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		Ammianus and the Historia Augusta
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		Sir Ronald Syme
		Oxford University Press 2001 249 pages		Qty
		Hardback 0198143443
		Published Price £14.99		Our Price £11.99
	Forgery or not, the collection of biographies of emperors and usurpers from Hadrian to Numerianus (117 to 284 CE) known as the Historia Augusta has exercised classical scholars for centuries and raises intriguing questions of authorial motive and historiography. Symes brings peerless scholarship in Roman history and prosography to bear on the bogus Historia and the single 'artful impostor' who wrote it, assessing the history in relation to that of Ammianus Marcellinus and other writers such as Jerome and Marius Maximus and identifying contemporary events and people named in the Historia Augusta. (1968)
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		Piers the Plowman
		and Richard the Redeless, by William Langland		Sandpiper Editions
		Walter W Skeat (Edited by)
		Oxford University Press 2001 1112 pages		Qty
		Hardback 0198113668
		Published Price £45.00		Our Price £36.00
	Walter Skeat (1835-1912) completed his three-version edition of I>Piers the Plowman in 1886. It remains invaluable for the accuracy of the text and, in general, Skeat's conjectures and conclusions have either provided starting points for research or have been confirmed by later scholarship. Volume I presents the A, B and C texts, in parallel, and the text of Richard the Redeless, a poem at that time misattributed to Langland and now known as Mum and the Sothsegger. Volume II contains Skeat's critical introduction and commentaries on both Piers the Plowman and Richard the Redeless. (1968)
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		The Heart and Vascular System in Ancient Greek Medicine
		From Alcmaeon to Galen		Sandpiper Editions
		CRS Harris
		Oxford University Press 2001 486 pages		Qty
		Hardback 0198581351
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	This history of Greek medicine is structured around an investigation of how the ancient Greeks, in spite of their accurate knowledge of anatomy, failed to discover the circulation of the blood. Harris traces the development of ideas about the physiological function of the heart from the earliest writings by Alcmaeon in the 5th century BC, to the sphygmology of Galen (AD129-?199/216). Conceived as a source book for both classical scholars and historians of medicine, the book includes extensive quotation from Greek and Latin sources (in both English translation and the original languages). (1973)
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		Lucretius: De Rerum Natura
		(Three volumes)		Sandpiper Editions
		Cyril Bailey
		Oxford University Press 2001 1790 pages		Qty
		Hardback 0198144059
		Published Price £95.00		Our Price £76.00
	In his great didactic poem 'On the Nature of Things', Lucretius sought to release humankind from the fear of death and the tyranny of religion through the philosophy of Epicurus. 'Touching all with the muses' charm,' he set out in verse Epicurean atomic theory and views on the nature of the soul, mortality and psychological phenomena, and he presented an Epicurean view of the natural world and the rise of human civilization. Bailey's classic edition comprises a substantial prolegomena dealing with the poem's sources, structure, metre etc., the Latin text with literal English translation and a full commentary focusing on Epicurean philosophy and Lucretius' treatment of it. Our own Sandpiper reprint. (1947/1972)
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		The Patriarch Nicephorus of Constantinople
		Ecclesiastical Policy and Image Worship in the Byzantine Empire		Sandpiper Editions
		Paul J Alexander
		Oxford University Press 2001 304 pages		Qty
		Hardback 0198264011
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	The subject of Alexander's study is the Iconoclastic Controversy: the arguments concerning the legitimacy of Christian images that raged in the Byzantine Empire during the 8th and 9th centuries. The Controversy is studied through the Emperor Nicephorus, who became Patriarch of Constantinople in 806. As well as providing a complete picture of the issues involved in the struggle over religious images in his own Refutatio et Eversio and other writings, Nicephorus was almost alone in preserving documents of the Iconoclasts. The volume includes a paraphrase of Nicephorus' (unpublished) Refutatio et Eversio. (1958)
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		William Blake's Writings
		(Two volumes)		Sandpiper Editions
		GE Bentley (Edited by)
		Oxford University Press 2001 1826 pages		Qty
		Hardback 0198118856
		Published Price £75.00		Our Price £25.00
	Blake's writings survive in a remarkable variety of forms, from the conventional typography of his Poetical Sketches, to the unique illuminated printing of Songs of Innocence and of Experience, and from illustrated manuscript poems to marginalia and correspondence. Encompassing this great range of works, the Oxford English Texts edition presents texts established on the basis of Bentley's personal examination of each known surviving contemporary copy and reproduces, with notes, all the important printed designs Blake made for his own writings. Our own Sandpiper reprint. [1978]
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		Ptolemaic Alexandria
		(Three volumes)		Sandpiper Editions
		PM Fraser
		Oxford University Press 2001 2133 pages		Qty
		Hardback 0198142781
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	This account of Alexandrian life in the Ptolemaic period remains unsurpassed in the scope of its sources and the depth of detail in which Fraser examines the first 300 years of Alexander the Great's most successful city. Part I provides a framework for the study of Alexandrian cultural achievement and covers topics ranging from the topography of the city and the character of its population to the 'manufactured' religious cult of Serapis. Part II comprises a masterful survey of every branch of Alexandrian scientific and creative writing and, in particular, the poetry of Callimachus. An Epilogue discusses the transition to Roman dominion. [1972]
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		The Fable of the Bees
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		Bernard Mandeville
		Oxford University Press 2001 1045 pages		Qty
		Hardback 0198113692
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	In his Fable, published in 1723, Mandeville expounded the thesis that it is not virtue that promotes a happy and prosperous society, but vices such as envy and avarice. The book brought Mandeville instant notoriety, but while it provoked outrage from some quarters, it was admired in others and its arguments about the nature of man and the moral dilemmas of material prosperity were to become key issues for Enlightenment thinkers. F B Kaye's scholarly edition presents the Fable in its entirety, with a substantial critical introduction and a survey of contemporary responses to what a later critic described as 'the wickedest cleverest book in the English language'. [1924/1957]
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		The Celtic Gospels
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		Lemuel J Hopkins-James
		Oxford University Press 2001 354 pages		Qty
		Hardback 0199244944
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	The Book of Chad, also known as the Gospel of Teilo after the patron saint of Llandaff, where the manuscript originated, dates from before 720 AD and represents the earliest extant Welsh version of the Latin Gospels. This volume presents the first transcription of the Teilo- Chad manuscript, with lost sections made good from the Hereford Gospels. The Latin text is accompanied by an impressive critical apparatus, including a detailed history of the text and discussions of the various Latin versions and the relation of the Teilo-Chad texts to the Vulgate and other Gospel manuscripts. [1934]
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		Aristotle's Prior and Posterior Analytics
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		Sir David Ross
		Oxford University Press 2001 700 pages		Qty
		Hardback 0199244952
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	Aristotle's logical treatises could be said to have determined the course of logic and the philosophy of science for over 2,000 years. The Prior Analytics reveals the structure that Aristotle regarded as common to all reasoning - the syllogism - and shows its formal varieties irrespective of the subject matter of argument; while the Posterior Analytics studies how things should be defined - their basic explanatory features - in scientific reasoning. In this edition, Ross presents a revised Greek text with full introduction and commentary in English. [1949/1961]
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		Homeri Ilias
		(Three volumes)		Sandpiper Editions
		Thomas W Allen
		Oxford University Press 2000 1072 pages		Qty
		Hardback 0199241775
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	TW Allen, once described by ER Dodds in a discussion of Homeric scholarship as the 'most learned and formidable of the English unitarians', began his scrupulous collation of the papyri and medieval manuscripts of the Iliad in the 1880s and in 1920, he co-edited with DB Munro the Oxford Classical text upon which the Robert Fagles translation is based. The present work comprises the complete Greek text with a far more elaborate apparatus and a volume of Prolegomena. (1931)
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		Fit for Service
		The Training of the British Army, 1715-1795		Sandpiper Editions
		JA Houlding
		Oxford University Press 1999 488 pages		Qty
		Hardback maps 0198226470
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	In this study of the army's training regimen in the period between Marlborough's campaigns and the Duke of York's reforms, Houlding examines the circumstances that led to such ill-preparedness that one officer considered his troops 'in imminent danger of being cut to pieces in our first encounter.' Purchased commissions and the lack of drill regulations are commonly blamed for the poor training of the 18th century army. Houlding challenges that view, analysing War Office documents to present a detailed account of the army's peacetime preoccupations with civil matters which, he concludes, left it short of the time and opportunity for training. Our own Sandpiper reprint (1981)
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		Politics and Script
		Aspects of Authority and Freedom in the Development of Graeco-Latin Script		Sandpiper Editions
		Stanley Morison
		Oxford University Press 1999 366 pages		Qty
		Hardback Illustrated 0198181469
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	The central argument of this work is that the development of script (inscriptional, calligraphic or typographical) has been the result of changes in religious or political environment, of friction between church and state, and of the schism between Eastern and Western Christendom. Beginning with alphabetic forms on a 6th century BC gravestone from Melos, Morison's commentary on over 180 illustrated specimens traces the career of the Graeco-Roman alphabet up to newspaper typefaces of the 1950s and also shows how modern typefaces owe more to Greek than Roman antecedents. (1972)
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		Early Latin Verse
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		WM Lindsay
		Oxford University Press 2000 350 pages		Qty
		Hardback 0198143486
		Published Price £14.99		Our Price £11.99
	"Words and letters are the dry bones of a language. It is the tone of utterance that breathes life into them." In this attempt to discover the tone of that utterance, Lindsay criticizes the 'layer rubbish' deposited on Roman dramatic verse by previous scholars which which obstructed any attempt to recover the intonation of Roman speech. His study is the classic work on metre and prosody in prosody in Plautus and deals particularly with the law of 'breves breviantes or iambic shortening, and the relation of verse-ictus with the accent of ordinary speech. (1922, reprinted 1968)
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		St Edmund of Abingdon
		A Study in Hagiography and History		Sandpiper Editions
		CH Lawrence
		Oxford University Press 1999 339 pages		Qty
		Hardback 0198212755
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	St Edmund was the last Archbishop of Canterbury and the first Oxford master to have been officially canonized. He is also the first member of the nascent university about whom anything considerable is known and an important figure in late 12th century political history. This study of the literary sources for Edmund's life presents a scrutiny of the primary texts - the Quadrilogus (from the canonization process), the Lives by Eustace of Faversham and Matthew Paris, the letters of postulation - and their relation to each other and to other Lives. Texts in Latin. (1960)
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