Light bump to top of spine. Former owner's name to ffep. Else minor shelfwear to book. DJ spine browned with a bit of sticker damage. Tears to head of spine. Some chipping to DJ. ; 191 pages; Flavius Abinnaeus is commander of the cavalry (praefectus alae) in the Fayum, stationed in a fortress in Dionysias, a village in the North-West of the province from AD 342 to 35. The book is a collection of petitions, letters, accounts and lists. Of the 42 letters, 37 are addressed to Abinnaeus and one is written by him. All together, he has 26 different correspondents. Fourteen petitions are addressed to... View More...
Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers and pocket. Sound copy; 151 pages; The old world of pagan thought and custom, based on the city of Rome, tries to defend itself against the forces of innovation and disruption in the new age....On the one side, the emperor, representing the mass of the citizens...on the other, the senate and aristocracy of Rome, representing the ancient tradition and way of life. The conflict turns round the trials of leading Roman nobles for magical practices-- regarded by them as a permissible maintenance of traditional rites, but by the Emperor as symptoms of ... View More...
Contents: Philip Rousseau: Inheriting the Fifth Century: Who Bequeathed What? Roger Scott: Writing the Reign of Justinian: Malalas versus Theophanes; Katherine Adshead: Procopius and the Samaritans; Michael Jeffreys: Bury, Malalas and the Nika Riot; Elizabeth Jeffreys: The Chronicle of John Malalas, Book 1: A Commentary; Wolfgang Liebeschuetz: The Use of Pagan Mythology in the Christian Empire with Particular Reference to the Dionysiaca of Nonnus; Barry Baldwin: Notes of Christian Epigrams in Book One of the Greek Anthology; Ian Martlew: The Reading of Paul the Silentiary; Daniel Callam: Early... View More...
Scholar's name to ffep (Christian Habicht) , else unmarked. Nicely bound in a cream-colored boards with orange leather labels and gilt lettering. Minor scuffing to rear board of V2. Spines slightly browned. Light foxing to some pages. Some waviness to pages of V2. ; N. D. 2 volumes (1913-1917 as per worldcat) . V1: xxxix, 520pp; V2: 156, 101, 122 pp. ; Bibliothek Der Kirchenväter, 13 & 31; Vol. 1/2/2023 View More...
Book is fine. DJ has small stain to front panel and light edgewear. ; A literary verse translation of Ausonius, the most famous of the learned poets active in the second half of the fourth century-- To his Commemorations, David Slavitt has added versions of Ausonius's Nuptial Cento, assembled from snippets of Shakespeare (Ausonius's original is a pastiche of Virgil) , and selected epigrams. ; 86 pages View More...
Pages unopened. Very light shelfwear. Else fine. ; Aims to establish Ammianus in the front rank of ancient military historians; attempts to do this by demonstrating that he possesses an extensive knowledge of the three principal phases of military activity: intelligence, planning and operations. ; Collection Latomus Volume 165; 171 pages View More...
Dustjacket has edgewear with chipping and a couple of small tears. ; Minnesota Monographs in the Humanities; 1 x 1 x 1 Inches; 161 pages; The Alans, a nomadic people from the steppe lands of south Russia, were among the many invaders of the Roman empire who helped to bring about its fall. They were not Germans -- they were Indo-Iranians. Bachrach discusses the social and religious institutions of the Alans and especially their military customs. View More...
1.25 x 9.5 x 6.5 Inches; 392 pages; This book brings together a vast amount of information pertaining to the society, economy, and culture of a province important to understanding the entire eastern part of the later Roman Empire. Focusing on Egypt from the accession of Diocletian in 284 to the middle of the fifth century, Roger Bagnall draws his evidence mainly from documentary and archaeological sources, including the papyri that have been published over the last thirty years. This book brings together a vast amount of information pertaining to the society, economy, and culture of a province... View More...
Back cover corner is lightly creased. ; A concordance of Priscian's Panegyric. Priscian (Priscianus Caesariensis) , the celebrated Latin grammarian, addressed a laudatory poem (panegyric) to Anastasius, emperor of the East (491?518). Text is in Latin with an Italian preface. ; Alpha-Omega CCX; 169 pages View More...
Minor shelfwear to book with bump to 1 corner. Dustjacket spine is lightly sunned and discolored. DJ has large tear to upper corner (1cm by 4 cm). ; This study of the Roman Empire in the age of Constantine offers a thoroughly new assessment of the part Christianity played in the Roman world of the third and fourth centuries. Mr. Barnes gives the fullest available narrative history of the reigns of Diocletian and Constantine. He analyzes Constantine's rise to power and his government, demonstrating how Constantine's sincere adherence to Christianity advanced his political aims. He explores the ... View More...
Small tear to cloth at base of spine (1"). Else Minor shelfwear. ; Sets out the factual framework for this obscure period of Roman/Byzantine History. ; 305 pages View More...
Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). Light foxing to top of textblock. ; Sets out the factual framework for this obscure period of Roman/Byzantine History. ; 305 pages View More...
0.79 x 9.06 x 5.91 Inches; 256 pages; Disagrees with the commonly held notion that the Roman imperial government disintegrated during the 5th century, and was replaced by the Germanic administrations of such peoples as the Visigoths, Burgundians, and Franks. Argues instead that the new kingdoms were an outgrowth of Roman rule, and owed much to it. View More...
Ethics, Identity, and Community in Later Roman Declamation is the first book devoted exclusively to the Major Declamations and its reception in later European literature. It argues that the fictional scenarios of the Major Declamations enable the conceptual exploration of a variety of ethical and social issues. Chapters explore these cultural matters, covering, in turn, the construction of authority, the verification of claims, the conventions of reciprocity, and the ethics of spectatorship. The book closes with a study of the reception of the collection by the Renaissance humanist Juan Luis V... View More...
Very light Dustsoiling to top of textblock. Minor shelfwear to DJ. ; Greek and Latin Studies. Classical Literature and its Influence; 240 pages View More...
Light shelfwear to boards. Dust jacket is chipped along top edge and bottom of spine. Dustjacket is protected in mylar. Former owner's name on ffep. ; The first detailed picture of the population policies of the Western Empire, and their effects on its government service. This analysis throws new light on the economic and social legislation of Diocletian, Constantine and their successors. ; Jerome Lectures; 169 pages View More...
Boards have light soiling. Minor shelfwear to boards. Former owner's bookplate on inner cover. Former owner's names on ffep. Text has sporadic underlining in pencil and ink. Light foxing on a few pages. Back inner cover has notes in fountain pen and pencil. ; Contents: The African Provinces; The Three Capitals: Carthage, Cirta & Caesarea; Learning and Education; Private life and amusements-- the arts; Fronto and his Circle; Philosophy and Religion--Apuleius; Poetry; Christian Africa; Vandal and Byzantine Periods; Some considerations of the style and language of African Writers. ; 128 pages View More...
Boards have a couple of light waterstains. Minor shelfwear to boards. Former owner's name stamped on inner cover. Some foxing on a few pages and textblock. Front inner hinge starting to crack. ; Contents: The African Provinces; The Three Capitals: Carthage, Cirta & Caesarea; Learning and Education; Private life and amusements-- the arts; Fronto and his Circle; Philosophy and Religion--Apuleius; Poetry; Christian Africa; Vandal and Byzantine Periods; Some considerations of the style and language of African Writers. ; 128 pages View More...
Book has very light shelfwear else fine. DJ has 1 tiny chip and faint crease along upper edge. ; The first book of its kind, this richly informative guide to the world of late antiquity offers the most recent scholarship to the researcher along with sheer reading pleasure to the browser. In eleven comprehensive essays and in over 500 encyclopedic entries, an international cast of experts provides essential information and fresh perspectives on the history and culture of an era marked by the rise of two world religions, unprecedented political upheavals that remade the map of the known world, a... View More...
Bump to front upper corner with some creasing to some pages. Mild creasing to lower corner of last few pages and wraps. ; Mesopotamia and the "New" Military History by Seth F. C. Richardson - Greece: Mad Hatters and March Hares by Everett L. Wheeler - New Approaches to the Roman Army by Sara E. Phang - Military History in Late Antiquity: Changing Perspectives and Paradigms by Doug Lee. ; Publication of the Association of Ancient Historians 10; 222 pages View More...
Table of contents contain light pen check marks (about four) in margin. Rest of book is clean and would be considered to be in Fine condition otherwise. ; Collection of essays dealing with a variety of subjects, some of which include: Pseudolus as Socrates; Encolpius and Asianism; Wrath of Aeneas; Clodia in Cicero's Pro Caelio; Historical development in Livy; Cicero's Pro Sestio; Statilius-subscription and editions of late antiquity; Phaedra's isolation and self-consciousness; Similes in Lucretius; chora Basilike of Alexander the Great; Vergilian manuscripts; reconsideration of Cicero's prince... View More...
Foxing/dustsoiling to top of textblock. Light spotting to boards. Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). DJ spine a bit browned. ; 0.37 x 8.25 x 5.55 Inches; 352 pages View More...
Last 10 or so pages and rear pastedown have rippling from moisture exposure. Minimal ex-library markings (to ffep) (stamp and written date of acquisition? ). Else Fair to Good. ; ?This is the first detailed survey in English for nearly ninety years of the history and society of the Byzantine possessions, and throws new light on this darkest period of Italian history. The collapse of Roman civilian institutions should be attributed not to any violent upheaval but to underlying weaknesses and to the emergence of conditions which facilitated the rise of a new military elite. ? ; 288 pages View More...
Minor shelfwear to book. Clipped obituary of Browning tipped in. DJ has tears and chipping. ; The story of the peasant's son who became an emperor and the dissolute actress who resided beside him on the throne is one of the greatest and most controversial romances of history. United, they presided over a key epoch in the formation of Europe. ; 272 pages View More...
Dustjacket is protected in mylar. Light soiling to textblock. The first 20 pages are creased but with no loss to text else VG. Adhesives stain to front free-page. ; 256 pages; Julian is called by Christians "The Apostate" because they believe he converted from Christianity to Paganism. He himself, as attested to in private letters between him and the Rhetorician Libanius, had Christianity forced on him as a child by his cousin Constantius II, who was a zealot Christian and would have not tolerated a pagan relative, but Julian had never really accepted any religion until his reading of the Home... View More...
Small tears in backstrip, a few small spots on rear wrap and one on spine. Spine slightly browned. Pages tanned. Else Very Good. ; 240 pages View More...
Very minor shelfwear. Spine of vol 2 is discolored (as published? ). 2 volume set appears unread. ; Vol I: isbn 0486203980. Vol II: isbn 0486203999 ; 2 Volume Set; 0.94 x 7.98 x 5.44 Inches; 496 pages; One of the world's foremost historians chronicles the major forces and events in the history of the Western and Byzantine Empires from the death of Theodosius (395 AD) to the death of Justinian (565 AD). View More...
Minor shelfwear. Minor chipping to base of spines. Faint tanning to wraps. ; 2 volume set. V1 494 pp; V2: 471 pp. ; 2 Volume Set; 0.94 x 7.98 x 5.44 Inches; One of the world's foremost historians chronicles the major forces and events in the history of the Western and Byzantine Empires from the death of Theodosius (395 AD) to the death of Justinian (565 AD). View More...
Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). Foxing to textblock. Edgewear to DJ with rubbing and some foxing. ; Later reprint by Sandpiper Books. As a propagandist Claudian offers unique illumination of the intrigues inside and between the rival courts of Milan and Constantinople in the decisive years following the death of Theodosius the Great. Though a Greek by birth, Claudian revived Latin poetry with a flair not seen since the Silver Age- and not to be seen again. This book studies Claudian's political and propagandist techniques, his accounts of Stilico's campaigns and rivals, his d... View More...
Dustjacket has minor shelfwear and rubbing. Book has light shelfwear. ; 298 pages; Porphyrius Calliopas was the greatest hero of the 6th century Byzantine hippodrome, celebrated in the Anthology and in monumental reliefs. Only two bases of monuments to Porphyrius survive, the second found in 1963. Cameron presents a full study of this second base, elucidating the iconography, explaining the inscriptions and also reassessing the first base. From the evidence of the bases and epigrams, he is able to reconstruct the careers of Porphyrius and fellow charioteers, exploring their fame and material r... View More...
Upper corner slightly bumped. ; With a contribution by Lee Sherry. Signed by one author on inner cover: "For Dirk from Alan" ; Transformation of the Classical Heritage; 441 pages; The chaotic events of A. D. 395-400 marked a momentous turning point for the Roman Empire and its relationship to the barbarian peoples under and beyond its command. In this masterly study, Alan Cameron proposes a complete rewriting of received wisdom concerning the social and political history of these years. Our knowledge of the period comes to us in part through Synesius of Cyrene, who recorded his view of events ... View More...
Very light shelfwear to DJ. ; With a contribution by Lee Sherry. ; Transformation of the Classical Heritage; 441 pages; The chaotic events of A. D. 395-400 marked a momentous turning point for the Roman Empire and its relationship to the barbarian peoples under and beyond its command. In this masterly study, Alan Cameron proposes a complete rewriting of received wisdom concerning the social and political history of these years. Our knowledge of the period comes to us in part through Synesius of Cyrene, who recorded his view of events in his De regno and De providentia. By redating these works,... View More...
Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). Foxing/dustsoiling to top of textblock. Light rubbing to DJ. ; 168 pages; Agathias or Agathias Scholasticus (c. AD 536-582/594) , of Myrina, an Aeolian city in western Asia Minor, was a Greek poet and the historian who is a principal source for that part of the reign of Justinian I covered in his history. He studied law at Alexandria, returned to Constantinople in 554 to finish his training and practised as an advocate (scholasticus) in the courts. Literature, however, was his favourite pursuit. He wrote a number of short love-poems in epic met... View More...
Minor shelfwear. Former owner's name to ffep ; 168 pages; Agathias or Agathias Scholasticus (c. AD 536-582/594) , of Myrina, an Aeolian city in western Asia Minor, was a Greek poet and the historian who is a principal source for that part of the reign of Justinian I covered in his history. He studied law at Alexandria, returned to Constantinople in 554 to finish his training and practised as an advocate (scholasticus) in the courts. Literature, however, was his favourite pursuit. He wrote a number of short love-poems in epic metre, called Daphniaca. He also put together an anthology of epigra... View More...
Bumping to head of spine has caused slight warping to cloth covering spine. Former owner's name on ffep. ; A magisterial assessment of the major historian of early Byzantium, by one of today's leading historians of late antiquity. Most of our understanding of the age of Justinian is based on the works of Procopius of Caesarea, the most important Greek historian of late antiquity. Many modern histories of the period virtually paraphrase his major work, the Wars. Today, questions of how we are to reconcile the Wars with Procopius' two minor works-the panegyrical Building and the sensational Secr... View More...
Foxing/dustsoiling to top of textblock. DJ has chipping to upper corners and minor edgewear. ; A magisterial assessment of the major historian of early Byzantium, by one of today's leading historians of late antiquity. Most of our understanding of the age of Justinian is based on the works of Procopius of Caesarea, the most important Greek historian of late antiquity. Many modern histories of the period virtually paraphrase his major work, the Wars. Today, questions of how we are to reconcile the Wars with Procopius' two minor works-the panegyrical Building and the sensational Secret History, ... View More...
Bumping to lower corners. Else minor shelfwear to book and DJ. ; A magisterial assessment of the major historian of early Byzantium, by one of today's leading historians of late antiquity. Most of our understanding of the age of Justinian is based on the works of Procopius of Caesarea, the most important Greek historian of late antiquity. Many modern histories of the period virtually paraphrase his major work, the Wars. Today, questions of how we are to reconcile the Wars with Procopius' two minor works-the panegyrical Building and the sensational Secret History, still dominates current schola... View More...
Very minor edgewear to wraps. ; 238 pages; Marked by the shift of power from Rome to Constantinople and the Christianization of the Empire, this pivotal era requires a narrative and interpretative history of its own. Averil Cameron, an authority on later Roman and early Byzantine history and culture, captures the vigor and variety of the fourth century. After a hundred years of political turmoil, civil war, and invasion, the Roman Empire that Diocletian inherited in AD 284 desperately needed the radical restructuring he gave its government and defenses. His successor, Constantine, continued th... View More...
Minor bump to top corner. Dustjacket has minor rubbing. ; "The Mediterranean World in Late Antiquity: AD 395-600" deals with the period commonly known as "late antiquity" - the fifth and sixth centuries. The Roman Empire in the west was splitting into separate Germanic kingdoms, while the Near East, still under Roman or Byzantine rule from Constantinople, maintained a dense population and flourishing urban culture until the Persian and Arab invasions of the early seventh century. The book is intended for teachers and students in both ancient and medieval history. Averil Cameron places her emp... View More...
Light shelfwear to DJ. Light shelfwear to book. ; "The Mediterranean World in Late Antiquity: AD 395-600" deals with the period commonly known as "late antiquity" - the fifth and sixth centuries. The Roman Empire in the west was splitting into separate Germanic kingdoms, while the Near East, still under Roman or Byzantine rule from Constantinople, maintained a dense population and flourishing urban culture until the Persian and Arab invasions of the early seventh century. The book is intended for teachers and students in both ancient and medieval history. Averil Cameron places her emphasis on... View More...
Light edgewear to wraps. Minor shelfwear. Some scuffing to textblock. ; La tarda antichità è spesso descritta come una "età dell'oro", intendendo con questa espressione che il sistema monetario dei secoli IV-VII si sarebbe strutturato soprattutto sulle coniazioni nel metallo più prezioso, attraverso cioè un vero e proprio "ancoramento all'oro" dell'intera struttura economica e dei prezzi. Il solido, moneta introdotta da Costantino, diventa così uno dei simboli per eccellenza del tardo Impero romano. Questo volume mira ad analizzare e approfondire in maniera sistematica gli aspetti sociali, eco... View More...
