Search Results: Authors starting with Q from Scrinium Classical Antiquity

Teubner, Leipzig, 1899. CVII,454p. Rebound.

Edizioni Scientifiche Romane, Roma, n.d.(>1956). 215p. Sewn. Cardboard. Cover a bit grimy. 'Quacquarelli's book has an important theme. Ancient Rhetoric was no mere guide to speech-making, but an educational content inculcated an outlook on life. But it did not answer ultimate questions, and some, starting as rhetoricians, turned elsewhere for the solution of spiritual problems. Lucian's 'Nigrinus' records the impact of a high-minded philospher on a rhetorician, but the 'convert', nowhere finding virtue prectised by those who preached it, became disillusioned and sceptical. The second half of Quacquarelli's book deals with the 'ad Donatum'of cyprian, a rhetorician turned Christian. Quacquarelli's attempt to see pagan and Christian of the second and third centuries agains the common background of a rhetoric-obsessed culture is commendable. Based on wide-reading, his study is often suggestive and thought-provoking. (...) Though the book is intended to have… Read More

Peeters, Leuven, 1988.125p. ills.(line drawings and B&W photographs). Sewn. Front cover a little bit moist stained. Pen annotation on inside front cover. Verschenen ter gelegenheid van de gelijknamige tentoonstelling in het Allard Pierson Museum, 16.04.1990 - 13.05.1990.

VandenHoeck&Ruprecht, Göttingen, 1982. 225p. Paperback. A.o. W. HUG: Erzählende Quellen. Grundmuster narrativer Geschichtsschreibung in Antike und Mittelalter (pp.77-104); M. JUNG: Geschichtsdidaktische Konsequenzen aus einer erzähltheoretischen Historik (pp.129-171).

VanGorcum, Assen, 1941. 147p. ills. Sewn. Series: Van Gorcum's Historische Bibliotheek, XXIV.

Spectrum Publishers, Utrecht / Antwerp, 1966/64/66. 4th/3rd/4th impr. 3 vols. XVIII,349;XI,450;XXV,605p. Cloth. Spine with gilt titled vignette. Spine slightly bumped. Name and date on free endpaper. Vols.1 and 2: lower part fore edge water stained. Vol.2: front hinges a bit cracked, showing underneath tissue. Requires extra shipping costs: weight including packing from 2 - 5 Kg.

Hacette, Paris, 1950. 283p. Sewed. Some pencil markings. Partly uncut. Series: Saints En Leur Temps.

Olms, Hildesheim, 1975. 434p. Paperback.

Newsweek, New York, n.d.(1981). 172p. ills. Bound wrps.

Edizioni dell'Ateneo, Roma, 1967. 127p. Sewn. With pencil markings and annotations from WGA. With letter from C. Questa to WGA and his reply in carbon copy loosely inserted. Cover bit grimy and bit worn. Edges stained. From the library of the late Prof. W. Geoffrey Arnott.

Università degli Studi di Urbino, Urbino, 1984. XV,448,(165)p. ills.(B&W photographs and line drawings). Card board with dust wrps. Dust wrps a bit edge worn and with tear to lower part near spine (repaired with acid free adhesive tape. Upper edge cover and first pages slightly bumped. (Rare). A.o.: R. RAFFAELLI:La pagina e il testo. Sulle funzioni della doppia rigatura verticale nei codici latini antiquiores (pp.1-25); J. RUYSSCHAERT: Lignes d'un examen codicologique du 'Virgile Vatican' et du 'Virgile Romain' (pp.25-37); N. G. WILSON: The Relation of Text and Commentary in Greek Books) (pp.103-111);O. PECERE: Esemplari con subscriptiones e tradizione dei testi latini: l'Apuleio Laur. 68,2 (pp.111-139); S. RIZZIO: Gli umanisti, i testi classici e le scritture maiuscole (pp.223-243); C. QUESTA: Il Metro e il Libro. Per una semiologia della pagina scritta di Plato, Terenzio, Prudenzio, Orazio. (pp.337-397). From the library of Prof. Carl Deroux.

Edizioni dell' Ateneo, Roma, 1984. 533p. Paperback. Upper edge stained. Spine with two reading traces. Front cover a bit stained. Series: Ricerche di storia della lingua latina, 18. From the library of the late Prof. W. Geoffrey Arnott.

Edizioni dell'Ateneo, Roma, 1968. 67p. ills. Sewn. Series: Quaderni Athena, n.6. Nice copy. From the library of the late Prof. W. Geoffrey Arnott.

Patròn Editiore, Bologna, 1979.176p. Sewn. Cover a little bit stained. 'Questa draws attention to the similarity of thematic (occasionally even verbal) material of romantic melodramas like 'Iphigenia in Tauris' and 'Helen', and of Plautine New Comedy derivarives like 'Miles', 'Rudens', 'Captivi' to traditional themes of the classical 'Singspiel' and opera, of which he singles out Mozart's 'Entführung' and Rossini's 'Italiana in Algeri', where, agains a background of pirate kidnaps, exotic despots, captive maidens, ardent rescuers, and scheming, or scoundrelly, servants, the familiar routines of recognition, turning-of-tables, and nick-of-time-rescues, contribute to the happy endings of escapist entertainment: a learned and urbane little book, which will interest classical scholars who are also opera enthusiasts.' (E. KERR BORTHWICK in The classical Review (New Series), 1980, p.186). From the library of the… Read More

Salerno editirce, Roma. 1989. pp.139-215;14p. ills.(B/W and full colour photographs (facsimiles). Offprint Lo spazio letterario di Roma antica, Vol.III, La ricezione del testo. Sewn. Back cover and last plate a bit wrinkled by moist. From the library of the late Prof. W. Geoffrey Arnott.

Ambo, Baarn, n.d.(1992). 164p. Cloth wrps.

Hachette, Paris, 1901. 36th ed. XXIV,1551p. Rebound cloth. Spine with gilt titled vignette. small stamp ex libris T. Reekmans on half title. From the library of the late Prof. Dr. Tony Reekmans.

Gallimard, 1991. 202p. Paperback. Traduit de l?anglais. Thomas De Quincey nu fut pas seulement l?opiomane émérite que l?on connaît, mais aussi un virtuose des cultures antiques. Plus ambitieux que Suétone mais certes moins que Gibbon, De Quincey ne se propose rien de moins que de retrace l?historie des Imperatores depuis l?origine jusq?aux figures les plus fantomatiques du Bas-Empire. De César à Neron, d?Hadrien à Probus et Carus, il reprend une histoire, des episodes, des traits de caractère souvent mécompris et distordus par la tradition; il en restaure les drames et les inventions, dénonce par exemple la psychologie fallacieuse attribuée à Néron, se fascine pour César, éclaire les ?vrais? resorts de la personalité rayonnante d?Antinoüs? Le tout dans une débauche d?anecdotes, d?analogies bizarre et de comparaisons fulgurantes, caractéristiques d?un style flamboyant,… Read More

Dentu, Paris, 1878. 226p. Bound. Small library marks on tail spine and on first pages. Head spine little bit worn.

Routledge & Kegan, London, 1963. XII,282p. Cloth wrps. Wrps bit worn and repaired with adhesive tape. Signature on free endpaper. 'In an order of no apparent significance Quinn gives us essays which (regrouped) concern the emergence of the short poem in Latin, Propertius, Horace, and the poet's role, Horace's spring odes and dramatic monologue in his odes, Propertius and the poetry of the intellect, the Propempticon as treated by Propertius, Horace, and Ovid, Virgil's tragic queen, the tempo of Virgilian epic, and (...) Tacitus' narrative technique. In his opening remarks he vindicated the right of a scholar to attempt literary criticism. And reasonable so: any mind that reads without making judgments is half-asleep; and why may not a scholar express opinions whit his expertise should at laest preserve from some of the snares that may trap the layman? (...) The value of this book does not really depend on whether one can accept the theories and interpretations advanced. These… Read More