Search Results: Authors starting with O from Ancient World Books

Loeb Classical Library. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1988. Hardcover. 0674991265 . Loeb Classical Library No. 114; Vol. 1; 484 pages .

Loeb Classical Library. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1924. Hardcover. 0674991907 . Pages tanned. Endpapers browned. Minor shelfwear. ; Loeb Classical Library No. 172; Vol. 3; 544 pages .

Thames and Hudson. Very Good in Good+ dust jacket. 1967. Hardcover. Scholar's name to ffep (Emmet Robbins). 2 small bookseller labels to rear endpaper. Light tanning to endpapers. DJ has chipping and small tears to spine ends. ; 388 pages; With 33 colour plates and 244 monochrome plates. Oversized. .

University of Wisconsin Press. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1993. Hardcover. 0299137201 . Minor shelfwear to book and DJ. Scholar's name to ffep (Jenifer Neils). ; This enjoyable and innovative book reconstructs the stages of the ancient Greek wedding ceremony using a long-neglected source of information: vase paintings from the sixth through fourth centuries B. C.; Wisconsin Studies in Classics; 11.25 x 0.5 x 8.75 Inches; 153 pages .

Oxbow Books. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1997. Hardcover. Vol 1: 3 cm tear along top edges of spine cover. Spine a bit sunned. VG- Vol 2: Spine a bit sunned. NF; Vol. 3: NF. ; Vol I: (1997) isbn: 1900188120 539 pp; Vol II: (2009) isbn: 9781842173503 327pp; Vol III: (2014) isbn: 9781782976639 272 pp; 3 Volume Set. Oxbow Monograph; Vol. 1/3/2024; Heavy set. Will require extra shipping. .

Gennadius Library American School of Classical Studies. Very Good+. 1994. Softcover. Minor shelfwear. ; 70 pages .

Cambridge University Press. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 2005. Hardcover. 0521820162 . DJ has minor creasing. ; Oversized. ; Cambridge Studies In Classical Art And Iconography; 10.8 X 8.3 X 0.9 inches; 306 pages .

Fine with no dust jacket. 2011. Hardcover. 3786126402 . Die Antiken Sarkophagreliefs Bd. 9, Teil 1, Fasz. 3; 110 pages .

J. Paul Getty Museum. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 2013. Hardcover. 160606147X . Very minor shelfwear to book and DJ. ; Oblong 4to 11" - 13" tall; 114 pages .

Thames & Hudson. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1979. Hardcover. 0500020957 . Minor shelfwear to book. Some foxing to textblock. DJ has some chipping to spine ends and 1 small closed tear now in mylar. ; Ancient Peoples and Places; 216 pages .

Charles Scribner's Sons. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1972. Hardcover. 0684127512 . Dustjacket has minor shelfwear and rubbing. Minor foxing to DJ. DJ has two long scratches on front panel. Former owner's stamp on titlepage else Fine. ; 81 pages; Corrects the mistaken view of Plato's philosophy of art. Provides a fresh reexamination of Platonic art. .

Oxford University Press. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1995. Hardcover. 0195088158 . Scholar's name to ffep (Robert Brown). Else book is fine. DJ has minor shelfwear and 1 minor scratch. ; This is an edited collection by a distinguished team of scholars on the philosopher and poet Philodemus of Gadara (ca. 110-40 BC). The discovery of his library at Herculaneum, and the editing and gradual publication of the material, has reawakened interest in the philosophical and historical importance of his work. Philodemus presents us with a poetic theory of interest in itself, and several of his treatises provide us with instances of how poetry was seen as providing moral paradigms and guidance. These essays explore the many facets of Philodemus's work and the relationship between them, offering a critical survey of recent trends and developments in scholarship on Philodemus in particular and Hellenistic literary theory in general. ; 336 pages .

De Erven F. Bohn. Very Good. 1965. Softcover. Light rubbing and edgwear to wraps. Spine sunned. Minor shelfwear. ; Volksuniversiteits Bibliotheek; 138 pages .

Princeton University Press. Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket. 2005. Softcover. 0691120951 . Ink underlining and marginalia to a few pages. Else VG. DJ has edgewear and light creasing. ; How do communities survive catastrophe? Using classical Athens as its case study, this book argues that if a democratic community is to survive over time, its people must choose to go on together. That choice often entails hardship and hard bargains. In good times, going on together presents few difficulties. But in the face of loss, disruption, and civil war, it requires tragic sacrifices and agonizing compromises. Athenian Legacies demonstrates with flair and verve how the people of one influential political community rebuilt their democratic government, rewove their social fabric, and, through thick and thin, went on together. The book's essays address amnesty, civic education, and institutional innovation in early Athens, a city that built and lost an empire while experiencing plague, war, economic… Read More

Ashgate. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 2013. Hardcover. 1409424235 . This volume centers on dreams in Greek medicine from the fifth-century B. C. E. Hippocratic Regimen down to the modern era. Medicine is here defined in a wider sense than just formal medical praxis, and includes non-formal medical healing methods such as folk pharmacopeia, religion, ’magical’ methods (e. G. , amulets, exorcisms, and spells) , and home remedies. This volume examines how in Greek culture dreams have played an integral part in formal and non-formal means of healing. The papers are organized into three major diachronic periods. The first group focuses on the classical Greek through late Roman Greek periods. Topics include dreams in the Hippocratic corpus; the cult of the god Asclepius and its healing centers, with their incubation and miracle dream-cures; dreams in the writings of Galen and other medical writers of the Roman Empire; and medical dreams in popular oneirocritic texts, especially the… Read More

E. J. Brill / Les Belles Lettres. Very Good. 1981. Softcover. 9004062491 . Spine and part of wraps sunned. ; Philosophia Antiqua 38; 142 pages .

E. J. Brill & Les Belles Lettres. Very Good. 1981-4. First Edition. Softcover. Spines are discolored. Minor shelfwear. Former owner's name on ffep of vol. 1. ; Isbns: 9004061347 & 9004069348. 2 volumes only (of 4). ; Philosophia Antiqua XXXVII & XLI; 463 pages .

Routledge. Near Fine. 1994. Softcover. 0415106176 . Very light shelfwear. ; 360 pages; Despite Alexander the Great's unprecedented accomplishments, during the last seven years of his life, this indomitable warrior became increasingly unpredictable, sporadically violent, megalomaniacal, and suspicious of friends as well as enemies. What could have caused such a lamentable transformation? This biography seeks to answer that question by assessing the role of alcohol in Alexander the Great's life, using the figure of Dionysus as a symbol of its destructive effects on his psyche. The unique methodology employed in this book explores various aspects of Alexander's life while maintaining an historical framework. The exposition of the main theme is handled in such a way that the biography will appeal to general readers as well as scholars. .

Prentice-Hall, Inc.. Very Good. 1968. Softcover. Pages lightly browned. Light shelfwear. ; Contributors: E. R. Dodds, E. T. Owen, Richmond Lattimore, Karl Reinhardt, Francis Fergusson, G. M. Kirkwood, Victor Ehrenberg, R. P. Winnington-Ingram, Bernhard M. W. Knox et al. ; A Spectrum Book; 119 pages .

Rome: Pontificum Institutum Biblicum. Very Good. 1961. Softcover. Spine and part of front wrap sunned and slight discolored. A couple of tiny tears to wraps. Scholar's name to ffep. A few pages have ink marginalia and underlining. ; Reprint of the 1948 ed. 164 pp + 38 pl. ; Analecta Orientalia 26; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; 164 pages .