Scrinium Classical Antiquity

BARKER, E., Greek Political Theory. Plato and his Predecessors. Methuen, London, 1960. XII,468p. Paperback. Right lower edge bit bumped. € 18.50 (Antiquarian)

NORTH, M.A., and A.E. HILLARD, Greek Prose Composition for Schools. Duckworth, London, 1985. Reprint. VIII,272p. Paperback. Spine with reading traces. A few pen annotations from WGA.From the library of the late Prof. W. Geoffrey Arnott. € 9.00 (Antiquarian)

NORTH, M.A., and A.E. HILLARD, Greek Prose Composition for Schools. Duckworth, London, 2000. Reprint. VIII,272p. Paperback. Lower corner back cover slightly dog's eared. € 10.00 (Antiquarian)

ANDREW, S.O., Greek Prose Composition. MacMillan, London, 1959. X,279p. Cloth. Head and tail spine a bit bumped and a bit scratched. Hinges a bit scratched. € 26.50 (Antiquarian)

DENNISTON, J.D., Greek Prose Style. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1965. X,139p. Original red cloth. Spine gilt titled. Small library mark to tail spine. Library labels glued to paste-down endpapers. Decent stamp on title page. 'The publication of a book on this subject by such an eminent authority as the late Dr. Denniston is an event of more than ordinary interest to specialists and non-specialists alike. He died before the work he had planned had been fully completed, and the material which he left has been unobtrusively edited and prepared for the press by Mr. Hugh Lloyd-Jones. The book consists of a chapter on 'The Development of Greek Prose' and six chapters dealing with different features of prose-writing: abstract expression, word-order, sentence-structure, repetition, asyndeton, and assonance. The period covered is limited to the fifith and fourth centuries.' (H.LL. HUDSON-WILLIAMS in the Classical Review (New Series), 1954, p.110). € 18.00 (Antiquarian)

DENNISTON, J.D., Greek Prose Style. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1965. X,139p. Original red cloth. Spine gilt titled. Signature and date on free endpaper. One small pen annotation on p.127. 'The publication of a book on this subject by such an eminent authority as the late Dr. Denniston is an event of more than ordinary interest to specialists and non-specialists alike. He died before the work he had planned had been fully completed, and the material which he left has been unobtrusively edited and prepared for the press by Mr. Hugh Lloyd-Jones. The book consists of a chapter on 'The Development of Greek Prose' and six chapters dealing with different features of prose-writing: abstract expression, word-order, sentence-structure, repetition, asyndeton, and assonance. The period covered is limited to the fifith and fourth centuries.' (H.LL. HUDSON-WILLIAMS in the Classical Review (New Series), 1954, p.110). € 25.00 (Antiquarian)

HOOPER, F., Greek Realities. Life and Thought in Ancient Greece. Charles Scribner's Sons, NewYork, 1967. 464p. ills. Cloth wrps. Some pencil underlinings. € 18.50 (Antiquarian)

HAMLIN, T., Greek Revival Architecture in America: Being an Account of Important Trends in American Architecture and American Life prior to the War between the States. Together with a list of articles on architecture in some American periodicals prior to 1850 by S.H.J.S. Hamlin and an introduction by D.L. Arnaud. Dover Publications, NewYork, 1964. reprint 1st.ed.1944. XL,439p. 322 ills. Paperback. Plastic of cover bit loosening. € 31.50 (Antiquarian)

KENNEDY, G.A., Greek Rhetoric under Christian Emperors. Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1983. XVII,333p. Original green cloth bound. Spine silver titled. Free endpaper torn out. Library withdrawn, stamp on half title. Small library stamp on p.325. ‘The third volume in Professor Kennedy’s continuing opus, ‘A History of Rhetoric’, embraces a greater time span than either of its predecessors. On closer inspection however, it will be sent that of the book’s three hundred and twenty three pages two hundred and sixty-three are concerned with Late Antiquity, while t the Early, Middle and Late Byzantine Periods share between themselves the remaining sixty pages. Such a distribution of interest is entirely explicable in terms of the author’s own contention (p.50) that ‘the subject matter of the rhetoric of later antiquity is the public exposition of the three greatest causes of the age: the preservation, transmission and survival of Hellenism; the reinforcement of the unity of the state around the person of the emperor and his loyal subordinated; the cause of Christianity, both against pagans and within Christian sects in their strife to establish orthodoxy. (…) K. Is always helpful in the way in which he chooses to place his ample store of knowledge at the reader’s disposal, one especially helpful feature of this practice being the full and frequent references in the footnotes to critical editions of texts and to translations into modern languages, the details of which are often hard to come by. (…) K.’s exposition is lucid and elegant, his enthusiasm for his subject infectious. Accordingly, the reader approaching that subject for the first time will be frequently enlightened, but never bored: indeed he will probably be stimulated to turn to the author’s earlier work for further enlightenment.’ (J.D. FRENDO in The Classical Review (New Series), 1984, pp.204-205). € 27.50 (Antiquarian)

GROARKE, L., Greek Scepticism. Anti-Realist Trends in Ancient Thought. McGill-Queen's University Press, Montreal (...), 1990. XV,175p. Cloth wrps. Nice copy. ‘This book sets out to do several things. It offers a general historical survey of Greek scepticism; it discusses those trends in earlier Greek philosophy that contributed to the rise of scepticism; and it draws parallels between ancient and modern treatments of scepticism.’ (RICHARD BETT in Ancient Philosophy, 1993, p.243). € 45.00 (Antiquarian)