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LAFONTAINE-DOSOGNE, J., (ed.), Exhibitioncatalogue: Luisterr van Byzantium. (exhibition 2 oktober-2 december 1982). Koninklijk Museum voor Kunst en Geschiedenis, 1982. 283p. ills. Wireless. € 19.50 (Antiquarian)

Exhibitioncatalogue: THE GODS DELIGHT. THE HUMAN FIGURE IN CLASSICAL BRONZE. Organized by A.P. Kozloff and D.G. Mitten. Sections by S. Fabing, J.J. Herrmann jr. and M. True. Cleveland Museum of Art/Indiana University Press, n.p., 1989. XIII,373p. ills. Wireless. € 29.00 (Antiquarian)

COLLINS, J. H., Exhortations to Philosophy. The Protreptics of Plato, Isocrates, and Aristotle. Oxford University Press, 2015. 320p. Hardback. This book is a study of the literary strategies which the first professional philosophers used to market their respective disciplines. Philosophers of fourth-century BCE Athens developed the emerging genre of the 'protreptic' (literally, 'turning' or 'converting'). Simply put, protreptic discourse uses a rhetoric of conversion that urges a young person to adopt a specific philosophy in order to live a good life. The author argues that the fourth-century philosophers used protreptic discourses to market philosophical practices and to define and legitimize a new cultural institution: the school of higher learning (the first in Western history). Specifically, the book investigates how competing educators in the fourth century produced protreptic discourses by borrowing and transforming traditional and contemporary 'voices' in the cultural marketplace. They aimed to introduce and promote their new schools and define the new professionalized discipline of 'philosophy'. While scholars have typically examined the discourses and practices of Plato, Isocrates, and Aristotle in isolation from one another, this study rather combines philosophy, narratology, genre theory, and new historicism to focus on the discursive interaction between the three philosophers: each incorporates the discourse of his competitors into his protreptics. Appropriating and transforming the discourses of their competition, these intellectuals created literary texts that introduced their respective disciplines to potential students. (Publisher's information). € 63.50 (New)

KIEFFER, R., and L. RYDBECK, Existence païenne au début du christianisme. Présentation de textes grecs et romains. Éditions du Cerf, Paris, 1983. 170p. Paperback. First free endpaper a bit rust stained. Pages a little bit yellowed due to paper quality. Les textes grecs et latins réunis ici, datant du tournant de l'ère, reflètent les préoccupations quotidiennes des hommes et des femmes de cette époque, leur vie familiale, leurs soucis de travail, de santé, de coeur. Ils révèlent leurs inquiétudes, leurs croyances, leurs superstitions; en un mot, ils nous apportent la dimension humaine, concrète, et nous aident à mieux comprendre à quoi ressemblait ce monde qui a vu naître le christianisme. (Publishers' information). € 15.00 (Antiquarian)

SALE, W., Existentialism and Euripides. Sickness, Tragedy and Divinity in the Medea, the Hippolytus and the Bacchae. Aureal Publications, Berwick, 1977. III,142p. Paperback. Upper corner slightly bumped through and through. signature on free endpaper. Very few pen annotations. Else fine. ‘This study, an effort to look at three plays of Euripides in terms of six fundamental concepts of existential psychoanalysis, is presented as a work of ‘literary criticism and classical scholarship.’ After a brief exposition in the first chapter of the basic ideas of existential analysis to be used in the study, the succeeding chapters are devoted to some of the characters in the three plays with the understanding that since the tenets of psychoanalytic theory ‘have proved useful in understanding real people; should we not at least look at what it can tell us about the not-quitte real?’(…) Sale argues his position clearly and with attention to the passages he selects. Such passages are cited in translation, which itself is, of necessity, an initial interpretation. When Greek is cited, it is unhappily (…) in a transliterated form; more disconcerting are the inaccuracies in references (…). If one has reservations about the psychoanalytic interpretation of literature it would be because, like the allegorical interpretation of Scripture, it seems to serve the exegete more than it serves the written work. In the present instance such reservations are strengthened when what was Sale’s original intention (…) still looms large in the work, e.g. an analysis of the neurotic characters in the three plays. (…) Sale presents his arguments in detail, with care, and with commendable objectivity and impartiality. It is in the argument which must proceed by exegesis that the queries arise (…) Throughout this study there are a number of helpful and interesting insights of individual characters, but for me the larger and legitimate problem is always on the horizon: what is the play about? If the answer is that the play is about the psychologically sick, then apart from other questions which can be asked, where is the tragedy? Without question Sale’s study will be read differently by different people.’ (W.M.A. GRIMALDI in The Classical World, 1978, pp.118-119). € 50.00 (Antiquarian)

FROST, K.B., Exits and Entrances in Menander. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1988. X,125p. Cloth. Small personal library mark and name on free endpaper. 'By examining systematically the exits and entrances in Menander's comedies F. has been able to work out the comic poet's code of practices and conventions, which may then be used to explain individual passages and at times to resolve difficult problems of interpretation. (...). F. opens with a chapter which discusses some general conventions (the three-actor rule, use of mutes) and categorises types of entry and exit in ten plays (...). Intelligent, sensitive and well-argued discussions abound (...) and there are some attractive insights.' (W. GEOFFREY ARNOTT in The Classical Review (New Series), 1989, p.385-86). From the library of the late Sir Kenneth James Dover. € 32.50 (Antiquarian)

FROST, K.B., Exits and Entrances in Menander. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1988. X,125p. Cloth with dust wrps. Review from Niall W. Slater loosely inserted. Nice copy. 'By examining systematically the exits and entrances in Menander's comedies F. has been able to work out the comic poet's code of practices and conventions, which may then be used to explain individual passages and at times to resolve difficult problems of interpretation. (...). F. opens with a chapter which discusses some general conventions (the three-actor rule, use of mutes) and categorises types of entry and exit in ten plays (...). Intelligent, sensitive and well-argued discussions abound (...) and there are some attractive insights.' (W. GEOFFREY ARNOTT in The Classical Review (New Series), 1989, p.385-86). From the library of the late Prof. W. Geoffrey Arnott. € 37.50 (Antiquarian)

FROST, K.B., Exits and Entrances in Menander. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1988. X,125p. Cloth. Small name stamp on free endpaper. 'By examining systematically the exits and entrances in Menander's comedies F. has been able to work out the comic poet's code of practices and conventions, which may then be used to explain individual passages and at times to resolve difficult problems of interpretation. (...). F. opens with a chapter which discusses some general conventions (the three-actor rule, use of mutes) and categorises types of entry and exit in ten plays (...). Intelligent, sensitive and well-argued discussions abound (...) and there are some attractive insights.' (W. GEOFFREY ARNOTT in The Classical Review (New Series), 1989, p.385-86). € 25.00 (Antiquarian)

FRISS JOHANSEN, K., Exochi. Ein frührhodisches Gräberfeld. Munksgaard, København, 1958. 195p. Richly ills.(B&w photographs and line drawings). Cloth wrps. Wrps bit worn and bit grimy. ‘Ces quelques pages ne peuvent donner qu’une faible idée de la richesse, de la précision et de la hauteur de vues d’une publication qui tiendra lieu de modèle pour ceux qui travailleront dans le même domaine.’ (HENRI METZGER in Revue des Études Grecques, 1960, pp.230-232). € 34.50 (Antiquarian)

COLES, J., Experimentele Archeologie. Tjeenk Willink, Groningen, 1975. 183p. ills.(B&W photogrpahs and line drawings). Sewn. Name and date on half title. € 8.00 (Antiquarian)