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Hardcover. Aims to encourage a deeper appreciation of ancient Greek poetry and prose by showing where a nod of the head or a wave of the hand can complete meaning in epic poetry and in tragedy, comedy, oratory, and in works of history and philosophy. This book helps to explain some persistently confusing syntaxes and to make translations more accurate. Num Pages: 176 pages, 30 black and white illus. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 2AHA; DSBB; HBJD; HBLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 194
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691002637
- ISBN
- 9780691002637
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 104.43€ 79.12
€ 104.43
€ 79.12
Paperback. This volume presents the history of Pompeii. It explores Pompeii's public buildings, its streets and gathering places, the impact of religious changes, the renovation of theatres and expansion of athletic facilities and the influence of elite families on the city's appearance. Translator(s): Schneider, Deborah Lucas. Series: Revealing Antiquity. Num Pages: 286 pages, 113 line illustrations, 15 color illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; HBJD; HBLA; HDDK; JFSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 221 x 150 x 15. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Number of pages
- 286
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674689671
- ISBN
- 9780674689671
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 37.79
€ 45.99
€ 37.79
Hardcover. Heroic figures such as Heracles, Perseus, and Jason were seen by the Greeks not as mythical figures but as real people from a bygone age. The people who shared this ancestry used it for many alliances of trade and war. This is a study of the political uses of perceived kinship. Series: Revealing Antiquity. Num Pages: 193 pages, 5 halftones. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; HBG; HBLA; JHBK; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 222 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 335.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 193
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674505278
- ISBN
- 9780674505278
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 80.63€ 72.48
€ 80.63
€ 72.48
Paperback. Between Thucydides and Polybius focuses on the contribution of fourth-century authors such as Ephorus, Theopompus, and Xenophon to the development of Greek historiography. Essays examine the interface between historiography and rhetoric, while undermining the claim that historians after Thucydides allowed rhetoric to prevail over research. Series: Hellenic Studies Series. Num Pages: 300 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; HBAH; HBLA1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 231 x 166 x 19. Weight in Grams: 558.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Center for Hellenic Studies
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674428348
- ISBN
- 9780674428348
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 24.53
€ 27.99
€ 24.53
Paperback. This fifth and final volume of an award-winning series charts the changing inner history of our times from the tumult of World War I to the 1990s, when personal identity was released from its moorings in gender, family, social class, religion, politics and nationality. Editor(s): Aries, Philippe; Duby, Georges. Translator(s): Goldhammer, Arthur. Series: History of private life. Num Pages: 640 pages, 16 colour illustrations, 230 halftones, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1Q; 3JJF; 3JJG; 3JJH; 3JJP; HBG; HBTB; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 178 x 228 x 35. Weight in Grams: 1220.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 640
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674400047
- ISBN
- 9780674400047
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 54.53€ 50.03
€ 54.53
€ 50.03
Hardcover. Translator(s): McLintock, David. Num Pages: 305 pages, index. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; HBJD; HBLA; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 245 x 166 x 28. Weight in Grams: 644.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674362321
- ISBN
- 9780674362321
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 99.62€ 89.48
€ 99.62
€ 89.48
Hardback. Series: Archaeological Exploration of Sardis Monographs. Num Pages: 217 pages, 66 b/w plates. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; AFPC; HDA; HDDK; HDW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 280 x 216 x 22. Weight in Grams: 1189.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Archeological Exploration of Sardis
- Number of pages
- 217
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674171602
- ISBN
- 9780674171602
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 104.37€ 93.20
€ 104.37
€ 93.20
Paperback. Gregory Nagy analyzes metonymy as a mental process that complements metaphor. If metaphor is a substitution of something unfamilar for something familiar, metonymy connects something familiar with something else already familiar. Nagy offers close readings of over one hundred examples of metonymy in the arts of Greek and other cultures. Series: Hellenic Studies Series. Num Pages: 375 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; DSA; DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies United States
- Number of pages
- 375
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674088320
- ISBN
- 9780674088320
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 28.71
€ 33.99
€ 28.71
Hardback. Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Volume 106 includes "A Picnic, a Tomb, and a Crow: Hesiod's Cult in the Works and Days"; "Sapphica"; "A New Manuscript of Classical Authors in Spain"; "The Dates of the Dramatists of the Fabula Togata"; "The Coroebus Episode in Virgil's Aeneid"; "Herod's Last Days"; and other essays. Editor(s): Coleman, Kathleen M. Series: Harvard Studies in Classical Philology. Num Pages: 374 pages, 8 halftones, 2 line illustrations, 3 tables. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 1QDAR; DSBB; HBLA1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 151 x 32. Weight in Grams: 528.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Harvard Department of the Classics
- Number of pages
- 374
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674072015
- ISBN
- 9780674072015
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 45.96
€ 54.99
€ 45.96
Hardback. In 1482 Francesco Berlinghieri produced the Geographia, a book of over 100 folio leaves describing the world in Italian verse interleaved with lavishly engraved maps. Roberts demonstrates that the Geographia represents the moment of transition between printing and manuscript culture, while forming a critical base for the rise of modern cartography. Series: I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History. Num Pages: 336 pages, 25 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DST; 1QDT; 1QRM; 3JB; HBJD; HBJF; HBLH; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 165 x 25. Weight in Grams: 648.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674066489
- ISBN
- 9780674066489
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.02€ 58.39
€ 64.02
€ 58.39
Paperback. This is the first complete translation, with detailed commentary, of the surviving volumes of Beyhaqi's massive project. The historian's writings, dealing with the years 1030--1041, combine astute criticism and wry humor with an unobtrusive display of mastery of the learned literature of the time, both in Arabic and Persian. Series: Ilex Series. Num Pages: 478 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FB; 1QFM; 3H; HBJF1; HBLC1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 157 x 28. Weight in Grams: 764.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies United States
- Number of pages
- 478
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674062399
- ISBN
- 9780674062399
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 28.71
€ 33.99
€ 28.71
Paperback. This is the first complete translation, with detailed commentary, of the surviving volumes of Beyhaqi's massive project. The historian's writings, dealing with the years 1030--1041, combine astute criticism and wry humor with an unobtrusive display of mastery of the learned literature of the time, both in Arabic and Persian. Series: Ilex Series. Num Pages: 546 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FB; 1QFM; 3H; HBJF1; HBLC1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 164 x 33. Weight in Grams: 748.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies United States
- Number of pages
- 546
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674062344
- ISBN
- 9780674062344
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 28.71
€ 33.99
€ 28.71
Paperback. This book--the first full-length study of Theodoret's Therapeutic for Hellenic Maladies--examines Theodoret's arguments against Greek religion, philosophy, and culture. Its analysis of the interaction between Hellenism and early Christian culture offers insights into the broader late Roman and early Byzantine world in the fifth century. Series: Hellenic Studies Series. Num Pages: 200 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; HRAB; HRC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 154 x 12. Weight in Grams: 320.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674060678
- ISBN
- 9780674060678
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 20.52
€ 23.99
€ 20.52
Hardback. This richly illustrated volume examines monuments of Sardis and environs in the context of contemporary developments in Lydia and throughout the ancient Mediterranean and Near East. It illuminates traditions of Anatolian kingship, technological exchange between Lydia and Greece and the Near East, and the origins of Persian imperial architecture. Series: Archaeological Exploration of Sardis Reports. Num Pages: 320 pages, 170 black-and-white photographs, 116 line illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; HBLA1; HDD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 306 x 232 x 22. Weight in Grams: 1534.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Archeological Exploration of Sardis United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674060609
- ISBN
- 9780674060609
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 84.19€ 75.82
€ 84.19
€ 75.82
Paperback. Explores the place of the sophists within the Greek wisdom tradition, and argues against their almost universal exclusion from serious intellectual traditions. This book offers a revised history of the development of Greek philosophy, as well as of the potential - yet never realized - courses it might have followed. Series: Hellenic Studies. Num Pages: 186 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; HPCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 10. Weight in Grams: 254.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies United States
- Number of pages
- 186
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674055919
- ISBN
- 9780674055919
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 24.61
€ 27.99
€ 24.61
Hardback. Wishing to ingratiate himself with Rome, Herod the Great built theaters, amphitheaters, and hippodromes to bring pagan entertainments of all sorts to Palestine. Zeev Weiss explores how the indigenous Jewish and Christian populations responded, as both spectators and performers, to these cultural imports, which left a lasting imprint on the region. Series: Revealing Antiquity. Num Pages: 346 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAL; 1QDAR; HBJD; HBJF1; HBLA1; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 242 x 156 x 31. Weight in Grams: 672.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674048317
- ISBN
- 9780674048317
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 61.65€ 56.54
€ 61.65
€ 56.54
Paperback. Offers a different perspective, suggesting that the crisis that finally brought down Sparta was in important ways a result of centrifugal impulses within the Peloponnesian League, accompanied by a general awakening of ethnicity in various areas of the Peloponnese. Editor(s): Funke, Peter; Luraghi, Nino. Series: Hellenic Studies. Num Pages: 375 pages, Illustrations, map. BIC Classification: 1QDA; HBLA1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies United States
- Number of pages
- 375
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674031999
- ISBN
- 9780674031999
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 28.62
€ 33.99
€ 28.62
Paperback. Hephaistos created an ornately decorated shield for Achilles. At the Shield's centre lay two walled cities, one at war and one at peace, surrounded by fields and pasturelands. Viewed as Homer's blueprint for an ideal, or utopian, social order, the Shield reveals that restraining and taming Nature would be fundamental to the Hellenic urban quest. Series: Hellenic Studies Series. Num Pages: 220 pages, 6 line drawings, 12 halftones. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 1QDAR; HBJD; HBLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 332.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674023741
- ISBN
- 9780674023741
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 19.44
€ 20.99
€ 19.44
Paperback. Traversing a range of discourse and imagery about kitharoidia - poetic and prose texts, iconography, inscriptions - this book offers an account of the aesthetic and socio-cultural complexities of citharodic song and examines the iconic role of the song makers in the popular imagination. Series: Hellenic Studies Series. Num Pages: 230 pages, 5 halftones, 5 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; AS; HBJD; HBLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 41. Weight in Grams: 1084.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies United States
- Number of pages
- 230
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674021389
- ISBN
- 9780674021389
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 19.44
€ 20.99
€ 19.44
Paperback. Explores the context of theological speculations and political aspirations through the medium of dreams to present insights into the social history of the pre-modern Islamic world in its cultural diversity. Editor(s): Marlow, Louise. Series: Hellenic Studies. Num Pages: 160 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QFM; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 463.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Center for Hellenic Studies
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674021228
- ISBN
- 9780674021228
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.41
€ 19.99
€ 18.41