Scrinium Classical Antiquity

EURIPIDES, Andromacha. Edidit A. Garzya. Teubner, Leipzig, 1978. XXVIII,54p. Cloth. Nice copy. Series: Bibliotheca Teubneriana. From the library of the late Prof. W. Geoffrey Arnott. € 17.50 (Antiquarian)

EURIPIDES, Orestes. Introduzione, testo critico, commento e appendice metrica a cura di Vincenzo di Benedetto. La Nuova Italia Editrice, Firenze, 1967. Reprint 1st ed.1965. XXXI,319p. Cloth. Spine a tiny bit yellowed. Series: Biblioteca di Studi Superiori, Sezione Filologia greca e papirologia, vol. LI. (Rare). 'Per la prima volta vengono riportati integralmente i dati relativi ai papiri (viene utilizzato anche un papiro inedito della raccolta fiorentina) e al palinseto ierosolimitano. Inoltre il curatore ha proceduto a un riesame di tutti i mansocritti, eliminando molti errori dei precedenti editori, e ha collazionato per la prima volta due importantie manoscritti del XIV secolo. (...) Il commento, interpretando integralmente il testo poetico, è anche un contributo di prim'ordine alla storia del linguaggio poetico e in genere della cultura ateniese della fine del V secolo. La discussione dei problemi testuali è accompagnata continuamente dall'esame delle particularità formali e stilistische di questa tragedia, che è una delle ultime espressioni della grande poesia tragica ateniese.' (La Nuova Italia). From the library of the late Prof. W. Geoffrey Arnott. € 47.50 (Antiquarian)

EURIPIDES, Ion. With an Introduction and Notes by M.A. Bayfield. MacMillan, London / New York, 1889. XXVI,172p. With (inbound) publisher's catalogue. Cloth. Cover a bit grimy. Spine discoloured. Pencil annotations from WGA. Two signatures on free endpaper. From the library of the late Prof. W. Geoffrey Arnott. € 14.50 (Antiquarian)

EURIPIDES, Hypsipyle. Edited by G.W. Bond. Oxford University Press, London (...), 1963. VII,160p. Cloth wrps. With Commentary, Appendices, Index, Concordance and Addendum. 'This is a welcome and valuable work. Mr. Bond presents a lightly restored text based on a fresh examination of the papyrus fragments, and makes some important innovations on previous attempts to determine their original order. He has also reviewed the indirect tradition in its manifold variety, from securely attested quotations, which are ranged with the rest of the text, to possible recollections of Eyripides' play and its plot in mythographic writing and elsewhere. (...) Whatever those who work on the 'Hypsypile' in future may do to add, substract and revise, they will have solid reasons for gratitude to this edition, both for the territory it explores and for its careful survey of the ground we knew or may have thought we knew.' (E.W. HANDLEY in The Classical Review (New Series), 1965, pp.24-28). From the library of the late Prof. W. Geoffrey Arnott. € 49.50 (Antiquarian)

EURIPIDES, The Alkestis. With Introduction, Metrical Synopsis and Commentary by D.F.W. van Lennep. Brill, Leiden, 1949. 156p. Cloth. Cover a bit grimy. Series: Selected plays, part 1. € 13.50 (Antiquarian)

EURIPIDES, Ion. With Introduction, Translation and Commentary by K.H. Lee. Aris & Phillips, Warminster, 1997. VI,330p. Paperback. 'Ion' 'is among Euripides' longest plays, but one of his less highly estimated. For some readers the play is quirky and disjointed, but Lee persuasively champions its merits as a 'challenging' ambiguous drama' which employs ironic instability at the level of morality (both divine and human), truth (every major character misunderstands things), and genre (tragedy and comedy, the heroic and the everyday, are juxtaposed). The translation is deliberately literal, for the benefit of students, while the commentary is one of the more generously proportioned in the series: its coverage is good all round, and Lee shows a sure touch in his treatment of difficulties.' (STEPHEN HALLIWELL in Greece & Rome, 1998, p. 88). From the library of the late Prof. W. Geoffrey Arnott. € 29.50 (Antiquarian)

EURIPIDES, Hippolytus. Edited with Introduction, Commentary and Vacabulary by J. Ferguson. Bristol Classical Press, Bristol, 1984. XXXIV,137p. Paperback. From the library of the late Prof. W. Geoffrey Arnott. € 14.50 (Antiquarian)

EURIPIDES, The Medea. Edited by C.E.S. Headlam. University Press, Cambridge, 1954. Reprint 1st ed.1897. XXV,124p. Bound. Pages yellowed. Series: Pitt Press. From the library of the late Prof. W. Geoffrey Arnott. € 10.00 (Antiquarian)

EURIPIDES, Heracles. With Introduction and Commentary by G.W. Bond. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1981. XXXV,429p. Cloth wrps. Pages due to the paper quality yellowed. (Rare thus). 'A high work of human genius, an education, an inspiration, a resounding defeat for barbarism.' According to L. MacNeice (The Strings are False, p.137) that is how E.R. Dodds regarded Wilamowitz’s Herakles. That work was of course more than just a commentary on a single play. The first volume, a comprehensive introduction to all aspects of the study of Greek Tragedy, verges on becoming an introduction to classical philology as a whole. By itself, however, the commentary was truly epoch-making because of its range and omni-competence. I succeeded in establishing the goals to which the modern commentator on an ancient author feels he must aspire. Dodds himself in his Bacchae triumphantly achieved the Wilamowitz ideal. In this latest welcome addition to Oxford's claret-coloured commentaries on Euripides, Godfrey Bond takes on Wilamowitz's own play and, in my opinion, succeeds in coming closer to Dodds than any other commentator in this series. Perhaps the most striking differences in approach between B. and Wilamowitz lie in the realms of biography and psychology. Where Wilamowitz tended to explain a particular utterance with reference to the state of mind of the speaker, B. will account for it in terms of Euripidean rhetoric. Where choral utterances were taken by Wilamowitz as expressions of the personal opinions and feelings of the poets, B. relates them to the context of the play and to the formal conventions of choral lyric. (…) B.'s comments on the rhetorical structure of Euripidean 'rheseis' (…) are outstandingly good and his treatment of the choral odes I have not seen bettered in any commentary on tragedy.' (DAVID BAIN in The Classical Review (New Series), 1983, p.7). From the library of the late Prof. W. Geoffrey Arnott. € 67.50 (Antiquarian)

EURIPIDES, The Bacchae. With a Revision of the Text and a Commentary by R.Y. Tyrrell. MacMillan, London, 1936. CVI,159p. Cloth. Signature on free endpaper. € 15.50 (Antiquarian)