This Week's Acquisitions Appropriations

I'm sure that I've acquired something, but if so, it's in New York. However, I spent the day appropriating about seventy books from Dad the Soon-to-be-Emeritus Historian of Graeco-Roman Egypt's office, as he holds to the perfectly logical theory that it's better for the books to be occupying my bookshelves (especially since I have a bigger office) than sitting in, say, the garage. Needless to say, this is going to be a summary report, as I really don't feel like typing in bibliographical details on seventy books.

Ergo, the overview:

• George Grote, A History of Greece, 12 vols. (Dent, n.d.). One of the great historical achievements of the nineteenth century. Brief biography of Grote here; portraits here.

  
  

• Translations from the classics: Thucydides, Herodotus, Suetonius, Polybius, Tacitus, Petronius, Plutarch, Homer, Galen, Aesop.

  
  

• Collections of writings by Henry Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklin, all from the Library of America.

  
  

• Several books on colonial America, including two by Francis Jennings, four by James Axtell, and three by Perry Miller.

  
  

• Some reference works on classical literature and mythology, including the second edition of the Oxford Classical Dictionary.

  
  

• A few books on historiography.

  
  

• Some Norton anthologies.