THE CLASSICAL REVIEW 205 THE notice of the Algemeene Gids of the Allard Scheurleer, who was primarily responsible for Pierson Museum (C.R. LII. 87) omitted to the production of the work, and to whom the mention the name of Professor C. W. Lunsingh credit for it is mainly due.

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PEIRITHOOS OR APOLLO? menes as Pausanias says, the conflict with the Centaurs at the wedding-feast was an incident MR. ASHMOLE says {C.R. LII. 87) : 'If Dorn- beginning a war of one year, at the end of seiff can explain away this single point' it will which the Lapiths won. This was known to be all right. He means that the famous middle every Greek by his reading of Homer at school. figure in the west pediment of the temple of Therefore in this trouble arising at his wedding Zeus at Olympia cannot be Peirithoos although Peirithoos is not primarily hero and eager it is according to Pausanias, because if he did husband, but king and commander-in-chief of not defend his wife against the Centaur it would his Lapiths in a moment of great political im- be not only ' a lack of chivalry' but even ' a portance. He starts a war in a majestic lack of manhood '. Well, I too have felt this attitude, and with the grand gesture of his right difficulty, and in the second edition of my hand he gives an order to his paladin Kaineus : paper1 I had already changed my interpreta- ' Here, attack Eurytion'; and to all his men : tion of the situation represented. According to ' Throw them out'. The question of the bow in Homer, whose story was the basis for Alka- the left hand is dealt with on pp. 27 f. of my paper. FRANZ DORNSEIFF. 1 See C.R. LII. 158. University of Greifswald.

SUMMARIES OF PERIODICALS (A reference to C. R. denotes a review or mention in the Classical Review.) describes recent excavations in Syria at Qasr el GNOMON XIV. 8. AUGUST 1938. Heir el-Gharbi and Kal' at Sem' an.) S. Auri- S. Reiter: Friedrich August Wolf. Ein gemma : // R. Museo di Spina in Ferrara. Leben in Brie/en. 3 vols. [Stuttgart : Metzler, 2nd edition, 1936. Pp. 333, 136 plates (Brom- 1935] (Pfeiffer). An illuminating collection of mer). A useful catalogue, of which the second letters. H. Moeller : Untersuchungen zutn edition should have profited by Beazley's review 'Desmotes' des Aischylos[C.R. LI. 169] (Peretti). of the first {J.H.S. 56, 88 ff.). I. Kovrig : Die M. has much to say that is interesting, but the Haupttypen der kaiserzeitlichen Fibeln in ethical and religious problem of the Desmotes Pannonien [C.R. LII. 2O2]i(Zeiss). Z. welcomes is not solved. M. Untersteiner: (1) Sofocle. a preliminary survey of a little explored field. Studio critico [C.R. L. 68] ; (2) Sofocle, Aiace. E. Schultze : Meeresscheue und seetuchtige Vol- Introduzione e commento [C.R. XLIX. 64] ker [Stuttgart: Enke, 1937. Pp. xi + 191] (Lesky). (1) U. is learned and intelligent, but (Miltner). An able and suggestive treatment of his interpretations are too subtle. (2) An inter- a complicated subject. W. Schubart : Verfas- esting and stimulating commentary. H. Wein- sung und Verwaltung des PtolemderreicAs stock : Sophokles. 2nd edition [Berlin : Die [Leipzig: Hinrichs, 1937. Pp. 39] (Passerini). Runde, 1937. Pp. 221] (Nestle). A book which A remarkable achievement. C. Diehl : Theo- must be taken into account although not always dora, impe"ratrice de Byzance [Paris : de Boc- convincing. A. Svensson: Der Gebrauch des card, 1937. Pp. 314] (Ensslin). An unaltered bestimmten Artikels in der nachklassischen reprint of the edition of 1904.—Bibliographical griechischenEpik [C.R. LI. 201] (Wyss). Use- Supplement 1938 No. 4 (down to July 31). ful ; but S. should have considered grammatical theory of the time. J. Svennung : Untersuch- ungen zu Palladius und zur lateinischen Fach- PHIL0L0G1SCHE WOCHENSCHRIFT. und Volksprache [C.R. LI. 19] (Hoppe). A monumental work which would have been better (JULY—AUGUST, 1938. Nos. 27-36.) had it been more consistently relevant. Con- GREEK LITERATURE.—F. Stoessl, Die Tri- seniii ars de barbarismis et metaplasmis. Vic- logie des Aischylos. Formengesetze und Wege torinifragmentutn de soloecismo et barbarismo. der Rekonstruktion [C.R. LI. 169] (A. Lesky). Rec. M. Niedermann [Neuchatel, 1937. Pp. S. exaggerates somewhat the theory of parallel- I+43] (Leumann). This short treatise has an ism between the first two members of a trilogy. intrinsic interest which justifies the labour that —G. Busch, Untersuchungen zum Wesen der N. has spent in re-editing it. (R. Naumann T^XV *n den Tragodien des Euripides [C.R

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