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GOW, A.S.F. and D.L. PAGE, (eds.), The Greek Anthology II. The Garland of Philip. Volume I. Introduction, Text, and Translation; Indexes of Sources and Epigrammatists. Volume II: Commentary and Indexes. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1968. 2 vols. LIX,451;490p. Cloth. Light stain on front cover vol.2. Small personal library mark and name on free endpaper. 'We are offered almost 4,000 lines, which have been supplied with a critical apparatus, commented upon, and translated into English. Besides Philip's Garland, the editors have included many other epigrams by poets who wrote between 90 B.C. and A.D. 40, so that a comprehensive corpus of epigrammatic poetry of the late Hellenistic age is now available. The Introduction is chiefly devoted to the vexed question of how Philip's Garland was constituted. (...) The part of the Introduction which I have found most useful is the one devoted to the metrical features of the epigrammatistst: here scholars have an invaluable survey at their disposal, which will be particularly useful for textual and literary investigations. (...) From my brief observations it will, I hope, appear that there is very much to be done in order to understand and correct the texts which the two editors have now placed at our disposal: their edition will serve as a welcome startingpoint for the investigation of late Hellenistic epigrammatic poetry.' (GIUSEPPE GIANGRANDE in The Classical Review (New Series), 1973, pp.136-8). From the library of the late Sir Kenneth James Dover. € 495.00 (Antiquarian)

GOW, A.S.F. and D.L. PAGE, (eds.), The Greek Anthology. I. Hellenistic Epigrams. Volume I. Introduction and Text. Volume II. Commentary and indexes. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1965. 2 vols. L,264;719p. Cloth. Small personal library mark and name on free endpaper. ' The work is devoted to almost 5,000 lines of Hellenistic poetry which had remained so far (...) devoid of any adequate commentary. Not only Alexandrinists but all students of Greek literature are heavily indebted to the editors, who have produced an outstanding piece of scholarship. Professor Page has concentrated his attention on Meleager, whose poems are analysed, with penetrating acumen, in their literary background and the allusiveness of their diction (...). Mr. Gow has dealt with the rest of the epigrammatists, a task of immense labour. He has elegantly solved, or soberly reassessed, numberless problems relating to text, 'Realien', and diction. (...). The two editors must be warmly congratulated on the publication of this work, which is not only monumental in size but also Bentleina in quality.' (GIUSEPPE GIANGRANDE in The classical Review (New Series), 1967, p.17-24). From the library of the late Sir Kenneth James Dover. € 495.00 (Antiquarian)

GOW, J., Minerva. Introduction à l'Étude des Classiques Scolaires Grecs et Latins. Ouvrage adapté aux besoins des écoles françaises par S. Reinach. Hachette, Paris, 1890. XX,336p. Bound. Rust stained. Head and tail back bit worn. € 18.50 (Antiquarian)

GOWARD, B., Telling Tragedy. Duckworth, London, 2009. VI,214p. Paperback. Using recent narrative theory, this book explores the narrative strategies that sustain the complex relationship between the tragic poet and his sophisticated audience. It discusses how these sprawling stories were typically shaped by Aeschylus into dramatic form; and, once established, how these patterns were successively adapted, subverted, capped or ignored by Sophocles and Euripides in the annual attempt to recreate suspense and express fresh meanings relevant to the difficult last decades of the fifth century. (Editor's information). The value of the book lies elsewhere: in the detailed analysis of individual plays and scenes. The section devoted to Aeschylus (part 2) focuses on time. G. offers a very valuable discussion of delay and analeptic / proleptic devices hidden in prophecies and dreams, with a detaild analysis of scenes from Septem, Agamemnon and Prometheus Bound. Part 3, devoted to Sophocles, introduces what G. calls the 'narrative loop', a particular version of dolos: 'when Sophocles makes a temporary deviation from a plot line, rejoining it again later at the point of exit' (p.87). (…) The fourth part seems to me to be the most successful. This is no coincidence, perhaps, since Euripides comes close to displaying the authorial heavy-handedness of novelistic fictional narrative in a number of ways. (…) An important contribution (…). Students of Greek tragedy (and drama in general (…) will (…) benefit from it.' (CHIARA TUMIGER in The Journal of Hellenic Studies 2005, p.164). € 22.50 (New)

GOYAU, G., Chronologie de l'Empire Romain. Klincksieck, Paris, 1891. LIX,635p. Bound. Yellowed. Back bit worn. One gathering badly folded with some loss of text. € 33.50 (Antiquarian)

GRABAR, A., Byzantine Painting. Historical and critical study. Translated by St. Gilbert. Skira, Geneva, 1979. [Published in GreatBritain by MacMillan, London] 201p. ills. Full colour photographs. Bound wrps. € 36.50 (Antiquarian)

GRABAR, A., Byzantium. De Byzantijnse Kunst in de Middeleeuwen (van de 8ste tot 15de eeuw). Elsevier, Amsterdam, 1981. 206p. ills. Paperback. Series: Kunst der Wereld. € 12.00 (Antiquarian)

GRABAR, A., Greek Mosaics of the Byzantine period. Collins, Unesco, n.d. 24p. Sewn. With 28 ills. € 6.50 (Antiquarian)

GRABMAN, M., Eine lateinische Übersetzung der pseudo-aristotelischen Rhetorica ad Alexandrum aus dem 13. Jahrhundert. Literarhistorische Untersuchung und Textausgabe. Verlag der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, München, 1932. 81p. Sewn. Spine and cover bit worn. Series: Sitzungsberichte der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, philosophisch-historische Abteilung, Jahrgang 1931/32. Heft 4. € 15.50 (Antiquarian)

GRABMAN, M., Mittelalterliche lateinische Übersetzungen von Schriften der Aristoteles-Kommentatoren Johannes Philoponos, Alexander von Aphrodisias und Themistios. Bayerischen Kademie der Wissenschaften, München, 1929. 72p. Sewn. Series: Sitzungsberichte, Philosophisch-historische Abteilung, 1929-Heft 7. € 15.50 (Antiquarian)