Scrinium Classical Antiquity

HANFORD, J.H., A Milton Handbook. Crofts, NewYork, 1946. 4th ed. XI,465p. Cloth. € 13.50 (Antiquarian)

BLUMENTHAL, L.M., A Modern View of Geometry. Freeman, San Francisco / London, 1961. XII,191p. Paperback. Signature on free endpaper. € 17.50 (Antiquarian)

ACKRILL, J.L., (ed.), A New Aristotle Reader. Texts: Logic. Natural Philosophy. Metaphysics. Practical Philosophy. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1990. Repr.1987. XIV,580p. Paperback. € 19.50 (Antiquarian)

PALMER, L.R., A New Guide to The Palace of Knossos. Faber and Faber, London, 1969. 144p. ills.(B&W photographs and line drawings). Cloth wrps.Wrps a bit grimy. Cover a bit scratched. Head and tail spine as well as corners a bit bumped. Name, date and small stamp on free endpaper. € 14.50 (Antiquarian)

KENNEDY, G.A., A New History of Classical Rhetoric. Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1994. XII,301p. Original black cloth bound. Spine silver titled. (Rare thus). This ‘volume reads easily and engagingly as a history of rhetoric for the students K. intends as its audience (p.xi). But ‘A New History’ is valuable too for the specialist in providing an overview that is generally lacking in a scholarly tradition that tends to draw boundaries between study of matters Greek and Roman, pagan and Christian. The book progresses chronologically with chapters devoted to Athenian theory and practice (ch.3 and 4), Hellenistic rhetoric (ch.5), early Roman rhetoric (ch.6), Cicero (ch.7), Augustan rhetoric (ch.8), the silver Age (ch.9), Greek rhetoric in the roman empire (ch.10), the second sophistic (ch.11), Christianity and classical rhetoric (ch.12), and the survival of classical rhetoric after late antiquity (ch.13). (…) Where the book does its most important service is in reminding the academic community of the importance in the intellectual heritage of the West and in making this available and accessible to a broad reading public.’ (Y.L. TOO in the Classical Review (New Series), 1996, pp.60-61). € 69.50 (Antiquarian)

SONNENSCHEIN, E.A., A New Latin Grammar. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1912. 266p. Cloth. Some pen underlinings. € 29.00 (Antiquarian)

MORFORD, M.P.O., A New Latin Reader. Longmans, London (...), 1962. 224p. Hard bound. Spine a bit discoloured. Vague stain to front cover. € 15.00 (Antiquarian)

MEIJER, P.A., A New Perspective on Antisthenes. Logos, Predicate and Ethics in his Philosophy. Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam, 2017. 221p. Hardbound. Antisthenes (c. 445- c. 365 BC), was a prominent follower of Socrates and bitter rival of Plato. In this revisionary account of his philosophy in all its aspects, P. A. Meijer claims that Plato and Aristotle have corrupted our perspective on this witty and ingenious thinker. The first part of the book reexamines afresh Antisthenes' ideas about definition and predication and concludes from these that Antisthenes never held the (in)famous theory that contradiction is impossible. The second part of the book argues that Antisthenes' logical theories bear directly on his activities as an exegete of Homer and hence as a theological thinker. Part three, finally, offers innovative readings of Antisthenes' ethical fragments. (Publisher's information). € 89.00 (New)

LANGGUTH, A.J., A Noise of War. Caesar, Pompey, Octavian and the Struggle for Rome. Simon & Schuster, New York (...), 1994. 384p. ills.(B&W photographs and line drawings). Half cloth with dust wrps. 'Novelist and biographer Langguth (...) in a narrative that reads as limpidly as fiction, vividly brings alive the death of the Roman Republic and the birth of the Augustan age. Although Julius Caesar (100 B.C.-44 B.C.) stands astride Langguth's narrative like a colossus, the author traces Rome's crisis back to the class tensions between the plebians and patricians who built the Roman empire. (...) A vibrant, readable account of one of Roman history's watershed periods.' (KIRKUS review, 1994). € 19.50 (Antiquarian)

HARRISON, J., A Philosopher's Nightmare. (or the Ghost Not Laid). University of Nottingham, 1985. 77p. Sewn. Small personal library mark and name on free endpaper. With author's dedication.Philosophical stories intended to have been written as the best children’s stories: ‘at two levels, and (I) hope my readers will enjoy them at one level even when they do not have the philosophical knowledge to appreciate them at the other. Which of the two is higher, however, I would not care to say. ’ (Jonathan Harrison in his Introduction). From the library of the late Sir Kenneth James Dover. € 14.50 (Antiquarian)