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EURIPIDES, Bacchae. Edited with introduction and commentary by E.R. Dodds. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1963. Reprint 1st ed. LV,231p. Original gilt titled cloth. Lacking dust wrps. Signature and date on free endpaper. Pages a bit yellowed. Pencil underlinings and a few annotations in neat handwriting in preface and notes. ‘In this authoritative and scholarly edition of the ‘Bacchae’ Professor Dodds (…) presents an objective and balanced picture of Euripides not as a propagandist but as a dramatist, and of the ‘Bacchae’ as one of Euripides’ greatest plays. Of particular value is Professor Dodds’s examination of the Dionysiac cult. with a wealth of supporting evidence from Greek literature and art, and interesting parallels from other lands and other ages, he shows that the features of the cult which play so prominent a part in the ‘Bacchae’- the mass hysteria of ‘oreibasia’ and the revolting savagery of ‘homophobia’ - are the canalization inter rituals of certain irresistible forces in life. Euripides is neither defending nor attacking the worship of Dionysus. with the sensitivity of the dramatist he is showing how human beings may be affected by a force which is universal and irresistible. The commentary on the text is no less thorough. Difficulties and ambiguities are discussed fully and fairly with the authority of profound scholarship.’ (D.G.B. in Greece & Rome, 1945, p.95). From the library of the late Prof. Dr. Tony Reekmans. € 18.00 (Antiquarian)

ARTZ, R., A. van den BERGH, a.o., (eds.), Bacchae. Een tragedie van Euripides. Hermaion, Houten, 2020. 242,39p. Sewn / wire stitched. Flexible cover / paper cover. Nice copy. € 12.00 (Antiquarian)

EURIPIDES, Bacchanten'71. Een bewerking door Inez van Dullemen en Erik Vos. Nederlands Theater Projekt, n.p., 1971. 56p. ills.(B& W line drawings and photographs). Sewn. Upper corner bit creased. € 7.00 (Antiquarian)

EURIPIDES, Bacchanten. Nederlandse tekst: W. Tiesema. Toneeltekst Haagse Comedie met inleiding. Haagse Comedie, n.p., 1980. (XI),75p. Pocketbook. € 10.00 (Antiquarian)

PLAUTUS, T. MACCIUS, Bacchides. Nota introduttiva e testo critico di C. Questa. In appendice Menandrou 'Dis Exapaton'. Sansoni Editore, Firenze, 1975. New edition. 198p. Sewn. Loosely inserted: Some comments on the text and metre of Plautus Bacchides plus a note: MMW (M.M. Willcock on Questa's edition of Pl. Bacchicdes. 'Questa's new 'Bacchides' reprints Sandbach's Greek text in an appendix, with some minor changes. A much expanded introduction (from 36-80 pages) not only deals with the problems in this play which have engaged scholars' attention during the last century (...). In the text and the apparatus there are quite a number of changes from the first edition. Questa has evidently taken seriously the reviewers' criticisms, and in about half the cases adduced by Skutsch and Arnott this had led to alteration or correction. (...) In the filed of metre, Questa is an expert, not only on the technical facts about prosody and scansion, but on the question of the ancient colometry. (...) The good that he has done in this paly by removing the basis for oddities which have disfigured the metrical schemes of even such great editors as Leo and Lindsay is far greater than the harm caused by occasional small inaccuracies. Questa knows what he is talking about, and understands the problems of both text and metre.' (M.M. WILLCOCK in The Classical Review (New Series), 1978, pp.28-29). From the library of the late Prof. W. Geoffrey Arnott. € 34.50 (Antiquarian)

RANK, L.Ph., e.a., (ed.), Bacchus en Christus. Twee Lofzangen van Daniël Heinsius. TjeenkWillink, Zwolle, 1965. 352p. Cloth wrps. Ex libris. Some pencil and a few pen markings. Series: Zwolse drukken en herdrukken voor de Maatschappij der Nederlandse Letterkunde, 53. € 23.00 (Antiquarian)

WARNERS, J.D.P. en L.Ph. RANK, Bacchus. Lyrisch leesboek over de god Bacchus, met aantekeningen en vertalingen; tevens een illustratie van het translatio-imitatio-aemulatio-principe. Deel II. Athenaeum-Polak & Van Gennep, Amsterdam, 1971. XI,364p. Paperback. Series: Utrechtse Publikaties voor Algemene Literatuurwetenschap. € 8.00 (Antiquarian)

HOOFT, P.C., Baeto. Van inleiding en aantekeningen voorzien door F. Veenstra. Nijhoff, Den Haag, 1970. 2nd.ed. 111p. Wireless. € 12.00 (Antiquarian)

MINIERO, P., Baia. Il castello, il museo, l'area archeologica. Electa, Napoli, 2000. 85p. Richly ills.(full colour photographs and line drawings). Paperback. Nice copy. € 15.00 (Antiquarian)

BORRIELLO, M., and A. D'AMBROSIO, Baiae - Misenum. Olschki, Firenze, 1979. 177p. ills.(B&W photographs and line drawings, 11 (folding) plates). Sewn. Card board cover. Cover a bit grimy and a bit dog's eared. Lower corner pages slightly dog's eared. Series: Forma Italiae, Regio I - Volumen XIV. € 90.00 (Antiquarian)