Scrinium Classical Antiquity

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)

GRIFFIN, M., and J. BARNES, (eds.), Philosophia togata. Essays on Philosophy and Roman Society. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1989. VIII,302p. Cloth. Small personal library mark and name on free endpaper. 'Of the scholarly quality of these papers, selected from a series of Oxford seminars, the list of contributors is sufficient guarantee. They are besides pleasant to read, often witty, and (…) contain little not accessible to any interested reader.' (A.E. DOUGLAS in The Classical Review (New Series), 1990, p.323). Contents: M. GRIFFIN: Philosophy, Politics, and Politicians at Rome (pp.1-38); I.G. KIDD: Posidonius as Philosopher-Historian (pp.38-51); J. BARNES: Antiochus of Ascalon (pp.51-97); D. SEDLEY: Philosophical Allegiance in the Greco-Roman World (pp.97-120); D.P. FOWLER: Lucretius and Politics (pp.120-151); J. ANNAS: Cicero on Stoic Moral Philosophy and Private Property (pp.151-174); P.A. BRUNT: Philosophy and Religion in the Late Republic (pp.174-199); Chr. PELLING: Plutarch: Roman Heroes and Greek Culture (pp.199-233); E. RAWSON: Roman Rulers and the Philosophic Adviser (pp.233-259). From the library of the late Sir Kenneth James Dover. € 65.00 (Antiquarian)

GRIFFITH, J.G., Festinat Senex, or An Old Man in a Hurry, being an assortment of unpublished essays on problems in Greek and Latin literature and archaeology, together with reprints of three articles. Oxbow Books, Oxford, 1988. 134p. Cloth. Small personal library mark on tail spine. Small personal library mark, name as well as author’s dedication on free endpaper. A.o.: Two passages in Herodotus (I.51; I.70) and the Bronze Crater from the Royal Tomb at Vix-sur-Seine (pp.5-24); The Megalopsychos of Aristotle and Greek Tragedy (pp.36-44); Gallus Resartus (pp.64-70); The Ending of Juvenal’s First Satire and Lucilius, Book XXX (pp.81-98). From the library of the late Sir Kenneth James Dover. € 12.50 (Antiquarian)

GRIFFITH, M., The authenticity of 'Prometheus Bound'. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (...), 1977. XII,419p. Cloth. A few pencil markings. Small personal library mark and name on free endpaper. Prometheus Bound was accepted without question in antiquity as the work of Aeschylus, and most modern authorities endorse this ascription. But since the nineteenth century several leading scholars have come to doubt Aeschylean authorship. Dr Griffith here provides a thorough and wide-ranging study of this problem, and concludes: 'Had Prometheus Bound been newly dug up from the sands of Oxyrhynchus... few scholars would regard it as the work of Aeschylus.' After a preliminary assessment of the external evidence, Dr Griffith examines minutely the idiosyncrasies of metre, dramatic technique, vocabulary, syntax and expression to be found in the play, applying the same tests to other plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides in order to provide a control for his methods. In his final chapter he discusses how the conditions surrounding the ancient transmission and cataloguing of texts may have led to the ascription to Aeschylus. (Editor's information). ‘ (…) the most thorough and reasoned investigation of a Greek tragedy’s authenticity ever made. It is a splendid book (..) as admirable for the near-completeness of its scope as for the self-restraint which characterizes its evaluation of the evidence.‘ (MALCOLM DAVIES in The Classical Review (New Series), 1979, p.5). From the library of the late Sir Kenneth James Dover. € 82.50 (Antiquarian)

GRIFFITHS, A., (ed.), Stage Directions. Essays in Ancient Drama in Honour of E.W. Handley. Institute of Classical Studies, University of London School of Advanced Study, 1995. VII,160p. ILLS. Paperback. Series: BICS Supplement 66. A.o.: A. SEEBERG: From Padded Dancers to Comedy (pp.1-13); G.M. SIFAKIS: The One-Actor Rule in Greek Tragedy (pp.13-25); E. SEGAL: 'The Comic Catastrophe': An Essay on Euripidean Comedy (pp.46-56); K. SIDWELL: Poetic Rivalry and the Caricature of Comic Poets: Cratinus' Pytine and Aristophanes' Wasps (pp.56-81); J.R. GREEN: Theatrical Motifs in Non-thatrical Contexts on Vases of the Later Fifth and Fourth Centuries (pp.93-123); Chr. DEDOUSSI: Greek Drama and its Spectators: Conventions and Relationships (pp.123-133); E.J. JORY: Ars ludicra and the Ludus Talarius (pp.138-153). From the library of the late Prof. W. Geoffrey Arnott. € 34.50 (Antiquarian)

GRIFFITHS, D.J., Introduction to Quantum Mechanics. Pearson Education International, Upper Saddle River., 2005. 2nd ed. IX,468p. Paperback. € 79.50 (New)

GRIGSON, G., Aphrodite. Göttin der Liebe. Gustav Lübbe Verlag, Bergisch Gladbach, n.d. (>1978). 240p. ills. Bound wrps. Wrps little bit worn. € 15.50 (Antiquarian)

GRILLET, B., Les Femmes et les Fards dans l'Antiquité Grecque. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Lyon, 1975. 204,IXp. Paperback. € 23.00 (Antiquarian)

GRILLPARZER, Fr., Das goldene Vlies. Dramatisches Gedicht in drei Abteilungen. Teil III: Medea. Herausgegeben von S. Italianer. Noordhoff, Groningen, n.d. 129p. Sewn. Series: Deutsche Bibliothek, 30. € 6.50 (Antiquarian)

GRILLPARZER, Fr., Das goldene Vliess. Ein dramatisches Gedicht. Der Gastfreund. Die Argonauten. Medea. Ungekuerzte Ausgabe. Goldmann, München, 1961. 164p. Pocketbook. € 6.50 (Antiquarian)