Scrinium Classical Antiquity

LELOIR, L., (ed.), Écrits Apocryphes sur les Apôtres. Traduction de l'édition Arménienne de Venise. I. Pierre, Paul, André, Jacques, Jean. Brepols, Turnhout, 1986. XXX,418p. Original brown gilt stamped cloth. Series: Corpus Christianorum, Series Apocryphorum, 3. Nice copy. ‘Il est impossible de rendre justice au contenu de cet ouvrage magistral dans un compte-rendu de quelques pages. Ce volume est le premier de la Series Apocryphorum et, si on peut le considérer représentatif des éditions à suivre, on peut compter sur une contribution exceptionnelle à l’étude des écritures apocryphes néo testamentaires.’ (A.F.J. KLIJN in Vigiliae Christianae, 1985, p.92). € 115.00 (Antiquarian)

HARL, Marguerite, (ed.), Écriture et culture philosophique dans la pensée de Grégoire de Nysse. Actes du Colloque de Chevetogne (22-26 Septembre 1969). Organisé par le Centre de Recherche sur l'Hellénisme tardif de la Sorbonne. Brill, Leiden, 1971. XVIII,267p. Original blue gilt titled cloth. Edges a bit yellowed. Remains of acid adhesive tape to endpages. A.o.: J. DANIÉLOU: Orientations actuelles de la recherche sur Grégoire de Nysse (pp.3-18); M. ALEXANDRE: La théorie de l'exégèse dans le 'De hominis opificio' et l''In Hexameron' (pp.87-111); R.L. WILKEN: Liturgy, Bible and Theology in the Easter Homilies of Gergory of Nyssa (pp.127-144); R. HÜBNER: Gregor von Nyssa und Markell von Ankyra (pp.199-230); E. MÜHLENBERG: Die philosophische Bildung Gregors von Nyssa in den Büchern 'Contra Eunomium' (pp.230-253). € 20.00 (Antiquarian)

CATULLUS, Edidit M. Schuster. Teubner, Leipzig, 1949. XIV,154p. Half cloth. Paper yellowed. Little corner torn from title page. € 11.50 (Antiquarian)

CATULLUS, Edidit M. Schuster. Teubner, Leipzig, 1949. XIV,154p. Half cloth. Paper yellowed. Small personal library mark and name on free endpaper. From the library of the late Sir Kenneth James Dover. € 14.50 (Antiquarian)

CALLIMACHUS, Edidit R. Pfeiffer. Volumen I: Fragmenta. Volumen II: Hymni et Epigrammata. Clarendon, Oxford,1987. Reprint reissue 1965. 2 vols. XIV,520;CVI,208p. Original blue cloth. Spine gilt titled. Signature C.D.N. Costa and date on paste-down endpaper. 'It is no disparagement of Pfeiffer's achievement to point out that many old problems remain unsolved, while the newest texts contribute more than their fair share of difficulties. Indeed, his edition should be regarded as a challenge to scholars (...) to exert their wits now that all the material is al last set out so fully and clearly in one volume instead of being scattered over numerous publications often hard to obtain. (...) (E.A. BARBER on volume I, in The Classical Review (New Series), 1951, p.79). 'Pfeiffer completes in the second volume his edition of the works of Callimachus, The two volumes together (...) are without question the most important publication in the field of Hellenistic literature since Schneider's edition of the same poet in 1870-1873. The second volume now published includes the text of the hymns and epigrams; the diegeseis and scholia to the hymns; prolegomena to the fragments, hymns and epigrams (pp.ix-xciv); the testimonia to the life and works of the poet; addenda et corrigenda to Vols. I-II (pp.100-126) and indices rerum notabilium and vocabulorum. (…) The examination of the papyri and manuscripts on which the text is based is detailed, and the stemma codicum of the hymns (...) admirably established. (…) The text of the hymns and epigrams is carefully established and must be considered a definite improvement on the fourth edition of Wilamowitz. And this is not only due to the new papyrus readings at Pfeiffer's disposal, but also to his fine feeling of the Callimachean style (...). Lastly I should like to commend the Index Verborum, a formidable task in a text where so many fragments (...) are involved. Among other things, it will also help scholars in identifying more fragments of this remarkable poet.' (C.A. TRYPANIS in The Journal of Hellenic Studies, 1954, p.203). € 275,00 € 275.00 (Antiquarian)

EDISTON LOGODIEPNON. Logopédies. Mélanges de Philologie et de Linguistique grecques offerts à Jean Taillardat. Peeters / Selaf, Paris, 1988. XIV,261p. Paperback. 'This is a wide-ranging collection of articles written by twenty-two scholars who are all working in French universities and institutions, and offered as a tribute to Prof. Taillardat (...). It is an excellent indication of the strength and schope of French scholarship in the fields of Greek philology and linguistics, and justifies the claim (...) that its aim is to instruct and even to divert the reader and to show that philology, while being a 'science rigoureuse', is far from being a 'discipline triste'. (A.C. MOORHOUSE in The Classical Review (New Series), 1990, p.86). From the library of Professor Carl Deroux. € 37.50 (Antiquarian)

BABRIUS and PHAEDRUS, Edited and translated into English by B.E. Perry. (Together with an historical introduction and a comprehensive survey of Greek and Latin Fables in the Aesopic Tradition). Heinemann, London, n.d. Reprint 1st ed.1965. CII,634p. Cloth with dust wrps. Series: Loeb Classical Library, LCL 436. € 22.50 (Antiquarian)

THEOCRITUS, Edited with a Translation and Commentary by A.S.F. Gow. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1973. Reprint 2nd ed. 2 vols. LXXXIV,257;/635,XVp. Cloth with dust wrps. Spine gilt titled. Dust wrps slightly worn. Upper edge vol.2 slightly stained. Nice copy. Requires extra shipping costs: weight including packing from 2 - 5 Kg. 'Mr. Gow has kept the small world of scholarship waiting a long time for his Theocritus; but now that it has come its amplitude and quality show the unreasonableness of our impatience.' (M. PLATNAUER in The Classical Review (New Series), 1951, p.169. From the library of the late Professor Doktor Nikolaus Himmelmann. € 215.00 (Antiquarian)

MENANDER, Edited with an English Translation by W.G. Arnott in three volumes. Vol.I. Aspis to Epitrepontes. Harvard University Press / Heinemann, Cambridge / London, 1997. Corrected reprint 1st ed.1979. LV,526p. Cloth wrps. Nice copy. Series: Loeb Classical Library, 132. Nice copy. € 16.00 (Antiquarian)

DIGENES AKRITES, Edited with an Introduction, Translation and Commentary by J. Mavrogordato. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1956. LXXXIV,273p. Original red cloth wrps. Head spine a bit bumped. Tear in hinges from about 1 cm. Wrps a little bit worn and a little bit grimy. 'DIGENES AKRITAS, Held des nach ihm benannten National-epos der Byzantiner, als dessen Entstehungszeit wir etwa das 11./12.Jh. ansetzen dürfen, während der historische Hintergrund auf das 10.Jh. weist. Das Epos, in dem man zwei Teile unterscheiden kann: das Lied vom Emir, das eine Reihe echter historischer Elemente ausweist, und die stark romanhafte Züge tragende Schilderung der Abenteuer des Digenes, ist in verschiedenen Versionen überliefert, deren längste 4778 Verse umfaßt. Es spiegelt die Grenzkämpfe (Karitas!) gegen die Araber wider und hat vielleicht Vorbilder in arabischen Quellen. Der Versuch, hinter Eigenes eine historische Persönlichkeit zu finden, ist nicht geglückt; der Name kennzeichnet den Mischling aus zwei Glaubens- und Kultursphären: Islam-Araber auf der einen und Christentum-Byzanz auf der anderen Seite. Ein Verfasser läßt sich nicht ausmachen, eben sowenig ist die Frage nach der ältesten Hs. geklärt. Neben dem Epos haben wir einen ganzen Zyklus von akritäischen Einzelliedern. Sicher ist, daß das Epos, das auch ins slawischen Versionen überliefert ist, nicht aus dem hauptstädtischen Kulturkreis, sondern aus der byzantinischen Provinz stammt. Die wissenschaftliche Diskussion um 'Digenes Akritas' wird seit mehr als drei Jahrzehnten von H. Gregoire und seinen Schülern in Schwung gehalten.' (TUSCULUM-LEXIKON, 1963, pp.123-24). € 39.50 (Antiquarian)