Scrinium Classical Antiquity

GIL, L. and R.M. AGUILAR, (eds.), Apophoreta philologica Emmanueli Fernández-Galiano a sodalibus oblata. Pars Prior. Pars altera. Mantuae Carpetanorum, n.p., 1984. 2 vols. 450,474p. Sewn. Vol. 1 with light reading trace. Series: Estudios Clásicos, 87/88. A.o.: Vol.I.: L. GIL: Sobre un vieja crux homérica: 'nuktos amologoi' (pp.119-135); E. SUÁREZ DE LA TORRE: El mito de Cirene y la victoria de Telesícrates (Pind. Pyth. IX) (pp.199-209); J. de ROMILLY: D' Euripide à Platon: L'Exemple des Phéniciennes (pp.259-267); W. GEOFFREY ARNOTT: Lycidas and double perspective: A discussion of Theocritus' Seventh Idyll (pp.333-347); G. GIANGRANDE: Un epigrama helenístico muy discutido (pp.363-371); J.GARCÍA LÓPEZ: Sobre el 'De audiendis poetis' de Plutarco (pp.411-421). Vol. II. J. FONTAINE: Les relations culturelles entre l'Italie byzantine et l'Espagne visigotique: La présence d'Eugippius dans la Bibliothèque de Séville (pp.9-27); J. CARRIÈRE: Effets d'accents en élégie grecque ancienne (pp.79-85); J.L. MORALEJO ALVAREZ: Praeteritum perfectum (pp.137-151); C. CASTILLO: Los amigos en la comedia romana (pp.173-183); A. MICHEL: Les problèmes du réalisme chez les écrivains latins jusqu'à Virgile: La sensibilité et l'idéal (pp.229-243); A. FONTÁN: El griego de Tito Livio (pp.311-323); R. LÓPEZ MELERO: Sobre el carácter de la institución real en el mundo greco-romano (pp.339-355); R. de KOTZEBUE: La cultura clásica en la Rusia de los zares (pp.443-453). From the library of the late Prof. W. Geoffrey Arnott. € 55.00 (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)

GOLDHILL, S., The Poet's Voice. Essays on Poetics and Greek Literature. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (...), 1991. XI,369p. Paperback. 'The project of this book', writes the author in his Preface, 'is to investigate how poetry and the figure of the poet are represented, discussed, contested within the poetry of ancient Greece'. Dr Goldhill seeks to discover how ancient authors broached the questions: From what position does a poet speak? With what authority? With what debts to the past? With what involvement in the present? Through a series of interrelated essays on Homer, lyric poetry, Aristophanes, Theocritus and Apollonius of Rhodes, key aspects in the history of poetics are discussed: tale-telling and the representation of man as the user of language; memorial and praise; parody, comedy and carnival; irony, masks and desire; the legacy of the past and the idea of influence. Detailed readings of major works of Greek literature show how richly rewarding and revealing this approach can be. The author makes liberal use of critical writings from areas of study other than Classics and focuses on problems central to contemporary critical debate. (Publisher's information). 'After I had finally managed to plow through the first two chapters of this book and had begun to despair of ever seeing the end, I asked a close friend if he thought I was ethically obliged to read every word before writing a review. We concluded that I was, and I have. Indeed, I have read much of it twice and some of it three times. I hope no-one else is ever forced to do the same.' (DOUGLAS S. OLSON in Bryn Mawr Classical Review 02.05.09). From the library of the late Prof. W. Geoffrey Arnott. € 22.50 (Antiquarian)

GOREK, W., Herr und Sklave bei Euripides. Dissertationsdruck Schön, München, 1975. 141p. Sewn. Offset print. Diss. Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität zu München. (Rare). From the library of the late Prof. W. Geoffrey Arnott. € 39.50 (Antiquarian)

GOTTSCHALK, H.B., Heraclides of Pontus. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1980. X,178p. Cloth wrps. With errata leaflet. 'Dr Gottschalk has written a study which provides the basis for a properly balanced assessment of Heraclides' historical significance. The result, except perhaps for astronomy, will disappoint anyone by whom Heraclides was cherished as an unsung genius. (...) Heraclides' philosophy was 'a popular form of Platonism' (p.140). (...) But it is difficult to know what we are talking about when reference is made to 'Heraclides' philosophy'. One of his most distinctive contributions was 'to make propaganda for the contempaltive life' (p.32). (...) Heraclides was also interested in collecting 'factual' material on oracles, and laws, in tracing the origins of the musical modes, in doing many of the things we associate with Peripatetic research. (...) Gottschalk is inclined to see Heraclides as an isolated figure of limited influence on his successors. (...) Dr Gottschalk has cleared the ground admirably. I hope it is not grudging to wish he had done more to create an imaginative and social context for identifying the aims and methods of Heraclides and his like.' (A.A. LONG in The Classical Review (New Series), 1982, pp.200-01). From the library of the late Prof. W. Geoffrey Arnott. € 25.00 (Antiquarian)

GOW, J., A Companion to School Classics. Macmillan, London, 1936. XX,377p. ills. Cloth. Cover a little bit grimy. spine dicoloured. Prize book Bury Grammar School to G.W. Arnott, Upper Fifth English Prize, July 1945. From the library of the late Prof. W. Geoffrey Arnott. € 29.50 (Antiquarian)

GRAFTON, A., Creativity and duplicity in western scholarship. Collins & Brown, London, 1990. X,157p. Bound wrps. 'Grafton makes clear that the master forger must also be (...) a scholar (...) as knowledgeable as those whom he is trying to fool. (...) This elegant monograph ranges from Porphyry through Isaac Casaubon (...) on to Scaliger, Chatterton and others, though its focus remains the transmission of classical texts. Or, rather, pseudo-classical texts.' (Washington Post). From the library of the late Prof. W. Geoffrey Arnott. € 45.00 (Antiquarian)

GREEN, A., The Tragic Effect. The Oedipus Complex in Tragedy. Translated by A. Sheridan. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (...), 1979. XVII,264p. Cloth wrps. Last pages a bit wrinkled by moist. Personal summary and notes by WGA loosely inserted. This book 'is a curiosity. Its author is a French psycho-analyst of the Lacan branch of the Freudian school, and in this book, first published in French in 1969) he reinterprets some of the great European tragedies (...) in the light of of Freud's theory of the Oedipus complex. (...) Despite the presence of some profound insights (e.g. on Cilissa, the sphinx, the Sophoclean Orestes; the function of fantasy and the nature of tragic pleasure), I found too many of Green's approaches wilfully distorted, and too many of the discussions far-fetched examples of jargoned theorizing.' (W. GEOFFREY ARNOTT in Greece & Rome, 1980, p.184). From the library of the late Prof. W. Geoffrey Arnott. € 34.50 (Antiquarian)

GRIFFITH, M., The Authenticity of 'Prometheus Bound'. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (...), 1977. XII,419p. Cloth wrps. Upper edge a little bit stained. 'Prometheus Bound was accepted without question in antiquity as the work of Aeschylus, and most modern authorities endorse this ascription. But since the nineteenth century several leading scholars have come to doubt Aeschylean authorship. Dr Griffith here provides a thorough and wide-ranging study of this problem, and concludes: 'Had Prometheus Bound been newly dug up from the sands of Oxyrhynchus... few scholars would regard it as the work of Aeschylus.' After a preliminary assessment of the external evidence, Dr Griffith examines minutely the idiosyncrasies of metre, dramatic technique, vocabulary, syntax and expression to be found in the play, applying the same tests to other plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides in order to provide a control for his methods. In his final chapter he discusses how the conditions surrounding the ancient transmission and cataloguing of texts may have led to the ascription to Aeschylus. (Editor's information). ‘ (…) the most thorough and reasoned investigation of a Greek tragedy’s authenticity ever made. It is a splendid book (..) as admirable for the near-completeness of its scope as for the self-restraint which characterizes its evaluation of the evidence.‘ (MALCOLM DAVIES in The Classical Review (New Series), 1979, p.5). From the library of the late Prof. W. Geoffrey Arnott. € 65.00 (Antiquarian)

GRONINGEN, B.A. van, Le Dyscolos de Ménandre. Étude Critique du Texte. Noord-Hollandsche Uitgevers Maatschappij, Amsterdam, 1960. 160p. Sewn. Cover a bit stained. Upper corner a bit dog's eared. Series: Verhandeljngen der Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, afd. Letterkunde. Nieuwe Reeks, deel LXVII, nr.3.From the library of the late Prof. W. Geoffrey Arnott. € 20.00 (Antiquarian)