Search Results: Authors starting with H from Ancient World Books

Philipp Von Zabern. Very Good+. 1990. Softcover. 3805311753 . Very light edgewear to lower corners of wraps else fine. ; Oversized. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 678 pages .

E.J. Brill. Very Good+. 1984. Softcover. 9004072306 . Minor scuffing to rear wrap. Scholar's name to ffep (D. Gerber). ; First comprehensive commentary on Callimachus' Hymn to Delos. Includes detailed introduction and commentary (uses Pfeiffer's 1953 text). ; Mnemosyne , Vol Suppl. 83; 267 pages .

Loeb Classical Library. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1966. Hardcover. 0674993195 . Light shelfwear. Minor spotting to boards. DJ is price-clipped. ; Loeb Classical Library, 289; Vol. 6; 640 pages .

Oxford Clarendon Press. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1973. Hardcover. 0198144431 . Very light shelfwear to book else fine. DJ is price-clipped. Very light edgewear to DJ. ; English introduction with Latin text and translation. ; 258 pages; Contains two introductory essays on the Prefecture of Rome and on the life of Symmachus. The Latin text is that of Seeck and on the opposite side is an English Translation; Includes glossary that interprets Latin official terms not rendered in the translation, and there is a select general index. .

Karl Tauchnitz / Caroli Tauchnitii. Very Good-. 1829. Hardcover. Book has been rebound in 1/4 leather boards with gilt tooling and lettering to spine. Marbled boards. Very attractive binding. Institution stamp to ffep (seminary library) no other markings. Some repair to rear endpaper. 2 corners a little edgeworn. Else VG; 2 books bound in 1 volume. I (1829) 411pp; II (1829) 388 pp. Text is in latin; 2 Books Bound in 1 Volume. ; 24mo 5" - 6" tall; 876 pages .

Adolf M Hakkert. Very Good+. 1989. Paperback. 9025608450 . Faint crease to first few pages. Scholars' bookplate to inner cover. Spine very lightly sunned. Minor shelfwear. ; Classical and Byzantine Monographs Vol. VI; 183 pages .

Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1958. Hardcover. Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). 2 corners lightly bumped and along upper edge of front board. ; Xii, 354pp. ; 272 pages .

Boston: Basil Blackwell. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1948. Hardcover. Former owner's name to ffep (Philippa Goold née Forder). 1 corner bumped. Pages tanned. DJ chipping and a couple of small tears. DJ browned. ; Xii, 354pp. ; 354 pages .

Boston: Beacon Press. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1951. Hardcover. Former owner's name to ffep. Pages tanned. DJ is tatty with tears, chipping and a few small pieces chipped off. DJ a bit browned and soiled. ; Xii, 354pp. ; 354 pages .

Basil Blackwell. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1949. Hardcover. Gift inscription from author to Philippa Goold née Forder on ffep. Light Foxing/dustsoiling to top of textblock. ; 126 pages; Signed by Author .

Eugen Franck. Very Good-. 1888. Hardcover. Book appears to have been rebound in 1/4 leather spine with dark brown decorative boards. Some edgewear to boards. Rubbing and wear to spine and corners of leather (some gilt lettering has effaced from spine). Institution plate to front inner cover (Cornell University Library) indicating gift of Thomas Frederick Crane with his name in pencil to titlepage. Pencilling to a couple of pages. Else VG. ; 285 pages .

Walter De Gruyter Inc. Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1998. Hardcover. 3110156997 . Minor shelfwear and rubbing to DJ. ; Contents include but are not exhaustive: Herodian's Historical Methods and Understanding of History; Erodiano e la crisi dell'impero; Furcht und Schrecken bei Herodian; Claudius Aelianus und sein Werk; Les 'Histoires variees' d'Elien. L'agencement de la mosaique; Asinio Quadrato storico di Filippo l'Arabo; Longinus Platonicus Philosophus et Philologus, II. Longinus Philologus; Menander Rhetor and the works attributed to him; Time and Narrative Technique in Heliodorus' Aethiopica; Etat present des recherches sur Nemesien; Lettura di Reposiano; Alcestis Barcinonensis; Terentianus Maurus...; Apollonius of Tyre: last of the Troublesome Latin Novels; On the fringes of the Canon: Work on the Fragments of ancient Greek Fiction; Emperor and Empire in the works of Greek-speaking Authors of the Third Century AD; W. Curtius Rufus' Historiae… Read More

Walter De Gruyter Inc. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1998. Hardcover. 3110156997 . Minor shelfwear. Top of spine is slightly knocked. Stamp to top of textblock: "Write-Off" else NF. ; Contents include but are not exhaustive: Herodian's Historical Methods and Understanding of History; Erodiano e la crisi dell'impero; Furcht und Schrecken bei Herodian; Claudius Aelianus und sein Werk; Les 'Histoires variees' d'Elien. L'agencement de la mosaique; Asinio Quadrato storico di Filippo l'Arabo; Longinus Platonicus Philosophus et Philologus, II. Longinus Philologus; Menander Rhetor and the works attributed to him; Time and Narrative Technique in Heliodorus' Aethiopica; Etat present des recherches sur Nemesien; Lettura di Reposiano; Alcestis Barcinonensis; Terentianus Maurus...; Apollonius of Tyre: last of the Troublesome Latin Novels; On the fringes of the Canon: Work on the Fragments of ancient Greek Fiction; Emperor and Empire in the works of… Read More

München: Zabern Philipp Von. Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 2000. Hardcover. 3805326580 . Book is fine. DJ has very light shelfwear. ; 120pp, profusely illustrated.; 120 pages .

Musee des Beaux-Arts. Very Good. 1987. Paperback. 2902067119 . Light shelfwear. Minor edgewear to corners and top edges. ; 203 pages .

Tokyo. Fine. 1997. Softcover. 4000029991 . In slipcase. ; Ix, 210pp, 11pp. TEXT IN JAPANESE; Text in JAPANESE; 210 pages .

Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A.: Johns Hopkins University Press. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1990. Hardcover. 080183872X . Very light shelfwear. ; Reexamines the career, achievements and failures of Cicero during Republican Rome's worst political crisis. ; 148 pages .

Cambridge University Press. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1998. Hardcover. 0521580927 . Very light shelfwear to book and DJ. Faint edgewear along top edge of DJ. A bit of glue stains to rear pastedown (as published) ; This book is a multidisciplinary attempt to understand the Roman Revolution as a cultural phenomenon. Contributors draw on the latest approaches in literary and cultural studies to integrate literature, art and history into a new account of Roman culture during the transition from Republic to Empire. In Part I the changes in cultural systems are discussed under the topics of authority, gender and sexuality, status and space in the city of Rome, and in Part II texts and artifacts are shown to refract social, political and economic changes. ; 264 pages .

University of California Press. Very Good. 1985. Softcover. 0520096894 . Foxing/dustsoiling to top of textblock. ; University of California Publications. Classical Studies, V. 25; 222 pages .

Johns Hopkins University Press. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 2005. Hardcover. 0801881056 . Lower corner very lightly bumped else book is fine. Light shelfwear to DJ. ; In this bold work, Thomas Habinek offers an entirely new theoretical perspective on Roman cultural history. Although English words such as "literature" and "religion" have their origins in Latin, the Romans had no such specific concepts. Rather, much of the sense of these words was captured in the Latin word carmen, usually translated into English as "song." Habinek argues that for the Romans, "song" encompassed a wide range of ritualized speech, including elements of poetry, storytelling, and even the casting of spells. Habinek begins with the fraternal societies, or sodalitates, which predated the Republic and endured into the Imperial era, and whose rites, although adapted over time to different deities and cults, were from the beginning centered on song (perhaps most… Read More