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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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		Aristotle: Parva Naturalia
		A Revised Text with Introduction and Commentary		Sandpiper Editions
		Sir David Ross
		Oxford University Press 2001 365 pages		Qty
		Hardback 0198141084
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	Among the most interesting of Aristotle's works is the collection of treatises known as Parva Naturalia but more accurately described in Aristotle's own phrase, 'the phenomena common to soul and body'. Part psychological, part physiological, the treatises discuss subjects such as sensation, memory, waking and sleep, youth and age, respiration and expiration and life and death. They also give the earliest formulation of the laws of association and record certain sensory illusions which Aristotle seems to have been the first to mention. A revised Greek text, with critical introduction and commentary in English. (1955/1970)
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		Arthurian Literature in the Middle Ages
		A Collaborative History		Sandpiper Editions
		Roger Sherman Loomis (Edited by)
		Oxford University Press 2001 574 pages		Qty
		Hardback 0198115881
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	Reflecting the 'prodigious vogue of Arthurian romance and pseudo- history in Western Christendom during the Middle Ages', this volume comprises 41 essays dealing with the manifestations of the 'Matter of England' throughout medieval Europe. Conceived as a successor to James Douglas Bruce's Evolution of Arthurian Romance (1923), the book goes beyond Bruce's cut-off date of 1300 and incorporates the research findings - most notably the work on previously obscure Welsh texts - of the intervening 35 years. (1959)
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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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		Plato: Gorgias
		A Revised Text with Introduction and Commentary		Sandpiper Editions
		ER Dodds
		Oxford University Press 2001 406 pages		Qty
		Hardback 019814153X
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	In this critical edition of the Gorgias, Dodds takes into account the 'exceptionally rich indirect tradition' as well as all available papyri and alternative and minor manuscripts. His introduction covers the subject and structure of the dialogue, its historical and cultural background, the text and its transmission, the ancient commentaries and the Neoplatonists. A master of both technical and interpretive elements, Dodds presents an excellent edition of the Greek text, with extensive textual notes and full commentary. Greek text with apparatus in English. (1959)
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		Euripides: Hippolytus (1964)
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		WS Barrett (Edited by)
		Oxford University Press 2001 453 pages		Qty
		Hardback 019814167X
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	Euripides' great tragedy tells the story of Hippolytos, the son of Theseus, of how his stepmother Phaidra falls in love with him and of his death, caused by a bull from the sea sent by Poseidon in answer to Theseus' prayers. Barrett presents a Greek text of the play based on collations of ten medieval manuscripts and all known papyri, with an introduction that includes detailed studies of the legend of Hippolytos and the history of the text, notes and commentary. (1964)
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		Lucretius: De Rerum Natura
		(Three volumes)		Sandpiper Editions
		Cyril Bailey
		Oxford University Press 2001 1790 pages		Qty
		Hardback 0198144059
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	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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		Ptolemaic Alexandria
		(Three volumes)		Sandpiper Editions
		PM Fraser
		Oxford University Press 2001 2133 pages		Qty
		Hardback 0198142781
		Published Price £120.00		Our Price £72.00
	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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		The Politics of Aristotle
		(Four volumes)		Sandpiper Editions
		WL Newman
		Oxford University Press 2000 2552 pages		Qty
		Hardback 0199241791
		Published Price £120.00		Our Price £96.00
	As a lecturer at Oxford, William L Newman (1834-1923) exercised a profound influence on the teaching of history and political philosophy. An important characteristic of his work, the balancing of philosophy and practice, informs his commentary on the Politics and particularly the volume-length Introductory Essay which amounts to a treatise in itself. The remaining volumes contain six prefatory essays, critical notes and commentary accompanying the Greek text, plus various appendixes. (Vols I & II, 1897; Vols III & IV, 1902)
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		Anna Comnena
		A Study		Sandpiper Editions
		Georgina Buckler
		Oxford University Press 2000 576 pages		Qty
		Hardback 0198214715
		Published Price £19.99		Our Price £15.99
	The first woman historian, Anna Comnena (1083-1148) was a princess of the Comneni dynasty, the eldest daughter of the Byzantine emperor Alexius I. Written in a monastery after the deaths of her father and husband, Nikephorus, her celebrated biography of her father, the Alexias is the only Greek contemporary account of the court of Alexius and of the First Crusade. First published in 1929, long before any English translation of the Alexias, Buckler's book remains the only full length study of Anna Comnena as a woman, a historian and a writer. (1929, reprinted 1968).
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