Scrinium Classical Antiquity

A GUIDE TO THE EGYPTIAN COLLECTIONS IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM. The Trustees of the British Museum, n.p., 1909. Paper covered boards. Front cover missing. Back cover nearly loose. Spine worn. With 53 plates and 180 illustrations in the text. € 18.50 (Antiquarian)

LIVIUS, Ab Urbe Condita libri. XXVIIII-XXX.W. Weissenborns erklärende Ausgabe. Neu bearbeitet von H.J. Müller. Sechster Band, zweites Heft. Weidmann, Berlin, 1899. 4th ed. VIU,199p. Sewn. € 16.00 (Antiquarian)

SEIDLER, H., Allgemeine Stilistik. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen, 1963. 2nd.rev.ed. 359p. Original red gilt titled cloth with dust wrps. € 20.00 (Antiquarian)

PORRO, A. and G. MILANESE, (eds.), Atti del congresso internazionale 'Modelli testuali e prassi poetica: grecia ellenistica e roma, Milano, Università Cattolica, 27-29 aprile 1992. Vita e Pensiero, Pubblicazioni dell'Universita Cattolica, Milano,n.d.(>1992). 269p. Sewn. Seires: Aevum Antiquum, 5 - 1992. (Rare).A.o.: P.J. PARSONS: Poesia ellenistica: testi e contesti (pp.9-21); L. LEHNUS: J.U. Powell, Wilamowitz, e i 'Collectanea Alexandrina' (pp.21-55); R. PRETAGOSTINI: Tracce di poesia orale nei carmi di Tocriti (pp.67-89); C. MIRALLES: La poetica di Eroda (pp.89-115); W. GEOFFREY ARNOTT: Ancora sulle scene di apertura della commedia (pp.115-129); A. LA PENNA: L'autorappresentazione e la rappresentazione del poeta come scrittore da Nevio a Ovidio (pp.143-187); A. BARCHIESI: Riflessivo e futuro. Due modi di allusione nella poesia, ellenistica ed augustea (pp.207-245). From the library of the late Prof. W. Geoffrey Arnott. € 39.50 (Antiquarian)

CICERO, Die Erste und zweite Philippische Rede. Ausgewählte Reden. Erklärt von K. Halm. Sechster Band: Umgearbeitete Auflage besorgt von G. Laubmann. Weidmann, Berlin, 1905. 138p. Sewn. Some pen and (colour)pencil anntotations and underlinings. € 12.50 (Antiquarian)

PAPADOPOULOU, T., Heracles and Euripidean Tragedy. Cambridge University Press, 2005. 242p. Hardback. Series: Cambridge Classical Studies. Euripides' Heracles is an extraordinary play of great complexity, exploring the co-existence of both positive and negative aspects of the eponymous hero. Euripides treats Heracles' ambivalence by showing his uncertain position after the completion of his labours and turns him into a tragic hero by dramatizing his development from the invincible hero of the labours to the courageous bearer of suffering. This book offers a comprehensive reading of Heracles examining it in the contexts of Euripidean dramaturgy, Greek drama and fifth-century Athenian society. It shows that the play, which raises profound questions on divinity and human values, deserves to have a prominent place in every discussion about Euripides and about Greek tragedy. Tracing some of Euripides' most spectacular writing in terms of emotional and intellectual effect, and discussing questions of narrative, rhetoric, stagecraft and audience reception, this work is required reading for all students and scholars of Euripides. (Publisher's information). € 99.52 (New) (MD)

SOPHOCLES, Oedipus auf Kolonos. Erklärt von F.W. Schneidewin. Drittes Bändchen. Auflage besorgt von A. Nauck. Weidmann, Berlin, 1870. 5th ed. 213p. Rebound. Signature on cover and title page. Blind tooling ex libris stamp with personal note on free endpaper. Pages yellowed due to paper quality. € 14.50 (Antiquarian)

GOSLING, J.C.B., Plato. Routledge & Kaegan Paul, London/Boston, 1973. VIII,319p. Cloth. Cover partly discoloured. A few pen strikes. Small personal library marks on tail spine as well as free endpaper. Name on free endpaper. 'Mr. Gosling has written a very argumentative and densely packed book, evidently and at points confessedly provoked by ideas (...) currently canvassed by philosophical interpreters of Plato. (...) the result is a decidedly breathless, intermittently esoteric, and sometimes obscurely orchestrated display of ingenious interpretative moves and counter-moves. This is a considerable pity, for there are quite a lot of good things in 'Plato': not much, perhaps, that will strike the reader as secure, freshly penetrating insight, but a good deal of vigorous and intelligent discussion of central problems in Plato, advanced in the service of an interesting (...) view of the metaphysics of the middle-period dialogues. (...) He begins with a splendid chapter entitled 'Moral Scepticism', in which he examines the strategy Plato adopts in the 'Republic' to prove that the just life is best. This has been the topic of a considerable amount of recent work: gosling provides what seems to me the best general treatment of it available, clear, swiftly moving, full of shrewd philosophical and exegetical observations. The rest of this first part of the book is a disappointment. (...) In the second section (...), Chapter VII, a stimulating treatment of the relation of mathematics and dialectic in the 'Republic', argues convincingly that Plato does not mean to press dialectical understanding into a mathematical, deductive mould (...). Chapter VIII contradicts, with more limited success, the common opinion that Plato in his middle period treated knowledge simply as a kind of intellectual perception. (...) Gosling has aimed not to build a rigorous scholarly case for his interpretations, but to drive his colleagues in aggravation back to their texts. I think he will succeed.' (M. SCHOFIELD in The Classical Review (New Series), 1976, pp.204-05). From the library of the late Sir Kenneth James Dover. € 17.50 (Antiquarian)

KAH, M., "Die Welt der Römer mit der Seele suchend ..." Die Religiösität des Prudentius im Spannungsfeld zwischen 'pietas christiana' und 'pietas Romana'. Borengässer, Bonn, 1990. XX,369p. Hard bound. Pencil markings, underlinings and some pencil annotations from a reviewer. Series: Hereditas, 3. ‘The present study is rather disappointing. Kah’s monograph (…) reexamines all of Prudentius’s poetry with a special, and eventually monotonous purpose, to chart the poet’s relationship towards ‘Romantas’ and ‘Christianity’s’. A series of Prudentian topics are examined, and we are told whether their treatment is ‘pagan’ or ‘Christian’ or common to both traditions. The introduction (1-14) outlines Prudentius’s biography, his Fortuna, and his religiosity. The first chapter (15-98) examines Prudentius as Christian poet and his attitudes towards speech, rhetoric, and poetry. The ‘prefatio’ is summarised and another prefatory topos, the immoratality gained through writing (…) is identified, and the valid point made that, despite his ‘conversion’, Prudentius still placed writing at the center of his life (35). (…) The second chapter (99-251) deals with Prudentius’s political religiosity and his attitude towards Rome. Politics and religion were closely interwoven in Rome, and the Christian could choose between a variety of attitudes towards Rome and her pagan past. Prudentius, we hear, is cooperative, and patriotic. K. examines evidence of his views in various texts. (…) K., unfortunately, shows little interest in the historical and the political. (…) In the long and somewhat arbitrarily arranged second chapter an interesting topic is touched. (…) In showing the closeness of Prudentius’s concept of peace to pagan Roman concepts of peace, K. draws our attention to the use of terms such as ‘clementia’ and ‘pacare’ in pagan Roman language. She reads such language at face value, and pronounces it ‘eher christlich’ (215). It does not occur to her that this language might be disingenuous or euphemistic. (…) So P.’s use of the same peace-terminology as Roman writes does not show that the latter anticipated Christian anti-militaristic attitudes, but rather that P. wished to reassure his audience with the usual political catchwords. (…) The final chapter (256-364) examines Prudentius’s spirituality, and covers topics such as soul and body (death, asceticism, and virginity). (…) This book teaches us little that is new about Prudential, and rarely, if ever, adopts a genuinely critical standpoint vis-à-vis previous work on the subject.’ (DANUTA R. SHANZER in Gnomon, 1992, pp.676-680). € 25.00 (Antiquarian)

BROWN, Chr., '... niet ledighs of ydels...' Nederlandse genreschilders uit de 17e eeuw. J.H. de Bussy, Amsterdam, 1984. 240p. Richly ills. (B&W/full colour). Cloth wrps. € 18.50 (Antiquarian)