Ancient History: Ancient Greece

ACCORDING TO HELEN (Historical Fiction)
by Florence Wallin. Condition: NEW 1997 Pine Tree Press Trade Paperback, no printing given. Content: Reviewer: "Archeologists refuse to state categorically that the Trojan War described by Homer actually occurred. Nevertheless it is a durable myth and ancient Troy is a a real place (in Turkey). Most of us have some notion that Helen of Troy was the Cleopatra of her time, and caused the Trojan War and all the tragic events that ensued. Wallin brings the famous Helen to life and lets her explain that her role in this story is quite misrepresented. Helen is not some sultry temptress but the true Queen, in her own right, of (what became) Sparta. She represents queenship a worship of the Goddess in an age when matriarchal power was changing to worchip of Zeus and Patriarchal power. Her visit to Troy was a diplomatic mission (though the story does not deny her the passionate affair with the Trojan Prince, Paris). This is a fascinating novel by someone who has been to many of the places described and brings fictional imagination and learning to our most famous semi-historical myth." [1 copy available]
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THE AMAZONS
by Guy Cadogan Rothery. B&W photos & drawigns illustrate. Condition: UNREAD, but not perfect, 1995 Senate (UK) Trade Paperback, no printing given. Tiny edgewear with light to moderate tanning to page edges. Content: The most potent of all the Greek myths is perhaps that of the Amazons. But the classical legend of a lost tribe of ferocious warrior-women, reputed to kill and devour their male offspring, outlived the scholars of ancient Greece. Whenever the bold ventured into terra incognita over the following centuries, it was the Amazons who lurked in the shadows and were rumoured to be living in the next-but-one village. This book tells the story of our fear of the unknown and our need to give a name to "that which mankind dreads but does not fully comprehend." It traces Amazonian history from the Aegean of the ancient Greeks to Africa, Asia and the Americas in the years after that continent's discovery by Columbus. Enhanced with fine line illustrations, this book will interest not only historians but anyone with a liking for the epic tales of early travellers. [Lately, either the History Channel or Discovery has been airing a special on the descendants of the Amazons - one of which was located in either rural Tibet or Mongolia. Very interesting stuff.] [1 copy available]
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THE ANCIENT OLYMPIC GAMES
by Judith Swaddling. Great detailed B&W maps and diagrams as well as photos of British Museum exhibits. Condition: UNREAD, but not perfect, 1988 UT Press soft cover, second printing. Light edgewear at corners with a very very light diagonal crease bottom front cover corner. Content: For over one thousand years between 776 B.C. and A.D. 395, princes, statesmen, and famous athletes gathered every four years at Olympia in western Greece to compete for the olive crowns of the ancient Olympic Games. Judith Swaddling traces the mythological and religious origins of the games and describes the events, religious ceremony, and celebrations that were an essential part of the Olympic festival. The book also features a large, detailed model of the site of ancient Olympia, where, alongside religious and civic buildings, there grew an elaborate sports complex with a stadium for 40,000 spectators, indoor and outdoor training facilities, hot and cold baths, a swimming pool, and a race course. For this revised edition, three new chapters have been added, covering the diet and medical treatment of athletes; sponsorship, patronage, and propaganda; and revivals of the games. Superbly illustrated with vases, sculpture, and other works of ancient art, and with new views of the site. [1 copy available]
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BIOGRAPHICAL DISCTIONARY OF ANCIENT GREEK & ROMAN WOMEN
Notable Women From Sappho to Helen
by Marjorie Lightman & Benjamin Lightman. B&W illustrations. Condition: NEW 1999 Checkmark large soft cover, first printing. Content: Biographical sketches for 447 women living throughout the Greek and Roman worlds from the seventh century B.C.E. to early fourth century C.E. are presented in this volume. The work is intended for all interested readers and is suitable for both popular and scholarly interests. The purpose is to expand the "understanding of circumstances that shaped a woman and her life" in antiquity. Content is organized alphabetically by the names most commonly used in ancient literature, then chronologically in the case of similarly named subjects. Subjects include the familiar, such as Aspasia, Boadicea, and Sappho, and the lesser known, such as the Arete (fifth-fourth century B.C.E.), a Greek philosopher; and Marcia (first century B.C.E.), wife of Cato the Younger. Entries include the subject's name(s), dates (if known), cultural identity, home, description, citations to source material, and cross-references. Length ranges from a few lines (e.g., Cleito) to several pages (e.g., Cleopatra VII). This is an excellent work, providing not only information about the lives of individual women but broad insight into the circumstances surrounding their lives. Much of the information it contains is unique and not included in other reference sources on the Greek and Roman world. Recommended for high-school, public, and academic libraries. Questions welcome [1 copy available]
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THE CAMPAIGNS OF ALEXANDER
by Arrian. Aubrey De Selincourt (Translator). Condition: NEW 1971 Penguin Classics (London) Trade PB with very pale tanning to page edges. Content: Although written over 400 years after Alexander's death, Arrian's book is our best source of knowledge of the man and his deeds. Arrian had himself been a military commander, and his record of the exploits of the world's greatest conqueror reveals sympathy for his subject, without the adulation or contemps which so often mar other histories of the time. Alexander was remarkable in the mercy he showed his vanquished foes. He gave his arch enemy, the Persian king Darius, an honorable military funeral. His wardrobe consisted of Persian dress & he longed for a cultural fusion between the Macedonians and Persians. He rejected the ideas of his mentor, Aristotle, that the Greeks were inherently superior in every way to all other cultures on Earth. Alexander sought to bring out the best in all nations & wished for the various races to learn from each other. [1 copy available]
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THE EARLY GREEKS
by R. J. Hopper. B&W and color photo section. Condition: Pre-read 1976 Barnes & Noble hardcover & DJ (in mylar jacket), no printing given. Content: There has long been a need for a book which comprehensively takes account of the Greek Bronze Age, the transition to the Early Iron AGe, the age of migration to Asia Minor and the period of colonization of the Mediterranean, since it is clear that the foundations of Classical Greece were laid in this early period. Hopper links these developments to show the genius of the Greeks in the process of emergence. One of the best of the early accounts of Green civilization. [1 copy available]
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THE EARLY GREEKS
by R. J. Hopper. B&W and color photo section. Condition: Gently pre-read, IF at all, 1976 Barnes & Noble hardcover & DJ (in mylar jacket), no printing given. Content: There has long been a need for a book which comprehensively takes account of the Greek Bronze Age, the transition to the Early Iron AGe, the age of migration to Asia Minor and the period of colonization of the Mediterranean, since it is clear that the foundations of Classical Greece were laid in this early period. Hopper links these developments to show the genius of the Greeks in the process of emergence. One of the best of the early accounts of Green civilization. [1 copy available]
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FINDING THE WALLS OF TROY: Frank Calvert and Heinrich Schliemann at Hisarlik
by Susan Heuck Allen. B&W and color photo section with B&W photos and drawings throughout. Condition: Gently pre-read to page 17 and abandoned, 1999 Univ. California Press hardcover & DJ (in mylar jacket), first printing. "Repaired" tear top DJ edge. Interior clean & tight. Content: Received wisdom has it that Heinrich Schliemann, a German businessman turned archaeologist, discovered the remains of ancient Troy at Hisarlik in modern Turkey in 1868. That tradition, according to Allen (visiting scholar and guest lecturer in the classics department at Brown University and visiting lecturer at Smith College), arises from Schliemann's self-promotional writings. "But there is another claim to be staked," she writes, "both to some of Schliemann's treasures and to the honor of actually having found the site of Troy. That claim belongs to the man who owned half the land on which Troy eventually was found, the man who informed and educated Heinrich Schliemann about the site and persuaded him to dig there." That man was Frank Calvert, an Englishman who served for 34 years as a U.S. consular agent at the Dardanelles, all the while steeping himself in Trojan archaeology. Allen describes the contributions of Schliemann and Calvert to the Troy work and brings the story of archaeological activity at the site up to the present, illustrating the tale with many maps, photographs and drawings. Calvert's role has been obscured, she says, because--in contrast to Schliemann--he was "a self-effacing, private person," and "only the occasional letter offers details of his unpublished achievements, the manuscripts for which rarely have been found." [2 copies left]
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THE GREEKS OVERSEAS: Their Early Colonies and Trade (New & Enlarged Edition)
by John Boardman. Wonderful B&W drawings, photos, maps - 319 of them. Condition: Gently pre-read 1980 Thames & Hudson hardcover & DJ (in mylar jacket), new & enlarged edition. DJ shows light edge wear. Content: The spread of Greek civilization through Europe and into Africa and the Near East began long before the full flowering of Classical Greek culture. The Greeks Overseas vividly demonstrates the value of archaeology in reconstructing one of the most important formative periods of European history. Out of the Dark Ages of reduced population and comparative penury, the Greeks set their sails north, south, east, and west to plant trading posts and colonies, to reap whatever harvest of materials and expertise the barbarians could offer, and to disseminate the benefits of their own rapidly developing and brilliant civilization. Reviewing the first edition in 1965, The Times Literary Supplement described it as "a masterly summary of a subject that is constantly in need of reappraisal." This edition adds a chapter summarizing new finds and exploring the new attitudes that have affected the study of the subject in the past forty years. [1 copy left]
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RHESOS
by Euripides. Translated by Richard Emil Braun. Condition: UNREAD, but not perfect, 1992 Oxford Univ. Press soft cover, first printing. Light tanning to page edges. Content: The story of a futile quest for knowledge, this ancient anti-war drama is one of the neglected plays within the corpus of Greek tragedy. Euripides' shortest tragic work, Rhesos is unique in lacking a prologue, provoking some scholars to the conclusion that the beginning of the play has been lost. In this exciting translation, Rhesos is no longer treated as a derivative Euripidean work, but rather as the tightly-knit tragedy of knowledge it really is. A drama in which profound problems of fate and free will come alive, Rhesos is also an exploration of the perversion of values that come as the result of war. Charged with a striking immediacy, this play is contemporary in the questions it raises, and eternal in its quest for truth. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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THE FOLDS OF PARNASSOS: Land and Ethnicity in Ancient Phokis
by Jeremy McInerney. B&W maps and photos illustrate. Condition: NEW 2000 Univ. of Texas Press Trade Paperback, first printing. Content: Independent city-states (poleis) such as Athens have been viewed traditionally as the most advanced stage of state formation in ancient Greece. By contrast, this pioneering book argues that for some Greeks the ethnos, a regionally based ethnic group, and the koinon, or regional confederation, were equally valid units of social and political life and that these ethnic identities were astonishingly durable. McInerney sets his study in Phokis, a region in central Greece dominated by Mount Parnassos that shared a border with the panhellenic sanctuary at Delphi. He explores how ecological conditions, land use, and external factors such as invasion contributed to the formation of a Phokian territory. Then, drawing on numerous interdisciplinary sources, he traces the history of the region from the Archaic age down to the Roman period. McInerney shows how shared myths, hero cults, and military alliances created an ethnic identity that held the region together over centuries, despite repeated invasions. He concludes that the Phokian koinon survived because it was founded ultimately on the tenacity of the smaller communities of Greece. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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GREAT DIALOGUES OF PLATO
Translation by W. H. D. Rouse. Condition: UNREAD Mentor MMPB 28th printing (no date given). Small edgewear with short binding glue wrinkle top spine. Interior clean & tight with light edge tanning. Content: Complete texts of The Republic, Apology, Crito, Phaedo, Ion, Meno, Symposium. "In Rouse's pages, Soctrates' strength of mind, his dedication to the philosophical truth, are borne in on the modern reader with something of the power that impressed and disturbed the ancient Greeks." [1 copy available]
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GREAT DIALOGUES OF PLATO
Translated by W. H. D. Rouse. Condition: NEW 1999 Signet Classic MMPB, 7th printing. Perfect condition. Content: Includes the complete texts of The Republic, Apology, Crito, Phaedo, Ion, Meno, & Symposium. [1 copy available]
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GREEK AND MACEDONIAN ART OF WAR
by F. E. Adcock. Condition: Good+ 1957 Univ. of California Press paperback edition, 5th printing. Tiny edge wear. While the book looks and feels new, thre is significant, but very neat, highlighting throughout. Content: This informal history traces battle tactics and military strategy from the time of the city-states' phalanxes of spearmen to the far-reaching combined operations of specialized land and sea forces in the Hellenistic Age. The author first describes the attitude of the Greek city-state toward war, and shows the military conventions and strategies associated with it. He then recounts how the art of war gradually evolved into new forms through the contributions of such men as the great commander Epaminondas, Philip of Macedon, his son Alexander the Great, and others. He also discusses the independence of land and sea power, describes the first use of calvary, and tells of the ingenious Greek devices of siegecraft, including the "fifth column." [1 copy available]
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GREEK ARCHITECTURE
by Robert Scranton. 100 B&W photos, plans, and drawings illustrate. Condition: NEW 1992 George Braziller Trade Paperback, 9th printing. Small tag removal mark top front cover with light edge wear. Interior perfect. Content: From the earliest Helladic structures, through such restless Minoan complexes as the amazong palace of Knossos, to the formal, rigorously symmetrical forms of late Helladic building, it is here possible to follow the development of Green architecture. Almost paralleling the forms of literary expression from the energetic Homeric epic to the compact drama of Sophocles, Greek architecture can be viewed as one major aspect of an increasingly well-integrated whole. [1 copy available]
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THE GREEKS AND GREEK CIVILIZATION
by Jacob Burckhardt, edited by Oswyn Murray, & translated by Sheila Stern. Condition: NEW 1998 St. Martin's Press first US edition, first printing hardcover & DJ (in mylar jacket). Content: First published in 1860 in 5 volumes, this book is (obviously) an edited version and has never been out of print. Burckhardt's pioneering studies in ancient Greek history, which were an important influence on his most celebrated student, Friedrich Nietzsche, and which shaped the modernist view of Greek civilization not as an expression of the heights of human reason, but as an irrational and often dangerous construct. Burckhardt believed that the ancient Greeks' myth-laden view of their own past, full of sociopathic heroes and tragic victims, was an expression of this state of unreason. Even less disturbing to the Greeks, he continues, was the systematic violence-- and even human sacrifice--that erupted when a city like Athens wished to extend its territory or when a leader wished to extend his power. That violence, Burckhardt holds, was a natural result of the ancient Greeks' pursuit of honor, which accrued by facing and defeating danger. One such danger was the mere act of standing out in any way whatever, which could net a would-be hero a charge of being impious--witness, Burckhardt notes, the fates of Socrates and his contemporary Alcibiades. Drawing from examples of mythology, tragedy, oratory, and comedy, Burckhardt touches on themes such as Greek society's contempt for women and its apparent readiness to embrace all sorts of antidemocratic demagoguery--in the person, for instance, of the famed hero Lysander. Burckhardt's deconstruction of classical history, ably edited by Oxford historian Oswyn Murray, reads as if it were written in our own time. [1 copy available]
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HELLENISTIC PHILOSOPHY
translated (and Intro and notes) by Brad Inwood and L.P. Gerson. Condition: PLEASE READ / UNREAD, BUT NOT PERFECT, 1988 Hackett Trade paperback, first PB printing / problems: shelf wear in the form of light rubbings front cover (rubbing against other books on the shelf) and a pale short diagonal crease front cover to corner tip. Interior perfect. Content: Enlarged to provide nearly a hundred pages of additional material, this new edition offers the first English translation of the account of Stoic ethics by Anus Didysmus, substantial new sources on Epicureanism, Stoicism, and Scepticism, expanded representation of Plutarch and Cicero, and a fuller representation of papyrological evidence. The editors maintain the consistency and accuracy that distinguished their translations in the first edition, while regrouping some material into larger, more thematically connected passages. This edition is further enhanced by a new more spacious page design. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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HISTORY OF ATLANTIS
by Lewis Spence. B&W photos illustrate. Condition: UNREAD, but not perfect, 1995 Senate (UK) Trade Paperback, no printing given. Tiny edgewear with light tanning to page edges. Content: The romantic legend of Atlantis has captured imaginations since Plato first told of a glorious island in the Atlantic that sank beneath the waves. Speculation has abounded ever since, and scientists who formerly dismissed the possibility that Atlantis ever existed were obliged to reconsider--partly because of the author of this book. Lewis Spence (1874-1955) wrote five books about Atlantis, and this one is considered his best. Spence sifted through a tremendous body of research in fields from mythology and comparative religion to geography, geology, and archeology. The result is the most authoritative study ever published on the history, geography, animal life, government, and religion of this fabled island. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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IN SEARCH OF TROY: One man's quest for Homer's fabled city
by Giovanni Caselli. Beautiful, detailed, historically accurate (as far as we know) color illustrations by the Author. Condition: Gently pre-read 2000 Scholastic soft cover, first printing. No problems, just pre-read. Content: A city rose on the banks of the Aegean 5,000 years agoTroy, the very stuff of legend; in this archaeo-history, Caselli targets all the most exciting material. Using a format that features clusters of text and images, often encircling a larger commanding image set on a two-page spread, Caselli sketches the background of Troy by following the work of Heinrich Schliemann, the archaeologist whose team unearthed the city. When the story gets to Priam's Troy, greater detail is added, giving readers a taste of what it was like to live within the city walls and towers, as a commoner or as a king. Under discussion are architecture and social structure; he speculates on the role of the sacred in Trojan life, from Bronze Age idols to Greek statues. Then, with just the right amount of drama, Caselli tells the story of the Trojan War: of Paris's kidnapping of Helen, the ten-year siege, and Laocoon's warning about Greeks bearing gifts, especially big wooden ones in the form of a horse. Caselli separates what is known as fact from what is likely fiction, but not so rudely as to erase the mystery and poetry of the Homeric legend as it hovers over Schliemann's dig. Handsome, beguiling illustrations add to the provocative stew. (diagrams, maps, chronology, index) (Nonfiction. 9-12) [Excellent, absolutely excellent!] Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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THE LAST DAYS OF SOCRATES
by Plato. Translated by Hugh Tredennick. Condition: UNREAD 1983 Penguin Books reprint. Light tanning to page edges with tiny edgewear. Content: Contents: Socreates in Action: Euthyphro; Socrates on Trial: The Apology; Socrates in Prison: Crito; and The Last Conversation: Phaedo. Also, pages of notes by the translator. (1 copy available)
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MINOAN AND MYCENAEAN ART (World of Art series)
by Reynold Higgins. Color and B&W photos and drawings illustrate. Condition: UNREAD, but not perfect, 1974 Praeger soft cover, 4th printing. Small "spot" on fore edges is the only flaw. Content: This is an excellent guide to the arts of Bronze Age Greece. The book is generously illustrated with good photographs. Higgins's text is densely written and conveys abundant information on the subject matter. The writing style of the accounts (based on areas, periods, and categories of art) is neither dry and technical nor shallow "purple prose," but simply states, usually objectively, what is known. The depth of information for a relatively small book is good. For example, we learn about the characteristic rough surface of Minoan Bronze artefacts and the possible reasons for this. Higgins allows subjective diversions now and then, which can be quite entertaining. One gets the impression that the Minoans were already master craftspeople when the Myceneans were still trying to fashion hats from mud and twigs. However, even the Minoans had their off-days. For example, a Minoan vase with applied ornamentation is described as an unusual lapse of taste (it is decidedly tacky, and I thought it was the Romans who invented bad taste...) This is a fine book from which to gain a sound basic knowledge of Greek Bronze Age art, and certainly one to take to Greece if you intend to visit some of the archaeological sites and museums there." (1 copy available)
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MINOTAUR: Sir Arthur Evans and the Archaeology of the Minoan Myth
by Joseph Alexander MacGillivray. B&W drawings and two B&W era photo sections. Condition: NEW 2000 Hill & Wang hardcover & DJ (in mylar jacket), no printing given. DJ shows light edge wear top edge. Content: On the most obvious level, this splendid, multilayered book is a biography of Sir Arthur Evans, the archeologist most responsible for the excavation of the palace at Knossos on Crete, the center of Minoan civilization in the second millennium B.C. Evans's life and work provide a fascinating example of the private and professional lives of those Victorians whose superb education, nonconformist brilliance, determination and diligence resulted in major discoveries that continue, even today, to define dialogue concerning the origins of civilization in Western Europe. But this book by MacGillivray (an archeologist who has worked on Crete) is much more than a biography of the right man at the right place at the right time. It was in the late 19th century that archeology moved from being essentially an international treasure hunt financed by wealthy individuals (as was the case with Schliemann and Troy) to a scholarly discipline with well-defined expectations for the conduct of an excavation, preservation of finds and publication about ancient sites. Evans was among a number of prominent archeologists who recognized the need for change and helped to make it possibleDbut only, it seems, grudgingly. The book's appeal, however, should reach far beyond readers interested specifically in Minoan civilization or in the process of archeological discovery. This richly detailed and engrossing account also illuminates the social, intellectual and military/political history of the give-and-take among the great European powers and the Ottoman Empire. It will also appeal to readers of travel literature as Evans and those around him were always on the move and insatiable sightseers. . [1 copy available]
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THE MUNICH GLYPTOTHEK: Green & Roman Sculpture (English Edition)
a brief guide by Dieter Ohly. B&W photos of the sculptures. Condition: Very gently pre-read 1992 Verlag C. H. Beck Munchen soft cover, second revised English edition. Book is clean & tight, most likely viewed once while touring the museum. Content: The book takes one through the museum room by room discussing the sculptures and their histories piece by piece. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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MYCENAE - EPIDAURUS - TIRYNS - NAUPLION,
Heraion of Argos - argos - Asine - Lerna - Troezen (English Edition)
by Nicos Papahatzis: Archaeologist. Beautiful full-color photos, maps, renderings. Condition: UNREAD 1986 Clio Editions Trade Paperback, no printing given. Tiny edgewear. Content: This is a complete guide to the archaeological sites of Argolis with full-color illustrations, maps, plans, and reconstructions. Informative and beautiful! (1 copy available)
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THE MYSTERY OF ATLANTIS (Revised & Enlarged Edition)
by Charles Berlitz. B&W photos, charts, maps and drawings illustrate. Condition: UNREAD1976 Avon paperback, 8th printing. Moderate tanning to page edges. Content: Berlitz, travelr, linguist, scholar and author has traced the history of the mythical Atlantis, produced electrifying evidence that "the lost continent" was indisputably real - and now, in this book, he reveals stunning new details about underwater ruins found only recently in the exact locations reported by the ancients to be the site of the actual city of Atlantis. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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THE NICOMACHEAN ETHICS
by Aristotle. Introduction by Stephen Watt. Cover art is School of Athens by Raphael. Condition: UNREAD 1996 Wordsworth Classics Trade Paperback, no printing given. Tiny edge wear. Content: Aristotle (384-322BC) is the philosopher who has most influence on the development of western culture, writing on a wide variety of subjects including the natural sciences as well as the more strictly philosophical topics of logic, metaphysics and ethics. To the poet Dante, he was simply 'the master of those who know'. The Ethics contains his views on what makes a good human life. While the work continues to stimulate and challenge modern philosophers, the general course of the argument is easily accessible to the non-specialist. Both as a key influence in the history of ideas and as a work containing unique insights into the human condition, this is a book that simply demands to be read. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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THE ODYSSEY (The Story of Ulysses)
by Homer. Translated by W. H. D. Rouse. Condition: UNREAD 1961 Mentor Classic paperback, 16th printing. Small edgewear with one light rubbing along front hinge. Interior clean & tight but tanning. Content: One of the great literary works of the ancient world - the story of Ulysses and his trials/adventures trying to return home from the Trojan War. Generally considered to be the best translation. (1 copy available)
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ON ALEXANDER'S TRACK TO THE INDUS: Personal Narrative of Explorations on the North-West Frontier of India
by Aurel Stein. Two B&W photo sections & maps. Condition: NEW 2004 CastleBookS hardcover & DJ (in mylar jacket), reprint edition. First published in 1929. Content: This book is Aurel Stein's account of the expeditions he mounted following in the footsteps of Alexander the Great during the triumphant invasion that, interestingly, left not a trace in Indian literature or tradition. Stein's account has justifiably achieved cult status for the dangers and hardships encountered during his own expeditions; for the light it sheds on Alexander's invasions, and the wonders of Stein's discoveries (such as Alexander's Aornos); the illumination it offers on all fields of interest from archaeology to Indian literary culture, Graeco-Buddhist art and the spread of Buddhism right across Asia. (1 copy available)
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OVID'S HEROINES; A Verse Translation of the Heroides
by Daryl Hine. Condition: UNREAD 1992 Yale Univ. Press Trade Paperback, first printing. Light rubbings hinges. Interior perfect. Content: The "Heroides", written by Ovid some 2000 years ago, consists of a series of imaginary letters by legendary females of antiquity to their hapless lovers or husbands. The verse letters - purportedly penned by such heroines as Helen, Medea, Penelope, Dido, and Sappho - are the outpourings of women who have been cruelly victimized, yet they are written in the witty and ironic tone for which Ovid is famous. As a source of inspiration for other poets, as a model for the episotolary novel and the dramatic monologue, and as feminine footnotes to Greek prehistory, the letters have fascinated readers from Ovid's time to the present. The "Heroides" is now available in a verse translation written by the poet Daryl Hine. His rhymed couplets convey Ovid's unmistakable voice, by turns frivolous and pathetic, learned and racy. Each of the 21 letters (18 by women and 3 by thier lovers) is preceded by a translator's note identifying the writer and her lover and sketching the relevant background. A chronological rearrangement of the poems, to accord with mythological time, is intended to enhance their value as a companion to any reading of classical literature and mythology. [1 copy available]
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THE RISE OF THE GREEKS
by Michel Grant. B&W maps and B&W photo section. Condition: UNREAD 1988 Scribner's large hardcover & DJ (in mylar jacket), Book Club Edition. Light edge wear to DJ. Content: In the mystery religion of Eleusis, a colony of Athens, cult members acted out the rape of Persephone in torchlit ceremonies, while worshippers shouted obscenities and huge models of genitals were displayed to assure the fertility of crops. Classical historian Grant reveals the deep primitive roots of Greek civilization in this wide-ranging survey of the "archaic" period (750-480 B.C.). It was a time when 700 scattered city-states, each bent on achieving self-sufficiency, added their distinctive contributions to the melting-pot of Hellenic culture. Organized geographically by settlement, Grant's rewarding history turns up many surprises: for example, he shows that the early Spartans, belying the reputation for brute military strength they later acquired, excelled in poetry, music and ivory carving; Spartan women were treated as equals of men and spared domestic chores; and the Ionian philosopher Anaximenes, who linked the microcosm of the individual self to the cosmos, almost certainly took his ideas from the Upanishads of India. Reviewer: ". . .is a very good look at the period of history of the Greek City states from around 1000 to 500 BC. This is a period of history for which it is hard to find good sources of information, and this is certainly the best book that I have found on the period. Michael Grant does a good job of pulling together information from the various sources. Nor is this book limited to just a one or two city states. The author does a commendable job of looking at many different city states, although as he talks about in his introduction, it would be impossible to cover the hundreds that existed." A standard in ancient Greek history. [1 copy available]
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THE SEARCH FOR ANCIENT GREECE
by Roland and Francoise Etienne. Color & B&W illustrations. Condition: NEW 1992 Harry N. Abrams Inc. Discoveries series. Tiny edgewear & pale remainder mark. Content: Etienne takes readers on a fascinating voyage of discovery of ancient Greek civilization and of the people who studied it. Why has Greece served as a model for so many other civilizations? How did technology and politics combine in the growth of archaeology in 19th- and 20th-century Greece? The story of the rediscovery of Greece serves also as an examination of Western culture. Great maps! (2 copies available)
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THE SEARCH FOR SYBARIS
by Orville H. Bullitt. Intro by Froelich G. Rainey. B&W photos with 5 maps. Decorated end pages of map of the site location. Condition: Gently pre-read, IF at all, 1971 J M Dent (UK) hardcover & DJ (in mylar jacket), first British printing. The DJ shows light shelf wear with rubbings along front jacket fold. No major problems. Interior clean & tight. Content: For over two hundred years Sybaris was the wealthiest and most voluptuous of the Greek cities until in 510 BCE it was attacked and destroyed and a river was diverted over its ruins. For 2500 years it lay buried under silt and mud, until a team from the University of Philadelphia began an eight-year search for the site. This is the story of that search - an exciting documentary of an archaeological investigation using sophisticated techniques and equipment. It is also a fascinating pen-picture of the city and its Greek colonist inhabitants. The site was discovered in December of 1968. (1 copy available)
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SEXUAL CULTURE IN ANCIENT GREECE
by Daniel H. Garrison. B&W artifact photos throughout. Condition: UNREAD 2000 Univ. of Oklahoma Press hardcover & DJ (in mylar jacket), first printing. Tiny edge wear to DJ edges. Content: Erotic sensibility pervaded the art, literature, and social mores of the ancient Greeks. Early religious figurines emphasize sexual features, and written documents confirm that the people worshiped deities with strong sexual characteristics. Out of this background came a distinctively Greek sexual culture--guilt-free, graphically frank, and uninhibited by taboos that became entrenched in the Middle Ages. Illustrated with art from the earliest agricultural periods as well as from the Archaic, Classical, Hellenistic, and Roman eras, this book presents nine successive stages of Greek sexual culture. Daniel H. Garrison uses well-known passages from Biblical, Near Eastern, and Greek literature to show the centrality of sexual culture in the civilizations of the area, particularly as they reflect the traditions passed on to the Western world. The only comprehensive overview of Greek sexual culture, this book is a valuable guide to the origins of our complex attitudes regarding marriage, the rights of women, homosexuality, and the role of eroticism in art, religion, ethics, and literature. (1 copy available)
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THE SONG OF EROS: Ancient Greek Love Poems
translated by Bradley P. Nystrom. B&W illustrations by Claudette Sherbert Little. Condition: NEW 1990 Southern Illinois University Press hardcover & DJ (in mylar jacket). Perfect. Content: The poems translated in the book are from the Archaic Age to the Byzantine era (7th century BCE to the sixth century CE. Included are works of Archilochos to Sappho and Anakreon and others. [1 copy available]
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THESE WERE THE GREEKS
by H. D. Amos & A. G. P. Lang. B&W drawings, maps, photos illustrate. Condition: Like new 1992 Dufour Publishing softcover reprint. "Like new" because the top of page 29 appears to have had a pencil note on it, but has been erased. Tiny tiny edgewear at corners. Interior clean & tight. Content: Through vivid detail and pictures, the ancient Greek world to comes alive. It details the pre-Greek era through the days of the post-Greek glory, when all the Greeks had to offer was knowledge. It is filled from cover to cover with information about how the Greeks went about their daily life. Needs a pronunciation guide. [1 copy available]
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TROY: A Novel (Historical Fiction)
by Adele Geras. Erich Lessing cover art. Condition: NEW 2002 Harcourt, Inc. MMPB, 3rd printing. Tiny edgewear at corners & light wrinkling to top corner 1 page. Content: With exceptional grace and energy, Geras recreates the saga of the Trojan War by delving into the hearts and minds of the women of Troy. Suitable for Young Adults and up. [1 copy available]
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WHAT LIFE WAS LIKE AT THE DAWN OF DEMOCRACY: Classical Athens, 525 - 322 BC
by editors of Time-Life Books. Wonderful color drawings plus color & B&W artifact photos. Condition: NEW 2002 Harcourt, Inc. MMPB, 3rd printing. Tiny edgewear at corners & light wrinkling to top corner 1 page. Content: his large, well-designed volume on Athens in the classical age invites readers to browse through the lavishly illustrated inserts on such topics as voting, medicine, building the Parthenon, and divination, and to linger over pictorial essays on gods and goddesses, Homeric heroes, the Olympics, and Alexander the Great. However, the main content of the book is in the three chapters that reconstruct the life of the city as lived by the ordinary householder, the aristocratic class, and the farmer-soldier. Based on historical fact and documentary evidence, the chapters are fine examples of the current trend toward historical storytelling, reconstructing the past through informed speculation and dramatization. A famous speech in defense of a man named Euphiletos, charged with the murder of his wife's lover, becomes the window into domestic middle-class life. The well-known figures of Pericles and Aspasia provide the basis for entering into the social and political life of the rich and powerful; and a re-creation of the battles of Marathon, on land, and the Athenian navy at sea, show the military in action. Full-color photographs, prints, sculptures, and drawings of numerous figures from Greek pottery decorate the pages in an appealing array of Greek art and architecture. The facts of history are here for the seeking, in the introductory overview, the biographical sketches, and the maps. So much better than the Time-Life books of old. Grades 7 and up. Excellent for homeschooling. [1 copy available]
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XENOPHON'S ANABASIS: THE MARCH UP COUNTRY
by Xenophon. Modern translation by W. H. D. Rouse. Condition: Good 1959 Mentor paperback, first printing. Peeling & rubbing bottom spine with diagonal crease top back cover. Interior clean & tight but tanning. Content: The great historian and military commander's first-hand account of how 10,000 Greeks stranded in enemy territory fought their way - some 1,500 bloody miles - back home from the Persian Empire. One of the great true adventure stories in all history. Questions welcome [1 copy available]
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