FEMALES OF THE SPECIES Semonides on Women. with Photograps by Don Honeyman of Sculptures by Marcelle Quinton
by Semonides; Hugh Lloyd-Jones, Marcelle Quinton (Sculptures by)
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0815550383
- ISBN 13
- 9780815550389
- Seller
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Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Noyes Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1975. Hardcover. 0815550383 . Foxing to top of textblock and to a few pages. Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). DJ has minor shelfwear with light edgewear. ; With 8 black & white plates. A translation and commentary on the 115-line fragment of a creation myth written by Semonides of Amorgos, an example of early Greek iambic poetry and the first surviving poem in European literature to have women for its theme. ; 112 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Ancient World Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 28965
- Title
- FEMALES OF THE SPECIES Semonides on Women. with Photograps by Don Honeyman of Sculptures by Marcelle Quinton
- Author
- Semonides; Hugh Lloyd-Jones, Marcelle Quinton (Sculptures by)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0815550383
- ISBN 13
- 9780815550389
- Publisher
- Noyes Press
- Place of Publication
- Park Ridge
- Date Published
- 1975
- Keywords
- 0815550383, Art And Architecture, Women's Studies, Semonides, Poetry & Poets, Greek Literature
- Bookseller catalogs
- Art & Architecture;
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