Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989. Soft Cover. 8vo. Soft cover. viii, 827 pp. Slight cockling to lamination at spine head, else fine and clean. Prose fiction, although not always associated with classical antiquity, did in fact flourish in the early Roman Empire, not only in realistic Latin novels but..... More
Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993. Soft Cover. 8vo. Soft cover. xviii, 233 pp. Curling to front cover, else fine. Charles Segal surveys the literary treatment of the Orpheus myth as the myth of the essence of poetry - the ability to encounter the fullest possible intensity of beauty..... More
Dallas, Texas: Spring Publications, 1994. Soft Cover. 8vo. Fourth printing. Soft cover. 172 pp. Light offset panel and bubbling of lamination to head of rear cover, sporadic pencil underlining, else fine. The Gods have become diseases, said C.G. Jung, and these nine chapters show how major figures of the Greek..... More
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1999. Soft Cover. 8vo. Revealing Antiquity No. 10. Second printing. Soft cover. 313 pp. A few bumps to spine head, crease to upper corner of front cover. Else fine. Ancient Greeks and Romans often turned to magic to achieve personal goals. Magical rites were seen..... More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989. 1st Edition. Soft Cover. 8vo. First paperback edition. Soft cover. xvi, 363 pp. Fading to spine, bumping to corners, else fine. More
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1986. Soft Cover. 8vo. Tranlated by Margaret Cook. Originally published as L'invention de la Mythologie. Soft cover. xii, 179 pp. Spine sunned. Ink ownership inscription to half-title, some ink underlining and notes to interior. Int his fresh approach to the question of the origins..... More
London: Thames and Hudson, 1991. Soft Cover. 8vo. World of Art series. Soft cover. 256 pp. With 370 B&W illustrations. Light bumping and wear to corners, a few spots of neat pencil underlining and annotation. The Greek myths are so much a part of our visual and literary culture that..... More
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. 1st Edition. Soft Cover. 8vo. Soft cover. xiii, 480 pp. A clean, fine copy. This companion volume provides a comprehensive overview of the major themes and topics pertinent to ancient Greek law. A substantial introduction establishes the recent historiography on this topic and its..... More
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1995. Soft Cover. 8vo. Paperback, 224pp. Illustrated. Light fading to covers, o/w fine. More