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University of California Press, Published 1976. Hardcover, viii, 295 pp. plus 42 pp. of plates; 26 cm; frontispiece portrait, illustrated with black-and-white photographs, facsimiles and 1 map.
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In Very Good condition, no dust jacket, as issued. Blue cloth boards, copper lettering on spine with volume number, date and press emblem. Mild shelf and edge wear, with bumping to head edge of front cover; light overall scuffing and soiling, and a few pale scratch marks to front cover. Spine ends rubbed. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. Volume 8 of the University of California classics journal (later Classical Antiquity), dedicated to W. Kendrick Pritchett on his retirement as Professor of Greek at Berkeley. Eighteen papers on Greek and Roman literature, history, epigraphy and art. Darrell A. Amyx's "San Simeon Revisited" publishes Corinthian vases from the Hearst collection at San Simeon, with ten plates. Other archaeological papers treat the Duenos vase in Berlin (one of the earliest known Old Latin inscriptions), a votive terracotta from Ghiaccio Forte, the costume of the Akropolis korai, and a possible lost city on the Gulf of Corinth. Literary and historical papers range from Mimnermos, Euripides and Seneca to Plato on identity, Augustus' marriage legislation and constitutional changes in Athens in 410 B.C. Contents: A Lost City Discovered? (J.G.T. and J.K. Anderson); A New Pseudo-Ovidian Passage (W.S. Anderson); San Simeon Revisited: Corinthian Vases (Darrell A. Amyx); The Ghiaccio Forte Votive Terracotta Figurine (Mario A. Del Chiaro); Augustus' Legislation on Marriage and Children (Richard I. Frank); Notes on the Duenos-Vase Inscription in Berlin (Arthur E. Gordon); Man and the Leaves: A Study of Mimnermos fr. 2 (Mark Griffith); Epigraphic Notes on IG I2 71 (Richard J. Hoffman); Oedipus and Teiresias (Steven Lattimore); Did Plato Discover the Estin of Identity? (Frank A. Lewis); The Roman Tragic Spirit (L.A. MacKay); Iconography and Imagery in Euripides' Ion (Donald J. Mastronarde); Georgics 3.209-294: Amor and Civilization (G.B. Miles); The Pentathlon for Boys at Nemea (Stephen G. Miller); Lucca Bibl. Capit. 490 and the Manuscript Tradition of Hieronymus' (Eusebius') Chronicle (Alden A. Mosshammer); The Costume of the Korai: A Re-interpretation (Judith A. Schaeffer); Problems of Time in Seneca's Hercules Furens and Thyestes (Jo-Ann Shelton); Constitutional Changes in Athens in 410 B.C. (Raphael Sealey).