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Oxford Clarendon Press. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1970. Hardcover. 0198143524 . Minor shelfwear. Former owner's name to ffep ; 168 pages; Agathias or Agathias Scholasticus (c. AD 536-582/594) , of Myrina, an Aeolian city in western Asia Minor, was a Greek poet and the historian who is a principal source for that part of the reign of Justinian I covered in his history. He studied law at Alexandria, returned to Constantinople in 554 to finish his training and practised as an advocate (scholasticus) in the courts. Literature, however, was his favourite pursuit. He wrote a number of short love-poems in epic metre, called Daphniaca. He also put together an anthology of epigrams by earlier and contemporary poets and himself, under the title of a Cycle of New Epigrams. Agathias re-edited the Greek Anthology, which preserves about a hundred of his epigrams, showing considerable taste and elegance. He also wrote marginal notes on the Periegetes of Pausanias. After the death of Justinian… Read More

Turnhout: Brepols. Fine with no dust jacket. 2004. Hardcover. 2503048811 . xviii, 499pp.; Corpus Christianorum Continuatio Mediaevalis CLXXXVIII (188) ; 499 pages .

Turnhout: Brepols. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 2004. Hardcover. 2503048838 . Very light shelfwear. ; lxxxi, 318pp.; Corpus Christianorum Continuatio Mediaevalis CLXXXVIII a (188 A) ; 318 pages .

Akademie-Verlag. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1975. Third Edition. Hardcover. Light bump to 1 corner. Pages lightly tanned. DJ has rubbing and chipping with a few tears. ; Scriften Und Quellen Der Alten Welt: Band 21, 1; Vol. 1; 315 pages .

Latomus. Near Fine. 1979. Softcover. 2870311052 . Pages unopened. Very light shelfwear. Else fine. ; Aims to establish Ammianus in the front rank of ancient military historians; attempts to do this by demonstrating that he possesses an extensive knowledge of the three principal phases of military activity: intelligence, planning and operations. ; Collection Latomus Volume 165; 171 pages .

Oxford Clarendon Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. 0198143443 . Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). Foxing/dustsoiling to top of textblock. DJ spine browned. Minor shelfwear. ; Sir Ronald Syme gives us a highly entertaining characterization of the author and his work, together with a sketch of the literary, social and religious context. By comparing it with the Historiae of Ammianus Marcellinus he puts the probable publication date between 392 and 395. For Sir Ronald Syme, it is a historical fiction about gods and bad emperors. The author chose to pass himself off as six biographers. He invented a whole school of precursors as rivals to cite, to confute, to mock and to expose. ; 313 pages .

Oxford: Clarendon Press. Very Good. 2003. Softcover. 0198721226 . Minor creasing to wraps. ; Digitally reprinted. This anthology presents over fifty extracts representing all the major Greek prose writers from the fifth century B. C. Through to the fourth century A. D. : Herodotus, Thucydides, Lysias, Isocrates, Plato, Xenophon, Aristotle, writers from the Hellenistic and Roman periods (including some New Testament and other Greek Christian writers) , and many others. Introducing a broad range of style and syntax, the passages are accompanied by explanatory notes, full references to grammar, a useful introduction, and grammatical and stylistic indexes. The only anthology of its kind, this book will be an essential guide for both students and teachers of Greek literary appreciation and prose composition. ; 327 pages .

Berkeley: University of California Press. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1987. Hardcover. 0520058585 . Book is fine. DJ has very light shelfwear. ; xiii, 150pp.; The Transformation of the Classical Heritage 15; 150 pages .

University of London Institute of Classical Studies. Very Good. 1977. Paperback. 0900587369 . Spine a bit browned. Light edgewear to front wrap. Minor foxing; Institute of Classical Studies Bulletin Supplement 34; 157 pages .

Ares Publishers, Inc.. Fine with no dust jacket. 1980. Hardcover. 0890053014 . Exact Reprint of the Tetypeset original (1809) Chicago 1930 ARES PUBLISHERS INC. In his school edict Julian prohibits Christian teachers from using pagan scripts e. G. The Illias, that formed the core of Roman education. This was an attempt to remove some of the power of Christian schools by alienating their students from Roman society, not to mention a satirical attack at what Julian may have viewed as a hypocrisy: Christian schools teaching the Bible as the sole source of knowledge while simultaneously teaching classical pagan texts as well, knowledge of which was needed for success in Roman society. In his tolerance edict of 362, Julian decreed the reopening of pagan temples, the restitution of alienated temple properties, and called back Christian bishops that were exiled by church edicts. The latter was an instance of tolerance of different religious views, but may also have been an attempt by Julian to… Read More

University of California Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1981. Hardcover. 0520037790 . DJ has minor edgewear with a couple of small tears (1cm). DJ back flap is creased. Pencil underlining in parts of text. Red ink writing on back endpaper (cross-reference to another book is noted) ; Examines the transformation of the pagan Roman into the early Byzantine empire by focusing on the ceremonies of the arrivals, funerals, and coronations of emperors from the late third to the late sixth century A. D. ; The Transformation of the Classical Heritage 1; 450 pages .

University of California Press. Very Good. 1990. Softcover. 0520069668 . Minor shelfwear. ; Examines the transformation of the pagan Roman into the early Byzantine empire by focusing on the ceremonies of the arrivals, funerals, and coronations of emperors from the late third to the late sixth century A. D. ; The Transformation of the Classical Heritage 1; 450 pages .

Princeton University Press. Very Good. 1972. Softcover. 069100305X . Scholar's name to half-title (Robert Brown). Minor shelfwear. Spine sunned and a bit discolored. ; Reprint of the 1965 ed. Vii, 131pp, illustrated. ; 131 pages .

Stuttgart: Kohlhammer. Near Fine. 1999. Softcover. 3170142321 . Slight crease to spine. ; 208pp.; 208 pages .

University of Pennsylvania Press. Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1998. Hardcover. 0812234723 . Book is fine. DJ has small stain to front panel and light edgewear. ; A literary verse translation of Ausonius, the most famous of the learned poets active in the second half of the fourth century-- To his Commemorations, David Slavitt has added versions of Ausonius's Nuptial Cento, assembled from snippets of Shakespeare (Ausonius's original is a pastiche of Virgil) , and selected epigrams. ; 86 pages .

Athenaeum--Polak & Van Gennep. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 2000. Hardcover. 9025346766 . Very light shelfwear to book. DJ has 2 closed tears to upper part of front panel. DJ has light rubbing. ; Dutch translation of: Bios kai praxeis Alexandrou tou Makedonou. ; 207 pages .

University of California Press. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1993. Hardcover. 0520065506 . Very light shelfwear to DJ. ; With a contribution by Lee Sherry. ; Transformation of the Classical Heritage; 441 pages; The chaotic events of A. D. 395-400 marked a momentous turning point for the Roman Empire and its relationship to the barbarian peoples under and beyond its command. In this masterly study, Alan Cameron proposes a complete rewriting of received wisdom concerning the social and political history of these years. Our knowledge of the period comes to us in part through Synesius of Cyrene, who recorded his view of events in his De regno and De providentia. By redating these works, Cameron offers a vital, new interpretation of the interactions of pagans and Christians, Goths and Romans. In 394/95, during the last four months of his life, the emperor Theodosius I ruled as sole Augustus over a united Roman empire that had been divided between at least two emperors for most of the… Read More

University of California Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1993. Hardcover. 0520065506 . Upper corner slightly bumped. ; With a contribution by Lee Sherry. Signed by one author on inner cover: "For Dirk from Alan" ; Transformation of the Classical Heritage; 441 pages; The chaotic events of A. D. 395-400 marked a momentous turning point for the Roman Empire and its relationship to the barbarian peoples under and beyond its command. In this masterly study, Alan Cameron proposes a complete rewriting of received wisdom concerning the social and political history of these years. Our knowledge of the period comes to us in part through Synesius of Cyrene, who recorded his view of events in his De regno and De providentia. By redating these works, Cameron offers a vital, new interpretation of the interactions of pagans and Christians, Goths and Romans. In 394/95, during the last four months of his life, the emperor Theodosius I ruled as sole Augustus over a united Roman empire… Read More

Oxford University Press. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1990. Hardcover. 0198148860 . Dustjacket has minor shelfwear and rubbing. Book has minor shelfwear. ; Barbarians and Bishops is concerned with two fundamental themes of Late Antiquity: the barbarization of the Roman army, and the interrelation of Church and secular government. The conspicuous role played by barbarian, particularly German, soldiers in the Late Roman state has always been recognized. It still has not been satisfactorily explained. This is not surprising since the development which compelled the Empire to call on foreigners for its defence is a complex one, related to changes in basic structures and attitudes of Roman society. One of these was the triumph of Christianity which required the abandonment of a civic religion closely integrated with secular government. ; 336 pages; Gift inscription from author: "To Andrew, With best wishes --Wolf" ; Signed by Author .

Bernh. Tauchnitz. Good with no dust jacket. 1838. Hardcover. Book rebound in dark brown boards. Rubbing and edgeworn boards. Spine cover colour has mostly flecked off exposing board underneath. Gilt Spine label with gilt tooling intact. Some foxing and light browning to pages. Scholar's name stamped to ffep (Dr. R. Ten Kate). Endpapers browned. ; Vol. 2.1: (1838) 256 pp; Vol. 3.2 (1839) 279 pp; 2 Volumes Bound in 1 Book. Bibliotheca Patrum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum Selecta, Vol. 2.1 & 3.2 .