Scrinium Classical Antiquity

LUCAS, Klaslectuur uit Sint-Lukas. Verzameld en ingeleid door L.J. Baas en M.A. Nauwelaerts. Met hulpboekje. Ned. Boekhandel, Antwerpen, 1960. 79/32p. Sewn/wire stitched. € 8.50 (Antiquarian)

LUCAS, J., Les obsessions de Tacite. Brill, Leiden, 1974. XII,254p. Original gilt titled red cloth. Spine slightly discoloured. Series: Roma Aeterna, VIII. 'The avowed purpose of this book is to solve the outstanding problems presented by Tacitus' work by means of a psychological investigation. The fist section examines the antithesis between 'boni' and 'mali', good and evil, with exhaustive tabulation of the characteristics asribed to good and bad men. (... ) Lucas is always reluctant to accept explanations of phenomena in Tacitus which appel to the canons of rhetoric and the influence of a rhetorical education; he consistently underestimates the degree to which a man like Tacitus must have been imbued with the rhetorical conventions of thought and expression prevalent in his time. (...) The second section discusses a series of parallel speeches(...) The third section seeks to establish certain 'neurotic traits' in Tacitus' character by analysing his conception of night, his fondness for the unresolved dilemma, his attitude to death and the gods, to the 'pollustion ' of Britannicus and to the moral law in general. (...) I would stress that despite its many and various faults and follies this book is worth reading. It makes one think, and that at least is more than can be said for most books on Tacitus.' (ROBIN SEAGER in the Classical Review (New Series), 1977, pp.35-36). From the library of Professor Carl Deroux. € 22.50 (Antiquarian)

LUCCHESE, Claudia, Il Mausoleo di Alicarnasso e i suoi maestri. Giorgio Bretschneider, Roma, 2009. XI,171,15,XIVp. Paperback. Small stamp on title page. 'Il libro di Claudia Lucchese, dedicato a uno dei più celebri monumenti funerari del mondo antico, rappresenta un valido strumento per rileggere e reinterpretare quello che è stato l’archetipo di tutti i mausolei greci e romani, non solo perché raccoglie tutti gli elementi relativi agli studi che ne hanno trattato, ma anche perché propone dati aggiuntivi utili a riconsiderare l’edificio di Alicarnasso nel contesto in cui fu pensato, progettato e realizzato. Il volume è organizzato in tre capitoli (cui si aggiunge una sezione, che raccoglie, in un accurato apparato documentario, le fonti letterarie ed epigrafiche dedicate a Mausolo e al suo sepolcro), che conducono il lettore attraverso un percorso non facile da illustrare sinteticamente. (...) Assai utile ai fini della comprensione dell’intero messaggio del dinasta è il confronto proposto dalla Lucchese con altri edifici funerari microasiatici, che utilizzarono forme architettoniche e apparati decorativi analoghi a quelli scelti da Mausolo, e che quindi costituirono riferimenti importati per la progettazione del sepolcro: dal Monumento delle Nereidi di Xanthos voluto da Erbinna, all’Heroon di Pericle governatore di Limyra, fino al temenos con sarcofago del reggente di Trysa e alla tomba di Ciro II in Persia, tutti rappresentavano costruzioni ben inserite nel paesaggio cittadino e provviste di impliciti rimandi ai miti greci. In un panorama archeologico che sovente cede a tecnicismi non sempre forieri di apporti nuovi e sostanziali, non si può che rivolgere un plauso a progetti di ricerca e a scelte editoriali che mirano a riproporre con forza studi archeologici dedicati alla storia dell’arte, la quale, come ha ben ricordato Luigi Todisco nella sua Presentazione, era stata riconosciuta già nel 1970 da Ranuccio Bianchi Bandinelli come una disciplina destinata a scomparire. C’è da augurarsi, ora, che libri come questo confutino il timore del grande archeologo senese.' (MADDALENA BASSANI in Histara, les comptes rendus, 2010.06.25). From the library of Professor Carl Deroux. € 27.50 (Antiquarian)

LUCCHESI, I, (ed.), Sancti Petri Damiani Sermones. Ad fidem antiquiorum codicum restituti cura et studio Io. Lucchesi. Brepols, Turnhout, 1983. LXIII,492p. Original gilt stamped terra-cotta cloth. Upper edge publisher's stained. Cover vaguely stained. Sticker glued to paste-down endpaper. Children's droodles on free endpapers as well as on pp.XXX-XXXI. Series: Cvorpus Christianorum, Continuaito Mediaevalis, LVII. € 60.00 (Antiquarian)

LUCE, J.V., Homer and the Heroic Age. Thames and Hudson, London, 1975. 200p. ills. Cloth wrps. Edges a bit stained. Pages a little bit yellowing. Signature in pencil on first free endpaper. € 12.50 (Antiquarian)

LUCE, J.V., Homer and the Heroic Age. Thames and Hudson, London, 1975. 200p. ills. Cloth wrps. Pages a little bit yellowing. From the library of the late Prof. W. Geoffrey Arnott. € 12.50 (Antiquarian)

LUCE, J.V., The End of Atlantis. New Light on an Old Legend. Efstathiadis group, Athens, 1982. 178p. ills. Paperback. Name and date on half title. Nice copy. € 10.00 (Antiquarian)

LUCE, T.J., and A.J. WOODMAN, (eds.), Tacitus and the Tacitean Tradition. Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1993. XII,207p. Original red cloth with dust wrps. Spine gilt titled. Dust wrps slightly discoloured and with light edgewear. A few light remains of (coloured) pencil markings in the margins of pp.VII,XII, XVI and 200. 'This volume is a model of its kind and handsomely produced, a worthy tribute to a pillar of Tacitean scholarship by learned colleagues from both sides of the Atlantic, who, as Syme would wish, have attempted 'not merely to register facts but to penetrate the recesses' (Syme, 'Tacitus', Oxford, 1958, II, p.520).' (MARILYNNE BROMLEY in The Classical Review (New Series), 1995, pp.284-285). € 39.50 (Antiquarian)

LUCE, T.J., and A.J. WOODMAN, (eds.), Tacitus and the Tacitean Tradition. Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1993. XII,207p. Original red cloth with dust wrps. Spine gilt titled. 'This volume is a model of its kind and handsomely produced, a worthy tribute to a pillar of Tacitean scholarship by learned colleagues from both sides of the Atlantic, who, as Syme would wish, have attempted 'not merely to register facts but to penetrate the recesses' (Syme, 'Tacitus', Oxford, 1958, II, p.520).' (MARILYNNE BROMLEY in The Classical Review (New Series), 1995, pp.284-285). Contents, a.o.: T.J. LUCE: Reading and Response in the Dialogus (pp.11-39); E. KEITEL: Speech and Narrative in Histories 4 (pp.39-59); J. GINSBURG: In maiores certamina: Past and Present in the Annals (pp.86-104); D. R. KELLERY: Tacitus Noster: the Germania in the Renaissance (pp.152-168). € 45.00 (Antiquarian)

LUCIAN, (LUCIANUS), Selections from Lucian. With Notes by W.R. Inge and H. MacNaghten. Rivingtons, London, 1889. IX,243p. Cloth. Endpaper bit worn. € 20.50 (Antiquarian)