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Cambridge University Press. Used - Very Good. 1965. Hardcover. Cloth, dj. some thin rips to price-clipped dj. Previous owner's name in pen at front FEP. Foxed at fore-edge. Very Good. (Subject: Ancient & Classical Studies).
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Outside the Deipnosophistae of Athenaeus there are only one or perhaps two references1 to Machon in Greek literature; inside it are the substantial body of fragments with which this book is concerned and two statements about their author.
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- Title Machon: The Fragments
- Author Machon; A. S. Gow (Editor)
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 172
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date January 2, 1965
- ISBN 9780521056311 / 0521056314
- Weight 0.83 lbs (0.38 kg)
- Dewey Decimal Code 882.01
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MACHON: THE FRAGMENTS Edited with an Introduction and Commentary
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Cambridge University Press. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. 0521056314 . light dustsoiling to top of textblock. Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). Light shelfwear to DJ. ; Machon was a writer of Comedies who lived and worked in Alexandria in the middle of the third century B. C. All of his work that survives is preserved in the Deipnosophistae of Athenaeus who, besides two fragments of Comedies of no great importance, quotes also 462 verses from a collection of anecdotes which Machon called Xpeiai. These anecdotes are written in the iambic verse of Comedy. They are concerned with the doings and sayings of courtesans, parasites, and musicians, sometimes in relation to persons of historical importance. They are often scabrous but also not infrequently amusing; and they are of considerable interest both as documents of social history and as a type of literature which, though popular in antiquity, has hardly survived. The Xpeiai, which…
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Cambridge University Press. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. 0521056314 . Very light shelfwear to book. DJ is price-clipped. DJ has 1 small tear with very minor chipping. ; Machon was a writer of Comedies who lived and worked in Alexandria in the middle of the third century B. C. All of his work that survives is preserved in the Deipnosophistae of Athenaeus who, besides two fragments of Comedies of no great importance, quotes also 462 verses from a collection of anecdotes which Machon called Xpeiai. These anecdotes are written in the iambic verse of Comedy. They are concerned with the doings and sayings of courtesans, parasites, and musicians, sometimes in relation to persons of historical importance. They are often scabrous but also not infrequently amusing; and they are of considerable interest both as documents of social history and as a type of literature which, though popular in antiquity, has hardly survived. The Xpeiai, which present many problems…
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MACHON: THE FRAGMENTS Edited with an Introduction and Commentary
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- Used - Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
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- First Edition
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- Hardcover
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9780521056311 / 0521056314
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Cambridge University Press. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. 0521056314 . Light shelfwear to DJ and book. Scholar's name to ffep (D. Gerber). ; Machon was a writer of Comedies who lived and worked in Alexandria in the middle of the third century B. C. All of his work that survives is preserved in the Deipnosophistae of Athenaeus who, besides two fragments of Comedies of no great importance, quotes also 462 verses from a collection of anecdotes which Machon called Xpeiai. These anecdotes are written in the iambic verse of Comedy. They are concerned with the doings and sayings of courtesans, parasites, and musicians, sometimes in relation to persons of historical importance. They are often scabrous but also not infrequently amusing; and they are of considerable interest both as documents of social history and as a type of literature which, though popular in antiquity, has hardly survived. The Xpeiai, which present many problems of reading and…
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