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Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1965. 2 vols. L,264;719p. Original blue cloth. Spine gilt titled. Lacking dust wrps. Ex library copy. Remains of tape to tail spine and part cover. Head and tail spine slightly bumped. Cover bit scratched and stained. Library marks on first and last pages. Vol.1: hinges strenghtend with white tape. Used but clean inside. 'The work is devoted to almost 5,000 lines of Hellenistic poetry which had remained so far (...) devoid of any adequate commentary. Not only Alexandrinists but all students of Greek literature are heavily indebted to the editors, who have produced an outstanding piece of scholarship. Professor Page has concentrated his attention on Meleager, whose poems are analysed, with penetrating acumen, in their literary background and the allusiveness of their diction (...). Mr. Gow has dealt with the rest of the epigrammatists, a task of immense labour. He has elegantly solved, or soberly reassessed, numberless problems relating to text,…
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The Greek Anthology: Hellenistic Epigrams, The Garland of Philip, and Further Greek Epigrams [5 Volumes]
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Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine in near very good to near fine dust jackets, moderately toned at spine panels. Kiffin Ayres Rockwell's copy, with his sparse & light ownership markings to front endpapers; text otherwise clean and bright. Bindings square and tight.. A Five-Volume Set. 6 x 9.375 in. Hellenistic Epigrams, 1965, in 2 Volumes; The Garland of Philip, 1968, in 2 Volumes; and Further Greek Epigrams: Epigrams before A.D. 50 from the Greek Anthology and Other Sources, not included in Hellenistic Epigrams or The Garland of Philip, 1981. This celebrated set of the Greek Anthology -- edited by Denys Page, Regius Professor of Greek at Cambridge, and A.S.F. Gow, another excellent textual critic as well as A.E. Housman's friend and literary executor -- is quite scarce complete in five volumes, as here.
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The Greek Anthology. I. Hellenistic Epigrams. Volume I. Introduction and Text. Volume II. Commentary and indexes.
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Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1965. 2 vols. L,264;719p. Original blue cloth. Spine gilt titled. Head and tail spine slightly bumped. Cover slightly scratched and with some vague stains. Small personal library mark and name on free endpaper. Some upper corners pages deliberately creased. Some scholarly annotations by KJD, mostly in red pen. Vol.2: small hole in back cover. Still a nice copy. 'The work is devoted to almost 5,000 lines of Hellenistic poetry which had remained so far (...) devoid of any adequate commentary. Not only Alexandrinists but all students of Greek literature are heavily indebted to the editors, who have produced an outstanding piece of scholarship. Professor Page has concentrated his attention on Meleager, whose poems are analysed, with penetrating acumen, in their literary background and the allusiveness of their diction (...). Mr. Gow has dealt with the rest of the epigrammatists, a task of immense labour. He has elegantly solved, or soberly reassessed, numberless…
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