Scrinium Classical Antiquity

GRIECHISCHE LYRIK. In einem Band. Aus dem Griechischen übertragen von D. Ebener. Mit Einleitung und Anhang. Aufbau Verlag, Berlin/Weimar, 1980. 2nd ed. XXXVII,660p. Original off white cloth with dust wrps. Series: Bibliothek der Antike. From the library of the late Professor Doktor Nikolaus Himmelmann. € 14.50 (Antiquarian)

ALBERTUS MAGNUS, Ausgewählte Texte. Lateinisch - Deutsch. Herausgegeben und übersetzt von A. Fries. Mit einer Kurzbiographie von W. P. Eckert. Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt, 1981. XXXIII,265p. Paperback. Series: Texte zur Forschung, Band 35. Die Auswahl von Texten aus den Schriften des Albertus Magnus berücksichtigt alle Sachgebiete seines Schrifttums - nur soweit es sicher echt ist -, von der Naturkunde über die Philosophie bis zur Theologie, jeweils auf Vorschlag von Fachgelehrten, auf Grund der kritisch edierten Texte oder - soweit eine kritische Ausgabe noch nicht vorliegt - der nach Handschriften verbesserten älteren Ausgaben, Was dabei erkennbar wird, ist etwas vom Umfang, von der Methode, von den Grenzen, vom einfluß des literarischen Schaffens des 'Doctor universalis', sein Interesse für das ganze Wissen seiner Zeit, für alles Seiende, besonders für alles Lebende; seine Aufgeschlossenheit für die denkerische und literarische Arbeit der Vorzeit und für die Meinung Andersdenkender; die Kanalisierung der philosophischen Systeme des Aristoteles (und des Platon) für das Abendland; und wie er in naturwissenschaftlichen Dingen das Experiment betont und als Ordensmann in der Theologie den christlichen Glauben in einer geistlichen Atmosphäre und im Licht der kirchlichen Überlieferung bedenkt: eine herausragende Leistung im Dienst des Dominikanerordens, der Kriche, der Wissenschaft. (Publisher's information). From the library of the late Professor Doktor Nikolaus Himmelmann. € 15.00 (Antiquarian)

ALFÖLDI, A., Das frühe Rom und die Latiner. Aus dem Englischen übersetzt von Fr. Kolb. Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt, 1977. XIX,604,XXIVp. ills.(B&W photographs). Map loosely inserted. Bound. Front cover partly discoloured. Edges a bit stained. 'This is one of the fullest surveys of the problems of early Rome to have appeared in recent years. (...) Alföldi's thesis is that Rome only became an independent sovereign state shortly before the battle of Lake Regillus (496 B.C.). In the earliest times, before a proper city had been built, the community of shepherd-warriors which was the Latin nucleus of the Roman people was 'governed by Alba Longa'. The evidence for this is Roman participation in the festival of Iuppiter Latiaris on the Alban mount and the legends which linked the foundation of Rome and Alba Longa. Later, when Alba Longa declined, Rome passed into the power of Lavinium, which took over the control of the Latin federation. (...) In arguing this thesis Alföldi dismisses most of the grandiose stories about Roman achievements under the kings as romanticizing inventions by Fabius Pictor, the first Roman historian. The same conclusion can be reached by observing how many of these stories are Greek stories in Roman guise. And Alföldi is clearly right in discounting the exaggerated claims made for Rome in her relations with other states. He is right too in reasserting with detailed argument, against Bloch, Gjerstad, and others, the traditional chronology of the Etruscan dynasty at Rome. But his own thesis is impossibly over-simplified. It is not established by the evidence which he adduces for it and it requires the ruthless but implausible elimination of much conflicting evidence. (...) Alföldi is the victim of an over-schematic theory. He believes in linear progress whereas history is very often a matter of fits and starts. What would do most to advance our knowledge of early Rome now is not the manipulation of texts but the location and excavation of the Temple of Diana on the Aventine and of the probable site of the earliest settlement at Ostia. '(R.M. OGILVIE on the original English publication in The Classical Review (New Series), 1966, pp.95-97). From the library of the late Professor Doktor Nikolaus Himmelmann. € 12.50 (Antiquarian)

ALKAIOS, (ALCAEUS), Lieder. Griechisch und deutsch herausgegeben von M. Treu. Heimeran, München, 1952. 1st ed. 184p. Cloth wrps. Wrps a bit yellowed. Series: Tusculum.From the library of the late Professor Doktor Nicolaus Himmelmann. € 15.00 (Antiquarian)

ALT, K., Gott, Götter und Seele bei Alkinoos. Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, Mainz / Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart, 1996. 46p. Wire stitched. Series: Abhandlungen der Geistes- und sozialwissenschaftlichen Klasse, Jahrgang 1996, Nr. 3. From the library of the late Professor Doktor Nikolaus Himmelmann. € 11.50 (Antiquarian)

ANDREAE, B., Praetorium Speluncae. Tiberius und Ovid in Sperlonga. Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, Mainz / Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart, 1994. 240p. Sewn. With gift intention from the author to NH on title page. Series: Abhandlungen der Geistes- und sozialwissenschaftlichen Klasse, Jahrgang 1994, Nr. 12. 'Some one hundred and twenty miles south of Rome, on the coast near the modern Sperlonga, is a natural grotto facing out to sea with an ancient mansion in front of it. Suetonius (Tib. 39) refers to it in connexion with the rock-fall which came close to killing the emperor (...) The events are related also by Tacitus, Ann. 4.59. Since the grotto was decorated with statue groups (...) the attention of generations of art historians since 1839, when it was first written about by L. Rossini, has been devoted to answering basic questions about it (...): when was the work executed? who ommissioned it? who inspired it? who carried the work out? who was it originally done for? A. has been involved wiht these questions since 1964, and a long list of publications by him on the subject betokens an almost obessive fascination with it. He now, in an attempt finally to dispose of criticism of his views, writes on a large scale with earnest pertinacity and the missionary zeal of an anxious enforcer. As the subtitle of his book makes clear, he is out to demonstrate a connexion between Tiberius and Ovid (...). According to A. Ovid comes into it as the source of inspiration fro the statue groups in that they incorporate little variations on myths which in the literary record are attested only in Ovid, above all in the 'Metamorphoses'. The book is lavishly illustrated with many handsome photographs of the cave and its ancient contents, both fragmentary and as restored.' (J.B. HALL in The Classical Review (New Series), From the library of the late Professor Doktor Nikolaus Himmelmann. € 59.50 (Antiquarian)

APICIUS, DAS KOCHBUCH DER RÖMER. Rezepte aus der 'Kochkunst'. Eingeleitet, übersetzt und erläutert von E. Alföldi-Rosenbaum. Artemis, Zürich, 1976. 4th ed. 118p. Paperback. Spine bit yellowed. Upper edge bit stained. Series: Lebendige Antike. From the library of the late Professor Doktor Nikolaus Himmelmann. € 9.00 (Antiquarian)

APOLLONIOS VON RHODOS, Das Argonautenepos. Herausgegeben, übersetzt und erläutert von R. Glei und St. Natzel-Glei. Band 1. Erstes und zweites Buch. Band 2. Drittes und viertes Buch. Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt, 2007. 2nd ed. Reprint 1st ed.1996. 2 vols. XXII,193;XVI,236p. Hard bound. From the library of the late Professor Doktor Nikolaus Himmelmann. € 49.50 (Antiquarian)

APULEIUS, Metamorphosen oder der goldene Esel. Lateinisch und Deutsch von R. Helm. Auflage besorgt von W. Krenkel. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin, 1970. 6th rev.and enlarged ed. 445,3p. Cloth wrps. Nice copy. From the library of the late Professor Doktor Nikolaus Himmelmann. € 25.00 (Antiquarian)

ARCHILOCHOS, Neue kommentierte Gesammtausgabe. Griechisch und deutsch herausgegeben von M. Treu. Heimeran, München, 1959. 1st ed. 261p. Cloth wrps. From the library of the late Professor Doktor Nikolaus Himmelmann. € 27.50 (Antiquarian)