Scrinium Classical Antiquity

HENGST, D. den, W. HOLTLAND, a.o., (eds.), Catullus & Horatius. Een bloemlezing. Universiteit van Amsterdam, n.d. (1991). 151p. Sewn. 'Bij het samenstellen van deze bloemlezing uit Catullus en Horatious voor schoolgebruik hebben wij die gedichten gekozen die in onze ogen het meest representatief zijn, de meeste weerklank hebben gevonden tot in onze tijd toe en hopelijk de leerlingen het meest zullen aanspreken. Een enkele keer hebben wij de plaats van een gedicht in de literaire traditie duidelijke willen maken door een Griekse voorganger of een verre navolger bij het betreffende gedicht op te nemen. Aan de Griekse teksten is steeds een vertaling meegegeven.' (Uit de Verantwoording, p.6). € 14.50 (Antiquarian)

BOOTH, J., Catullus to Ovid: Reading Latin Love Elegy. A Literary Commentary with Latin Text. Translations by G. Lee and J. Booth. Bristol Classical Press, London, 1999. Revised ed.(with Latin text). XLV,164p. Paperback. Scholarly markings and annotations in pencil. This book contains Latin text, with translations and literary commentary, on seventeen poems by Catullus, Propertius, tibullus and Ovid. The selection has been chosen to represent each author's qualities and to encourage comparison and contrast between them. € 12.00 (Antiquarian)

DAVIES, J., Catullus, Tibullus, and Propertius. Lippincott, Philadelphia, 1876. 180p. Original brown cloth. Spine gilt titled. Series: Ancient Classics for English Readers, supplementary Series. € 25.00 (Antiquarian)

MARTIN, Ch., Catullus. Yale University Press, NewHaven/Londen, 1992. XV,197p. Paperback. € 19.50 (Antiquarian)

GAISSER, J.H., (ed.), Catullus. Oxford University Press, Oxford/NewYork, 2007. IX,606p. Paperback.A collection of articles that represent a sampling of the most interesting and important work on Catullus from around 1950 to 2000, together with three very short pieces from the Renaissance. They demonstrate a number of approaches - stylistic, historical, literary-historical, New Critical, and theoretical (of several flavours). A.o.: M.C.J. PUTNAM: Catullus 11: The Ironies of Integrity; R.O.A.M. LYNE: The Neoteric Poets; J.E.G. ZETZEL: Catullus, Ennius, and the Poetics of Allusion; J.H. GAISSER: Threads in the Labyrinth: Competing Views and Voices in Catullus 64; A. RICHLIN: Catullus and the Art of Crudity; A. FELDHERR: Non inter nota sepulchra: Catullus 101 and Roman Funerary Ritual; M.B. SKINNER: Ego mulier: The Construction of Male Sexuality in Catullus. € 63.00 (New)

ARISTOFANES, Cavalerie. Vrede. Vertaald en toegelicht door H.L. van Dolen. Athenaeum - Polak & Van Gennep, Amsterdam, 1999. 1st ed. 172p. Original black cloth with dust wrps. With belly slip. Dust wrps to spine slightly discoloured. Series: Baskerville. Nice copy. 'Van Dolen doet geen moeite om de tekst literairder te maken dan hij is. Hij kiest, zoals blijkt, zoveel mogelijk voor een versvertaling in het oorspronkelijke metrum ‒ wat geen verplichting is, naar mijn mening, maar wel van een sympathiek respect getuigt en een geslaagde poging is om de verschillen tussen het oude en het nieuwe zo klein mogelijk te laten zijn. Eigenlijk vraag ik me opnieuw af: waarom worden Aristofanes’ stukken tegenwoordig niet meer opgevoerd? Ja, zelfs waag ik te zeggen dat ze het voor de televisie goed zouden doen: in vlot tempo opgevoerd duren ze niet langer dan drie kwartier, het toneelbeeld is wisselend en vrolijk genoeg, en de onderwerpen die ter sprake komen zijn bepaald niet ouderwets. Aristofanes in boekvorm is prachtig (en dat is een compliment aan vertaler én uitgever), maar de tekst en vertaling verdienen eigenlijk ook toeschouwers.' (M. d'HAENE-SCHELTEMA in Filter, 2000, nr.7, pp.4-9). € 35.00 (Antiquarian)

GARLAND, R., Celebrity in Antiquity: From Media Tarts to Tabloid Queens. Duckworth, London, 2006. 177p. Paperback. Serie: Classical Inter / Faces.What sort of people were able to grab the attention of the public in the ancient world? How was celebrity achieved? What methods did people use to achieve it? Robert Garland turns the spotlight on the careers of some of the most successful and colourful self-promoters ever to have lived, including Alcibiades, Socrates, Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Cleopatra, Augustus, Jesus, Nero and Theodosia, and investigates the secrets of their success. He also looks at ways in which other highly talented individuals turned themselves into celebrities, including sports personalities, entertainers, philosophers, founders of new religions, and internationally renowned prostitutes. (Publisher's information). € 21.50 (Antiquarian)

SCHULZE, Chr., Celsus. Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, (Lizensausgebe Olms Verlag), n.p., n.d.(>2001). 158p. Paperback. Nice copy. € 14.50 (Antiquarian)

DUVAL, P.-M., and Chr. HAWKES, (eds.), Celtic Art in Ancient Europe. Five Protohistoric Centuries. Proceedings of the Colloquy held in 1972 at the Oxford Maison Française. L'Art Celtique en Europe Protohistorique. Débuts, développements, styles, techniques. Seminar Press, London (...), 1976. XIII,316p. ills.(B&W photographs and line drawings). ‘The book is not intended to be a succinct introduction to the arts of the La Tène Iron Age for the general reader, but it should be read by all who wish to discover how much has been achieved since the pioneering, but now very dated, studies of Jacobsthal (…) and Fox (…). For it affords an invaluable, indeed fascinating, insight into the state of knowledge of the subject, and into the attitudes and views held by most of its leading students, at the beginning of this decade. Yet the reader should not expect to find here an even coverage of the whole range of problems concerning the arts of the early Celts. Attention is concentrated on three topics - the fifth and fourth centuries, with papers by Frey, Krtua, Sandars, and Schwappach on various aspects of the ‘Early’ and ‘Waldaggesheim’ phases of Celtic art (…) A more widely-ranging paper by Hawkes, though placed at the head of the volume, links this group with the next four papers which are concerned with Britain and Ireland (Jope and Savory on shields, Duignan on the Turoe Stone, and Lowery and Savage on the construction of the pattern on the Holcombe mirror). The third topic is the much neglected one of design on celtic coins, which is tackled in a pair of papers by Allen and Duval. The volume is rounded off with a study of the use of coral by S. Champion (…); a brief examination by Clint-Jensen of the stylistic relationship of certain later La Tène pieces, with specific reference to the influence of Dacian silverware on objects from Scandinavia and elsewhere; and a characteristically thoughtful and eclectic conclusion by Piggott.’ (M.G. SPRATLING in Britannia, 1978, p.488). € 40.00 (Antiquarian)

REES, A., and B. REES, Celtic Heritage. Ancient Tradition in Ireland and Wales. Thames and Hudson, London, 1961. 427p. Cloth. Cover gilt stamped. Gilt titling on spine. Small personal library mark and name on free endpaper. In this widely acclaimed study, Alwyn and Brinley Rees reinterpret Celtic tradition in the light of advances made in the comparative study of religion, mythology and anthropology. Part One considers the distinguishing features of the various Cycle of tales and the personages who figure most prominently in them. Part Two reveals the cosmological framework within which the action of the tales takes place. Part Three consists of a discussion of the themes of certain classes of stories which tell of Conceptions and Births, Supernatural Adventures, Courtships and Marriages, Violent Deaths and Voyages to the Other World, and an attempt is made to understand their religious function and glimpse their transcendent meaning. (Publisher's information). From the library of the late Sir Kenneth James Dover. € 35.00 (Antiquarian)