Scrinium Classical Antiquity

MACGILLIVRAY, J.A., Knossos: Pottery Groups of the Old Palace Period. British School at Athens, London, 1998.195,156p. ills.(B&W photographs and line drawings). 'This book is an exercise in the 'archaeology of archaeology': a reconsideration and re-publication of material from the site of Knossos, excavated between 1901 and 1930 by Arthur Evans and his associates. It should be said at the outset that this is a book by an expert, aimed at other experts, and as such will be of limited interest to the general reader. It is, however, an important work of reference that will be of fundamental importance in discussing the pottery groups of the Old Palace Period (= Middle Minoan IB-IIIA) at Knossos and their associated architectural contexts. The author's patient examination and reconstitution of dispersed groups in the Knossos Stratigraphical Museum is a tribute to his scholarly acumen. (...) Despite some of its limitations, this is certainly an important book that those working with Minoan ceramics and research libraries will want to have. It will be of less interest to the general reader. Aegean specialists, however, owe M. a debt of gratitude for taking on and bringing to completion this difficult study.' (PATRICK M. THOMAS in Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2002.05.16). € 65.00 (Antiquarian)

MACGREGOR, G.H.C., and A.Q. MORTON, The Structure of the Fourth Gospel. Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh/London, 1961. 135p. Cloth. € 13.50 (Antiquarian)

MACGREGOR, M., De Geschiedenis van Griekenland. Van Dishoeck, Haarlem, n.d. 235p. ills. Paperback. 9th ed. Cover bit yellowed. Series: Fibula. € 8.50 (Antiquarian)

MACGREGOR, M., De Geschiedenis van Rome. Fibula-Van Dishoeck, Haarlem, 1980. 6th ed. 301p. ills. Paperback. € 8.50 (Antiquarian)

MACHIAVELLI, N., De Heerser. Uit het Italiaans vertaald, ingeleid en toegelicht door Frans van Dooren. Atheneum - Polak & Van Gennep, Amsterdam, 1997. 182p. Cloth wrps. Paperback. Cover partly discoloured. Il Principe - De heerser - van Machiavelli is een van de klassieke en nog steeds gelezen geschriften op het gebied van de staatkunde. Zelfbewust als de staatkundigen in de Renaissance waren en vrij van religieuze vooroordelen, geeft Machiavelli in zijn verhandeling richtlijnen voor het beleid van de heerser als deze zijn zetel ongestoord wil behouden. Hij doet dit aan de hand van eigentijdse en aan de oudheid ontleende voorbeelden ter illustratie van het goed of verkeerd toepassen van de door hem gestelde gedragsregels, die ten dele amoreel zijn en niet vrij lijken van een grote dosis cynisme. Machiavelli heeft zijn boek met een politiek oogmerk geschreven, maar onbedoeld is het geworden tot een filosofische analyse van het begrip macht. Classicus en romanist Frans van Dooren heeft deze vertaling verzorgd en van een uitvoerige inleiding voorzien. (Publisher's information). € 12.50 (Antiquarian)

MACHIAVELLI, N., Das Leben des Castruccio Castracani von Lucca. Italienisch-deutsch. Übertragen und mit Anmerkungen versehen von H. Legers. Mit einem Geleitwort von A. Benedetti und einer Einleitung von E. Calani. Böhlau Verlag, Köln / Wien, 1969. 92p. Paperback. Cover partly yellowed. Signature on title page. Pages yellowed. € 10.00 (Antiquarian)

MACINTOSH, Fiona, Dying Acts: Death in Ancient Greek and Modern Irish Tragic Drama. Cork University Press, Cork, 1994. XX,212p. Cloth wrps. Upper edge a bit stained. With author's dedication to Professor Arnott on free endpaper. 'Greek tragedy and the plays of the Irish Literary Revival have a number of common features: Ireland saw itself as having a special relationship with the Greeks as far back as the Middle Ages, and the classical tradition, with ready (if sometimes spurious) parallels to be drawn between the Greek and Gaelic myths and bardic traditions (…). W.B. Yeats came to see Greece as 'a storehouse of cultural traditions that industrialized Europe had sacrifices in the name of progress': as Fiona Macintosh demonstrates, Seán O'Casey was no less aware of classical precedent when he fashioned his tragic scenes. Macintosh sets her study of the representation of death and dying in Greek and Irish drama against this background, and offers some novel and interesting comparative insights within a general field where one might have thought there was not much new left to be said. She argues that death in Greek and Irish society is given a different kind of representation from that found in many other traditions (…). Death is not a single catastrophic event, but a process joining forces with the tragic working of time. It is prepared for [(…) it is marked conventionally by a big speech (…)]; and it is rounded off by the lamentation of those who were close to the hero in life. One interesting argument put forward is that the much discussed avoidance of death on the stage in Greek tragedy is perhaps not so important after all, since the dramatist is concentrating on the process of preparation for death (…). Without overstating her case she traces many illuminating parallels between the Greek tragedians and her three Irish dramatists, Yeats, Synge and O'Casey, concluding that the absence of tragedy from much of the modern stage may be related to 'the decline in ritual practices surrounding death' in the Western world. (…) This study touches upon so many cultural and aesthetic issues that, despite its sombre topic, it deserves to be widely read.' (MICHAEL ANDERSON in Theatre Research International, 1995, p.292). From the library of the late Prof. W. Geoffrey Arnott. € 37.50 (Antiquarian)

MACINTOSH, Fiona, (ed.), The Ancient Dancer in the Modern World. Responses to Greek and Roman Dance. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2012. 532p. ills. Paperback. When the eighteenth-century choreographer Jean-Georges Noverre sought to develop what is now known as modern ballet, he turned to ancient pantomime as his source of inspiration; and when Isadora Duncan and her contemporaries looked for alternatives to the strictures of classical ballet, they looked to ancient Greek vases for models for what they termed 'natural' movement. This is the first book to examine systematically the long history of the impact of ideas about ancient Greek and Roman dance on modern theatrical and choreographic practices. (Publisher's information). 'This richly textured, multidisciplinary book is part of the systematic investigations of verbal and non-verbal art forms (music, movement, etc.), by the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama (University of Oxford), and was given momentum by recent publications on ancient pantomime. (…) The unique juxtaposition of eminent dance historians, classicists, and practitioners is distilled into five sections ('Dance and the Ancient Sources', 'Dance and Decadence', 'Dance and Myth', 'Ancient Dance and Modern Mind', and 'The Ancient Chorus in Contemporary Performance'). This has ensured that a wide range of scholarship illuminates both familiar and murkier histories, and also sustains a diachronic and synchronic mode of engagement throughout. (...) Classical reception is much indebted to this much anticipated collection of critical dance history in theatre.' (ZACHARY DUBAR in New Theatre Quarterly). € 47.50 (New)

MACKAIL, J.W., Virgil and his Meaning to the World of To-Day. Harrap, London, n.d.(>1922). X,159p. Cloth. Gilt edge. Cover bit stained. Some rust. Series: Our Debt to Greece and Rome, 15. € 18.50 (Antiquarian)

MACKAIL, J.W., The Hundred Best Poems (Lyrical) in the Latin Language. Gowans & Gray, London / Glasgow, 1911. XX,105p. Cloth. Cover partly discoloured and a bit scratched. Spine discoloured. € 9.00 (Antiquarian)