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A Handbook of Latin Literature

Price:  £5.00

Rose, H.J.
Part of the University Paperbacks series. Written as a companion to the author's Handbook of Greek Literature, and covers the period from the earliest times to the death of St. Augustine. Good - cover worn, slight marks. p582
Methuen & Co

Ecce Aeneas - selections from Virgil's Aeneid, books I and II

Price:  £8.00

Virgil, Philip, Henry L ed.
An edition for schools, with clear notes facing the Latin text. VG, no inscriptions. p142
Oliver and Boyd

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 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 Agamemnon of Aeschylus

Price:  £8.00

Bradfield College Sixth Form Boys of 1900
The Greek text, with English verse translation in parallel. A ticket, to the 1949 production at the college, is loosely laid in. With brief biographies of the class of 1900, some of whom were killed in action 1914-18. Covers worn and marked, small splits to spine, age-mottling to prelims, small name to ffep, clean, tight and sound, good. p60
Bradfield College

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:  £30.00

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 Rapes of Lucretia - a myth and its transformations

Price:  £50.00

Donaldson, Ian
An examination of the origins of the story and the many ways it has been interpreted over the centuries. Ex-lib, wear to feps and stamps to prelims and edge of page block, o/w clean, tight and sound, good in VG DJ. p203
Clarendon Press

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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