Blood for the Ghosts: Classical Influences in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982.
First U. S. Edition. Hardcover. On the title of this work - U. von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff once compared historical interpretation with the Homeric picture of ghosts revived by the blood of the living - warning that in the process of revival the ghosts inevitably absorb an alien element. Here, Professor Lloyd-Jones looks at the influence of the Greeks on creative thinkers and scholars since the close of the 19th century, when for the first time, largely as a result of German scholarship, the Greeks began to be studied directly, rather than through Roman eyes. The thinkers discussed range from Coleridge, Leopardi, Gladstone, Wagner and Nietzsche to more modern scholars like Edouard Fraenkel, Rudolf Pfeiffer and E. R. Dodds. Item #902363
ISBN: 0801830176
6-1/4 x 9-1/2", black cloth with gilt spine titles, 312pp, preface, index.
Small triangle of the lower corner of the front paste-down endpaper folded in the binding process, clean, bright, tight crisp, near fine in spine faded dust wrapper with a bit of stress to extreme corners, a bit of creasing at edges, and a 1/2" slit in rear panel at spine fold, in protective mylar.
Price: $50.00