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a Hand-Picked Selection of our Finest Books- HALLERAN, M.R., Stagecraft in Euripides. Croom Helm, London / Sydney, 1985. 127p. Cloth wrps. (Rare). In 1978 'R. Hamilton showed that the presence or not of entrance announcements in tragedy is a matter not of identification of a character or of rank or of surprise, but is linked to the choral odes: normal entry is after an ode and is not announced; other entries are announced. In an interesting monograph Halleran refines the findings of Hamilton in three areas: (i) the announcements themselves, (ii) preparation of not for an entrance, (iii) links between exits, entrances and the lyrics. Finally, H. demonstrates his views on Herakles, Troades and Ion. (...) H. shows that most omissions of announcement are accounted for by the presence of only one person on stage and most announcements after an ode are 'moving tableaux' in anapests (...). If there is an iambic announcement after an ode (...) then the lack of an exit before the ode may account for it. H. is generally convincing on these rules and infringements (god for example are a law unto themselves): in the chapter on preparation and surprise the section on the 'wrong person' (...) and 'talk of the devil' entrances are particularly good.' (JOHN WILKINS in The Classical Review (New Series), 1986, pp.305-06). From the library of the late Prof. W. Geoffrey Arnott. € 49.50 (Antiquarian)
- REINHARDT, K., Sophocles. Translated by H. Harvey and D. Harvey. With an introduction by H. Lloyd-Jones. Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1979. XXVIII,279p. Cloth wrps. Copy offered for review by Basil Blackwell. (Rare thus). 'Karl Reinhardt's magistral 'Sophocles', now published in an excellent English translation, is a must for all libraries. (...) Reinhardt analyses the plays of Sophocles one by one with a gaze directed not so much on questions of plot, character, and dramatic technique as on the relationships here displayed of man to man and man to the gods. He emphasizes the gulf in the plays between man and god - a gulf which ordinary men can bridge but not the Sophoclean hero, which is emprisoned in the isolation of his tragic fate. Sophocles' approach, however, according to Reinhardt is not static but develops from play to play; at first the characters tend simply to present their own points of view in language often bejewelled with imagery, without being able to communicate effectively with each other; but in the later masterpieces a person's ideas may be affected by what others tell him, and the language is more taut and spare. The argument about development rests on the foundations of Reinhardt's idiosyncratic chronology (...). One of the most important books on Greek tragedy ever written. Hugh Lloyd-Jones provides a useful introduction on Reinhardt's place in modern scholarship.' (W. GEOFFREY ARNOTT in Greece & Rome, 1980, pp.85-86). From the library of the late Professor W. Geoffrey Arnott. € 69.50 (Antiquarian)
- KILMER, M.F., Greek Erotica on Attic Red-Figure Vases. Duckworth, London, 1993. XIV,286p. Cloth. Cover and free endpage a bit stained. A few pen annotations from KJD. Small personal library mark and name on free endpaper. (Rare). 'The book, which comes from the same publisher as Sir Kenneth Dover's 'Greek Homosexuality', strikingly resembles the Dover volume in its layout and approach. Kilmer has consciously keyed his book to Dover's, adopting, for example, the senior scholar's list of vase paintings and fitting new vases to it. He acknowledges his scholarly debt to Dover in his preface and introduction, while Dover, in turn, has a note on the jacket flap in which he calls the book a good, solid fulfillment of the kind of further research he hoped his own study would prompt. Kilmer's book is broader in its viewpoint than was Dover's, in that it examines heterosexual and what he calls 'autosexual' phenomena along with homosexual, but is narrower in that it focuses on the relatively short period of about 520-460 B.C. and confines itself to Attic red-figure vase painting. In his selection of paintings from that time span, Kilmer well fulfills his title by assembling the hard-core erotica (though in comparison with contemporary pornography, he calls it soft), picking out representations of masturbation and copulation and adding to them ones bearing upon a miscellany of triple-x subjects, including dildos, sadistic sandal wielding, and the female practice of partially depilating the genitals. In a time-honored manner of archaeological studies, he arranges his material in a typology of categories and subcategories. (...) Greek erotica is not the same as Greek sexuality. Nonetheless it is a striking component of that society's overall erotic interests, a remarkable island in the wider sexual sea. Kilmer has well charted it in this volume, and it is welcome news that he is preparing a companion study on Attic black-figure erotica.' KEITH DEVRIES, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 95.08.01). From the library of the late Sir Kenneth James Dover. € 195.00 (Antiquarian)
- HERODOTUS HALICARNASSUS, Historiae libri IX et De vita Homeri libellus. Ex interpretatione Laurentio Vallae adscripta, hic ex interpretatione Conradi Heresbachii utraque ab Henr. Stephano recognita. Ex Ctesiae excertae historiae. Apologia Henr. Stephani pro Herodoto. Accessit in hac editione Spicilegium Frid. Sylburgii ad Henr. Stepahnum virum clarissimum. Apud heredes Andreae Wecheli, Francofurti, 1584. 592,(88)p. Parchment binding. Corner cut from title page (no text loss (?)). € 500.00 (Antiquarian)
- GOLDBERG, S.M., Understanding Terence. Princeton University Press, Princeton, XIV,231p. Cloth wrps. A few pen annotations from WGA. (Rare). 'Goldberg has given us a didactic Terence, with ethics and character the central principles of his comedy. It is not the only view, but Goldberg's analysis is both subtle and learned. It might have helped the general reader if individual plays had been more clearly marked by subsections or subtitles to the chapters in which they are discussed, and if the technical stylistic chapters on prologue and diction had been grouped together at the end of the volume, Let the reader not be daunted, however. This is an important and intelligent book, and deserves the careful reading it requires.' (DAVID KONSTAN). From the library of the late Prof. W. Geoffrey Arnott. € 89.50 (Antiquarian)
- MEYER, P.M., (ed.), Griechische Texte aus Ägypten. Herausgegeben und erklärt. I. Papyri des neutestamentlichen Seminars der Universität Berlin. II. Ostraka der Sammlung Deissmann. Weidmann, Berlin, 1916. XIII,231p. Sewn. Cover a bit stained and bit worn. (Rare). 'Mit Indices und vier Luchtdrucktafeln'. € 125.00 (Antiquarian)
- HERAKLEITOS, Alles stroomt. Vertaald en toegelicht door Paul Claes. Atheneum - Polak & Van Gennep, Amsterdam, 2011. 197p. Cloth wrps. 'In zijn onlangs verschenen 'De boekenbusiness' waarschuwt de Amerikaanse uitgever André Schiffrin dat marktdenken de cultuur van het boek kapot maakt. Boeken worden alleen nog uitgegeven als redacteuren met een voorcalculatie aantonen dat ze winst opleveren. Deze schitterende uitgave van Herakleitos past niet in dit denken. Dit boek is een cultuurgoed waarop geen marktdenken is losgelaten: een infmatieve inleiding van de vertaler, een bladspiegel zo rustgevend als bij een eersterangs dichtbundel, verhelderend commentaar, een erudiet kopje 'nawerking'. 'Ezels verkiezen hakstro boven goud,' is een van Herakleitos' uitspraken. Dit boek is goud, en er zullen alleen uitgevers zijn die het moeilijk te verwerven goud bliijven verkiezen boven het hakstro als er lezers zijn die het goud op waarde weten te schatten. Daarom: lezen én kopen dit boek.' (PETER HENK STEENHUIS in Trouw, 11-11-2011). € 29.95 (New)
- POSIDONIUS, Volume I: The Fragments. Edited by L. Edelstein and I.G. Kidd. Vol. II. The Commentary: (i) Testimonia and Fragments 1-149. (ii) Fragments 150-293. I.G. Kidd. Vol. III. The Translation of the Fragments. I.G. Kidd. Cambridge Universtity Press, Cambridge, 1989/88/88/99. 2nd/1st ed. LIV,336;XII,551;VI,553-1058;XV,414p. Cloth. Small personal library mark and name on free endpaper. Volume III with author's dedication on free endpaper. Nice copy. From the library of the late Sir Kenneth James Dover. € 325.00 (Antiquarian)
- FLORUS, L. ANNAEUS, Epitome Rerum Romanarum cum integris Salmasii, Freinshemii, Graevii et selectis aliorum animadversionibus recensuit suasque adnotationes addidit C.A. Dukerus. Editio altera et emendatior. Apud Samuelem Luchtmans, Lugduni Batavorum, 1744. 2nd rev. ed. (LVI),858,(CXXIV),39p. With woodengraving frontispiece by F. Bleyswyck, folding map and printer's device Tuta sub aegide Pallas. Parchment. With gilt stamped coat of arms Amersfoort on front and back cover. Prize book Joannes Kluppel, 1769. (Not in Spoelder). Greasse, vol. 2: 'Nouvelle revision du texte sur onze manuscripts et plusieurs anciennes éditions. Le texte des éditions de Freinsheim et de Graeve a été expurgé des conjectures et revoqué à la pureté des manuscripts. Il en existe une Édiution altera auctior et emendatior, Lugd. B. ap. S. Luchmtnas 1744 (...) dans laquelle les notes ont été rectifiées et augmentées et le texte revu sur trois manuscripts nouveaux.' € 225.00 (Antiquarian)
- AESCHYLUS, Agamemnon. Edited with a Commentary by E. Fraenkel. Vol. I. Prolegomena, Text, Translation. Vol. II. Commentary on 1-1055. Vol. III. Commentary on 1056-1673. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1950. 3 vols. XVI,195;VIII,480;V,481-850p. Cloth. Some pencil markings and annotations. Notae Arnottensis. From the library of the late Prof. W. Geoffrey Arnott. € 465.00 (Antiquarian)
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