Search Results: Titles starting with X from Ancient World Books

University of Toronto Press. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1992. Hardcover. 0802059902 . Scholar's name to ffep (Bonnie Maclachlan [née Ward]). Minor pencilling. ; Phoenix Presocratic Series; 6 X 1 X 9 inches; 272 pages .

Santpoort: Mercator Pers. Near Fine. 1984. Softcover. Faint creasing. ; No. 15 of an edition of 75. Greek text of 5 fragments with facing Dutch translation. Nicely printed on Zerkall laid paper. Plate + 15 unnumbered pages.; 15 pages .

Franz Steiner Verlag. Fine with no dust jacket. 2005. Hardcover. 351508195X . Potsdamer Altertumswissenschaftliche Beitrage (PAwB) Band 7 ; 276 pages; Seit Urzeiten erfordert die Begegnung mit Fremden, insbesondere die Aufnahme von Fremden in die eigene Gesellschaft oder in das eigene Haus groae Aufmerksamkeit und Umsicht. Nie ist das Fremde etwas Beilaufiges. Immer hat es den Charakter des Besonderen. Wie war in den alten Gesellschaften der Kelten, der Agypter, der Griechen und der Romer der Umgang mit Fremden geregelt? Stand eher die Angst, die Xenophobie, im Vordergrund oder lasst sich ein bereits ritualisiertes Vertrautsein mit Jedermann, die Philoxenie, als Konstante nachweisen? Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler verschiedener Disziplinen sind diesen Fragen nachgegangen: der Vor- und Fruhgeschichte (R. Echt), der Keltologie (H. Tristram), der Agyptologie (J. Zeidler), der Archaologie (B. Babler), der Klassischen Philologie (H.-G. Nesselrath, P. Riemer, K. Schopsdau, K. Sier, B.… Read More

Oxford University Press. Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1994. Hardcover. 0198140827 . Book is fine. DJ has some shelfwear and creasing. ; 400 pages; The Oeconomicus is unique in Greek literature in combining a discussion of the proper management of a family or household and didactic material on agriculture within a Socratic dialogue. One of the richest primary sources for the social, economic, and intellectual history of classical Athens, it has been largely neglected despite the current widespread interest in the subjects discussed. This volume provides a new translation to complement the Oxford Classical Text, and a comprehensive introduction and commentary, making the book readily accessible to those both with and without Greek. .

Oxford Clarendon Press. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1907. Hardcover. Boards are a little darkened. Corners have a little edgewear. Pages tanned. Light pencilling. Light browning to endpages. A few pages corner creased. Tears to backstrip and chipping. Former owner's name on ffep. ; Extensive English introduction and notes with greek text. ; Clarendon Press Series .

Very Good. 1971. Softcover. Light creasing to top corner of front wrap and first 2 pages. ; Typed text. ; Inaugural - Dissertation; 151 pages .

B. G. Teubner. Fair with no dust jacket. 1912. Softcover. Text is complete. Wraps are detached but have been crudely repaired with cellotape that has stained the edges of wraps and all of the spine. Chipping to front wrap. Internally VG. ; Text in Ancient Greek. Latin introduction and apparatus. Xxiv, 200 pp; Bibliotheca Scriptorum Graecorum Et Romanorum Teubneriana TEUBNER; Vol. 2; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 200 pages .

B. G. Teubner. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1876. Hardcover. 2 volumes rebound into 1 book. Marbled brown and black boards with Green spine. Gilt lettering and banding to spine. Spine cover has chipping and tears to head along with tear along half of joint. Edgewear to corners with a bit of colour loss. Pages tanned Still solid. ; V1: (1876) 204 pp & V2: (1880) 186 pp; 2 Volumes Bound in 1 Book; 186 pages .

Princeton University Press. Very Good in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1989. Hardcover. 0691067570 . Foxing to top of textblock with some minor shelfwear. DJ has light shelfwear. ; "If you inquire into the origins of the novel long enough," writes James Tatum in the preface to this work, ". . . You will come to the fourth century before our era and Xenophon's Education of Cyrus, or the Cyropaedia." The Cyrus in question is Cyrus the Great, the founder of the Persian empire celebrated in the Book of Ezra as the liberator of Israel, and the Cyropaedia, written to instruct future rulers by his example, became not only an inspiration to poets and novelists but a profoundly influential political work. With Alexander as its earliest student, and Elizabeth I of England one of its later pupils, it was the founding text for the tradition of "mirrors for princes" in the West, including Machiavelli's Prince. Xenophon's masterpiece has been overlooked in recent… Read More

London: Duckworth. Very Good. 1974. Softcover. 0715616102 . Light rubbing to wraps with a bit of colour loss. Some spotting to spine. ; 206pp, 13 plates. A biography of Xenophon (~430-350 BC) : historian, soldier, huntsman, economist, farmer, philosopher and author. ; Classical Life & Letters; 206 pages .

Penguin Classics. Very Good. 1972. Softcover. 0140440070 . Minor shelfwear. ; Penguin Classics; 7.6 X 5.0 X 1.1 inches; 384 pages .

B. G. Teubner. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1899. Hardcover. 1 corner bumped. Minor shelfwear. Very light foxing. Light tanning to pages. ; Text in Ancient Greek. Latin apparatus. Vii, 305pp; Bibliotheca Scriptorum Graecorum Et Romanorum Teubneriana TEUBNER; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 305 pages .

B. G. Teubner. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1921. Hardcover. Browning and light foxing to endpapers with foxing to textblock. Browning to preface ; Text in Ancient Greek. Latin introduction. Lxxx, 150 pp ; Bibliotheca Scriptorum Graecorum Et Romanorum Teubneriana TEUBNER; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 150 pages .

Oxford Clarendon Press. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1914. Hardcover. 0198145527 . Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). Original terracotta boards. Endpapers browned. ; Greek Text with Latin apparatus and introduction. ; Oxford Classical Texts Oct (Scriptorum Classicorum Bibliotheca Oxoniensis) ; Vol. 1; 170 pages .

B. G. Teubner. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1880. Hardcover. Book has been rebound in quarter brown cloth with marbled boards. Gilt designs and lettering to spine. Edgewear and chipping to spine ends and boards. Some marbling from boards has flecked off. Scholar's name to ffep (Gert. Jan van Dijk). Some foxing passim. Still an attractive book. ; Text in Ancient Greek. Latin introduction and apparatus. Xxxiv, 395 pp. Part of the series: Xenophontis Opera omnia / recensita et commentariis instructa ; vol. IV. Sect. III. ; Bibliotheca Scriptorum Graecorum Et Romanorum Teubneriana TEUBNER; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 399 pages .

Fridericae Hennings. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1841. Hardcover. Rebound in 1/4 cloth binding with marbled boards. Gilt lettering to spine. Spine sunned. Some foxing. 2 halves bound of out sequence. ; Iv, [273]-519 pp + 1-272 pp. In Greek, Latin and German. Browning to upper corner of a few pages. Else VG. ; 519 pages .

B. G. Teubner. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1905. Hardcover. Taupe boards. Very faint spotting to rear boards. Faint bumping to a couple of corners. Vol 2 boards slight discolored. ; V1: (1908) 214 pp & V2: (1905) 190 pp; 2 Volume Set. Griechische Und Lateinische Schriftsteller. Ausgaben Mit Anmerkungen. ; 404 pages .

B. G. Teubner. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1905. Hardcover. Taupe boards. Vol. 1: 2 small stains to front board. Chipping to head of spine. Former owner's name stamped to ffep. Institution stamp to titlepage. Vol. 2: Former owner's name stamped to ffep. Corner crease to last few pages. ; V1: (1908) 214 pp & V2: (1905) 190 pp; 2 Volume Set. Griechische Und Lateinische Schriftsteller. Ausgaben Mit Anmerkungen. ; 404 pages .

B. G. Teubner. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1900. Hardcover. Light browning to endpapers. Minor shelfwear. Small circle institution stamp to titlepage. ; Text in Ancient Greek. Latin introduction. V, [167]-303 pp; Bibliotheca Scriptorum Graecorum Et Romanorum Teubneriana TEUBNER; Vol. 2; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 136 pages .

Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft. Very Good. 1979. Softcover. 3534043502 . Scholars' bookplate to inner cover. Very light soiling to wraps. Minor shelfwear. ; Text is in German; Erträge Der Forschung 111; 163 pages .