Ancient & Classical

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798348417369Author Preston MeadowlightFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Preston MeadowlightPublisher Preston MeadowlightWeight(grams) 145g

This book focus on Athenian art in the second half of the fifth century, one of the most important periods of ancient art. Including papers on architecture, sculpture, and vase painting the volume offers new and before unpublished material as well as new...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783447118019Author Krzysztof Jerzy RadtkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint HarrassowitzPublisher Harrassowitz

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781662920479Author Laurel SauderFormat HardbackPage Count 68Imprint Gatekeeper PressPublisher Gatekeeper PressWeight(grams) 458g

Rhetoric was fundamental to education and to cultural aspiration in the Greek and Roman worlds. It was one of the key aspects of antiquity that slipped under the line between the ancient world and Christianity erected by the early Church in late...

Originally published in 1885, this book examines the extant works of the Greek sculptor Pheidias, best known as the creator of the Parthenon Marbles and the gold and ivory statue of Zeus at Olympia, which was considered to be one of the seven wonders of...

A precursor of modern academic journals, this quarterly periodical, published between 1810 and 1829 and now reissued in forty volumes, was founded and edited by Abraham John Valpy (1787-1854). Educated at Pembroke College, Oxford, Valpy established...

A precursor of modern academic journals, this quarterly periodical, published between 1810 and 1829 and now reissued in forty volumes, was founded and edited by Abraham John Valpy (1787-1854). Educated at Pembroke College, Oxford, Valpy established...

A precursor of modern academic journals, this quarterly periodical, published between 1810 and 1829 and now reissued in forty volumes, was founded and edited by Abraham John Valpy (1787-1854). Educated at Pembroke College, Oxford, Valpy established...

Animals pervade our lives, both today and in the past. From the smallest bug through pets and agricultural animals to elephants and blue whales, the animals themselves, animal-derived products and representations of animals can be found everywhere in our...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781803970707Author Lauren ChloeFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Cathrine Mell PublishingPublisher Cathrine Mell PublishingWeight(grams) 245g

The classical scholar J. P. Mahaffy (1839-1919) is known equally for his work on Greek texts and Egyptian papyri (his edition of The Flinders Petrie Papyri is reissued in the Cambridge Library Collection). He graduated from Trinity College, Dublin and...

A precursor of modern academic journals, this quarterly periodical, published between 1810 and 1829 and now reissued in forty volumes, was founded and edited by Abraham John Valpy (1787-1854). Educated at Pembroke College, Oxford, Valpy established...

This volume is a study of the ancient glass vessels from 70 years of excavation at Gordion in central Anatolia. The corpus of vessel glass, currently numbering over 1,800 fragments, is extraordinary in that it includes exceptional examples of vessels...

Combining the studies of modern film, traditional narratology, and Roman art, this interdisciplinary work explores the complex and highly visual techniques of Tacitus' Annales. The volume opens with a discussion of current research in narratology, as...

This book explores the persona of the artist in Archaic and Classical Greek art and literature. Guy Hedreen argues that artistic subjectivity, first expressed in Athenian vase-painting of the sixth century BCE and intensively explored by Euphronios,...

Sir William Gell (1777-1836) was a British archaeologist well known for his drawings of sites and objects of classical interest. Gell published this new, two-volume edition of his Pompeiana in 1832, in an effort to describe the latest archaeological...

A precursor of modern academic journals, this quarterly periodical, published between 1810 and 1829 and now reissued in forty volumes, was founded and edited by Abraham John Valpy (1787-1854). Educated at Pembroke College, Oxford, Valpy established...

A precursor of modern academic journals, this quarterly periodical, published between 1810 and 1829 and now reissued in forty volumes, was founded and edited by Abraham John Valpy (1787-1854). Educated at Pembroke College, Oxford, Valpy established...

A precursor of modern academic journals, this quarterly periodical, published between 1810 and 1829 and now reissued in forty volumes, was founded and edited by Abraham John Valpy (1787-1854). Educated at Pembroke College, Oxford, Valpy established...

A precursor of modern academic journals, this quarterly periodical, published between 1810 and 1829 and now reissued in forty volumes, was founded and edited by Abraham John Valpy (1787-1854). Educated at Pembroke College, Oxford, Valpy established...

In this volume, first published in 2006, Sandra Blakely considers technological myths and rituals associated with ancient Greek daimones, who made metal; and African rituals in which iron plays a central role. Noting the rich semantic web of associations...

A precursor of modern academic journals, this quarterly periodical, published between 1810 and 1829 and now reissued in forty volumes, was founded and edited by Abraham John Valpy (1787-1854). Educated at Pembroke College, Oxford, Valpy established...

Throughout Egypt's long history, pottery sherds and flakes of limestone were commonly used for drawings and short-form texts in a number of languages. These objects are conventionally called ostraca, and thousands of them have been and continue to be...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783447114110Author Davide NadaliFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint HarrassowitzPublisher HarrassowitzWeight(grams) 435g

Originally published in 1912, this book contains the first half of the catalogue of the sculptures held in the collection of the Acropolis Museum in Athens. In this volume, Dickins lists the museum's assortment of archaic sculptures, thought to have been...

Originally published in 1921, this book contains the second half of the catalogue of the sculptures held in the collection of the Acropolis Museum in Athens. In this volume, Casson lists the sculptural and architectural fragments in the museum dating...

A precursor of modern academic journals, this quarterly periodical, published between 1810 and 1829 and now reissued in forty volumes, was founded and edited by Abraham John Valpy (1787-1854). Educated at Pembroke College, Oxford, Valpy established...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789357489447Author Edward GibbonFormat PaperbackPage Count 592Imprint Double 9 BooksPublisher Double 9 BooksWeight(grams) 898g

This monograph on classical engraved gems, which also contains a catalogue of the collection then held by the Fitzwilliam Museum, was published in 1891. J. Henry Middleton (1846-1896) was at the time the Director of the Museum and Slade Professor of Fine...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798224139453Author Steven SelbyFormat PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint Steven SelbyPublisher Steven SelbyWeight(grams) 191g

Originally published in 1914, and previously delivered as lectures to students at the Royal Academy Art School in 1913, this book by Charles Waldstein, then director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, provides an introduction to the study of sculpture. The text...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789948469544Author Shiekh Sultan Al QasimiFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Alqasimi PublicationsPublisher Alqasimi PublicationsWeight(grams) 64g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798989134311Author Richard D ScheuermanFormat PaperbackPage Count 316Imprint Triticum PressPublisher Triticum PressWeight(grams) 549g

A precursor of modern academic journals, this quarterly periodical, published between 1810 and 1829 and now reissued in forty volumes, was founded and edited by Abraham John Valpy (1787-1854). Educated at Pembroke College, Oxford, Valpy established...

Linear perspective is a science that represents objects in space upon a plane, projecting them from a point of view. This concept was known in classical antiquity. In this book, Rocco Sinisgalli investigates theories of linear perspective in the...

A precursor of modern academic journals, this quarterly periodical, published between 1810 and 1829 and now reissued in forty volumes, was founded and edited by Abraham John Valpy (1787-1854). Educated at Pembroke College, Oxford, Valpy established...

In this book, Claudia Moser offers a new understanding of Roman religion in the Republican era through an exploration of sacrifice, its principal ritual. Examining the long-term imprint of sacrificial practices on the material world, she focuses on...

A precursor of modern academic journals, this quarterly periodical, published between 1810 and 1829 and now reissued in forty volumes, was founded and edited by Abraham John Valpy (1787-1854). Educated at Pembroke College, Oxford, Valpy established...

A precursor of modern academic journals, this quarterly periodical, published between 1810 and 1829 and now reissued in forty volumes, was founded and edited by Abraham John Valpy (1787-1854). Educated at Pembroke College, Oxford, Valpy established...