Scrinium Classical Antiquity

SCHELIHA, R. von, 'Der Philoktet des Sophokles. Ein Beitrag zur Interpretation des Griechischen Ethos.' In: Castrum Peregrini, XCIII-XCIV. Castrum Peregrini Presse, Amsterdam, 1970. Wireless. € 18.50 (Antiquarian)

IERSEL, B.M.F. van, 'Der Sohn' in den synoptischen Jesusworten. Christusbezeichnung der Gemeinde oder Selbstbezeichnung Jesu? Brill, Leiden, 1961. XXIII,194p. Cloth. Gilt stamped. € 17.00 (Antiquarian)

BORG, Barbara, 'Der zierlichste Anblick der Welt...' Ägyptische Porträtmumien. Philipp von Zabern, Mainz am Rhein, 1998. 107p. Richly ills. Hard bound. Nice copy. € 14.50 (Antiquarian)

STENGER, W., 'Gebt dem Kaiser was des Kaisers ist ...!' Eine sozialgeschichtliche Untersuchung zur Besteuerung Palästinas in neutestamentlicher Zeit. Athenäum, Frankfurt am Main, 1988. 281p. ills.(B&W photographs). Hard bound. Series: Athenäum Monografien, Theologie, Bonner Biblische Beiträge, Band 68. € 15.00 (Antiquarian)

BECK, J.-W., 'Lesbia' und 'Juventius': Zwei Libelli im Corpus Catullianum. Untersuchungen zur Publikationsform und Authentizität der überlieferten Gedichtfolge. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen, 1996. 329p. Sewn. Series: Hypomnemata, 111. Nice copy. 'Did Catullus do it or not? (This book is - ND) devoted to the old question about the arrangement of his poems as we know them. A new basis fro answering it has been created in recent years by interpretations of Roman poetry collectionswhich no longer try to reconstruct the chronology of the poems, but simply take them as they come. Analysis in particular of Augustan libi has repeatedly shown that the interaction of poems develops a continuous discourse which successively unfurls central and subsidiary themes. (...) Beck interprets thematic and structural links between the two groups as evidence that they were composed as two complementary units - here he presents many fine observations (pp.154-288) and concludes that Catullus published poems 1-14 as a libellus, and that 14b-26 followed as a second libellus and foil.' (NIKLAS HOLZBERG in the Classical Review (New Series), 2000, p.436). € 19.50 (Antiquarian)

AUTENRIETH, J., 'Litterae Virgilianae'. Vom Fortleben einer römischen Schrift. (i.e. 'capitalis quadrata'). Stiftung Historische Kolleg, München, 1988. 51p. ills. Wireless. Series: Vorträge, 14. € 13.50 (Antiquarian)

EERNSTMAN, J.P.A., 'Oikeios', 'Etairos', 'Epitedeios', 'Filos'. Bijdrage tot de kennis van de terminologie der vriendschap bij de Grieken. Wolters, Groningen, 1932. VIII,135p. Theses. Sewn. Some rust on the edges. Diss. Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht. € 29.00 (Antiquarian)

CICERO, 'On the Commonwealth' and 'On the Laws'. Translated and Edited by J.E.G. Zetzel. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (...), 2017. 2nd ed. LX,212p. Paperback. Series: Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought. Cicero's On the Commonwealth and On the Laws were his first and most substantial attempts to adapt Greek theories of political life to the circumstances of the Roman Republic. They represent Cicero's understanding of government and remain his most important works of political philosophy. On the Commonwealth survives only in part, and On the Laws was never completed. The new edition of this volume has been revised throughout to take account of recent scholarship, and features a new introduction, a new bibliography, a chronological table and a biographical index. James E. G. Zetzel offers a scholarly reconstruction of the fragments of On the Commonwealth and a masterly translation of both dialogues. The texts are further supported by notes and synopsis, designed to assist students in politics, philosophy, ancient history, law and classics. (Publisher's information). € 21.50 (New)

ROMILLY, Jacqueline de, 'Patience mon coeur!' L'essor de la psychologie dans la littérature grecque classique. Les Belles Lettres, Paris, 1991. 243p. Paperback. 'The author (...) sets out to chart the emergence of psychology in Greece, particularly in the fifth century B.C. The term 'psychology' is of course a multivalent one; but De R. specifies two senses of this term which concern her. One is 'la vie intérieure', the underlying current of a person's thought and feelings, and especially the interplay and tension between elements within the self. Hence she focusses on such potentially relevant poetic material as decision-scenes in Homer, Aeschylus and Euripides. (...) In other areas she pays special attention to Thucydides' analysis of the interplay between rational and irrational forces in group-psychology and to Plato's analysis of the relationships between the parts of the tripartite psyche. However, as De R. appreciates, one cannot take as one's subject 'the inner psychology of the self' in Greece without raising the question whether such a notion is conceptually relevant to the Greek material, and, if so, in what periods. So she tries to place her exploration of the Greek view of 'la vie intérieure' in the context of Greek psychology in a second, larger, sense; that is, in the context of a study of the psychological assumptions and styles of characterisation that are typical of the age and author in question. (...) Her study (...) brings out (...) important elements of continuity in Greek psychological thinking. Thus her book helps to show that Plato's account of the relationship between reason and 'spirit' has important antecedents in the Homeric and tragic dialogues between a person and his 'heart' of 'thumos'. (CHRISTOPHER GILL in the Journal of Hellenic Studies, 1987, pp.207-08). € 37.50 (Antiquarian)

VERDENIUS, W.J., 'Platon et la poésie'. In: MNEMOSYNE BIBLIOTHECA CLASSICA BATAVA, tertia series, volumen duodecimum. Also: J.H. JONGKEES, 'Notes on the Coinage of Athens'. Brill, Leiden, 1945. pp.118-150;81-117. Rebound. Yellowed. Library marks. € 14.50 (Antiquarian)