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PELLING, Chr., Literary Texts and the Greek Historian. Routledge, London / NewYork, 2000. X,338p. Paperback. Font cover and first pages slightly dog's eared. Still a nice copy. 'P. acknowledges some impact from theoretical work on performance, narratology, reader-response, reception, New Historicism and gender, but the impact is implicit is one of his strengths. Two others are his elegant amalgam of academic and conversational style and his sense of humour. (...) What drives P. is the texts, approached with scholarship, reasonable cynicism, and good humour. Some principles emerge. We should note what the author expected to be sayable without alienating the audience, test comic texts by asking how little must be true for a joke to work, expect authors to cater for different reactions, look for how the audience thought, attend to context, and avoid hermetically sealing 'funny' from 'serious'. (...). P.'s texts are diverse and, though rhetoric is a common factor, the manipulation of reality in Thucydides or Plutarch are rather different from those in forensic oratory, comedy, or tragedy.' (C.J. TUPLIN in The Classical Review (New Series), 2001, pp.322-323). From the library of Prof. Carl Deroux. € 21.50 (Antiquarian)

PIERSON, A., Hellas. Tjeenk Willink, Haarlem, 1896. 2nd ed. XVI,562p. Original yellow red stamped cloth. Signature and date on half title. Contents: Het Epos. De Historiografie. Het Drama. Wijsbegeerte. Kunst. € 15.00 (Antiquarian)

PLATNAUER, M., (ed.), Fifty years of Classical Scholarship. Blackwell, Oxford, 1954. XIII,431p. Cloth. Pages bit yellowed. Small personal library mark and name on free endpaper. A.o.: J.G. GRIFFITH: Early Greek Lyric Poetry (pp.38-71); T.B.L. WEBSTER: Greek Tragedy (pp.71-96); K.J. DOVER: Greek Comedy (pp.96-130); G.T. GRIFFITH : The Greek Historians (pp.150-193); E.A. BARBER: Hellenistic Poetry (pp.214-233); A.H. McDONALD: The Roman Historians (pp.384-413). From the library of the late Sir Kenneth James Dover. € 19.50 (Antiquarian)

PLATNAUER, M., (ed.), Fifty years of Classical Scholarship. Blackwell, Oxford, 1954. XIII,431p. Cloth. Spine discoloured.A.o.: J.G. GRIFFITH: Early Greek Lyric Poetry (pp.38-71); T.B.L. WEBSTER: Greek Tragedy (pp.71-96); K.J. DOVER: Greek Comedy (pp.96-130); G.T. GRIFFITH : The Greek Historians (pp.150-193); E.A. BARBER: Hellenistic Poetry (pp.214-233); A.H. McDONALD: The Roman Historians (pp.384-413). From the library of the late Prof. W. Geoffrey Arnott. € 19.50 (Antiquarian)

POHLENZ, M., Herodot. Der erste Geschichtschreiber des Abendlandes. Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt, 1961. 2nd ed. 223p. Cloth. Ex libris glued to paste-down endpaper. Pages a bit yellowed. € 15.00 (Antiquarian)

POHLENZ, M., Herodot. Der erste Geschichtschreiber des Abendlandes. Teubner, Leipzig/Berlin, 1937. 222p. Sewn. Library marks. Series: Neue Wege zur Antike, II. Reihe: Interpretationen, Heft 7/8. € 15.00 (Antiquarian)

POHLENZ, M., Herodot. Der erste Geschichtschreiber des Abendlandes. Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt, 1961. 2nd ed. 223p. Cloth. Spine discoloured. Small personal library mark and name on free endpaper.From the library of the late Sir Kenneth James Dover. € 20.00 (Antiquarian)

POHLENZ, M., Gestalten aus Hellas. Bruckmann, München, n.d.(1950) 744p. ills. Cloth. 'It is possible that a foreign reviewer of a younger generation may fail to do justice to the qualities of this book. It shows the wide but unobtrusive learning which characterizes Professor Pohlenz' earlier woks. But this picture is an idealized one, and the modern age may feel the need of something more realistic and astringent.' (H.LL. HUDSON-WILLIAMS in The Classical Review (New Series), 1952, p.200). € 10.00 (Antiquarian)

PÖSCHL, H., (ed.), Tacitus. Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt, 1969. XV,604p. Cloth. Series: Wege der Forschung, XCVII. A.o.: E. LÖFSTEDT: Über den Stil bei Tacitus (pp.89-104); R. Syme: Tacitus und seine politische Einstellung (pp.177-208); H. NESSELHAUF: Tacitus und Domitian (pp.208-241); K. VRETSKA: Das Problem der Lücke und der Secundusrede im Dialogus de oratoribus; F. KLINGNER: Tacitus über Augustus und Tiberius (pp.496-540); H. FUCHS: Der Bericht über die Christen in den Annalen des Tacitus (pp.558-604). € 19.50 (Antiquarian)

PÖSCHL, H., (ed.), Tacitus. Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt, 1986. 2nd rev.ed.IX,629p. Cloth. Series: Wege der Forschung, XCVII. A.o.: E. LÖFSTEDT: Über den Stil bei Tacitus (pp.70-85); R. Syme: Tacitus und seine politische Einstellung (pp.127-158); Chr. NEUMEISTER: Die psychologische Geschichtsschreibung des Tacitus (pp.194-219); H. NESSELHAUF: Tacitus und Domitian (pp.219-252); K. VRETSKA: Das Problem der Lücke und der Secundusrede im Dialogus de oratoribus (pp.374-403); H. FUCHS: Der Bericht über die Christen in den Annalen des Tacitus (pp.575-623). From the library of Prof. Dr. H.F.J. Horstmanshoff. € 19.50 (Antiquarian)