Scrinium Classical Antiquity

OVID, (OVIDIUS), Heroides XVI-XXI. Edited by E.J. Kenney. Cambridge University Press, n.d. (reprint 1st ed.1996). XIII,269p. Paperback. Series: Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics. This is Ovid's wittily imagined version of the letters exchanged by three famous pairs of lovers. Heroides XVI-XXI constitute an artfully constructed triptych: Hero and Leander's tragedy of high romance and fleeting happiness framed by two ironic comedies, that of Paris and Helen distinctly black, that of Acontius and Cydippe ending the book on a note of tantalising ambiguity. This is the first edition of these poems with commentary in any language since 1898. It provides a substantially improved text, together with all the guidance needed by students for the understanding of Ovid's Latin and the appreciation of his poetic art. The Introduction offers the first adequate discussion ever published of the poet's treatment of his literary sources and models, and deals succinctly but decisively with the question of authorship. (Publisher's information). € 31.50 (New)

OVID, (OVIDIUS), Heroides. Amores. With an English translation by G. Showerman. Edition revised by G.P. Goold. Harvard University Press, Cambridge (Mass.) / Heinemann, London, 2002. VIII,528p. Original red gilt stamped cloth. Blind tooling ex libris stamps as well as date on free endpaper. Series: Loeb Classical Library, Ovid in six volumes, I, LCL 41. € 15.00 (Antiquarian)

LEFKOWITZ, M.R., Heroines and Hysterics. Duckworth, London, 1981. IX,96p. Paperback. Small personal library mark and name on free endpaper. Although women’s studies have flourished, it is only recently that serious scholarly attention has been paid to the study of women in antiquity. This is due partly to the scattered nature of the evidence, parly to the loss of so much essential information about both private and social life, partly to the almost total lack of female biography. In this book Lefkowitz addresses herself to a number of interesting questions about Greek and Roman women, ranging from the patterns of women’s lives in myth and drama to the curious medical theories of hysteria and the ‘wandering womb’, from the poetry of Sappho and Semonides to the motivations of St Perpetua’s martyrdom. Lefkowitz shows how modern experience affects our understanding of the past, and controversely how ancient views of women’s life and mind continue to affect our thinking today. From the library of the late Sir Kenneth James Dover. € 25.00 (Antiquarian)

WILL, Fr., Herondas. Twayne, New York, 1973. 148p. Bound wrps. Series: TWAS 227. € 19.50 (Antiquarian)

GOREK, W., Herr und Sklave bei Euripides. Dissertationsdruck Schön, München, 1975. 141p. Sewn. Offset print. Diss. Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität zu München. (Rare). From the library of the late Prof. W. Geoffrey Arnott. € 39.50 (Antiquarian)

NEUMANN, E., Herrschafts- und Sexualsymbolik. Grundlagen einer alternativen Symbolforschung. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart, 1980. 273p. ills. Cloth wrps. € 31.50 (Antiquarian)

SODEN, W. v., Herrscher im alten Orient. Springer Verlag, Berlin (...), n.d.(>1954). 152p. ills.(nice B&W photographs). Soft cover. € 14.50 (Antiquarian)

HERRSCHER, KRIEGER UND GELIEBTE. Antike Götter und ihr Himmel. Katalog zu einer Ausstellung von L. Zemmer-Plank. Sonderausstellung Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck, 30. Mai bis 27. August 1989. Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck, 1989. 95p. ills.(B&w and full colour photographs). Paperback. € 12.50 (Antiquarian)

BENGTSON, H., Herrschergestalten des Hellenismus. Beck, München, 1975. 343p. ills. Cloth wrps. € 15.50 (Antiquarian)

APULEIUS, Herscheppinge of De Gouden Ezel. Uit het Latijn vertaald door H.J. Boeken. Van Looy, Amsterdam. n.d. 386p. Cloth. € 12.50 (Antiquarian)