Search Results: Authors starting with R from Scrinium Classical Antiquity

MacMillan, London / Basingstoke, 1971. 77p. Hard bound. Pages yellowed. Small personal library mark and name on free endpaper. 'And we began to speak of the fact that not everything exists for use but that there is also beauty, and that Art is beauty; and we understood one another.' (fragment of Leo Tolstoi, Schoolboys and Art, in What is Art? p.6, cited on p.6). From the library of the late Sir Kenneth James Dover.

Diesterweg, Frankfurt am Main (...), n.d. 2nd impr. 36p. Wire stitched. Series: Probleme der humanistischen Bildung. Eine Schriftreihe, Heft 4.

Beck, München, 1974. 263p. Sewn. 'The 'Aeneid' takes up three-quarters of the book. In chapters on the behaviour of dying men, on their last words, on the after-life, R. makes interesting comparisons between Homer and Virgil and the later Latin epic writers. The most important part of the book is the treatment of fighting in the 'Aeneid'. R, develops two classifications. The first, the large-scale motifs, 'Grossbilder', include Battle Beginnings, Individual Aristeieai, Semi-individual Aristeiai (...), Minor Duelas, Mass Battles, and Non-military Episodes, for example speeches and replies. (...) The second classification covers small-scale motifs, 'Einzelbilder'. These include co-ordinators (tum, hic), the names of one of both of the participants, characterization, the mention of weapons, the use of particular weapons, the wounding of parts of the body (...). R. has elaborate justifications of these two different classifications. (...) He seems to be justified… Read More

University of California Press, Berekeley (...), 1990. XXI,495p. Hardbound with dust wrps. ?This substantial and interesting collection of papers, the fruit of a series of colloquia held at Brown University in the spring of 1987, is organised around five main areas: historiography, poetry, art, religion, and politics. It is dedicated to the memory of Sir Ronald Some, who died on 4 September 1989 (?) The distinction of many of the contributors and the care of the editors have produced a work that has more unity, higher quality, and for long stretches a larger field of view than many such current fashionable ?instant books?.? (JOHN CARTER in The Journal of Roman Studies, 1991, p.201). From the library of Prof. Carl Deroux.

Teubner, Leipzig, 1897. pp.305-342. Theses. Sewn. Diss. Freidrich Wilhelm Universität Bonn.

Weidmannsche Buchhandlung, Berlin, 1917. 98p. Card board cover with hand written title. Photomechanical reprint. Signature from K. Worp as well as blind tooling stamp and a few personal notes on title page. (Rare).

Reimer, Berlin, 1907. VI,132p. Bound. Library binding. Library marks on cover and first pages.

Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1953. 2nd ed. XII,494p. Cloth. Gilt lettering on spine bit faded out.

Guilde du Livre, Lausanne, 1966. XLVII,888p. Leather bound. Front cover and spine gilt stamped.Upper edge gilded. Thin (bible) paper.

Larousse, Paris, 1971. 153p. ills. Sewn. Softcover. Series: Nouveaux Classiques Larousse. Avec une Notice biographique, une Notice historique et littéraire, des Notes explicatives, une Documentation thématique, des Jugements, un Questionnaire et des Sujets de devoirs.

Hachette,. Paris, 1920. 10th ed. XVI,120p. Bound. Spine bit worn.

Delagrave, Paris, n.d. 4 vols. Cloth. Library marks on front cover (removable) and first pages. Pages yellowed.

Het Nationale Toneel, n.p., 2005. 72p. Wire stitched. Personal notes as well as blind tooling ex libris on half title. (Rare). ' Deze vertaling (uit het Frans) verscheen in 1994 onder de title Phaedra (in één band met 'Andromache' en 'Britannicus'.) en werd door de vertaler ietwat herzien in 2004, waarbij tevens de keuze is gemaakt Phe4dre haar Franse naam te laten behouden (in tegenstelling tot de overige personages in het stuk).' (p.72).

Brepols, Turnhout, 1988. XIX,375p. Original gilt titled terra cotta cloth. Upper edge publisher's stained. Series: Corpus Christianorum, Continuatio Mediaevalis, LXXXV. Nice copy. 'Saint Paschasius Radbertus, (born c. 785, Soissons, Fr.?died c. 860, feast day April 26), French abbot, theologian, and author whose monograph De corpore et sanguine Christi (?Concerning Christ?s Body and Blood?) later became the dominant interpretation of the Eucharist.' (Editors of the Encyclopaedia Britannica).

Brepols, Turnhout, 1990. XV,159p. Original gilt titled terra cotta cloth. Upper edge publisher's stained. Series: Corpus Christianorum, Continuatio Mediaevalis, XCVII. Nice copy. 'Saint Paschasius Radbertus, (born c. 785, Soissons, Fr.?died c. 860, feast day April 26), French abbot, theologian, and author whose monograph De corpore et sanguine Christi (?Concerning Christ?s Body and Blood?) later became the dominant interpretation of the Eucharist.' (Editors of the Encyclopaedia Britannica).

Brepols, Turnhout, 1969. LVIII,251p. Original gilt titled terra cotta cloth. Upper edge publisher's stained. Light stain to front cover. Pencil annotations and markings. Still a nice copy. Series: Corpus Christianorum Continuatio Mediaevalis, XVI.

Cambridge University Press, 2017. XXIII,380p. Hard bound with dust wrps. Spine gilt titled. Series: The Cambridge Edition of Early Christian Writings. Nice copy. The Cambridge Edition of Early Christian Writings provides the definitive anthology of early Christian texts, from c.100 to 650 CE. Its six volumes reflect the cultural, intellectual and linguistic diversity of early Christianity and are organized thematically on the topics of God, practice, Christ, community, reading and creation. The series expands the pool of source material to include not only Greek and Latin writings, but also Syriac and Coptic texts. Additionally, the series rejects a theologically normative view by juxtaposing texts that were important in antiquity but later deemed 'heretical', with orthodox texts. The translations are accompanied by introductions, notes, suggestions for further reading and scriptural indices. The first volume focuses on early Christian writings about God's nature and unity, and the meaning… Read More

Universiteitsbibliotheek Amsterdam, 1999. 35p. Wire stiched.

Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt, 1968. 403p. ills. Cloth. From the library of the late Prof. W. Geoffrey Arnott.

Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt, 1969. Photomechanical reprint 1st ed.1947. 219p. Cloth.