Search Results: Literature: ancient from The Owl at the Bridge

Penguin [1980].. Soft Cover. 175 p., 18 cm. Translated by Harold Mattingly. Revised by S.A. Handford. Stock# 37,558. Good+, a few ink notations, paper. Classical literature, history.

Boston, Gambit, 1973.. Hard Cover. xv, 286 p., index. 'Advances a thesis that the myth of a new wonderland as described in ancient books now unread is an illusion that survives strongly in American thinking and writing today.' Stock #100,879, Vg/ dj vg. America History Literature

Princeton University Press, 1977, ©1971. Soft Cover. xiv, 432 p.; 23.5 cm. "I focus on the work of four major poets-- William Butler Yeats, Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, and W.H. Auden." From the library of Prof. Alan S. Trueblood with his pencil annotations. Stock#45750.

Four bookseller catalogues. Brill, Classical Antiquity, 103 pages, index; Stubbs, Scholar's Library, 83 pages, 14 illus.; Salloch (2), 61 pages, 589 items & 68 pages, 532 items. All in pictorial paper covers; all Good. Sold as a lot. Stock#ofc0264.

Chicago, Benj. H. Sanborn, 1924. Hard Cover. xlvi, 143 p.18.5 cm. "Students' Series of Latin Classics." Stock# 31,620. Good, most of this has pencil underlining and annotation/ no dj.

New York, Vintage Books, 1957, [c1927]. Soft Cover. xiv, 229, ix p. 18.5 cm. Series: A Vintage book, K-47. The 1925 Charles Eliot Norton lectures ( the first given). English poetry as influenced by Classical poets. Stock# 40,072. Good, some ink annotations in early portion, paper.

Madison, Wisconsin UP, 1966. Soft Cover. xii, 436 p., endpaper maps; 21.5 cm. English translations of Latin prose and poetry. Stock# 40,092. Vg/ paper.

Oxonii, Clarendoniano [Oxford, Clarendon] , 1946. Hard Cover. [412] p., 19 cm. Ab Excessu Divi Augusti Libri. Recognovit Brevique Adnotatione Critica Instruxit C. D. Fisher. Copy of Albert Cook with his stamp. Stock# 34,051. Good, navy cloth covers worn, spine ends. Classical Latin literature.

Chicago Uni. Press [c1955]. The Complete Greek Tragedies. Soft Cover. Alcestis, Translated by Richmond Lattimore. The Medea, Translated by Rex Warner. The Heracleidae, Translated by Ralph Gladstone. Hippolytus, Translated by David Grene. Translator's introduction to each play. ix, 221 p., 20 cm.; orange pictorial paper covers; VG. 31512.

Chicago Uni. Press / Phoenix Books [c1969]. The Complete Greek Tragedies. Soft Cover. The Cyclops [&] Heracles, Translated by William Arrowsmith; Iphigenia in Tauris, Translated by Witter Bynner; Helen, Translated by Richmond Lattimore. Translators' introductions to each play. 264 p., 20 cm.; blue pictorial paper covers; VG. 31513.

New York, Washington Square, [1970]. Soft Cover. [v], 277 p., 18 cm. The four plays are: Hecuba, Andromache, The Trojan Women, Ion. Series: The Complete Greek Tragedies. Stock# 40,098. Vg/ paper.

"In literature quotation is good only when the writer whom I follow goes my way, and, being better mounted than I, gives me a cast."--R.W. Emerson, Quotation & Originality. xlii, 1831 pages; index of authors, pages xiii-xlii; index, pages 1257-1831. Bound in publisher's maroon cloth stamped front & spine in black & gold; much frayed & faded, spine cocked; with attention, good for another go-round. Stock#ofc0330.

Boston, Little, Brown [November 1955] Tenth Printing. Hard Cover. xxxiv, 1614 p. set in double column, indexes; 24 cm. A Collection of Passages, Phrases and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature. Thirteenth and Centennial Edition. Completely Revised. Dj torn, taped; edges browned, ink owner name; good. Stock# 44,936.

[Chicago] : University of Chicago Press, [1988, c1960]. Soft Cover. vii, 311 p., 20.5 cm. Contents: Aeschylus: The Eumenides. Sophocles: Philoctetes. Oedipus at Colonus. Euripides: The Bacchae. Alcestis. Repackaged from The Complete Greek Tragedies. Stock# 40,090x. Vg/ new paperbacks.

Boston, Beacon Press, [1956, c1951].. Soft Cover. xvi, 388 p., index, 20.5 cm. Written as a companion to Greek literature and history, this study of religion in Greece is an "examination of the meaning of the major gods, taken individually, and of the groups of less important divinities.." Stock# 40,071. Good+, used paperback.

N.Y., Columbia UP, MDMLII [1952].. First Edition. Hard Cover. viii, 474 p., 23.5 cm. Tucked in is a 5-page article by Hadas on Aeneas as a Roman Moses. Stock# 34,700. Vg/ dj poor, torn, frayed.

Madrid: Editorial Castalia, ©1994. Soft Cover. 190 p., [4] p. of plates, illus.; 18 cm. "Numantia (Numancia in Spanish) is the name of an ancient Celtiberian settlement... famous for its role in the Celtiberian Wars. In the year 153 B.C. Numantia experienced its first serious conflict with Rome. After 20 years of hostilities, in the year 133 BC the Roman Senate gave Scipio Aemilianus Africanus the task of destroying Numantia. He laid siege to the city, erecting a nine-kilometre fence supported by towers, moats, impaling rods and so on. After 13 months of siege, the Numantians decided to burn the city and die free rather than live and be slaves." Vg / soft cover. Stock#46209.

Stapled in green pictorial paper; Very Good with author's ink inscription to Alan S. Trueblood. Stock#ofc0494.

Modern Library, NY [1982]. Hard Cover. xxxi, 574 p., index, maps; 18.5 cm. Stock# 40,079. Vg; pages darkened; paper. Classical literature, history.

New York: T. Y. Crowell [1918?]. "Printed in Great Britain by the Riverside Press Limited, Edinburgh." Foreword by A.E.S. This edition seems to be the American outlet for the low-priced London, Harrap, 1917, edition. Ornamented with Persian-style woodcuts. The four tipped-in color plates are reduced, pale versions of the ones by Willy Pogany for the deluxe 1909 edition. Hard Cover. 93 pages, 4 color illustrations tipped in; 13 cm. (pocket size). Bound in brown cloth with gold lettering, top edge gilt; no dust jacket; Very Good. Stock#SmOB006.