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DOVER, K.J., A Journey on the Mainland of Greece. Private presses, 1938. Typoscript. 68(x2)p. ills. Burgundy cloth bound. Frontispiece: B&W photograph; folding map, 7 hand-drawn maps, 3 pages with drawings (Horses, People (a.o.: drawing of Dörpfeld), and Greeks (vs.) Italians). 'This is a collection of letters written home a six weeks' journey in Greece last spring.' (K.J. DOVER, Foreword, p.1). of K.J. Dover and his school friend Alistair Matthews on their horses accompanied by their Greek guide, near Khasia, Attica, 24.March 1938 on a trip via the so-called Cave of the Nymphs' to Phyle (p.8).12.4.38: 'Well, we have had a day of good surprises; the weather has cleared, and we have had a talk with Dörpfeld. 'We found him old and half blind, but looking extremely well and full of beans. Speaking quite passable English, he showed us round his private museum, and gave us a vigorous exposition of his theory about the Asiatic origin of the ruling dynasty of Mycenae.(..) To the majority of English scholars he is a kind of dragon breathing half-baked heresies; to us, one of the nicest characters one could meet.' (pp.37-38). We (...) 'went by car to the ruins of Nicopolis. It was here that Augustus won the battle of Actium, and to commemorate his victory founded the city, which Justinian afterwards enlarged. (...) Massive ruins stand up along every horizon; instead of stones, the fields are full of bits of Roman brick. (...) We scrambled through masses of brambles and devilish thorns to look of Augustus's temple in order to piece together his inscription, and all but lost our way in pitch-dark passages beneath the Odeon. (...) As Alistair said, if only some rich American would 'donate' a million pounds for its clearing and excavation, it might be a second Pompeii, almost a second Rome.' (pp.38-39). From the library of the late Sir Kenneth James Dover. € 1250.00 (Antiquarian)

BELCHER, H., A Key to short exercises in Latin prose composition. Macmillan, London, 1885.New and rev.ed. 49p. Cloth. € 11.50 (Antiquarian)

BORRÀS, L., and M. DOLORES SERRANO, A Korai Középkor. Corvina, Budapest, 1988. 315p.Richly ills.(Full colour and B&W photographs as well as line drawings). Imitation leather bound with dust wrps. Dust wrps worn. Signature on free endpaper. € 10.00 (Antiquarian)

ALEKNIENÈ, Tatjana, A l'approche du divin. Dialogues de Platon et tradition platonicienne. Academic Press, Fribourg / Cerf, Paris, 2016. XII,375p. Paperback. Series: Vestigia 42. Les études réunies dans ce volume traitent de différentes étapes du chemin menant vers le divin ainsi que des états éprouvés par celui qui l’approche. Elles décrivent comment des penseurs appartenant à la tradition platonicienne, d’abord Platon lui-même, plus tard des auteurs alexandrins comme Philon et Clément, enfin Plotin, ont conçu ces étapes et ces états. On y découvre la notion de justice divinisante des dialogues de Platon ; le caractère pratique ('passionnel') des arguments sur l’immortalité de l’âme dans le Phédon; la question de la nature de la piété, soulevée par Socrate dans l’Euthyphron ou esquissée par Clément d’Alexandrie dans les Stromates; des termes variés qu’utilise Plotin dans ses descriptions de la montée de l’âme vers Dieu; ou encore, la 'ligne de partage' entre le divin et tout le reste, que des auteurs de différentes appartenances religieuses – grecque, juive ou chrétienne – tracent à propos d’un fragment d’Héraclite. Les recherches présentées dans ce volume sont en partie consacrées à la question de savoir si Plotin, éminent platonicien, lui-même un alexandrin par sa formation intellectuelle, a pu connaître l’œuvre de l’exégète juif Philon, qui considérait Platon comme un bon élève de Moïse. L’auteure de ce volume suggère que la réponse doit être positive. (Publisher's information). € 29.00 (Antiquarian)

HÉROUVILLE, P. d', A la campagne avec Virgile. Préface de F. Plessis. Les Belles Lettres, Paris, 1930. 107p. Sewn. spine strengthened with adhesive tape. Unopened. Binding a little bit weak. From the library of Professor Carl Deroux. € 16.00 (Antiquarian)

LEWIS, Ch.T., and Ch. SHORT, A Latin Dictionary. Founded on Andrews' edition of Freund's Latin Dictionary. Revised, enlarged, and in great part rewritten. Clarendon, Oxford, 1951. XIV,2019p. Original blue cloth with dust wrps. Dust wrps a slightly edge-worn. Upper edge a bit foxed. Fore edge a bit rust stained. Lower edge with vague stain. Endpages rust stained. Pages bit yellowed due to paper quality. € 80.00 (Antiquarian)

LEWIS, Ch.T., and Ch. SHORT, A Latin Dictionary. Founded on Andrews' edition of Freund's Latin Dictionary. Revised, enlarged, and in great part rewritten. Clarendon, Oxford, 1969. XIV,2019p. Original blue cloth with dust wrps. Dust wrps grimy, yellowed and plasticized. Edges a bit stained. Free endpaper with stain to fore edge. Requires extra shipping costs: weight including packing from 2 - 5 Kg. € 90.00 (Antiquarian)

FRASER, P.M., and E. MATTHEWS, (eds.), A Lexicon of Greek Personal Names. Vol. I. Vol. II. Vol. IIIA. Vol. IIIB. Clarendon Press, Oxford (...), 1987-2000. 4 vols. XXXV,489;XXI,510;XXXII,519;XXI,478p. Cloth. Vol.1: Head spine bit worn, cover bit scratched. Vol. II: Cover bit stained.Volume I: The Aegean Islands, Cyprus, Cyrenaica. Vol. II. Attica. (ed. by M.J. Osborne and S.G. Byrne). Vol. IIIA: The Peloponnese, Western Greece, Sicily and Magna Graecia. (With the collaboration of many scholars). Vol. IIIB: Central Greece from the Magarid to Thessaly. (With the assistance of R.W.V. Catling and the collaboration of many scholars). From the library of the late Sir Kenneth James Dover. € 675.00 (Antiquarian)

OSBORNE, M.J., and S.G. BYRNE, A Lexicon of Greek Personal Names. Vol. II. Attica. Clarendon Press, Oxford (...), 1994. XXI,510p. Cloth wrps. Page 25 creased and with tear, probably due to misbinding, repaired with adhesive tape. Lower corners a bit bumped. From the library of the late Prof. W. Geoffrey Arnott. € 165.00 (Antiquarian)

STEELE, P. M., A Linguistic History of Ancient Cyprus. Cambridge University Press, 2017. 299p. Paperback. Series: Cambridge Classical Studies. This pioneering volume approaches the languages and scripts of ancient Cyprus from an interdisciplinary point of view, with a primarily linguistic and epigraphic approach supplemented by a consideration of their historical and cultural context. The focus is on furthering our knowledge of the non-Greek languages/scripts, as well as appreciating their place in relation to the much better understood Greek language on the island. Following on from recent advances in Cypro-Minoan studies, these difficult, mostly Late Bronze Age inscriptions are reassessed from first principles. The same approach is taken for non-Greek languages written in the Cypriot Syllabic script during the first millennium BC, chiefly the one usually referred to as Eteocypriot. The final section is then dedicated to the Phoenician language, which was in use on Cyprus for some hundreds of years. The result is a careful reappraisal of these languages/scripts after more than a century of sometimes controversial scholarship. (Publisher's information). € 34.00 (New)