Scrinium Classical Antiquity

PLATO, Keur uit zijn werken. Samengesteld door G.J.D. Aaalders, H.J.M. Broos, C.A. de Leeuw en M.A. Schwartz. Together with 10 vols. Aantekeningen bij Crito, Laches, Phaedrus, Politeia (Res Publica), Phaedo, Euthydemus, Io, Euthyphro, De Apologie van Socrates, Symposium. Door G.J.D. Aalders, C.A. de Leeuw, M.A. Schwartz en H.J.M. Broos. Tjeenk Willink, Haarlem, 1964. 11 parts. Cloth / wire stitched. Vol.: some pages a bit dog's eared or a bit creased. € 42.50 (Antiquarian)

THASCIUS CAEDILIUS CYPRIANUS, (CYPRIANUS), Keuze uit zijn geschriften. Ingeleid en vertaald door W.H. Beekenkamp. Holland, Amsterdam, 1951. 88p. Original terra-cotta gilt stamped cloth. Signature on free endpaper. € 7.00 (Antiquarian)

WOODFORD, S., Kijk op Schilderkunst. Vertaald uit het Engels door Fr. van Gool. Kosmos-Z&K Uitgevers, Utrecht/Antwerpen, 1993. 112p. ills. Wireless. Series: Cambridge Kunstreeks. € 12.00 (Antiquarian)

GALILEO GALILEI, Kijker, Kerk en Kosmos. Galileo Galilei's 'Bericht van de sterren' en 'Brief aan Groothertogin Christina'. Vertaald en ingeleid door M. Agricola, A. Van Helden en St. Van Impe. Athenaeum-Polak & Van Gennep, Amsterdam, 2017. 240p. Paperback. In 1608 toonde de Middelburger Hans Lipperhey zijn eerste, zelfgemaakte telescoop aan Prins Maurits. In Italië hoorde Galilei hiervan. Hij maakte een verbeterde versie van het apparaat en richtte die op de maan en de sterren. Wat hij zag schreef hij op in de Sidereus nuncius (‘Bericht van de sterren’), een boekje vol bewijzen voor de juistheid van Copernicus’ heliocentrische model. De inhoud was explosief, want in tegenspraak met een aantal Bijbelpassages. Om te voorkomen dat de leer van Copernicus verboden zou worden, sprong Galilei in 1616 voor hem op de bres met zijn 'Brief aan groothertogin Christina'. De wereld zag er, acht jaar na Lipperhey’s ontdekking, totaal anders uit. Galilei’s Sidereus nuncius en zijn Brief aan groothertogin Christina waren bestemd voor een algemeen publiek, en zijn dan ook uitstekend leesbaar. Ze zijn nu na vierhonderd jaar voor het eerst in het Nederlands vertaald. (Publisher's information). € 21.99 (New)

RUBENSTEIN, R., Kinderen van Aristoteles. Hoe christenen, moslims en joden verlichting brachten in de donkere Middeleeuwen. Anthos / Manteau, n.p., n.d.(2004). 341p. Paperback. Pencil markings, underlinings and strikes from pp.130. € 8.00 (Antiquarian)

WOERNER, G., (ed.)., Kindlers Literatur Lexikon. Mit einem Vorwort von Helmut Kindler. Wissenschaftliche Vorbereitung: Wolfgang von Einsiedel unter Mitarbeit zahlreicher Fachgelehrter. Mit jedem Band beigelegten gehefteten Registern. Kindler Verlag, Zürich, 1965--1972. 7 vols. Original blue giilt stamped cloth. Spine with gilt titled vignette. Upper edge publisher's stained. Vol.1, 3 and 6: Vague stain to front cover. Nice copy. Requires extra shipping costs: weight including packing from 15 - 20 Kg. € 110.00 (Antiquarian)

ANDERSON, G., King Arthur in Antiquity. Routledge, London / New York, 2004. XI,208p. Cloth wrps. With author's dedication on free endpaper. New Year's wishes from Graham and Margaret Anderson loosely inserted. Nice copy.Although King Arthur's identity is so frequently debated, he is almost always set somewhere in the Celtic Britain of the Early Christian era. This original and wide-raqnging study argues that the roots of the Arthur legend are to be found in classical antiquity and that the traditional British Arthur is a much later imitation. Graham Anderson examines hitherto neglected evidence fro two much older Arthur figures, known to classical writers as early kings of Arcadia and Lydia, who supposedly flourished more than a millennium earlier than traditional accounts suggest. He outlines the correspondence between these acient kings and the traditional Arthurian characters and adventures, exhuming an ancient Gawain-figure, an ancient Lady of Shalott and a predecessor of Excalibur. These earlier Arthurs indicate a wide range of traditional features already in place: hero of 'bear's son' type, rescuer of damsels in distress, transmitter of devine agriculture, 'greates of knights', founder of a 'Table', king and national icon, and survivor after death. We also learn that the wider world of Welsh tales and French romances is already anticipated in our earliest Arthurian materials. This radical reassessment of the Arthurian legends provides a nes perspective on an age-old historical puzzle and will provoke debate amongst Classical and Medieval scholars and Arthurian enthusiasts. (Publisher's information). From the library of the late Prof. W. Geoffrey Arnott. € 85.00 (Antiquarian)

SHAKESPEARE, King Henry V. Edited by A. Gurr. Updated edition. Cambridge University Press, 2017. Reprint 2nd ed. XIII,250p. Paperback. Upper corner back cover slightly creased. Series: The New Cambridge Shakespeare. The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emphasis on performance. The series features line-by-line commentaries and textual notes on the plays and poems. Introductions are regularly refreshed with accounts of new critical, stage and screen interpretations. For this second edition of King Henry V, Shakespeare's most celebrated war play, Andrew Gurr has added a new section to his introduction in which he considers recent criticism and important contemporary productions of the play. Concentrating in particular on 'secret' versus 'official' readings of the work, he analyses Shakespeare's double vision of Henry as both military hero and self-seeking individual, and shows how the patriotic declarations of the Chorus are contradicted by the play's dramatic action. Controversial sequences are placed in the context of Elizabethan thought while the exceptional variety of language and dialect in the text is also studied. An updated reading list completes the edition. (Publisher's information). € 12.00 (Antiquarian)

HOLUM, K.G., R.L. HOHLFELDER, (ed.) King Herod's Dream. Caesarea on the Sea. Norton, London, 1988. 244p. ills. Wireless.Like many ancient cities Caesarea owed its foundations as a great city to the imagination, ambition, and resources of a major benefactor of urbanism: This city was King Herod’s Dream. He and his planners were responsible for its up-to-date urban plan and for the magnificent conception of the city’s man-made harbor, Sebastos. Until the end of antiquity, Caesarea was the headquarters of Roman administration in the region. Its harbor was the major transport center for goods and commodities from all over the Mediterranean world. In the Byzantine era Caesarea became Christian in religion, but otherwise the forms of classical urbanism lived on through the Arab conquest of the Middle East and the subsequent era of the Crusaders. When the Egyptian Mamluks destroyed Crusader Caesarea they put an end to thirteen centuries of urbanism on the site. € 18.50 (Antiquarian)

MILCH, R.J., King Oedipus, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone. Notes. Coles Publishing Company, Toronto (...), 1969. 63p. Wire stitched. Pages yellowed. € 7.50 (Antiquarian)