The Trial of Socrates (book club)
Little Brown & Co., January 1988. Hardcover. Creasing, shelf wear to jacket. Jacket is torn across the front and taped. More
Classical Studies
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Tacitus : The Annals of Imperial Rome
Penguin USA, June 1956. Mass Market PaperBack. His last work, regarded by many as the greatest work of contemporary scholarship, Tacitus' The Annals of Imperial Rome recount with depth and insight the history of the Roman Empire during the first century A.D. This Penguin Classics edition is translated with an..... More
The History of the Peloponnesian War: Revised Edition (Penguin Classics)
Penguin Classics, September 1954. Mass Market PaperBack. The Peloponnesian War (431-404 B.C.E.) was the greatest "disturbance" in Greek history to that time. The bitter rivalry between the two chief city-states, Athens and Sparta, and their respective allies ended with the ruin of Athens' naval hegemony and what the Greek historian..... More
Herodotus The Histories
Penguin Classics, 1976. Mass Market PaperBack. More
Histories
Penguin Group USA Inc, February 1964. Mass Market PaperBack. In AD 68, Nero's suicide marked the end of the first dynasty of imperial Rome. The following year was one of drama and danger, with four emperors--Galba, Otho, Vitellius, and Vespasian--emerging in succession. Based on authoritative sources, The Histories vividly recounts..... More
Life and Leisure in Ancient Rome
Sterling Pub Co Inc, April 2002. Trade Paperback. How did average Romans live out each year, conduct their family life, rear and educate their children? What about slaves in the household? How did people enjoy themselves--did they travel or go to the theater? And, how were those famed gladiators trained..... More
The Trial of Socrates (book club)
Little Brown & Co., January 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. First in dust jacket. NOT price clipped. Original price of $18.95 on flap. Quarter bound: grey cloth spine with gold lettering & light grey paper covered boards with blind stamped Little Brown colophon center of board. Marginal darkening to edges of..... More
Chronicle of the Roman Emperors : The Reign-By-Reign Record of the Rulers of Imperial Rome
W W Norton & Co Inc, October 1995. Cloth. These portraits of the emperors form the building blocks of an invaluable and highly readable popular history of Imperial Rome, brought to life using the colorful testimony of contemporary authors. Very light shelf wear on the jacket. More
Herodotus : The Histories : New Translation, Selections, Backgrounds, Commentaries
W W Norton & Co Inc, January 1992. Trade Paperback. The selections from The Histories show Herodotus as ethnographer and as narrative historian, including his rich descriptions of Egyptian civilization and its contributions to Greek culture and his dramatic account of the Persian wars"Backgrounds and Commentaries" provide students with a...... More
The Civil War: Together With the Alexandrian War, the African War, and the Spanish War by Other Hands
Hippocrene Books, January 1986. Hardcover. More
Herodotus: The Histories (Penguin Classics)
Penguin Classics, September 1996. Trade Paperback. During the fifth century BC, a small and quarrelsome band of Greek city-states united to repel a mighty Persian army. While the story of this heroic drama forms the main theme of Herodotus' narrative, the author's curiosity fleshes out the text with digressions, folk..... More
The Greek Myths: Volume 2 (Pelican)
Penguin (Non-Classics), May 1955. Mass Market PaperBack. More
Modern Viola Technique
The University of Chicago Press, January 1939. Cloth. Folio. No jacket. Clean interior. More
Sallust. With Improvements and Notes.
J & J Harper, January 1831. Hardcover. No jacket. Cloth cover is cracked along edges of spine, and shows foxing and soil otherwise. Book's pages are foxed throughout, and pages are loose from front endpapers up to page 10. More
The Satyricon; The Apocolocyntosis of the Divine Claudius (Penguin Classics)
Penguin Classics, December 1986. Trade Paperback. Perhaps the strangest--and most strikingly modern--work to survive from the ancient world, The Satyricon relates the hilarious mock epic adventures of the impotent Encolpius, and his struggle to regain virility. Here Petronius brilliantly brings to life the courtesans, legacy-hunters, pompous professors and dissolute priestesses..... More
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