Scrinium Classical Antiquity

VYSE, H., Operations Carried On at the Pyramids of Gizeh in 1837: Volume 3, Appendix, Part 0. Cambridge University Press, 2014. 276p. Paperback. Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Egyptology. An army officer and politician, Richard William Howard Vyse (1784–53) also made his mark as an Egyptologist. This three-volume work, published in 1840–2, has remained an instructive resource in Egyptology up to the present day. Adopting the style of a journal, with illustrations and diagrams throughout, it narrates in detail his excavations at Giza, surveying and measuring the pyramids. Following Vyse's return to England, the work was continued by the engineer and surveyor John Shae Perring (1813–69). Vyse gives observations of his travels, and of the landscape, people and architecture he encountered, as well as details of the important work he carried out. Most notable was his discovery, using gunpowder, of four new chambers in the Great Pyramid containing 'quarry marks' - graffiti by the pyramid builders. Volume 3 (1842) describes the work continued by Perring on various pyramids, and on the mummy pits at Saqqara. (Publisher's information). € 35.18 (New) (MD)

STENGEL, P., Opferbräuche der Griechen. Teubner, Leipzig / Berlin, 1910. 238p. Rebound. Title hand written on spine (fading). Signature on title page. (Rare). € 49.50 (Antiquarian)

LOUWE KOOIJMANS, L.P., Opgraven in Nederland. Het werk van de archeoloog. Staatsuitgeverij, 's-Gravenhage, 1979. 131p. ills.(B&W photographs and line drawings). Sewn. Name and type ex on half title. Else fine. € 8.00 (Antiquarian)

BAART, J., W. KROOK, a.o., Opgravingen in Amsterdam. 20 jaar stadskernonderzoek. Fibula-Van Dishoeck, Amsterdam / Haarlem, 1977. 524p. Richly ills.(B&W photographs and line drawings). Original imitation leather gilt stamped hard bound. Small personal library annotation on free end paper. € 25.00 (Antiquarian)

VOLLGRAFF, C.W., Opgravingen te Argos. Nieuwe opgravingen te Argos. Amsterdam, 1928/31. 2 vols. 21,(34);54(12)p. ills. Sewn. Front cover vol.1 loose. Spine worn and partly loose from binding. Vol.2 library marks. Series: Mededeelingen der Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen, afdeeling Letterkunde, delen 66, serie B, 4 en 72, serie B, 3. € 24.00 (Antiquarian)

SLINGS, S.R., and I. SLUITER, (eds.), Ophelos. Zes studies voor D.M. Schenkeveld. VU Uitgeverij, Amsterdam, 1988. 100p. Sewn. Cover partly a littel bit yellowed. Lower corner back cover a little bit creased. Contents: G.J. BOTER: Plato, Meno 82c2-3 (pp.5-20); K. GOUDRIAAN: Van eerste naar tweede sofistiek (pp.20-40); G. JONKERS: Enkele handschriften van Bessarion (pp.40-53); H. ORANJE: Scenische problemen rond de Ajax (pp.53-61); S.R. SLINGS: Het perfectum van Griekse toestandswerkwoorden (pp.61-77); I. SLUITER: Een en al oor - grammatica en euphonie (pp.77-96). € 16.00 (Antiquarian)

KNEEBONE, E., Oppian's Halieutica : Volume 0, Part 0. Cambridge University Press, 2020. 432p. Hardback. Series: Greek Culture in the Roman World. Oppian's Halieutica is a dazzling five-book Greek didactic poem about the sea and its wily, chaotic inhabitants. This book offers the first sustained reading of the poem as a didactic epic that meditates on the place of human beings within the cosmos at large, and on the lessons we can learn from fish. Using a combination of close reading and wider interpretative lenses, this book examines the literary texture and cultural relevance of the Halieutica by analysing its sophisticated refraction of earlier literary-critical theories and hexameter traditions, its commentary on human-animal relations, and its contribution to imperial Greek literary, political, and cultural debates. The book demonstrates the importance and cultural centrality of this understudied Greek didactic epic; it is written for students and scholars of imperial Greek literature and culture (including the ancient novel), ancient heroic and didactic epics, and those interested in human-animal relations in the ancient world. (Publisher's information). € 115.29 (New) (MD)

KNEEBONE, E., Oppian's Halieutica : Volume 0, Part 0. Cambridge University Press, 2022. 467p. Paperback. Series: Greek Culture in the Roman World. Oppian's Halieutica is a dazzling five-book Greek didactic poem about the sea and its wily, chaotic inhabitants. This book offers the first sustained reading of the poem as a didactic epic that meditates on the place of human beings within the cosmos at large, and on the lessons we can learn from fish. Using a combination of close reading and wider interpretative lenses, this book examines the literary texture and cultural relevance of the Halieutica by analysing its sophisticated refraction of earlier literary-critical theories and hexameter traditions, its commentary on human-animal relations, and its contribution to imperial Greek literary, political, and cultural debates. The book demonstrates the importance and cultural centrality of this understudied Greek didactic epic; it is written for students and scholars of imperial Greek literature and culture (including the ancient novel), ancient heroic and didactic epics, and those interested in human-animal relations in the ancient world. (Publisher's information). € 36.40 (New) (MD)

POUTHIER, P., Ops et la conception divine de l'abondance dans la religion romaine jusqu'à la mort d'Auguste. École Française de Rome, Palais Farnèse, 1981. 366p. Original cloth. Pages a bit yellowed due to paper quality. Series: Bibliothèque des Écoles Françaises d'Athènes et de Rome, Fascicule 242. ‘Es ist ein Verdienst der Französischen Religionswissenschaftler, römische Gottheiten in Einzeluntersuchungen gründlich zu erforschen und darzustellen. P.'s. Studien gelten der Ops. Sein Werk is sorgfältig gegliedert. (…) Der Gewinn der Untersuchungen P.'s liegt in der Verknüpfung des Opskultes mit den jeweiligen Vorstellungen der Zeit: die Göttin der ‘rive gauche’ mag zwar trotz dieser Herkunft zum ‘harten Kern’ der satirischen Gottheiten Garros gehören, ist aber auch als republikanische Göttin dem königlichen Ritual in räumlicher wie inhaltlicher Nähe zu Vesta verpflichtet, deren Tabus jedoch von P. irrig datiert werden. Mit dem Schritt aufs Kapitol befreit sich Ops (…) aus den Bindungen zum ‘Hinterland’ und gewinnt im Ramen ‘Städtischen’ Kultes abstrakten Charakter, wie die ciceronische Auffassung der Göttin lehrt. P. ordnet die an Männern wie Calatinus und Delmaticus erkennbaren Strömungen überzeugend der Entwicklung und Ausgestaltung des Opskultes zu, eines ‘cutte jolien, qui s’appuie de plus en plus sur und certaine idée de la ville’. Einleuchtend ist auch der Hinweis auf das Interesse des Augustus an der Möglichkeit, einen alten, in sich längst veränderten Kult zu neuem Leben zu erwecken.’ (GERHARD RADKE in Gnomon, 1982, pp.457-61). From the library of Prof. Carl Deroux. € 45.00 (Antiquarian)

BRAKMAN, C., Opstellen over onderwerpen uit de Latijnsche Letterkunde [en de Geschiedenis van Rome]. Derde bundel. Brill, Leiden, 1919-1932. 269p. Rebound. € 23.00 (Antiquarian)