Scrinium Classical Antiquity

GROSSARDT, P., Die Trugreden in der Odyssee und ihre Rezeption in der antiken Literatur. Peter Lang, Bern, 1998. XIII,493p. Hard bound. Series: Saphenia, Band 2. Nice copy. ‘On ne peut que rendre hommage à la profondeur et à la rigueur qui caractérisent ce travail d’un grand intérêt pour l’histoire de la littérature antique.’ (DANIEL DONNET in L’antiquité classique, 1999, p.351). € 55.00 (Antiquarian)

GROSSARDT, P., Die Erzählung von Meleagros. Zur literarischen Entwicklung der kalydonischen Kultlegende. Brill, Leiden (...), 2001. XIII,334p. Original gilt titled grey cloth with dust wrps. Dust wrps to upper edge slightly wrinkled. Series: Mnemosyne, Supplementa 215. The myth of the Calydonian boar-hunt belongs to the great mythical cycles of the ancient world. P. Grossardt now offers the first complete presentation of all literary sources of the Calydonian hunt, as well as of other adventures of its central hero Meleagros. The sources have been arranged by genre and their literary context has been taken well into account. The author gives special attention to the development of different versions of the legend. Individual poets, Grossardt observes, used the myth of the Calydonian boar-hunt as a functional element in a larger context or in conscious contrast to older texts. In reconstructing the prehistory of the legend and its religious background, the author shows that the Calydonian boar-hunt myth originally had the function of an aition for the cult of Artemis Laphria and that it was taken up by the epic tradition long before Homer. (Publisher's information). € 75.00 (Antiquarian)

GROSSI, G., Arles. Notre Rome Gauloise. Imprimerie Aubanel et Fils, Avignon, 1975. VIII,158p. ills. Sewn. 1 of 1500 copies. € 14.50 (Antiquarian)

GROSSMANN, Dieter, Die Bibel in der Kunst. Das Hochmittelalter. Bildauswahl, Einführung und Erläuterungen. Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, Stuttgart, 1995. 144p. ills. Bound wrps. Series: Die bibel in der Kunst. € 15.50 (Antiquarian)

GROSSMANN, G., Promethie und Orestie. Attischer Geist in der attischen Tragödie. Carl Winter, Heidelberg, 1970. 313p. Original blue gilt titled cloth. Name stamp to inside title page. Else fine. Series: bibliothek der klassischen Altertumswissenschaften, Neue Folge, 2. Reihe, Band 31. 'The purpose of Grossmann's Habilitationsschrift, now published in a revised form, is to reconcile the theology of the 'Proemtheia' with that found in the other works of Aeschylus. Briefly dismissing those scholars who explain the tyrannical bahaviour of Zues as due to reasons of state, he divides the rest into three parties (p.10). Some argue that since Zeus cannot be at fault, Prometheus must be; others regard Zeus as a tyrant and Prometheus as the champion of liberty; a third group holds that somehow both are in the right. The truth, Grossmann says, lies beyond all three views; Zeus is at first in the wrong, but later comes to share the love of humanity felt by his great adversary. (...) Grossmann seems to take it for granted that after his reconciliation with Prometheus Zes became a 'lover of humanity' of the same kind as Prometheus himself. (...) Grossmann's view that Zeus changed his original attitude, and that the theology of the 'Prometheia' was essentially the same as that of the 'Oresteia', is no doubt correct; but that is hardly new. (...) His book is clearly written and contains some useful incidental remarks, besides much information about the German literature bearing on the subject. Experts will find it worth reading.' (HUGH LLOYD-JONES in The Classical Review (New Series), 1972, pp.178-180). € 35.00 (Antiquarian)

GROTE, G., A History of Greece: Volume 1. Cambridge University Press, 2010. 688p. Paperback. Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Classics. Widely acknowledged as the most authoritative Victorian study of ancient Greece, George Grote's twelve-volume work, begun in 1846, established the view of Greek history which still prevails in textbooks and popular accounts of the ancient world today. Grote employs direct and clear language to take the reader from the earliest times of legendary Greece to the death of Alexander and his generation, drawing upon epic poetry and legend, and examining the growth and decline of the Athenian democracy. The work explains Greek political constitutions and philosophy, and interwoven throughout are the important but outlying adventures of the Sicilian and Italian Greeks. Volume 1 focuses on the legendary Greece, the times of epic poetry and legend, and explains how what we read today as myth was once, as Grote describes it, 'accredited history which the first Greeks could conceive or relish of their past time'. (Publisher's information). € 58.25 (New) (MD)

GROTE, G., A History of Greece: Volume 2. Cambridge University Press, 2010. 652p. Paperback. Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Classics. Widely acknowledged as the most authoritative Victorian study of ancient Greece, George Grote's twelve-volume work, begun in 1846, established the view of Greek history which still prevails in textbooks and popular accounts of the ancient world today. Grote employs direct and clear language to take the reader from the earliest times of legendary Greece to the death of Alexander and his generation, drawing upon epic poetry and legend, and examining the growth and decline of the Athenian democracy. The work explains Greek political constitutions and philosophy, and interwoven throughout are the important but outlying adventures of the Sicilian and Italian Greeks. Volume 2 continues with the legendary age of the Greeks, paying special attention to the Iliad and Odyssey, and begins the story of historical Greece, setting the geographical and chronological coordinates and introducing the reader to the world of the Peloponnesus. (Publisher's information). € 50.97 (New) (MD)

GROTE, G., A History of Greece: Volume 3. Cambridge University Press, 2010. 580p. Paperback. Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Classics. Widely acknowledged as the most authoritative Victorian study of ancient Greece, George Grote's twelve-volume work, begun in 1846, established the view of Greek history which still prevails in textbooks and popular accounts of the ancient world today. Grote employs direct and clear language to take the reader from the earliest times of legendary Greece to the death of Alexander and his generation, drawing upon epic poetry and legend, and examining the growth and decline of the Athenian democracy. The work explains Greek political constitutions and philosophy, and interwoven throughout are the important but outlying adventures of the Sicilian and Italian Greeks. Volume 3 reviews the world which the Greeks knew, and to which they sent colonies, and discusses their neighbours around the Mediterranean and Black Sea, from the Egyptians to the Scythians, and from Persia to what is now France. (Publisher's information). € 50.97 (New) (MD)

GROTE, G., A History of Greece: Volume 4. Cambridge University Press, 2010. 584p. Paperback. Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Classics. Widely acknowledged as the most authoritative study of ancient Greece, George Grote's twelve-volume work, begun in 1846, established the shape of Greek history which still prevails in textbooks and popular accounts of the ancient world today. Grote employs direct and clear language to take the reader from the earliest times of legendary Greece to the death of Alexander and his generation, drawing upon epic poetry and legend, and examining the growth and decline of the Athenian democracy. The work provides explanations of Greek political constitutions and philosophy, and interwoven throughout are the important but outlying adventures of the Sicilian and Italian Greeks. Volume 4 continues the review of Greek contacts in the wider Mediterranean world, and also covers political developments, especially in Athens, from the rise of the Peisistratids to the battle of Marathon. (Publisher's information). € 50.97 (New) (MD)

GROTE, G., A History of Greece: Volume 5. Cambridge University Press, 2010. 580p. Paperback. Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Classics. Widely acknowledged as the most authoritative study of ancient Greece, George Grote's twelve-volume work, begun in 1846, established the shape of Greek history which still prevails in textbooks and popular accounts of the ancient world today. Grote employs direct and clear language to take the reader from the earliest times of legendary Greece to the death of Alexander and his generation, drawing upon epic poetry and legend, and examining the growth and decline of the Athenian democracy. The work provides explanations of Greek political constitutions and philosophy, and interwoven throughout are the important but outlying adventures of the Sicilian and Italian Greeks. Volume 5 deals with Greek history from the battle of Marathon through the Persian Wars and developments in Sicily down to the era of Perikles. (Publisher's information). € 50.97 (New) (MD)