Scrinium Classical Antiquity

DEREMETZ, A., Le miroir des muses. Poétiques de la réflexivité à Rome. Ouvrage publié avec le concours du Conseil scientifique et de l'equipe d'accueil 'Textes et Interculturalités' de l'Université Charles-de-Gaulle - Lille III et de l'URA 1423 du CNRS (Credo). Presses Universitaires du Septentrion, Villeneuv d'Ascq, 1995. 497p. Large paperback. Nice copy. ‘This unusual work is an extended exploration of self-referentiality in Roman poetry. While discussion of the subject has long been a staple of classical literary criticism, it has never received the sustained attention it gets from D. here. The book breaks neatly into halve. The first is dedicated to the adumbration of largely semiotic theoretical bearings, with particular focus on a given poems’s ‘textuality’ (…). The second half of the book is the inductive converse of the first, examining various enfiguration of autoreferenciality in the prologues of Terence, Lucretius’ Hymn to Venus, Virgil’s Sixth Eclogue, Propertius 4.2, Ovid Ars Am.1 , and Silius Italicus’ Punica 11. (…) Latin verse is seldom quoted in the original, an exigency perhaps dictated by the need to limit the size of an already oversized book, but positively troubling in the context of the close analysis D. undertakes (…). Yet there are an enormous number of insightful observations here, and the extended attention to textual reflexivity, both in theoretical and practical-analytical terms, is singularly valuable. D. is a good reader of poetry, and his books has very little of the abstract aridity or rebarbative discourse one might have seen. (…) The theory section is too extensive for summary here, but it can be said that D. makes a case (…). Much of D.’s study (…) covers familiar ground, but it does so with an almost relentless intensity of regard and in the process brings to light numerous compelling and imaginative observations, making this ambitious book a valuable and engaging resource.’ (D.M. HOOLEY in The Classical Review (New Series), 1998, pp.40-41). From the library of Prof. Carl Deroux. € 35.00 (Antiquarian)

DINTER, M.T., The Cambridge Companion to Roman Comedy. Cambridge University Press, 2019. XXX,412p. Paperback. Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature. 'The volume under review comes during an exciting wave of recent publications on Roman Comedy. (...) it differentiates itself in its aim to study the comoedia palliata as a distinctly Roman genre, thereby shifting the focus from the palliata’s relationship with its Hellenistic originals to the complexity and impact of the plays as theatrical and literary phenomena. (...) The companion contains 22 chapters that are organized into four main sections: Part I, The World of Roman Comedy, Part II, The Fabric of Roman Comedy, Part III, The Sociology of Roman Comedy, and Part IV, The Reception of Roman Comedy. The structure naturally begins with an examination of the palliata within its numerous contexts, then shifts to the technical elements of the genre; next, it addresses social readings before concluding with the study of its reception. The essays themselves range from informative introductions to specific perspectives that reflect the advances in their respective areas of Roman comic study. The selection of contributors includes leading scholars who have shaped the field of Roman Comedy in recent decades, and whose chapters in this volume are representative of their influential work on the subject. The outcome, therefore, is a high-quality and thorough companion that is accessible to scholars both new to and familiar with the Roman comic corpus. (...) The well-balanced mixture of specialized studies and sophisticated surveys is both stimulating and encourages scholars and students alike to investigate and critique the plays themselves.' (CASSANDRA TRAN in BMCR 2020.05.17). € 32.80 (New)

DREXLER, H., Die Komposition von Terenz' Adelphen und Plautus' Rudens. Dieterich'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Leipzig, 1934.114p. Sewn. Series: Philologus, Supplementband XXVI, Heft II. From the library of the late Prof. W. Geoffrey Arnott. € 21.50 (Antiquarian)

DUPOUY, E., Médecine et moeurs de l'Ancienne Rome d'après les poètes Latins. Les plaisirs de la table et la podagre débauche et prostitution. Courtisanes et excès vénériens. Hystéricisme, hypnotisme et somnambulisme. Herbes et philtres des magiciennes. Électricité. Ex-voto. Thermes, eaux minérales. Maisons de santé. Les fous. Toilette, cosmétiques et maquillage. Infanticides. Eunuques, castration, infibulation, etc. Baillière et fils, Paris, 1885. XVII,6,432p. ills. Sewn. Cover weak. Spine repaired with paper tape. € 71.50 (Antiquarian)

FLORES, E., (ed.), La critica testuale greco-latina, oggi Metodi e problemi. Atti del Convegno Internazionale (Napoli 29 - 31 ottobre 1979). Edizioni dell'Ateneo, Roma, 1981. 407p. Bound wrps. Wrps discoloured and bit worn.A.o.: B. GENTILI: L'arte della filologia (pp.9-27); J.IRIGOIN: La critique des textes doit être historique (pp.27-45); M. GIGANTE: Presente e futuro della papirologia ercolanese (pp.91-111); C. QUESTA: La presentazione delle clausulae nei codici di Plauto (pp.149-185); R. RAFFAELLI: Sulla presentazione metrica del testo nel Terenzio. Bembino: bipartizioni e clausulae (pp.185-223); L. CANFORA: Traslocazioni testuali in testi greci e latini (pp.299-317); W.G. ARNOTT: L'edizione e l'interpretazione dei frammenti di Alessi di Turii: metodi e problemi (pp.355-373); G. GIANGRANDE: Problemi testuali nei poeti alessandrini (pp.383-401). From the library of the late Prof. W. Geoffrey Arnott. € 25.00 (Antiquarian)

FLURY, P., Liebe und Liebessprache bei Menander, Plautus und Terenz. Carl Winter Verlag, Heidelberg, 1968. 104p. Cloth. Some pencil annotations from WGA. Personal summary from WGA loosely inserted. 'Sensitized insight is the hallmark of Flury's dissertation. His first (and main) two chapters seek to answer two questions for Menander, Terence, and Plautus: what do the particular playwrights characters say about 'das Wesen der Liebe', and in what ways do each playwright's lovers reveal - explicitly or implicitly - their inmost feelings bout the objects of their emotion? Flury's answers are valuably illuminating. They are achieved by a close scrutinity of the evidence which incidentally gives Flury the opportunity to make some very acute observations about the techniques of characterization used by Menander and Terence. (...) The answers themselves to the posed questions extend our awareness of some important differences between Menander and Terence. To Menander's lovers Eros is an external power that thakes violent possession of them. Terence, on the other hand, never deifies or even personifies Amor: to his lovers it is one emotion amongst several that well up from inside, from the 'animus'. (...) As for Plautus, here Flury's answers are precisely what we should now expect. Plautus adopts Greek or Roman attitudes to the nature of love to suit his convenience, making them serve merely as vehicles for vivid, fantastic imagery. His lovers are caricatured as figures of ridicule (...), and when they express their intimate feelings Plautus is more concerned with the witty form and the imaged, grotesque language than with the serious emotional content. In a final chapter Flury embarks on the love metaphors and images of Graeco-Roman comedy. (...) Minor imperfections do not outweigh the major achievement of a well-conceived and sensitively pursued piece of research.' ((W. GEOFFREY ARNOTT in The Classical Review (New Series), 1970, pp.187-188). From the library of the late Prof. W. Geoffrey Arnott. € 20.00 (Antiquarian)

GAISER, K., Plautus und Terenz gegenüber ihren griechischen Vorbildern. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York, 1972. Offprint Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt, I, Zweiter Band, pp.1027-1113. A few pen and pencil markings and annotations from WGA.From the library of the late Prof. W. Geoffrey Arnott. € 12.50 (Antiquarian)

GLÜCKLICH, H.-J., Interpretationen und Unterrichtsvorschläge zu den 'Adelphoe' des Terenz. Vendenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen, 1987. 104p. Paperback. Series: Consilia, Lehrerkommentare. (Rare).From the library of the late Prof. W. Geoffrey Arnott. € 10.00 (Antiquarian)

GOLDBERG, S.M., Understanding Terence. Princeton University Press, Princeton, n.d.(>1986). XIV,231p. Original burgundy cloth with dust wrps. (Rare thus). 'Goldberg has given us a didactic Terence, with ethics and character the central principles of his comedy. It is not the only view, but Goldberg's analysis is both subtle and learned. It might have helped the general reader if individual plays had been more clearly marked by subsections or subtitles to the chapters in which they are discussed, and if the technical stylistic chapters on prologue and diction had been grouped together at the end of the volume, Let the reader not be daunted, however. This is an important and intelligent book, and deserves the careful reading it requires.' (DAVID KONSTAN). From the library of Professor Carl Deroux. € 65.00 (Antiquarian)

GRIMAL, P., Rome. La littérature et l'histoire. Préface de Ch. Pietri. Tome I. Tome II. École française de Rome, Palais Farnèse, 1986. 2 vols. VIII,728;729-1299. Sewn. Upper corner slightly bumped. Series: Collection de l'École française de Rome, 93. 'The École française de Rome, in suggesting and publishing this collection of papers by Pierre Grimal, has honoured one scholar and served many. (...) In all there are nearly one hundred pieces, published between 1938 and 1984, covering four centuries of Latin literature and including some early contributions on monuments, inscriptions and topography, particularly in Rome. (...) The organisation of the collection is simple. The whole of the first volume and part of the second contain pieces grouped together under the names of the Latin authors they discuss, the names being arranged alphabetically. Then follow the articles on material remains and on general themes. (...) The subtitle does justice to G.'s concern with the social and intellectual context of literary works: it also reflects the priority he gives to good writing. The collection is made up largely of occasional pieces, but, even in the more scholarly contributions the style is elegant, the expression clear, and the transitions subtly managed. Dissent is courteously and urbanely conveyed. (...) In his study of tha ancient world, it is ideas that most interest G. For him ideology and philosophical doctrines are the cake, not the icing. (...) We can be grateful to have assembled such a varied collection which exhibits throughout, not only Gallic elegance, but the even rarer rationality and humanity that the study of classics is supposed to bestow.' (MIRIAM GRIFFIN in The Classical Review (New Series), 1988, pp.379-80). From the library of Prof. Carl Deroux. € 65.00 (Antiquarian)