Scrinium Classical Antiquity

LEEMAN, A.D., Gloria. Cicero's waardering van de roem en haar achtergrond in de Hellenistische wijsbegeerte en de Romeinse samenleving. (With an extensive summary in English). Wyt & Zonen, Rotterdam, 1949. 199p. Theses. Sewn. Plasticized. Pages a bit yellowed (due to the paper quality). Some erasable pencil underlinings. Diss. Rijksuniversiteit Leiden. € 15.00 (Antiquarian)

LÉTOUBLON, Fr., Les lieux communs du roman. Stéréotypes grecs d'aventure et d'amour. Brill, Leiden (...), 1993. [XXVI],248p. ills. Original grey gilt titled cloth. With dust wrps. Series: Mnemosyne, Supplementum centesium vicesimum tertium. 'This study sets out to provide a thematic analysis of the principal representatives of Greek prose fiction: the novels of Achilles Tatius, Chariton, Heliodorus, Longus and Xenophon of Ephesus. Concentrating on the romantic aspect of these works, L. includes sections on themes such as the presentation of hero and heroine, the family, the progression of love, obstacles met by the couple and the types of minor character. (...) L.'s thematic comparisons between the Greek novels result in some interesting suggestions and insights. She points out for example the role of the travel motif as a concretisation of the lovers' impulse towards each other. L.'s findings also lead her to support the suggestion that Achilles Tatius' novel is consciously parodic. In the comparisons between novels, Heliodorus' treatment of the romance themes naturally emerges as particular. L. notes, for example, the 'partial and focalised' presentation of the hero and heroine in this novel; elsewhere, analysis of the mother figures reveals Persinna as an unusually strong figure.' (RUTH WEBB in The Classical Review (New Series), 1994, pp.274-75). € 62.50 (Antiquarian)

LLOYD, G.E.R., Greek Science after Aristotle. Chatto & Windus, London, 1973. XIV,189p. Paperback. From the library of the late Prof. W. Geoffrey Arnott. € 11.50 (Antiquarian)

LUDWIG, W., Aufsätze. Private presses, Frankfurt am Main, 1965. Not paginated. (192p). Glued. With Corrigendum leaflet loosely inserted. Title handwritten on spine. With author's dedication on front cover. Anthology of reprints. A.o.: Plato's Love Epigrams; Die Phainomena Arats als hellenistische Dichtung; Von Terenz zu Menander; Zu Horaz, C. 2, 1-12. From the library of the late Prof. W. Geoffrey Arnott. € 16.00 (Antiquarian)

MAHAFFY, J.P., The Progress of Hellenism in Alexander's Empire. University of ChicagoPress/Fisher Unwin, London, 1905. VII,154p. Cloth. Cover stained. Library marks on cover and first pages. Ex libris. € 17.00 (Antiquarian)

MELEAGER, The Poems. By Jerry Clack. Bolchazy-Carducci, Wauconda, 1992. VII,160p. Paperback. 'This elegant, but self-admittedly unpretentious, edition aims to render M.'s poetry accessible to undergraduates. (...) A consolidated bibliography seems the major omission. (...) What students (and tehir instructtors) may miss is general guidance on Hellenistic literature, on epigram as a genre, on its importance for Roman elegiac tradition. (...) The introduction is lucid, but dense. (...) There are things here that users will find frustratingly facile or subjective, others too terse and allusive. (...) But M. is a fascinating poet; C.'s presentation of him is useful, so far as it goes; and it is to be hoped that students and teachers may take up the challenge.' (JOHN H. BETTS in The Classical Review (New Series), 1994, pp.20-21). From the library of Prof. Carl Deroux. € 17.50 (Antiquarian)

MELEAGROS, Bitterzoete liefde. Griekse epigrammen. Vertaald, ingeleid en toegelicht door Paul Claes. Athenaeum-Polak & Van Gennep, Amsterdam, 2018. 183p. Paperback. Meleagros is een even extatische liefdesdichter als Catullus. Hij vervlocht zijn liefdesverzen met die van voorgangers tot een kunstige krans die terechtkwam (en zoekraakte) in de immense Griekse Anthologie. Met erotische motieven als het morgenlied, bitterzoet liefdesverdriet en de vuurpijlen schietende Eros heeft hij zijn stempel gedrukt op de westerse liefdeslyriek. Hoog tijd dus voor de eerste Nederlandse vertaling van de 'laatste en meest vindingrijke van alle hellenistische epigramschrijvers' (Peter Jay). Catullusvertaler Paul Claes kweet zich met verve van zijn taak. (Publisher's information). € 12.99 (New)

MONTIGLIO, Silvia, Love and Providence. Recognition in the Ancient Novel. Oxford University Press, Oxford (...), 2013. IX,256p. Hard bound with dust wrps. 'Silvia Montiglio’s book concerning recognition scenes in the ancient novel is an intricate, challenging work and one which will certainly be the foundation for much more exciting scholarship to come. (...) Montiglio’s monograph is a useful, exhaustively researched piece of scholarship and a welcome addition to the growing body of work on the ancient novel. This text will help dispel lingering doubts concerning the legitimacy of the ancient novel’s place in the canon of worthy works from Greco-Roman antiquity. While there has been an explosion of scholarship on the novel in the last 30 years or so (particularly on Apuleius) there still seems (at least to me) a sense that the Greek novels are something of a neglected step-child. Using recognition scenes as an interpretive springboard, Montiglio deftly demonstrates how richly layered and markedly different these works are, even with plots and characters which, at a glance, appear extraordinarily similar to one another. By teasing out the myriad allusions to Homer, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Plato, Aristotle, Menander, and Plautus (among others) Montiglio roots the ancient novels firmly and broadly in the entire tradition of Greco-Roman literature while at the same time demonstrating the striking originality of the ancient novelists. These are works that do not float free of tradition, but rather continually look back, tweak, riff, and are a link in the chain of narrative influence which stretches back to Homer and forward to the present day.' (JEFFREY T. WINKLE in Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2013.08.60). € 69.50 (Antiquarian)

NEUSTADT, E., Die religiös-philosophische Bewegung des Hellenismus und der Kaiserzeit. Teubner, Leipzig/Berlin, n.d.(±1914). 32p. Wire stitched. Pen mark on cover and on on page 11. Series: Quellensammlung für den geschichtlichen Unterricht an höheren Schulen, II: 11. € 7.50 (Antiquarian)

PARTHENIOS, Liebesleiden. Griechisch und deutsch von W. Plankl. Verlag der Ringbuchhandlung A. Sexl, Wien, 1947. 1st.ed. 103p. Cardboard with pictorial dust wrps. Pages yellowed. Series: Tusculum. From the library of the late Professor Doktor Nikolaus Himmelmann. € 16.00 (Antiquarian)