Scrinium Classical Antiquity

VERGILIUS, Bucolica. Herdersgedichten. Ingeleid, vertaald en toegelicht door A. van Wilderode. Orion, Brugge, l980. 2nd ed. 165p. Sewn. Nice copy. Series: Helios-reeks. € 12.00 (Antiquarian)

VERGILIUS, Bucolica. Herderszangen. In hexameters vertaald, ingeleid en van aantekeningen voorzien door R.F.M. Brouwer. Ambo, Baarn, n.d.(>1995). 186p. Cloth wrps. Nice copy. € 16.00 (Antiquarian)

VERGILIUS, Bucolica. Herderszangen. Latijnse tekst. Met vertaling, inleiding en aantekeningen door R. Brouwer. Primavera Pers, Leiden, 2003. 199p. Paperback. Signature on half title. Nice copy.'De uitgave van R. F. M. Brouwer is een erudiet en begerenswaardig boek, alleen al omdat Brouwer een inleiding over het herdersdicht van de Griekse dichter Theocritus (3e eeuw vChr) tot Simon Vestdijk heeft geschreven, die pure vreugde schenkt. (...) Elk van de tien herderszangen heeft Brouwer voorzien van een samenvatting, een interpretatie-voorstel, en vrij uitvoerige noten. Dat is allemaal prachtig; waar ik aarzelend over ben, is de vertaling zelf. Die is in hexameters, en die klinken uitgesproken stroef. (...) Men moet zich daardoor niet laten weerhouden dit prachtboek te lezen.' (HANS ORANJE in Trouw 08.12.1995). € 10.00 (Antiquarian)

KOENNECKE, O., (ed.), BUCOLICI GRAECI. (Theocritus, Moschus, Bion). Graff, Brunsvigae, 1914. 147p. Cloth. Nice copy. € 24.00 (Antiquarian)

BUCOLICORUM GRAECORUM RELIQUIAE: Theocritus, Bion, Moschus. Accedentibus incertorum Idylliis. Recensuit H.L. Ahrens. Teubner, Leipzig, 1902. VIII,142p. Cloth. Series: Bibliotheca Teubneriana. Annotations Id. I - VI. € 14.50 (Antiquarian)

VIRGILE, (VERGILIUS), Bucoliques. Texte établi et traduit par E. de Saint-Denis. Les Belles Lettres, Paris, 1967. Rev.and enl.ed. XLI,37,38-99(x2),100-142p. Rebound. Series: Budé. € 12.50 (Antiquarian)

VIRGILE, (VERGILIUS), Bucoliques. Texte établi et traduit par E. de Saint-Denis. Les Belles Lettres, Paris, 1978. Rev.and enl.ed. XXI,37,38-99(x2),100-142p. Cloth. Signature on free endpaper. Series: Budé. € 16.00 (Antiquarian)

VIRGILE, (VERGILIUS), Bucoliques. Texte établi et traduit par E. de Saint-Denis. Les Belles Lettres, Paris, 1963. 5th.impr. XXX,71(x2),72-77p. Sewn. € 12.50 (Antiquarian)

BÖHME, R., Bühnenbearbeitung Äschyleischer Tragödien. Erster Teil. Zweiter Teil. Benno Schwabe, Basel / Stuttgart, n.d.(>1956/59). 2 vols. 138,159p. Sewn. Small personal library mark and name on free endpaper. Title hand written on spine. (Rare).'Dr. Böhme (...) suggests that when a later poet (...) received from the archon a chorus for a play of Aeschylus he rewrote it in up-to-date style, so that it might compete on level terms with the works of contemporaries. Accordingly the 'Oresteia', as we have it, is a rewriting, perhaps the last of several, for a performance between 408 and 405, and profoundly influenced by the Electra plays of Sophocles and of Eurpides.' (...) Böhme is not moved only by stylistic considerations in the narrower sense, though much of his argument turns on details of usage. He has an intense conviction that Aeschylus was a poet inspired, continuously sublime, moving only on the heights - or in the depths - of Orphic-Eleusinian religion.' (D.W. LUCAS in The Classical Review (New Series), 1960. pp.198-99). From the library of the late Sir Kenneth James Dover. € 29.50 (Antiquarian)

REITZ, Bettina, Building in Words. Representations of the Process of Construction in Latin Literature. Wöhrmann Print Services, n.p., 2013. 256p. ills.(B&W as well as full colour photographs and line drawings). Theses. Paperback. Diss. Universiteit Leiden. (Rare). ''Building in Words' deals with the process of construction in Roman imperial literature from Vergil to the second century AD. The first part of the dissertation treats the ways in which representations of the construction of an edifice can be designed to influence the reader’s evaluation of it. The focus is first on major monuments in the city and strategies of memory-making in different media, and then on water engineering projects, with an emphasis on the moral aspects of human interventions in nature. The second part of the dissertation deals with the meta-literary function of representations of construction. It covers the relation between city building and text-construction in different poetic genres, the specific aesthetic of construction conceived in Statius’ Silvae, and uses of the myth of Amphion. The dissertation concludes with a look at deconstruction, both physical and literary. An epilogue deals with the reception and appropriation of Roman spectacles of engineering in Mussolini’s Rome.' (University of Leiden) From the library of Prof. Dr. H.F.J. Horstmanshoff. € 65.00 (Antiquarian)