Search Results: Titles starting with F from Ancient World Books

B. G. Teubner. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1970. Hardcover. Former owner's name in ink to ffep. Minor shelfwear to book; Xxv, 215 pp. Photomechancial reprint of 1898 ed. ; Bibliotheca Scriptorum Graecorum Et Romanorum Teubneriana TEUBNER; 215 pages .

University of Chicago Press. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 2006. Hardcover. 0226113965 . Very faint shelfwear to book and DJ. ; Between 1760 and 1800, British aristocrats became preoccupied with the acquisition of ancient Greek and Roman artifacts. From marble busts to intricately painted vases, these antiquities were amassed in vast collections held in country houses and libraries throughout Britain. In Fabricating the Antique, Viccy Coltman examines these objects and their owners, as well as dealers, restorers, designers, and manufacturers. She provides a close look at the classical revival that resulted in this obsession with collecting antiques. ; 9.3 X 7.9 X 1.0 inches; 248 pages .

C. H. Beck. Very Good+. 2001. Paperback. 3406481604 . Small faint stain to front wrap. Else very minor shelfwear. ; Zetemata Monographien Zur Klassischen Altertumswissenschaft Heft 108; 399 pages .

Istituto Di Filogia Classica. Very Good. 1954. Softcover. Scholar's name to ffep (Robert Brown). Pages are tanned. Browning to wraps. ; Università Di Genova - Facoltà Di Lettere; 243 pages .

University of California Press. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1994. Hardcover. 0520068513 . Light edgewear and faint creasing to DJ. ; Hellenistic Culture and Society; 545 pages; Alexander the Great changed the face of the ancient world. During his life and after his death, his image in works of art exerted an unprecedented influence on marbles, bronzes, ivories, frescoes, mosaics, coins, medals, even painted pottery and relief ware. Alexander's physiognomy became the most famous in history. But can we really know what meaning lies behind these images? Andrew Stewart demonstrates that these portraits wildly divergent in character, quality, type, provenance, date, and purpose actually transmit not so much a likeness of Alexander as a set of carefully crafted cliches that mobilize the notion "Alexander" for diverse ends and diverse audiences. Stewart discusses the portraits as studies in power and his original interpretation of them gives unprecedented fullness and shape… Read More

University of California Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2003. Hardcover. 0520233328 . Failure of Empire is the first comprehensive biography of the Roman emperor Valens and his troubled reign (a. D. 364-78). Valens will always be remembered for his spectacular defeat and death at the hands of the Goths in the Battle of Adrianople. This singular misfortune won him a front-row seat among history's great losers. By the time he was killed, his empire had been coming unglued for several years: the Goths had overrun the Balkans; Persians, Isaurians, and Saracens were threatening the east; the economy was in disarray; and pagans and Christians alike had been exiled, tortured, and executed in his religious persecutions. Valens had not, however, entirely failed in his job as emperor. He was an admirable administrator, a committed defender of the frontiers, and a ruler who showed remarkable sympathy for the needs of his subjects. In lively style and rich detail, Lenski incorporates a broad… Read More

University of California Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2003. Hardcover. 0520233328 . Failure of Empire is the first comprehensive biography of the Roman emperor Valens and his troubled reign (a. D. 364-78). Valens will always be remembered for his spectacular defeat and death at the hands of the Goths in the Battle of Adrianople. This singular misfortune won him a front-row seat among history's great losers. By the time he was killed, his empire had been coming unglued for several years: the Goths had overrun the Balkans; Persians, Isaurians, and Saracens were threatening the east; the economy was in disarray; and pagans and Christians alike had been exiled, tortured, and executed in his religious persecutions. Valens had not, however, entirely failed in his job as emperor. He was an admirable administrator, a committed defender of the frontiers, and a ruler who showed remarkable sympathy for the needs of his subjects. In lively style and rich detail, Lenski incorporates a broad… Read More

Cambridge University Press. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1955. Hardcover. Looks at the failure of Roman society in the first century B.C., to show how this failure came about, and what were its effects upon the spirit of the society. .

Routledge. Very Good. 2000. Paperback. 0415237033 . Gift inscription from the author to the half-title. Light shelfwear. ; In this, the first modern study of the ancient fairytale, Graham Anderson asks whether the familiar children's fairytale of today existed in the ancient world. He examines texts from the classical period and finds many stories which resemble those we know today, including: * a Jewish Egyptian Cinderella* a Snow White whose enemy is the goddess Artemis* a Pied Piper at Troy. He puts forward many previously unsuspected candidates as classical variants of the modern fairytale and argues that the degree of violence and cruelty in the ancient tales means they must have been meant for adults. ; 256 pages .

Thames & Hudson Ltd. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1986. Hardcover. 0500250952 . Dustjacket has some light chipping and minor shelfwear. ; Looks at the military collapse as the explanation for the fall of the Roman Empire. Looks at key personalities from Julian the Apostate and Alaric the Visigoth to the battle of Adrianople and the sack of Rome. ; 192 pages .

Thames & Hudson Ltd. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1986. Hardcover. 0500250952 . Dustjacket has some chipping to head of spine with a couple of small tears. DJ is price-clipped. Book has minor shelfwear. Former owner's name to ffep in pencil. ; Looks at the military collapse as the explanation for the fall of the Roman Empire. Looks at key personalities from Julian the Apostate and Alaric the Visigoth to the battle of Adrianople and the sack of Rome. ; 192 pages .

Oxford University Press. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1997. Hardcover. 0198150644 . Dustjacket has very minor shelfwear. Review of book (by Jenifer Neils- also her copy) tipped in. ; Oxford Classical Monographs; 0.85 x 8.75 x 5.62 Inches; 304 pages; Greek myth-makers crafted the downfall of Troy and its rulers into an archetypal illustration of ruthless conquest, deceit, crime and punishment, and the variability of human fortunes. This book examines the major episodes in the archetypal myth - the murder of Priam, the rape of Kassandra, the reunion of Helen and Menelaos, and the escape of Aineias - as witnessed in Archaic Greek epic, fifth-century Athenian drama, and Athenian black- and red-figure vase painting. It focuses in particular on the narrative artistry with which poets and painters balanced these episodes with one another and intertwined them with other chapters in the story of Troy. The author offers the first comprehensive demonstration of the narrative centrality of the… Read More

Routledge. Very Good+. 1994. Softcover. 0415102928 . Very Light shelfwear. Scholar's name to ffep (Robert Brown). Else fine. ; Lancaster Pamphlets; 128 pages .

Oxford Clarendon Press. Near Fine in Good+ dust jacket. 1988. Hardcover. 0198148496 . Slight dust-soiling to textblock. DJ is somewhat worn with small tears to corners and spine ends. Dustjacket spine is sunned. ; Author's inscription to ffep: "Presented by the author" ; 560 pages; Unified by an interest in the factors behind the conversion of the Roman Republic into a monarchy, this collection of essays by noted ancient historian P. A. Brunt includes revised or rewritten studies of the Italian allies, the Equites, the courts, the army, and amicitia, and new discussions of libertas, clientship, and factions. .

University of Toronto Press. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1980. Hardcover. 0802054706 . Very light shelfwear to boards else fine. ; Phoenix Supplementary Volume XIV; 156 pages .

University of Toronto Press. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1980. Hardcover. 0802054706 . Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). Else fine. ; Phoenix Supplementary Volume XIV; 156 pages .

John Hopkins University Press. Very Good. 2000. Paperback. Very Minor shelfwear. Very Light foxing and edgewear. ; Pp 151-311. With scholarly articles by Trevor Fear, Duncan F. Kennedy, Parshia Lee-Stecum, Ellen Greene, Alison Sharrock, Mathilde Skoie; Arethusa. Vol. 33, No. 2, Spring 2000; Vol. 33.2; 160 pages .

Cambridge University Press. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1972. Hardcover. 0521083400 . Dustjacket has edgewear with very light chipping. DJ is price-clipped. Book has light shelfwear else Fine. ; Shows how the Familia Caesaris differed from other sections of freedmen and slave classes and how even within it there was a considerable degree of social differentiation. ; 342 pages .

Cambridge University Press. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1972. Hardcover. 0521083400 . Dustjacket is protected in mylar. DJ is price-clipped. Light browning to back panel. Foxing to textblock. Former owner's name on ffep. ; Shows how the Familia Caesaris differed from other sections of freedmen and slave classes and how even within it there was a considerable degree of social differentiation. ; 342 pages .

Early English Text Society. Fine with no dust jacket. 1989. Hardcover. 0197222978 . Early English Text Society No. 295; 68 pages; This is a new critical edition of A Famylyer Dyaloge of the Freende and the Felaw, a late 15th-century translation of the Latin work Dialogus familiaris amici et sodalis (c. 1425) by Alain Chartier. The prose work forcefully laments the ruinous conditions in France brought about by the corruption and vices of the rulers, army, and common people in the early 15th century. .