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BERNSDORFF, H., Das Fragmentum Bucolicum Vindobonense (P. Vindob. Rainer 29801). Einleitung, Text und Kommentar. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen, 1999.177p. Sewn. Nice copy. Series: Hypomnemata, Heft 123. 'This is a welcome and useful book on an interesting text: the Vienna bucolic fragment (first published in 1932; also in Gow's Bucolici Graeci (Oxford, 1952), pp.168-70). It contains an introduction, text and translation, plates of the papyrus, commentary, bibliography, and various indices. In his introduction, B. offers helpful guidance concerning the reconstruction of the manuscript, the content of the poem, and the questions of genre and authorship. In the end, most of these problems prove insoluble, but B. succeeds in giving a skilful and sensible survey of the evidence and the options. (...) According to B.'s preferred hypothesis, the fragment comes from an epyllion by Bion. In his interpretative summary (pp.52-61), B. is less circumspect. His account is little short of a wholesale surrender to structuralist theories (and jargon). Instead of an inductively arranged synopsis paraphrasing the text, he presents a deductive application of predetermined principles. (...) The commentary (especially the introductory notes to individual passages) shows a much more discerning interest in the shape and composition of the poem.' (ARND KERKHECKER in The Classical Review (New Series), 2000, p.414). € 15.00 (Antiquarian)

BOARDMAN, J., J. GRIFFIN and O. MURRAY, (eds.), Greece and the Hellenistic World. Oxford University Press, Oxford / New York, 1998. 9th impr. VIII,446p. ills.(B&W photographs). Paperback. Nice copy. The Oxford History of the Classical World was originally published as one volume. For this paperback edition, it appeared as two books: 'Greece and the Hellenistic World' and 'The Roman World'. € 14.50 (Antiquarian)

BROWNING, R., and G. GIANGRANDE, (eds.), Museum Philologum Londiniense. Vol. I. Hakkert, Amsterdam, 1975. 146p. Paperback. With editor’s dedication (G.G.) on front cover. A.o.: W.G. ARNOTT: Annotations to Aristaenetus (pp.9-33); J. SVENBRO: Sappho and Diomedes (pp.37-51); F. CAIRNS: Horace, 'Epode' 2, Tibullus I, 1 and rhetorical praise of the coutnry side (pp.79-93); D.M. SCHENKEVELD: Theories of evaluation in the rhetorical treatises of Dionysisus of Halicarnassus (pp.93-109); H. van LLOY: Figura etymologica et Etymologie dans l'oeuvre de Sophocle (pp.109-121); G. GIANGRANDE: Metodi di lettura: La lingua di Oppiano (pp.127-137). From the library of the late Prof. W. Geoffrey Arnott. € 16.00 (Antiquarian)

BULLOCH, A.W., Callimachus of Cyrene and the literary crisis at the beginning of the Hellenistic period: a preliminary study. Cambridge, private presses, n.d.(>1965). XII,182p. Private binding. Typoscript. With author's intention on front cover. Cover a bit wrinkled. (Rare).'Prejudices, falsifications and inadequacies have resulted in an almost total lack of a definitive, responsable evaluation of Callimachus. The critical position of modern scholarship with regard to this key poet is one of chaos: every article, survey or handbook presents a different picture. And this is especially true on the most important subject of all in Callimachus, the dispute over literary principles which affected almost every aspect of his poetry. In addition to the material to be found in the poems preserved in the regular manuscript tradition, the papyri have brought to light a great amount of new material on this subject, and yet, with an almost frivolous abandonment of their responsabilities, modern scholars have failed to produce a single detailed examination of the relevant texts with a view to discovering what the literary dispute was about, how important it was, and how influential it was. (...) It is the literary dispute which is the central theme of this essay. My interest was drawn to it in the course of research for a commentary on Callimachus' fifth Hymn to be presented as a Ph.D. thesis. My purpose is not to offer comprehensive solutions to any of the problems: this essay is intended only as a preliminary study, in which I have attempted to outline very briefly what I consider to be the main problems which need to be tackled for a new evaluation of the Hellenistic period, the methods which might be used to approach them, and a few suggestions as to where some of the answers may lie.' (ANTHONY W. BULLOCH in The Preface, pp.IV-V). From the library of the late Prof. W. Geoffrey Arnott. € 115.00 (Antiquarian)

BURY, J.B., E.A. BARBER, a.o., The Hellenistic Age. Aspects of Hellenistic Civilization. Norton & Comp., New York, 1970. Reprint 1st ed.1923. 145p. Paperback. Contents: J.B. BURY: The Hellenistic Age and the History of Civilization (pp.1-31); E.A. BARBER: Alexandrian Literature (pp.31-79); E. BEVAN: Hellnistic Popular Philosophy (pp.79-108); W.W. TARN: The Social Question in the Third Century (pp.108-141). € 11.50 (Antiquarian)

BYRNE, S.N., E.P. CUEVA, and J. ALVARES, (eds.), Authors, Authority, and Interpreters in the Ancient Novel. Essays in Honor of G.L. Schmeling. Barkhuis Publishing / University Library, Groningen, 2006. XXV,356p. Bound. Series: Ancient Narrative. Supplementum 5. Nice copy. A.o.: J. ALVARES: Reading Longus' 'Daphnis and Chloe' and Achilles Tatius' 'Leucippe and Clitophon' in Counterpoint (pp.1-34); B. BALDWIN: Gareth and Me: A Petronian Pilgrimage (pp.34-47); S.N. BYRNE: Petronius and Maecenas: Seneca's Calculated Criticism (pp.83-112); M.P. FUTRE PINHEIRO: Utopia and Utopias: a Study on a Literary Genre in Antiquity (pp.147-172); St. PANAYOTAKIS: The Logic of Inconsistency: Apollonius of Tyre and The Thirty-Days' Period of Grace (pp.211-227); G. SANDY: Two Renaissance Readers of Apuleius: Filippo Beroaldo and Henri de Mesmes (pp.239-274); M. ZIMMERMAN: Awe and Opposition: the Ambivalent Presence of Lucretius in Apuleius' 'Metamorphoses' (pp.317-340). € 65.00 (Antiquarian)

CHARITON, Kallirhoe. Griechisch und deutsch. Herausgegeben, übersetzt und kommentiert von Chr. Meckelnborg und K.-H. Schäfer. Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt, 2006. XXI,306;340p. Original blue cloth with dust wrps. Reading ribbon. Series: Edition Antike. € 45.00 (Antiquarian)

DEICHGRÄBER, K., Pseudhippokrates Über die Nahrung. Text, Kommentar und Würdigung einer stoisch-heraklitisierende Schrift aus der Zeit um Christi Geburt. Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, Mainz / Franz Steiner Verlag, Wiesbaden, 1973. 88p. Sewn. Series: Abhandlungen der Geistes- und sozialwissenschaftlichen Klasse, Jahrgang 1973, Nr. 3. From the library of the late Professor Doktor Nikolaus Himmelmann. € 17.50 (Antiquarian)

DIJK, J.G.M. van, Ainoi, Logoi, Mythoi. Fables in Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic Greek Literature. With a Study of the Theory and Terminology of the Genre. Brill, Leiden (...), 1997. XXI,687p. Original grey gilt titled cloth. Lower edge slightly stained. Diss. Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen. 'Van Dijk has set himself a very specific and clear task: to inventory and analyze the evidence for Aesopic fables in extant Greek literature of the archaic, classical and Hellenistic periods, together with a survey of the terminology associated with the fable over a much longer period of time, extending through late antiquity. As a resource book, van Dijk's book is invaluable, providing copious primary texts and translations, a thorough bibliography and useful review of the literature, along with indexes and cross-reference tables linking his materials to the numeration system in Perry's Aesopica. Approximately half of the book's considerable bulk is devoted to this collection of primary sources and reference materials. The book is an essential starting point for the study of any Aesopic fable that is cited or alluded to in a work of Greek literature (although it must be noted, there are somewhat less than 100 such fables, only a fraction of the corpus of ancient Aesopica). In terms of his coverage of individual fables, van Dijk is meticulous in reporting primary sources for the fable, along with all relevant ancient testimony. But while van Dijk devotes careful attention to each and every one of these literary sources and ancient testimonies, his coverage of the Aesopic fable as a genre is less comprehensive. By focusing exclusively on the literary aspects of the Aesopic fable, van Dijk neglects to make any observations on the Aesopic fable as a folkloristic or extra-literary phenomenon. This is a considerable limitation on the theoretical portion of his argument, and it hampers any conclusions he would offer about the genre as a whole.' (LAURA GIBBS in Bryn Mawr Classical Review 98.5.18). € 175.00 (Antiquarian)

EFFE, B., (ed.), Theokrit und die griechische Bukolik. Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt, 1986. 464p. Original grey cloth. Upper edge publisher's stained. Signature on free endpaper. Series: Wege der Forschung, Band 580. A.o.: G. GIANGRANDE: Theocritus' Twelfth and Fourth Idylss: A Study in Hellenistic Irony (pp.36-56); B. EFFE: Die Destruktion der Tradition: Theokrits mythologoische Gedichte (pp.56-89); N. AUSTIN: Idyll 16: Theocritus and Simonides (pp.105-126); G. B. MILES: Characterization and the Ideal of Innocence in Theocritus' Idylls (pp.138-168); Ch. SEGAL: Theocritean Criticism and the Interpretation of the Fouth Idyll (pp.176-212); M. PUELMA: Die Dichterbegegnung in Theokrits 'Thalysien' (pp.239-272); H.H.O. CHALK: Eros and the Lesbian Pastorals of Longos (pp.402-439). € 30.00 (Antiquarian)