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Aesop’s Fables. (Arthur Rackham SIGNED)
- £1,200.00
- "The peculiar secret of Rackham's success in seizing upon the essence of the human and portraying it in animal form, which is after all the basic device of the morality, is unwittingly touched upon in Chesterton's delightful introduction to the 1912 edition of Aesop's Fables: 'There can be no good…
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Iuventus Mundi: The Gods and Men of the Heroic Age
- £60.00
- From the preface by the multi-termed Prime Minister, William Gladstone: In this work, which is mainly the produce of the two Recesses of 1867 and 1868, I have endeavoured to embody the greater part of the results at which I arrived in the ' Studies on Homer and the Homeric…
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Pax (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- The definitive history of Rome's golden age - antiquity's ultimate superpower at the pinnacle of its greatness. The Pax Romana has long been revered as a golden age. At its peak, the Roman Empire stretched from Scotland to Arabia, and contained perhaps a quarter of humanity. It was the wealthiest…
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Pax (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- The definitive history of Rome's golden age - antiquity's ultimate superpower at the pinnacle of its greatness. The Pax Romana has long been revered as a golden age. At its peak, the Roman Empire stretched from Scotland to Arabia, and contained perhaps a quarter of humanity. It was the wealthiest…
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Pompeian Dog
- £30.00
- Trypanis moved the UK from his native Greece to become Professor of Byzantine and Modern Greek at Oxford in 1947. This is his 3rd collection of poems. He moved to the USA in 1968, and then returned to Greece to become Minister of Culture and Sciences in 1974-1977.
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Pompeii, a novel
- £12.00
- A sweltering week in late August; where better to enjoy the last days of summer than on the beautiful Bay of Naples? All along the coast, the Roman Empire's richest citizens are relaxing in their luxurious villas. The world's largest navy lies peacefully at anchor in Misenum. The tourists are…
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The Oxford Book of Greek Verse in Translation
- £40.00
- Designed 'both for Greekless readers and for those who require help in reading and appreaiting the origiinal. Every piece in the Greek book is translated, usually into verse; but specimens are also giving of prose translations by Henry Fielding, Walter pater, Samuel Butler, T. E. Lawrence, and others. Altogether about…
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The Praise Singer
- £50.00
- The great lyric poet Simonides lived in ancient Greece when tyrants kept an unsteady rule and poetry, music, and royal patronage combined to produce a flowering of the arts. Born into a stern farming family on the island of Keos, Simonides escapes his harsh childhood through a lucky apprenticeship with…
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The Secret History (Folio)
- £30.00
- A trusted member of the Byzantine establishment, Procopius was the Empire's official chronicler, and his History of the Wars of Justinian proclaimed the strength and wisdom of the Emperor's reign. Yet all the while the dutiful scribe was working on a very different - and dangerous - history to be…
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The Silence of the Girls
- £8.00
- There was a woman at the heart of the Trojan War whose voice has been silent - until now. Discover the greatest Greek myth of all - retold by the witness that history forgot . . . Briseis was a queen until her city was destroyed. Now she is a…
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Aesop’s Fables. (Arthur Rackham SIGNED)
- £1,200.00
- "The peculiar secret of Rackham's success in seizing upon the essence of the human and portraying it in animal form, which is after all the basic device of the morality, is unwittingly touched upon in Chesterton's delightful introduction to the 1912 edition of Aesop's Fables: 'There can be no good…
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Iuventus Mundi: The Gods and Men of the Heroic Age
- £60.00
- From the preface by the multi-termed Prime Minister, William Gladstone: In this work, which is mainly the produce of the two Recesses of 1867 and 1868, I have endeavoured to embody the greater part of the results at which I arrived in the ' Studies on Homer and the Homeric…
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Pax (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- The definitive history of Rome's golden age - antiquity's ultimate superpower at the pinnacle of its greatness. The Pax Romana has long been revered as a golden age. At its peak, the Roman Empire stretched from Scotland to Arabia, and contained perhaps a quarter of humanity. It was the wealthiest…
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Pax (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- The definitive history of Rome's golden age - antiquity's ultimate superpower at the pinnacle of its greatness. The Pax Romana has long been revered as a golden age. At its peak, the Roman Empire stretched from Scotland to Arabia, and contained perhaps a quarter of humanity. It was the wealthiest…
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Pompeian Dog
- £30.00
- Trypanis moved the UK from his native Greece to become Professor of Byzantine and Modern Greek at Oxford in 1947. This is his 3rd collection of poems. He moved to the USA in 1968, and then returned to Greece to become Minister of Culture and Sciences in 1974-1977.
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Pompeii, a novel
- £12.00
- A sweltering week in late August; where better to enjoy the last days of summer than on the beautiful Bay of Naples? All along the coast, the Roman Empire's richest citizens are relaxing in their luxurious villas. The world's largest navy lies peacefully at anchor in Misenum. The tourists are…
- Add to basket
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The Oxford Book of Greek Verse in Translation
- £40.00
- Designed 'both for Greekless readers and for those who require help in reading and appreaiting the origiinal. Every piece in the Greek book is translated, usually into verse; but specimens are also giving of prose translations by Henry Fielding, Walter pater, Samuel Butler, T. E. Lawrence, and others. Altogether about…
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The Praise Singer
- £50.00
- The great lyric poet Simonides lived in ancient Greece when tyrants kept an unsteady rule and poetry, music, and royal patronage combined to produce a flowering of the arts. Born into a stern farming family on the island of Keos, Simonides escapes his harsh childhood through a lucky apprenticeship with…
- Add to basket
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The Secret History (Folio)
- £30.00
- A trusted member of the Byzantine establishment, Procopius was the Empire's official chronicler, and his History of the Wars of Justinian proclaimed the strength and wisdom of the Emperor's reign. Yet all the while the dutiful scribe was working on a very different - and dangerous - history to be…
- Add to basket
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The Silence of the Girls
- £8.00
- There was a woman at the heart of the Trojan War whose voice has been silent - until now. Discover the greatest Greek myth of all - retold by the witness that history forgot . . . Briseis was a queen until her city was destroyed. Now she is a…
- Add to basket