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By: Aeschylus; Morshead, E.D.A.; Warner, Rex
Price: $20.00
Publisher: The Easton Press: 1979
Seller ID: 2277128
Endpaper edges a bit faded. 1979 Full-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. xviii, [2], 177, [1] pp. Green full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Translated from the Greek by E.D.A. Morshead, with an introduction by Rex Warner, and illustrations by Michael Ayrton. In the 'Oresteia' - the only trilogy in Greek drama which survives from antiquity - Aeschylus took as his subject the bloody ch... View more info
By: Aeschylus; Morshead, E.D.A.; Warner, Rex
Price: $15.00
Publisher: The Easton Press: 1979
Seller ID: 2280923
Edges lightly foxed, a few blemishes on boards. 1979 Full-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. xviii, [2], 177, [1] pp. Green full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Translated from the Greek by E.D.A. Morshead, with an introduction by Rex Warner, and illustrations by Michael Ayrton. In the 'Oresteia' - the only trilogy in Greek drama which survives from antiquity - Aeschylus took as his s... View more info
By: Apuleius, Lucius; Adlington, William; Darton, F.J. Harvey
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Hogarth Press / Crown Publishers: 1924
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2272203
Crown reissue of privately printed Hogarth edition, with Hogarth imprint still appearing on title page, but Crown reference on jacket. Ink pictographic stamp on front endpaper and flyleaf, some loss from top jacket edge. 1924 Hard Cover. 359, [1] pp. 9 1/4 x 6 1/2. Green cloth, gilt titles, light blue endpapers. Illustrations and decorations by Philip Hagreen. Translated by William Adlington from the original Latin Metamorphoses, with an introduction by F.J. Harvey Darto... View more info
Price: $6.00
Publisher: The Noonday Press / Farrar, Straus and Giroux: 1951
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 2285052
1997 printing. 1951 Trade Paperback. xxii, 293, [3] pp. The story of The Golden Ass is that of Lucius Apuleius, a young man of good birth who encountered many strange adventures while disporting himself along the roads to Thessaly. Not the least of these occurred when Apuleius offended a priestess of the White Goddess, who turned him into an ass. The tale of how Apuleius dealt with this misfortune and eventually resumed human form is conveyed by Robert Graves in modern E... View more info
By: Aristotle; Jowett, Benjamin & Butcher, S.H.; Kallen, Horace M.
Price: $35.00
Publisher: The Easton Press: 1979
Seller ID: 2285623
Edges and front and end matter lightly foxed. 1979 Full-Leather. xxi, [5], 331, [1] pp. Green full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Translated by Benjamin Jowett and S.H. Butcher, with an introduction by Horace M. Kallen and portraits by Leonard Baskin. Aristotle (384 BC – 322 BC) was a Greek philosopher, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. His writings cover many subjects, including ... View more info
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Aristide D. Caratzas, Publisher: 1987
Seller ID: 1501234
1987 Hard Cover. 100 pp. Reprint of the 1907 edition. CONTENTS: THE DEIFIED ABSTRACTS AS INDIVIDUAL CULTS: State-Cults: Of the Republican Period, Of the Empire; Abstracts Popularly But Not Officially Worshipped; Occasional and Individual Deifications; Doubtful Examples; THE DEIFIED ABSTRACTS AS A CLASS: Their Origin; The Deified Abstracts in Literature: Literature of the Republic; Literature of the Early Empire; Literature of the First and Second Centuries A.D.; Literatu... View more info
By: Barnes, Jonathan
Price: $9.00
Publisher: Penguin Books: 2001
Seller ID: 2279564
Smudge on rear wrapper. 2001 Trade Paperback. xlix, 282 pp. The works collected in this volume form the true foundation of Western philosophy—the base upon which Plato and Aristotle and their successors would eventually build. Yet the importance of the Pre-Socratics thinkers lies less in their influence—great though that was—than in their astonishing intellectual ambition and imaginative reach. Zeno's dizzying 'proofs' that motion is impossible; the extraordinary a... View more info
By: Bowra, C.M.
Price: $2.00
Publisher: Mentor: 1957
Seller ID: 1293925
Pages lightly toned, edge wear. 1957 Mass Market Paperback. CONTENTS: The Unity of the Greeks; The Heroic Outlook; The Gods; City and Individual; The Good Man and the Good Life; Myth and Symbol; Imagination and Reality; The Plastic Vision; The Place of Reason; Epilogue. View more info
By: Bulfinch, Thomas
Price: $15.00
Publisher: The Modern Library:
Seller ID: 2276970
No jacket, top corners of boards lightly bumped, pencil name on front endpaper, no publisher date. xi, 778 pp. Bulfinch's Mythology is a collection of the works of Thomas Bulfinch, renamed after him and published after his death. It is a classic work of mythology and is still being printed, even 150 years after the first work, Age of Fable, was published in 1855. The following is a table of contents of the work, which itself can serve as an interesting pantheon of the ch... View more info
By: Catallus
Price: $3.00
Publisher: Longman: 1983
Seller ID: 1539536
Edges rubbed. 1983 Soft Cover. 76 pp. This workbook contains the Latin text and study material for the first eleven poems from the collected works of Catullus. These provide an ideal exercise in the reading and literary study of Latin poetry. View more info
By: Chaucer, Geoffrey; Nicolson, J.U.
Price: $35.00
Publisher: The Franklin Library: 1974
Seller ID: 2285584
1974 Full-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. 634 pp. 8vo. Full dark brown leather, gilt titles & decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, orange ribbon marker bound in. Translated into modern English by J.U. Nicolson. Color reproduction of a page from the Ellesmere Canterbury Tales precedes text. View more info
By: Clarke, H.; [Corderus / Cordier, Mathurin]; [Aesop]; [Erasmus]
Price: $450.00
Publisher: Benjamin Franklin Bache.: 1789
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2045502
First edition. Rebound in new leather, with new endpapers. Two gatherings proud at fore-edge but holding firmly, minimal tears along edges and loss from marginal corners of a few pages, ink name (Charles Thompson) appears on title page, on blank following Aesop's fables (dated 1802), and twice on final page of text. An unscrupulous individual at some point in the past excised the bottom margin of the title page in such a way that 'Benjamin Franklin' remains visible, but ... View more info
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By: Demosthenes; Holmes, Arthur
Price: $10.00
Publisher: John Allyn, Publisher: 1872
Seller ID: 2199449
Free endpapers removed, pencil notes in text. 1872 Hard Cover. xxviii, 195 pp. Greek text with English notes. The most famous judicial oration by the ancient Greek statesmen and orator, originally delivered in 330 B.C. View more info
By: Fitts, Dudley; Aeschylus; Sophocles; Euripides
Price: $40.00
Publisher: Dial Press: 1947
Edition: 4th Printing
Seller ID: 2266818
Fourth printing. No jacket, spine faintly toned. 1947 Hard Cover. xiv, 596 pp. CONTENTS: Aeschyles: Agamemnon; Sophocles: Electra; Aeschyles: Eumenides; Euripides: The Trojan Woman; Euripides: Medea; Euripides: Hippolytus; Euripides: Alcestis; Sophocles: King Oedipus; Sophocles: Oedipus at Colonus; Sophocles: Antigone; Aeschylus: Prometheus Bound; Appendix: Commentaries; Index of Proper Names. View more info
By: Florus, Lucius Annaeus [Florus, Publius Annius]
Price: $125.00
Publisher: Londini: Ex Officina Jacobi Tonson, & Johannis Watts.: 1715
Seller ID: 2135233
Minor loss from spine head & foot, ink name on front flyleaf. 1715 Full-Leather. [viii], 141, [2] pp. Full calf, gilt titles, decorations, & rules, marbled endpapers. Latin text. A work of history by a contemporary of Hadrian. View more info
By: Fox, Robin Lane; Haig, Alexander M.
Price: $100.00
Publisher: The Easton Press: 1991
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2274880
Publisher's insert and blank bookplate laid in. 1991 Full-Leather. 568 pp. 8vo. Original navy blue full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. This edition includes a frontispiece showing a bust of Alexander and a new foreword by Alexander M. Haig, Jr. Tough, resolute, fearless, Alexander was a born warrior and ruler of passionate ambition who understood the intense adventure of conquest and of the unknown. Whe... View more info
By: Gibbon, Edward; Radice, Betty
Price: $175.00
Publisher: The Folio Society: 1983
Edition: 8th Printing
Seller ID: 2285060
8th printing. Includes both publisher's slipcases. Minimal cosmetic wear to slipcases. 1983 Hard Cover. Complete in eight hardcover volumes. Edited with introduction by Betty Radice. Illustrations from etchings by Gian Battista Piranesi throughout text. 9 7/8 x 6 3/8. 8vo. Bound in cream vegetable parchment (which has the look of vellum) blocked in red, blue, and gold. Gilt titles & rules. Maps on endpapers. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire was wri... View more info
By: Gibbon, Edward; Saunders, Dero A.; Robinson, Charles Alexander, Jr.
Price: $4.00
Publisher: Penguin Books: 1986
Edition: Abridged
Seller ID: 2274343
Abridged. Multiple creases to wrappers, wrappers rubbed, ink names on half-title page, pages lightly toned. 1986 Mass Market Paperback. x, 691 pp. Edward Gibbon’s masterpiece, which narrates the history of the Roman Empire from the second century A.D. to its collapse in the west in the fifth century and in the east in the fifteenth century, is widely considered the greatest work of history ever written. This abridgment retains the full scope of the original, but in a b... View more info
By: Guinagh, Kevin; Dorjahn, Alfred P.
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Longmans, Green and Co.: 1942
Seller ID: 2197652
5th printing. Light edge wear. 1942 Hard Cover. 822 pp. 8vo. A collection of Latin literature containing works by Plautus, Terence, Cato, Lucretius, Caesar, Cicero, Catullus, Sallust and Vergil. A fold out map describes the locations where the works were written. View more info
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Alexander S. Onassis: 2003
Seller ID: 2285059
2003 Large Softcover. 146 pp. In Greek mythology, Cyprus is considered the birthplace of Aphrodite. Tracing an Eastern symbol in the origins of Aphrodite, so quintessentially Greek, symbolizes Cyprus' role as the easternmost bastion of Hellenism and the island's ability to assimilate the numerous cultural influences to which it was exposed over the centuries. From Ishtar to Aphrodite: 3200 Years of Cypriot Hellenism, includes commentary and color illustration of the 85 w... View more info
By: Hagg, Tomas
Price: $7.00
Publisher: University of California Press: 1991
Edition: 1st Printing
Seller ID: 2271919
First printing. Top page ridge very faintly foxed, ink name and date on first blank, very faint smell of smoke. 1991 Trade Paperback. xii, 264 pp. Tracing the development of Greek romances from 200 B.C. through twelfth-century Byzantium, Tomas Hägg analyses the content, plot and narrative techniques of the ancient novel, and explores the social and literary milieu in which the genre flourished. View more info
Price: $3.00
Publisher: Yale University Press: 1974
Seller ID: 1527480
Wrappers rubbed & toned. 1974 Trade Paperback. 252 pp. A scholarly examination of medieval romance, part of Yale's series studying French literature. CONTENTS: Status of the Text - The Nature of Romance - W.T.H. Jackson; The Author in the Text: The Prologues of Chretien de Troyes - Marie-Louise Ollier; Texts and Other Series - Home and Rome, A Device in Epic and Romance: Le Couronnement de Louis and Ile et Galeron - Jean Batany; Tristan, the Myth of the State and the Lan... View more info
By: Herodotus; Lateiner, Donald; Macaulay, G.C.
Price: $6.00
Publisher: Barnes & Noble Classics: 2004
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2276396
A fine copy. 2004 Trade Paperback. xxxvi, 584 pp. The Histories, by Herodotus, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics: New introductions commissioned from today's top writers and scholars; Biographies of the authors; Chronol... View more info
Price: $35.00
Publisher: The Franklin Library: 1979
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2265092
An exceptional copy. 1979 Hard Cover. 664 pp. 8vo. Brown leather spine, brown cloth boards, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, brown ribbon marker bound in. Translated into contemporary verse by Robert Fitzgerald, with illustrations by W.T. Mars. View more info
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By: Homer; Keep, Robert P.; Thurber, Samuel
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Allyn and Bacon / Norwood Press: 1883
Seller ID: 2266443
Some ink and pencil marks in text and margins, front free endpaper removed. 1883 Hard Cover. xlii, 322, 159, [3] pp. 8vo. This edition a fold-out frontispiece facsimile of a page from Codex Venetus, the original Greek text of the first six books of Homer's Iliad, and an introduction and notes by Robert P. Keep. Dating to the ninth century B.C., Homer's timeless poem still vividly conveys the horror and heroism of men and gods wrestling with towering emotions and battling... View more info
By: Homer; King, Bruce M.; Rees, Ennis
Price: $6.00
Publisher: Barnes and Noble Classics: 2005
Seller ID: 2263235
A fine copy. 2005 Trade Paperback. xl, 516 pp. The epic song of Ilion (an old name for Troy), The Iliad recreates a few dramatic weeks near the end of the fabled Trojan War, ending with the funeral of Hector, defender of the doomed city. Through its majestic verses stride the fabled heroes Priam, Hector, Paris, and Aeneas for Troy; Achilles, Ajax, Menelaus, Agamemnon, Patroclus, and Odysseus for the Greeks; and the beautiful Helen, over whom the longstanding war has been... View more info
Price: $50.00
Publisher: The University of Michigan Press: 2007
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2272420
First edition. A fine copy. 2007 Hard Cover. viii, 464 pp. Verse translation, with an introduction on singing The Iliad, bibliography, and map. In 2002, the University of Michigan Press published Rodney Merrill's translation of Homer's Odyssey, an interpretation of the classic that was unique in employing the meter of Homer's original. Praising Merrill's translation of the Odyssey, Gregory Nagy of Harvard wrote, Merrill's fine ear for the sound of ancient Greek makes the... View more info
Price: $50.00
Publisher: The Easton Press: 1978
Seller ID: 2275778
Minor scuffs along edges, blank publisher's bookplate laid in. 1978 Full-Leather. xvi, 357, [7] pp. 10 3/4 x 7 3/8. Original navy blue leather, three raised spine bands, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, gold ribbon marker bound in. Translated into English verse by Alexander Pope, with color frontispiece and classical illustrations by John Flaxman. View more info
Price: $45.00
Publisher: The Easton Press: 1978
Seller ID: 2280925
1978 Full-Leather. xvi, 357, [7] pp. 10 3/4 x 7 3/8. Original navy blue leather, three raised spine bands, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, gold ribbon marker bound in. Translated into English verse by Alexander Pope, with color frontispiece and classical illustrations by John Flaxman. View more info
By: Homer; Pope, Alexander; Van Doren, Carl
Price: $50.00
Publisher: The Easton Press: 1979
Seller ID: 2205667
1979 Full-Leather. xxx, 478 pp. Tall 8vo. Full black leather, gilt titles & decorations, all edges gilt, yellow ribbon marker bound in, silk moire endpapers. Color frontispiece and classical illustrations by John Flaxman. Translated into English verse, with an introduction, by Alexander Pope. Also includes publisher's preface, and a note on the translation by Carl Van Doren. View more info
