Scrinium Classical Antiquity

AUGUSTUS, Meine Taten. Res Gestae Divi Augusti. Nach dem Monumentum Ancyranum, Apolloniense und Antiochenum. Lateinisch-Griechisch-Deutsch ed. E. Weber. Heimeran, München, 1970. 1st impr. new ed. 144p. Cloth with dust wrps. Dust wrps to spine a bit yellowed. Series: Tusculum. € 8.00 (Antiquarian)

AUGUSTUS, Mijn Daden. Res Gestae. Vertaald door I. Gay. Ingeleid en geannoteerd door F, Meijer. Aristos, Rotterdam, 1998. 85p. Original black gilt titled cloth with dust wrps. Signature and date on free endpaper. (Rare). € 50.00 (Antiquarian)

BARCHIESI, A., Il poeta e il principe. Ovidio e il discorso Augusteo. Laterza, Bari, 1994. XV,340p. Hardbound with dust wrps. Dust wrps to upper edge back slightly creased. Else fine. With signature from Prof. Carl Deroux on free endpaper. (Rare). 'This is a subtly intelligent monograph, which attempts, sensibly without expecting to reach final solutions, an evaluation of what Ovid may have intended in his references to matters dear to the heart of the 'princeps', what the 'princeps' may have been led to find in what he read. For, as B. repeatedly makes clear as his book advances, O. is out to pull the wool over Augustus' eyes, his techniques of saying one thing, perfectly acceptable on the surface, while ironically hinting at another, not so acceptable, being able to satisfy both the conventional 'augustan' and the questioning 'anti-Augustan'. B. sees in O.'s approach a mastery of verbal 'sfumatura'; to his credit let it be said that more than a touch of such 'shading' has rubbed of on his too. The texts on which B. principally bases himself are the 'Fasti' and the 'Met.'; and this is only to be expected since he is concerned to view O. where appropriate against a background of 'Realien'. (...) The subject matter of the 'Fasti' may seem to be limiting (p.66), but the calendar gives it an inbuilt licence. The formal model of the calendar invites 'separative' reading, but the poetic model of Callimachus suggests a more interconnected view (p.69). This central part of B.'s analysis is indeed so replete with telling observations on matters of detail often overlooked that precising it in a brief compass is as impossible as summarizing the 'Fasti' itself: the numerous subsections must be read and pondered one by one. (...) Through his definitve actions 'Augusto definisce non solo come un Primo ma anche come un Ultimo Uomo, definitivo, per Roma.'(p.278). To be 'anti-Augustan' is to pay the price of having to read the texts with the eyes of a delator or a mole, while the 'Augustans' are favoured with a smile and the best seats at an entertainment which, without their knowing it, includes them 'in the scenic action of the poetic language.' Thirty pages of end-notes, eight pages of bibliography, and indexes of subjects and of passages cited, enhance the value of this important book.' (J.B. HALL in The Classical Review (New Series), 1997, pp.43-46). € 115.00 (Antiquarian)

BASLEZ, M.-F., Ph. HOFFMANN, and L. PERNOT, (eds.), L'invention de l'autobiographie d'Hésiode à Saint Augustin. Actes du deuxième colloque de l'Équipe de recherche sur l'hellénisme post-classique (Paris, École normale supérieure, 14-16 juin 1990). Presse de l'École Normale Supérieure, Paris, 1993. 334p. Paperback. (Rare). A.o.: M. TRÉDÉ-BOULMER: La Grèce antique a-t-elle connu l'autobiographie? (pp.13-21); J. SCHNEIDER: Usage de la première personne et autobiographie dans la poésie lyrique archïque (pp.21-37); L. BRISSON: La Lettre VII de Platon, une autobiographie? (pp.37-47); Fr. BÉRARD: Les Commentaires de César: autobiographie, mémoires ou histoire? (pp.85-97); J.-M. ANDRÉ: Les res gestae d'Auguste, ou les nuances de l'égotisme politique (pp.97-115); J.-C. FREDOUILLE: Les Confessions d'Augustin, autobiographie au présent (pp.167-181); M.-Fr. DELPEYROUX: Ovide: autobiographie et apologie dans les oeuvres de l'exil (pp.181-189); M.-H. QUET: Parler de soi pour louer son dieu: le cas d'Aelius Arisitide (pp.211-253); B. SCHOULER: Libanios et l'autobiographie tragique (pp.305-325). € 75.00 (Antiquarian)

BINDER, G., (ed.), Saeculum Augustum I. Herrschaft und Gesellschaft. Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt, 1987. 411p. Cloth. Series: Wege der Forschung, Band CCLXVI. A.o.: G. BINDER: Einführung (pp.1-61); Ch.G. STARR: Wie beendete Augustus die Römsiche Revolution? (pp.78-92); H.G. GUNDEL: Der Begriff maiestas im Denken der Augusteischen Zeit (pp.111-141); A. PIGANIOL: Die verfassungsmäßigen Befugnisse und der Prinzipat des Augustus (pp.141-161); W. KIERDORF: Freundschaft und Freundschaftsküdigung. von der Republik zum Prinzipat (pp.223-246); K. RAAFLAUB: Militärreformen des Augustus und die politische Problematik des frühen Prinzipats (pp.246-308); H. BELLEN: Novus status - novae leges. Kaiser Augustus als Gesetzgeber (pp.308-349). € 34.50 (Antiquarian)

EBERLE, J., Lateinische Nächte. Deutsche Verlags Anstalt, Stuttgart, 1967. 2nd impr. 302p. Cloth with dust wrps. Signature and date on free endpaper. A.o.: Italum acetum. Vom römischen Witz (pp.32-42); Maecenas der Etrusker (pp.60-77); Iulia. Skandal und Tragödie (pp.77-94); Haue imperator, morituri te salutant. Galdiatorenspiele und Tierhetzen (pp.123-43); Victoria victa. symbol einer Zeitwende (pp.170-186); Dank an Cassiodor (pp.186-203); Der Archipoeta. ein Klassiker des Mittellateins (pp.231-50). € 17.50 (Antiquarian)

EHRENBERG, V., and A.H.M. JONES, Documents illustrating the Reigns of Augustus and Tiberius. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1967. 2nd ed. VIII,171p. Original gilt titled burgundy cloth. Name and date on title page. Pages a bit yellowed. € 20.00 (Antiquarian)

GALINSKY, K., Augustus. Introduction to the Life of an Emperor. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (...), 2012. 200p. Paperback. 'Of all the great men of the ancient world, Augustus is the most elusive. Doing equal justice to his ruthlessness and his statesmanship is a difficult task, but Karl Galinsky manages it with clarity, sympathy, and good sense. Learned but readable, this portrait of the first of the Roman emperors is a brilliant achievement.' (T.P. WISEMAN, Emeritus Professor of Classics and Ancient History, University of Exeter). € 25.00 (New)

GRIMAL, P., Rome. La littérature et l'histoire. Préface de Ch. Pietri. Tome I. Tome II. École française de Rome, Palais Farnèse, 1986. 2 vols. VIII,728;729-1299. Sewn. Upper corner slightly bumped. Series: Collection de l'École française de Rome, 93. 'The École française de Rome, in suggesting and publishing this collection of papers by Pierre Grimal, has honoured one scholar and served many. (...) In all there are nearly one hundred pieces, published between 1938 and 1984, covering four centuries of Latin literature and including some early contributions on monuments, inscriptions and topography, particularly in Rome. (...) The organisation of the collection is simple. The whole of the first volume and part of the second contain pieces grouped together under the names of the Latin authors they discuss, the names being arranged alphabetically. Then follow the articles on material remains and on general themes. (...) The subtitle does justice to G.'s concern with the social and intellectual context of literary works: it also reflects the priority he gives to good writing. The collection is made up largely of occasional pieces, but, even in the more scholarly contributions the style is elegant, the expression clear, and the transitions subtly managed. Dissent is courteously and urbanely conveyed. (...) In his study of tha ancient world, it is ideas that most interest G. For him ideology and philosophical doctrines are the cake, not the icing. (...) We can be grateful to have assembled such a varied collection which exhibits throughout, not only Gallic elegance, but the even rarer rationality and humanity that the study of classics is supposed to bestow.' (MIRIAM GRIFFIN in The Classical Review (New Series), 1988, pp.379-80). From the library of Prof. Carl Deroux. € 65.00 (Antiquarian)

HAASE, W., (ed.), ANRW. Teil II: Principat. Sprache und Literatur. (Literatur der augusteischen Zeit: Allgemeines; Einzelne Autoren). Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York, 1982. XII,896p. Original green cloth. Spine gilt titled. Pages a bit yellowed. Some smoker's smell. Series: Aufstieg und Niedergang der Römischen Welt, II, Dreissigster Band, 1. Teilband. € 60.00 (Antiquarian)