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Ovid's Metamorphoses: selections

Price:  £6.00

Watson, C P and Reynell, A C eds.
The selections are in Latin with facing notes; the introductions in English. Cover creased, generally VG p175
Faber and Faber

Selected Works

Price:  £5.00

Cicero
'Against Tyranny - Verres, 2nd against Antony, letters - and How to Live - Duties, Old Age'. In the purple-bordered series. Slightly edge-worn, generally VG p272
Penguin Classics

Selections from Lucian

Price:  £5.00

Abbott, Evelyn
In Greek. Intended for students. Worn green cloth, some age-mottling, much pencil annotation, o/w VG p206
Rivington's

Stories from Greek Tragedy

Price:  £10.00

Havell, H L
A good retelling of Greek myth and legend, with an introductory chapter on drama. Finely decorated worn green and gold cloth, spine chipped top and base, leather spine open down one side, awards plate on front pastedown, hinge starting to back but still solid text block. Text clean and clear. p232
George G. Harrap & Co.

Tales Frae the Odyssey o Homer owreset intil Scots

Price:  £5.00

Neill, William
A splendid new translation, in rich Scots. VG, but ex-lib. p122
the Saltire Society

Tales of Greece and Rome

Price:  £5.00

Parley, Peter
Undated. Stories for children. Red cloth with embossed decoration, marks to eps, VG p224
Gresham

The Adelphoe

Price:  £5.00

Terence
With an introduction, notes and a critical appendix by Sidney G Ashmole. English introduction, Latin text. Red cloth, worn and marked and faded to the spine, internally VG p208
Macmillan

The Aeneid

Price:  £5.00

Virgil
In the purple-bordered series. With maps. Slightly edge-worn, generally VG p360
Penguin Classics

The Ancient Greeks

Price:  £5.00

Finley, M I
The political and economic structure of Greek society Good p204
Pelican

The Life of Proclus or Concerning Happiness

Price:  £35.00

Marinus of Samaria, trans. Kenneth S Guthrie
With an introduction by John Michell. A biographical account of the poet philosopher and scientist (412 - 485 AD), one of the last teachers at the Platonic Academy in Athens before the teaching of philosophy was banned in 529 by Justinian. Includes five hymns of Proclus, translated by Thomas Taylor. Name to half title, o/w VG. p93
Phanes Press

The Pastoral Poems - The Eclogues

Price:  £5.00

Virgil
A new prose translation, in the purple-bordered series. VG in slightly chipped wrapper p151
Penguin Classics

The Wit of the Greeks and Romans

Price:  £12.00

Ferguson, John
Witty quotations from classical authors, illustrated with cartoons. Grey cloth cover a little sunned and marked, missing ffep, generally VG, in slightly marked, edge-worn, price-clipped DJ, with one small closed tear but generally VG. p144
Leslie Frewin










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