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WINKLER, J.J., and G. WILLIAMS, (eds.), Later Greek Literature. Cambridge University Press, Cmabridge (...), 1982. IX,344p. Cloth wrps. Gilt titling on spine. Series: Yale Classical Studies, 27. A.o.: E.L. BOWIE: The importance of sophists (pp.29-61); G. ANDERSON: Lucian: a sophist's sophist (pp.61-93); J.J. WINKLER: The medacity of Kalasiris and the narrative strategy of Heliodoros' 'Aithiopika' (pp.93-159); E. FISHER: Greek translations of Latin literature in the fourth century A.D. (pp.173-217); W.G. ARNOTT: Pastiche, pleasantry, prudish eroticism: the letters of 'Aristaenetus' (pp.291-321). From the library of the late Prof. W. Geoffrey Arnott. € 45.00 (Antiquarian)

WOJACZEK, G., Daphnis. Untersuchungen zur griechischen Bukolik. Hain, Meisenheim am Glan, 1969. 155p. Sewn. With author's dedication on half title. Series: Beiträge zur klassischen Philologie, Heft 34. (Rare). € 49.50 (Antiquarian)

ZANKER, G., Realism in Alexandrian Poetry: A Literature and its Audience. Croom Helm, Londen (...), 1987. 250p. Hard bound with dust wrps. Spine gilt titled. Nice copy. 'In this valuable, suggestive and learned book Zanker discusses the exploitation of realism by poets of the Alexandrian movement form Aratus and Philetas to Moschus and Bion. His presentation is exemplary: theoretical issues are invariably followed by practical illustrations (in which the poets are generally surveyed seriatim) and each stage of the argument is clearly signposted in advance and equipped with ith own conclusion. (...) Z.'s book demonstrates how and why realism was an essential component of Alexandrian poetry.' (A.J. WOODMAN in The Classical Review (New Series), 1988, pp.266-68). € 70.00 (Antiquarian)

ZIMMERMAN, M., G. SCHMELING, H. HOFMAN, a.o., (eds.), Ancient Narrative. Volume 2 (2002). Barkhuis Publishing / University Library, Groningen, 2003. VIII,290p. Bound. A.o.: J. ALVARES: Utopian Themes in Three Greek Romances (pp.1-30); E. BOWIE: The chronology of the earlier Greek novels since B.E. Perry: revisions and precisions (pp.47-64); N. V. BRAGINSKAJA: From the Marginals to the Center: Olga Freiedenberg's Works on the Greek Novel (pp.64-86); M. ZIMMERMANN: Latinising the Novel. Scholarship since Perry on Greek 'models' and Roman (re-)creations (pp.123-143); St. HARRISON: Constructing Apuleius: The Emergence of a Literary Artist (pp.143-172); W.S. SMITH and B. WOODS: Tale of Aristomenes: Declamation in a Platonic Mode (pp.172-194). € 49.50 (Antiquarian)

ZIMMERMAN, M., G. SCHMELING, H. HOFMAN, a.o., (eds.), Ancient Narrative. Volume 1 (2000-2001). Barkhuis Publishing / University Library, Groningen, 2003. VIII,290p. Bound. A.o.: A.o.: B. BRANHAM: Representing Time in Ancient Fiction (pp.1-32); K. HAYNES: Power of the Prude: Configurations of the Feminine in the Greek Novel (pp.73-93); , EDSALL: Religious Narratives and Religious Themes in the Novels of Achilles Tatius and Heliodorus (pp.114-134); P. JAMES: Keeping Apuleius in the Picture. A dialogue between Buñuel's Discreet Charm of the Bourgoisie and The Metamorphoses of Apuleius (pp.185-208); W. RIESS: Between Fiction and Reality: Robbers in Apuleius' Golden Ass (pp.260-283); R. BECK: History into fiction: the metamorphoses of the Mithras myths (pp.283-301); H. McELROY: The Reception and Use of Petronius: Petronian Pseudepigraphy and Imitation (pp.350-379). € 49.50 (Antiquarian)

ZIMMERMAN, M., G. SCHMELING, H. HOFMAN, a.o., (eds.), Ancient Narrative. Volume 3 (2003). Barkhuis Publishing / University Library, Groningen, 2004. VI,209p. Bound. A. WATANABE: The Masculinity of Hippothoos (pp.1-45); C. RUIZ-MONTERO: Xenophon of Ephesus and Orality in the Roman Empire (pp.43-63); R. NEWBOLD: Benefits and Moral Development in Apuleius' 'Metamorphoses' (pp.88-106); J. McNAMARA: 'The only wife worth having'? Marriage and Storytelling in Apuleius' 'Metamorphoses' (pp.106-129); ROBIANO: Maladie d'amour et diagnostic médical: Érastrate, Galien et Héliodore d'Emèse, ou du récit au roman (pp.129-150). € 49.50 (Antiquarian)

ZIMMERMAN, M., G. SCHMELING, H. HOFMAN, a.o., (eds.), Ancient Narrative. Volume 4 (2005). Barkhuis Publishing / University Library, Groningen, 2005. VI,228p. Bound. A.o.: K. BRADLEY: Apuleius and Carthage (pp.1-30); A. HÄUSSLER: Der Prolog der 'Metamorphosen' des Apuleius als spiegel des Gesamtwerkes (pp.30-66); G. MILES: Music and Immortality: the Afterlife of Achilles in Philostratus' 'Heroicus' (pp.66-79); M. JONES: The Wisdom of Egypt: Base and Heavenly Magic in Heliodoros' 'Aithiopika' (pp.79-99); N. ENDRES: roman Fever: Petronius' 'Satyricon' and Gore Vidal's 'The City and the Pillar' (pp.99-142). € 49.50 (Antiquarian)