Scrinium Classical Antiquity

DAVIES, M., The Aethiopis. Neo-Neoanalysis Reanalyzed. Center for Hellenic Studies, Cambridge (Mass.) / London, 2016. XII,107p. Paperback. Series: Hellenic Studies 71. € 20.00 (New)

DAVIES, Penelope J.E., Death and the Emperor. Roman Imperial Funerary Monuments from Augustus to Marcus Aurelius. University of Texas Press, Austin, 2004. XIV,265p. Richly ills.(B&W photographs and line drawings). Paperback. Upper corner back slightly bumped. This concise and lucidly written book is a very valuable new contribution to the studies of Roman imperial cult, political propaganda, and topography, and has the added benefit of discussing complex scholarly disputes in a manner that the non-specialist will probably follow with ease. I would not hesitate to recommend this book to my undergraduate students, although they are not the audience for whom it was primarily written. (...) The monuments that D. analyzes in depth are: the Mausoleum of Augustus and its associated structures, Arch of Titus, Temple of the Flavian Dynasty, Column of Trajan, Mausoleum of Hadrian, Column of Antoninus Pius, and Column of Marcus Aurelius. Some of these did not actually contain the remains of the persons that they honored, but all were intended to serve as commemorative monuments after their honorees had died. Surprisingly, however, although all of these monuments have been studied in detail, they have not been studied in relation to one another specifically in the context of their funerary function. D.'s approach allows her to explore an elaborate set of relationships among the funerary monuments and between each monument and its patron's other building projects. (...) University libraries should definitely acquire this book. (...) it deserves a place in the individual scholar's library as well. There is material in this volume that will be immensely useful to researchers in many areas: archaeology, history of architecture, iconography, history of religion, and Roman political propaganda, to name just a few. I strongly recommend it to scholars interested in any or all of the above topics.' (SUSAN WOOD in Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2000.12.08). € 19.50 (Antiquarian)

DAVIS, W.H., Beginner's grammar of the Greek New Testament. Harper, New York, n.d.(>1942) 5th ed. 269p. Half cloth wrps. € 18.50 (Antiquarian)

DAWES, R., Miscellanea critica. Typis quinquies excusa prodeunt ex recensione et cum notis aliquanto auctoribus Th. Kidd. Accedunt appendicis loco Dawesii lusus juvenilies: Miltoni P.A. Graecae Metaphraseos, Specimen Integrum: Et excerpta e libello anglice scripto, 'tittle-tattle-mongers.' J et J.J. Deighton / Whittaker, Cantabrigiae / Londini, 1827. 2nd ed. XLI,696p. Leather bound. Spine partly gone. Front cover loose. Binding tight. With signature A.Y. Campbell and small personal library mark and name on free endpaper.Richard Dawes became master of the grammar-school at Newcastle upon Tyne in 1738. In 1745 he had the satisfaction of seeing his Miscellanea Critica published by the Cambridge Press. The work is in five parts: (1) corrections of Terentianus Maurus; (2) criticisms on Oxford editors of Pindar; (3) Greek pronunciation; differences between Attic and Ionic futures, and between the subj. and opt.; and cottections of Callimachus; (4) the digamma; (5) ictus in Attic poets, and emendations of the Dramatists. Dawes is honourably mentioned by Cobet, together with Bentley and Porson, Elmsley and Dobree, as one of those Englishmen, from whose writings, 'non tantum locis corruptis clara lux affulget sed paulatim addiscitur ars quaedam, qua verum cernere et eruere et ipse possis.' (J.E. SANDYS in A Short History of Classical Scholarship, 1915, pp.269-70). From the library of the late Sir Kenneth James Dover. € 145.00 (Antiquarian)

DAWKINS, R.M., Modern Greek Folktales. At the Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1953. XXXVIII,491p. Cloth wrps. First and last pages as well as edges bit foxed. Wrps bit worn and repaired with adhesive tape. Wrps bit stained. (Rare). € 95.00 (Antiquarian)

DAWSON, Chr., De Schepping van Europa. Een inleiding tot de Geschiedenis der Europese Christenheid. Veen/Kompas, Amsterdam/Antwerpen, 1948. 348p. ills. Cloth. Bit yellowed. € 17.50 (Antiquarian)

DAY, J., and M. CHAMBERS, Aristotle's History of the Athenian Democracy. University of California Press, Berkeley / Los Angeles, 1962. XIII,221p. Sewn. Edges bit foxed. Small personal library mark and name on free endpaper. This volume 'sets out to solve the problem of authorship and lay the basis for an assessment of the historical value of much which is found in the treatise 'Athenaion Politeia'. (...) The writing is good, lively, and stimulating; the printing is excellent; and a select biography, short appendixes, and an index round off the volume efficiently. (...)' I have 'serious doubts about the general hypotheses on which this introductory volume is based. The later chapters go into more detail and five summaries of the authors' view about the true nature of the Cleisthenic democracy (...) and the fourth of extreme democracy. They contain a lot of interesting comment, and there is much that will stimulate the reader.' (N.G.L. HAMMOND in The Classical Review (New Series), 1964, pp.35-37). From the library of the late Sir Kenneth James Dover. € 21.50 (Antiquarian)

DE BOEL, G., Goal Accusative and Object Accusative in Homer. A contribution to the theory of transitivity. Paleis der Academiën, Brussel, 1988. 196p. Sewn. Series: Verhandelingen van de Koninklijke Academie voor Wetenschappen, Letteren en Schone Kunsten van België, Klasse der Letteren, Jaargang 50, 1988, 125. € 24.00 (Antiquarian)

DE CRÉE, M., Brieven aan Plinius. [gedichten]. Manteau, Antwerpen, 1984. 21p. Sewn wrps. € 12.00 (Antiquarian)

DE DECKER, J., Juvenalis declamans. Étude sur la rhétorique declamatoire dans les Satires de Juvénal. Van Goethem, Gand, 1913. 206p. Sewn. Unopened, Series: Universit1e de Gand, Recueil de travaux publiés par la Faculté de Philosophie et Lettres, 41me Fascicule. ‘This admirably written book is an important contribution to the study of Juvenal and incidentally of Roman rhetoric. M. De Decker starts by accepting the statement of the ancient biography that Juvenal practised declamation till middle life; after which he turned to writing satire. He then proceeds to demonstrate at length the influence of Juvenal’s rhetorical studies on his work as a poet. The practice of rhetoric to which Juvenal devoted himself consisted in the public delivery of declamations; the listening to such declamation, no less than to the recitations of poets, formed one of the chief intellectual relaxations of the educated Roman public under the Empire. The elder Seneca has collected many specimens from such declamations delivered by distinguished rhetoricians; these and the smaller and larger declamations ascribed to Quintilian, as well as Quintilian’s own ‘Institutio oratoria’ constitute the chief sources of our knowledge of imperial rhetoric. M. De Decker has examined analytically the material thus provided from the point of view both of the contents and the form. A detailed comparison with Juvenal’s Satires reveals the same matter and the same style. Though it is the fashion to describe Juvenal as rhetorical, the proof has never been set forth thus clearly. Side by side are ranged quotations from the rhetoricians and from Juvenal. The ideas, the style, the very phrases and words are found to correspond. The result is convincing and instructive. As regards matter the rhetoricians dwelt continually on five commonplaces (loci communes): the same commonplaces reappear in Juvenal. Firstly there is the topic of the depravity of the age, expressed in invectives against the vices and crimes of both sexes (…). Secondly there is the theme of the controlling influence of Chance (Fortuna) and Destiny (Fatum) on human life. Thirdly there is the considertion of the evils resulting from the possession of great wealth. Fourthly there is the topic of cruelty, its poisonings, tortures, murders, parricides, the sensational development of which horrors in the hands of the rhetoricians appealed to the popular emotions after the fashion of the modern melodrama. Fiftly there are trite commonplaces of a philosophical tinge, concerning the care exercised by the gods for human affairs, the impossibility of foreseeing the future, the fact that virtue is the sole path to happiness and the guilty conscience the sinner’s chief punishment (…). Detailed quotations prove that these ideas form the basis of the declamations and are prominent in Juvenal’s Satires. It is thus clear whence the satirist drew his inspiration. M. De Decker justly remarks that the rhetorical merit of Juvenal lies not in the conception of new ideas but in presenting the traditional material of the rhetoricians in a brilliant setting. At the same time he is careful to point out that there are in Juvenal two natures, that of the rhetorician and that of the poet. (…) For along with all his rhetoric Juvenal is a poet of true feeling (…). From the matter M. De Decker passes to the form of the Satires, These, he shows, are not constructed unmethodical, (…) but are planned each according to a precise scheme after the manner of the declamations of the rhetoricians. What is noticeable in Juvenal is his love of dwelling upon details (…). Further, the Satires, like the declamations, are addressed to an imaginary audience or auditor. (Follows a list of features common to Juvenal and the rhetoricians - ND).’ (S.G. OWEN in The Classical Review, 1913, pp. 205-207). € 30.00 (Antiquarian)