Journal Hellenic Studies, Signed (5 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. pp114-125. VG/no jacket. Cream covers with black lettering. Gift inscription SIGNED by author on front cover. Small lateral tear to one staple area. Clean inside pages with no inscriptions. Signed by Author(s).

Condition: Gut. pp. 51-65, 2 pl. From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of the ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - With dedication by the author to W. Haase. - A clean copy. - From the text: Modern scholars have long recognised that much of the coinage minted by Seleucus I Nicator and Lysimachus was originally designed as some form of propaganda. They have met, however, with only partial success in trying to delineate more precisely the nature and purpose of that propaganda. Especially problematical have been those coin motifs which appear to advertise various omens, prophecies, and logoi about Seleucus and Lysimachus, which, in turn, would have lent a charismatic sanction to the kingships ol both men. These will be our main concern here; I wish to propose some refinements and some complete revisions of my predecessors conclusions about this coinage as propaganda. But, in so doing, I will need to review much of the evidence for other kinds of propaganda employed by these two men. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550 Private copy of the author, stapled.

Reprint, stapled. Condition: Gut. pp. 150-154. From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - With author's dedication to Jeff [Henderson]. - Slightly rubbed and bumped, text clean. - From the text: When the Erinyes catch up with Orestes in Athens they find him clutching the archaic wooden statue of Athena and invoking her aid along with that of Apollo {Eum. 235 ff). The Erinyes scorn his prayers and bid him hear their binding song: ymnon d ákoúsi tónde désmion (306). Wecklein in his 1888 edition of the play remarked erinnert an magische Künste and quoted Laws 933 a, where Plato, discussing murder by poison, makes brief mention of the popular belief in sorcerers, incantations and binding spells (katadéseis). Subsequent commentators repeat Weckleins brief note nearly verbatim and then elaborate it along two different lines, either claiming some vague Orphic source (Thomson 1938) or citing Wuenschs Defixionum Tahellae Atticae (Blass 1907; Groeneboom 1952). More recently, Lebeck argued that the ostensible title (binding song) is incompatible with the actual content of the stasimon (Apollos encroachment on the Erinyes power); she concluded that the title is irrelevant or at best only of secondary importance. - Wikipedia: Christopher A. Faraone (* 1955) ist ein US-amerikanischer Gräzist. Faraone wurde 1988 an der Universität Stanford zum Ph.D. promoviert und gehört seit 1991 der Fakultät der University of Chicago an, wo er als Frank Curtis Springer and Gertrude Melcher Springer Professor in the Humanities und Professor of classical languages and literature tätig ist. Seine Schwerpunkte sind die archaische und hellenistische griechische Dichtung, die antike Magie und die griechische Religion sowie die orientalischen Einflüsse auf die griechische Kultur. -- Another note on this reprint: N. B. Booth, The Chorus of Promethes Pyrphoros and Hesiod Th. 563. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550.

Reprint, stapled. Condition: Gut. pp. 60-80. From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - With author's dedication to Jeff [Henderson]. - A very good and clean copy. - From the text: The so-called Cyrenean Foundation Decree describes and paraphrases what appears to be the oath of the seventh-century Theran colonists who founded the city of Cyrene in Libya. This oath contains a conditional self-imprecation, a common enough feature of many Greek oaths, but one which in this case involves wax effigies in what can best be described as a ritual employing sympathetic magic: Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Reprint. Paperback. Slim tall8vo.pp. 53. Original publisherÕs stapled wraps in beige, lettered black. Loosely inserted compliment slip from the author: "With Best wishes J. M." Text amended in authors hand with four lines of poetry. Very good. Slight wear. Edges creased and nicked at top. Signedes.