Saturday, October 14, 2023

Russell Meiggs & David Lewis (1969). A Selection of Greek Historical Inscriptions to the End of the Fifth Century B.C. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

I've been feeling a bit out of it for the last few days, so I was really looking forward a day off where I could go see if there was anything new or interesting in the local used book shops. There wasn't really anything of interest at the book auction other than a copy of the second volume of Gotlands Runinskrifter (which is incidentally available online so I might as well leave that for someone who actually does runology), so I moved onto Vangsgaards main shop on Fiolstræde. 

It appears that there were a few new books in the Greek history and literature section, including a copy of Meiggs & Lewis' A Selection of Greek Historical Inscriptions to the End of the Fifth Century B.C.


I admit I already have a copy of the revised version of this which was reissued as a Clarendon Paperback in 1992 (a purchase from the very fine Hellenic Book Service in London some years back), but it is always nice to get a good clean copy of the original hardcover – especially at a reasonable price of 125 DKK (ca. $17.61 USD). Also, my paperback copy is currently in storage in Canada and it's not really helping me at the moment.

I believe I would also be somewhat remiss to mention that the book has been in-part superseded at least with regard to the coverage of fifth century inscriptions following the Persian Wars has by Robin Osborne and Peter Rhodes' Greek Historical Inscriptions 478–404 BC (Oxford, 2017), but it's still nice to have for the selection the inscriptions from 479 BCE and earlier.


F. W. Walbank. 1957–1967. <i>A Historical Commentary on Polybius</i> (Volumes 1 & 2). Oxford: Clarendon Press.

In downtown Copenhagen Vangsgaards Antikvariat has an ongoing Antikvariske Bogudsalg  (Antiquarian Book Sale) that is kind of run like a Dut...