Scrinium Classical Antiquity

GRENIER, A., Le Génie Romain dans la Religion, la Pensée et l' Art. La Renaissance du Livre, Paris, 1938. XIV,503,XVIp. ills. Sewn. € 15.50 (Antiquarian)

GRENIER, A., J. VENDRYÈS, a.o., Les Religions Étrusque et Romaine. Les Religions des Celtes, des Germains et des anciens Slaves. Presses Universitaires de France, Paris, 1948. 467p. Sewn. Bit yellowed. Series: Mana, Introduction à l'histoire des religions, 2,III. € 23.00 (Antiquarian)

GRESHOFF, J., Ikaros bekeerd. Een leerdicht. A.A.M. Stols, 's-Gravenhage, 1945. 2nd ed. 58p. Half cloth wrps. € 9.50 (Antiquarian)

GRESTY, A., O level LATIN comprehension practice. Blackie&Son, London, 1972. 1st ed. XI,131p. Paperback. € 12.00 (Antiquarian)

GRETHLEIN, J., The Greeks and Their Past. Poetry, Oratory and History in the Fifth Century BCE. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2010. 362p. Hardback. Ancient Greeks remembered their past before the rise of historiography and after it poetry and oratory continued to serve commemorative functions. This book explores the field of literary memory in the fifth century BCE, juxtaposing the works of Herodotus and Thucydides with samples from epinician poetry, elegy, tragedy and oratory. Various socio-political contexts and narrative forms lent themselves to the expression of diverse attitudes towards the past. At the same time, a common gravitational centre can be observed which is distinct from modern ideas of history. As well as presenting a broad overview on memory in various genres, Professor Grethlein sheds new light on the rise of Greek historiography. He views Herodotus and Thucydides against the background of memory in poetry and oratory and thereby elucidates the tension between tradition and continuity in which the shaping of historiography as a genre took place. € 77.00 (New)

GREWE, K., Der Römerkanal-Wanderweg. Ein archäologischer Wanderführer. Textband. Kartenband. Eifelverein, Dürren, 1988. 2 vols. 203p. 7 maps, loose in folder. ills. € 13.50 (Antiquarian)

GRIESER, H., Nomos. Ein Beitrag zur griechischen Musikgeschichte. Im Selbstverlag von Bilabel, Heidelberg, 1937. 74p. Sewn. Small personal library mark and name on free endpaper. Cover bit folded. Series: Quellen und Studien zur Geschichte und Kultur des Altertums und des Mittelalters, Heft 5. (Rare). From the library of the late Sir Kenneth James Dover. € 62.50 (Antiquarian)

GRIFFIN, A., Sikyon. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1982. 171,(VIII)p. B&W Photographs. Cloth. Name on free end paper. Light bubbling of upper part of the first pages. But nice copy. (Rare). Though never a major power, the city of Sikyon was involved in many of the major events of Greek history and was home to several major artists. This book brings together everything that is known about Sikyon to demonstrate how the different aspects of the city's culture (politics, art, etc.) affected one another. From the library of the late Sir Kenneth James Dover. € 79.50 (Antiquarian)

GRIFFIN, J., Homer on Life and Death. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1980. XVI,218p. Cloth. Small personal library mark and name on free endpaper. 'Homer on Life and Death' 'attempts to move English-language scholarship away from its preoccupation with oral techniques in the composition of the Ílias' and the 'Odyssey', and toweards the study of those literary devices which Homer deploys - or is alleged to deply - in order to evoke emotional and other responses from his readers. Griffin's appraoch is heavily indebted to German scholars like Reinhardt and Schadewaldt, and like them he combines penetrating insight with objectifying argumentation. Having burroweddeep into neglected scholia and the heroic sagas of the Middle East and of Western Europe, he sheds new light on the four major areas of his investigation: significant and emblematic details which bring out the implications of a word or action; complexity and implicitness in characterization; the significance of death, and the evocation of pathos in its description; and the power and dignity of the gods as they gaze upon - or away from - the human scene. (...) this is an importand, imaginative, and thought-provoking book, which may restore the literary criticism of Homer in this country to respactability.' (W. GEOFFREY ARNOTT in Greece & Rome, 1981, p.214). From the library of the late Sir Kenneth James Dover. € 55.00 (Antiquarian)

GRIFFIN, J., Homer on Life and Death. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1980. XVI,218p. Cloth wrps. Wrps partly discoloured. Personal summary from WGA loosely inserted. 'Homer on Life and Death' 'attempts to move English-language scholarship away from its preoccupation with oral techniques in the composition of the 'Ilias' and the 'Odyssey', and towards the study of those literary devices which Homer deploys - or is alleged to deploy - in order to evoke emotional and other responses from his readers. Griffin's appraoch is heavily indebted to German scholars like Reinhardt and Schadewaldt, and like them he combines penetrating insight with objectifying argumentation. Having burrowed deep into neglected scholia and the heroic sagas of the Middle East and of Western Europe, he sheds new light on the four major areas of his investigation: significant and emblematic details which bring out the implications of a word or action; complexity and implicitness in characterization; the significance of death, and the evocation of pathos in its description; and the power and dignity of the gods as they gaze upon - or away from - the human scene. (...) This is an important, imaginative, and thought-provoking book, which may restore the literary criticism of Homer in this country to respactability.' (W. GEOFFREY ARNOTT in Greece & Rome, 1981, p.214). From the library of the late Prof. W. Geoffrey Arnott. € 55.00 (Antiquarian)