Scholar's name to ffep (Robert Brown). Minor shelfwear to book. Dustjacket is present but in poor condition. ; INDICE: Presentazione. / Introduzione, di Alfonso Traina. / Francesco Adorno, Le parole e le cose dell? ?epicureismo? lucreziano. Alcune riflessioni sulla posizione storica di Epicuro e di Lucrezio. / Edoardo Vineis, Elementa vocis, elementa mundi. / Alberto Grilli, Immaginazione e visione in Lucrezio. / Ezio Raimondi, La grammatica del cosmo. / Conclusione di Alfonso Traina. / Intervento finale di Ivano Dionigi. ; Quaderni Della Biblioteca Di Discipline Umanistiche 3; 109 pages View More...
Book is fine. DJ has very faint shelfwear else fine. ; Agis Marinis, Dionysiac Metaphor in Aeschylus' Seven Against Thebes; Maria Serena Mirto, La figura di Teti e la crisi del gamos eroico nell'Andromaca di Euripide; Lucio Ceccarelli, La morte di Turno; Barbara Weiden Boyd, On Starting an Epic (Journey) : Telemachus, Phaethon, and the Beginning of Ovid's Metamorphoses; Biagio Santorelli, Il tiranno e il corpus vicarium nella XVI Declamazione maggiore pseudoquintilianea; Carmela Cioffi, Ricerche sulla tradizione manoscritta del Commento di Donato a Terenzio; Corpo minore: Luca Ruggeri, Lucr. 3... View More...
Book is fine. DJ has very faint shelfwear else fine. ; Alex Hardie, Ibycus and the Muses of Helicon; Brian W. Breed, Maximum Orality: Catullus, 65 and Propertius, 2.13; Giulia Ammannati, Antonino Pittà, L'indipendenza dei codici P e g di Virgilio nelle Georgiche; Errietta M. A. Bissa, Man, Woman or Myth? Gender-bending in Lucian's Dialogues of the Courtesans; Carmela Cioffi, Il codice Parisinus lat. 7899 e il Commentum di Donato a Terenzio: ipotesi stemmatica; Tommaso Ricchieri, La riflessione metalinguistica sul latino colloquiale in Gerolamo esegeta dei testi sacri; corpo minore Marco Fressu... View More...
Small bump to base of spine. Chip to top of spine. Some minor wear to wraps. Creasing to rear upper corner of wraps. ; Contents: introduction; Programmatic Poems; Parody; Ovid as Daedalus: Difference in Attitude; Ovid as Daedalus: Change of Mood; Ovid's farewell: The Third book of the Amores; conclusion; Index rerum; index locorum propertianorum et ovidianorum. ; Mnemosyne Bibliotheca Classica Batava; 546 pages View More...
Scholar's name to ffep (Robert Brown) , other name struck out. Foxing to endpapers, prelims and textblock. Spine sunned. ; Sir Frank Adcock's aim is to emphasize the literary character of Caesar's writings. He is worth reading, and this small book will help understanding. The Introduction reminds the reader what Caesar was and what he had accomplished when he wrote. In a chapter on "The Military Man" Caesar's literary interpretation of war and generalship is described. This short study gives insight into Roman literature and history as well as into the life and character of one of the world's ... View More...
Light foxing to top of textblock. Else fine. ; In this bilingual edition, renowned poet Fleur Adcock provides verse translations of the complete Latin work of two of the most brilliant poets of the twelfth century. Included are poems on religious topics, depictions of low life, and the Archpoet's famous "Confession." The work is characterized by its touches of satire and coarse realism, features that Fleur Adcock captures superbly in her renderings. This unique resource will appeal not only to medievalists but to all lovers of poetry. ; Cambridge Medieval Classics 2; 8.7 X 5.6 X 0.6 inches; 12... View More...
Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). 1 corner lightly bumped. ; Latin Text with Latin Apparatus. Teubner. Unchanged reprint of 1905 Teubner Edition. VIII, 550 pp. ; Bibliotheca Scriptorum Graecorum Et Romanorum Teubneriana TEUBNER; Vol. 2; 550 pages View More...
Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). Else fine. ; Text in Ancient Greek; Prologue in Latin. Cxvi, 204 pp; Bibliotheca Scriptorum Graecorum Et Romanorum Teubneriana TEUBNER; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 204 pages View More...
Among the stories surrounding the legendary foundation of the city of Rome by the twins, Romulus and Remus, previous scholarly attention has focused primarily on one scene ? the depiction of the she-wolf nursing the twins following their miraculous salvation from the floodwaters of the Tiber. This book examines another event in the cycle, the conception of the twins, in which the Vestal Virgin, Rhea Silvia, is visited in her sleep and raped by the god Mars. Some fifty-one examples of the encounter of Mars and Rhea Silvia are analyzed, drawn from coins, relief sculpture, gems, wall painting, mo... View More...
Ex-library copy with call numbers attached to spine. No other library markings in text. Former classics professor stamp on front end-paper. Else VG. ; 8vo; 168 pages View More...
Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). Spine and part of front board sunned. Small chip to cloth along upper edge. ; 8vo; 168 pages View More...
Light soiling to boards and rear inner cover. Minor shelfwear. Scholar's name to ffep (R. E. Fantham). ; Wege Der Forschung 92 (XCII) ; 546 pages View More...
Rubbing to cover. Signed by author and by T. Robert S. Broughton -- author of Magistrates of the Roman Republic. Tear at top of spine causing small loss of wrap. Tape stains to wraps. A small fold to back cover. ; "With regards, W. H. A. "; University of California Publications in Classical Philology. ; 386 pages; Signed by Author View More...
Former owner's name on titlepage. Front wrap browned. Small tear to head of spine. ; 56pp, 15pls. . Covers somewhat sun-faded, else Very Good. ; 56 pages View More...
Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers and pocket. DJ taped down to boards now in plastic sleeve. ; Offers a new account of Virgil's pastoralism. Alpers' interpretation of the poems and his new translation (with facing latin text) makes the Eclogues accessible to contemporary readers. ; 253 pages View More...
Books have been rebound in attractive brown marbled boards. Rubbing to extremities. Pages are tanned. Light foxing throughout ; Text in Latin; Apparatus in Latin. 2 volume set. This edition was arranged by Viktor Gardthausen, and includes a dated list of Roman consuls for the years 353 through 380 AD. ; Bibliotheca Scriptorum Graecorum Et Romanorum Teubneriana TEUBNER; 16mo 6" - 7" tall View More...
Light foxing to textblock. Light bump to head of spine. Dustjacket has minor shelfwear and light foxing. ; 256 pages; In addition to Longus, this work considers Achilles Tatius, Xenophon of Ephesus, Heliodorus and Chariton as ancient novelists, and discusses Christian works containing a high proportion of romantic material, including Joseph and Aseneth and The Acts of Thomas. View More...
Scholars' name to halftitle (Mark Golden). Very light shelfwear. ; In this volume William S. Anderson sets Plautus, who wrote Rome's earliest surviving poetry, in his rightful place among the Greek and Roman writers of what we know as New Comedy (fourth to second centuries). Anderson begins by defining major innovations that Plautus made on inherited Greek New Comedy (Menander, Philemon, and Diphilus) , transforming it from romantic domestic drama to a celebration of rollicking family anarchy. He shows how Plautus diminished the traditional importance of love and replaced it with a new major t... View More...
Faint creasing to spine. Light shelfwear. Scholar's name to half-title (Robert Brown). ; In this volume William S. Anderson sets Plautus, who wrote Rome's earliest surviving poetry, in his rightful place among the Greek and Roman writers of what we know as New Comedy (fourth to second centuries). Anderson begins by defining major innovations that Plautus made on inherited Greek New Comedy (Menander, Philemon, and Diphilus) , transforming it from romantic domestic drama to a celebration of rollicking family anarchy. He shows how Plautus diminished the traditional importance of love and replaced... View More...
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...
Bookseller's circle stamp to rear inner cover. Browning to wraps. Pages unopened. Spine cover has tears and chipping (1 tear crudely repaired with cellotape). Some creasing to wraps and lower sections of pages. Pages tanned. ; Collection D'Études Latines XXIX; 365 pages View More...
Vocabulary has markings (x's and long markings over vowels) in pen. Rest of text is clean. Light shelfwear to wraps. ; Artes Latinae; 124 pages View More...
Scholar's name to ffep (Robert Brown) with additional name struck out. Small abrasion to boards. Else Very light shelfwear. ; Études Préliminaires Aux Religions Orientales Dans L'Empire Romain , No 11; 440 pages View More...
Very faint dustsoiling to top of textblock. Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). ; Études Préliminaires Aux Religions Orientales Dans L'Empire Romain , No 11; 440 pages View More...
Faint dustsoiling to top of textblock. Minor shelfwear to book. Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). DJ spine browned. DJ has chipping and small tears. ; Tusculum-Bücherei; 572 pages View More...
Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). Inner hinges starting to crack. Light edgewear. Very light bump to 1 corner. ; 238 pages View More...
Former owner's name to ffeps of both volumes. Scholar's bookplate to inner covers (G. P. Goold). Pencil notes to some pages. Chipping to spine ends. Small tear to spine cloth at joint of Vol. II. Edgewear to corners. ; 2 Volume Set; Vol. 1/2/2023 View More...
Bound in 1/4 leather, marbled boards. Front board of Vol. 1 is rubbed in places (some marbling has flecked off). Vol. 1: VG. Backstrip of Vol. II repaired with tape. Front board almost detached; contents near Very Good, marred only by a few pencil notes and a small dampstain in the bottom inner margin of the first few leaves of Vol. II. ; 2 volumes. Frontis. , xxviii, 370pp, 22pls; iii, 426pp, 18pls. Text is in Latin and French. Some illustrations. ; 2 Volume Set; Vol. 1/2/2023; 796 pages View More...
Minor pencilling and pen notes to a few pages. Foxing to textblock. Creasing to spine. ; Indiana University Greek and Latin Classics; 256 pages View More...
Binding discolored and mottled with staining. Many pencil and some ink notes in the text. With the bookplate and ownership signature of the Rev. Erwin R. Behrendt. ; Xxxix+148pp. ; Allyn and Bacon`s College Latin Series; 148 pages View More...
Lacks the title page for volume I. The title page for vol. II is bound at the beginning, opposite the frontispiece. Bound in full leather, 5 raised bands, leather label, marbled endpapers. Corners are edgeworn. Joints are cracked. Boards are tooled with gilt design. The binding is intact but rubbed and worn especially to corners. The text is marred by some light foxing and a dampstaining which affects a good portion of the lower half of pages. Fair to Good. ; (iv) , engraved frontispiece, title with note to the reader on reverse, (44) , 848pp, + 254pp indices. 2 volumes bound in one. An impor... View More...
Scholars' bookplate to inner cover. Else book is fine. DJ has chipping and tears with some creasing. ; Scriften Und Quellen Der Alten Welt: Band 1; 445 pages View More...
Pages browned. Smartly rebound in 1/2 leather spine with marbled boards and endpapers. With raised bands to spine and gilt lettering and tooling. A few stains to spine (water-staining? ). Gift plate to R. E. Fantham (née Crosthwaite) on ffep for the T. H. Green Prize 1952. Some leather flecking off joints of spine but still very presentable. Else VG. ; No date (perhaps 1920s - 1940s? ). ; 359 pages View More...
Former owner's name on ffep in pencil. Underlining on a few pages in pencil. Notes in pencil on a few pages and extensive pencil notes on back free end-page. Brown boards with chipped label on spine. ; Text is in ancient Greek. View More...
Former owner's name to inner cover. Very light edgewear to spine ends. Minor shelfwear. ; Greece & Rome: New Surveys in the Classics, No. 9; 62 pages View More...
Inscribed to front cover "Best wishes for 1976. WGA". Creasing to upper corner of front wrap. Front wrap is wavy and curling (moisture damage? ). Pencil marginalia to 1 page. Light pen marginalia to 1 page. Rear endpaper is covered in bibliographical references in pen. From the library of R. E. Fantham. ; Greece & Rome: New Surveys in the Classics, No. 9; 62 pages; Signed by Author View More...
Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (Robert Brown). Scholar's blindstamp to titlepage (Robert Brown). Light creasing to corner of rear wrap and last few pages. Minor shelfwear. ; Greece & Rome: New Surveys in the Classics, No. 9; 62 pages View More...
