Aeschylus and Athens by Thomson George - 1973

Lawrence & Wishart, 1946. Hardcover. Good. 1946. 2nd Edition. 478 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth. Black and white illustrate frontispiece. Binding remains firm. Pages are lightly tanned throughout. Stickers to front pastedown and rear free endpaper. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Slight crushing to spine ends. Creasing to front board.

Lawrence & Wishart, 1980. Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.

New York: International Publishers, 1950. Reprint. Hardcover. fair. Octavo. XII, 478pp. Original pictorial wrappers over cloth with title label laid on spine. Frontispiece. In this remarkable work, Thomson sees the study of Greek history, society, and literature not as a pursuit for a little band of specialists, but rather as a study of "a process of continuous change, which, if it can be made to reveal its underlying laws, will help the reader to understand, and so direct, the forces making for change in the society of today. The study of Aeschylus, who was a revolutionary poet, will be especially congenial."Spine and edges of wrappers slightly age-toned. Light damp-staining on lower edges of wraps and binding. Lower part of pages slightly rippled, due to damp exposure. Wrappers, binding and interior in overall fair to good condition.

M. S. G. Haskell House. Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

London: Lawrence & Wishart. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1946. Later Printing. Hardcover. 085315290X . Nice copy, green cloth, no jacket ; 374 pages .

Condition: Good; edge-wear to the boards, no DJ. The interior is clean without markings.

London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1973. Reprint. Hardcover. Good/Good. 9x5x1. Tanning to pages. Light wear to D/J with inch closed tear to top edge of rear.

London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1973. Reprint. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Reprint. Hardback in dustwrapper. 22 × 14cm, 374pp. Aeschylus and Athens is far more than a study of the plays of Aeschylus and what they meant to the audience for whom they were written. It is a profound inquiry into the origins and development of Athenian democracy, and as such an inquiry into the roots of western civilisation and culture. For Professor Thomson's contention is that the plays of Aeschylus contain fundamental problems which could never be solved within the accepted limits of either conventional literary criticism or conventional classical scholarship. The Aeschylean drama is so inseparable from the social and political life of Athens that it can only be understood by studying it methodically in its full historical context. Therefore, while the primary object of this book is a better understanding of Aeschylus, it covers a much wider field, including the history of early Greek poetry, the growth of the… Read More

Lawrence & Wishart Ltd., 1941. Hardcover. Very Good. in x in x in. A clean, tight copy in a good dust jacket with some chipping and rubbing. Minor wear and tanning. Clothbound in blue with the title in gold gilt to the spine. B;ue maps on a white background to the endpapers. Black and white prints throughout. Some soiling to the page edges. First edition; 1941.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.