The Portraits of the Greeks (3-volume set)
London: The Phaidon Press, 1965. Hardcover. 3 vols. Deep-sea turquoise cloth, gilt letters on spines and front covers; white dust jackets, 337 total text pp., 2059 BW illus. G- (Ex-art library, with unfortunate heavy use of old tape; bindings and dust jackets have tape marks and/or tape residuals; have plastic spine labels and identifying marks on book block edges and on outermost pages, incl. pockets; bottom edge of vol. 2 book block has soiling; text pages are consistently paged; plate page edges are tanning; perhaps a reading and viewing copy with potential for more.). Item #156912
The complete three-volume set that contains "all the reliably or persuasively identified portraits of over 150 Greek poets, philosophers, orators, statesmen, generals and artists; and the extant portraits -- on coins and in sculpture -- of Hellenistic rulers, ending with the Greeks of the Roman period. Among the famous Greeks whose portraits are listed and reproduced are the poets Homer, Sappho, Aischylos, Sophokles, Euripides, Aristophanes and Menander; the philosophers Sokrates, Plato, Aristotle, Diogenes and Epikouros; the orator Demosthenes, and many others." (dj).
OCLC: 234106
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