Scrinium Classical Antiquity

TOYNBEE, A., The Greeks and their Heritages. University Press, Oxford (...), 1981. 334p. Bound wrps. € 16.00 (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)

COOK, J.M., The Greeks in Ionia and the East. Thames and Hudson, London, 1962. 268p. Richly ills.(B&W photographs and line drawings). Name on free endpaper. € 18.50 (Antiquarian)

BOARDMAN, J., The Greeks Overseas. Their early colonies and trade. Thames and Hudson, London, 1980. rev.and enlarged ed. 288p. ills. Paperback. Cover bit discoloured. Some foxing on first and last pages as well as edges. € 15.50 (Antiquarian)

LLOYD-JONES, H., (ed.), The Greeks. Watts & Co., London, 1962. XII,262p. Cloth. Small personal library marks on tail spine as well as free endpaper. Name on free endpaper. A.o.: D. PAGE: The Homeric World (pp.1-15); A. ANDREWES: The Growth of the City-State (pp.15-56); K.J. DOVER: Greek Literature after Homer (pp.70-87); H. LLOYD-JONES: Greek Tragedy: Sophocles’ ‘Women of Trachis’ (pp.87-109); G.S. KIRK: Greek Science (pp.109-123); G. HUXLEY: Greek Mathematics and Astronomy (pp.136-163); M. ROBERTSON: The Visual Arts of the Greeks (pp.163-235). From the library of the late Sir Kenneth James Dover. € 16.00 (Antiquarian)

ANDREWES, A., The Greeks. Hutchinson of London, 1967. XXVI,292p. ills.(B&W photographs). Cloth. Cover bit stained. P.279-80 wrinkled. Small personal library mark and name on free endpaper. ‘It is surprising how many problems with their diverse suggested solutions Professor Andrewes has found space to mention in a relevant manner and measure, without adopting a tone of false confidence. Like Victor Ehrenberg’s From Solon to Socrates this book should be read by every student of Ancient History and admirer of the Greeks.’ (R.J. HOPPER in The Classical Review (New Series), 1971, p.246). From the library of the late Sir Kenneth James Dover. € 18.50 (Antiquarian)

CARTLEDGE, Paul, The Greeks. A Portrait of Self & Others. Oxford University Press, Oxford (...), 2002. 2nd ed. XVI,260p. 8 plates (B&W photographs). Pocketbook. Small personal library mark, name as well as author’s dedication on free endpaper. From the library of the late Sir Kenneth James Dover. € 8.00 (Antiquarian)

DOVER, K., The Greeks. From the BBC television series by Chr. Burstall and K. Dover. BBC, London, 1980. 146p. Cloth wrps. With signature in pencil on free endpaper. € 17.50 (Antiquarian)

ROSENMEYER, Th.G., The Green Cabinet. Theocritus and the European Pastoral Lyric. University of California Press, Berkeley / Los Angeles, 1969. XI,351p. Cloth wrps. 'This is a courageous book. It seeks to build conceptual bridges across many centuries of pastoral poetry.' (K.J. McKAY in MNEMOSYNE, XXVI, p.192). From the library of the late Prof. W. Geoffrey Arnott. € 21.50 (Antiquarian)

JEBB, R.C., The Growth and Influence of Classical Greek Poetry. Lectures delivered in 1892 on the P. Turnbull Memorial Foundation in the John Hopkins University. Gordian Press, NewYork, 1970. Reprint 1st ed.1893. XIII,257p. Cloth. Nice copy. € 24.00 (Antiquarian)