Ronald Stroud (65 results)

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Paperback. Condition: New. When the Roman tourist Pausanias visited Corinth around A.D. 160, he saw many shrines and buildings high up to the south of the city, on the slopes of Acrocorinth. This booklet describes excavations at one of these, the Sanctuary of Demeter and Persephone (Kore). The details of religious rites revealed are of particular interest since the cult of the two goddesses, also celebrated at Eleusis, is one of the most mysterious in antiquity, and no literary testimony exists to explain what may have happened behind the high walls. Terracotta dolls, ritual meals of pork, and miniature models of food-filled platters hint at a vigorous religious tradition associated with human and agricultural fertility.…

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. American Excavations in Old Corinth. Corinth Notes No. 2; 8.2 X 5.3 X 0.5 inches; 32 pages.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. American Excavations in Old Corinth. Corinth Notes No. 2; 8.2 X 5.3 X 0.5 inches; 32 pages.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition first printing Octavo booklet, 32 pp. Illustrated Very Good condition. No inscriptions.

Condition: Very Good. Very Good condition. (archeology, corinth, ancient greece) 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.

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Paperback. Condition: New. An impressive joint project, this outstanding new anthology brings the best of Chinese and English-language science fiction in a mediation on the theme of Exploration in Space. New, emerging, established and much-lauded writers from both cultures are brought together to demonstrate that technology and humanity when they work together bring challenges, joy and benefits to all of humankind. From Bao Shu comes 'A Trip to the End', from Allen Stroud 'The First', from He Xi 'Never Meet Again in Life', from Amdi Silvestri 'A Minuet of Corpses' and under the guiding eye of Patrick Parrinder (President of the H.G. Wells society) and Yao Haijun (celebrated editor of Science Fiction World in China) thirteen authors create a series of worlds which will enthral and entertain.…

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Paperback. Condition: New. An impressive joint project, this outstanding new anthology brings the best of Chinese and English-language science fiction in a mediation on the theme of Exploration in Space. New, emerging, established and much-lauded writers from both cultures are brought together to demonstrate that technology and humanity when they work together bring challenges, joy and benefits to all of humankind. From Bao Shu comes 'A Trip to the End', from Allen Stroud 'The First', from He Xi 'Never Meet Again in Life', from Amdi Silvestri 'A Minuet of Corpses' and under the guiding eye of Patrick Parrinder (President of the H.G. Wells society) and Yao Haijun (celebrated editor of Science Fiction World in China) thirteen authors create a series of worlds which will enthral and entertain.…

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Wraps. Condition: Very Good. Retired library copy with all the usual stamps, stickers, and labels. Book covered in clear plastic laminate. Textblock is very clean and tight. Covers slightly edge and corner rubbed. 80p., including index. Size: 8vo - Over 7 3/4" -9 3/4 " Tall. Ex-Library Paperback.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. volume ii edition. 32 pages. 8.75x5.75x0.25 inches. In Stock.

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. University of California Press, Published 1976. Hardcover, viii, 295 pp. plus 42 pp. of plates; 26 cm; frontispiece portrait, illustrated with black-and-white photographs, facsimiles and 1 map. In Very Good condition, no dust jacket, as issued. Blue cloth boards, copper lettering on spine with volume number, date and press emblem. Mild shelf and edge wear, with bumping to head edge of front cover; light overall scuffing and soiling, and a few pale scratch marks to front cover. Spine ends rubbed. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. Volume 8 of the University of California classics journal (later Classical Antiquity), dedicated to W. Kendrick Pritchett on his retirement as Professor of Greek at Berkeley. Eighteen papers on Greek and Roman literature, history, epigraphy and art. Darrell A. Amyx's "San Simeon Revisited" publishes Corinthian vases from the Hearst collection at San Simeon, with ten plates. Other archaeological papers treat the Duenos vase in Berlin (one of the earliest known Old Latin inscriptions), a votive terracotta from Ghiaccio Forte, the costume of the Akropolis korai, and a possible lost city on the Gulf of Corinth. Literary and historical papers range from Mimnermos, Euripides and Seneca to Plato on identity, Augustus' marriage legislation and constitutional changes in Athens in 410 B.C. Contents: A Lost City Discovered? (J.G.T. and J.K. Anderson); A New Pseudo-Ovidian Passage (W.S. Anderson); San Simeon Revisited: Corinthian Vases (Darrell A. Amyx); The Ghiaccio Forte Votive Terracotta Figurine (Mario A. Del Chiaro); Augustus' Legislation on Marriage and Children (Richard I. Frank); Notes on the Duenos-Vase Inscription in Berlin (Arthur E. Gordon); Man and the Leaves: A Study of Mimnermos fr. 2 (Mark Griffith); Epigraphic Notes on IG I2 71 (Richard J. Hoffman); Oedipus and Teiresias (Steven Lattimore); Did Plato Discover the Estin of Identity? (Frank A. Lewis); The Roman Tragic Spirit (L.A. MacKay); Iconography and Imagery in Euripides' Ion (Donald J. Mastronarde); Georgics 3.209-294: Amor and Civilization (G.B. Miles); The Pentathlon for Boys at Nemea (Stephen G. Miller); Lucca Bibl. Capit. 490 and the Manuscript Tradition of Hieronymus' (Eusebius') Chronicle (Alden A. Mosshammer); The Costume of the Korai: A Re-interpretation (Judith A. Schaeffer); Problems of Time in Seneca's Hercules Furens and Thyestes (Jo-Ann Shelton); Constitutional Changes in Athens in 410 B.C. (Raphael Sealey). …

Hardcover. Condition: Wie neu. Dust Jacket Condition: Ohne Schutzumschlag. 1. Auflage. VIII, 202 pages with many b/w-illustrations; clothbound.

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Softcover. Condition: Good. Some ink underlining and marginalia, 2 small tears to front wrap.; 140pp, illustrated.; Hesperia Supplement 29; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; 140 pages.

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