Scrinium Classical Antiquity

AURELIANUS, P., De Verhouding van godsdienst en ethiek in Homerus. Centrale Drukkerij, Nijmegen, 1955. XIII,119p. Sewn. Library marks. Diss. Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen. € 17.00 (Antiquarian)

AVEZZÙ TENUTA, E., Procedimenti paradossali e tecniche della persuasione in Tucidide. L'Erma di Bretschneider, Roma, 1977. 128p. Sewn. Small personal library mark and name on free endpaper. Series: Bolletino dell'istituto di filologia greca, supplemento 1.From the library of the late Sir Kenneth James Dover. € 37.50 (Antiquarian)

BABILAS, W., Tradition und Interpretation. Gedanken zur philologischen Methode. Hueber Verlag, München, 1961. 57p. Sewn. With author's intention on half title. Series: Langue et Parole, Heft 1. (Rare). € 75.00 (Antiquarian)

BAGORDO, A., and B. ZIMMERMANN, (eds.), Bakchylides 100 Jahre nach seiner Wiederentdeckung. Beck, München, 2000. 230,IVp. ills. Sewn. Nice copy. Series: Zetemeata, Heft 106.A.o.: L. KÄPPEL: Bakchylides und das System der chorlyrischen Gattungen im 5. Jh. v. Chr. (pp.11-29); Chr. MANN: Der Dichter und sein Auftraggeber. Die Epinikien Bakchylides' und Pindars als Träger von Ideologien (pp.29-47); E.S. de la TORRE: Bemerkungen zu den Mythen bei Bakchylides (pp.69-87); A. RENGAKOS: Zu Bakchylides' Erzähltechnik (pp.101-113); S.R. SLINGS: Information Unit and Metrical Unit (pp.113-131); E. LEFÈVRE: Horaz Carm. 1,15 und Bakchylides (pp.205-221). From the library of the late Prof. W. Geoffrey Arnott. € 34.50 (Antiquarian)

BAILEY, C., Religion in Virgil. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1935. 337p. Original blue cloth. Spine gilt titled. Head and tail spine, joints and edges a bit scratched. Small library mark to spine. Library marks on first pages (ex libris on paste-down endpaper as well as blind tooling stamps). ‘Mr. Bailey has given us in this book a most valuable supplement to his ‘Phases in the Religion of Ancient Rome’ (…). On gets an idea from critics like Conington that Virgil’s mind was cluttered with a tangled mass of beliefs, superstitions, and philosophical doctrines which naturally work confusion as he endeavours to express them in his poetry. All is now clear, however, in the light of Mr. Bailey’s careful treatment. (…) The reader may be sure that the entire mass of evidence is before him. He feels that he is reading not merely a pleasant essay on the various subjects (…) but a strict account of ‘what Virgil said’. (…) Very skilful, among other thins, is the portrayal of the world of the gods. Virgil is not merely adopting a traditional device which he applies somewhat mechanically. The gods have a real reason for existence in the entire scheme of fate and its relation to mortal men that Mr. Bailey discovered in Virgil.’ (E.K. RAND in The American Journal of Philology, 1936, p.99). € 55.00 (Antiquarian)

BAIN, D., Masters, Servants and Orders in Greek Tragedy. A study of some aspects of dramatic technique and convention. Manchester University Press, 1983. VI,73p. Bound wrps. Gilt titling on spine. Nice copy.'B.'s concern is (...): orders given by superiors to non-speaking extras. He formulates a rule that when an order is given to mutes on stage, the order is carried out with little or no delay.' He then examines all the passages which may seem to provide an exception to the rule. (...) In the course of his discussion he throws light on the staging of several passages. (...). His treatment is to be welcomed and must be accounted very successful. It is a pity that he has been so badly let down by the printer...' (JAMES DIGGLE in The Classical Review (New Series), 1983, p.127). From the library of the late Prof. W. Geoffrey Arnott. € 19.50 (Antiquarian)

BAIN, D., Actors and Audience. A Study of Asides and Related Conventions in Greek Drama. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1977. X,230p. Cloth wrps. A few pen markings from WGA. Review from Charles Garton (Classical Philology, 1981, pp.147-150) loosely inserted. Nice copy.'This excellent book investigates the aside as a dramatic convention which demands that the audience accept a certain lack of realism, and some other conventions connected with the dramatic illusion. (…) B.’s main achievement is to have clarified certain conventions of New Comedy and to have shown the different ways in which Menander and Roman comedy used these conventions, but he also offers acute and judicious comment on scores of passages (indexed), including many which he excludes from his definition of asides.' (J.C.B. LOWE in The Classical Review (New Series), 1981, p.8-9). From the library of the late Prof. W. Geoffrey Arnott. € 47.50 (Antiquarian)

BAIN, D., Actors and Audience. A Study of Asides and Related Conventions in Greek Drama. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1977. X,230p. Cloth wrps. Wrps slightly worn. Fore edge slightly rust stained. 'This excellent book investigates the aside as a dramatic convention which demands that the audience accept a certain lack of realism, and some other conventions connected with the dramatic illusion. (…) B.’s main achievement is to have clarified certain conventions of New Comedy and to have shown the different ways in which Menander and Roman comedy used these conventions, but he also offers acute and judicious comment on scores of passages (indexed), including many which he excludes from his definition of asides.' (J.C.B. LOWE in The Classical Review (New Series), 1981, p.8-9). € 25.00 (Antiquarian)

BAIN, D., Actors and Audience. A Study of Asides and Related Conventions in Greek Drama. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1987. X,230p. Paperback. Nice copy. 'This excellent book investigates the aside as a dramatic convention which demands that the audience accept a certain lack of realism, and some other conventions connected with the dramatic illusion. (…) B.’s main achievement is to have clarified certain conventions of New Comedy and to have shown the different ways in which Menander and Roman comedy used these conventions, but he also offers acute and judicious comment on scores of passages (indexed), including many which he excludes from his definition of asides.' (J.C.B. LOWE in The Classical Review (New Series), 1981, p.8-9). € 19.50 (Antiquarian)

BAKKER, E., and A. KAHANE, (eds.), Written Voices, Spoken Signs. Tradition, performance, and the Epic Text. Harvard University Press, Cambridge (Mass.), / London, 1997. VIII,305p. Original off-white cloth. Series: Center for Hellenic Studies Colloquia. Nice copy. 'This collection of papers issues from a Center for Hellenic Studies colloquium organized by Egbert Bakker and Ahuvia Kahane which was held at the Center in June 1994. It is the first volume in a new series devoted to CHS colloquia forthcoming from Harvard University Press. Of the nine papers collected here (arranged alphabetically by the authors' last names), those by the editors, John Miles Foley, Andrew Ford, Richard Martin, and Gregory Nagy focus on Homeric questions; contributions by Franz Bäuml, Wulf Oesterreicher, and Ursula Schaefer address questions of orality and performance in medieval texts. What these diverse studies have in common is what the editors call a poststructuralist approach to language and discourse: 'Attention to strategies, means, and modes, rather than simply to contents.' (...) What perhaps makes the volume most useful as a volume is that it samples the work of major players in the field of oral poetry and linguistics who have written more extensively elsewhere on similar topics, using similar approaches. In each case the interested reader will probably want to have recourse to the more extended treatments. That said, these essays hang together well enough, and the editors have taken pains to cross-reference them to one another where appropriate. (...) There are enlightening, even important essays in this volume.' (M.D. USHER in Bryn Mawr Classical Review 98.1.25). € 39.50 (Antiquarian)