Scrinium Classical Antiquity

MADDOLI, G., Cronologia e Storia. Studi comparati sull' 'Athenaion Politeia' di Aristotele. Pubblicazioni degli Istituti di Storia della Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia, Perugia, 1975. 122p. Sewn. Unopened. Small personal library mark, name as well as author’s dedication on free endpaper.The distinguishing of two different types of reckoning seems to offer the key for the solution of the problems of chronolgy presented by Aristotle's Athenaion Politeia. The consequences of this discovery appear on various levels - from the order of the list of archons to a fresh outlook on the origins of Atthidography, from the relationship between local history and great history to the passage from the oral to the written stage and the formation of the 'historical cycle'. Numerous individual aspects besides - such as the chronological structure of the Marmor Parium, the series of the first ostracisms, the Themistocles' Decree from Troizen, etc. - lend themselves to new hypotheses for other solutions. (Editor's information). From the library of the late Sir Kenneth James Dover. € 21.50 (Antiquarian)

LORENZI, A. de, Cronologia ed Evoluzione Plautina. Istituto della Stampa, Napoli, 1952. 223p. Sewn. Pages a bit yellowed. (Rare).'There is much (...) that is questionable (...). Some sections are in themselves not devoid of usefulness.' (J.G. GRIFFITH in The Classical Review (New Series), 1957, p.164). From the library of the late Prof. W. Geoffrey Arnott. € 45.00 (Antiquarian)

BAYET, J., Croyances et rites dans la Rome Antique. Payot, Parijs, 1971. 1st ed. 384p. Paperback. Nice copy. 'Our task is to understand as well as to analyse.' This volume consists of fifteen papers by the late Jean Bayet on ancient religious topics, mainly, but not exclusively, Roman, published between 1935 and 1961. As many of them appeared in less familiar or accessible journals everyone interested in the history of Roman religion or indeed in Roman history itself will welcome the appearance of this important collection here assembled by four of Bayet's former pupils. B., author of 'L'Histoire politique et psychologique de la religion romaine', as well as diverse papers on Latin literature, was a disciple of Franz Cumont, a friend of Georges Dumézil and a neo-anthropologist of the Lévy-Bruhl school. Consequently he is less concerned with the externals of religion than with its more intimate and personal aspects. In particular he is constantly at pains to emphasize the continuing vitality of primitive beliefs connected with determinism and causality which survived among the Romans and proved stubbornly resistant to influences from Greece.' (JOHN POLLARD in The Journal of Roman Studies, 1973, pp.271-72). From the library of Professor Carl Deroux. € 32.50 (Antiquarian)

DEONNA, W., and M. RENARD, Croyances et superstitions de table dans la Rome antique. Latomus, Bruxelles, 1961. 154,XXVIp. ills.(B&W photographs). Sewn. Unopened. Series: Collection Latomus, Vol. XLVI. (Rare). 'Il est évident que les auteurs ont travaillé bien au fond la littérature. On y signale (...) quelques lacunes. Les auteurs auraient bien pu prendre note, et cela non sans résultat, de l'ouvrage vraiment systématique de F. Bammel, 'Das Heilige Mahl im Glauben der Völker'. (...) Un défaut plus grave, c'est que le livre nous présente si peu de perspectives historiques ou religieuses. Ce n'est qu'un amas compact de données purement folkloriques. Le livre manque surtout d'une vision qui procurerait encore une autre unité et donnerait au matériel collectionné une autre signification que le simple hasard d'appartenir à la table et au repas. Même l'usage continuel du mot 'superstition' n'est justifié nulle part. (...) Mais le matériel collectionné, le dossier sans plus, a sans aucun doute une certaine sagesse en lui-même.' (C.M.W. VERHOEVEN in Mnemosyne, 1963, pp.211-212). From the library of Prof. Carl Deroux. € 55.00 (Antiquarian)

AUGUET, R., Cruelty and Civilization. The Roman Games. Allen and Unwin, London, n.d.(>1972). 222p. ills.(B&W photographs). Bound. Edges little bit yellowed.Translated from the French 'Cruaté et Civilization: Les Jeux Romains'. 'Mr. Auguet has written a clear and thorough account which explains the varieties of entertainment - the 'venatio', thegladiatorial combat, the chariot race, the butchery of convicts by beasts or executtiones, and so on -and describes the construction and machinery of the buildings devised for these various subtleties. It is very well illustrated with scenes, chiefly from mosaics and vases.' (R.M. OGILVIE in The Classical Review (New Series), 1975, pp.156-57). € 22.50 (Antiquarian)

AUGUET, R., Cruelty and Civilization. The Roman Games. Allen and Unwin, London, 1972. 1st ed. 222p. ills.(B&W photographs). Cloth wrps. Translated from the French 'Cruaté et Civilization: Les Jeux Romains'. 'Mr. Auguet has written a clear and thorough account which explains the varieties of entertainment - the 'venatio', thegladiatorial combat, the chariot race, the butchery of convicts by beasts or executtiones, and so on -and describes the construction and machinery of the buildings devised for these various subtleties. It is very well illustrated with scenes, chiefly from mosaics and vases.' (R.M. OGILVIE in The Classical Review (New Series), 1975, pp.156-57). € 23.50 (Antiquarian)

BOSSUYT, I., N. GABRIËLS, a.o., (ed.), Cui dono lepidum novum libellum. Dedicating Latin works and motets in the sixteenth century. Leuven University Press, Leuven, 2008. VIII,326p. Paperback. Nice copy. Like new. € 45.00 (Antiquarian)

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)