Scrinium Classical Antiquity

HÖLSCHER, L., Über das Buch des Apuleius 'de mundo'. Wollf, Herford, 1846. 24(from 42p). Rebound. (Rare). Einladungsschrift zu der a 2. und 3. April zu haltenden öffentlichen Prüfung und Redeübung des Griedrichs-Gymnasiums zu Herford, nebst dem Jahresbericht des Gymnasiums vom F.G. Schöne. € 10.00 (Antiquarian)

HÖLSCHER, U., Die Odyssee. Epos zwischen Märchen und Roman. Beck, München, 1988. 360p. Original grey cloth with pictorial dust wrps. Upper and fore edge a bit yellowed. ‘In the book under review, almost the entire poem and most of the important issues related to it (ethical outlook, historical context, the relationship to the Il.) pass in review. Much attention is paid to matters of narrative technique (characterisation, order and rhythm of narration, scenery, the function of embedded narratives). H.’s book differs, however, from other general books on the Od. in that his analyses and discussions are undertaken in the light of two leading questions: 1) what are the characteristics of the Od. as ‘Großepos’ as against the ‘einfache Gedichte’ - H.’s collective term for fairy tale, folktale, legend, fable - from which it (partly) must have drawn its material?; 2) in what ways does the Od. prefigure the later genre of the novel (both ancient and modern)?’ H. gives a lot of examples [ND]. H.’s method here is inspired by the work of H. Props; he compares motifs or sequences of motifs (structures) of related fairy tales from all over the world with the version of the Od. His purpose is not to reconstruct the original ‘Odysseus story’, but to understand the form of the Od. as a ‘Märchen’ transformed into epic. At the same time, this approach allows H. to shed light on well-known Odyssean problems, e.g. that of the status of the Telemachy. (…). The second leading question (the Od. as predecessor of the novel) occupies far less space in H.’s book. Some examples are: interest in realistic detail, lower social milieus (Eumaeus) and sentimental themes (…), Odysseus’ false tales as the first examples of fiction, the deceiving of the reader’s expectations. Again H. offers alternative approaches to analytic problems. (…) Both H.’s leading questions have been discussed by others before, but his treatment of the fairy tale / folktale background of the Od. is the most exhaustive until now. Despite the vastness of his theme H. has succeeded in writing a readable, and for the non-specialist, highly informative book.’ (IRENE J.F. de JONG in Mnemosyne, 1991, pp.449-450). € 15.00 (Antiquarian)

HOLST, H., Die Wortspiele in Ciceros Reden. Some & Co, Oslo, 1925. 119p. Sewn. Front cover losse. Back cover gone. Series: Symbolae Osloenses, Fasc. Supplet. I). (Rare). ‘The author has constructed ‘eine heuristische Systematic der Wortspiele Ciceros’ from ten selected speeches, his further objective being a ‘natürliche psychologische Systematic’ based on the whole of Cicero’s work. At first sight the labour and thought bestowed upon a book of this type appear out of proportion to its utility; but it has an interest of its own, and if it should lead to a fuller understanding of Cicero and his style, even to a small degree, the author would doubtless feel that his toil had not been wasted. (…) Generally speaking, the work is sound and presents the fullest treatment the subject has yet received.’ (L.G. POCOCK in The Classical Review, 1926, p.219). From the library of the late Prof. Dr. Tony Reekmans. € 95.00 (Antiquarian)

HOLST-WARHAFT, G., Dangerous Voices: Women's Laments and Greek Literature. Routledge, Londen, 1992. 227p. Cloth wrps. Wrps protected with adaptaroll. Nice copy. € 45.00 (Antiquarian)

HOLTEN, A.T. van, De Dood van de Goden. Een onderzoek naar herkomst en functie van de Oudnoorse toekomstmythen. Wolters-Noordhoff, Groningen, 1977. 204p. Wireless. Diss. Rijksuniversiteit Leiden. € 17.00 (Antiquarian)

HOLTROP, J.F., De Mangaanafzettingen van het Guyana Schild. Geologisch Mijnbouwkundige Dienst van Suriname, Paramaribo, 1962. 2 parts. XI,514,53(x2p),17 folding maps loose in folder. ills.(line drawings and 213 B&W photographs). Sewn. Cover a bit grimy and a bit creased. Signature on free endpaper. € 25.00 (Antiquarian)

HOLTROP, Roel, and Hans MORREN, 'Zo oud als de weg naar Rome'. Een zoektocht naar de antieke wortels van de Italiaanse keuken. Menarini Farma Nederland, Woerden, 2006. 184p. Richly ills. Hardbound. Kookboek geïllustreerd met fraaie foto's en filosofische teksten. Bevat een deel Romeinse recepten en een deel Italiaanse recepten. Met leeslint. € 25.00 (Antiquarian)

HOLTZINGER, H., Die Baustile. Historische und technische Entwicklung. Des Handbuches der Architektur zweiter Teil. 3. Band, Heft 1: Altschristliche und byzantinische Baukunst. Mit 280 in den Text eingedruckten Abbildungen, sowie 6 in den Text eingehefteten Tafeln. Alfred Kröner, Leipzig, 1909. VIII,176p. Nicely ills. Nicely rebound. € 40.00 (Antiquarian)

HOLUB, R.C., Reception Theory. A critical introduction. Methuen, London/NewYork, 1984. XIV,189p. Sewn. € 12.00 (Antiquarian)

HOLUM, K.G., R.L. HOHLFELDER, (ed.) King Herod's Dream. Caesarea on the Sea. Norton, London, 1988. 244p. ills. Wireless.Like many ancient cities Caesarea owed its foundations as a great city to the imagination, ambition, and resources of a major benefactor of urbanism: This city was King Herod’s Dream. He and his planners were responsible for its up-to-date urban plan and for the magnificent conception of the city’s man-made harbor, Sebastos. Until the end of antiquity, Caesarea was the headquarters of Roman administration in the region. Its harbor was the major transport center for goods and commodities from all over the Mediterranean world. In the Byzantine era Caesarea became Christian in religion, but otherwise the forms of classical urbanism lived on through the Arab conquest of the Middle East and the subsequent era of the Crusaders. When the Egyptian Mamluks destroyed Crusader Caesarea they put an end to thirteen centuries of urbanism on the site. € 18.50 (Antiquarian)