Scrinium Classical Antiquity

DAL COVOLO, E., and I. GIANNETTO, (eds.), Cultura e promozione umana. La cura del corpo e dello spirito dai prima secoli cristiani al Medioevo: contributi e attualizzazioni ulteriori. Oasi Editrice, Troina, 2000. 543,(5)p. Paperback. Front cover partly discoloured. (Rare). A.o.: A. GARZYA: Il contegno del medico fra tardo antico e alto Medioevo (pp.13-21); A.V. NAZZARO: La febbre della suocera di Pietro nell' esegesi pratristica (pp.21-49); R. SORACI: Istituzioni assistenziali nell'Impero romano (pp.59-77); G. SFAMENI GASPARRO: Tra religione e magia: il confronto tra pagani e cristiani sul tema delle guarigioni miraculose nella testimonianza di Giustino (II sec. d.C.) (pp.119-155); M. MONACA: Aspetti medicali nella letteratura oracolare di età ellenistico-romana (pp.177-199); E. SANZI: 'Corpo' e 'Sprito' nell'esperienza religiosa dei culti misterici del secondo Ellenismo (pp.227-271); R. BRACCHI: Pharmacum immortalitatis (pp.271-299); G. MATINO: Botanica e fitoterapia nella medicina tardoantica: gli 'Iatriká' di Aezio Amideno (pp.419-427); I. RONCA: Risoncnze classiche nella medicina esoterica di Masrsilio Ficino (pp.463-479). From the library of Prof. Dr. H.F.J. Horstmanshoff. € 75.00 (Antiquarian)

LAURENCE, R., and J. BERRY, (eds.), Cultural Identity in the Roman Empire. Routledge, London / New York, 2001. XI,205p. ills.(B&W line drawings and photographs). Paperback. A.o.: D. BRAUND: Cohors: the governor and his entourage in the self-image of the Roman Republic (pp.10-25); E. MARSHALL: Constructing the self and the other in Cyrenaica (pp.49-64); K. LOMAS: Roman imperialism and the city in Italy (pp.64-79); R.M. ISSERLIN: A spirit of improvement? Marble and the culture of Roman Britain (pp.125-156); V.M. HOPE: Negotiating identity and status: the gladiators of Roman Nîmes (pp.179-196). From the library of Prof. Carl Deroux. € 45.00 (Antiquarian)

HUGHES, D., Culture and Sacrifice. Ritual Death in Literature and Opera. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (...), 2007. XI,313p. ills. (B&W photographs). Cloth wrps. 'Culture and Sacrifice is a marvellous work of scholarship: ambitious, disquieting and profound in its historical and philosophical ramifications. Like a sort of postmodern Sir James Frazer, Hughes explores ritualized human sacrifice across an astonishingly diverse array of literary, artistic and musical works, taking in everyone from the Greeks and Goethe to Wagner and Thomas Mann. The story he tells is a disturbing, even appalling one - a veritable feast at the House of Atreus. But you cannot finish the book without a new and vastly deepened understanding of sacrifice's primal, ferocious, strangely productive role in human art and culture.' (TERRY CASTLE). € 75.00 (Antiquarian)

JONES, C.P., Culture and Society in Lucian. Harvard University Press, Cambrdige (Mass.) / London, 1986. XIV,195p. Original blue cloth with dust wrappers. Spine gilt titled. Dust wrappers to spine a bit yellowed and to upper edge slightly edge worn. ‘The strength of this study is less in new findings or original interpretations than in the judicious application of a wealth of detail. The emphasis throughout is on the evidence for contemporary culture and society in Lucian rather than on his works as rhetorical performances or his aims or techniques as a writer. Jones’ method is to examine a text, or group of texts, seeking parallels between Lucian’s ‘observations’ and those made by his contemporaries or supported by epigraphical or papyrological documents. The thrust of the argument is often to show that Lucian was not operating at one remove from his material but actually knew what he was talking about and that, far from being confined by the parameters of a known tradition, he drew his material from multifarious sources, contemporary and traditional, written and oral. (…) As a complement to this guiding theme of contemporaneity, Jones seeks to make sense of Lucian’s ‘views’ ons such difficult topics as philosophy and religion (chaps. 3-4). His superb knowledge of the literary and epigraphical evidence makes the intricate task of pursuing such themes through Lucian’s large and varied corpus seem easy. The picture of Lucian that emerges, an innovative traditionalist acutely aware of and capable of rendering the varied cultural texture peculiar to his time, is thoroughly persuasive. (…) The riddles involved in assessing the relationship between social life and the products of art are not of course peculiar to any single approach but must be faced in any attempt to understand the literature of the past on its own terms. Within the framework he has chosen, Jones sifts the evidence with meticulous care and succeeds in dispelling many misperceptions. His inquiry provides a solid foundation for further studies, whether literary of historical in focus. As a careful examination of Lucian in an historical context Jones’ study will remain a standard for many years, and I recommend it highly.’ (R. BRACHT BRANHAM in The Classical World, 1988, pp.316-317). € 75.00 (Antiquarian)

PEURSEN, C.A. van, Cultuur in stroomversnelling. Strategie van de cultuur. Elsevier, Amsterdam / Brussel, 1978. 3rd ed. 231p. ills.(B&W photographs). Paperback. € 9.00 (Antiquarian)

PINXTEN, R., Th. VENCKELEER and W. VERBEKE, (eds.), Cultuur in vergelijkend perspectief. Vlaamse Vereniging voor Cultuurwetenschappen, Leuven / Antwerpen, 1997. 127p. Sewn. (Rare).A.o. R. PINXTEN and L. OREYE: Weten door vergelijken: over cultuur en cultuurwetenschap (pp.1-49); H. VAN DEN BOUWHIUJSEN: Naar een antropologie van de wetenschap (pp.49-75); W. ZUIDEMA: De acutaliteit van het Jodendom in Europa (pp.75-87). € 14.50 (Antiquarian)

EPPINK, A,(ed.) Cultuurcontact en cultuurconflict. Acculturatie in het Romeinse Rijk tot en met de komst van de Islam. Coutinho, Muiderberg, 1988. 135p. Sewn.Dit boek bestudeert de wisselwerking die er tussen verschillende culturen in het Romeinse rijk heeft plaatsgevonden, waarbij drie gorte thema's zichtbaar worden. Allereerst de verhouding tussen burgers en barbaren. Vanuit verschillende uitgangspunten wordt de vraag onderzocht hoe mensen uit andere culturen politiek en sociaal binnen het Romeinse rijk een plaats kregen. De mentaliteistverandering is het tweede grote thema. Grote geestelijke stromingen als het christendom, jodendom en de gnosis, aan de grenzen van het Imperium ontstaan, dringen tot in het hart van de Romeinse beschaving door. Daarbij komt ook de verhouding tussen christendom en staat en de wisselwerkingtussen kerk en samenleving aan de orde. De opzet is echter niet puur historisch. De acculturatie in het Romeinse rijk wordt voortdurend bekeken vanuit de vraag wat acculturatie in het algemeen betekenen kan en welke consequenties er ook in het heden uit dit historische model te trekken zijn. € 7.00 (Antiquarian)

WALKER, C.B.F., Cuneiform. British Museum, London, n.d.(>1987) 64p. ills. Sewn. Few pencil markings. Series: British Museum Publications, Reading the Past. € 12.50 (Antiquarian)

APULEIUS, Cupid and Psyche. Edited by E.J. Kenney. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (...), 1990. Digital reprint (>2003). X,242p. Paperback. Nice copy. ‘L’intérêt et la qualité de cette édition du ‘Conte d’Amour et Psyché’ sont manifestés dès les pages d’introduction, où E.-J. Kenney pose et analyse les données essentielles de la problématique du texte: questions intéressant l’auteur, son projet, l’économie générale des ‘Metamorphoses’, la signification du ‘conte’, ses sources et modèles, les perspectives narratives, le style et le language. Cette introduction ne propose pas seulement en effet un état parfaitement actualisé des recherches, mais constitue surtout une présentation sérieusement documentée, compétente, mesurée et judicieuse. (…) Une même érudition maîtrisée et une même intelligence critique marquent l’établissement du texte de cette édition. (…) À la fois riche et sobre, largement documenté et personnel, solidement étayé dans son argumentation, le commentaire proposé se révèle particulièrement éclairant pour le lecteur, que celui-ci soit, ou non, déjà familier avec l’oeuvre d’Apulée. (…) Complétée par une bibliographie, par un index des mots latins et par un index général, cette excellente édition du ‘Conte d’Amour et Psyché’, instrument précieux de travail, favorisera une lecture incontestablement plus précise et profonde, non seulement du ‘Conte d’Amour et Psyché, mais de l’ensemble aussi des ‘Métamorphoses’.’ (LOUIS CALLEBAT in Latomus, 1992, pp.893-95). € 37.00 (Antiquarian)

POLYTHECON, Cura et studeo A.P. Orbán. Brepols, Turnhout, 1990. XXXIV,286p. Original gilt titled terra cotta cloth. Upper edge publisher's stained. Series: Corpus Christianorum Continuatio Mediaevalis, XCIII. Small sticker glued to paste-down endpaper. Nice copy. € 85.00 (Antiquarian)