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VALERIUS FLACCUS, Argonautica Book III. Edited by G. Manuwald. Cambridge University Press, 2015. 293p. Paperback. Series: Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics. Valerius Flaccus' Argonautica is one of the most significant surviving works of Flavian epic, which has recently become much more popular as a field of study and teaching in Latin literature. This is the first commentary in English directly tailored to the needs of graduate and advanced undergraduate students. It provides an introduction to the major themes of the poem and the structure and content of Book III in particular which can function as an overview of the key features of Flavian epic. The detailed commentary on Book III discusses linguistic issues, intertextual and mythical allusions and thematic strands. The book consists of two major episodes in the adventures of Jason and the Argonauts which can be read together or independently of each other. (Publisher's information). € 34.50 (New)

VALERIUS FLACCUS, (GAIUS V.F. SETINUS BALBUS), Argonauticon libri octo. Edidit C. Schenkl. Cum tabula geographica. Apud Weidmannos, Berolini, 1871. VII,171p. Folding map. Half cloth rebound. Signature on free endpaper. Some pages slightly foxed. € 34.50 (Antiquarian)

VALERIUS FLACCUS, C., Argonauticon libri octo. Recensuit E. Courtney. Teubner, Leizpig, 1970. LVIII,192p. Original blue cloth. Name and date on free endpaper. A few light and erasable pencil markings. € 39.50 (Antiquarian)

VALERIUS MAXIMUS, Factorum et dictorum memorabilium libri novem. Cum Iulii Paridis et Ianuavarii Nepotiani epitomis iterum recensuit C. Kempf. Teubner, Leipzig, 1888. XXXIV,672p. Orignal blue half cloth. Spine discoloured. Edges bit rust stained. Some pages a bit foxed. (Rare). 'Valerius Maximus, erste Hälfte des 1. Jh.s n. Chr., Verfasser des lateinischen Werkes 'Denkwürdige Taten und Aussprüche'in neun Büchern, das er dem Kaiser Tiberius widmete. Es ist eine nach sachlichen Rubriken geordnete Sammlung von Beispielen, die innerhalb jeder Rubrik nach römischen und außerrömischen, meist griechischen, Exempeln getrennt sind.' Das Buch sollte dem Unterricht in den Rhetorenschulen dienen. (TUSCULUM LEXIKON, 1963, p.515). € 80.00 (Antiquarian)

VALERIUS MAXIMUS, Factorum et dictorum memorabilium libri novem. Cum Iulii Paridis et Ianuavarii Nepotiani epitomis iterum recensuit C. Kempf. Teubner, Leipzig, 1982. Reprint 2nd ed.1888. XXXIV,672p. Orignal blue cloth. Signature on free endpaper. (Rare thus). 'Valerius Maximus, erste Hälfte des 1. Jh.s n. Chr., Verfasser des lateinischen Werkes 'Denkwürdige Taten und Aussprüche' in neun Büchern, das er dem Kaiser Tiberius widmete. Es ist eine nach sachlichen Rubriken geordnete Sammlung von Beispielen, die innerhalb jeder Rubrik nach römischen und außerrömischen, meist griechischen, Exempeln getrennt sind. Das Buch sollte dem Unterricht in den Rhetorenschulen dienen.' (TUSCULUM LEXIKON, 1963, p.515). € 95.00 (Antiquarian)

VALETON, M., De Iliadis Fontibus et Compositione. Index Nominum. Brill, Lugduni-Batavorum, 1915. VII,337p. Sewn. € 31.50 (Antiquarian)

VALK, J. van der, De Lucretiano carmine a poeta perfecto atque absoluto. Together with: T. LUCRETI CARI, De rerum natura libri sex. Edidit et notis instruxit J. van der Valk. Pars prior. Kok, Kampen, 1903. 58p. Sewn. Bit loose. Apud Zalsman, Campis, 1902. VIII,171p. Theses. Cloth. Gilt stamped. Diss. Academia Libera Reformata. € 31.50 (Antiquarian)

VALK, M. v.d., Studies in Euripides. Phoenissae and Andromache. Hakkert, Amsterdam, 1985. 104p. Imitation leather bound. Small personal library mark and name on free endpaper.From the library of the late Sir Kenneth James Dover. € 25.00 (Antiquarian)

VALK, M.H.A.H. van der, The Forumulaic Character of Hoermic Poetry and the Relation between the Iliad and the Odyssey. Universa, Wetteren, 1966. 70p. Sewn. Offprint L'Antiquité Classique V, XXXV, no. 1. € 12.50 (Antiquarian)

VALK, M.H.A.L.H. van der, Textual Criticism of the Odyssey. Edited with a subvention of the Legatum Hoettianum, administered by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences at Amsterdam. Sijthoff, Leiden, 1949. 296p. Sewn. Card board cover. Gift intention on half title. 'The author sets himself to examine the evidence for the text of the Odyssey, with special attention to the work of the ancient critics and above all the grat Alexandrines, Zenodotus, Aristophanes. Rhianus, and Aristarchus. The examination is in two parts. The first (pp.11-180) discusses the editions referred to by the Alexandrine critics (...), the influence of Didymus on our traditions about the Alexandrines, the value of the vulgate text compared with the papyri and testimonia, and the importance to be attached to the. readings preferred by the alexandrine critics, especially Aristarchus. Dr. V. concludes that the vulgate is very much more reliable tjan Ludwich and others have been inclined to believe, and that the readings ascribed to the great Alexandrines must be regarded as conjectures, and valued accordingly. He has no difficulty in showing that many of the Alexandrine critics' suggestions are due to ignorance of the epic diction, of the principles, and of the mentality of the archaic Greeks, In the second part (pp.181-285) Dr. V. discusses the special problem of the 'athetized' lines, (...) and shows how most of the ancient 'atheteses', including those usually accepted by modern editors, are due to the same faults of comprehension on the part of the Alexandrines as he has already diagnoses in Part I. He also examines the relation of Homer to Hesiod and the Cycle, and of the art of Homer, both in its virtues and its defects, and concludes that there is no good evidence, either internal or external, for large-scale interpolation in our vulgate text. (...) It will be manifest that this is a book of the utmost importance to all concerned with the text of Homer. (...). Even those who disagree with Dr. V.'s conclusions will find themselves compelled to admire the thoroughness and the scholarly soundness of his methods (...). Dr. V.'s work (...) has a good claim to be regarded as the most important contribution to Homeric studies since Schadewaldt's Iliasstudien of 1938. (J.A. DAVISON in The Classical Review, 1950, pp.54-55). € 60.00 (Antiquarian)