Greek Heritage 1965 by Friar, Kimon (Editor) - 1965

Chicago: Christopher G. Janus - The Athenian Corporation, 1965. Repaired; Corners, Spine, Boards Bumped; Moderate Shelf Rub to Boards; Spine Slightly Cocked; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. SUB-TITLE: The American Quarterly of Greek Culture. ISSUE NUMBER: Volume Two, Number Six. ADVISORY BOARD: United States: Mortimer J. Adler, Huntington Cairns, J. R. Cominsky, Sterling Dow, Will Durant, Dudley Fitts, August Heckscher, Harry E. Houghton, Denison B. Hull, Clark Kerr, Bernard Knox, Richmond Lattimore, Lanning MacFarland, Paul Manolis, James Notopoulos, H. J. Sobiloff, Edward H. Weiss. Overseas: C. M. Bowra, C. A. Doxiadis, Lawrence Durrell, Alexander Eliot, George C. Katsimbalis, C. Kerenyi, Andre Mirambel, Pandelis Prevelakis, Mary Renault, W. B. Stanford. CIRCULATION DIRECTOR: Valerie Valentine. RESEARCH EDITORS: Peter B. Baiter, Dorothy Bennett, John A. Goumas. COPY EDITOR: Eric Washbrook. COVER: Zeus, or Poseidon, Bronze, c. middle of 5th century B.C., Athens, National Museum. COVER PHOTOGRAPH BY: Nikos Kontos. CONTENTS: What Is "Classical" Sculpture? - by Walter Agard; The True Face of Medusa - by Angelo Procopiou; A Predecessor of Perseus, A Poem - by Howard Nemerov; Medusa. A Sculpture - by Ghika; The Stone Eyes of Medusa - by Kimon Friar; Sleep and Endymion - by Charles Henri Ford; The Acropolis in Archaic Times - by Yiannis Miliadhis; Greek Maxims; Samos: Island of Many Names - by Costas J. Ptinis; The Tunnel of Eupalinos - by June Goodfield; A New Economic Policy for Greece - by Andreas G. Papandreou; Stirring the Embers of Myth and Imagination - by Alexander Eliot; The Eleusinian Mysteries - by L. Ellsworth Laflin, Jr.; from The Mysteries of Demeter - by L. Ellsworth Laflin, Jr.; The Sanctuary. A Story - by Jean Detre; Erasmus and the Aldine Academy of Venice - by Deno J. Geanakoplos; Apophthegms of the Ancients - by Erasmus; Heinrich Schliemann: The Fault of Imagination - by Marjorie Braymer; Introduction to the Study of Modern Greek - by Nicholas Bachtin; Aristotle's Answers - by Daniel E. Gershenson; Epilogue - by The Editor; Letters to the Editor; Books on Greek Themes; Contributors, Acknowledgments.. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket (As Issued). 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.