Authors starting with M from Ancient World Books

Harvard University Press. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1951. Hardcover. Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers and pocket. Call numbers on spine have been covered in black tape. Minor shelfwear. ; 2 Volume Set . ... more information

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Oxford Clarendon Press. Very Good+ in Fair dust jacket. 1963. Hardcover. Classics scholar's name on ffep (David M. Bain). A couple of pages have pencil marginalia. Light bumping to corners. Dustjacket is completely split along spine and worn with chipping. ; Classic work on the principles of textual criticism written with the literatures of ancient Greece and Rome mainly in mind but equally applicable to other literatures, especially Shakespeare. ; 59 pages . ... more information

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Oxford Clarendon Press. Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1962. Hardcover. Dustjacket has small tear at heel of spine, light soiling and rubbing. DJ is price-clipped. ; 116 pages . ... more information

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Oxford Clarendon Press. Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1962. Hardcover. Dustjacket has light soiling and rubbing-very light chipping to extremites. ; 116 pages . ... more information

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Yale University Press. Near Fine. 1997. Softcover. 0300068514 . Minor shelfwear. ; The great Villa constructed by the Emperor Hadrian near Tivoli between A. D. 118 and the 130s is one of the most original monuments in the history of architecture and art. In this beautiful book, two distinguished architectural historians describe and interpret the Villa as it existed in Roman times and track its extraordinary effect on architects and artists up to the present day. ; 404 pages . ... more information

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Cornell University Press. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1978. Hardcover. 080141198X . Former institution bookplate. Shelfwear. DJ has browning and light soiling. The spine of the Dustjacket has a section removed (4cm x 3 cm). ; Society, rather than jurisprudence, is the subject of this outstanding book in the field of legal history. Athenian law was less concerned with theoretical principles than with the practical rules of conduct. ; Aspects of Greek and Roman life; 280 pages . ... more information

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London: Nissen & Parker. Very Good+. ca.1860s. Hardcover. Brown cloth with leather label. Small ink annotationon page 25. Very minor foxing. Handsome volume. ; English translations of the Greek anthology. ; 740 pages . ... more information

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Harvard University Press. Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. 0674050851 . A Few scratches to front panel of DJ. ; Contends that the Athenian aristocratic clansmen were able to transform their religious prominence into political influence. He shows that the chiefs of state, generals, mint-magistrates, and other officials were drawn from the aristocracy generations after Kleisthenes was believed to have broken its power forever. ; Martin Classical Lectures; 126 pages . ... more information

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St. Martin's Press. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1972. Hardcover. DJ is price-clipped. Dustjacket has minor shelfwear and rubbing. DJ has light edgewear. Book has very minor shelfwear. ; pieces together a political, social and religious history of France in Roman times. Also demonstrates the influence of Roman culture on France centuries after the fall of the Empire, and assesses the relationship of Roman Gaul to the beauty of present-day Paris. ; 275 pages . ... more information

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Frederick A. Praeger. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1968. Hardcover. Laminate slightly lifting along DJ spine. Dustjacket has minor shelfwear with a couple of small tears and edgewear to corners as well as light rubbing. DJ is price-clipped. ; 67 Photographs, 22 Line Drawings, 1 map. Discusses the city of Constantinople from the first colonization of the site by the Greeks to about the year 1700, when it was the center of the Ottoman Empire with special emphasis between AD 330 and 1453.; Ancient ... more information

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Cambridge University Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2005. Hardcover. 0521819458 . Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series; 288 pages; Analyzing the collapse of the pan-European Carolingian Empire in 888 (as seen through the reign of its last ruler, Charles the Fat), this study argues against the generally pessimistic views of the vitality of late ninth-century politics. Its conclusions suggest a new way of looking at the political history of the period, and offer new interpretat... more information

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Yale University Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1976. Hardcover. 0300020082 . Minor bumping to corners. Light discoloration to DJ spine. Dustjacket has minor shelfwear and rubbing. One small chip to corner of DJ. ; Former copy of J. F. Drinkwater. ; 352 pages; In the years A. D. 235-337, the government of the Roman empire met the most prolonged crisis of its history and survived. This book is concerned with the grave administrative problems these spectacular events caused and the measures t... more information

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Harvard University Press. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1967. Hardcover. Former owner's name on ffep. Minor bump to head of spine. Spine slightly faded. ; 217 pages . ... more information

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Princeton University Press. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1990. Hardcover. 0691036012 . Dustjacket has minor shelfwear. ; 1.25 x 9.75 x 6.75 Inches; 416 pages; Written by one of the foremost historians of the Roman Empire, this collection of both new and previously published essays forms a colorful picture of daily life in the Mediterranean world between A.D. 50 and 450. Here, for example, the author applies statistical analysis to broad groups of people on matters ranging from justice through medicin... more information

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Princeton University Press. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1990. Hardcover. 0691036012 . Dustjacket and book have minor shelfwear and rubbing. ; 1.25 x 9.75 x 6.75 Inches; 416 pages; Written by one of the foremost historians of the Roman Empire, this collection of both new and previously published essays forms a colorful picture of daily life in the Mediterranean world between A.D. 50 and 450. Here, for example, the author applies statistical analysis to broad groups of people on matters ranging... more information

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Harvard University Press. Good with no dust jacket. 1966. Hardcover. 0674254007 . Pen underlining in text. A few pages have a couple of words in ink. Minor bumping to top corners. ; 384 pages; In order to achieve its various successes, the Roman Empire required a consensus from its subjects regarding social norms, ethics and even aesthetics. At the same time, there were any number of people whose acts and attitudes were rejections of the norm. This comprehensive treatment of patterns of deviation exam... more information

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Harvard University Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1963. Hardcover. 0674816900 . Dustjacket has very minor shelfwear. Minor edgewear to boards. ; Harvard Historical Monographs; 0.75 x 8 x 5.75 Inches; 224 pages; Considering the interaction of the military and civilian, the author explains more persuasively than can a purely military chronicle of victories and defeats the reasons for the decline of the Roman Empire. . ... more information

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Thames and Hudson. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1964. Hardcover. Dustjacket has chipping and tears to extremities. DJ is price-clipped. DJ is now protected in plastic. Edgewear to upper back corner. Book has minor shelfwear and rubbing. Ffep is torn along inner upper hinge (1 inch). ; 160 pages in photogravure, 12 hand mounted colour plates, 29 maps and plans of the sites. Beny travelled around the world to explore and photograph sites in Mesopotamia, Iran, India, Cambodia, the China Coast, Cen... more information

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Peter Davies. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1934. Hardcover. Browning to spine. A couple of corners are bumped. Boards have minor soiling. ; Looks at the expeditions of Darius and Xerxes and the battles of Marathon and Salamis. ; 169 pages . ... more information

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Hodder and Stoughton. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1937. Hardcover. 2 White paint marks on back cover else Near Fine. ; Pericles (also spelled Perikles) (ca. 495–429 BC) was a prominent and influential statesman, orator, and general of Athens during the city's Golden Age–specifically, the time between the Persian and Peloponnesian wars. He was descended, through his mother, from the powerful and historically influential Alcmaeonid family. Pericles had such a profound influence on Atheni... more information

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