Taplin Oliver Editor (10 results)

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 251 pages. 8.50x5.00x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 193 pages. 9.05x6.10x9.21 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 624 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade.

1st edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: xv, 596 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. Contents: Introduction / Oliver Taplin -- The spring of the muses : Homer and related poetry / Oliver Taplin -- The strangeness of 'song culture' : archaic Greek poetry / Leslie Kurke -- Powers of horror and laughter : the great age of drama / Peter Wilson -- Charting the poles of history : Herodotos and Thoukydides / Leslie Kurke -- Sages, sophists, and philosophers : Greek wisdom literature / Andrea Wilson Nightingale -- Observers of speeches and hearers of action : the Athenian orators / Chris Carey -- Sophisticates and solecisms : Greek literature after the classical period / Jane L. Lightfoot -- Romanized Greeks and Hellenized Romans : later Greek literature / Jane L. Lightfoot -- Primitivism and power : the beginnings of Latin literature / Matthew Leigh -- Forging a national identity : prose literature down to the time of Augustus / Christina S. Kraus -- Escapes from orthodoxy : poetry of the Republic / Llewelyn Morgan -- Creativity out of chaos : poetry between the death of Caesar and the death of Virgil / Llewelyn Morgan -- Coming to terms with the Empire : Poetry of the later Augustan and Tiberian period / Philip Hardie -- The path between truculence and servility : prose literature from Augustus to Hadrian / Christina S. Kraus -- Oblique politics : epic of the imperial period / Matthew Leigh -- Imperial space and time : the literature of leisure / Catherine Connors -- Culture wars : Latin literature from the second century to the end of the classical era / Michael Dewar. Subjects: Classical literature History and criticism. Classical literature. Greek literature History and criticism. Latin literature History and criticism. Greek literature. Latin literature. 1 Kg. …

1st edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: xv, 596 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. Contents: Introduction / Oliver Taplin -- The spring of the muses : Homer and related poetry / Oliver Taplin -- The strangeness of 'song culture' : archaic Greek poetry / Leslie Kurke -- Powers of horror and laughter : the great age of drama / Peter Wilson -- Charting the poles of history : Herodotos and Thoukydides / Leslie Kurke -- Sages, sophists, and philosophers : Greek wisdom literature / Andrea Wilson Nightingale -- Observers of speeches and hearers of action : the Athenian orators / Chris Carey -- Sophisticates and solecisms : Greek literature after the classical period / Jane L. Lightfoot -- Romanized Greeks and Hellenized Romans : later Greek literature / Jane L. Lightfoot -- Primitivism and power : the beginnings of Latin literature / Matthew Leigh -- Forging a national identity : prose literature down to the time of Augustus / Christina S. Kraus -- Escapes from orthodoxy : poetry of the Republic / Llewelyn Morgan -- Creativity out of chaos : poetry between the death of Caesar and the death of Virgil / Llewelyn Morgan -- Coming to terms with the Empire : Poetry of the later Augustan and Tiberian period / Philip Hardie -- The path between truculence and servility : prose literature from Augustus to Hadrian / Christina S. Kraus -- Oblique politics : epic of the imperial period / Matthew Leigh -- Imperial space and time : the literature of leisure / Catherine Connors -- Culture wars : Latin literature from the second century to the end of the classical era / Michael Dewar. Subjects: Classical literature History and criticism. Classical literature. Greek literature History and criticism. Latin literature History and criticism. Greek literature. Latin literature. 1 Kg. …

Softcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: N/A. Three issues of Omnibus, the journal of the JACT (Joint Association of Classical Teachers), Issue Three from March 1982; Issue Four from November 1982; and Issue Five from March 1983. 32pp stapled booklets with black and white illustrations in stiff card covers. 4to. Covers have a little gentle edge wear and are unevenly faded around margins and over spines. Internally a few minor signs of handling else neat, clean, bright and tight. Issue five has a crease to the front cover. As well as the usual association news and reviews, each issue of Omnibus have keys articles on classical and sometimes more recent history. Issue Three, which is a 'Virgil Special' has articles and essays on various aspects of Virgil as well as Royal Tombs in Macedonia; The Oresteia in London; Greek and Roman Toothache, etc; Issue Four includes Aphrodite's City in Turkey; Heracles in Cambridge; Harrison's Oresteia and Pope's Homer/ Issue Five has New Fields in Greek Archaeology; Elizabethan Latin; Classical Influences in 20th Century; Kipling's Horace, etc.…

paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 928 pages. 6.80x9.60x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 304 pages. 8.25x5.50x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 190 pages. 9.06x6.10x9.21 inches. In Stock.