Scrinium Classical Antiquity

JOURNAL OF ROMAN MILITARY EQUIPMENT STUDIES. Dedicated to the Study of Weapons, Armour, and Military Fittings of the Armies and Enemies of Rome and Byzantium. Volume 4 (1993). Oxbow Books, Oxford, 1994. 104p. ills.(B&W line drawings and photographs). Sewn. Initials stamp, date and personal library mark on free endpaper.A.o.: W.A.B. van der SANDEN: Fragments of a 'lorica hamata' from a barrow at Fluitenberg (pp.1-9); J. PAMMENT SALVATORE: Roman tents 'replicated' in stone-built barracks of the 2nd century BC in Spain (pp.23-33); C.M. GILLIVER: The 'de munitionibus castrorum': Text and Translation (pp.33-49); D. WOODS: The ownership and disposal of military equipment in the Late Roman army (pp.55-67). € 30.00 (Antiquarian)

JOURNAL OF ROMAN MILITARY EQUIPMENT STUDIES. Dedicated to the Study of Weapons, Armour, and Military Fittings of the Armies and Enemies of Rome and Byzantium. Volume 3 (1992). Oxbow Books, Oxford, 1993. 122p. ills.(B&W line drawings and photographs). Sewn. Initials stamp, date and personal library mark on free endpaper. A.o.: K. WILHELMI: 'Isa pantae tois prosohpois'. Die bronzeeisenversilberte Helmmaske aus der frühen Kaiserzeit am Kalkrieser Berg. Germanische Beute aus römischer Paraderüstung 'haerentia corpori' tegmina? Ein status queastionis (pp.1-37); W.J.H. WILLEMS: Roman face masks from the Kops Plateau (pp.57-67); ANN HYLAND: The Roman cavalry horse and its efficient control (pp.73-81); M.C. BISHOP: The early imperial 'apron' (pp.81-105). € 20.00 (Antiquarian)

ADCOCK, F.E., The Roman Art of War Under the Republic. Barnes & Noble, New York, 1995. Reprint 1st ed.1940. 140p. Half cloth with dust wrps. Initials stamp, date and personal library mark on free endpaper. Light remains of pencil markings in margins.‘This is a very good little book, and it seems better each time one reads it, so firmly has the author concentrated on what was essential in the roman art of war. (…) Professor Adcock recognises that to understand ancient campaigns one must understand the attitude to war of ancient peoples, their discipline and military training, their lack of trained staffs. He makes many references to more modern campaigns and quotes Clausewitz, Jomini, and more military writers. But he never makes the mistake of writing of Roman generals and governments as though they had studied these campaigns and writers. (…) The book is volume viii of the Martin Classical Lectures and consists of five lectures delivered at Oberlin College in May 1939. The lectures discuss in succession the men, the sea, the land, foreign policy and general strategy, generalship. Professor Adcock must have omitted much that he would have liked to include under these wide headings, and it is hardly fair to mention omissions. (…) The second lecture, on the sea, is wholly admirable. Professor Adcock shows how owing to the limited efficiency of ships in Roman times sea power could often be controlled from the land. (…) The lecture on the land is an able summary of the geographical conditions determining roman land warfare in Italy and in the other lands in which Roman armies fought.’ (N. WHATLEY in The Classical Review, 1943, pp.91-92). € 25.00 (Antiquarian)

ADCOCK, F.E., The Greek and Macedonian Art of War. University of California Press, Berkeley / Los Angeles, 1957. VII,109p. Original green cloth with dust wrps. Signature W. den Boer on half title. Series: Sather Classical Lectures, volume 30. ‘To span the whole gamut of Greek and Macedonian warfare in six short chapters ia s massive task. A. reduces this to workable proportions by concerning himself largely with the factors which determined the character of warfare at each successive stage and which caused development from one stage to the next, and by employing an economical style which yet sacrifices nothing of precision or charm. The result is a book surprisingly full of information and of interpretations always interesting, sometimes provocative.’ (E.W. MARSDEN in The Journal of Hellenic Studies, 1960, pp.224-225). From the library of W. den Boer. € 48.00 (Antiquarian)

BADDELEY, C., Roman Mancetter. The Atherstone Archaeological and Historical Society (1907-2006). Edited by N. Melton, M. Hughes, Ph. Taylor and J. Vero. Atherstone Civic society, n.p., 2013. 106p. Ills.(B&W as well as full colour photographs and line drawings). Paperback. Initials stamp, date and personal library mark on free endpaper. Colin Baddeley tells the story of the invasion of AD 43 from the perspective of the half-legionary fortress at Mancetter and the Legio XIV Gemina who inhabited it. He describes the Romans' struggle to colonise Britain against native resistance, which culminated in Queen Boudica's ill-fated attempt to put an end to Roman domination. This battle, which claimed many thousand British lives, is generally thought to have been fought at Mancetter. Roman Mancetter is a vade mecum for the interested amateur, covering Roman military techniques, currency and pottery (especially the mortaria industry of Mancetter). It demystifies terms such as 'Dragendorf' and 'Graufesenque', and explains why the treacherous 'punic' ditch was so named. (Publisher's information). € 12.50 (Antiquarian)

BÉDOYÈRE, G. de la, Hadrian's Wall. History & Guide. Tempus, Stroud, 2002. Reprint 1st.ed. 1998. 160p. Richly ills.(B&W photographs and line drawings). Paperback. 'A useful, general introduction and visitor's guide to the Wall.' (TONY WILLMOT in Britannia, 2012, p.454). € 10.00 (Antiquarian)

BÉDOYÈRE, G. de la, Eagles over Britannia. The Roman Army in Britain. Tempus, Stroud, 2001. 256,(XV)p. Richly ills.(B&W and full colour photographs and line drawings). Hard bound with dust wrps. Spine gilt titled. Initials stamp, date and personal library mark on free endpaper. Else fine. € 45.00 (Antiquarian)

BOËLDIEU-TREVET, Jeannine, Commander dans le monde grec au Ve siècle avant notre ère. Presses universitaires de Franche-Comté, Besançon, 2007. 294p. Paperback. ‘Jeannine Boëldieu-Trevet s’interroge (…) sur la nature du commandement en Grèce, sur son évolution depuis l’époque archaïque, sur les liens étroits que l’on peut mettre en exergue entre commander et gouverner, sur le rapport entre les transformations qui s’opèrent durant la guerre du Péloponnèse et la naissance d’un art dum commandement, conceptualisé comme tel (stratégikè technè). (…) L’essor de ce nouvel art du commandement modifie (…) profondément l’appréhension même de la guerre: la victoire est désormais perçue comme la seule forme ‘digne’ d’achever un conflit (…). Cet essai rigoureux est une lecture nécessaire pour les spécialistes, mais par son style agréable, clair et concis il rendra aussi service aux étudiants et plus largement à tout lecteur curieux de ces questions. (ARIAN ESPOSITO in L’antiquité classique, 2011, pp.460). From the library of Prof. Carl Deroux. € 25.00 (Antiquarian)

BURNS, Th.S., Rome and the Barbarians, 100 B.C. - A.D. 400. John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore / London, 2003. XIV,461p. Original grey cloth with dust wrps. Initials stamp, date and personal library mark on free endpaper. 'B. treats 500 years of Roman interaction with northerners, from the day of the Cimbri and Teutones until the morrow of the Gothic influx. (...) The principles first: (i) the most abiding contacts between Romans and northerners were those occurring in the Roman army; and (ii) the interactions were not the result of massive intrusions of northerners into Roma territory. Borrowing from the Greeks, the romans called the northerners 'barbari'- savages, stammering brutes. The cultural animus behind such a term is evident, and thus B. keeps a distance from it. He prefers another Roman characterization, one which the supposedly speech-impaired roughnecks were disposed to accept. The northerners were clients, their patrons at first being individual (and distinguished) Romans and later the Roman state. The Roman government maintained treaty relations with a leader, the principal client, and by extension the people he ruled. Now, having set perceptions and principles in order (pp.1-41 (...), B, is ready to generate the two dramas. From Caesar's Rhineland campaigns until the aftermath of Julian's victory at Argentoratum, the mingling of Romans and their neighbors in Northern Frontierland produced a composite society (...). Meanwhile, the second and perhaps more chaotic drama was unfolding in the centers of roman power. In the time of the Roman Dominate, some of the habits and even the players from Northern Frontierland came to the top of Roman society. (...) In general, B. has presented a remarkably even-handed portrait of Roman-northern action and reaction, as portrait made effective especially by the novel distancing from the Roman conception of 'the barbarian'. (...) B. has written a useful book.' (FRANK M. CLOVER in The Classical Review (New Series), 2005, pp.258-60). € 37.50 (Antiquarian)

CAMPBELL, B., Greek and Roman Military Writers. Selected readings. Routledge, London / New York, 2004. XXIV,231p. ills.(line drawings). Paperback. Initials stamp, date and personal library mark on free endpaper. Nice copy. € 22.50 (Antiquarian)