Here are the 48 books catalogued as of August 22, 2007, in this area of Ancient History. You may also wish to browse the books on the archeaology page also. And remember, ordering is easy from Ray Boas, Bookseller in Walpole, New Hampshire. Thank you, RAY
1. Bonnard, Andre (translated by A. Lytton Sells), GREEK CIVILIZATION: FROM THE ILIAD TO THE PARTHENON, The Macmillan Company, New York, (1957) 2nd ptg, B&W illustrations, 200pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), A study of Greek civilization covering the period of growth from Homer to Pericles. The author describes and analyzes the Iliad and the Odyssey, the tragedies of Aeschylus, the work of the lyric poets, the status of Greek women, Greek religion, and the problems of destiny and justice, etc., and ends with the formation of Athenian democracy under Pericles., (Order No: 34114 ), $7.50
2. Bowra, C. M., THE GREEK EXPERIENCE, The World Publishing Company, Cleveland, OH, (1957) 1st ed, 64 B&W ill., 213pp, good w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover), A brillant survey of classical culture and history from the time of Homer to the fall of Athens in 404 B.C., (Order No: 22303 ), $5.00
3. Boyer, Sophia A. and Lubell, Winifred, GIFTS FROM THE GREEKS: ALPHA TO OMEGA, Rand McNally & Company, Chicago, IL, (1970) 1st ptg, illustrations, 144pp, good+ w/lightly edgeworn dustjacket (hardcover), Sophia Boyer has chosen twenty-four key words, each beginning with a different letter of the Greek alphabet, and skillfully uses these words as launching pads to take the reader into the areas of Greek life that have enriched our own way of life., (Order No: 43182 ), $9.50
4. Branigan, Keith & Vickers, Michael, HELLAS: THE CIVILIZATIONS OF ANCIENT GREECE, McGraw-Hill Book Co., New York, (1980), B&W and color illustrations, 224pp, fine w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0070072299, (Order No: 5142 ), $14.50
5. Brilliant, Richard, POMPEII AD 79: THE TREASURE OF REDISCOVERY, Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., New York, (1979), B&W and color illustrations, 305pp, good w/chipped dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0517538598, (Order No: 37611 ), $14.50
6. Cicero (selected from the correspondence of) and McKinlay, Arthur Patch (translated by), LETTERS OF A ROMAN GENTLEMAN, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, MA, (1926), B&W illustrations, 249pp, good++, black cloth spine (hardcover) (no dustjacket), Contents include: Introduction; Reader's Guide; The Chronology; Rising and Falling; Mending Political Fences; Marking Time in Cilicia; Watching and Waiting; Finding Consolation in Work; Carrying On; Conclusion., (Order No: 45643 ), $75.00
7. Cornish, F., THE SOCIAL HISTORY OF CHIVALRY, Kegan Paul, London, (2003), B&W illustrations, 231pp, fine, pictorial boards (hardcover), ISBN 0710309201 This book, a collection of lectures delivered at King's College, London in 1925, is a brilliant tribute to the spirit of chivalry., (Order No: 40859 ), $115.00
8. Cunliffe, Barry, FISHBOURNE: A ROMAN PALACE AND ITS GARDEN, Thames and Hudson, London, (1971), B&W and color illustrations, 228pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 050039007X Barry Cunliffe, Professor of Archaeology at Southampton University, describes the whole story of the excavation which he himself directed, unfolding the history of the site from the early military beginnings up to the final destruction of the palace by fire., (Order No: 44851 ), $20.00
9. Diffie, Bailey W. and Noland, Aaron (editors), SELECTED READINGS IN THE HISTORY OF CIVILIZATION, City College of New York, New York, (1964) 2nd ptg, 364pp, good, gray cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket), (Order No: 11594 ), $8.50
10. Farber, Joseph C. (edited and with photographs by) (preface by Homer A. Thompson; translation by Aubrey de Selincourt), DEMOCRACY'S FIRST STRUGGLE: HERODOTUS' HISTORIES, Barre Publishing, Barre, MA, 1975 1st ed, B&W illustrations, 150pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover) closed tear on jacket, ISBN 051752094X The author captures the spirit of Herodotus. With his camera in one hand, and Herodotus' HISTORIES in the other, he traveled in Greece and Egypt for three years, photographing the places, temples, statuary, and archeological artifacts related to the text., (Order No: 15324 ), $7.50
11. Ferguson, Adam, THE HISTORY OF THE PROGRESS AND TERMINATION OF THE ROMAN REPUBLIC - A NEW EDITION IN THREE VOLUMES (COMPLETE), Printed for T. & J. Allman, Edinburgh - London, 1828, all 6 maps present, very good, 3/4 leather, marbled boards (hardcover) light rubbing, Volume I, 533pp; Volume II, 596pp; and Volume III, 532pp. An exceptionally nice clean and tight set with light rubbing only to the extemities of the leather., (Order No: 49255 ), $300.00
12. Franzero, Carlo Maria, THE LIFE AND TIMES OF TARQUIN THE ETRUSCAN, The John Day Company, New York, (1961) 1st Amer, B&W illustrations, 254pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), Presenting the Etruscans at the pinnacle of their power, Mr. Franzero centers his attention on Tarquin the Proud, whose tyrannical rule of early Rome culminated in the ravishing of Lucrece and the consequent expulsion of the Tarquinian dynasty., (Order No: 49327 ), $5.00
13. Glotz, Gustave, ANCIENT GREECE AT WORK - AN ECONOMIC HISTORY OF GREECE FROM THE HOMERIC PERIOD TO THE ROMAN CONQUEST, Routledge & Kegan Paul, Ltd., London, (1965), B&W illustrations, 402pp, very good, blue cloth (hardcover), First published in 1926., (Order No: 47643 ), $17.50
14. Glusker, Irwin; von Rosenvinge, Christian; and, Hollander, Lilly (designed by) (photographs by Lee Boltin and Ken Kay), FROM THE LANDS OF THE SCYTHIANS: ANCIENT TREASURES FROM THE MUSEUMS OF THE U.S.S.R., 3000 B.C.-100 B.C., Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, c1968, B&W and color ill., B&W maps, 160pp, good+, wraps (softcover), This landmark exhibition comprises 197 works of art from the ancient civilizations of the territories that now are part of the Soviet Union., (Order No: 19560 ), $5.00
15. Grant, Michael, THE ARMY OF THE CAESARS, Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, (1974) 2nd ptg, B&W illustrations, 365pp, good+ w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0684138212 The author shows how the rise and decline of imperial Rome was intimately connected with the balance of political and military power., (Order No: 33678 ), $5.00
16. Grmek, Mirko D. (translated by Mireille Muellner and Leonard Muellner), DISEASES IN THE ANCIENT GREEK WORLD, Johns Hopkins University Pr., Baltimore, MD, (1989), 458pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover) owner inscription, ISBN 0801827981 Author provides a vivid picture of the illnesses that plagued the men, women, and children of the ancient world., (Order No: 51670 ), $24.50
17. Hallo, William W. and Simpson, William Kelly, THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST: A HISTORY, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York, (1971), B&W illustrations, 319pp, very good, wraps (softcover), ISBN 0155027557, (Order No: 49665 ), $5.00
18. Hammond, N. G. L., THE GENIUS OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT, Univ. of North Carolina Pr., Chapel Hill, NC, (1997) 2nd ptg, B&W illustrations, 220pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0807823503 "Tells with pace and clarity of style a dynamic tale of a military and administrative genius.", (Order No: 51877 ), $5.00
19. Hardy, W. G., THE GREEK AND ROMAN WORLD, Schenkman Publishing Company, Cambridge, MA, (1970) rev ed, B&W illustrations, 124pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), This book vividly reconstructs the day-to-day life of the Greeks and Romans--how they worked and amused themselves, what they ate and wore, and, above all, how they thought and how they reacted to the world about them., (Order No: 15388 ), $5.00
20. Hawthorn, J. R., THE REPUBLICAN EMPIRE, Macmillan & Co. Ltd., London, 1963, B&W maps, 298pp, very good, pictorial boards (hardcover), This book is an attempt to assess the nature of the Republican empire., (Order No: 38483 ), $25.00
21. Hopper, R. J.; photographs by Werner Forman, THE ACROPOLIS, The Macmillan Company, New York, (1971) 1st Amer, photographs by Werner Forman, 240pp, good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), The Acropolis or "upper city" of Athens is the most important surviving example of Greek architecture--the seat of Greek civilization and culture., (Order No: 31392 ), $10.00
22. Hornyak, William F., A PORTRAIT HISTORY OF THE ROMAN EMPERORS BASED ON COINS AND MEDALLIONS, Morris Publishing, Kearney, NE, (1998), B&W illustrations, 168pp, index, fine, wraps (softcover), ISBN 1575028239 Portraits are presented for over 150 Roman emperors and prominent historical figures in the period from 60 B.C. to A.D. 425. These portraits are based on coins and medallions of the highest quality., (Order No: 50287 ), $60.00
23. Johnston, Alan, THE EMERGENCE OF GREECE - THE MAKING OF THE PAST SERIES, Elsevier Phaidon, New York, (1976), 209 ill. w/156 in color, 151pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0729000435 A survey of Archaic Greece up to 480 BC (the period between the Mycenaean civilization and the Classical world) and the Greek colonies on the Black Sea, in Italy and Sicily, with a glance at the Carthaginians in North Africa, to 300 BC., (Order No: 16358 ), $10.00
24. Kagan, Donald, THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR, Viking, New York, (2003) 2nd ptg, B&W maps, 511pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0670032115 Kagan captures the dynamic of war in his thrilling recreations of some of the most famous military campaigns of antiquity, from the misguided Athenian offensive in Sicily to the stunning Spartan victory at Aegospotami., (Order No: 39601 ), $15.00
25. Lau, Robert Julius, OLD BABYLONIAN TEMPLE RECORDS, Columbia University Press, New York, 1906 1st ed, B&W ill., 35 plates, 89pp of text, very good+, light brown cloth (hardcover) nice clean/tight copy, Columbia University Oriental Studies Vol. III. A study of a series of documents coming from one of the oldest of the temples, dealing chiefly with the manner in which its priests handled the revenues in kind and money which represented the offerings of the faithful. Includes "Sign-List and Glossary.", (Order No: 8658 ), $85.00
26. Mahaffy, John P., PROLEGOMENA TO ANCIENT HISTORY, Longmans, Green, & Co., London, 1871, B&W illustrations, 439pp, good, green cloth (hardcover), CONTAINING PART I. - THE INTERPRETATION OF LEGENDS AND INSCRIPTIONS, PART II. - A SURVEY OF OLD EGYPTIAN LITERATURE., (Order No: 46590 ), $20.00
27. Maranon, Gregorio (forword by Ronald Syme), TIBERIUS: THE RESENTFUL CAESAR, Duell, Sloan and Pearce, New York, (1956) 1st ed, 234pp, good+, blue cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket), Dr. Maranon presents with rare brilliance the personalities, the forces, the motives which shaped the Emperor's character and guided his acts., (Order No: 16645 ), $7.50
28. Mattingly, Harold (introduction by Thomas Ollive Mabbott), THE MAN IN THE ROMAN STREET, Numismatic Review, New York, 1947 1st ed, 116pp, fine, blue cloth (hardcover), (Order No: 41755 ), $20.00
29. Mazzarino, Santo (translated by George Holmes), THE END OF THE ANCIENT WORLD, Faber and Faber, London, (1966), 198pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover) pencil rear endpapers, First published in 1959. The first six chapters consist of a brilliant historiographical survey of the idea of decadence, making clear its assumptions and drawing out its consequences without losing touch with the way in which particular writers, from Sumerian times until Gibbon, had treated it. The second half of the book develops the enquiry by shifting the focus of attention on to particular problems and aspects of the decline of the ancient world discussing the way modern writers have approached them., (Order No: 48006 ), $10.00
30. Millar, Fergus, THE ROMAN NEAR EAST 31 BC - AD 337, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1993, B&W maps, 587pp, very good+ w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0674778855 In a remarkable work of interpretive history, Fergus Millar shows us a world as it was forged into the Roman provinces of Syria, Judaea, Arabia, and Mesopotamia., (Order No: 44856 ), $40.00
31. Miller, Helen Hill, GREEK HORIZONS, Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, (1961), B&W illustrations, 255pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover) couple closed tears dj, For anyone planning a trip to Greece this is an ideal and stimulating introduction, since it provides a quick view of the Greek mainland and islands as the traveler today sees them-the landscape, the people, and the prehistoric, classical and Byzantine remains., (Order No: 11839 ), $4.00
32. Milton, Joyce (preface by William Kelly Simpson), SUNRISE OF POWER: ANCIENT EGYPT, ALEXANDER AND THE WORLD OF HELLENISM, Boston Publishing Company, Boston, MA, (1986), over 300 color ill., 174pp, very good+ w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0150040425 Part of EMPIRES: THEIR RISE AND FALL series. Through pictures and words, this book brings the reader face to face with one of the world's greatest empires., (Order No: 16413 ), $4.50
33. Moore, Frank Gardner, THE ROMAN'S WORLD, Columbia University Press, New York, 1936 1st ed, B&W ill., maps, plans, 502pp, very good, red cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket), (Order No: 9823 ), $10.00
34. Peckham, J. Brian, THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE LATE PHOENICIAN SCRIPTS, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1968, B&W plates, 233pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), A systematic paleographical analysis that traces the typological development of the Phoenician and Punic scripts from the eighth to the first century B.C. Neopunic scripts are also discussed, principally as a lower limit to the development of Punic., (Order No: 49432 ), $15.00
35. Rand, Christopher, GRECIAN CALENDAR, Oxford University Press, New York, 1962 2nd ptg, B&W maps, 203pp, good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), The unifying theme of this book is a narrative of the author's movements as time unfolds and as the seasons change., (Order No: 33975 ), $10.00
36. Rollin, Charles, THE ANCIENT HISTORY OF THE EGYPTIANS, CARTHAGINIANS, ASSYRIANS, BABYLONIANS, MEDES AND PERSIANS, MACEDONIANS AND GRECIANS, Samuel Walker, Boston, MA, 1823, plates and maps complete, 2 volume set, good+, full calf binding (hardcover) some light foxing, "A New and Improved Edition, Translated from the French in Two Volumes." Volume I, 624 pages, index; Volume II, 630 pages, index. Two frontis plates, 6 maps (some folding) and 15 full plates are all bound in as called for in binding instructions. A nice clean and tight set., (Order No: 48435 ), $225.00
37. Sagan, Eli, THE HONEY AND THE HEMLOCK: DEMOCRACY AND PARANOIA IN ANCIENT ATHENS AND MODERN AMERICA, Basic Books, New York, (1991) 1st ptg, 429pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover) review press release laid in, ISBN 0465030580 "Democracy is a miracle," Eli Sagan writes, "considering human psychological disabilities." To shed light on this "miracle," Sagan focuses on the world's first democratic society, Athens, and mounts a compelling argument that Athens and the modern American republic, although separated by more than two thousand years, share the same fundamental moral and psychological dilemmas., (Order No: 9021 ), $6.00
38. Samivel, THE GLORY OF GREECE, Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., New York, (1962), 5 color plates, 110 B&W ill., 266pp, good+ w/good dustjacket (hardcover), The world of the Ancient Greeks, whose civilization was at once the fountain-head and the inspiration of our own Western culture., (Order No: 15414 ), $10.00
39. Seltman, Charles, RIOT IN EPHESUS: WRITINGS ON THE HERITAGE OF GREECE, Max Parrish, London, (1958), B&W frontis, 172pp, good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), These essays show Charles Seltman at his best- -a worthy disciple of Erasmus whose rooms he occupied at Queens' College., (Order No: 47159 ), $15.00
40. Setton, Kenneth M., ATHENS IN THE MIDDLE AGES, Variorum Reprints, London, 1975, B&W illustrations, 270pp, very good+, blue cloth (hardcover) owner's name, ISBN 0902089846 The half-dozen articles contained in this volume were written over a period of more than thirty years. Contents include: The Archaeology of Medieval Athens; On the Raids of the Moslems in the Aegean in the Ninth and Tenth Centuries and their Alleged Occupation of Athens; Athens in the Later Twelfth Century; The Catalans in Greece, 1311-1380; Catalan Society in Greece in the Fourteenth Century; The Catalans and Florentines in Greece, 1380-1462., (Order No: 47767 ), $175.00
41. Soisson, Pierre; Soisson, Janine & Macrae, David (translated by), BYZANTIUM, Minerva, Geneve, (1977), B&W illustrations, 143pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover), The text and the illustrations of this book bring alive again the wonders of Constantinople, the astonishing court of the Basileus, and of the whole of Byzantine society, with special chapters on the role of women and of the inmense body of clergy whose influence so permeated the life of Byzantium., (Order No: 14047 ), $5.00
42. Stone, I. F., THE TRIAL OF SOCRATES, Little, Brown and Company, Boston, (1988), 282pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover) BCE, ISBN 0316817589 "In a feat of investigative journalism and classical scholarship, a veteran Washington correspondent has gone back almost twenty-five hundred years to throw fresh light on the most famus free speech case of all time - the trial of Socrates.", (Order No: 28758 ), $3.00
43. Thucydides; Smith, William (translated by), HISTORY OF THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR. TRANSLATED FROM THE GREEK OF THUCYDIDES - VOLUME TWO ONLY - THE FAMILY LIBRARY NO. 23, Harper & Brothers, New York, 1844, 385pp, good+, brown cloth (hardcover), Offered is Volume Two of two ONLY., (Order No: 48890 ), $20.00
44. Tsountas, Chrestos and Manatt, J. Irving (with an introduction by Dr. Dorpfeld), THE MYCENAEAN AGE: A STUDY OF THE MONUMENTS AND CULTURE OF PRE-HOMERIC GREECE, Houghton, Mifflin and Co., Boston, MA, 1897, B&W illustrations, 417pp, good, decorated olive green cloth (hardcover), Contents include: Landmarks of the Mycenaean World; The Fortress-City; The Palace; The Private House and Domestic Life; The Dwellings of the Dead: Shaft-Graves; The Dwellings of the Dead: Beehive and Chamber Tombs; Dress and Personal Adornment; Arms and War; Some Phases of Mycenaean Art; The Islands as Mediators in Art; Writing in Mycenaean Greece; Religion; The Problem of Mycenaean Chronology; The Problem of the Mycenaean Race; The Mycenaean World and Homer., (Order No: 39847 ), $65.00
45. Vermaseren, M. J., THE LEGEND OF ATTIS IN GREEK AND ROMAN ART, E. J. Brill, Leiden, Netherlands, 1966, B&W plates, 60pp, plates, very good+, wraps (softcover) small note page 31, owners name, Contents include: Attis' Birth; Attis' Childhood; Cybele's Passion for Attis; Attis sese mutilans et moriens; Attis tristis et hilaris., (Order No: 47160 ), $75.00
46. Whiting, Lilian, ATHENS: THE VIOLET-CROWNED, Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1913 1st ed, 36 B&W ill., 361pp, very good, pictorial gray cloth, teg (hardcover), (Order No: 11595 ), $15.00
47. Williams, J. (Rev.), THE LIFE AND ACTIONS OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT - THE FAMILY LIBRARY NO. 7, Harper & Brothers, New York, 1843, fold-out map, 351pp, good, brown cloth (hardcover), (Order No: 48889 ), $20.00
48. Woodcock, P. G. (editor), DICTIONARY OF ANCIENT HISTORY, Philosophical Library, New York, (1981), 465pp, good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), A concise and comprehensive volume on most of the important people and events of classical antiquity. Emphasis has been placed upon Greek and Roman history, however, many entries pertaining to other early civilizations are included, particularly from the Judaic, Egyptian and Persian cultures., (Order No: 15413 ), $10.00