pages View More...
Very minor shelfwear to DJ else Fine. ; Early English Text Society No. 315; 604 pages; Gilte Legende is mostly a close translation 'drawen out of Frensshe into Englisshe' in 1438, of Jean de Vignay's Légende Dorée of about 1333-40, itself a close translation of Jacobus de Voragine's Legenda Aurea, completed about 1267. Of its eight surviving manuscripts, three contain additions, mostly of Lives of saints from or related to Britain, many of them deversified from the South English Legendary, but with some use of other sources. The twenty-six lives include Thomas Becket, Edmund of Abingdon, Fride... View More...
Very light creasing/edgewear along top edge of DJ else Fine. ; Early English Text Society No. 320; 324 pages; The historical romance of The Siege of Jerusalem was the most widely dispersed and popular Middle English alliterative poem in the medieval period apart from Piers Plowman. It was previously edited for the Society by Eugen Kölbing and Mabel Day (O. S. 188 (1932). This new edition offers a critical text based upon all the surviving manuscripts, some unavailable to Kölbing and Day. All extant manuscripts are fully described, and the editors discuss the sources and authorship, as well as ... View More...
Creasing to spine. Light creasing to wraps. Minor shelfwear. ; The Ancient World; 410 pages; When democratic rule was ended by the conquering Macedonians in 322, the Athenians had evolved principles and practice of democratic ideology that became the direct inspiration of those liberal ideas cherished by the Western world in the 19th and 20th centuries. Mogens Hansen examines Athenian democracy both as a political system and as an ideology. In describing the former he distinguished between the three major decision-making organs - the Assembly, the Legislators and the Peoples Courts, and the ma... View More...
271 pages; Second Edition. The Greeks of the classical age invented not only the central idea of Western politics--that the power of state should be guided by a majority of its citizens--but also the central act of Western warfare, the decisive infantry battle. Instead of ambush, skirmish, maneuver, or combat between individual heroes, the Greeks of the fifth century b. C. Devised a ferocious, brief, and destructive head-on clash between armed men of all ages. In this bold, original study, Victor Davis Hanson shows how this brutal enterprise was dedicated to the same outcome as consensual gove... View More...
Vol 1: very light shelfwear NF- no DJ. Vol 2: very minor shelfwear NF- no DJ. ; Vol 1: ISBN: 0197222900, 1985, xcv & 356 pp & Vol 2: ISBN: 0197222943, 1988, 357-615 pp. ; Early English Text Society No. 288 & No. 292; 451 pages; This book presents the first full account and critical edition of The Pilgrimage of the Life of Manhode based on the anonymous Middle English prose translation, of the First Recension of the long vision poem, Le P`elerinage de la Vie humaine. Once thought to be diffuse, Henry shows that this lively allegory is an intricate and effective structure stemming from the same ... View More...
Lxiii, 182 pp ; Early English Text Society No. 301; 245 pages; These two texts set out the views of two followers of the heretic John Wyclif in the years 1406-07. The first, a sermon by William Taylor, caused a scandal in London when it was preached. The second, an account of the conversations between William Thorpe and Archbishop Arundel, sets out clearly many points concerning the history and views of the heretics between the 1380s and 1407. View More...
Former owner's name to ffep. Light rubbing to wraps. ; Joint Association of Classical Teachers' Greek Course Background Book; 407 pages; The World of Athens is a serious, up-to-date account of the history and culture of fifth century Athens for adults, university students and sixth-formers with an intelligent interest in ancient Greece. The book, which is profusely illustrated, contains chapters on all aspects of the history, culture, values and achievements of Athenian life. Teachers and students of Reading Greek now have a full and instant guide to the cultural and historical topics in which... View More...
Light shelfwear. Ffep is corner clipped (price removed). ; 399 pages; The World of Rome is an introduction to the history and culture of Rome for anyone seriously interested in the ancient world. It covers all aspects of the city--its rise to power, what made it great and why it still engages and challenges us today. Frequent quotations from ancient writers and numerous illustrations make this a stimulating and accessible introduction to ancient Rome. The book is particularly designed to serve as a background to Reading Latin View More...
Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers and traces of removed pocket. Minor wear to spine ends. Book has been rebound in boards with original front wrap affixed to front board. Minor discoloration to upper back board. Minor dampstaining to rear board and last few pages. ; Social and Economic Commentaries on Classical Texts I; 53 pages View More...
Early English Text Society Original Series; 230 pages; This edition presents the three extant texts of a largely unrecognised genre in Middle English verse: odes to saints written in strong-stress metre in fourteen-line stanzas. These hymns were composed in the North and East Midlands in around 1400. This is the first edition of these linguistically difficult, 'knotty', poems for many years: they were previously edited separately in 1907 (re-edited, 1937), 1889 and 1921. The new edition takes account of recent scholarship on the Middle English alliterative verse tradition, and includes full di... View More...
Light sticker residue to bottom of spine. Else Fine. ; Phoenix Supplementary Volume XXIII; 336 pages; Herodotus was the first writer in the West to conceive the value of creating a record of the recent past. He found a way to co-ordinate the often conflicting data of history, ethnology, and culture. The Historical Method of Herodotus explores the intellectual habits and the literary principles of this pioneer writer of prose. Donald Lateiner argues, against the perception that Herodotus' work seems amorphous and ill organized, that the Histories contain their own definition of historical signi... View More...
DJ has very minor shelfwear else Fine. ; 240 pages; This collection of essays, written over a period of almost thirty years, deals with one problem: who is the 'I' in the odes of the most celebrated ancient Greek poet, Pindar? Since antiquity, the complex and allusive language of the first-person statements has provoked many different answers. Professor Lefkowitz describes the function and nature of Pindar's 'I'-statements and proposes a controversial solution that would cause some histories of Greek literature to be rewritten. Rather than accept the view that the identity of the speaker could... View More...
Spine very lightly sunned. Else fine. ; Gives a conspectus of violence and civil strife in classical society during the most exciting period of its development. Examines first the extent and function of violence in this form of society and then traces the development of civil strife as the cities become more powerful and politically more sophisticated. Major themes are aristocratic rivalry, the tensions between rich and poor, the link between imperialism and civil strife and the causes of constitutional revolution. ; 289 pages View More...
Spine very lightly sunned. ; Gives a conspectus of violence and civil strife in classical society during the most exciting period of its development. Examines first the extent and function of violence in this form of society and then traces the development of civil strife as the cities become more powerful and politically more sophisticated. Major themes are aristocratic rivalry, the tensions between rich and poor, the link between imperialism and civil strife and the causes of constitutional revolution. ; 289 pages View More...
Very light shelfwear. ; Gives a conspectus of violence and civil strife in classical society during the most exciting period of its development. Examines first the extent and function of violence in this form of society and then traces the development of civil strife as the cities become more powerful and politically more sophisticated. Major themes are aristocratic rivalry, the tensions between rich and poor, the link between imperialism and civil strife and the causes of constitutional revolution. ; 289 pages View More...
Spine very lightly sunned. Old price sticker to rear wrap. ; Gives a conspectus of violence and civil strife in classical society during the most exciting period of its development. Examines first the extent and function of violence in this form of society and then traces the development of civil strife as the cities become more powerful and politically more sophisticated. Major themes are aristocratic rivalry, the tensions between rich and poor, the link between imperialism and civil strife and the causes of constitutional revolution. ; 289 pages View More...
Former owner's name on ffep. Spine slight discolored. Light edgewear and rubbing. ; 212 pages; "In this interesting and suggestive book, Professor MacMullen views anew an important and rather neglected aspect of Roman social relations. A perceptive and sensitive interpreter, he has drawn widely upon the scattered and unorganized evidence about the poorer classes, rural and urban, in much of the Roman Empire, and presents a fresh picture of their conditions, attitudes, and aims." -T. Robert S. Broughton View More...
Scholars' bookplate to inner cover (Slater & Dunbabin). Light pencilling to a couple of pages. ; 212 pages; "In this interesting and suggestive book, Professor MacMullen views anew an important and rather neglected aspect of Roman social relations. A perceptive and sensitive interpreter, he has drawn widely upon the scattered and unorganized evidence about the poorer classes, rural and urban, in much of the Roman Empire, and presents a fresh picture of their conditions, attitudes, and aims." -T. Robert S. Broughton View More...
Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers and pocket. Book has been rebound in blue buckram with white lettering to spine ; Bibliothèque Des Écoles Française D'Athènes Et De Rome Fascicule 26; 184 pages View More...
Dustjacket is protected in mylar. DJ slightly browned with one closed tear ~1". Book has very slightly bumped corners else Fine. ; Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome, Volume XXX (30) ; 222 pages; Forms a new, comprehensive catalogue of Severus' portraits which can serve as a replacement to Bernoulli's now out-dated list. View More...
