Scrinium Classical Antiquity

PATTISON, G., A Rhetorics of the Word. A Philosophy of Christian Life, Part II. Oxford University Press, 2019. 288p. Hardback. € 119.57 (New) (MD)

PATTISON, G., A Metaphysics of Love. A Philosophy of Christian Life Part III. Oxford University Press, 2021. 272p. Hardback. € 110.06 (New)

PATTISON, G., Conversations with Dostoevsky. On God, Russia, Literature, and Life. Oxford University Press, 2024. 320p. Hardback. George Pattison's multi-voiced scholarly fiction on Dostoevsky's Christian faith is an echo-chamber of genres: Dialogue of the Dead, Ivan Karamazov's hallucination, Kierkegaard's uplifting discourse, Soloviev's Three Conversations, and a defense of literary creativity as a patient and learned therapy for the soul. The result is a game-changer. Rise and walk, read and see. Caryl Emerson, Princeton University (Publisher's information). € 40.76 (New)

PATTISON, R., The Great Dissent. John Henry Newman and the Liberal Heresy. Oxford University Press, 1991. 244p. Hardback. € 77.45 (New) (MD)

PATTON, K. C., Religion of the Gods. Ritual, Paradox, and Reflexivity. Oxford University Press, 2009. 512p. Hardback. A fascinating display of comparative analysis, Religion of the Gods combines mastery of scholarly sources, vigorous use of phenomenological method, and an interpretive theory that boldly challenges current projectionist approaches to ritual and religion. William Paden, author of Religious Worlds: The Comparative Study of Religion (Publisher's information). € 129.08 (New) (MD)

PATZER, A., (ed.), Der historische Sokrates. Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt, 1987. VII,473p. Hard bound. Spine a bit yellowed. Pages slightly yellowed. Series: Wege der Forschung, Band 585. A.o.: P. NATORP: Ueber Sokrates (pp.59-91); J. BURNET: Introduction to Plato's Phaedo (pp.109-146); H. GOMPERZ: Die sokratische Frage als geschichtliches Problem (pp.184-225); E.A. HAVELOCK: The evidence for the teaching of Socrates (pp.240-259); O. GIGON: Die Gestalt des Sokrates als Problem (pp.270-323); ROSSETTI, L.: Neueste Entwicklungen in der sokratischen Frage (pp.391-434). € 75.00 (Antiquarian)

PATZER, H., Die Anfänge der griechischen Tragödie. Franz Steiner Verlag, Wiesbaden, 1962. X,178p. ills.(22 B&W photographs on 13 paltes). Sewn. Lower corner front cover a bit dog's eared. Series: Schriften der wissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft an der Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Geisteswissenschaftliche Reihe, Nr. 3. 'Dr Patzer offers a simple and unified picture of tragedy as heroic conflict conducted within a frame of religious belief; it arises out of dithyramb and develops along with, though independent of, the satyrplay without fundamental change even in the fourth century. But this account is open to serious objections, and Patzer is no more able than anyone else to combine all the evidence into a coherent whole. (...) What is attractive in his view is that it accounts for the close connection between satyr-play and tragedy, without encountering the difficulties involved in deriving one from the other.' (D.W. Lucas in Journal of Hellenic Studies, 1964, pp.162-63). From the library of the late professor Doktor Nikolaus Himmelmann. € 25.00 (Antiquarian)

PATZIG, G., Die aristotelische Syllogistik. Logisch-philologische Untersuchungen über das Buch Q der 'Ersten Analytiken'. VandenHoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen, 1969. 3rd rev.ed. 217p. Original blue gilt titled cloth with dust wrps. Cloth stained. Dust wrps grimy and edge-worn. Pages yellowed due to paper quality. Ex libris glued to paste-down ednpaper. Pencil strikes and underlinings. € 25.00 (Antiquarian)

PAUL, A., Untersuchungen zur Eigenart von Senecas Phoenissen. Rudolf Habelt Verlag, Bonn, 1953. 121p. Original blue gilt titled cloth. Pages yellowed. Diss. Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main. 'It is impossible (...) to do justice to the author's many penetrating views and his really constructive approach to the criticism of Seneca's drama. Familiarity with the discussions of foreign scholars may have led him to qualify some of his overconfident statements about chronology and about Seneca's aims and intentions (...). But this type of investigation into the technique, the style, and the various problems presented by the text of the individual tragedies might well set a precedent. The time has come to study the whole corpus of Seneca's plays, not as weak imitations of Greek drama, not as 'suasoriae' or 'declamationes', but as Seneca's original adaptation of the dramatic genre to fill a new need and to perform a new function, that of creating for the Roman public heroic types to exemplify the Stoic conception of man and of the human condition.' (BERTHE M. MARTI in The Journal of Roman Studies, 1955, pp.233-34). € 22.50 (Antiquarian)

PAUL, H., Prinzipien der Sprachgeschichte. Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt, 1960. Photomechanical reprint ed.1920. XV,428p. Cloth. Spine a little bit discoloured. Nice copy. € 22.50 (Antiquarian)