Seller: Wonder Book, Frederick, MD, U.S.A.
Condition: Very Good. Very Good condition. Good dust jacket. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp. Seller Inventory # C06C-07050
Seller: Midtown Scholar Bookstore, Harrisburg, PA, U.S.A.
hardcover. Condition: Good. Torn/worn dj. Good hardcover with some shelfwear; may have previous owner's name inside. Standard-sized. Seller Inventory # mon0000343426
Seller: Jeff Stark, Barstow, CA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Near fine due to very interesting previous owners beautiful art deco type bookplate neatly on blank front paste-down. No other markings or wear in a lightly used but still about very good jacket. Seller Inventory # 067888
Seller: Pella Books, Pella, IA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Used Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Jacket with Mylar. Seller Inventory # 248540
Seller: The Anthropologists Closet, West Des Moines, IA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Volume 40. Red cloth covered hardcover with gilt lettering to spine. Dust jacket has a 0.5 cm closed tear at the upper lefthand corner on front cover. Dust jacket was placed in a clear cover after photographing. B&W photos and illustrations. Includes a list of abbreviations, appendix and an index. 281 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. A distinguished classicist examines some of the ways in which certain Greek ethical concepts, especially those related to soph-osyne (self-knowledge, self-restraint, moderation) and the other Platonic virtues, are reflected in mythology, politics and education, oratory, and the visual arts. Helen North considers how the Platonic virtues were regarded, how they affected the understanding of political and social life, how they were embodied in mythical figures and expressed in mythical and historical or semi-historical exemplary accounts, and how they were portrayed in art at certain important stages of their development. She moves from archaic Greek myth in Chapter 1 through the political and rhetorical applications of sophrosyne/ temperantia in classical Athens and Rome, which she treats in two central chapters.In a final chapter, concerned chiefly with the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, she returns to some of the early myths and exemplary figures and shows how they survived, together with allegories and symbols popularized in the postclassical period, in religious and secular art into the eighteenth century. Professor North's aim, as she says in her preface, is to provide "a kind of Ariadne's thread to serve as a guide through the labyrinthine iconography of sophrosyne/ temperantia all the way from its beginnings in the coins and sarcophagi of late antiquity to its end in such specimens as the Reynolds window for the Ante Chapel of New College, Oxford, and Canova's tomb for Pope Clement XIV in Rome." Bringing together a wealth of material from many disciplines, Professor North's book offers fresh perspectives on the ways in which the Greeks and Romans interpreted ethical ideals. Like her Sophrosyne: Self-Knowledge and Self-Restraint in Greek Literature (Cornell University Press, 1966), it is scrupulously documented and engagingly written. Seller Inventory # 202385
Seller: Ancient World Books, Toronto, ON, Canada
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Foxing to textblock. Gift inscription from author to Carolyn [Dewald] on ffep. DJ has 1 closed tear.; Examination of moderation and self-control in Greek literature.; Cornell Studies in Classical Philology Vol. XL; 288 pages; Signed by Author. Seller Inventory # 38135
Seller: Kloof Booksellers & Scientia Verlag, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Condition: as new. Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press, 1979. Orig. cloth binding. Dustjacket. 281,[1]p. : ill, facsims. ; 24 cm. Based on the author's thesis, Cornell, 1945 Index. - Lit.opg. Cornell studies in classical philology ; vol. 40 Condition : as new copy. ISBN 9780801411359. Keywords : CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY, Seller Inventory # 184230
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Seller: Borkert, Schwarz und Zerfaß GbR, Berlin, Germany
Condition: Gut. Ill.; 281 p. From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Note on front endpaper. Otherwise good and clean. - Anmerkung auf Vorsatzblatt. Sonst gut und sauber. - A distinguished classicist examines some of the ways in which certain Greek ethical concepts, especially those related to sophrosyne (self-knowledge, self-restraint, moderation) and the other Platonic virtues, are reflected in mythology, politics and education, orators, and the visual arts. Helen North considers how the Platonic virtues were regarded, how they affected the understanding of political and social life, how they were embodied in mythical figures and expressed in mythical and historical or semihistorical exemplars accounts, and how they were portrayed in art at certain important stages of their development. She moves from archaic Greek myth in Chapter 1 through the political and rhetorical applications of sophrosyne/ temperantia in classical Athens and Rome, which she treats in two central chapters. In a final chapter, concerned chiefly with the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, she returns to some of the early myths and exemplary figures and shows how they survived, together with allegories and symbols popularized in the postclassical period, in religious and secular art into the eighteenth century. Professor Norths aim, as she says in her preface, is to provide a kind of Ariadnes thread to serve as a guide through the labyrinthine iconography of sophrosyne/ temperantia all the way from its beginnings in the coins and sarcophagi of late antiquity to its end in such specimens as the Reynolds window for the Ante Chapel of New College, Oxford, and Canovas tomb for Pope Clement XIV in Rome. Bringing together a wealth of material from many disciplines, Professor Norths book offers fresh perspectives on the ways in which the Greeks and Romans interpreted ethical ideals. Like her Self-Knowledge and Self-Restraint in Greek Literature (Cornell University Press. 1966), it is scrupulously documented and engagingly written. ISBN 9780801411359 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 782 Original cloth with Dustjacket. Originalleinen mit Schutzumschlag. Seller Inventory # 1184888
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.
Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Very Good in a Very Good- dust jacket. A few tears to jacket edges. Spine is cocked.; Study in Classical Philology; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 288 pages. Seller Inventory # 73667
Seller: SHIMEDIA, Brooklyn, NY, U.S.A.
Condition: New. Satisfaction Guaranteed or your money back. Seller Inventory # 0801411351