Scrinium Classical Antiquity

JOËL, K., Der echte Xenophontische Sokrates. Zweiter Band. Erste Hälfte: Die kynisch-xenophontische Willensethik in den Memorabilien. Gaertner, Berlin, 1901. XXV,560p. Sewn. Uncut. Binding broken in two. € 20.50 (Antiquarian)

JOHANN, H.-Th., Erziehung und Bildung in der heidnischen und christlichen Antike. Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt, 1976. XVIII,597p. Original grey cloth. Upper edge publisher's stained. Cover a bit grimy and a bit stained. Fore edges cover as well as fore edge rust stained. Series: Wege der Forschung, Band CCCLXXVII. A.o.: W. NESTLE: Die Begründung der Jugendbildung durch die Griechen (pp.45-66); E. HOFFMANN: Die Erziehungsgedanke der klassischen griechischen Philosophie (pp.93-132); W. STEIDLE: Redekunst und Bildung bei Isokrates (pp.170-227); E. LICHTENSTEIN: Aristoteles: Über Erziehung (pp.319-337); W. JAEGER: Paideia Christi (pp.487-503); R. SVCHOLL: Das Bildungsproblem in der Alten Kirche (pp.503-527); G. DOWNEY: Erziehung und Bildung im spätrömischen Reich. Christliche und heidnische Theorien unter Konstantin und seinen Nachfolgern (pp.549-573). € 10.00 (Antiquarian)

JOHANNES VON SALISBURY, Policraticus. Eine Textauswahl. Ausgewählt, übersetzt und eingeleitet von St. Seit. Lateinisch - Deutsch. Herder, Freiburg (...), 2008. 444p. Hard bound. Series: Herders Bibliothek der Philosophie des Mittelalters, Band 14. Appears unread. Nice copy. € 45.00 (Antiquarian)

JOHNSON, W.R., Lucretius and the Modern World. Duckworth, London, n.d. Photomechanical reprint ed.2006. X,163p. Paperback.This lepidus libellus from the pen of W. R. Johnson makes for a fun read. (...) The book provides an introduction to the De rerum natura itself and tells the story of Lucretius' reception from the seventeenth century onward. To judge from the title as well as from the book's cover, which shows Lucretius in profile before a billowing nuclear mushroom, the purpose of the work is to present a Lucretius 'for our times'. But make no mistake about it: this is not some well-meaning and well-mannered humanistic attempt to make a classic palatable to a wider audience. What this fascinating and unabashedly personal book amounts to is nothing less than an impassioned Epicurean manifesto. The first part ('The Poem Itself') offers an excellent discussion of some of the major aspects of Lucretius' poem. (...) The author's interpretations of the Lucretian text are typically insightful and presented in an extremely clear, albeit idiosyncratic, manner. (...) Be that as it may, the most exciting thing about J.'s book is the fact that just as Lucretius presents the teachings of Epicurus not in some detached way but rather with missionary fervor, J., too, emotionally identifies (or affects to identify--but I think it must be the former) with his subject matter in a way that lends enormous power to his exposition. (...) It is to be hoped that some part of the so-called 'general public' will in fact discover the Epicurean pleasures of J.'s work; professional classicists, at any rate, will be riveted by this refreshing new look at one of the good old texts they know and love.' (KATHARINA VOLK in Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2001.01.17). € 20.50 (New)

JOHNSTON, Mark, Saving God. Religion after Idolatry. Princeton University Press, Princeton/Oxford, 2009. 198p. Cloth wrps.Johnston argues that God needs to be saved not only from the distortions of the 'undergraduate atheists' but, more importantly, from the idolatrous tendencies of religion itself. Turning the monotheistic critique of idolatry on the monotheisms themselves, Johnston shows that much in these traditions must be condemned as false and spiritually debilitating. € 24.00 (Antiquarian)

JOLY, R., Glane de philosophie antique. Scripta minora. Ousia, Bruxelles, 1994. 327p. Paperback. De Pythagore à Grégoire de Nysse, en passant par Platon, Aristote, le stoïcisme, le moyen Platonisme, mais aussi Dion Chrysostome, Lucien de Samosate, Justin, et quelques thèmes comme 'curiositas', 'tharrein', 'metanoia', charité et sainteté païennes, c'est à peu près tout le champ de la philosophie antique qui est ici, par tel ou tel bias évoqué. (Publisher's information). € 25.00 (Antiquarian)

JONES, J., On Aristotle and Greek tragedy. Chatto & Windus, Londen, 1962. 284p. Cloth wrps. Wrps bit worn. With authors intention. € 31.50 (Antiquarian)

JONG, I.J.F. de, and J.P. SULLIVAN, (eds.), Modern Critical Theory and Classical Literature. Brill, Leiden (...), 1994. VI,292p. Cloth wrps. A.o.: I.J.F. de JONG: Between Word and Deed: Hidden Thoughts in the Odyssey (pp.27-51); S. GOLDHILL: The Failure of Exemplarity (pp.51-75); G.W. MOST: Simonides' Ode to Scopas in contexts (pp.127-153); R. COHEN: Speech Act Theory and the Plays of Plautus (pp.171-207); R. NAUTA: Historicizing Reading: the Aesthetics of Reception and Horace's 'Soracte Ode' (pp.207-231); Ch. SEGAL: Philomela's Web and the Pleasure of Text: Reader and Violence in the 'Metamorphoses' of Ovid (pp.257-281). € 65.00 (Antiquarian)

JONG, K.H.E. de, De Stoa. Een wereld-philosophie. Becht, Amsterdam, n.d. 194p. Cloth. Series: Athenaeum-bibliotheek. € 13.50 (Antiquarian)

KAHN, Ch.K., Plato and the Post-Socratic Dialogue. The Return to the Philosophy of Nature. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2015. 1st paperback ed. XVI,249p. Paperback. € 29.50 (New)