Aurelius Augustus (5 results)

Softcover. Condition: Bon. Tome 1. Ammareal reverse jusqu'à 15% du prix net de cet article à des organisations caritatives. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Book Condition: Used, Good. Volume 1. Ammareal gives back up to 15% of this item's net price to charity organizations.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 489 p. ; LC: D52; Dewey: 930 ; similar to OCLC: 8647664 ; stiff paper wrappers ; Contents: History and historians : Greek and Roman -- Mesopotamia and Syria -- Egypt -- Hellas before the Persian War -- Hellas in the fifth century -- Alexander and the hellenistic age -- Early Rome and Italy -- Rome and the Mediterranean world -- The Roman revolution -- The age of Augustus -- The early Roman Empire -- The later Roman Empire ; writers include Aeschylus, Alcaeus, Appian, Apuleius, Aristophanes, Aristotle, Arrian, Augustus, Bion, Caesar, Cassius Dio, Cicero, Claudius, Cleanthes, Cleomedes, Demosthenes, Diocletian, Dionysius of Helicarnassus, Epicurus, Euripides, Herodotus, Hesiod, Homer, Horace, Isocrates, Josephus, Juvenal, Lactantius, Livy of Patavium, Lucan, Lucretius, Marcus Aurelius, Nepos, Plato, Pliny the Elder, Plutarch, Polybius, Pseudo-Xenophon, Sallust, Sophocles, Sozomen, Strabo, Suetonius, Tacitus, Thucydides, Tyrtaeus, Virgil, and Xenophon ; marks on first page ; foxing ; flyleaf edge-clipped; slight knock, slight edge wear; else G. Book.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 122 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.30 inches. This item is printed on demand.

Large 4to (210 x 267 mm). (2), 168, (2) ff. Publisher's original printed and illustrated boards with an oriental design in three colours and Persian letterpress on both covers. First and only edition of the "Meditations" of Emperor Marcus Aurelius both in the original Greek and in Persian, edited and translated by Joseph Hammer-Purgstall and printed in parallel on opposite pages throughout. "A meticulous typographical production" (Durstmüller). "The 1831 publication of Marcus Aurelius' Meditations in Persian comprises one of the 19th century's most intriguing cross-cultural and inter-religious texts. Produced by the Austrian Orientalist Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall, and addressed to the reigning Shah of Persia, this translation negotiates a wide diversity of concerns, including political diplomacy, literary aesthetics and religious difference" (J. Einboden, Stoicism or Sufism? Hammer-Purgstall's Persian Meditations, Middle Eastern Literatures 13.1 [2010], pp. 49-68). - Corners bumped, edges a little rubbed. Clean and uncut as issued in the publisher's charming original printed boards, a rare and early example of such a binding. - Hoffmann I, 187. Engelmann/Preuss I, 148. Goedeke VII, 766, 80. Durstmüller I, 263. Graesse I, 329. OCLC 257616436.

LXII, 388 S. Einband berieben. Durchgearbeitet und durchgehend mit Bleistiftanstreichungen und -marginalien. la Gewicht in Gramm: 1100 26 x 16 cm, Leinen ohne Schutzumschlag.