Scrinium Classical Antiquity

WHALLON, W., Formula, Character, and Context. Studies in Homeric, Old English, and Old Testament Poetry. Center for Hellenic Studies / Harvard University Press, Washington DC / Cambridge (Mass.), 1969. XIII,225p. Cloth. Small personal library marks on tail spine as well as free endpaper. Name on free endpaper. 'The later chapters make fascinating reading to the Homerist. By avoiding lofty generalities and addressing itself to specific questions this collection of papers makes a study in comparative literature of exceptional interest and value.' (J.B. HAINSWORTH in The Classical Review (New Series), 1970, p. 71). From the library of the late Sir Kenneth James Dover. € 29.50 (Antiquarian)

WHALLON, W., Problem and Spectacle. Studies in the Oresteia. Carl Winter, Heidelberg, 1980. 159p. Sewn. Series: Biliothek der klassischen Altertumswissenschaften, Neue Folge , 2. Reihe, Band 67.Contents: I. There is no being certain whether the birds of prey in a comparison are those in an omen (pp.9-24); II. Whether the Curse works its fell effect upon the House is moot though urgent (pp.24-64); III. The likeness between the tableaux extends to the cloth strewn and the murder robe displayed (pp.64-113); IV. The male-as-female conventions led Shakespeare and Aeschylus to depictions of algolagnia (pp.113-143). Notes. Indices. From the library of the late Prof. W. Geoffrey Arnott. € 16.00 (Antiquarian)

WHALLON, W., Formula, Character, and context. Studies in Homeric, Old English, and Old Testament Poetry. Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington, 1969. XIII,225p. Original cloth with dust wrps. Nice copy. 'The later chapters make fascinating reading to the Homerist. By avoiding lofty generalities and addressing itself to specific questions this collection of papers makes a study in comparative literature of exceptional interest and value.' (J.B. HAINSWORTH in The Classical Review (New Series), 1970, p. 71). € 29.50 (Antiquarian)

WHARTON, H.T., Sappho. Memoir, text, selected renderings, and literal translation. Reprint Liberac, Amsterdam, 1974. XXIX,217p. Bound. € 21.50 (Antiquarian)

WHEELER ROBINSON, H., Inspiration and Revelation in the Old Testament. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1960. Reprint 1st ed.1946. (IV),298p. Cloth wprs. Wrps a bit worn. Signature on free endpaper. Some pen and pecil underlinings and annotations. € 16.00 (Antiquarian)

WHEELER, M., Flammen über Persepolis. Alexander der Grosse und Asien. Propyläen Verlag, Frankfurt/M, 1969. 180p. ills. Cloth wrps. € 14.50 (Antiquarian)

WHEELOCK, F.M.(ed.), Latin Literature. A Book of Readings (from Cicero, Livy, Ovid, Pliny, The Vulgate, Bede, Caedmon, Medieval Poetry). Barnes&Noble, New York, 1967. XIV,331p. With notes. Paperback. € 13.50 (Antiquarian)

WHIBLEY, L., (ed.), A Companion to Greek Studies. University Press, Cambridge, 1905. 1st ed. XXX,672p. ills. Cloth. Head and tail spine bit worn. Spine discoloured. Gilt stamped. € 37.50 (Antiquarian)

WHITE, H., Metahistory. The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe. The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore / London, 1975. XII,448p. Paperback. ‘This is an immensely ambitious undertaking, requiring mastery of philosophy and historiography as well as of linguistic theory. White is one of the very few historians who has made it his business to acquire such a combination of skills, and the result of his labours is a book what will simply have to be reckoned with by all historians who have the slightest interest in the genesis and forms of historical narrative. (…) White is the first to have tried to grapple systematically with the manner in which literary artistry is not merely decorative or ancillary but integral to the historical work in hand. One can argue with him about his priorities, that is, one can admit the significance of linguistic strategy without going all the way with him in making it paramount in works of history as well as in philosophy of history. (…) It is far from an easy book to read. But the effort is very much worthwhile. For it teaches one to regard the great works of history from a fresh and fruitful point of view as well as to become aware of new dimensions in the work of one’s contemporaries; and to recall, in one’s one work, that (in White’s words) ‘knowledge is a product of a wrestling not only with the ‘facts’ but with one’s self (p.191).’ (JOHN CLIVE in The Journal of Modern History, 1975, pp.542-543). € 25.00 (Antiquarian)

WHITE, H.V., The Greco-Roman Tradition. Harper & Row, New York (...), 1973. XXII,(2),158p. Paperback. Lower corner front cover slightly creased. Spine with light reading trace. Pages yellowed. Series: Major Traditions of World Civilization. € 20.00 (Antiquarian)