Scrinium Classical Antiquity

HAZZLET, I., (ed.), Early Christianity. Origins and Evolution to AD 600. SPCK, London, 1991. 2nd corr.impr. XVI,335p. Paperback. Early Christianity is a collection of essays on various aspects of the early Christian experience that were composed and offered to the great Scottish church historian W. H. C. Frend on the occasion of his 75th birthday. Different from the "specialized and sometimes arcane studies appealing only to the few" (xiv) that are characteristic of the typical Festschrift, the essays in this volume were written with the intention of introducing the non-specialist to the study of early Christianity. This was done in recognition of the superlative skills Professor Frend brought to the teaching of the subject in his decades at the University of Glasgow. As an introductory work, meant to take its place next to traditional histories of the early Church by scholars like Henry Chadwick and Frend himself, Early Christianity is distinctive in having its component essays arranged not chronologically, but thematically in eight major sections. (K.McC. Spoerl in Journal of Early Christian Studies, 1993, preview). A.o.: J. KELLY: Why Study Early Church History? (pp.3-15); J. MERDINGER: The world of the Roman Empire (pp.17-28); L.H. MARTIN : The Pagan Religious Background (pp.52-65); K. SCHÄFERDIEK: Christian Mission and Expansion (pp.65-79); Ph. ROUSSEAU: Christian Ascetism and the Early Monks (pp.112-123); F. YOUNG: The Greek Fathers (pp.135-148); Chr. STEAD: Greek Influence on Christian Thought (pp.175-186); K. RUDOLPH: Gnosticism (pp.186-198); J. HARRIES: Patristic Historiography (pp.269-280). € 17.50 (Antiquarian)

HAßKAMP, D., Oligarchische Willkür - demokratische Ordnung. Zur athenischen Verfassung im 4. Jh. v. Chr. Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt, 2005. 192p. Bound. € 31.50 (New)

HEALEY, J.F., Aramaic Inscriptions and Documents of the Roman Period: Aramaic Inscriptions and Documents of the Roman Period. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2009. ills. 388p. Bound. In the first centuries AD, although much of the Near East was ruled by Rome, the main local language was Aramaic, and the people who lived inside or on the fringes of the area controlled by the Romans frequently wrote their inscriptions and legal documents in their own local dialects of this language. This book introduces these fascinating early texts to a wider audience, by presenting a representative sample, comprising eighty inscriptions and documents in the following dialects: Nabataean, Jewish, Palmyrene, Syriac, and Hatran. Detailed commentaries on the texts are preceded by chapters on history and culture and on epigraphy and language. The linguistic commentaries will help readers who have a knowledge of Hebrew or Arabic or one of the Aramaic dialects to understand the difficulties involved in interpreting such materials. The translations and more general comments will be of great interest to classicists and ancient historians. € 93.00 (New)

HEANEY, S., The Redress of Poetry. Oxford Lectures. Faber and Faber, London / Boston, 1995. 213p. Paperback. A.o.: Extending the alphabet: On Christopher Marlowe's 'Hero and Leander'(pp.17-38); Orpheus in Ireland: On Brian Merriman's 'The Midnight court'(pp.38-63); Joy or Night: Last Things in the Poetry of W.B. Yeats and Philip Larkin (pp.146-164). These lectures were delivered by Seamus Heaney while he was Professor of Poetry at Oxford University. In the first of them, Heaney discusses and celebrates poetry's special ability to redress spiritual balance and to function as a counterweight to hostile and oppressive forces in the world. He proceeds to explore how this 'redress' manifests itself in a diverse range of poems and poets, including Christopher Marlowe's 'Hero and Leander', 'the Midnight Court' by the eighteenth-century Irish poet Brian Merriman, John Clare's vernacular writing and Oscar Wilde's 'The Ballad of Reading Gaol'. Several twentieth-century poets are also discussed - W.B. Yeats, Dylan Thomas, Elizabeth Bisshop and others - and the whole book constitutes a vivid proof of the claim that 'poetry is strong enough to help'. (Publisher's information). € 11.50 (Antiquarian)

HEATH, M., The Poetics of Greek Tragedy. Duckworth, London, 1987. VII,221p. Paperback. € 18.50 (Antiquarian)

HEATH, M., Unity in Greek Poetics. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1989. 184p. Cloth. Small personal library mark and name on free endpaper. The belief that a text is, or ought to be, a unity often plays a crucial role in literary interpretation and evaluation; but critics of classical literature do not seem sufficiently alert to the possibility that their criteria may be different from those which underlay the composition and reception of literary texts in the ancient world. The aim of this book is to reconstruct ancient Greek assumptions about literary unity. It discusses some literary examples, but its main concern is with ancient secondary texts - literary theory and criticism - undertaking a systematic survey from Plato and Aristotle down to the later Neoplatonists. There is also a brief review of the post-classical history of the concept of literary unity. (Publisher's information). From the library of the late Sir Kenneth James Dover. € 39.50 (Antiquarian)

HEATH, M., Unity in Greek Poetics. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1989. 184p. Cloth wrps. Upper edge slightly stained. Nice copy. The belief that a text is, or ought to be, a unity often plays a crucial role in literary interpretation and evaluation; but critics of classical literature do not seem sufficiently alert to the possibility that their criteria may be different from those which underlay the composition and reception of literary texts in the ancient world. The aim of this book is to reconstruct ancient Greek assumptions about literary unity. It discusses some literary examples, but its main concern is with ancient secondary texts - literary theory and criticism - undertaking a systematic survey from Plato and Aristotle down to the later Neoplatonists. There is also a brief review of the post-classical history of the concept of literary unity. (Publisher's information). From the library of the late Prof. W. Geoffrey Arnott. € 42.50 (Antiquarian)

HEATH, M., The Poetics of Greek Tragedy. Duckworth, London, 1987. VII,221p. Paperback. Edges stained. From the library of the late Prof. W. Geoffrey Arnott. € 14.50 (Antiquarian)

HEATON, E.W., Het dagelijks leven in de tijd van het Oude Testament. Geïllustreerd met 30 foto's en 80 tekeningen van Marjorie Quennell. Bosch & Keuning, Baarn, n.d. 223p. Cloth. Oorspronkelijke titel: Everyday Life in Old Testament Times. € 6.50 (Antiquarian)

HECK, A. van, Gregorii Nysseni De pauperibus amandis orationes duo. Brill, Leiden, 1964. XXVIII,150p. Theses. Sewn. Diss. Rijksuniversiteit Leiden. € 27.50 (Antiquarian)