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LÓPEZ FÉREZ, J.A., Estudios actuales sobre textos griegos. (II Jornadas internacionales. UNED, 25-28 octubre 1989). Univesidad Nacional de Educacion a distancia, Madrid, 1991. 376p. Sewn. Small personal library mark and name on free endpaper.A.o.: J. BRYAN HAINSWORTH: The unfulfilled catalogue: theme and narrative in Iliad XI-XII (pp.13-25); R. PEDRERO: Estudio de una formula homérica y su evolución (pp.25-33); J.M. LUCAS: Jenófanes 2: la inteligencia contra el deporte (pp.57-75); A. GARZYA: Osservazioni sulla parodo dei Persiani di Eschilo (pp.101-119); L.F. GUILLÉN: La Bella y las águilas (Agamenón 104-159) (pp.119-139); A. BERNABÉ: El poema órfico de Hiponion (pp.219-237); I.R. ALFAGEME: El proemio del logos epitaphios (pp.237-257); J. LENS: The Ephorus Papyrus (pp.289-311). From the library of the late Sir Kenneth James Dover. € 16.00 (Antiquarian)

LÓPEZ FÉREZ, J.A., (ed.), Estudios actuales sobre textos griegos. (II Jornadas internacionales. UNED, 25 - 28 octubre 1989. Universidad Nacional de Educacion a distancia, Madrid, 1991. 376p. Sewn. Upper corner slightly bumped.A.o.: J.B. HAINSWORTH: The unfulfilled catalogue: theme and narrative in Iliad XI-XII (pp.13-25); C. MIRALLES: Hesíodo, 'Erga' 42-105. La invención de la mujer y la tinaja (pp.33-47); J.J. MORALEJO: Tirteo, Fr. 1 y 2 (Ed. Adrados) (pp.47-57); A. MELERO: El hiporquema de Prátinas y la dicción satírica (pp.75-89); E. SUÁREZ DE LA TORRE: El 'Peán' IV de Píndaro (pp.139-167); J.A. LÓPEZ FÉREZ: 'Sobre los aires, aguas y lugares', capítulo 16: estaciones del año, instituciones ploíticas y modo de ser de los asiáticos (pp.175-205); A. BERNABÉ: El poema 'órfico de Hiponion (pp.219-237); J. LENS: The Ephorus Papyrus (pp.289-311). From the library of the late Prof. W. Geoffrey Arnott. € 17.50 (Antiquarian)

MARZULLO, B., (ed.), Museum Criticum XIII-XIV. (1978-1979). Università di Bologna, 1979. 511p. Sewn. Partly unopened. Small personal library mark and name on free endpaper. Front cover with some minor stains. With contributions on a.o. Archilochos, Sappho, Hesychios from a.o.: M.G. Bonanno, E. Cavallini, C. Galavotti, F. Bossi, E. Degani, A. Lorenzoni, and S. Nannini. From the library of the late Sir Kenneth James Dover. € 29.50 (Antiquarian)

OOSTENBROEK, L.M., Eris - Discordia. Zur Entwicklungsgeschichte der Ennianischen Zwietracht. Pijnacker, 1977. 121p. Wireless. Offset print. Cover a bit yellowed. Diss. Rijksuniversiteit Leiden. € 10.00 (Antiquarian)

PAULSON, J., Index Hesiodeus. Olms, Hildesheim, 1962. Photomechanical reprint ed.Lund, 1890. 94p. Wireless. Small personal library mark and name on free endpaper.From the library of the late Sir Kenneth James Dover. € 17.00 (Antiquarian)

PERADOTTO, J. and J.P. SULLIVAN, (eds.), Women in the Ancient World. The Arethusa Papers. State University of NewYork Press, Albany, 1984. VIII,377p. Paperback. Small personal library mark and name on free endpaper.A.o.: M.B. ARTHUR: Early Greece: The Origins of the Western Attitude Toward Women (pp.7-59); S. McNALLY: The Maenad in Early Greek Art (pp.107-143); F.I. ZEITLIN: The Dynamics of Misogyny: Myth and Mythmaking in the Oresteia (pp.159-195); J.P. HALLETT: The Role of Women in Roman Elegy: Counter-Cultural Feminism (pp.241-263); E.A. FISHER: Theodora and Antonina in the Historia Arcana: History and/or Fiction (pp.287-315). From the library of the late Sir Kenneth James Dover. € 32.50 (Antiquarian)

POHLENZ, M., Gestalten aus Hellas. Bruckmann, München, n.d.(1950) 744p. ills. Cloth. 'It is possible that a foreign reviewer of a younger generation may fail to do justice to the qualities of this book. It shows the wide but unobtrusive learning which characterizes Professor Pohlenz' earlier woks. But this picture is an idealized one, and the modern age may feel the need of something more realistic and astringent.' (H.LL. HUDSON-WILLIAMS in The Classical Review (New Series), 1952, p.200). € 10.00 (Antiquarian)

PREISSHOFEN, F., Untersuchungen zur Darstellung des Greisenalters in der frühgriechischen Dichtung. Franz Steiner Verlag, Wiesbaden, 1977. X,126p. Sewn. Front cover a bit stained. Series: Hermes, Einzelschriften, Heft 34. (Rare). ‘La monographie que M.F. Preisshofen a consacrée à la représentation de la vieillesse dans l’épopée et le lyrisme archaïques vient utilement combler un vide. L’étude, menée avec beaucoup de soin, comprend deux parties de longueur inégale: la première, de loin la plus brève, analyse la vieillesse dans la mythologie(thème de l’éternel jeunesse des dieux (….)); la deuxième tente de déterminer comment les poètes, d’Homère à Pindare, ont perçu la vieillesse. (…) Si je ne partage pas le sentiment de l’auteur qui voudrait atténuer la part du pessimisme qui émane des fragments lyriques qu’il étudie, je crois qu’il a raison d’insister (…0 sur l’ambivalence que les poètes archaïques ont reconnue à la vieillesse. (…) Les quelques divergences qui me séparent de M. Preisshofen ne m’empêchent nullement de considérer que son livre constitue une contribution de qualité à l’étude d’un thème littéraire essentiel. (SIMON BYL in L’antiquité classique, 1978, pp.604-05). From the library of the late Professor Doktor Nikolaus Himmelmann. € 39.50 (Antiquarian)

STEIN, Elisabeth, Autorbewußtsein in der frühen griechischen Literatur. Gunter Narr Verlag, Tübingen, 1990. (VI),200p. Hard bound. Es ist eine grundlegende Erkenntnis der Oral-Poetry-Theorie, daß der Sänger mündlicher Dichtung sich nicht als Autor fühlt, sondern nur als tradierender Erzähler alter Begebenheiten: Sein Ehrgeiz ist auf die Art des Vortrags gerichtet, nicht auf den Inhalt des Vorgetragenen. Hieran knüpft die vorliegende Arbeit an und untersucht den Zusammenhang zwischen der Benutzung der Schrift und der Entwicklung eines Autorbewußtseins in der frühen griechischen Literatur, insbesondere bei Hesiod, Archilochos, Sappho, Alkaios und Anakreon. (Publisher's information). € 27.50 (Antiquarian)

THOMAS, Carol G., and C. CONANT, Citadel to City-State. The Transformation of Greece, 1200-700 B.C.E. Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 1999. XXXII,199p. Paperback. Nice copy. ‘Thomas and Conant’s book, ‘Citadel to City-State’, fills (a) noticeable gap in the literature in an exemplary fashion. It does it as well in a manner which provides the reader with a concrete, interesting series of themes to stimulate her/his mind as the centuries move by. They (Thomas and Conant) selected five reasonably well excavated settlements in southern and central Greece to stand as the exemplars for the contemporary situation and the ongoing transformations of Greek society between 1200 and 700 B.C. (…) Thus, for the late-thirteenth to twelfth centuries there is Mycenae; Nichoria for the eleventh; Athens for the tenth; Lefkandi for the ninth; Corinth for the eight; and Ascra for the early seventh. Each settlement’s particular situation provides them with an opportunity to expand on how this is similar or not to the situations of other, contemporary settlements as well as to the larger picture and trends of cultural transformation. This latter theme forms the intellectual framework which the information presented in the book attempts to illuminate. (…) ‘Citadel to City-State’ serves as an excellent summarization of our present knowledge of the not-so-dark Dark Age as well as an admirable prologue to the understanding of the subsequent Archaic and Classical periods. In conclusion, for scholars not specializing in this period as well as for advanced undergraduates and graduate students (whether or not they are ‘archaeologists’) this book does truly serve as an affective and intelligent introduction to the complexities and importance of the Dark Age. Its readability and manageable length make this task less daunting. The book constantly stimulates the reader a a regular pace. What more can one want for the Greek ‘Dark Age’? (DAVID RUPP in Phoenix, 2000, pp.360-62). € 17.50 (Antiquarian)