Search Results: Titles starting with E from Ancient World Books

Andreas Mpetses. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket. 2002. Softcover. 9607414985 . Some rubbing to DJ with colour loss. Else minor shelfwear to book and DJ. Softcover book with DJ. Small correction in pen to copyright page. ; 184 pages .

Athens: He En Athenais Archaiologike Hetaireia. Near Fine. 1995. Softcover. 9607036476 . Inscribed by author on half-title, else unmarked, near Fine. ; 217pp. ; Bibliotheke Tes En Athenais Archaiologikes Hetaireias Ar. 150; 217 pages; Signed by Author .

Melissa Publishing House / Benaki Museum. Very Good with no dust jacket. 2004. Hardcover. 9602042605 . Minor bumping to 1 corner and lower edge of front board. Gift inscription from author to Jenifer Neils on ffep (in English). ; Text is in Greek. ; Photographs; Oblong 4to 11" - 13" tall; 192 pages; Signed by Author .

E. J. Brill. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1995. Hardcover. 9004100776 . Front upper corner bumped and a bit creased. Else light shelfwear. ; Religions in the Graeco-Roman World; 473 pages; The Early Amazons offers a new understanding of the ancient Amazon myth, situating mythical representations in the realm of cultural history. The first section examines how the Amazons have presented a challenge to views on history, myth and gender in classical mythology from the late eighteenth century up to the impact of structuralism. Topics included are nineteenth-century historiography and the interest in linguistics. The second section sheds new light on the culture of archaic Greece, offering a coherent assessment of literary and visual representations. Taking mythical narrative as a form of oral storytelling, it shows the emergence of the Amazon motif and its meaning in the world of epic. Iconographical analysis reveals how the visual arts have made a contribution of their own to the imaginary… Read More

E. J. Brill. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1995. Hardcover. 9004100776 . Minor creasing and edgewear to DJ. Very light wear to book. ; Religions in the Graeco-Roman World; 473 pages; The Early Amazons offers a new understanding of the ancient Amazon myth, situating mythical representations in the realm of cultural history. The first section examines how the Amazons have presented a challenge to views on history, myth and gender in classical mythology from the late eighteenth century up to the impact of structuralism. Topics included are nineteenth-century historiography and the interest in linguistics. The second section sheds new light on the culture of archaic Greece, offering a coherent assessment of literary and visual representations. Taking mythical narrative as a form of oral storytelling, it shows the emergence of the Amazon motif and its meaning in the world of epic. Iconographical analysis reveals how the visual arts have made a contribution of their own to the imaginary… Read More

University of Chicago Press. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1991. Hardcover. 0226144658 . Light shelfwear to book. Very light foxing to top of textblock. Dustjacket has minor shelfwear and rubbing. ; 1.36 x 9.26 x 6.38 Inches; 486 pages; The internationally renowned Assyriologist and linguist I. M. Diakonoff has gathered the work of Soviet historians in this survey of the earliest history of the ancient Near East, Central Asia, India, and China. Diakonoff and his colleagues, nearly all working within the general Marxist historiographic tradition, offer a comprehensive, accessible synthesis of historical knowledge from the beginnings of agriculture through the advent of the Iron Age and the Greek colonization in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea areas. Besides discussing features of Soviet historical scholarship of the ancient world, the essays treat the history of early Mesopotamia and the course of Pharaonic Egyptian civilization and developments in ancient India and China from… Read More

Bracken Books, London. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1987. Hardcover. 1851701206 . Pages tanned. Minor shelfwear. ; With 8 plates in colour and 26 illustrations in black and white. ; Britain in Pictures. The British People in Pictures; 48 pages .

American School of Classical Studies At Athens. Very Good+. 1973. Softcover. 0876616139 . Very light shelfwear. ; Excavations of the Athenian Agora Picture Book No. 13; 8.4 X 5.3 X 0.2 inches; 32 pages .

MacMillan & Company , Ltd.. Near Fine in Very Good- dust jacket. 1963. Hardcover. Laminate lifting from DJ in places along spine. DJ has chipping to spine ends. DJ is price-clipped. Scholar's name to ffep. ; 64 pp of collotype plates, 12 colour photographs on 8 photogravure plates, three folding maps at rear, includes almost 300 photographs taken by the author plus numerous in-text illustrations; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 263 pages .

Univ of California Pr. Very Good. 1991. Softcover. 0520074122 . Minor shelfwear. Tiny nick to middle of spine. ; 336 pages; This reissued edition provides a wide-ranging account of all aspects of art and architecture in the Christian world up to the middle of the sixth century, relating these achievements to the practical demands of worship and contemporary attitudes to the role of art within the Church. .

Viking Press. Very Good-. 1965. Softcover. Creasing to corners of front wrap with a couple of small chips. ; Compass History of Art; 176 pages .

Abingdon Press. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1955. Hardcover. Minor shelfwear. Spine a bit sunned. ; 160 pages .

Philipp Von Zabern. Fine with no dust jacket. 1972. Hardcover. 57 pp of plates; Fogg Art Museum Monographs in Art and Archaeology; 69 pages; Some Contents: Descriptive Catalog; Inscriptions; The Technique; Related finds of Cretan Armor; Some Groupings; Representations; Chronology; Appendices: A Mitra inscribed with a Law; The cuirasses of the 'Olympia Group'; Metallographic Examination of Some Fragments of Cretan Bronze Armor from Afrati. .

Philipp Von Zabern. Fine with no dust jacket. 1972. Hardcover. 57 pp of plates; Fogg Art Museum Monographs in Art and Archaeology; 69 pages; Some Contents: Descriptive Catalog; Inscriptions; The Technique; Related finds of Cretan Armor; Some Groupings; Representations; Chronology; Appendices: A Mitra inscribed with a Law; The cuirasses of the 'Olympia Group'; Metallographic Examination of Some Fragments of Cretan Bronze Armor from Afrati. .

Oxbow Books. Very Good. 2000. Softcover. 1900188902 . Minor shelfwear. Faint creasing to front wrap. ; A series of eleven papers focusing on various aspects of the archaeology of the East Riding in Yorkshire in the Anglo-Saxon and Early Medieval periods, including the progress of archaeological research, burials, settlement evidence, metalwork, coinage and monuments. Contents: Anglo-Saxon Yorkshire: current research problems (Philip Rahtz) ; Early Medieval burials in East Yorkshire (S J Lucy) ; West Heslerton settlement mobility (Dominic Powlesland) ; Anglo-Saxon settlement and archaeological visibility in the Yorkshire Wolds (J D Richards) ; King Edwin of the Deiri (N J Higham) ; Middle Anglo-Saxon metalwork from South Newbald and the `productive site' phenomenon in Yorkshire (Kevin Leahy) ; Northumbrian coinage and the productive site at South Newbald `Sancton' (James Booth) ; The case for archaeological research at Whitby (Jennie Stopford) ; Monuments from Yorkshire in the Age… Read More

University of Wales Press Board & Humphrey Milford. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1926. Hardcover. Former classics scholar's name on ffep (W. S. Barrett). Minor rubbing to boards. ; Greek text with English commentary and introduction. ; 132 pages .

Cornell University Press. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1974. Hardcover. 0801407958 . Foxing to top of textblock. Very Minor discoloration to boards. DJ has a couple of small tears. Light soiling to DJ. ; Devotes a chapter to Archilochus, Alcaeus, Sappho, and Anacreon, discussing their major poems. Also treats Corinna, Telesilla, and Timocreon and concludes by showing how monody evolved in the direction of the epigram. Greek originals along with English translation and notes are also presented. ; Cornell Studies in Classical Philology, V. 37; 310 pages .

Cambridge University Press. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1973. Hardcover. 0521200563 . Upper Corners are lightly bumped. DJ is price-clipped. Rubbing to DJ extremities. ; 228 pages; A study of the literary and archaeological (especially artistic) evidence for developments in the warfare of early Greece. Greenhalgh considers in particular the military history of the chariot and mounted horse, both as they were represented in poetry and art and as they were used in reality from about 1100 to 500 B. C. .

University of Wales Press Board & Humphrey Milford. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1926. Hardcover. Very minor shelfwear. Scholar's name to ffep (D. Gerber). ; Greek text with English commentary and introduction. ; 132 pages .

The Johns Hopkins University Press. Very Good+ in Good dust jacket. 1993. Hardcover. 080184410X . Very light shelfwear to book. Dustjacket has tears, chipping and creasing. DJ not sitting square. ; 836 pages; Early Greek Myth is a much-needed handbook for scholars and others interested in the literary and artistic sources of archaic Greek myths -- and the only one of its kind available in English. Timothy Gantz traces the development of each myth in narrative form and summarizes the written and visual evidence in which the specific details of the story appear. .