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After Romeby Paul Langford, Thomas Charles-EdwardsISBN 0199249814 (0-19-924981-4)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr on Demand
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After Romeby Thomas Charles-EdwardsISBN 0199249822 (0-19-924982-2)
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Ancient Mesopotamia: Portrait of a Dead Civilizationby A. Leo OppenheimISBN 0226631877 (0-226-63187-7)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ancient Mesopotamia: Portrait of a Dead Civilization'Book summary:"This splendid work of scholarship . . . sums up with economy and power all that the written record so far deciphered has to tell about the ancient and complementary civilizations of Babylon and Assyria."Edward B. Garside, New York Times Book Review[via]
Ancient Mesopotamiathe area now called Iraqhas received less attention than ancient Egypt and other long-extinct and more spectacular civilizations. But numerous small clay tablets buried in the desert soil for thousands of years make it possible for us to know more about the people of ancient Mesopotamia than any other land in the early Near East.
Professor Oppenheim, who studied these tablets for more than thirty years, used his intimate knowledge of long-dead languages to put together a distinctively personal picture of the Mesopotamians of some three thousand years ago. Following Oppenheim's death, Erica Reiner used the author's outline to complete the revisions he had begun.
"To any serious student of Mesopotamian civilization, this is one of the most valuable books ever written."Leonard Cottrell, Book Week
"Leo Oppenheim has made a bold, brave, pioneering attempt to present a synthesis of the vast mass of philological and archaeological data that have accumulated over the past hundred years in the field of Assyriological research."Samuel Noah Kramer, Archaeology
A. Leo Oppenheim, one of the most distinguished Assyriologists of our time, was editor in charge of the Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute and John A. Wilson Professor of Oriental Studies at the University of Chicago.More editions of Ancient Mesopotamia: Portrait of a Dead Civilization:
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Antichrist: Two Thousand Years of the Human Fascination With Evilby Bernard McGinnISBN 0231119771 (0-231-11977-1)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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The Argument and the Action of Plato's Lawsby Leo StraussISBN 0226776980 (0-226-77698-0)
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Aristophanes Acharniansby S. Douglas OlsonISBN 0199275866 (0-19-927586-6)
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Aristotle's Poeticsby Aristotle, Stephen HalliwellISBN 0226313948 (0-226-31394-8)
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The Beginnings of Western Science: The European Scientific Tradition in Philosophical, Religious, and Institutional Context, 600 B.C. to A.D. 1450by David C. LindbergISBN 0226482316 (0-226-48231-6)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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The Birth of the Messiah: A Commentary on the Infancy Narratives in Matthew and Lukeby Raymond Edward BrownISBN 022566206X (0-225-66206-X)
Hardcover, G. Chapman
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Bright Earth: Art and the Invention of Colorby Philip BallISBN 0226036286 (0-226-03628-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bright Earth: Art and the Invention of Color'Book summary:The making of a painting relies on inspiration, craft, practice, and vision. But, observes the noted science writer Philip Ball, it also hinges on science: "For as long as painters have fashioned their visions and dreams into images, they have relied on technical knowledge and skill to supply their materials."
In this lively study, Ball examines some of the tools and materials that chemists have added to the palette over the centuries. He also takes his readers on a learned tour of what science has taught us about vision, the nature of light, and the physical and cultural factors that condition our perceptions of color (the ancient Romans, he notes, had no term for brown or gray, but that does not mean they didn't use earth pigments in their work). Whether writing of matters scientific or artistic, Ball is a technologist but not a determinist. In the end, he writes, art depends not on science but on artists, and "each artist makes his or her own contract with the colors of the time."
Readers with an interest in science, art, and the crossroads where they meet will relish Ball's erudite travels across the spectrum of light. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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Caesar's Gallic Warby Olivia CoolidgeISBN 0208023348 (0-208-02334-8)
Hardcover, Linnet Books
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Cicero on the Emotionsby Marcus Tullius Cicero, Margaret GraverISBN 0226305783 (0-226-30578-3)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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The Complete Greek Tragedies: Euripidesby David Grene, Richmond LattimoreISBN 0226307662 (0-226-30766-2)
Hardcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Greek Tragedies: Euripides'Book summary:The Grene and Lattimore edition of the Greek tragedies has been among the most widely acclaimed and successful publications of the University of Chicago Press. On the occasion of the Centennial of the University of Chicago and its Press, we take pleasure in reissuing this complete work in a handsome four-volume slipcased edition as well as in redesigned versions of the familiar paperbacks.[via]
For the Centennial Edition two of the original translations have been replaced. In the original publication David Grene translated only one of the three Theban plays, Oedipus the King. Now he has added his own translations of the remaining two, Oedipus at Colonus and Antigone, thus bringing a new unity of tone and style to this group. Grene has also revised his earlier translation of Prometheus Bound and rendered some of the former prose sections in verse. These new translations replace the originals included in the paperback volumes Sophocles I (which contains all three Theban plays), Aeschylus II, Greek Tragedies, Volume I, and Greek Tragedies, Volume III, all of which are now being published in second editions.
All other volumes contain the translations of the tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides for the most part from the original versions first published in the 1940s and 1950s. These translations have been the choice of generations of teachers and students, selling in the past forty years over three million copies.More editions of The Complete Greek Tragedies: Euripides:
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The Complete Worksby William Shakespeare, Stanley W. Wells, Gary TaylorISBN 0199267189 (0-19-926718-9)
Softcover, Clarendon Press
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Dante's Infernoby Dante AlighieriISBN 0253141842 (0-253-14184-2)
Hardcover, Indiana Univ Pr
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Decline and Fall of the Roman Cityby J.H.W.G. LiebeschuetzISBN 0199261091 (0-19-926109-1)
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Did the Greeks Believe in Their Myths: An Essay on the Constitutive Imaginationby Paul VeyneISBN 0226854345 (0-226-85434-5)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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The Early History of the Ancient Near East, 9000-2000 B.C.by Hans J. Nissen, Elizabeth Lutzeier, Kenneth J. NorthcottISBN 0226586588 (0-226-58658-8)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptationby Richard SorabjiISBN 0199256608 (0-19-925660-8)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Erotikon: Essays on Eros, Ancient And Modernby Shadi Bartsch, Thomas BartschererISBN 0226038394 (0-226-03839-4)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Euripidesby David Grene, Richmond A. Lattimore, EuripidesISBN 0226307670 (0-226-30767-0)
Hardcover, University of Chicago Press
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For the Centennial Edition two of the original translations have been replaced. In the original publication David Grene translated only one of the three Theban plays, Oedipus the King. Now he has added his own translations of the remaining two, Oedipus at Colonus and Antigone, thus bringing a new unity of tone and style to this group. Grene has also revised his earlier translation of Prometheus Bound and rendered some of the former prose sections in verse. These new translations replace the originals included in the paperback volumes Sophocles I (which contains all three Theban plays), Aeschylus II, Greek Tragedies, Volume I, and Greek Tragedies, Volume III, all of which are now being published in second editions.
All other volumes contain the translations of the tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides for the most part from the original versions first published in the 1940s and 1950s. These translations have been the choice of generations of teachers and students, selling in the past forty years over three million copies.More editions of Euripides:
Euripides Iby EuripidesISBN 0226307808 (0-226-30780-8)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Euripides IIby Richmond Lattimore, Euripides, David GreneISBN 0226307816 (0-226-30781-6)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Euripides IV: Four Tragedies Rhesus, the Suppliant Women, Orestes and Iphigenia in Aulisby Richmond Lattimore, Euripides, David Grene, Frank JonesISBN 0226307832 (0-226-30783-2)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Euripides V: Electra, the Phoenician Women, the Bacchaeby Richmond Lattimore, Euripides, David GreneISBN 0226307840 (0-226-30784-0)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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The Field and the Forge: Population, Production, and Power in the Pre-Industrial Westby John LandersISBN 0199279578 (0-19-927957-8)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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First Impressions: Cylinder Seals in the Ancient Near Eastby Dominique CollonISBN 0226113892 (0-226-11389-2)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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The Gilgamesh Epic and Old Testament Parallelsby Alexander HeidelISBN 0226323986 (0-226-32398-6)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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The Golden Honeycombby Vincent CroninISBN 0246111259 (0-246-11125-9)
Hardcover, Granada
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The Greek Polisby Arthur W.H. Adkins, Peter WhiteISBN 0226069354 (0-226-06935-4)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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The Greek Polisby John Boyer, Julius KirshnerISBN 0226069346 (0-226-06934-6)
Hardcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Greek Tragediesby David Grene, Richmond LattimoreISBN 0226307751 (0-226-30775-1)
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Greek Tragediesby Richmond Lattimore, David GreneISBN 0226307778 (0-226-30777-8)
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A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literatur Andrewsby Albert B. Elsasser, Walterand BauerISBN 0226039323 (0-226-03932-3)
Hardcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literatureby Walter Bauer, Frederick W. Danker, William ArndtISBN 0226039331 (0-226-03933-1)
Hardcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature'Book summary:Described as an "invaluable reference work" (Classical Philology) and "a tool indispensable for the study of early Christian literature" (Religious Studies Review) in its previous edition, this new updated American edition of Walter Bauer's Wörterbuch zu den Schriften des Neuen Testaments builds on its predecessor's staggering deposit of extraordinary erudition relating to Greek literature from all periods. Including entries for many more words, the new edition also lists more than 25,000 additional references to classical, intertestamental, Early Christian, and modern literature.[via]
In this edition, Frederick W. Danker's broad knowledge of Greco-Roman literature, as well as papyri and epigraphs, provides a more panoramic view of the world of Jesus and the New Testament. Danker has also introduced a more consistent mode of reference citation, and has provided a composite list of abbreviations to facilitate easy access to this wealth of information.
Perhaps the single most important lexical innovation of Danker's edition is its inclusion of extended definitions for Greek terms. For instance, a key meaning of "episkopos" was defined in the second American edition as overseer; Danker defines it as "one who has the responsibility of safeguarding or seeing to it that something is done in the correct way, guardian." Such extended definitions give a fuller sense of the word in question, which will help avoid both anachronisms and confusion among users of the lexicon who may not be native speakers of English.
Danker's edition of Bauer's Wörterbuch will be an indispensable guide for Biblical and classical scholars, ministers, seminarians, and translators.More editions of A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature:
Hamletby William Shakespeare, Kenneth H. GroseISBN 0216882117 (0-216-88211-7)
Hardcover, Blackie
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A History of Religious Ideas: From Gautama Buddha to the Triumph of Christianityby Mircea EliadeISBN 0226204030 (0-226-20403-0)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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A History of Religious Ideas: From Muhammad to the Age of Reformsby Mircea EliadeISBN 0226204057 (0-226-20405-7)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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A History of Religious Ideas: From the Stone Age to the Eleusinian Mysteriesby Mircea EliadeISBN 0226204014 (0-226-20401-4)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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History of the Early Churchby Hans Lietzmann, Bertram Lee WoolfISBN 022767927X (0-227-67927-X)
Softcover, James Clarke
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History of Western Civilization: A Handbookby William Hardy McNeillISBN 0226561607 (0-226-56160-7)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Horace Odes and Epodesby HoraceISBN 0226106780 (0-226-10678-0)
Hardcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Human Conditionby Hannah ArendtISBN 0226025985 (0-226-02598-5)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Human Condition'Book summary:A work of striking originality bursting with unexpected insights, The Human Condition is in many respects more relevant now than when it first appeared in 1958. In her study of the state of modern humanity, Hannah Arendt considers humankind from the perspective of the actions of which it is capable. The problems Arendt identified thendiminishing human agency and political freedom, the paradox that as human powers increase through technological and humanistic inquiry, we are less equipped to control the consequences of our actionscontinue to confront us today. This new edition, published to coincide with the fortieth anniversary of its original publication, contains an improved and expanded index and a new introduction by noted Arendt scholar Margaret Canovan which incisively analyzes the book's argument and examines its present relevance. A classic in political and social theory, The Human Condition is a work that has proved both timeless and perpetually timely.[via]
Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) was one of the leading social theorists in the United States. Her Lectures on Kant's Political Philosophy and Love and Saint Augustine are also published by the University of Chicago Press.
Kingship & the Gods: A Study of Ancient Near Eastern Religion As the Integration of Society & Natureby Henri FrankfortISBN 0226260119 (0-226-26011-9)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Love , Sex & Tragedy: Love , Sex & Tragedyby Simon GoldhillISBN 0226301176 (0-226-30117-6)
Hardcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Love, Sex & Tragedy: How the Ancient World Shapes Our Livesby Simon GoldhillISBN 0226301192 (0-226-30119-2)
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The Mahabharataby R.K. NarayanISBN 0226568229 (0-226-56822-9)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Odes and Epopes of Horaceby HoraceISBN 0226106799 (0-226-10679-9)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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On Tyranny: Including the Strauss-Kojeve Correspondenceby Victor Gourevitch, Michael S. Roth, Alexandre Kojeve, Leo StraussISBN 0226776875 (0-226-77687-5)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Original Tao: Inward Training and the Foundations of Taoist Mysticismby Harold David RothISBN 0231115644 (0-231-11564-4)
Hardcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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Outlaws of the Marshby Sidney Shapiro, Guanzhong Luo, Nai-an ShihISBN 025312574X (0-253-12574-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Outlaws of the Marsh'Book summary:China's great classic novel Outlaws of the Marsh, written in the fourteenth century, is a fictional account of twelfth-century events during the Song Dynasty. One by one, over a hundred men and women are forced by the harsh feudal officialdom to take to the hills. They band together and defeat every attempt of the government troops to crush them. Within this framework we find intrigue, adventure, murder, warfare, romance ... in a connected series of fascinating individual tales, told in the suspenseful manner of the traditional storyteller. --------------- The Patriotic and Righteous Outlaws of the Marsh is in one hundred chapters. Originally written by Shi Nai'an of Qiantang, and arranged by Luo Guanzhong. Luo Guanzhong, a native of Taiyuan, styled 'Wanderer of the Lakes and Seas.'He was solitary by nature, a writer of ballads and in esoteric language, which are original and fresh. Shidney Shapiro was born in New York, USA, in 1915. In 1937 he graduated from the Faculty of Law at St. John's University, and began to practice as a lawyer. During the World War II he was recruited into the army, and later studied Chinese at Columbia University and Yale University. He came to China in April 1947, and in 1948 he married the Chinese writer Feng Fengzi (Phoenix). From 1952, Shapiro worked as an English-language speicalist at the magazine Chinese Literature, and later at China Pictorial. He took Chinese citizenship in 1963, and was a member of the sixth, seventh and eighth National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. He has translated Yuan Jing's Daughters and Sons, Ba Jin's Family, Mao Dun's Spring Silkworms, Qu Bo's Tracks in the Snowy Forest, Du Pengcheng's Defend Yan'an and Liu Qing's Builders of a New Life. Shapiro has also authored some books, including An American in China, My China, The law and lore of China: Criminal Justice, A Sampler of Chinese Literature- from the Ming Dynasty to Mao Zedong, Jews in Old China: Studies by Chinese Scholars and Ma Haide- Saga of an American Doctor George Hatem. [via]
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Petraby Maria Giulia Amadasi, Eugenia Equini Schneider, Lydia G. CochraneISBN 0226311252 (0-226-31125-2)
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Plato the Myth Makerby Luc BrissonISBN 0226075192 (0-226-07519-2)
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Plato's Theaetetusby Plato, Seth Benardete, Seth BernardeteISBN 0226670317 (0-226-67031-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Plato's Theaetetus'Book summary:Theaetetus, the Sophist, and the Statesman are a trilogy of Platonic dialogues that show Socrates formulating his conception of philosophy as he prepares the defense for his trial. Originally published together as The Being of the Beautiful, these translations can be read separately or as a trilogy. Each includes an introduction, extensive notes, and comprehensive commentary that examines the trilogy's motifs and relationships.[via]
"Seth Benardete is one of the very few contemporary classicists who combine the highest philological competence with a subtlety and taste that approximate that of the ancients. At the same time, he as set himself the entirely modern hermeneutical task of uncovering what the ancients preferred to keep veiled, of making explicit what they indicated, and hence...of showing the naked ugliness of artificial beauty."Stanley Rose, Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal
Seth Benardete (1930-2001) was professor of classics at New York University. He was the author or translator of many books, most recently The Argument of the Action, Plato's "Laws," and Plato's "Symposium," all published by the University of Chicago Press.More editions of Plato's Theaetetus:
Poems from Three Decadesby Richard LattimoreISBN 0226469468 (0-226-46946-8)
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A Prelude to Biblical Folklore : Underdogs and Trickstersby Susan NiditchISBN 0252068831 (0-252-06883-1)
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The Pursuit of Power: Technology, Armed Force and Society Since A.D. 1000by William H. McNeillISBN 0226561585 (0-226-56158-5)
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The Pyramidsby Ahmed FakhryISBN 0226234738 (0-226-23473-8)
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Renaissance Essaysby H.R. Trevor-RoperISBN 0226812278 (0-226-81227-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Renaissance Essays'Book summary:Hugh Trevor-Roper's historical essays, published over many years in many different forms, are now difficult to find. This volume gathers together pieces on British and European history from the fifteenth to the early seventeenth centuries, ending with the Thirty Years War, which Trevor-Roper views as the great historical and intellectual watershed that marked the end of the Renaissance.[via]
Covering a wide range of topics, these writings reflect the many facets of Trevor-Roper's interest in intellectual and cultural history. Included are discussions of Renaissance Venice; the arts as patronized by that "universal man," the Emperor Maximilian I; the court of Henry VIII and the ideas of Sir Thomas More; the Lisle Letters and the formidable Cromwellian revolution; the historiography and the historical philosophy of the Elizabethans John Stow and William Camden; religion and the "judicious Hooker," the great doctor of the Anglican Church; medicine and medical philosophy, shaken out of its orthodoxy by Paracelsus and his disciples; literature and Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy; and the ideology of the Renaissance courts.
Trevor-Roper sets his intellectual and cultural history in a context of society and politics: in realization of ideas, the patronage of the arts, the interpretation of history, the social challenge of science, the social application of religion. This volume of essays confirms his reputation as a spectacular writer of history and master essayist. 
Roman Civilization: Selected Readingsby Naphtali Lewis, Meyer ReinholdISBN 0231070551 (0-231-07055-1)
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The Romance of Alexander the Greatby Pseudo-Callisthenes, Albert Mugrdich WolohojianISBN 0231032978 (0-231-03297-8)
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Satires and Epistles of Horaceby Horace, Smith Palmer BovieISBN 0226067777 (0-226-06777-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Satires and Epistles of Horace'Book summary:The writings of Horace have exerted strong and continuing influence on writers from his day to our own. Sophisticated and intellectual, witty and frank, he speaks to the cultivated and civilized world of today with the same astringent candor and sprightliness that appeared so fresh at the height of Rome's wealthy and glory.[via]
The Satires and Epistles spans the poet's career as a satirist, critic, and master of lyric poetry, as man of the world, friend of the great, and relentless enemy of the mediocre. "Horace," writes translator Smith Palmer Bovie, "is the best antidote in the world for anxiety. His Satires and Epistles demonstrate the good-humored freedom of a man who has cheerfully assumed the responsibility for making his own life not so much a 'success' as the occasion for a true enjoyment of virtue and knowledge." Bovie's impeccable translation, along with Clancy's edition of the Odes and Epodes, offers the reader a complete and modern Horace.More editions of Satires and Epistles of Horace:
Self: Ancient And Modern Insights About Individuality, Life, And Deathby Richard SorabjiISBN 0226768252 (0-226-76825-2)
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Sophocles I: Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigoneby Sophocles, David Greene, Richard LattimoreISBN 0226307921 (0-226-30792-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sophocles I: Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone'Book summary:"These authoritative translations consign all other complete collections to the wastebasket."Robert Brustein, The New Republic[via]
"This is it. No qualifications. Go out and buy it everybody."Kenneth Rexroth, The Nation
"The translations deliberately avoid the highly wrought and affectedly poetic; their idiom is contemporary....They have life and speed and suppleness of phrase."Times Education Supplement
"These translations belong to our time. A keen poetic sensibility repeatedly quickens them; and without this inner fire the most academically flawless rendering is dead."Warren D. Anderson, American Oxonian
"The critical commentaries and the versions themselves...are fresh, unpretentious, above all, functional."Commonweal
"Grene is one of the great translators."Conor Cruise O'Brien, London Sunday Times
"Richmond Lattimore is that rara avis in our age, the classical scholar who is at the same time an accomplished poet."Dudley Fitts, New York Times Book ReviewMore editions of Sophocles I: Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone:
Sources of Chinese Traditionby Wing-Tsit Chan, Irene Bloom, Joseph Adler, Richard Lufrano, William T. DebaryISBN 0231109385 (0-231-10938-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sources of Chinese Tradition'Book summary:A collection of seminal primary readings on the social, intellectual, and religious traditions of China, Sources of Chinese Tradition, Volume 1 has been widely used and praised for almost forty years as an authoritative resource for scholars and students and as a thorough and engaging introduction for general readers. Here at last is a completely revised and expanded edition of this classic sourcebook, compiled by noted China scholars Wm. Theodore de Bary and Irene Bloom. Updated to reflect recent scholarly developments, with extensive material on popular thought and religion, social roles, and women's education, this edition features new translations of more than half the works from the first edition, as well as many new selections.
Arranged chronologically, this anthology is divided into four parts, beginning at the dawn of literate Chinese civilization with the Oracle-Bone inscriptions of the late Shang dynasty (1571--1045 B.C.E.) and continuing through the end of the Ming dynasty (C.E. 1644). Each chapter has an introduction that provides useful historical context and offers interpretive strategies for understanding the readings.
The first part, The Chinese Tradition in Antiquity, considers the early development of Chinese civilization and includes selections from Confucius's Analects, the texts of Mencius and Laozi, as well as other key texts from the Confucian, Daoist, and Legalist schools. Part 2, The Making of a Classical Culture, focuses on Han China with readings from the Classic of Changes ( I Jing), the Classic of Filiality, major Han syntheses, and the great historians of the Han dynasty. The development of Buddhism, from the earliest translations from Sanskrit to the central texts of the Chan school (which became Zen in Japan), is the subject of the third section of the book. Titled Later Daoism and Mahayana Buddhism in China, this part also covers the teachings of Wang Bi, Daoist religion, and texts of the major schools of Buddhist doctrine and practice. The final part, The Confucian Revival and Neo-Confucianism, details the revival of Confucian thought in the Tang, Song, and Ming periods, with historical documents that link philosophical thought to political, social, and educational developments in late imperial China.
With annotations, a detailed chronology, glossary, and a new introduction by the editors, Sources of Chinese Tradition will continue to be a standard resource, guidebook, and introduction to Chinese civilization well into the twenty-first century.
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Sources of Chinese Tradition: From 1600 Through the Twentieth Centuryby Theodore Debary, Richard LufranoISBN 0231112718 (0-231-11271-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sources of Chinese Tradition: From 1600 Through the Twentieth Century'Book summary:For four decades Sources of Chinese Tradition has served to introduce Western readers to Chinese civilization as it has been seen through basic writings and historical documents of the Chinese themselves. Now in its second edition, revised and extended through Deng Xiaoping and Jiang Zemin--era China, this classic volume remains unrivaled for its wide selection of source readings on history, society, and thought in the world's largest nation. Award-winning China scholar Wm. Theodore de Bary -- who edited the first edition in 1960 -- and his coeditor Richard Lufrano have revised and updated the second volume of Sources to reflect the interactions of ideas, institutions, and historical events from the seventeenth century up to the present day.
Beginning with Qing civilization and continuing to contemporary times, volume II brings together key source texts from more than three centuries of Chinese history, with opening essays by noted China authorities providing context for readers not familiar with the period in question.
Here are just a few of the topics covered in this second volume of Sources of Chinese Tradition:
" Early Sino-Western contacts in the seventeenth century;
" Four centuries of Chinese reflections on differences between Eastern and Western civilizations;
" Nineteenth- and twentieth-century reform movements, with treatises on women's rights, modern science, and literary reform;
" Controversies over the place of Confucianism in modern Chinese society;
" The nationalist revolution -- including readings from Sun Yat-sen and Chiang Kai-shek;
" The communist revolution -- with central writings by Mao Zedong;
" Works from contemporary China -- featuring political essays from Deng Xiaoping and dissidents including Wei Jingsheng.
With more than two hundred selections in lucid, readable translation by today's most renowned experts on Chinese language and civilization, Sources of Chinese Tradition will continue to be recognized as the standard for source readings on Chinese civilization, an indispensable learning tool for scholars and students of Asian civilizations.
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Sources of Chinese Tradition: From Earliest Times to 1600by Irene Bloom, Joseph Adler, William Theodore De Bary, Richard LufranoISBN 0231109393 (0-231-10939-3)
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The Stoic Life: Emotions, Duties, And Fateby Tad BrennanISBN 0199256268 (0-19-925626-8)
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The Story of Ancient Historyby James T. ShotwellISBN 0231085184 (0-231-08518-4)
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The Sumerians: Their History, Culture, and Characterby Samuel Noah KramerISBN 0226452387 (0-226-45238-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sumerians: Their History, Culture, and Character'Book summary:The Sumerians, the pragmatic and gifted people who preceded the Semites in the land first known as Sumer and later as Babylonia, created what was probably the first high civilization in the history of man, spanning the fifth to the second millenniums B.C. This book is an unparalleled compendium of what is known about them.[via]
Professor Kramer communicates his enthusiasm for his subject as he outlines the history of the Sumerian civilization and describes their cities, religion, literature, education, scientific achievements, social structure, and psychology. Finally, he considers the legacy of Sumer to the ancient and modern world.
"There are few scholars in the world qualified to write such a book, and certainly Kramer is one of them. . . . One of the most valuable features of this book is the quantity of texts and fragments which are published for the first time in a form available to the general reader. For the layman the book provides a readable and up-to-date introduction to a most fascinating culture. For the specialist it presents a synthesis with which he may not agree but from which he will nonetheless derive stimulation."American Journal of Archaeology
"An uncontested authority on the civilization of Sumer, Professor Kramer writes with grace and urbanity."Library JournalMore editions of The Sumerians: Their History, Culture, and Character:
Tales of Ancient Indiaby J.A.B. Van BuitenenISBN 0226846474 (0-226-84647-4)
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A Taste Of Ancient Romeby Ilaria Gozzini Giacosa, Anna HerklotzISBN 0226290328 (0-226-29032-8)
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They Wrote on Clay: The Babylonian Tablets Speak Todayby Edward ChieraISBN 0226104257 (0-226-10425-7)
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"The book presents, briefly and clearly, a vivid picture of a long-dead people who in numerous ways were very like ourselves."L. M. Field, New York Times
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William Shakespeare: The Complete Worksby Stanley Wells, William Montgomery, Gary Taylor, John JowettISBN 0199267170 (0-19-926717-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'William Shakespeare: The Complete Works'Book summary:Hailed by The Washington Post as "a definitive synthesis of the best editions" and by The Times of London as "a monument to Shakespearean scholarship," The Oxford Shakespeare is the ultimate anthology of the Bard's work: the most authoritative edition of the plays and poems ever published.
Now, almost two decades after the original volume, Oxford is proud to announce a thoroughly updated second edition, including for the first time the texts of The Reign of Edward III and Sir Thomas More, recognizing these two plays officially as authentic works by Shakespeare. This beautiful collection is the product of years of full-time research by a team of British and American scholars and represents the most thorough examination ever undertaken of the nature and authority of Shakespeare's work. The editors reconsidered every detail of the text in the light of modern scholarship and they thoroughly re-examined the earliest printed versions of the plays, firmly establishing the canon and chronological order of composition. All stage directions have been reconsidered in light of original staging, and many new directions for essential action have been added. This superb volume also features a brief introduction to each work as well as an illuminating General Introduction. Finally, the editors have added a wealth of secondary material, including an essay on language, a list of contemporary allusions to Shakespeare, an index of Shakespearean characters, a glossary, a consolidated bibliography, and an index of first lines of the Sonnets.
Compiled by the world's leading authorities, packed with information, and attractively designed, The Oxford Shakespeare is the gold standard of Shakespearean anthologies. [via]More editions of William Shakespeare: The Complete Works:
The World the Romans Knewby N. H. H. SitwellISBN 0241113180 (0-241-11318-0)
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