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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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		Homeri Ilias
		(Three volumes)		Sandpiper Editions
		Thomas W Allen
		Oxford University Press 2000 1072 pages		Qty
		Hardback 0199241775
		Published Price £50.00		Our Price £40.00
	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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		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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		Porphyrius the charioteer
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		Alan Cameron
		Oxford University Press 1998 314 pages		Qty
		Hardback Illustrated 0198148054
		Published Price £14.99		Our Price £11.99
	Porphyrius Calliopas was the greatest hero of the 6th century Byzantine hippodrome, celebrated in the Anthology and in monumental reliefs. Only two bases of monuments to Porphyrius survive, the second found in 1963. Cameron presents a full study of this second base, elucidating the iconography, explaining the inscriptions and also reassessing the first base. From the evidence of the bases and epigrams, he is able to reconstruct the careers of Porphyrius and fellow charioteers, exploring their fame and material rewards. [1973]
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		Social and Economic History of the Hellenistic World
		(Three volumes)		Sandpiper Editions
		Michael Rosztovtzeff
		Oxford University Press 1998 1931 pages		Qty
		Hardback Illustrated 0198142307
		Published Price £60.00		Our Price £25.00
	Widely regarded as a landmark study of the Hellenistic period, Rostovtzeff's 'Social and Economic History' has been described as having 'defined the fundamental characteristics of Greek society in the centuries after Alexander the great.' Drawing not just on written sources, but on extensive archaeological and numismatic evidence, Rostovtzeff traces the development of social and economic phenomena in the light of the political, constitutional and cultural developments of the era. In three volumes, the third consisting of detailed notes on sources. (1941)
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		The External Evidence for Interpolation in Homer
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		GM Bolling
		Oxford University Press 1998 272 pages		Qty
		Hardback 0198142765
		Published Price £12.99		Our Price £10.39
	In the quest for the original Homeric text, Bolling's strategy is to begin, not with an 'Ur-text' as some earlier scholars had attempted, but with the poems as they appear at the beginning of our tradition, and to 'remove the accretions stratum by stratum, as in the excavation of a buried temple'. He attempts to reconstruct the earlier texts of the Iliad and Odyssey by not only identifying and eliminating interpolations, but by understanding the traditions of the earlier interpolators and editors and thus establishing a standard for future work. (1925)
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		Heraclides of Pontus
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		HB Gottschalk
		Oxford University Press 1998 184 pages		Qty
		Hardback 0198140215
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	A follower of Plato, Heraclides of Pontus or Ponticus (c.388-315 BC) was famous in antiquity for his dialogues, but has attracted the attention of modern scholars by his obscure theory of matter and an astronomical hypothesis which seems to partly anticipate Aristarchus and Kepler. Gottschalk attempts to reconstruct the thought of Heraclides, beginning with a biographical introduction and discussing his dialogues, his corpuscular theory of matter, and his influential contribution to the legend of Pythagoras. (1980)
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		Aristotle: Metaphysics
		(Two volumes)		Sandpiper Editions
		Sir WD Ross
		Oxford University Press 1997 894 pages		Qty
		Hardback 0198141076
		Published Price £30.00		Our Price £30.00
	An outstanding Aristotelian scholar and an influential philosopher in his own right in the sphere of ethics, Ross presents an edition of the 'Metaphysics' that provides a revised Greek text with full critical introduction and commentary in English. The introduction deals with the structure of the 'Metaphysics'; Aristotle's accounts of the philosophy of Socrates, Plato and the Platonists; Aristotle's own metaphysical doctrine and his theology; and the textual history. (1924)
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