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STUDI DI POESIA LATINA IN ONORE DI ANTONIO TRAGLIA. Edizione di Storia e Letteratura, Roma, 1979. 2 vols. XXIII,494;499-998p. Sewn. Unopened. Series: Storia e Letteratura, Raccolta di studi e testi, 146/147. A.o.: C. QUESTA: Note di colometrai Plautina (pp.25-49); P. FEDELI: Il prologo diell''Attis' di Catullo (pp.149-160); A. GRILLI: Lucrezio e la forza invisibile del vento (pp.217-227); U. PIZZANI: Distinzione Lucreziana fra 'animus' e 'anima' (pp.229-252); A. TRAINA: 'Dira libido' (Sul linguaggio Lucreziano dell'eros) (pp.259-277); F. CAVIGLIA: Cicerone traductore di Sofocle (pp.333-351); E. PARATORE: Sull'episodo di Laocoonte in Virgilio (pp.405-432); A. RONCONI: Orazio e i poeti latini arcaici (pp.501-525); K. BUECHNER: Dienst der Freundschaft Horaz c. 3, 29 (pp.553-572); C. MORESCHINI: Note di lettura da Manilio e Prudenzio (pp.645-657); V. Tandoi: I due frammenti di Turno poeta satirico (pp.801-838). From the library of Prof. Carl Deroux. € 55.00 (Antiquarian)

ANDERSON, W.S., Barbarian Play: Plautus Roman Comedy. University of Toronto Press, Toronto (...), 1996. X,184p. Paperback.'A.'s book is a welcome addition to the literature on the playwright, not least because he provides some perceptive ideas for unifying the dramatist's work. A.'s basic aim is to investigate Plautus' relationship to his originals, (...). There is much in what he says that is both cogent and perceptive. (...) Establishing how Plautus deconstructs the Greek plays in order to appeal to a Roman audience is, of course, beset by pitfalls.(...) Following a discussion of Plautine language and metre which seeks to show the playwright moving away from Greek norms, A. rounds off his book with a chapter exploring the purpose of Plautus' style of comedy. (...) Readers will (...) find more that is stimulatingly contentious and will prove ulimately illuminating.' (STANLEY IRELAND in The Classical Review (New Series), 1995, pp.440-41). € 19.50 (Antiquarian)

ARISTOPHANES, The Frogs. With introduction and notes by W.W. Merry. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1905. 16,74,83p. Cloth. Spine a bit scratched. Pencil and a few pen markings and annotations. Binding weak. Personal notes from WGA loosely inserted.From the library of the late Prof. W. Geoffrey Arnott. € 11.50 (Antiquarian)

ASMUS, G., De appositionis apud Plautum et Terentium collocatione. Kaemmerer et soc., Halis Saxonum, 1891. 52p. Sewn. Cover a bit weak. Diss.Universität Halle-Wittenberg. (Rare thus).From the library of the late Prof. W. Geoffrey Arnott. € 18.50 (Antiquarian)

AUHAGEN, U., (ed.), Studien zu Plautus' Epidicus. Narr Verlag, Tübingen, 2001. 349p. Bound. Series: Scriptoralia, 125. This is a time of great interest to Plautinists. The plays are receiving scholarly discussion at Urbino in Italy (under Cesare Questa) and Freiburg in Germany (under Eckard Lefèvre). The Italian project is the more precisely organised. Each play in alphabetical order is the subject of an annual conference at Sarsina, the poet's birthplace, and the papers given there are published as Lecturae Plautinae Sarsinates. Five such conferences have been held, taking us to Captivi. Even more exciting, the plan of Questa and his colleagues is to produce a new edition of each play, in whatever order. Casina is the first (Urbino: QuattroVenti, 2001), edited by Questa himself; Asinaria, Curculio, Amphitruo are to come next. This will eventually release us from the tyranny of Lindsay's hundred-year-old Oxford Text. The Freiburg volumes are published in ScriptOralia, a series dedicated to the interface between written and oral literature.'(MALCOLM M. WILLCOK in Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2002.01.22). A.o.: W. GEOFFREY ARNOTT: Plautus' 'Epidicus' and Greek Comedy (pp.71-91); G. MANUWALD: Informationsvergabe und Spannungsverteilung in Plautus' 'Epidicus' (pp.133-163); N.W. SLATER: Appearance, Reality, and the Spectre of Incest in 'Epidicus' (pp.191-205); W. HOFMANN: Die Monologe im 'Epidicus' und 'Truculentus' (pp.219-249); H.D. JOCELYN: Gods, Cult and Cultic Language in Plautus' 'Epidicus' (pp.261-297); T.J. MOORE: Music in 'Epidicus' (pp.313-335). From the library of the late Prof. W. Geoffrey Arnott. € 47.50 (Antiquarian)

BAIN, D., Actors and Audience. A Study of Asides and Related Conventions in Greek Drama. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1977. X,230p. Cloth wrps. A few pen markings from WGA. Review from Charles Garton (Classical Philology, 1981, pp.147-150) loosely inserted. Nice copy.'This excellent book investigates the aside as a dramatic convention which demands that the audience accept a certain lack of realism, and some other conventions connected with the dramatic illusion. (…) B.’s main achievement is to have clarified certain conventions of New Comedy and to have shown the different ways in which Menander and Roman comedy used these conventions, but he also offers acute and judicious comment on scores of passages (indexed), including many which he excludes from his definition of asides.' (J.C.B. LOWE in The Classical Review (New Series), 1981, p.8-9). From the library of the late Prof. W. Geoffrey Arnott. € 47.50 (Antiquarian)

BENZ, L., E. STÄRK and G. VOGT-SPIRA, Plautus und die Tradition des Stegreifspiels. Festgabe für Eckard Lefèvre zum 60. Geburtstag. Gunter Narr Verlag, Tübingen, 1995. XI,270p. Hardbound. Cover a little bit scratched. (Rare).A.o.: J. BLANSDORF: Reste der Improvisation in den plautinischen Eingangszenen (pp.3-23); J. BARSBY: Plautus' 'Pseudolus' as Improvisatory Drama (pp.55-71); N. ZAGAGI: The Impromptu Element in Plautus in the Light of the Evidence of New Comedy (pp.71-89); A.S. GRATWICK: The Schizophrenic Lover and the Logic of Farce: Plautus 'Bacchides' 500 ff. (pp.97-107); H. PETERSMANN: Zur mündlichen Charakteriserung des Fremden in der Komödie des Plautus (pp.123-39); B. ZIMMERMANN: Pantomimische Elemente in den Komödien des Plautus (pp.193-205); G. VOGT-SPIRA: Plautus und die Überwindung des Stegreifspiels (pp.229-41). From the library of the late Prof. W. Geoffrey Arnott. € 65.00 (Antiquarian)

BICKER, E., and H. HERTER, (eds.), Rheinisches Museum für Philologie. Neue folge. Hundertundzweiten Bandes. Drittes Heft. Sauerländers Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, 1959. pp.97-192. Sewn. Pages bit yellowed. A.o.: E. VOGT: Die Schrift vom Wetkampf Homers und Hesiods (pp.193-222); F. LASSERRE: Aux origines de l'Anthologie: I. Le Papyrus P. Brit. Mus. inv. 589 (Pack 1121) (pp.222-247); W.G. ARNOTT: The author of the Greek original of the Poenulus (pp.252-263); M. SICHERL: De Somnii Scipionis textu constituendo I. De natura memoriae Macrobianae (pp.266-286). From the library of the late Prof. W. Geoffrey Arnott. € 13.50 (Antiquarian)

BOLDRINI, S., Gli anapesti di Plauto. Metro e ritmo. Università degli Studi di Urbino, Urbino, 1984. 195p. Sewn. Cover and edges a bit yellowed. Front cover a little bit creased. (Rare). 'The ancient grammarians distinguished anapaestic patterns from other types of pattern in Plautus' comic scripts, but not always without difficulty. (...) Those who tried to indicate the patterns in book texts perhaps found it hard to separate dimeters from tetrameters. Certainly, corruption in our witnesses often conceals what grammarians had decided on more or less rational grounds. During the great age of modern Plautine studies scholars differed widely about where to apply the label 'anapaestic'. (...) Sandro Boldrini, a pupil of Cesare Questa, submitted a dissertation to the University of Urbino in 1968 on 'I versi anapestici di Plauto' and since then has published a series of articles on various aspects of Plautus' anapaests (...). The present volume reprints these articles in an updated form, adds a hithero unpublished essay 'Un semioritmema' (...), a bibliography (...), and two indexes. (...) Much patient and thoughtful research underlies these essays.' (H.D. JOCELYN in The Classical Review (New Series), 1985, pp.264-66). € 42.50 (Antiquarian)

BOUCHER, J.-P., R. TURCAN, a.o., (eds.), Mélanges de Philosophie, de Littérature et d'Histoire Ancienne offerts à P. Boyancé. École Française de R., Palais Farnèse, Rome, 1974. XXXII,789p. ills. Sewn. Cardboard with dust wrps. Cover bit used. Two pages glued in with acidfree adhesive tape. A.o.: L. ALFONSI: Problematicità della Germania tacitiana (pp.5-19); J.-M. ANDRÉ: Cicéron et Lucrèce: loi du silence et allusions polémiques (pp.21-38); A. BALLAND: Un taureau dans un arbre (pp.39-56); J.-P. BOUCHER: Place et rôle de la religion dans les Elégies de Properce (pp.79-102); H. DÖRRIE: Polybius über 'pietas, religio und fides' (zu Buch 6, Kap. 56) (pp.251-272); D. GOURÉVITCH: Le menu de l'homme libre, recherches sur l'alimentation et la digestion dans les oeuvres en prose de Sénèque le philosophe (pp.311-344); A. HAURY: Cicéron et la gloire: une pédagogie de la vertu (pp.401-417); H. LAVAGNE: Les reliefs mithriaques à scènes multiplés en Italie (pp.481-504); E. PARATORE: Gli epitalami catulliani (pp.529-555); R. RÉBUFFAT: Tite-Live et la forteresse d'Ostie (pp.631-652). From the library of Prof. Carl Deroux. € 50.00 (Antiquarian)