Scrinium Classical Antiquity

THOLE BEISHUIZEN, G., De Geschiedenis van het Morgenland. VanDishoeck, Bussum, n.d. 320p. ills. Bound wrps. € 17.50 (Antiquarian)

THOLLARD, P., Barbarie et civilisation chez Strabon. 'Etude critique des livres III et IV de la Géographie. Les Belles Lettres, Paris, 1987. 92p. Sewn. Upper corner a little bit bumped. Series: Centre de Recherches d'Histoire Ancienne, Annales Littéraires de l'Université de Besançon 365, volume 77. (Rare). 'In this interesting little book a picture of Strabo is presented ( solely, be it noted, on the basis of Books III & IV of the 'Geography') as a writer of considerably more originality than the uncritical excerptor of earlier works (...) which he is customarily considered to be by most modern scholars. (...) According to Thollard, the key notion that underlies Strabo's work is the contrast between a less developed stage of human culture ('la barbarie') and a much more highly devoloped one ('la civilisation') brought about largely by the Romanisation of the ancient world. (...) T. argues persuasively in developing his thesis: he is properly dismissive of Lasserre's otiose invention of yet another unknown source for Strabo (...); his disagreements with Lasserre and Aujac on textual matters (...0 are fully justifiable; he rightly draws attention to the idea of human progress in the 'Geography' which is at offs with the otherwise Stoic background of the work (...); and he has sensible things to say about Strabo's use of Roman sources.' (D.R. DICKS in The Classical Review (New Series), 1991, p. 226). From the library of Professor Carl Deroux. € 39.50 (Antiquarian)

THOMAS DE CHOBHAM, Sermones. Cura et studio Fr. Morenzoni. Brepols, Turnhout, 1993. XXVII,323p. Original gilt stamped terra-cotta cloth. Small sticker glued to paste-down endpaper. Series: Corpus Christianorum, Continuatio Mediaevalis LXXXII A. € 95.00 (Antiquarian)

THOMAS DE CHOBHAM, Summa de commendatione virtutum et extirpatione vitiorum. Cura et studio Fr. Morenzoni. Brepols, Turnhout, 1997. XVIII,309p. Original gilt stamped terra-cotta cloth. Upper part front cover slightly and vaguely mottled. Small sticker glued to paste-down endpaper. Else fine. Series: Corpus Christianorum, Continuatio Mediaevalis LXXXII B. € 110.00 (Antiquarian)

THOMAS, Carol G., and C. CONANT, Citadel to City-State. The Transformation of Greece, 1200-700 B.C.E. Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 1999. XXXII,199p. Paperback. Nice copy. ‘Thomas and Conant’s book, ‘Citadel to City-State’, fills (a) noticeable gap in the literature in an exemplary fashion. It does it as well in a manner which provides the reader with a concrete, interesting series of themes to stimulate her/his mind as the centuries move by. They (Thomas and Conant) selected five reasonably well excavated settlements in southern and central Greece to stand as the exemplars for the contemporary situation and the ongoing transformations of Greek society between 1200 and 700 B.C. (…) Thus, for the late-thirteenth to twelfth centuries there is Mycenae; Nichoria for the eleventh; Athens for the tenth; Lefkandi for the ninth; Corinth for the eight; and Ascra for the early seventh. Each settlement’s particular situation provides them with an opportunity to expand on how this is similar or not to the situations of other, contemporary settlements as well as to the larger picture and trends of cultural transformation. This latter theme forms the intellectual framework which the information presented in the book attempts to illuminate. (…) ‘Citadel to City-State’ serves as an excellent summarization of our present knowledge of the not-so-dark Dark Age as well as an admirable prologue to the understanding of the subsequent Archaic and Classical periods. In conclusion, for scholars not specializing in this period as well as for advanced undergraduates and graduate students (whether or not they are ‘archaeologists’) this book does truly serve as an affective and intelligent introduction to the complexities and importance of the Dark Age. Its readability and manageable length make this task less daunting. The book constantly stimulates the reader a a regular pace. What more can one want for the Greek ‘Dark Age’? (DAVID RUPP in Phoenix, 2000, pp.360-62). € 17.50 (Antiquarian)

THOMAS, E., Pétrone. Albert Fontemoing, Paris, 1902. 2nd rev. and enlarged ed. VIII,239p. Rebound. Half cloth. Cover partly bit scratched. A few pencil annotations. Ex libris N.J. Singels. € 25.00 (Antiquarian)

THOMAS, E., Pétrone. Albert Fontemoing, Paris, 1902. 2nd rev. and enlarged ed. VIII,239p. Rebound. Imitation leather bound. Signatures and dates on title page. Pages a little bit yellowed. € 25.00 (Antiquarian)

THOMAS, J., Le dépassement du quotidien dans l''Énéide', les 'Métamorphoses' d'Apulée et le 'Satyricon'. Les Belles Lettres, Paris, 1986. 210p. Paperback. Some light, erasable pencil strikes from pp.31-52. (Rare). 'This is a very French book, whose character the empirical Anglo-Saxon will not readily understand. (...) The meat of Th.'s book lies in the first three chapters. First he tries to demonstrate that there is a hidden meaning, a need for a 'lecture intérieure', for each of the three works, i.e. that the 'dépassent' the everyday world and reach into l'imaginaire'. (...) Overall this is a bewildering book and by that I do not refer simply to its unusual theoretical supposistions. The theory he uses is poorly explained and is applied in an idiosyncratically doctrinaire way.' (KEN DOWDEN in The Classical Review (New Series), 1988, From the library of Professor Carl Deroux. € 49.50 (Antiquarian)

THOMAS, M., The golden Age. Manuscript Painting at the Time of Jean, Duc de Berry. Book Club Associates, London, 1980. 119p. Richly ills.(Full colour and a few B/W photographs). Cloth wrps. Nice copy. From the library of the late Prof. W. Geoffrey Arnott. € 14.50 (Antiquarian)

THOMMEN, L., Sparta. Verfassungs- und Sozialgeschichte einer griechischen Polis. Metzler, Stuttgart/Weimar, 2003. IX,244p. ills. Bound. Nice copy. Dieses Studienbuch stellt die Geschichte Spartas von den Anfängen bis zur Aufnahme ins römische Reich dar. Dabei werden sowohl der Wandel als auch die Kontinuität der politischen und sozialen Verhältnisse nachgezeichnet. Dies erlaubt, Sparta nich als monolitisches Gebilde, sonders als ein in steter Veränderung befindliches Gemeinwesen zu betrachten und tradierte Vorstellungen vom erstarrten ‘Kosmos’ zu überwinden. Die Behandlung der nachklassischen Epochen bringt wichtige Erkenntnisse über die Formierung des Mythos Sparta, der von der Anike an bis ins 20.Jahrhundert verschiedensnten politischen Zwecken diente. (Publisher's information). 'Thommen hat eine insgesamt sehr lesenswerte Einführung in die spartanische Geschichte vorgelegt, die - dem Charakter des Buches entsprechend - insbesondere für 'Einsteiger' von Nutzen sein wird.' (ANDREAS LUTHER). € 25.00 (Antiquarian)