Search Results: Ancient Greece from Minotavros Books

London: Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1964. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 16mo. Reprinted from corrected sheets of the Second Edition. Original jacket and publishers blue cloth. xvi, 375 p.p., [1]. Text in Latin and Greek. Selections from the Ancient Greek Tragedian Aeschylus. Small chip to head of front jacket cover, small tears at edges, and extremities of jacket. Covers sunned. Small sticker ghost to lower front cover. Previous price stamps to front free endpaper. Rubbing to boards. Bumping at head of front board. Slight bruising at spine-ends. Hand written notes laid-in. Interior clean. Bright. A very good copy.

Oxford: Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1960. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 12mo. Scriptorum Classicorum Bibliotheca Oxoniensis. Text in Greek and Latin. Full navy cloth. xvi, 375 pp. Light rubbing to spine ends. Small damp stains to top edge of text block. Dust jacet is age toned to spine and edges, a few short tears and small chips.

London: Faber & Faber, 1999. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 12mo (tall). Full burgundy paper boards. 83 pp. Fine condition. Alcestis is the story of a king, Admetus, who is able to escape death because his wife, Alcestis, has volunteered to die in his place. Ted Hughes began his translation of Euripedes' play in 1993, almost completing it then, but breaking off to fulfill commissions for English versions of Oresteia and Racine's Phedre, and for the book that came to be called Tales from Ovid. As was true of the other works, Hughes' Alcestis goes beyond mere translation to an inspired rethinking of the story in terms of his own vision of human suffering. His additions to the text include an expanded burlesque treatment of Hercules' drunk scene and an episode involving Prometheus and his vulture. Hughes took up the play agan and finished work on it a few months before his death in 1998.

New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1999. 1st American Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Black and grey paper boards. 103 pp. Fine in fine jacket.

London: Faber & Faber, 1999. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 12mo (tall). Full burgundy paper boards. 83 pp. Fine condition. Alcestis is the story of a king, Admetus, who is able to escape death because his wife, Alcestis, has volunteered to die in his place. Ted Hughes began his translation of Euripedes' play in 1993, almost completing it then, but breaking off to fulfill commissions for English versions of Oresteia and Racine's Phedre, and for the book that came to be called Tales from Ovid. As was true of the other works, Hughes' Alcestis goes beyond mere translation to an inspired rethinking of the story in terms of his own vision of human suffering. His additions to the text include an expanded burlesque treatment of Hercules' drunk scene and an episode involving Prometheus and his vulture. Hughes took up the play agan and finished work on it a few months before his death in 1998.

Oxford: Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1954. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 12mo. English and Greek. Orig. burgundy cloth. 130 pp. A few white marks to boards. Bruise to spine head. Light age toning to edges of pages. Else fine.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Black and grey paper boards. 103 pp. Fine in fine jacket.

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Orig. tan cloth. Bruise to tail edge of front board. Dust jacket lightly bumped to spine head, sunned to front joint. Fine overall.

New York: Viking, 1980. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. Quarter black cloth, brown paper boards. 202 pp. Light bruising to lower corners, spine tilted. Small damp stain to top edge of text block. Dust jacket is price clipped, bumped to extremities. Slaves have been exploited in most societies throughout human history, but the have been only five genuine slave societies, and of these, two were in antiquity: classical Greece, and classical Italy. In this book, the distinguished historian Sir Moses Finley examines those two societies, not in isolation but in comparison with the other, relatively modern slave societies of the New World.

London: Henry G. Bohn, 1844. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ROLLIN, Charles [1661-1741]. The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Grecians, and Macedonians. By M[onsieur] Rollin. Translated from the French. In Two Volumes. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1844. Two volumes. li, 527p.p.; 491 p.p. Engraved frontispiece and extra engraved title, 7 engraved maps (3 folding), text in double columns. Bound in contemporary diced calf, spines elaborately gilt-tooled in compartments between raised bands, contrasting morocco labels, gilt, marbled endpapers and edges. Minor soiling and edgewear to bindings, endpapers noticeably foxed, but overall a very good copy.

Mineola, New York: Dover Publications, 2003. Soft cover. Near Fine. 8vo (medium). Unabridged eprint of the second edition of Ancient Greek, Roman & Byzantine Costume and Decordation, originally published in 1947. ix, 182 p.p. With numerous illustrations of various styles of costume. Light rubbing to jacket edges. Some scuffing to rear cover. Interior clean throughout. Near fine.

Cambridge, Massachusetts, and London, England: Harvard University Press, 1987. Soft cover. Near Fine. Levy, Pamela R.. 8vo. Cover designed by Diane Levy. ix, 181 pp. 12 Illustrations of Greek culture, throughout the book. Book based on four Carl Newell Jackson lectures presented at Harvard University in April 1982. No major defects.

Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2001. Soft cover. Fine. 8vo. First Harvard University Press paperback edition. Second Printing. xii, 223 p.p. Light rubbing to spine and edges. Tip of top right corner lightly bumped, otherwise in fine condition. An interesting survey of love magic throughout Greek literature, magical papyri, tablets and other artifacts.

Cambridge, Massachusetts, and London, England: Harvard University Press, 1987. Soft cover. Near Fine. Levy, Pamela R.. 8vo. Carl Newell Jackson Lectures Series. Soft cover. ix, 181 pp. Twelve B&W illustrations in text. Creasing to covers, "3.00" carved into upper rear cover. Pencil notation and underlining to text. Based on four Carl Newell Jackson lectures presented at Harvard University in April 1982.

Birmingham, Alabama: The Classics of Medicine Library, 1982. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo. Facsimile. Special Edition privately printed for the members of The Classics of Medicine Library. This is copy no. 20967 from the library of Dr. Barry Gayle. Publishers top-grain cowhide. Boards decoratively brass-die stamped in 22-karat gold. Title on spine in gilt. A.E.G. Ribbon marker. viii, 314 pp. Fine.

Amsterdam: Adolf M. Hakkert, 1966. Hardcover. Near Fine. 8vo. Two volumes bound as one. Reprinted from the 1834 edition. xxi, 362 p.p. [1 blank], xiv, [1], 544 p.p. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering. Spine ends and corners are bumped. Spine is sunned. Bookseller sticker of Parkers of Oxford to front pastedown. Rear hinge starting. Text in Greek and Latin.

Coloniae: Lazari Zetzneri, 1603. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo. With Parabolarum Sive Similitudinum. Coloniae: Lazari Zetzneri, 1603. With seperate title-page and pagination. Modern black wraps over boards. Title on paper spine label. Bookplate of former United Nations staff interpreter Lt. Colonel Victor de Guinzbourg on front pastedown. Woodcut vignette and early ownership signature on title-page. Book I: [16] 844 p.p.; Book II: [16] 143 p.p., [5 p.p. index]. Conrad Lycosthenese [1518-1561] was a humanist and encyclopedist born in Alsace. The present two books are a collection of apothegms, porverbs, and parables from ancient Greek and Roman writers and philosophers. Rubbing and small tears to wrappers. Trimming to edges. Several leaves cut at top margins towards end of book two, with loss to text and page numbers, starting on p. 85. Lacks endpapers. Otherwise a very good copy.

Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991. Soft cover. Fine. 8vo. Second printing. Soft cover. 448 pp. There was no simple agreement on the subject of "myth" in classical antiquity, and there remains none today. In Approaches to Greek Myth, Lowell Edmunds brings together practitioners of eight of the most important and contemporary approaches to the subject. Whether exploring myth from a historical, comparative, or theoretical perspective, each lucidly describes a particular approach, applies it to one or more myths, and reflects on what the approach yields that others do not.

Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2007. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 18mo. The Loeb Classical Library #502. ix, 559 p.p. Green cloth boards. Dust jacket chafed to covers, joints and corners. The eleven plays by Aristophanes that have come down to us intact brilliantly illuminate the eventful period spanned by his 40-year career, beginning with the first production in 427 BCE. But the Athenians knew much more of his work: over 40 plays by Aristophanes were read in antiquity, of which nearly a thousand fragments survive. These provide a fuller picture of the poet's ever astonishing comic vitality and a wealth of information and insights about his world. Henderson's new, widely acclaimed Loeb edition is completed by this volume.

Cambridge, MA & London: Harvard University Press & Heinemann. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 18mo. 1978, 1968, 1979. The Loeb Classical Library #178, 1789, 180. Green cloth boards. xvi, 555; vi, 443; vi, 471 pp. Volume II toned to interior. Dust jackets price clipped, sunned to spine, light worn and chipped to extremities. The eleven plays by Aristophanes that have come down to us intact brilliantly illuminate the eventful period spanned by his 40-year career, beginning with the first production in 427 BCE. 0.