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Our bookstore specializes in new, second-hand and antiquarian books on Classical Antiquity.This includes the Classical world and tradition: texts and translations, secondary literature, art and archeology, history and philosophy, religion and mythology, the influence of Antiquity on art and literature of Western Europe, and many more subjects.
New books are partly in stock, partly to be ordered from publishers. We are connected to a large number of publishers and distributors, established both in the Netherlands and abroad. Please note that the number of new books being offered on our site will be increasing considerably over the forthcoming months.
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a Hand-Picked Selection of our Finest Books- BURTON, R.W.B., The Chorus in Sophocles' Tragedies. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1980. IX,301p. Cloth. Small personal library marks on tail spine as well as free endpaper. Name on free endpaper. ‘Burton treats each play of Sophocles in turn, subjecting the choral parts (both spoken and sung) to a close analysis, with his attention focused on no one feature to the exclusion of others. He sets each choral part into its dramatic context. He explains the structure and overall metrical form of each ode, and comments on noteworthy aspects of style, language, or thought. (…) He is a sound, sympathetic, and perceptive guide. (…) These blemishes (…) do little to detract from the excellence of this book.’ (James Diggle in The Classical Review, 1982, pp.12-14). From the library of the late Sir Kenneth James Dover. € 132.50 (Antiquarian)
- BLASS, Friedrich, Die Rhythmen der attischen Kunstprosa: Isokrates - Demosthenes - Platon. Teubner, Leipzig, 1901. XI,199p. Cloth. Few pen and pencil markings. Small personal library marks on tail spine as well as free endpaper. Name on free endpaper. (Rare thus). From the library of the late Sir Kenneth James Dover. € 89.50 (Antiquarian)
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BRULÉ, Pierre, La Fille d'Athènes. La religion des filles à Athènes à l'époque classique. Mythes, cultes et société. Les Belles Lettres, Paris, 1987. 455p. Paperback. Head spine joint, but nice copy. Author’s dedication on free endpaper. (Rare). From the library of the late Sir Kenneth James Dover. € 39.50 (Antiquarian)
- ALEXIS, The Fragments. A Commentary. By W.G. Arnott. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (...), 1996. XXI,886p. Cloth. Small personal library mark and name on free endpaper. (Rare). This is the first detailed commentary to be compiled on the fragments of the Greek comic poet Alexis. Alexis seems to have had an important effect on the development of Greek New Comedy, both in the presentation and choice of characters and in the structuring of the type of New-Comedy plot associated in particular with Menander. Professor Arnott's commentary is multi-faceted, discussing textual transmission; the interpretation of Alexis's language, meaning and style; the dramatic background and its relevance to the comedy; and the relation of the material to the social and political history of the time. The commentary makes a significant contribution to the study of the development of comedy in the fourth century BC, and to our knowledge and precise interpretation of fourth-century Attic Greek. Since the fragments are readily available in the Kassel-Austin edition, the Greek text is not included. From the library of the late Sir Kenneth James Dover. € 185.00 (Antiquarian)
- PETROPOULOS, J.C.B., Heat and Lust. Hesiod's Midsummer Festival Scene Revisited. Rowman and Littlefield, Lanham, 1994. XVII,115p. Paperback. Small personal library mark, name as well as author’s dedication on free endpaper. ‘This is an enjoyable and, for the most part, convincing little book, less pretentious than its title would suggest and engagingly written.’ (St. Instone in The Classical Review (New Series), 1996, p.153). From the library of the late Sir Kenneth James Dover. € 16.00 (Antiquarian)
- VISION DE DOROTHÉOS. Edité avec une introduction, une traduction et des notes par A. Hurst, O. Reverdin, J. Rudhardt. En appendice: Description et datation du Codex des Visions par R. Kasser et G. Carvallo. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cologny/Genève, 1984. 127p. With 5 pages with 9 photographs loose in folder. Bound. With editor's dedication on title page. Small personal library mark and name on free endpaper. 1 of 800 copies. Series: Papyrus Bodmer, XXIX. (Rare). ‘This work, hitherto unknown, raises many interesting questions about the links between Christianity and classical culture in its period; it may also focus the attention of some scholars upon this category of Christian poetic composition.’ (J. Neville Birdsall in The Classical Review (New Series), 1985, p.385). From the library of the late Sir Kenneth James Dover. € 57.50 (Antiquarian)
- CARSON, A., Economy of the Unlost. (Reading Simonides of Keos with Paul Celan). Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1999. 147p. Cloth. With Author's dedication on title page. Small personal library mark and name on free endpaper. The ancient Greek lyric poet Simonides of Keos was the first poet in the Western tradition to take money for poetic composition. From this starting point, Anne Carson launches an exploration, poetic in its own right, of the idea of poetic economy. She offers a reading of certain of Simonides' texts and aligns these with writings of the modern Romanian poet Paul Celan, a Jew and survivor of the Holocaust, whose "economies" of language are notorious. Asking such questions as, What is lost when words are wasted? and Who profits when words are saved? Carson reveals the two poets' striking commonalities. 'This is a remarkable, gripping, and moving book, itself a kind of extended prose poem, crafted by Carson between the excerpts of the two poets and her amazing readings and juxtapositions thereof. Like all of Carson's writing, it is sui generis, combining meticulous scholarship with the sensibility and style of a poet. I have always felt it was a privilege simply to be allowed to read Carson's work, and this manuscript is perhaps the best thing she has done.' (Leslie Kurke, University of California, Berkeley). From the library of the late Sir Kenneth James Dover. € 55.00 (Antiquarian)
- FOUCART, P., Des associations religieuses chez les Grecs. Thiases, Éranes, Orgéons. Arno Press, New York, 1975. Photomechanical reprint ed. 1873. XV,243p. Cloth. Small personal library mark and name on free endpaper. Series: Ancient Religion and Mythology. (Rare thus). From the library of the late Sir Kenneth James Dover. € 85.00 (Antiquarian)
- LUCANUS, Belli Civilis libri decem. Editorum in usum edidit A.E. Housman. Blackwell, Oxford, 1950. Reprint 2nd corr.ed.1927. XXXVI,342p. Cloth. Pencil annotations in Book VII. Small personal library mark and name on free endpaper. From the library of the late Sir Kenneth James Dover. € 82.50 (Antiquarian)
- FERGUSON, W.Scott, The Treasurers of Athena. Harvard University Press, Cambridge (Mass.), 1932. XIII,198p. Cloth. Small personal library marks on tail spine as well as free endpaper. Name on free endpaper. (Rare). Ferguson presents a study of the treasure lists of Athens from the closing years of the Peloponnesian War, and can be of interest for epigraphists and students of the economic history of the period. ‘Not the least of the contributions in this volume is his proof that certain documents previously assigned because of their Ionic script to the period after Euclides and printed in the second volume of the Corpus on that account must be transferred to the first volume. Now that Prof. Ferguson has prepared the way, other documents can be likewise transferred.’ (Allen B. West in The American Historical Review, 1932, p.89). From the library of the late Sir Kenneth James Dover. € 95.00 (Antiquarian)
- HALLIWELL, St., The Aesthetics of Mimesis. Ancient Texts and Modern Problems. Princeton University Press, Princeton / Oxford, 2002. XIII,424p. Paperback. Small personal library mark and name on free endpaper. First pages joint. ‘With wide-ranging erudition, bold philosophical insight, and a vibrant aesthetic sensibility, Stephen Halliwell demonstrates that the ancient Greek tradition of arguing about mimesis is not the crude and single-minded defense of literal copying that many have seen in it. It is, rather, a highly complex tradition of debate and contestation, in which questions of foundational importance about artistic meaning are repeatedly confronted. Moving with graceful assurance from Plato and Aristotle to contemporary reworkings of the tradition by Brecht and Adorno, Barthes and Derrida, Halliwell shows us the depth and fertility of classical arguments. A stunning achievement which will define the subject for many generations.’ (Martha C. Nussbaum). From the library of the late Sir Kenneth James Dover. € 22.50 (Antiquarian)
- DAVIES, M., and J. KATHIRITHAMBY, Greek Insects. Duckworth, London, 1986. XVI,211p. Cloth. Pen and pencil markings and annotations. Small personal library mark and name on free endpaper. ‘A proper study of ancient Greek insects should embrace not only the obvious questions on their identification, in modern terms of species and genera, but also such issues as the etymologies (both formal and popular) of the various insect names, the folk-lore, religious, and other significant associations of these creatures, and the differences in attitude towards them shown by the ancient and modern world.’ (From the Preface). Contents: The insect in Aesop’s fables and Greek poetry (pp.1-16); Aristotle and the scientific study of insects (pp.16-30); Insects in Greek art (pp.30-37); Glossary: 1. Ant, 2. Bed bug, 3. Bee/wasp, 4. Beetle/cockchafer, 5. Borers of word, 6. Butterfly/moth, 7. Cicada, 8. Cricket/grasshopper/locust, 9. Flea, 10. Fly, 11. Gnat/mosquito, 12. Leekbane, 13. Louse, 14. Praying mantis (pp.37-176); Indexes (pp.181-211). From the library of the late Sir Kenneth James Dover. € 75.00 (Antiquarian)
- GALENUS, Scripta minora. Recensuerunt I. Marquardt, I. Mueller, G. Helmreich. Hakkert, Amsterdam, 1967. 3 vols. Photomechanical reprint eds.Bibliotheca Teubneriana, 1884/91/93. LXVI,129;XCIII,124;IX,257p. Cloth. Small personal library marks on tail spine as well as free endpaper. (Rare thus). From the library of the late Sir Kenneth James Dover. € 150.00 (Antiquarian)
- LUCCIONI, J., Les Idées politiques et sociales de Xénophon. Ophrys, Paris, 1946. 312p. Sewn. Yellowed. With addenda/corrigenda leaflet. Small personal library mark and name on free endpaper. Diss. Université de Paris. (Rare). From the library of the late Sir Kenneth James Dover. € 67.50 (Antiquarian)
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