Greek Fiction
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Iliad
by Homer
Dating to the ninth century BC, Homer’s timeless poem still vividly conveys the horror and heroism of men and gods wrestling with towering emotions and battling amidst devastation and destruction, as it moves inexorably to the wrenching, tragic conclusion of the Trojan War. Renowned classicist Bernard Knox observes in his superb Introduction that although the violence of the Iliad is grim and relentless, it coexists with both images of civilized life and a poignant yearning for peace....
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Zorba the Greek
by Nikos Kazantzakis
Zorba the Greek is a novel written by the Greek author Nikos Kazantzakis, first published in 1946. It is the tale of a young Greek intellectual who ventures to escape his bookish life with the aid of the boisterous and mysterious Alexis Zorbas. The novel was adapted into a successful 1964 film of the same name as well as a 1968 musical, Zorba.
The Fratricides
by Nikos Kazantzakis
Against the background of the Greek civil war of the late 1940s, Captain Drakos, son of the local priest Father Yanaros, has taken to the mountains with a group of villagers and joined the Communist rebels. It is Holy Week and Father Yanaros feels that he himself is bearing the sins of the world.
Forever Ulysses
by C P Rodocanachi
Picaresque novel of poor boy from Cephalonia, Greece, who made his fortune in Africa. First published in the UK as "No Innocent Abroad"
Sophocles
by Sophocles
With new translations and a new afterword The full texts of the seven extant plays of Sophocles with Paul Roche's revised and updated translations of the Oedipus cycle, and all-new translations of the remaining plays.
Greek Fiction Books & Ephemera
Studies in John Malalas.
by Jeffreys, Elizabeth, Croke, Brian and Scott, Roger
Melbourne: Australian Association for Byzantine Studies, 1990. soft cover. VG. Very good condition with covers in adhesive plastic./No Jacket. Byzantina Australiensia 6. 24.5 cm.
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£42.33
The Iliad (Royal Collector's Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket)
by Homer
Hardback. New.
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£35.38
Forever Ulysses
by Rodocanachi, C. P
New York: Viking Press, 1938. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/frayed. 8vo. Two-tone cloth. Pp. 318. Translated by Patrick Leigh Fermor. Published in England as "No Innocent Abroad".
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£44.52
The Greek Anthology The Garland of Philip (2 vol set)
by Gow; Page
Cambridge Univ. Press, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/Good. Good+/Good+ 1st ed 1968 Cambridge two volume set, price-clipped jackets with name to fly-leaf of both volumes. Some edge-wear and small nicks to jackets, area of surface discoloration to front board of volume 1 which has some substance rubbed into it, causing a discolored patch to inside of this jacket, otherwise VG and unmarked. A striking set. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Poetry; ISBN:...
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£153.00£122.40
Aeschylus, Volume 1: Suppliant Maidens. Persians. Prometheus. Seven Against Thebes (Loeb Classical Library, No. 145) (Greek and English Translation).
by Aeschylus. With an English Translation by Herbert Weir Smyth
Aeschylus, Volume 1: Suppliant Maidens. Persians. Prometheus. Seven Against Thebes (Loeb Classical Library, No. 145) (Greek and English Translation). With an English Translation by Herbert Weir Smyth. 1996 by Harvard University Press. Hardover, 464 pages.
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£88.24
Greek Tragedy in Action
by Oliver Taplin
Volume, measuring approximately 6" x 9", is bound in black cloth, with stamped silver lettering to spine. Top edge of text block displays foxing, with milder foxing to fore edge. Book is otherwise in fine condition, with solid binding, clean and bright interior. Dust jacket exhibits light shelfwear. Jacket is preserved in mylar cover. x/203 pages.
"Greek tragedy has been the subject of a vast body of scholarly work, yet rarely have the plays been studied as works to be seen and heard. The idea, stemming... Read more about this item
"Greek tragedy has been the subject of a vast body of scholarly work, yet rarely have the plays been studied as works to be seen and heard. The idea, stemming... Read more about this item
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£28.33
The Iliad - A New Translation By E V Rieu
by Homer
Penguin Books, 1954. Paperback. Good. 1954. 469 pages. Paperback book with pictorial cover. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Paper cover has mild edge wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and tanning.
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£6.01
Plato Opera Vol. II
by Edited by J Burnet
Hardback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; (Par., Phil., Symp., Phdr.; Alc. I, II, Hipp., Am.) Edited by J. Burnet.
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£36.47
Z (ZETA)
by VASSILIKOS, VASSILIS
España: ORBIS: BIBLIOTECA DE NOVELA HISTORICA, 1988. Hardcover. De 2ª mano - muy bueno. Z (ZETA) DE VASSILIKOS, VASSILIS. ED. ORBIS: BIBLIOTECA DE NOVELA HISTORICA, 1988, IDIOMA: CASTELLANO PEQUEÑO GOLPE EN EL LOMO-RESTO BUEN ESTADO, TAPA DURA, IDIOMA: CASTELLANO, 1988, TÍTULO: Z (ZETA) DE VASSILIKOS, VASSILIS.
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£3.47
The Homeric Hymn to Demeter
by N. N. Richardson
Hard Cover. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The The Homeric Hymn to Demeter.
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£153.38
Iliad
by Homer
Homeri Opera graece et latine. Graeca ad principem H. Stephani, ut & ad primam omnium Demetrii Chalcocondylae editionem... Curante Jo. Henr. Lederlino, Stephano Berglero. 619 pp + Index in Iliadem + one engraving and one engraved map (Ab. Ortelii) h.t.. 14,7x8 cm. Ex Officina Wetsteniana, Amstelaedami, 1707.
--- The Iliad of Homer (complete). Leather binding (pigskin), very tight. Name written on frontispiece. No foxing. Text in ancient greek and latin. Introduction and Index in latin.
--- The Iliad of Homer (complete). Leather binding (pigskin), very tight. Name written on frontispiece. No foxing. Text in ancient greek and latin. Introduction and Index in latin.
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£1,040.76
Sophocles: An Interpretation
by R. P. Winnington-Ingram
Paperback / softback. New. Professor Winnington-Ingram interprets seven extant tragedies of Sophocles and explores his tragic vision of the world. Students of Greek drama will find that this detailed study provides invaluable insights and the Greek in the text is translated or paraphrased, so that the book will also be of interest to students of the literature and drama of other cultures.
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£51.43
Helen of Troy and Her Shameless Phantom (Myth and Poetics)
by Austin, Norman
NCROL, 1994. Hardcover. Very Good. Disclaimer:A copy that has been read, but remains in excellent condition. Pages are intact and are not marred by notes or highlighting, but may contain a neat previous owner name. The spine remains undamaged. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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£25.15
A COMPANION TO HOMER
by Alan J.B. Wace and Frank H. Stubbings
London: Macmillan, 1970. 4th printing. Hardcover. Very Good. 595p. A hardcover book in very good condition with a like dustjacket. Bottom edge of spine barely faded. Owner's name stamp on fronmt endpaper. Otherwise, text clean and binding tight. The jacket is worn and lightly tanned along the top, but otherwise intact. Illustrated with black and white plates and drawings.
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£80.95
The Iliad
by Homer
Paperback / softback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; High on Olympus, Zeus and the assembled deities look down on the world of men, to the city of Troy where a bitter and bloody war has dragged into its tenth year, and a quarrel rages between a legendary warrior and his commander. Greek s
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£12.69
Zorba the Greek
by Nikos Kazantzakis
Ballantine Books, 1965. Paperback. Acceptable. 1965. Fourth Ballantine Printing. 347 pages. This is an ex-Library book. Paperback book with pictorial cover. Library copy, with expected inserts and inscriptions. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Paper cover has mild edge-wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and tanning.
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£4.07
THREE CLASSICAL POETS Sappho Catullus and Juvenal
by JENKYNS Richard
Harvard University Press, 1982. 0674888952. 1st edn. 8vo. Original gilt lettered brown cloth (top edge very lightly dust stained - otherwise near Fine), dustwrapper (spine and edges of covers faded - in protective cover). Pp. ix + 243 (publisher's neat pencil inscription on front endpaper).
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£12.00
Forever Ulysses
by C.P. Rodocanachi
Viking, 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. Used - Like New/Very Good. Stated First Edition, First Printing (January 1938). Published by Viking, 1938. Octavo. Black cloth over red boards stamped in gold with black topstain. Book is like new; clean and crisp with some light offsetting to endpapers. Sharp corners and spine straight. No writing or names. Dust jacket is very good, price-clipped with some shelf/edge wear and several small nicks/tears along edges. Translated by Patrick Leigh-Fermor. Author's...
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£161.89
HELLENISTIC POETRY
by HUTCHINSON G.O
Clarendon Press Oxford University Press, 1990. 0198147481. 8vo. Orignal printed card covers (softback) (VG). Pp. xii + 374 (no inscriptions).
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£12.00
The Photographs
by Vassilis Vassilikos
Sphere, 1971. First Thus. Softcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Book Size: 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 156 pages. Item Type: Book. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No inscriptions. Shipped Weight: Under 250 grams. Category: Fiction; . ISBN: 0722187394. ISBN/EAN: 9780722187395. Please contact H4o Books if you require images or further information. Inventory No: 028190. . 9780722187395
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£5.00
Z
by Vassilis Vassilikos
Paperback / softback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; A progressive parliamentary deputy is scheduled to appear at a political rally. Meanwhile, local political bosses plot his assassination. Thugs are recruited to disrupt the rally. Rumors begin to spread. But the forces already set in mo
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£14.18
The Iliad (Classics)
by Homer
Penguin Books Ltd, 1969. Paperback. Good. 1969. Reprinted. 365 pages. Paperback book with pictorial cover. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Paper cover has mild edge-wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and tanning.
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£3.60
