Aristide D. Caratzas, Publisher announces a special offer of a groundbreaking and monumental work in Pompeian (and Classical) archaeology:

The Gardens of Pompeii, Herculaneum and the Villas Destroyed by Vesuvius: Appendices
Wilhelmina Feemster Jashemski
Pages/Illustr. xvi+424 p. (illustrated)
Clothbound ISBN: 0-89241-125-2
Price: $250 * SALE PRICE: Sale Price $125 for orders received till 1/15/2003 *

(Photographs by Stanley A. Jashemski) The first volume of Dr. Jashemski's groundbreaking work was published in 1979 and helped create the new discipline of garden and environmental archaeology. To do this, she utilized the methods and information gained from a number of other disciplines (ranging from archaeology, art history, classics, architecture, biology, botany, and geology, to microbiology.)This second volume 9which stands on its own) presents the foundation of Dr. Jashemski's work, the data gathered and the discoveries made in forty years of research: Appendix I lists 625 entries and describes all excavated gardens. Appendix II describes and records, mostly in color, all known garden paintings in the Roman world, garden representations and mosaics. Appendix III tabulates data on spores, pollen, plants, mammals, birds and other forms of life.The work is lavishly illustrated and printed with 100 color and 400 black-and-white photographs, 139 plans (of all gardens excava!
ted in Pompeii and the Campania area) and many drawings.
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Of related interest,

The Shapes of City Life in Rome & Pompeii
Essays in Honor of Lawrence Richardson, Jr. on the Occasion of His Retirement
Mary T. Boatwright & Harry B. Evans, editors
Pages/Illustr. 158 p. (illustrations and fold-out)
Clothbound ISBN: 0-89241-446-4
Price: $50 * SALE PRICE: Sale Price $40 for orders received till 1/15/2003 *

This volume is produced to honor one of the major scholars of Pompeian, indeed Roman architecture, more generally.Contents: Mary T. Boatwright, Introduction; R. L. Stewart, "Publicity and the Lot: The Politics of the Sortition;" J. C. Anderson, "The Ara Pacis Augustae: Legends, Facts and Flights of Fancy;" B. K. Gold, "The Perception of Urban Life in Juvenal's Satires;" J. L. Franklin, Jr. "Augustans at Ancient Pompeii;" C. E. Dexter, "The Epigraphic Evidence of Pompeian Women;" C. C. Parslow, "The 'Forum Frieze' of Pompeii in its Archaeological Context."
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Cretica
Studies on Ancient Crete
Stylianos V. Spyridakis
Pages/Illustr. x+203 p.
Clothbound ISBN: 0-89241-505-3
Price: $50 * SALE PRICE: Sale Price $40 for orders received till 1/15/2003 *

The articles included relate to essential themes of Post-Minoan Crete's past: religion, the military, foreign affairs and social structure; also discussed is Crete's emergence as an important part of the Greek world in the Hellenistic age, and aspects peculiar to Crete's Doric society and institutions are examined.
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Tales of Heroes
The Origins of the Homeric Texts
Ione Mylonas Shear
Pages/Illustr. xiv+356 p. (150 illustrations, plans)
Clothbound ISBN: 0-89241-537-1
Price: $80

A massive, extensively illustrated work constituting a rich survey and synthesis of scholarship on the Homeric question.Dr. Shear demonstrates that the origins of the tales, which later came to be known as the Iliad and the Odyssey, are to be found in the Bronze Age. She re-examines the ancient references to Homer, the Iliad and the Odyssey giving us a new understanding of the circumstances which led to the transcription of the texts we have today.Tales of Heroes provides new insights into the many questions raised by specialists, including(a) a new interpretation of architectural terms that have long frustrated both ancient commentators and modern philologists; (b) a new understanding of the battle tactics used on the field of Troy;(c) a discussion of the kind of ships used in the epics and explains how Polyphemus twice missed the steering oar of Odysseus' escaping ship;(d) a new understanding of the society represented by the epics and the role of women in that society.The!
 ancient references to Homer, the Iliad and the Odyssey have led Dr. Shear to explain why the text is so long that it cannot be recited in one day; to solve the dilemma of the missing digamma and the reflections of the Attic dialect in the existing texts; to explain textual problems that have long baffled commentators, such as the Catalogue of Horses, enthusiastically introduced in Book 2 of the Iliad, only to be dropped after a mere nineteen lines of verse, or the double arrival of Telemachos at the beginning of Book 4 of the Odyssey; to explain the importance of Ajax both in Athenian vase painting of the late archaic period and in the text we have today, although his importance is not apparent in other parts of the epic cycle.The book is produced in a large format 9 x 12 inches (23 x 30.5 cm), is lavishly illustrated with photographs, drawings, plans, tables, and includes footnotes, bibliography and extensive indices.
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Graeco-Africana
Studies in the History of Greek Relations with Egypt and Nubia
Stanley M. Burstein
Pages/Illustr. 256 p. (incl. halftones)
Clothbound ISBN: 0-89241-520-7
Price: $40

The papers included in this volume are the result of nearly two decades of study of the history and historiography of the encounter between the Greeks and the civilizations of ancient northeast Africa: Egypt and Nubia.The topics span almost two millennia and include subjects as diverse as the origin of Greek Egyptology and the organization of the ancient Nubian slave trade. The studies have two concerns in common: to describe the basic character of Greek historiography of the Nile valley civilizations and to consider how best to reconstruct, given the fragmentary extant sources, the history of Greek relations with the peoples of ancient Egypt and Nubia. Studies include: "Hecataeus, Herodotus, and the Birth of Greek Egyptology," "Hecataeus of Abdera's History of Egypt," and "Alexander in Egypt: Continuity or Change," among others.
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The Good Idea: Democracy and Ancient Greece
John A. Koumoulides, editor
Series/ Number Hellenism: Ancient, Mediaeval, Modern, 22
Pages/Illustr. 200 p. (illustrated)
Clothbound ISBN: 0-89241-562-2
Price: $30

The contributors to this volume include some of the greatest authorities on ancient Greece writing in English today. Their articles address issues that are both relevant to Greek history and to the development of democratic institutions in our time. This book, therefore, may serve as a text not only for students of ancient history and classical languages, but also those interested in the history of democratic institutions more generally, political science and political philosophy. Contents: Colin Renfrew, "'Ever in Process of Becoming,' The Autochthony of the Greeks;" John Boardman, "The School of Greece;" Oswyn Murray, "Liberty and the Ancient Greeks;" Robert Browning, "How Democratic Was Ancient Athens?" Robin Lane Fox, "Cleisthenes and His Reforms;" Anthony Kenny, "Aristotle's Ideals of Life;" David Hunt, "Democracy After 2,500 Years;" Leslie Lipson, "Democracy: The First Twenty-Five Centuries;" Eli Sagan, "Citizenship as a Form of Psycho-Social Identity;" Vassos Karageor!
ghis, "The Role of Cyprus in the Ancient Mediterranean and the Origins of Her Hellenization."
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