Pindar gilbert west (8 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. …

Cloth. Zustand: Good Only. The first edition of Laurent"s complete prose translation of Pindar"s victory odes, accompanied by Gilbert West"s substantial history of the ancient Olympic Games, complete in two volumes. In the publisher's original cloth backed paper covered boards. Front board of volume II almost fully detached, just holding at lower cord. The first edition of Peter Edmund Laurent"s prose translation. Complete in two volumes. The complete English prose translation of Pindar"s surviving victory odes, accompanied by extensive explanatory notes and a substantial historical study of the ancient Olympic Games. The odes celebrate victors at the four great Panhellenic festivals: the Olympic, Pythian, Nemean and Isthmian Games. Laurent"s notes explain Pindar"s language, historical allusions, geography and mythology, drawing upon earlier editions and commentaries listed in the preliminary matter. The second volume includes Gilbert West"s Dissertation on the Olympic Games, first published with his own translation of Pindar in 1749. It examines the origins and restoration of the Games, their chronology and administration, events, honours, and importance of the festival. Pindar (c.518-c.438 BCE) was a Theban lyric poet and the foremost surviving composer of Greek victory odes. Forty-five complete odes survive. Peter Edmund Laurent (1796-1837) was a French-born classical scholar, linguist and traveller who taught modern languages at Oxford. An engaging union of classical poetry and sporting history. In the publisher's original cloth backed paper covered boards.Externally, worn. Front board of volume II almost fully detached, holding at lower cord only. Lacking spine label of volume II, label of vol I largely perished with loss, closed tearing, and chipping. Loss to backstrips, heavier to spine ends and joints. Hinges strained, but holding. Cracking to extremities of joints. Rubbing to boards with tide marking, damp staining, and the odd handling mark. Small ink annotation to front paste down of vol I. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages generally bright and clean with the odd light spot, heavier to fore edge and first and last few leaves. Creasing with slight wear to margins of first and final leaves of vol II. Very slight cockling to leaves. Good Only. None (illustrator). book.…

Some pages uncut; a little scattered light foxing; board edges a little worn; cloth damaged at head & foot of spine; paper title label on spine damaged and near illegible. Vol.II of 'The Odes of Pindar in English prose' Used - Good. Good hardback in paperboards with cloth spine Used - Good. Good hardback in paperboards with cloth spine.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good+. Neat contemporary rebinding by bookbinder, Wojciech Lis in 1998; Hardcover (Black leather spine and tips on red cloth boards). Preface + ccviii + 318 pp; 4to; ccviii + 318 pages.

First Edition. First edition thus, translated by West. 22-page introduction followed by Pindar's odes including on the Olympic games. Also includes translations of Horace, Euripides, et al. Quarto contemporary calf. General aging, edge wear and soiling to covers though interior clean. Front endpaper detached but present, glue evident at hinges which are starting, gilt lettering on spine label nearly perished. Still good or better. Housed in patterned paper-lined cloth chemise and matching slipcase with leather spine stamped in gilt and stylized gilt initials to bottom open corner, "MEG.".…

Leather. Zustand: Very Good. First edition. A lovely copy of Gilbert West's important translations of the odes of Pindar, including his own dissertation of the importance of the Olympic Games. The first edition of West's translation. First edition thus, being the first edition of Gilbert West's translation.Half-title is present.ESTC citation number T135986.Two pages of adverts to the rear.Collated, complete.Including Gilbert West's 'Dissertation on the Olympick Games', an interesting study on the games. Looking at their historical context, the venues, events, and athletes.A collection of the odes of Pindar, one of the nine canonical lyric poets of Ancient Greece, his work being the best preserved of the poets.Pindar's best known poems are his odes on the celebrations and high points of the Olympic games. These odes are an important source for historians, giving a detailed explanation of what the Olympics meant to Ancient Greece's citizens and athletes.This translation remained the standard version into the nineteenth century. In a full calf binding, expertly repaired to the head of the front joint. Externally, generally smart, with a little rubbing and marks to the boards and spine. Small chip to the head of the spine. Very light bumping to the extremities. Very small crack to the head of the rear joint. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright with the occasional spot. Very Good. None (illustrator). book.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Very Good. First West translation edition. 4to. [6], i, [23], iii-ccvi, [4], 3-315, [1], [2] (pages of publisher's advertisements) pp. Half recent calf over marbled boards with the spine in six compartments, recent purple label lettered in gold on the spine. Recent grey endpapers and pastedowns. The original endpapers are bound in. Title page printed in red and black with a woodcut bust of Pindar. With woodcut tailpieces. Brueggemann 80. Moss 419. The Monthly Review was highly complementary of West's translation of Pindar: "The whole of Mr. West's book is indeed a treasure ." The first edition of West's Pindar is rather difficult to find in commerce. Pindar is arguably the most famous of the Archaic Greek poets. His poetry is notably difficult to read (in Greek and English). His most popular pieces are focused on the celebrations and high points of the Olympic games. His poems help the historian to put the Olympic games in their proper context, and they help the historian understand what the games meant to Ancient Greek citizens and athletes alike. A pleasing edition of the Greek poet's work. The book is somewhat bowed and the top textblock has an old dampstain, a few of the leaves affected have subtle repairs to their top edges. The binding is quite clean.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE PENN FAMILY? PINDARUS (WEST, Gilbert, Ed. and Tr.). Odes of Pindar, With several other Pieces in Prose and Verse, Translated from the Greek. To which is prefixed a Dissertation on the Olypmpick Games. London, Printed for R. Dodsley, 1749. £2,000 FIRST EDITION. Large 4to, pp. (xxviii), ccvi, (ii), 315, (iii). Roman letter, some Italic. Title in red and black. Tondo with profile of Pindar on title-page, capital spaces with guide-letters. Bookplate on front pastedown, probably of the Penn family, and Duncombe handwritten underneath. Ms. note by the same hand on front endpaper: From his Grace Thomas Lord Arch-Bishop of Canterbury 1749 , referring to the ownership of Thomas Herring (a. 1747-57), who was Archbishop of Canterbury at the time. In contemporary calf, rebacked. Gilt spine and edges. red morocco spine label, lettered in gilt. A crisp, excellent copy. In addition to the Dissertation on the Olympick Games and Pindar s Odes, this work includes translations of Horace, Euripides, Lucian, and other classical poets. Though Gilbert West s Odes of Pindar is only the third version of these poems to have been translated into English (the first by Sternhold and Hopkinsin 1713), his translation was arguably the most popular version in the eighteenth century. Just several months after this publication, the poet Joseph Warton wrote An ode, Occasioned by reading Mr. West s Translation of Pindar ; and some scholars have suggested that Thomas Gray s Pindaric Odes, written at the beginning of the 1750s, are to some extent in conversation with West s translation. In Lives of the English Poets (1779), Dr. Johnson praised West s Pindar: Of his translations I have only compared the first Olympick ode with the original, and found my expectation surpassed, both by its elegance and its exactnessA work of this kind must, in a minute examination, discover many imperfections; but West s version, so far as I have considered it, appears to be the product of great labour and great abilities .…