Histoires Grecques: Snapshots from Antiquity (Revealing Antiquity) by Maurice Sartre; Translator-Catherine Porter - 2009-01-31

Belknap Press: An Imprint of Har, 2009-01-31. Hardcover. Very Good. 1.5000 9.3000 6.2000.

2009 hardcover 1st edition with a short review from the TLS laid in . Slight tilt to spine , light soil on dj, bindery glue stains on front board, bottom back corer bumped, else text clean, binding tight .

Belknap Press, 2009. Hardcover with dust jacket. VG/G. Dust jacket is worn and scuffed. Some curling along edges and corners. Scuffed all over. 422 pages.

Harvard University. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 2009. Hardcover. 8vo. 448 pp. Revealing Antiquity. We specialize in fine books in collectible condition. Orders are professionaly packaged and shipped promptly. M26 .

2009. HARDCOVER . LIKE NEW /VERY GOOD .

Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 2009. Hardcover. 0674032128 . Very faint shelfwear. ; In a series of brilliant snapshots, each a distinct bit of a larger story, Maurice Sartre’s Histoires Grecques spans the grand narrative of Greek culture over a thousand years and a vast expanse of land and sea. From Homer to Damascius, from recent discoveries in Kandahar to an account of the murder of Hypatia in 415 CE, each snapshot captures a moment in the history of Greek civilization. Together they offer a fresh perspective on an ancient culture whose wealth and depth of thought, variety and multiplicity of accomplishments, and astonishing continuity through time and space have made it the Western world’s culture of reference. A textual fragment, a coin, an epigraph: each artifact and image launches Sartre-and his readers-on a journey into the practical mysteries of Greek civilization. Ranging from Afghanistan to the Mediterranean… Read More

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press, 2009 8vo (24 cm), 448 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. "In a series of brilliant snapshots, each a distinct bit of a larger story, Maurice Sartre’s Histoires Grecques spans the grand narrative of Greek culture over a thousand years and a vast expanse of land and sea. From Homer to Damascius, from recent discoveries in Kandahar to an account of the murder of Hypatia in 415 CE, each snapshot captures a moment in the history of Greek civilization. Together they offer a fresh perspective on an ancient culture whose wealth and depth of thought, variety and multiplicity of accomplishments, and astonishing continuity through time and space have made it the Western world’s culture of reference. A textual fragment, a coin, an epigraph: each artifact and image launches Sartre - and his readers - on a journey into the practical mysteries of Greek civilization. Ranging from Afghanistan to the Mediterranean world, these excursions -… Read More

Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard, 2009. 1st U.S. . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 422pp.inicl.index; HB quarter-bound; paleyellow w/beige&blk.; fine condition w/clean,tight pgs. DJ white w/blk.-photocover; slight rub. "Maurice Sartre's Histoires Grecques spans the grand narrative of Greek culture over a thousand years and a vast expanse of land and sea.

Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A.: Harvard University Press, 2009. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.