Search Results: Authors starting with J from Ancient World Books

Oxford Clarendon Press. Very Good in Good+ dust jacket. 1961. Hardcover. 019814430X . Pencil notes to a few pages. Scholar's name to ffep (D. Gerber). Minor soiling. DJ has tears and chiping. DJ spine browned. ; Latin text with extensive commentary. ; 419 pages .

Société D'Édition `les Belles Lettres'. Very Good-. 1933. Softcover. Upper corners bumped. Former owner's name to ffep. Spine sunned. ; Parallel text in French and Latin. [193]-356 pp; Collection Des Universités De France. Association Guillaume Budé; Vol. 2.2; 163 pages .

Duckworth Publishers. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1996. Hardcover. 071562721X . Scholars' bookplate to inner cover. Very light bump to 1 corner. Else book is fine. DJ has light edgewear with mild creasing. ; 306 pages; Book XIV of Martial's epigrams, the "Apophoreta", comprising of poetic couplets, is a source of information about one of the principal Roman festivals and about many everyday objects of first-century Rome. This book examines literary, linguistic and textual matters, and the work's social context. .

Arno Press. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1979. Hardcover. Corners a bit bumped. Minor shelfwear. ; Reprint of V1: (1953) 116 pp & V2: (1953) 230 pp in 1 volume; 2 Volumes Bound in 1 Book; Vol. 1/2/2024; 346 pages .

A. W. Sijthoff. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1932. Hardcover. Both spine and part of boards are sunned and discolored. Pages tanned. Small number written to rear endpaper of V2 in blue pencil. Minor shelfwear. ; Vi, 98p; 217p. ; 2 Volume Set; Vol. 1/2/2024 .

A. W. Sijthoff. Very Good in Good+ dust jacket. 1966. Second Printing. Hardcover. Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). Foxing to DJ with a few small tears. ; Vi, 98p; 217p. .

Oxford At the Clarendon Press. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1924. Hardcover. Scholars' name to ffep (Mark Golden). Some chipping and tears to spine ends. A few pages carelessly opened. Some leaves unopened. Edgewear to spine ends. Endpapers browned. ; 220 pages .

Cambridge University Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1976. Hardcover. 0521208076 . Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). Light foxing to top of textblock. Sticker to ffep: "with the author's compliments". DJ spine sunned. DJ has a couple of small tears. ; Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries; 1.42 x 8.74 x 5.79 Inches; 417 pages; In this edition Professor Tarrant provides a much needed critical text. Seneca's tragedy Agamemnon is a brilliantly rhetorical piece, written for the study rather than the stage. In this edition Professor Tarrant provides a much needed critical text. In his introduction he discusses the sources, dating, structure and mode of production of Agamemnon and Senecan drama in general, and includes a detailed survey of the manuscript tradition. Seneca's tragedy Agamemnon is a brilliantly rhetorical piece, written for the study rather than the stage. In this edition Professor Tarrant provides a much needed critical… Read More

Cambridge University Press. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1976. Hardcover. 0521208076 . Former owner's name to ffep in pencil. DJ spine sunned. DJ has light edgewear with minor chipping. ; Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries 18; 1.42 x 8.74 x 5.79 Inches; 417 pages; In this edition Professor Tarrant provides a much needed critical text. Seneca's tragedy Agamemnon is a brilliantly rhetorical piece, written for the study rather than the stage. In this edition Professor Tarrant provides a much needed critical text. In his introduction he discusses the sources, dating, structure and mode of production of Agamemnon and Senecan drama in general, and includes a detailed survey of the manuscript tradition. Seneca's tragedy Agamemnon is a brilliantly rhetorical piece, written for the study rather than the stage. In this edition Professor Tarrant provides a much needed critical text. In his introduction he discusses the sources, dating, structure and mode of production of… Read More

Cambridge University Press. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1976. Hardcover. 0521208076 . Scholar's name to ffep (D. Gerber). DJ spine slightly sunned. ; Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries 18; 1.42 x 8.74 x 5.79 Inches; 417 pages; In this edition Professor Tarrant provides a much needed critical text. Seneca's tragedy Agamemnon is a brilliantly rhetorical piece, written for the study rather than the stage. In this edition Professor Tarrant provides a much needed critical text. In his introduction he discusses the sources, dating, structure and mode of production of Agamemnon and Senecan drama in general, and includes a detailed survey of the manuscript tradition. Seneca's tragedy Agamemnon is a brilliantly rhetorical piece, written for the study rather than the stage. In this edition Professor Tarrant provides a much needed critical text. In his introduction he discusses the sources, dating, structure and mode of production of Agamemnon and Senecan drama in… Read More

Oxford at the Clarendon Press. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1965. Hardcover. Light inking and pencilling to a few pages. Plasticized boards. Former owner's name in pen to ffep. Else VG. ; Extensive English Commentary and Introduction with Greek Text. ; 111 pages .

Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1968. Hardcover. Light bump to base of spine. ; 70 pages .

Adolf M. Hakkert. Fine. 2000. Softcover. 9025611389 . Does not present a detailed study of each of the Istrian fragments. The intentions is to present the reader with a taste of the nature and character of Istrus' work in the Library and the rationale behind it through a selection of fragments which is arguably the most representative of his occupation. ; 157 pages .

Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1992. Paperback. 0865162506 . Long inscription from translator to R. E. Fantham on half-title. ; The longing stretch toward the infinite . . . The reluctant embrace of the temporal. . . . This is the eternal lot of mankind. This is The Epic of Gilgamesh. Literature's first chronicle of search for meaning was born in the Cradle of Civilization over 4,000 years ago. Jackson's poetic rendition of humanity's first epic captures the passion and pathos of the search for the province and parameters of human existence, including an account of a great flood, paradise lost, man's relationship with gods and goddesses, and the inevitability of mortality. The universal themes explored in Gilgamesh continue to intrigue us in the 20th century. ; 96 pages; Signed by Translator .

Columbia University Press. Fair. 1932. Hardcover. The front cover is badly stained/water damaged. The front free endpaper is missing, and there is a bit of foxing to the front pastedown. Pages are clean of marks. ; Rare work on the ancient Gnostic religion, once a rival of Christianity. This book, besides including an introductory sketch of Manichaeism, contains also several critical translations from original Manichaean documents in Turfan Pahlavi or Middle Persian, which were discovered in central Asia during the first decade of the 20th century. ; Columbia University Indo-Iranian series; 393 pages .

Adolf M. Hakkert. Very Good+. 2004. Softcover. 9025611931 . Light creasing to front wrap. Minor shelfwear. ; This volume reprints seventeen articles by Steven Jackson which were previously published in assorted periodicals between 1987 and 2003. As the title suggests, the focus is mainly on Apollonius of Rhodes and his epic account of Jason in the Argonautica , but their are also more general studies of the epic genre, of linguistic matters, Callimachus and Theocritus. Numerous extracts can be found throughout, all of which are in Greek and not translated. ; 141 pages .

Cambridge At the University Press. Good with no dust jacket. 1906. Hardcover. Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (William Ridgeway). Additional name in ink to ffep (Woodside). Fraying to spine ends. 1 corner a bit edgeworn. Front inner hinge starting to crack. Ridgeway [? ] has edited his contribution "Supplices of Aeschylus" with ink markings and notes. He has also affixed typed corrections to a few pages. ; Henry Jackson: Plato, Cratylus. J. Adam: The divine origen of the soul (Pindar) D. Verrall: The vote of Athena (Aeschylus, Eumenides. W. Headlam: The second Chorus of the Agamemnon. W. Ridgeway: The Supplices of Aeschylus. ; 164 pages; Signed by Contributor .

Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1992. Paperback. 0865162506 . Scholar's name to half-title (Robert Brown). Else fine. ; The longing stretch toward the infinite . . . The reluctant embrace of the temporal. . . . This is the eternal lot of mankind. This is The Epic of Gilgamesh. Literature's first chronicle of search for meaning was born in the Cradle of Civilization over 4,000 years ago. Jackson's poetic rendition of humanity's first epic captures the passion and pathos of the search for the province and parameters of human existence, including an account of a great flood, paradise lost, man's relationship with gods and goddesses, and the inevitability of mortality. The universal themes explored in Gilgamesh continue to intrigue us in the 20th century. ; 96 pages .

British Museum Press. Very Good in Near Fine dust jacket. 1990. Hardcover. 0714113956 . Light foxing to textblock. Dustjacket is protected in mylar. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 96 pages .

MacMillan and Co.. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1901. Hardcover. Spine ends a bit frayed. Light edgewear to corners. Minor shelfwear. Pages a bit tanned. Small scratch to front board. ; Selection of Texts in Greek from the Ionians to Aristotle; 111 pages .