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Aristotle's Art of Poetry: A Greek View of Poetry and Drama.

By: Aristotle.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: London, Oxford, at the Clarendon Press: 1963

Seller ID: 27834

Introduction and Explanations by W. Hamilton Fyfe. Small octavo. 82pp. Original blue cloth (spine and adjacent strip slightly faded, light flecking on edges). Owner's name on front free endpaper. Very good.
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Bellum Actiacum e Papyro Herculanensi 817.

By: C. Rabirius: edidit Ioannes Garuti.

Price: $85.00

Publisher: Bologna, Nicola Zanichelli: 1958

Seller ID: 28098

(Studi Pubblicati dall'Istituto di Filologia Classica, V.) xxxviii, 104pp. Soft covers. Pages and wrappers a little browned, small tape repair to head of spine, small bump to fore-edge of front cover and first few leaves. A good clean copy. *** Transcriptions of papyrus fragments (recovered from Herculaneum) followed by critical notes, with bibliographical references and indexes.
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Myth and Symbol in Ancient Egypt.

By: CLARK, R.T. Rundle.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: London, Thames & Hudson: 1959

Seller ID: 34679

(Myth and Man.) 8vo. 292pp, 18 plates in photogravure, 40 line drawings, chart of religious symbols, map. Owner's inscription on front endpaper obscured with pen, otherwise a good clean copy.
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The Structure of Horace's Odes.

By: COLLINGE, N.E.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Oxford University Press: 1961

Seller ID: 28048

Small octavo. xii, 158pp. Original green cloth (spine slightly faded). Owner's name on front free endpaper. Very good.
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The Beginnings of Rome : Italy and Rome from the Bronze Age to the Punic Wars (c1000-264 BC).

By: CORNELL, T.J.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: London, Routledge: 2006

Seller ID: 33060

(Routledge History of the Ancient World.) Reprint. xx, 508pp, illustrations, maps. Soft covers. a slight bump to the top corner of the back cover and adjacent pages, otherwise a very good clean copy. ISBN 0415015960
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Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius.

By: DILL, Samuel.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: London, Macmillan & Co: 1911

Seller ID: 28069

Octavo. xxiv, 640pp; with index. Original blue cloth, blind rules, spine lettered in gilt. Fore-edges uncut, top edges a little spotted. A very good clean copy.
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Ancient Greece : social and historical documents from archaic times to the death of Socrates (800-399 BC).

By: DILLON, Matthew & Lynda Garland.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: London, Routledge: 1994

Seller ID: 33055

472pp, 4 maps. Soft covers, slight reading crease to spine, top front corner slightly bumped. A very good clean copy. ISBN 0415113679
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Approaches to Greek Myth.

By: EDMUNDS, Lowell (ed)

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Baltimore and London, Johns Hopkins University Press: 1990

Seller ID: 33080

Edited and introduced by Lowell Edmunds. 448pp. Soft covers. A very good clean copy. ISBN 0801838649
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Tutankhamen : life and death of a boy king.

By: EL MAHDY, Christine

Price: $15.00

Publisher: London, Headline: 1999

Seller ID: 33826

342pp, illustrated in colour. Cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper. A fine clean copy. ISBN 0747221871
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The New Fragments of Juvenal.

By: ELLIS, Robinson.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Oxford, Henry Frowde: 1901

Seller ID: 28162

A Lecture delivered at Corpus Christi College on Tuesdat, February 5, 1901. 20pp. Sewn in wrappers, as issued. Some fading of the covers. A few small numbers pencilled in margins. Owner's name. Very good. ***Concerning Mr Winstedt's discovery of 36 new lines in the sixth Satire of Juvenal.
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Food and Society in Classical Antiquity.

By: GARNSEY, Peter.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, Cambridge University Press: 1999

Seller ID: 26553

(Key Themes in Ancient History). xiv, 175pp. Index. Soft covers. Owner's name on first page. Very good.
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Sikyon.

By: GRIFFIN, Audrey.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Oxford, Clarendon Press: 1982

Seller ID: 33034

Oxford Classical and Philosophical Monographs series. [x], 171pp, 2 maps, 17 black & white photographs at rear. Cloth with dustwrapper (price clipped, spine faded). Owner's name on front free endpaper. Very good. ISBN 019814718X
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Who's Who in the Greek World / Who's Who in the Roman World / Who's Who in Classical Mythology. [Who's Who in the Classical World]

By: HAZEL, John; and Michael Grant (co-author of Mythology vol).

Price: $75.00

Publisher: London, Routledge: 2005

Seller ID: 36100

Three volumes. Reprints. Greek: 300pp, maps. Roman: 372pp, maps. Classical Mythology: 374pp, maps. Cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrappers, in a papered slipcase. A fine clean set. ISBN 0415124972
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The Conquests of Alexander the Great.

By: HECKEL. Waldmar.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Cambridge, Cambridge University Press: 2008

Seller ID: 33026

218pp, maps and battle-plans. Cloth with dustwrapper. A fine clean copy. ISBN 0521842476 ***An engaging and balanced account of the key military events.
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Quinti Horatii Flacci : Opera.

By: Horace: cura H.H. Milman.

Price: $85.00

Publisher: Londoni, Apud Joannem Murray: 1853

Seller ID: 27771

8vo; [vi], 490, xiv (list of illus) pp; many b&w text illustrations, red and black page borders. The drawings from the antique by George Scharf, jun. The ornaments by Owen Jones, architect. Vellum-covered boards, ruled in red, with overlapping edges; a little age-discoloured, head and tail of spine a bit rubbed. Owner's name. Very good. ***Carminium, Carmen Seculare, Epodon Liber, Satirarum, Epistolarum, De Arte Poetica. Text in Latin.
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The Greek World 479-323BC.

By: HORNBLOWER, Simon.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Abingdon, UK, Routledge: 2006

Seller ID: 33054

(Routledge History of the Ancient World.) Third edition. Reprint. 396pp, illustrations, maps. Soft covers. A fine clean copy. ISBN 0415153441
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Hrotsvithae Opera.

By: Hrotsvit: edidit Karolus Strecker.

Price: $65.00

Publisher: Lipsiae, B.G. Teubner: 1906

Seller ID: 26509

Small 8vo. viii, 272pp. Later binder's cloth. Edges yellowed with small round mark, otherwise a good to very good clean copy. Owner's name. ***Hrotsvitha, also known as Hroswitha, Hrotsvit, Hrosvit, and Roswitha (c. 935 to c. 1002) was a 10th century German canoness of the Benedictine Order, as well as a dramatist and poet who lived and worked in Gandersheim, in modern-day Lower Saxony. Her name is Saxon for 'strong voice'. She wrote in Latin, and is considered by some to be the first person since antiquity to compose drama in the West. [Notes courtesy of Wikipedia]
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Oscan and Umbrian Inscriptions, with a Latin translation.

By: Janssen, H.H. (selected by).

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Leiden, E.J. Brill: 1949

Seller ID: 28100

(Textus Minores, Vol XI.) 52pp. Original titled wrappers. Owner's name at head of front cover. Very good. ***Preface and explanatory notes in English.
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Saturae [Satires].

By: Juvenal: D. Iunius Juvenalis. Ulrich Knoche (ed).

Price: $15.00

Publisher: München, Max Hueber: 1950

Seller ID: 27772

(Das Wort der Antike, Band II.) Mit kritischem apparat, herausgegeben von Ulrich Knoche. 161pp. Cloth-backed papered boards (some very slight fading). Very good. ***Text in Latin, notes in German.
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Peter the Venerable: Selected Letters.

By: MARTIN, Janet (editor).

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Toronto, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies: 1974

Seller ID: 26519

In collaboration with Giles Constable. 107pp. Soft covers (spine slightly faded). Owner's name on front free endpaper, back lower bottom edge bumped, a few pencilled annotations, otherwise very good. ***Text entirely in Latin***
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Catullus.

By: Merrill, Elmer Truesdell (ed).

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Cambridge (Mass), Harvard University Press: [1951]

Seller ID: 26587

Small 8vo. 273pp. Original cloth. Good to very good. ***Text in Latin, notes and commentary in English.
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Germanicus : the magnificant life and mysterious death of Rome's most popular general.

By: POWELL, Lindsay.

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Barnsley, South Yorkshire., Pen & Sword Military: 2013

Seller ID: 35410

8vo. 338pp, illustrated in colour and b&w. Cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper. A fine clean copy. ISBN 1781591202
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Who's Who in the Middle Ages.

By: RADICE, Betty.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: London, Anthony Blond: 1970

Seller ID: 32603

8vo. xxii, 218pp. Cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper. A very good clean copy. Owner's name. ***And some from Late Antiquity.
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Rutilii Claudii Namatiani De Reditu Suo. Libri Duo. The Home-Coming of Rutilius Claudius Namatianus from Rome to Gaul in the Year 416 A.D.

By: Rutilus Claudius Namatianus: edited by Charles Haines Keene & trans by George F. Savage-Armstrong.

Price: $45.00

Publisher: London, George Bell & Sons: 1907

Seller ID: 28124

Edited, with Introduction and notes, critical and explanatory, by Charles Haines Keene. Translated into English verse by George F. Savage-Armstrong. 236pp, one page advertisement, black & white frontispiece photograph with tissue guard (the guard yellowed, with resulting offsetting on title page), 3 further full-page black & white plates. Parallel Latin and English text for 'The Homecoming'. Original cloth (top board slightly bowed, spine faded, some rubbing on extremities, bump and associated crease at top front corner). Edges discoloured. Offsetting on half-title and title pages, and on vers...
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Roman Coins and their values.

By: SEAR, David.

Price: $22.00

Publisher: London, Seaby: 1970

Seller ID: 29043

Revised edition. 376pp, black & white frontispiece photograph, line illustrations in text, 12pp black & white photographs at rear. Original cloth (slight bump at head of spine) with dustwrapper (a couple of tiny chips from extremities). Edges faintly yellowed, interior clean and fresh. Very good.
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Sénèque Tragédies. [Tome I] Hercule Furieux, Les Troyennes, Les Phéniciennes, Médée, Phèdre. [Tome II] Oedipe, Agamemnon, Thyeste, Hercule Sur L'Oeta. Pseudo-Sénèque: Octavie.

By: Seneca: texte établi et traduit par Léon Hermann.

Price: $55.00

Publisher: Paris, Les Belles Lettres: 1924

Seller ID: 28130

(Collection des Universités de France, publiée sous le patronage de l'Association Guillaume Rudé). Small octavo. xvi, 226 & 254pp. Original green cloth (spine slightly faded with minor rubbing at head and tail). Sporadic pencil notations that do not obscure text, tanned margins, owner's name. Good to very good. ***Parallel French - Latin text.
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Studia Enniana.

By: SKUTSCH, Otto.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: London, Athlone Press: 1968

Seller ID: 26563

204pp. Original cloth. Very good. Owner's name.
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A Smaller Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities.

By: SMITH, William.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: London, John Murray: 1885

Seller ID: 36501

Abridged from a larger dictionary. 13th edition. Illustrated with two hundred woodcuts. 474pp; tables of Greek and Roman weights, measures and money; Greek, Roman and English indexes; 16pp publisher's adverts. Original black cloth, decorated in gilt on the spine and blind on the boards; all edges red. There is evidence of a spill of liquid leaving a slight mark on the upper board, and tide marks at the head of the endpapers, but none of this affects the text pages. Slight splitting of the endpapers at front gutter but the hinge still solid. Otherwise a good+ clean copy.
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Sophocles' Dramas.

By: Sophocles : translated by Sir George Young.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: London, Dent: 1963

Seller ID: 34997

(Everyman's Library, no 114.) Reprint. Small 8vo.xiv, 402pp; notes and introduction. Cloth with dustwrapper. A very good clean copy.
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Achilleid.

By: Statius: edited by O.A.W. Dilke.

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Cambridge, Cambridge University Press: 1954

Seller ID: 26310

Edited with Introduction, apparatus criticus and notes by O.A.W. Dilke. 162pp. Original green cloth, spine and head of boards a little faded. Edges a little spotted. Owner's name. Good to very good.
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Ammianus and the Historia Augusta.

By: SYME, Sir Ronald.

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Oxford, Oxford University Press: 1968

Seller ID: 26312

238pp. Original cloth. Top edges a bit spotted. Owner's name. Very good.
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Eclogues - Georgics - Aeneid 1-6.

By: VIRGIL : translated by H.R. Fairclough, revised by G.P. Goold.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Cambridge (Mass), Harvard University Press: 2004

Seller ID: 35824

(Loeb Classical Library, no 63; Virgil I.) 598pp. Cloth with dustwrapper. A very good clean copy. ISBN 067499583X ***Parallel texts in Latin and English.
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The Eclogues of Virgil.

By: VIRGIL : translated by James Michie.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: London, Folio Society: 2000

Seller ID: 29200

Introduction by Gilbert Highet. Decorations by Richard Shirley Smith. 8vo. 62pp, illustrated. Quarter cloth and pictorial papered boards, with the slipcase. Fine.
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The Greek Sense of Theatre : tragedy reviewed.

By: WALTON, J. Michael.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: London, Methuen: 1984

Seller ID: 33084

78pp. Soft covers. A very good clean copy. ISBN 0416367208
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Liber super explanationem Lamentationum Ieremiae prophetae.

By: Willelmus Meldunensis Monachus : edited by M. Winterbottom, R. M. Thomson & S. Sønnesyn.

Price: $195.00

Publisher: Turnhout, Belgium, Brepols: 2011

Seller ID: 35712

(Corpus Christianorum Continuatio Mediaevalis 244). Large 8vo. lii, 388pp, 2 b&w illustrations. Red cloth. A fine clean copy, still in its shrink-wrap. ISBN 2503540872 ***William of Malmesbury's Commentary on Lamentations is one of the rare works of biblical commentary produced by an English Benedictine in the twelfth century. Surviving complete in a single manuscript, and in burnt fragments of another, it is here edited for the first time. Although the work is explicitly based upon the ninth-century commentary by Paschasius, it is enriched by William's own wide and deep reading of the Bible,...
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Quality and Pleasure in Latin Poetry.

By: WOODMAN, Tony and David West (editors).

Price: $22.00

Publisher: London, Cambridge University Press: 1974

Seller ID: 27433

Octavo. viii, 166pp. Notes. Bibliography. Select Indexes. Original cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper. Minor bump top right corner, owner's name on front free endpaper, otherwise very good. ISBN 0521205328
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Category: Classical literature and ancient history