Scrinium Classical Antiquity

PUGLIESE CARATELLI, G., The Greek World. Art and Civilization in Magna Graecia and Sicily. Rizzoli, Milan, 1996. 799p. Richly ills (full colour). Cloth wrps. € 47.50 (Antiquarian)

PULGRAM, E., Latin-Romance Phonology: Prosodics and Metrics. Wilhelm Fink Verlag, München, 1975. 301p. Paperback. Lower edge near spine water stained. (Rare). ‘This book is a thorough, penetrating and well-argued treatment of some of the most persistently difficult problems of Latin phonology by a scholar whose qualifications for undertaking a work of this kind are unsurpassed. Consequently it is almost superfluous to call attention to its importance.’ (JAMES W. POULTNEY in The american Journal of Philology, 1978, p.395). From the library of Professor Carl Deroux. € 45.00 (Antiquarian)

PULGRAM, E., The Tongues of Italy. Prehistory and History. Greenwood Press, New York, 1969. Reprint 1st ed.1958. XI,465p. Original brown cloth. Spine and corners a bit bumped. With signature from Dirk Panhuis on free endpaper. From the library of the late Dr. Dirk Panhuis. € 39.50 (Antiquarian)

PULQUÉRIO FUTRE PINHEIRO, Marília, Estruturas técnico-narrativas nas Etiópicas de Heliodoro. Private presses, Lisboa, 1987. V,583p. Paperback. Offset print. (Rare). € 55.00 (Antiquarian)

PULTROVÁ, Lucie, The Vocalism of Latin Medial Syllabes. Univerzita Karlova V Praze / Nakladatelství Karolinum, n.p., 2006. 154p. Paperback. Upper corner front cover and first pages a bit creased. (Rare). 'The submitted work attempts to prove that the theory of the change of Latin short vowels in medial syllabes in the archaic period conditioned by the presupposed existence of archaic Latin accent on the initial syllable (...), in the way it has traditionally been formulated, is no longer sustainable. There is in fact no convincing evidence of the presumed original forms (...) in the archaic Latin inscriptions. Consequently, we cannot talk about a general, mechanical chnage of all latin short medial vowels. In view of the fact that it is precisely on this presumption that the theory of archaic Latin accent bound on the first syllable was constructed, we must, having rejected at the same time general vocalic changes, query the whole theory as unfounded. Nevertheless, in Latin there undoubtedly exist - although not general - vocalic alternations in roots and stems, which now must be newly explained. According to the hypothesis offered in the present work, the 'reduced' vowels (mostly í' in open syllables and 'e'in closed syllables) stand in place of the original zero grades, be it in the root or in the sem, and as such they could represent either the vocalization of an interconsolantal laryngeal, an unstressed sonant, or root syllables 'without 'nucleus' (e.g. *sd- to the full grade *sed-). (...) What the new hypothesis is concerned with is, again, the stressed and unstressed character, and the difference between 'older' and 'younger' compounds - all, however, in an entirely different period of development.' (LUCIE PUTROVÁ, Summary, p.153). From the library of the late Dr. Dirk Panhuis. € 45.00 (Antiquarian)

PUPPI, L., Andrea Palladio. Opera completa. Electa, Milano, 1973. 309p. ills. Sewn. € 31.50 (Antiquarian)

PUSCH, E.B., Der kleine Gilgamesch. Philipp von Zabern, Mainz am Rhein, 1978. 72p. Nicely ills. Bound. € 8.50 (Antiquarian)

PUTNAM, M.C.J., Artifices of Eternity. Horace's Fourth Book of Odes. Cornell University Press, Ithaca/London, 1996. (Paperback ed. 1st ed.1986). 352p. Paperback. ‘It would be difficult to imagine a more welcome subject explored by a more sensitive scholar. We focus first on the broad outline of ‘Odes 4’: ‘Venus’ is the second word of 4.1, ‘Veneris’ the penultimate word of 4.15. The framing marks direction: 4.1 addresses Venus as mistress of love-making; 4.15, which turns to the renewal of Rome is about music-making. The personal vocative in 4.1 gives way to the genitive, ‘Veneris’: Venus hands us on, through birth, to the Roman descendants of Aeneas. Book 4 thus takes us from private eroticism, outward into the world at large. For Putnam this perception of private voices as they grow into public song is moving: the encroachment of time upon the individual, and his increasing awareness of physical limitations, are superseded by the spiritual energy which derives from greater horizons. (…) Five triads structure ‘Odes 4’. In each set, three poems lead us from a sense of personal loss to consider the role of poetry, in the abstract at first but then also applied to the Augustan present. (…) It is argued, further, that in the five triads which make up the fifteen odes of this book, all beginning poems have something in common, just as the middle members of each group share in the role they play vis-à-vis the opening and concluding selections of their several units. (…) The overall design of the book passes us from Horace’s reflections upon himself as a poet of love or of Rome (1-3˜), as a poet of political ambiguities toward Roman military might (…) or as an immortalizer of the new Augustan future (…). Putnam meets the challenge, eliciting the precise tonality which makes of his performance of this music all that we have come prepared to praise.’ (WILLIAM R. NETHERCUT in The American Journal of Philology, 1988. pp.615-18). € 24.00 (Antiquarian)

PUTNAM, M.C.J., The Poetry of the Aeneid. Four studies in Imaginative Unity and Design. Harvard University Press, Cambridge (Mass.), 1965. XV,238p. Original light green cloth with dust wrps. Dust wrps to edges a bit worn and repaired with acid free adhesive tape. Fore edge and lower edge rust stained. 'Mr. Putnam has given an ambituous title to what is in fact a study of four books of the Aeneid (ii,v, viii, xii), in which (...) he treats them 'first in terms of their own unique queliaties, as enteties held together by special verbal designs, and then as parts of a larger whole which is strikingly unified not only by repetition of key words and lines but by one or two symbols which take a special place in the total design. (...) In the first chapter the author has been much influenced by Bernard Knox's article 'The serpent and the Flame' (A.J.P., LXXI, 1950) in which he developed the idea of the dominant image in Book ii. This was ab attractive and persuasive essay (...), but Putnam's attempts to find recurrent images elsewhere in the Aeneid are not convincing. (...) One is left with the impression that he has started with a predetermined critical method to which he has become so attached that he has pursued it far beyond the point at which it ceases to be valid.' (M.L. CLARKE in the Classical Review (New Series), 1966, pp.324-325). € 18.00 (Antiquarian)

PUTNAM, M.C.J., (ed.), Tibullus. A Commentary. The University of Oklahoma Press, Oklahoma, 1973. XI,210p. Paperback. Cover and spine scratched. Edges bit stained. Signature on half title. Series: The American Philological Association Series of classical Texts. € 10.00 (Antiquarian)