Search Results: Ancient Greece from Motte & Bailey, Booksellers

The Anglo-Hellenic League, 1920.. First edition. Good staple-bound pamphlet in grey wrappers. Small chip missing from the lower edge and browning along the edges. Wear to the edges with some scuffing and soiling to the covers. A slight musty smell to the pamphlet. Some browning to pages. 16 pages. A work dealing mainly with Turkey and the Turks after World War I discussing some of recent events in Asia Minor and relations with Greece.

Leiden: Brill, 1976. First edition. Hardcover in full cloth. Very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. No dust jacket issued. A few pages have light pencil underlining. xvi, 286 p. w/footnotes, addenda, indices, and folding sheet of 3 maps at rear. Covers Syria, Phoenicia, Cyrenaica, Cyprus, the Aegean, Asia Minor, Ionia. From the library of Ludwig Koenen.

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. First paperback edition. Trade Paperback. Very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of covers 397 p. w/ footnotes, appendices, bibliography, index. The first commentary in any language on this particular prosecution speech of 346/45 b.c., an important source for Athenian legal sanctions and moral attitudes concerning same-sex relations. Includes a new complete translation.

Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1991. First edition. Cloth. Very good octavo hardcover in very good dust jacket. Light wear to edges of boards. Dj has light wear along edges. 280 pages with maps, footnotes, chronology, selected bibliography, and index. An interesting biography of the Spartan king, Agesilaus II and a study of fourth century BC Greek affairs.

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1951. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo (standard size), Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. No dust jacket. Some foxing at endpapers. Light scuffing to covers. 179 p. w/ footnotes, Greek and English indexes. Text of the poem fragment in Greek, rest of work primarily in English. A presentation and discussion of this late 7th c. B.C.E. Greek poem by the Spartan poet Alcman, also discussing an interpretation and the dialect.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. First edition. Hardcover in full cloth. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of dj and boards. 370 p. w/ bibliography, index. Covers letters in the works of Homer, Euripides, Alciphron, Aelian, Philostratus, various anonymous works, and more.

Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 1987. First edition. Hardcover in full cloth. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of dj and boards. Spine of dj slightly faded. 204 p. w/ notes, bibliography, index ot passages of Herodotus, and general index. A detailed study of the anecdotes found in the Histories of Herodotus, which the author argues gives deeper insight into the work and its famous author.

Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2013. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges of boards. No dust jacket issued. x, 185 p. w/footnotes, bibliography, name index.

Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1980. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. 256 p. w/ appendices (including chronology of Arrian's life), endnotes, index, maps on endpapers. A study of the works and lifve of historian Falvius Arrianus of Nicomedia, not only a historian but also consul, proconsul, and governor of Cappodocia. His major work on Alexander is considered the most reliable and is discussed, as are his works on India and a book on hunting. His lost works on Bithynia, the successors of Alexander, and the war between Rome and Partha are covered as well.

Lipsiae: B. G. Teubner, 1883. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. Corners slightly bumped. Spine lightly faded. Name of forner owner, noted scholar of Cicero Prof. Shackleton Bailey, on flyleaf in pencil with the date 1934. 224 p. in Greek and Latin. An important and early text on Greek and Greek grammar, currently thought to have come from the 4th century c,e,, rather than from the Hellenistic period.

Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo (standard sized). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. xx, 358 . w/endnotes, bibliography, index. A study of how the Greeks views and interacted with non-Greeks in the classical eta, esp. with Lydia, Persia, and Persian subjects.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1969. Later printing. Thick octavo (oversized) Brick-red cloth binding with dust jacket. Gilt upper page edges, lettering on spine and decoration on front cover. Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dj. Dj flap clipped at bottom and top, but CUP price sticker is on the flap 648 pages with foldout maps, tables, genealogical charts, footnotes, bibliographies, and 3 indices. A detailed look at the rise of Macedonia from the time of Philip and Alexander to the fracturing of Alexander's empire with the defeat of Antigonus at Ipsus. There are also chapters on Persia, the era of Spartan and Theban ascendancy in Greece, and Dionysius of Sicily. Special shipping rates for this work due to its size. Thick octavo (oversized) Brick-red cloth binding with dust jacket. Gilt upper page edges, lettering on spine and decoration on front cover. Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dj. Dj flap clipped at the bottom, but price remains on upper corner,

Hildesheim, Germany: George Olms Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1975. Facsimile ed. . Hardcover. Very good. Small squarish, thick, octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. No dust jacket. 274 p., 491 p., 63 p. A facsimile edition of 3 related works in one volume, from 1817 and 1819 (the Supplementum).

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo (standard sized). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. xii, 201 p. w/footnotes, bibliography, index. A study with a new perspective on Aristophanic drama and its relationship on Greek religion, focusing on this particular play.

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. Later printing. Oversized Paperback. Very good. Thick paperback (oversized). Slight wear to edges and corners of covers. 721 p. w/fotnotes, maps.

Chicago: Ares Publishers, Inc. , 1978. Reprint. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo (standard siz). Slight wear to edges and corners. xcii, 128 p. w/ bibliography in the roman numbered pages, a few illus.

New York, NY: G. E. Stechert, 1931. First edition. Paperback Original. Fair. Thin octavo ( standard size). Wear to edges and corners, with head and heel of spine taped. Sticker damage to lower left front cover. A few scholarly notations in pencil. 86 p. w/ appendices, index. A look at the creation and operation of the Cretan Koinon, or commonweath, from the late 3rd c. bc through the Roman era, with some focus on various surviving inscriptions. An uncommon work on an uncommon topic.

Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2020. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo (standard size) Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. xi, 344 p. w/footnotes, bibliography, indices, In German

Leipzig, Germany: B. G. Teubner, 1975. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. Thin octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. No dust jacket. xxvi, 38 p. w/ footnotes, index. In Greek and Latin.

Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2022. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges of boards. No dust jacket issued. xiii, 523635 p. w/footnotes, bibliography, indexes. In German.