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Amphitryon and Two Other Playsby Lionel Casson , PlautusISBN 0393006018 (0-393-00601-8)
Softcover, Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Amphitryon and Two Other Plays'Book summary:Plautus wrote upwards of fifty plays, of which twenty have survived.
This anthology includes his best plays and also seeks to give some idea of his range. His forte was farce, and these selections exemplify at least two of his favorite farcical devices: mistaken identity (Amphitryon) and the lecherous old codger (Casina). The Pot of Gold reveals what Plautus could do with the subtler humor to be evoked from character. [via]More editions of Amphitryon and Two Other Plays:
Ancient Egyptby Lionel CassonISBN 0316326054 (0-316-32605-4)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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Ancient Historyby Lionel CassonISBN 0394335562 (0-394-33556-2)
Softcover, Sra
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The Ancient Mariners: Seafarers and Sea Fighters of the Mediterranean in Ancient Timesby Lionel CassonISBN 0691014779 (0-691-01477-9)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Everyday Life in Ancient Romeby Lionel CassonISBN 0801859921 (0-8018-5992-1)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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The Greek Conquerorsby Lionel CassonISBN 0705410013 (0-7054-1001-3)
Softcover, Time-Life Books
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The Horizon Book of Daily Life in Ancient Romeby Lionel CassonISBN 0070102163 (0-07-010216-3)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Latin and Greek in Current Useby Lionel Casson , Eli BurrissISBN 0135249910 (0-13-524991-0)
Hardcover, Prentice Hall
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Libraries in the Ancient Worldby Lionel CassonISBN 0300097212 (0-300-09721-2)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Libraries in the Ancient World'Book summary:The Dewey decimal system of cataloguing and its modern successors are relatively new, and they sometimes seem inadequate as ways of organizing knowledge in ever-changing fields of study. But the idea of bringing order to collections of written material is an ancient one, as Lionel Casson writes in this lucid survey of bibliophilia in the ancient Mediterranean. Among the earliest examples of written material that we have are lists of library holdings, clay tablets from Mesopotamia that archive commercial inventories, scholarly texts, and a surprising number of works on witchcraft and remedies against it.
Ancient libraries grew, Casson writes, by many means: by peaceful trade, as when book-hungry Romans spent extravagant sums on Greek texts made in southern Italy; by conquest, as when the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal looted the libraries of his ancient rival Babylon, carting the contents to his capital of Nineveh; and by fiat, as when the Egyptian pharaohs appropriated private collections to round out their own. Those libraries nourished the great philosophers and writers of old, shaping world culture into our own time. But, as Casson ably shows, the enemies of books are many, among them floods, fires, insects, and intolerance. As it is today, so it was in the past, and contending empires and ideologies too often expressed themselves by sacking and burning the collections of their enemies--by reason of which we have only a few of the works that engaged readers in the distant past.
Casson's slender book enhances our understanding of the role of books and their collectors in the ancient world, and bibliophiles and historians alike will find much of value in its pages. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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The Menaechmus Twins, and Two Other Playsby Plautus, Casson, Lionel, Editor, Lionel CassonISBN 0393006026 (0-393-00602-6)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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The Periplus Maris Erythraei: Text With Introduction, Translation, and Commentaryby Lionel CassonISBN 0691040605 (0-691-04060-5)
Hardcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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The Pharaohsby Lionel CassonISBN 0705410021 (0-7054-1002-1)
Softcover, Time-Life Books
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Selected Satires of Lucianby Lionel CassonISBN 0202361926 (0-202-36192-6)
Softcover, Aldine De Gruyter
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Selected Satires of Lucian'Book summary:The unsurpassed satirist of the ancient era was a young Syrian named Lucian, who, writing in Greek in the second century a.d., combined wit, irony, fearless candor, and exuberant comic fantasy to create the triumphantly irreverent dialogues and stories contained in this book. His genial mockery, aimed at man's omnipresent feelings, has never gone out of date. The jabs he gave the hypocrites; grandstanders, fakers and boobs of the ancient world can just as appropriately be administered to their counterparts in the modern world.
Lucian's most typical genre is a parody of a Platonic dialogue, in which Zeus, Hermes, Eros, and other Olympians jabber in undivine harassment as some clever mortal (who very much resembles Lucian) is about to make scandalous fools of them. He also excelled at straight narrative, his two most famous tales being the elaborate science fiction spoof; "A True Story," and an old folk tale retold outrageously, "Lucius the Ass." His works were the product of an unrelentingly rational and skeptical mind, and have had an incalculable effect on writers and painters through the ages.
Until this volume, the English language reader of today to appreciate the importance and intelligence of Lucian. No volume of representative selections in translation is in print. There are satisfactory versions of the complete works, but the reader who takes this long will most likely lose a good deal of the sting of Lucian's needle. Lionel Cassen also illustrates the full range of Lucian's subject matter and various literary forms and when translating tried to focus on the Greek spirit as opposed to the literal meaning.
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Selected Satires of Lucianby Lucian, Lionel CassonISBN 0393004430 (0-393-00443-0)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Selected Satires of Lucian'Book summary:"Lucian's genial mockery," writes Lionel Casson, "aimed at man's omnipresent failings, is never out of date: the jabs he gave the hypocrites, grandstanders, fakers, and boobs of the ancient world can just as appropriately be administered to their counterparts of the modern."
Lucian, born in Syria in the second century C.E., came to Greece at an early age and mastered its language and literature. He took up law, left it for public speaking, then turned to full-time writing, producing the wide range of subject matter and literary form which is represented in this collection.
A master of the vivid scene, Lucian used his pungent style to ridicule the tyrants, prophets, waning gods, and hypocrite philosophers of his own day and the centuries preceding him. His most typical genre is a parody of a Platonic dialogue, but he also excelled in straight narrative, as in the elaborate spoof "A True Story" and the old folk tale outrageously retold, "Lucius, the Ass." His skeptical mind and imaginative irony have influenced generations of artists and writers, and now in Professor Casson's new translations can be freshly enjoyed today. [via]More editions of Selected Satires of Lucian:
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Ships and Seafaring in Ancient Timesby Lionel CassonISBN 029271162X (0-292-71162-X)
Softcover, Univ of Texas Pr
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Ships and Seamanship in the Ancient Worldby Lionel CassonISBN 0801851300 (0-8018-5130-0)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ships and Seamanship in the Ancient World'Book summary:Lionel Casson's encyclopedic study is the first of its kind to use underwater archaeological data to refine and area of scholarship that had, for the most part, relied on ancient texts and graphic representations. Tracing the history of early ships and seamanship from pre-dynastic Egypt to the Roman empire, from skiffs and barges to huge oared warships and royal yachts, Casson describes not only the ships themselves, but also the make-up and training of the crews, placement of weaponry, how cargo was stored, methods of navigation, harbor facilities, and the ways ships were named.
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Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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Travel in the Ancient Worldby Lionel CassonISBN 0801848083 (0-8018-4808-3)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Travel in the Ancient World'Book summary:The only book of its kind in any language, Travel in the Ancient World offers a lively, comprehensive history of ancient travel, from the first Egyptian voyages recorded in Old Kingdom inscriptions through Greek and Roman times to the Christian pilgrimages of the fourth and sixth centuries. Rich in anecdote and colorful detail, it now returns to print in paperback with a new preface by the author.
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