The Prytaneion: Its Function and Architectural Form by Stephen G. Miller - 1977-07

University of California Press. Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. xiv, 258pp. Very good hardcover cloth with fair, moderately torn and wrinkled dust-jacket. Pages clean, binding sound. . Very Good. Hardcover. 1978.

University of California Press, 1978. Hard cover. Very Good. Very good in very good dust jacket. 258 p. Audience: General/trade.

University of California Press, 1978. Hardcover. As new, clean, tight & bright condition, with bright and crisp dust jacket. 258pp.

University of California Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1977. Hardcover. 0520033167 . Lower corners lightly bumped. Minor shelfwear to book and DJ. ; 258 pages .

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1978. Hardcover. Fine copy in very good, unclipped dust jacket; DJ is edge worn with the most of it being at the spine ends with and along the top edge and top open corners; with small closed and open tears and chips; light shelfwear and soil from handling and use; o/w no major tears and DJ is solidly in one piece and still very attractive; clean is clean and free of fraying; boards are free of bumps; pages are clean, crisp, bright and free of marks and, with the exception of one accidentally dogearred page 227, free of creases; edges of leaves are clean; binding is square; hinges are tight; a gently used copy. in very good dust-jacket. Large octavo in red cloth in burgundy red dust jacket; plates: illus.; 258 pp., 25 cm. In English and Greek; warmly inscribed by author on front pastedown.

Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1978 Book. As New. Hardcover. 1st US Edition.. "The Prytaneion was a structure central to the civic life of the ancient Greek city-state. In it was housed the hearth of Hestia with its eternal fire symbolizing the well-being of the state. To it were invited distinguished foreign visitors for meals; citizens who had performed some special service to the state were also entertained there. The prytaneion was the 'home' of the state and the architectural manifestation of its life. The obvious ubiquity and importance of the prytaneion in antiquity is not reflected in the pages of modern scholarship, largely because only two structures have been excavated that can be firmly so identified. In this book Mr. Miller seeks to define the functions and the architectural form of the prytaneion by assembling and analyzing historical and epigraphic references to it. His analysis yields explicit references to various architectural parts of the prytaneion as… Read More

Berkeley, Etc.: Univeirsity of California Press, 1978. xiv, 258p., b/w illus., dj, author's SIGNED presentation copy.

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