Scrinium Classical Antiquity

BERTMAN, St., (ed.), The Conflict of Generations in Ancient Greece and Rome. Grüner, Amsterdam, 1976. 235p. Original gilt titled orange cloth. Cover a bit grimy. Signature and date on free endpaper. A.o.: M. REINHOLD: The Generation Gap in Antiquity (pp.15-55); C. QUERBACH: Conflicts between Young and Old in Homer's 'Iliad' (pp.55-65); K.J. RECKFORD: Father-beating in Aristophanes' Clouds (pp.89-119); L.S. FEUER: Generational Struggle in Plato and Aristotle (pp.123-129); J. PLESCIA: "Patria Potestas' and the Roman Revolution (pp.143-171); V. BROEGE: The Generation Gap in Catullus and the Lyric Poetry of Horace (pp.171-205); B. BALDWIN: Young and Old in Imperial Rome (pp.221-235). € 30.00 (Antiquarian)

BINGEN, J., G. CAMBIER, and G. NACHTERGAEL, (eds.), Le monde grec. Pensée. Littérature. Histoire. Documents. Hommages à Claire Préaux. 'Editions de l'Université de Bruxelles, 1975. XV,832,XXp. Sewn. A.o.: G. NACHTERGAEL: Le catalogue des vaisseaux et la liste des Théorodoques (pp.45-56); R. MERKELBACH: Der Anlass zu Pindars Zehnter Nemea (pp.94-102); S. BYL: Lamentations sur la vieillesse dans la tragédie grecque (pp.130-140); B.R. REES: Plot, Character and Thought (pp.188-197); F. ROBERT: La prognose hippocratique dans les livres V et VII des 'Épidémies' (pp.257-271); M. DAUBIES: Les combattants laconiens de Sellasie: périèques ou hilotes? (pp.383-393); P. VIDAL-NAQUET: Les esclaves immortelles d'Athénas Ilias (pp.496-508); Fr. LASSERRE: Un papyrus sceptique méconnu (P. Louvre inv. 7733ro) (pp.537-549); T. REEKMANS: Treasure-Trove and Parapherna (pp.748-760). From the library of the late Prof. Dr. Tony Reekmans. € 45.00 (Antiquarian)

BOGNER, H., Der tragische Gegensatz. Seine Entdeckung und Gestaltung in der frühgriechsichen Tragödie, Kerle Verlag, Heidelberg, 1947. 286p. Half cloth with dust wrps. Dust wrps to fore edge foxed. Pages yellowed. A few pencil underlinings and annotations. € 10.00 (Antiquarian)

BÖHME, R., Bühnenbearbeitung Äschyleischer Tragödien. Erster Teil. Zweiter Teil. Benno Schwabe, Basel / Stuttgart, n.d.(>1956/59). 2 vols. 138,159p. Sewn. Small personal library mark and name on free endpaper. Title hand written on spine. (Rare).'Dr. Böhme (...) suggests that when a later poet (...) received from the archon a chorus for a play of Aeschylus he rewrote it in up-to-date style, so that it might compete on level terms with the works of contemporaries. Accordingly the 'Oresteia', as we have it, is a rewriting, perhaps the last of several, for a performance between 408 and 405, and profoundly influenced by the Electra plays of Sophocles and of Eurpides.' (...) Böhme is not moved only by stylistic considerations in the narrower sense, though much of his argument turns on details of usage. He has an intense conviction that Aeschylus was a poet inspired, continuously sublime, moving only on the heights - or in the depths - of Orphic-Eleusinian religion.' (D.W. LUCAS in The Classical Review (New Series), 1960. pp.198-99). From the library of the late Sir Kenneth James Dover. € 29.50 (Antiquarian)

BOUVRIE, S. des, Women in Greek Tragedy. An Anthropological Approach. Norwegian University Press, Oslo, 1990. 394p. Bound. Head spine bit worn. Cover bit grimy. Series: Symbolae Osloenses Fasc.Suppl.XXVII. € 100.50 (Antiquarian)

BRONS, J.A., De Woordkeuze in Themistius' Redevoeringen. Bijdrage tot het onderzoek naar Themistius' bronnen en modellen. Dekker&VandeVegt, Nijmegen, 1948. XI,154p. Sewn. € 18.50 (Antiquarian)

CALOGERO, G., Studien über den Eleatismus. Im Anhang: G. Calogero: Xenophanes, Aischylos und die erste Definition der Allmacht Gottes; K. von Fritz: Rezension zu: G. Calogero, Studi sull'eleatismo. Georg Olms, Hildesheim / New York, 1970. VIII,327p. Sewn. Nice copy. Original title: Studi sull'eleatismo (1932). € 16.00 (Antiquarian)

CERRI, G., Il linguaggio politico nel Prometeo di Eschilo saggio di semantica. Edizioni dell' ateneo, Roma, 1975. 155p. Paperback. Small personal library mark and name on free endpaper.Il presente saggio affronta l'analisi del 'Prometeo incatenato' sotto il profilo dell'uso della terminolgia politica, la cui incidenza nell'economia del dramma è un dato di indiscutibile rilievo, che non può non avere riflessi precisi sul piano del significato. Le analisi svolte da studiosi autorevoli quali ad esempio il Farrington, il Thomson, il Longo ed il Méautis, appaiono tuttavia discutibili alla luce di un più attento confronto con certe costanti di fondo del linguaggio politico ateniese del VI, V et IV sec. a.C.: in rapporta ad esse Prometeo si caratterizza come figura di tipo schiettamente aristocratico e non può guindi essere inteso quale simbolo di una rivuluzione democratica. Nell'ultimo capitolo di questo saggio, l'autore fornisce una conferma ulteriore e particuloramente convincente delle sue tesi, predendo in esame diverse commedie di Cratino e di Aristofane, nelle auli è più scoperta la funzionalizzazione in senso policio dei miti di Crono, dei Titani e di Prometeo. Il volume, pur dedicato allo studio di una singola tragedia, presenta anche un interesse più generale, in quanto mette in evidenza determinati meccasimi del racconto mitico e della significazione tragica. (Publisher's information). From the library of the late Prof. W. Geoffrey Arnott. € 17.50 (Antiquarian)

CHUAQUI, C., El texto escénico de 'Las Bacantes' de Eurípides. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México, 1994. 253p. ills.(B&W photographs). Paperback. Upper corner front cover and first pages till p.37 slightly creased or dog's eared. Series: Cuadernos del Centro de Estudios Clásicos, 36. (Rare). This book 'will be of interest not only to professional classicists but also to those who are fond of classical tragedy and comedy, and, in particular, to theatre critics, theatre aficionados and music students. Although the text was written with the undergraduate in mind, they supply adept analyses for the scholar and the more advanced student. The author provides impressive and thorough cultural, literary, mythological, historical, musical and dramatic contexts (….). [The book] consists of a prologue, five chapters, twelve vase illustrations, a translation of the ‘Bacchae’, a chronology of the development of performances at different festivals (dating from 534 to 150 BC), a chronology of principal authors and musicians, a glossary divided into terms on the structure of tragedy, the architecture of the ancient theatre, actors and theatrical cues and directions, wardrobe, music and instruments, and dance and mime. The book concludes with a bibliography. In the prologue the objective of the book is made clear: a ‘virtual’ reconstruction of the play will be attempted in order to be able to produce it on stage (p.11). In the fist chapter, ‘La dramaturgia griega’(pp.15-32), the methodology of Chuaqui’s objective is explicated when she notes that there is a great difference between the literary text and the ‘text escénico’, which can be understood best as a semiotic interpretation of the paly. Chuaqui is very careful to stipulate that because the art of interpretation is subjective, the translator has to make some choices. Archaizing or modern? Verse or prose? Literal or free and paraphrased? The prose translation presented is one that has been adapted for the stage emphasizing the signifier and signified. (…) In her epilogue Chuaqui hopes that her translation, which is very good and closely adheres to the ancient Greek, will be considered a ‘lecture activa’ of the ‘Bacchae’. I think that her expectation has been fulfilled. The translation is inspiring and should be welcomed by more than just the Mexican reading audience for which this text was intended.’ (EDMUND P. CUEVA in Scholia, 2000, 50). From the library of Professor Carl Deroux. € 32.50 (Antiquarian)

CONACHER, D.J., Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound. A Literary Commentary. University of Toronto Press, Toronto (...), 1980. XII,198p. Original cloth. Head and tail spine a bit worn. Library marks to edges as well as to last end pages. ‘It may at once be said that Chonacher’s book should be extremely profitable to any serious student of the ‘Prometheus’, at any level. He is unwarrantably modest in speaking of it as an ‘introductory study’ (X). What he presents is an evenhanded, almost Solonian, survey both of the primary evidence and of recent academic opinions about that evidence neither dictating solutions to the reader nor prejudicing him by allowing any rancour intro his accounts of those opinions with which he happens to disagree. (Among other things, this book is a model of scholarly good manners.) The result, for this reviewer, was w really valuable clearing of the undergrowth, and a cutting of some vistas, at least, through a wildly tangled forest. (… ) Students who have already some acquaintance with the ‘Prometheus’ and its problems will perhaps be interested above all in Chapters 4 and 6. In Chapter 4 (…) Conacher provides an extremely useful comparative examination of the other ancient passages that relate to the development of human culture (…). So elegant is the book’s construction (like a conscientious reviewer of whodunits) one almost hesitated to reveal the contents of if last chapter (…). Here Conacher surveys with his customary balance and fairness most of the major theories that have been put forward since World War I, culminating in those of Lloyd-Jones and Reinhardt. From these last two in particular (…) he progresses to his own view. (…) The overriding purpose of this book is no doubt to send the student back to the ‘Prometheus Bound’ and the fragments of the other Prometheus plays with a less clouded vision and a clearer head. That is a noble purpose, and, if this reviewer’s experience is anything to go by, Conacher has achieved it.’ (C.J. HERINGTON in Phoenix, 1982, pp.77-83). € 45.00 (Antiquarian)