Scrinium Classical Antiquity

BAUMAN, R.A., Political Trials in Ancient Greece. Routledge, London / New York, 1990. XIII,222p. Original black silver titled cloth with dust wrps. Nice copy. 'R.A. Bauman has spent much of his career working on 'impietas' and 'maiestas' in rome, exploring the connection between religious and political offences, and in this book he tries to pursue a similar investigation for 'asebeia' and political trials in Greece (...). After a short introduction he devotes three chapters to Athens in the fifth century, two to Athens in the fourth century, one to Alexander the Great, and one to the first generation of the Successors. (...) B. 'deserves full marks for ingenuity', (...), but he is unlikely to persuade. There are sensible things in his discussions of particular issues, but there are also signs that he is not entirely at home with the Greek material.' (P.J. RHODES in The Classical Review (New Series), 1992, p.462). From the library of Prof. Carl Deroux. € 35.00 (Antiquarian)

GELZER, M., Caesar. Der Politiker und Staatsmann. Steiner, Wiesbaden, 1960. 6th rev.and enlarged ed. 320p. Folding map. Original yellow cloth. Gilt titled vignette to spine. From the library of Prof. Carl Deroux. € 12.50 (Antiquarian)

GIRARDET, K.M., Die Ordnung der Welt. Ein Beitrag zur philosophischen und politischen Interpretation von Ciceros Schrift De Legibus. Franz Steiner Verlag, Wiesbaden, 1983. VIII,260p. Sewn. Series: Historia, Einzelschriften, Heft 42. 'Girardet argues that the philosophical framework of the 'De Leg.' has been wrongly assimiliated to Stoic doctrine on Natural Law; while the Stoics (and Antiochus) denied that ordinary laws were real laws at all, for Cicero nature (and so human nature, and so both human and divine reason) is the source of law; thus tight and good written laws, drafted by a 'sapiens', are natural laws - they do not merely reflect a superior Natural Law. G. (...) suggests that we may have tended to misunderstand Cicero by seeing him through the eyes of Lactantius and Augustine. (...) The nature of Rome's relation to other states is important to G. because he sees the 'De Leg.' with the closely related 'De Rep.' as a practical call to action. Here he perhaps lacks nuance. (...) In spite of its 'longeurs', this book seems to me an interesting contribution to discussion of its subject.' (ELIZATETH RAWSON in The Journal of Roman Studies, 1985, pp.310-311). € 35.00 (Antiquarian)