Scrinium Classical Antiquity

ECKSTEIN, J., The Deathday of Socrates. Living, dying, and immortality. The theater of ideas in Plato's Phaedo. With translation of the Phaedo into English by B. Jowett (4 th rev.ed.) Columbia Publishing Company, Frenchtown, 1981. X,285p. Paperback. € 17.00 (Antiquarian)

LABÉ, L., The debate between Folly and Cupid. Written by Louise Labé of Lyons about 1500 and now first completely done into English by Edwin Marion Cox. Williams and Norgate, London, 1925. 88p. Cloth wrps. Wrps protected with adapta roll. Printed on handmade paper. 326 ex. printed and signed by the editor E.M. Cox. This is nr.278. € 40.00 (Antiquarian)

CHADWICK, J., The Decipherment of linear B. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1958. 147p. Cloth wrps. Wrps little bit worn. Folding chart. € 20.50 (Antiquarian)

CHADWICK, J., The Decipherment of Linear B. Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, 1961. X,160p. ills. With index and chart of Linear B signs. Pocketbook. Pages yellowed. From the library of the late Prof. W. Geoffrey Arnott. € 7.00 (Antiquarian)

CALPURNIUS FLACCUS, The Declamations. Text, Translation and Commentary by L.A. Sussman. Brill, Leiden (...), 1994. 258p. Cloth wrps. With signature of W. Evenepoel on free endpaper. Nice copy. 'Sussman is one of the doyens of Roman declamation. Following his biography of the elder Seneca (1978) and edition with translation of the major declamations ascribed to Quintilian (1987) comes this entertaining and useful text, translation, and commentary on the excerpts of Calpurnius Flaccus, who may have been in the younger Pliny's circle. He has received perhaps the least attention of all the ancient declaimers; there is a good edition by L. Håkanson (1978), which S. uses as his base text, but no commentary since 1720. (...) The extracts, from 53 declamations, form a collection of memorable sententiae and colores, clearly intended as models for students (p.17). (...) S. has met the challenges of this difficult collection admirably. A succinct introduction treats such questions as the relation of declamation to education; the didactic purpose of the excerpts; their style, content, and legal and sociological background. The lucid translation avoids over-interpretation while getting across the feeling of the original. (...) The commentary offers information about and parallels for the legal context (the laws are often recherché, Greek, or peculiar to declamation) and the declamatory situation; notes on the text (keyed the translation) concentrate on Calpurnius' often idiosyncratic Latin, choice diction, and especially his use of rhetorical topoi and figures. (CHRISTINA S. KRAUS in Bryn Mawr Classical Review 95.08.07). € 77.50 (Antiquarian)

VOGT, J., The Decline of Rome. The Metamorphosis of Ancient Civilisation. Translated from the German by J. Sondheimer. With chronological table, bibliography, map, and index. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1967. XII,340p. With 90 B&W photographs. Cloth wrps. Ex libris stamp on free end paper. € 20.50 (Antiquarian)

WALBANK, F.W., The Decline of the Roman Empire in the West. Cobbett Press, London, 1946. XIII,97p. ills. Cloth. € 15.50 (Antiquarian)

HALL, E.H., The Decorative art of Crete in the Bronze Age. Winston, Philadelphia, 1907. 47p. ills. Folding table. Sewn. Spine bit worn. Diss. Bryn Mawr College. € 24.00 (Antiquarian)

HILL, R., (ed.), The Deeds of the Franks and the Other Pilgrims to Jerusalem. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1962. XLV,113p. Cloth. Library marks on first pages. Cover bit stained. Series: Oxford Medieval Text 1972. € 71.50 (Antiquarian)

ATHENAEUS, The Deipnosophists. In Seven Volumes. With an English translation by Ch.B. Gulick. Volumes I - VII. (Complete). Heinemann / Putnam / Harvard University Press, London / New York / Cambridge (Mass.), 1927-41. 7 vols. Cloth. Cover bit scratched. Head and tail spine as well as corners bit worn. Joints partly bit cracked. Spine vol.IV repaired with adhesive tape. Bindings tight. From the library of the late Prof. W. Geoffrey Arnott. € 82.50 (Antiquarian)