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THE ABINNAEUS ARCHIVE Papers of a Roman Officer in the Reign of Constantius II. Collected and re-edited.

By: Abinnaeus, Flavius; H. I. Bell; V. Martin; E. G. Turner; & D. Van Berchem

Price: $190.00 USD

Publisher: Oxford Clarendon Press: 1962

Seller ID: 29728

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good+ dust jacket

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...
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ALEXANDRI ESSEBIENSIS: OPERA THEOLOGICA De Artificioso Modo Predicandi Sermones & Meditaciones (Corpus Christianorum Continuatio Mediaevalis, 188)

By: Alexander Essebiensis; Franco Morenzoni & Thomas M. Bestul (Eds. )

Price: $165.00 USD

Publisher: Turnhout, Brepols: 2004

Seller ID: 20691

ISBN: 2503048811

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine with no dust jacket

xviii, 499pp.; Corpus Christianorum Continuatio Mediaevalis CLXXXVIII (188) ; 499 pages
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ALEXANDRI ESSEBIENSIS: OPERA POETICA (Corpus Christianorum Continuatio Mediaevalis, 188A)

By: Alexander Essebiensis; Greti Dinkova-Bruun (Ed. )

Price: $120.00 USD

Publisher: Turnhout, Brepols: 2004

Seller ID: 20692

ISBN: 2503048838

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine with no dust jacket

Very light shelfwear. ; lxxxi, 318pp.; Corpus Christianorum Continuatio Mediaevalis CLXXXVIII a (188 A) ; 318 pages
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A CONFLICT OF IDEAS IN THE LATE ROMAN EMPIRE The Clash between the Senate and Valentinian I

By: Alfldi, Andrew (Trans. Harold Mattingly)

Price: $50.00 USD

Publisher: Oxford Clarendon Press: 1952

Seller ID: 3837

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- with no dust jacket

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 ...
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THE SIXTH CENTURY: END OR BEGINNING?

By: Allen, Pauline and Elizabeth Jeffreys (Eds. )

Price: $135.00 USD

Publisher: Australian Association for Byzantine Studies: 1996

Seller ID: 16311

ISBN: 186420074X

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Fine

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...
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AMMIANUS MARCELLINUS A Selection, with Introduction, Notes, and Commentary

By: Ammianus Marcellinus; Roger Blockley

Price: $40.00 USD

Publisher: Bristol Classical Press: 1980

Seller ID: 29715

ISBN: 0906515076

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

Light foxing to top of textblock. Very minor shelfwear. ; 139 pages
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DES HEILIGEN ATHANASIUS [2 VOLUME SET] I: Vier Reden Gegen Die Arianer, Vier Briefe an Serapion, Brief an Epiktet; II: Gegen Die Heiden, ber Die Menschwerdung, Leben Des Heilige Antonius. Mit Einem Anhang Leben Des Heiligen Pachomius

By: Athanasius, Alexandrinus; Anton Stegmann & Joseph Lippl

Price: $50.00 USD

Publisher: Munich, Jos. Ksel & Friedr. Pustet: 1913

Seller ID: 20651

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

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 Kirchenvter, 13 & 31; Vol. 1/2/2020
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JULIAN An Intellectual Biography

By: Athanassiadi, Polymnia

Price: $65.00 USD

Publisher: Routledge: 1992

Seller ID: 6253

ISBN: 041507763X

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Fine

Former copy of Prof. J. F. Drinkwater. ; Classical Lives; 8.75 x 1 x 5.75 Inches; 249 pages
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JULIAN An Intellectual Biography

By: Athanassiadi, Polymnia

Price: $65.00 USD

Publisher: Routledge: 1992

Seller ID: 10114

ISBN: 041507763X

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

Light creasing to spine. Minor shelfwear. ; Classical Lives; 8.75 x 1 x 5.75 Inches; 249 pages
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AUSONIUS: THREE AMUSEMENTS

By: Ausonius; David R. Slavitt (translated)

Price: $19.00 USD

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press: 1998

Seller ID: 14624

ISBN: 0812234723

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket

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
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AMMIANUS ON WARFARE An Investigation Into Ammianus' Military Knowledge

By: Austin, N. J. E

Price: $47.00 USD

Publisher: Latomus: 1979

Seller ID: 15582

ISBN: 2870311052

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

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
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A HISTORY OF THE ALANS IN THE WEST From Their First Appearance in the Sources of Classical Antiquity through the Early Middle Ages

By: Bachrach, Bernard S.

Price: $115.00 USD

Publisher: University of Minnesota Press: 1973

Seller ID: 5965

ISBN: 0816606781

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Very Good- dust jacket

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.
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EGYPT IN LATE ANTIQUITY

By: Bagnall, Roger S.

Price: $45.00 USD

Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr: 1993

Seller ID: 1823

ISBN: 0691069867

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket

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...
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CONCORDANTIAE IN PRISCIANI PANEGYRICUM Concordanze Del Panegirico Di Prisciano (Concordance of Priscian's Panegyric)

By: Ballaira, Guglielmo

Price: $75.00 USD

Publisher: Olms-Weidmann: 2000

Seller ID: 992

ISBN: 3487110903

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine with no dust jacket

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 (491518). Text is in Latin with an Italian preface. ; Alpha-Omega CCX; 169 pages
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CONSTANTIUS II. UND SEINE ZEIT Die Anfnge Des Staatskirchentums

By: Barcel, Pedro

Price: $165.00 USD

Publisher: Klett-Cotta: 2004

Seller ID: 16161

ISBN: 3608940464

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

Very light shelfwear to DJ and book. ; 276 pages
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CONSTANTINE AND EUSEBIUS

By: Barnes, Timothy D.

Price: $70.00 USD

Publisher: Harvard University Press: 1981

Seller ID: 18187

ISBN: 0674165306

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket

Light shelfwear to book. Dustjacket spine is sunned and discolored. Light edgewear to extremities of DJ with 1 tiny tear. ; 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 whole range of Eusebius' ...
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CONSTANTINE AND EUSEBIUS

By: Barnes, Timothy D.

Price: $70.00 USD

Publisher: Harvard University Press: 1981

Seller ID: 18188

ISBN: 0674165306

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Good dust jacket

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 ...
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CONSTANTINE AND EUSEBIUS

By: Barnes, Timothy D.

Price: $70.00 USD

Publisher: Harvard University Press: 1981

Seller ID: 28309

ISBN: 0674165306

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket

Minor shelfwear. Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). Light foxing to top of textblock. Chipping and a few small tears to DJ. ; 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 whole ra...
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THE NEW EMPIRE OF DIOCLETIAN AND CONSTANTINE

By: Barnes, Timothy David

Price: $170.00 USD

Publisher: Harvard University Press: 1982

Seller ID: 3824

ISBN: 0674611268

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

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
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THE NEW EMPIRE OF DIOCLETIAN AND CONSTANTINE

By: Barnes, Timothy David

Price: $170.00 USD

Publisher: Harvard University Press: 1982

Seller ID: 31324

ISBN: 0674611268

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

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
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TERTULLIAN A Historical and Literary Study

By: Barnes, Timothy, David

Price: $135.00 USD

Publisher: Oxford Clarendon Press: 1971

Seller ID: 27039

ISBN: 0198143621

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). Soiling and foxing to top of textblock. DJ has light edgewear. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 320 pages; Tertullian lived and wrote in Roman Carthage during the reigns of Septimus Severus (193-211) and his son Caracalla (211-217). His voluminous tracts and pamphlets reveal the atmosphere of early Christianity in an era of persecution. The author sets Tertullian's writings within a chronological and historical framework, then uses them to interpret Tertullian's intellectial development, his reaction to the society in which he lived, and his place in Latin...
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EMPEROR, PREFECTS, & KINGS The Roman West, 395-565

By: Barnwell, P. S.

Price: $80.00 USD

Publisher: University of North Carolina Press: 1992

Seller ID: 3610

ISBN: 0807820717

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket

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.
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ETHICS, IDENTITY, AND COMMUNITY IN LATER ROMAN DECLAMATION

By: Bernstein, Neil W.

Price: $68.00 USD

Publisher: Oxford University Press: 2013

Seller ID: 17412

ISBN: 0199964114

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

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...
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LATIN LITERATURE OF THE FOURTH CENTURY

By: Binns, J. W. (Ed. )

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Routledge & Kegan Paul Books: 1974

Seller ID: 28512

ISBN: 0710077963

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket

Very light Dustsoiling to top of textblock. Minor shelfwear to DJ. ; Greek and Latin Studies. Classical Literature and its Influence; 240 pages
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MANPOWER SHORTAGE AND THE FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE IN THE WEST

By: Boak, Arthur Edward Romilly

Price: $50.00 USD

Publisher: University of Michigan Press: 1955

Seller ID: 4935

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Good+ dust jacket

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
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LIFE AND LETTERS IN ROMAN AFRICA

By: Bouchier, Edmund Spenser

Price: $38.00 USD

Publisher: Oxford, B. H. Blackwell: 1913

Seller ID: 1864

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+ with no dust jacket

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
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LIFE AND LETTERS IN ROMAN AFRICA

By: Bouchier, Edmund Spenser

Price: $38.00 USD

Publisher: Oxford, B. H. Blackwell: 1913

Seller ID: 18214

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+ with no dust jacket

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
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EPIRUS VETUS The Archaeology of a Late Antique Province

By: Bowden, William

Price: $155.00 USD

Publisher: Duckworth: 2003

Seller ID: 12038

ISBN: 0715631160

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

Book is fine. DJ is protected in mylar sleeve. ; The land that once formed the late antique Roman province of Epirus Vetus now straddles the border between Albania and Greece, a volatile area whose history since the Second World War has meant that modern political boundaries rather than those of antiquity have defined study of the ancient province. In this readable, well illustrated account, William Bowden reassesses the archaeological evidence from the fourth to the seventh century AD, when the area changed from a Roman province to a distant region beyond the limits of the empire, using the d...
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LATE ANTIQUITY A Guide to the Postclassical World

By: Bowersock, G.W. & Oleg Grabar & G. W. Bowersock

Price: $38.00 USD

Publisher: Belknap Press: 2000

Seller ID: 18210

ISBN: 0674511735

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket

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...
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SAGGI SULLA TRADIZIONE CLASSICA Dal Settecento Al Novecento

By: Bowersock, Glen W.

Price: $28.00 USD

Publisher: Torino, Einaudi: 2007

Seller ID: 22824

ISBN: 8806168576

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good+

Inscribed by author on ffep to Christian Habicht. Else unmarked. Very light shelfwear. ; X, 192pp. ; 192 pages; Signed by Author
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HELLENISM IN LATE ANTIQUITY

By: Bowersock, Glen W.

Price: $38.00 USD

Publisher: University of Michigan Press: 1990

Seller ID: 27151

ISBN: 0472094181

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

Very light shelfwear to DJ. ; Thomas Spencer Jerome Lectures; 0.5 x 9.5 x 6.5 Inches; 132 pages; The extraordinary adaptability and durability of Greek culture in times of momentous change is revealed in this book, as G. W. Bowersock seeks to interpret Hellenism in a predominantly Christian world. In this effort he sheds new light on a late paganism that has often been seen as moribund and shows it to have been unexpectedly vigorous. Hellenism, comprising the language, thought, mythology, and images of the Greeks, contributed fundamentally to the evolution of early Christianity. It had spread ...
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RECENT DIRECTIONS IN THE MILITARY HISTORY OF THE ANCIENT WORLD

By: Brice, Lee L. , & Jennifer T. Roberts (Eds. )

Price: $55.00 USD

Publisher: Regina Books: 2011

Seller ID: 22182

ISBN: 1930053703

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good-

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
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THE MINIATURE EPIC IN VANDAL AFRICA

By: Bright, David F.

Price: $23.00 USD

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press: 1987

Seller ID: 31550

ISBN: 0806120754

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- in Good+ dust jacket

Foxing to textblock. Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). Foxing and yellowing to DJ ; 8.5 X 5.6 X 1.3 inches; 296 pages
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CLASSICAL TEXTS AND THEIR TRADITIONS Studies in Honor of C.R. Trahman

By: Bright, David F. & Edwin S. Ramage

Price: $32.50 USD

Publisher: Scholars Press: 1984

Seller ID: 475

ISBN: 089130729X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine with no dust jacket

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...
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AUTHORITY AND THE SACRED Aspects of the Christianisation of the Roman World

By: Brown, Peter

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Cambridge University Press: 1997

Seller ID: 1472

ISBN: 0521595576

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good+

Gift inscription on title page else Fine. ; Canto original series; 0.27 x 5.72 x 8.52 Inches; 107 pages; The Christianization of the Roman world lies at the root of modern Europe. Peter Brown's fascinating study examines the factors that proved decisive and the compromises that made the emergence of the Christian conception of existence possible: how the old gods of the Roman Empire could be reinterpreted as symbols to further the message of the Church. Peter Brown also shows how Christian holy men were less representative of a triumphant faith than negotiators of a working compromise between ...
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RELIGION AND SOCIETY IN THE AGE OF ST. AUGUSTINE

By: Brown, Peter

Price: $67.00 USD

Publisher: Faber & Faber: 1972

Seller ID: 27130

ISBN: 0571095089

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

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
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SOCIETY AND THE HOLY IN LATE ANTIQUITY

By: Brown, Peter

Price: $14.00 USD

Publisher: Faber & Faber: 1982

Seller ID: 27506

ISBN: 0571116868

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

Foxing/dustsoiling to top of textblock. Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). DJ is price-clipped. Else book and DJ have minor shelfwear. ; 352 pages
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THE EMPEROR JULIAN

By: Browning, Robert

Price: $38.00 USD

Publisher: Weidenfeld and Nicolson: 1977

Seller ID: 948

ISBN: 0297770292

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+ in Very Good dust jacket

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...
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JUSTINIAN AND THEODORA

By: Browning, Robert

Price: $12.00 USD

Publisher: Thames and Hudson: 1987

Seller ID: 1844

ISBN: 0500250995

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

Light shelfwear to boards and DJ. Dustjacket is protected in mylar. ; 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. ; 189 pages
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THE EMPEROR JULIAN

By: Browning, Robert

Price: $38.00 USD

Publisher: Weidenfeld and Nicolson: 1975

Seller ID: 6330

ISBN: 0297770292

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good+ dust jacket

Corners bumped. Shelfwear to book. Dustjacket has a few small tears and chipping. ; 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 Homeric poems, some of the most important texts for the Greek religion. After this co...
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JUSTINIAN AND THEODORA

By: Browning, Robert

Price: $12.00 USD

Publisher: Praeger Publishers: 1971

Seller ID: 174

ISBN: 0297001000

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket

Slight warping to boards. Dustjacket is generally worn with some tears and nicks. ; 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
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JUSTINIAN AND THEODORA

By: Browning, Robert

Price: $14.00 USD

Publisher: Praeger Publishers: 1971

Seller ID: 31387

ISBN: 0297001000

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good dust jacket

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
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THE AGE OF CONSTANTINE THE GREAT

By: Burckhardt, Jacob & (Moses Hadas, Trans. )

Price: $6.00 USD

Publisher: Doubleday & Company: 1956

Seller ID: 31332

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Good

Creasing to spine. Wraps browned. 1 corner a bit torn. Crack to binding but holding. ; A; Doubleday Anchor Books; 386 pages
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SAINT AUGUSTIN Un Pre D'glise

By: Burger, J.-D.

Price: $18.00 USD

Publisher: Neuchatel, A La Baconnire: 1948

Seller ID: 21398

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good-

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
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HISTORY OF THE LATER ROMAN EMPIRE From the Death of Theodosius I to the Death of Justinian. in Two Volumes

By: Bury, J. B.

Price: $28.00 USD

Publisher: Dover Publications:

Seller ID: 5812

ISBN: 0486203980

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

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).
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HISTORY OF THE LATER ROMAN EMPIRE [2 VOLUMES] From the Death of Theodosius I to the Death of Justinian. in Two Volumes

By: Bury, J. B.

Price: $28.00 USD

Publisher: Dover Publications: 1958

Seller ID: 17094

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

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).
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THE INVASION OF EUROPE BY THE BARBARIANS

By: Bury, J. B.

Price: $7.00 USD

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company: 1967

Seller ID: 31314

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

Light yellowing to wraps. ; The Norton Library; 296 pages
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PORPHYRIUS THE CHARIOTEER

By: Cameron, Alan

Price: $23.00 USD

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA: 1973

Seller ID: 1726

ISBN: 0198148054

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket

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...
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PORPHYRIUS THE CHARIOTEER

By: Cameron, Alan

Price: $23.00 USD

Publisher: Oxford Clarendon Press: 1973

Seller ID: 29668

ISBN: 0198148054

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good+ dust jacket

Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). Foxing/dustsoiling to top of textblock. Dustjacket has minor 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 fel...
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CLAUDIAN Poetry and Propaganda At the Court of Honorius

By: Cameron, Alan

Price: $33.00 USD

Publisher: Clarendon Press: 1970

Seller ID: 31569

ISBN: 0198143516

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket

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...
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Category: Late Antiquity