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Aleksandriya. Roman ob Aleksandre Makedonskom po russkoi rukopisi XV veka (Alexandria. The Romance on Alexander of Macedonia after a Russian Ma-nuscript from the 15th cent.). Moscow, 1965, 269 p p .
T h e b o o k consists of t h e p u b l i c a t i o n of t h e t e x t b y Y a . S. L u г i e a n d 0 . V. Τ v o r o g o v , a t r a n s l a t i o n i n t o m o d e r n R u s s i a n a n d t h e ap-pendices, a m o n g w h i c h a f u n d a m e n t a l position is held b y t h e articles: The Medieval Romance on Alexander of Macedonia in the Russian Literature of the 15th cent. ( Y a . S. L u r i e), The Stylistic Peculiarities of the Romance ön Alexander of Macedonia (О. V. T v o r o g o v ) , A Paleographical Survey (Ya. S. L u -r i e ) a n d b y a n a m p l e c o m m e n t a -r y (M. N . B o t v i n n i k a n d Y a . S. L u -r i e). T h e b o o k is p r o v i d e d w i t h indexes.
1 . D . A m u s i η, M. N . B o t v i n n i k , L. M. G 1 u s к i η a. Pamyati uchitelya (In memoriam magistři). VDI, 1965, no. 1, p p . 228—230.
A n o b i t u a r y of an o u t s t a n d i n g Soviet i n v e s t i g a t o r of a n t i q u i t y , Y a . S. L u -r i e (1891—1964). This schola-r, whose scientific i n t e -r e s t s we-re v e -r y wide, l e f t over t w o h u n d r e d w o r k s on t h e m o s t v a r i e d p r o b l e m s , including studies in p a p y r o l o g y a n d e p i g r a p h y . T h e o b i t u a r y is p r o v i d e d w i t h a c o m p l e t e biblio-g r a p h y of t h e w o r k s of Y a . S. L u r i e compiled b y I . D . A m u s i η. M a n y of these works are w r i t t e n in foreign languages or h a v e b e e n t r a n s l a t e d . I . B . B r a s h i n s k i i . Afiny i Severnoye Prichernomor'e v VI—II vv. do n.e.
(Athens and the Northern Black Sea Coast in the 6th to 2nd cent. B.C.) Moscow, 1963, 176 p p .
O n p p . 161—163 t h e a u t h o r deals w i t h t h e p r o b l e m of commercial compe-t i compe-t i o n b e compe-t w e e n B o s p o r u s a n d E g y p compe-t as well as w i compe-t h compe-t h e l e compe-t compe-t e r of Apollonius t o Zenon on t h e occasion of a n e m b a s s y of P a i r i s a d e s I I .
Apollonii R o d o s s k i i . Argonavtika (Apollonius R h o d i u s, Argonau-tica). A t r a n s l a t i o n , i n t r o d u c t i o n a n d n o t e s b y G. P h . Z e r e t e l i .
1 Cf. JJP XV, pp. 417-427.
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A c a d e m y of Sciences of Georgian S.S.R. I n s t i t u t e of Oriental Studies. Tbilisi, 1964, 350 p p . Apollonii Rhodii Argonautica. R e c o g n o v i t v e r s i b u s q u e rossicis c o n v e r t i t Gregorius C e r e t h e l i , Thbilisiis, 1964).
A p o s t h u m o u s edition compiled b y a c o m m i t e e a p p o i n t e d for t h e edition of t h e works of G. F L . Z e r e t e l i . Besides t h e p a r t w r i t t e n b y G. P h . Z e -r e t e l i himself (the i n t -r o d u c t i o n , t e x t , R u s s i a n t -r a n s l a t i o n a n d notes) t h e -r e a r e : Postscript a n d an essay e n t i t l e d G. Ph. Zereteli and his translation of the ivorks of ancient poets by F. A. Petrovskii. T h e b o o k is p r o v i d e d w i t h illustra-tions a m o n g which t h e r e is a p o r t r a i t of G. Pli. Z e r e t e l i a n d a p h o t o g r a p h of t h e m a n u s c r i p t of t h e t r a n s l a t i o n .
V. N . D y a k o v, S. I . Κ o v a 1 e ν (ed.) Istoriya drevnego mira (The History of the Ancient World), 2 n d edition, Moscow, 1962. T h e c h a p t e r e n t i t l e d
The Kingdom of the Ptolemies — p p . 395—403.
I. F . F i k h m a n. Remeslenniki pozdnerimskogo Egipta po dannym grecheskikh papirusov (The Craftsman of Late Roman Egypt after the Data of the Greek
Papyri). T h e Conference on t h e S t u d y of t h e P r o b l e m s of A n t i q u i t y , 9—14 April 1964, L e n i n g r a d . T h e Theses of R e p o r t s , Moscow, 1964.
A concise p r e s e n t a t i o n of t h e m a i n conclusions of c h a p t e r one of t h e a u t h o r ' s w o r k (cf. i n f r a ) .
I . F . F i k h m a η. K voprosu o korporativnoi vzaimopomoshchi v vizantiiskom Egipte (A Contribution to the Problem of Mutual Assistance in the Guilds of Byzantine Egypt). JJP, X Y (1965), p p . 91—97.
I . F . F i k h m a n, Survey of Soviet Papyrology. JJP, X Y (1965), p p . 417—427.
I . F . F i k h m a n. Nekotoryye voprosy khozyaistvennoi deyatelnosti remeslen-nykh korporacii pozdnerimskogo Egipta. (Some Problems of the Economic Activities of Guilds in Late Roman Egypt). VDI, 1965, no. 3, p p . 146—153. T h e i n d e p e n d e n c e of economic activities prevailing a m o n g c r a f t s m e n did n o t exclude p r o d u c t i o n relations b e t w e e n t h e c r a f t s m e n m e m b e r s of t h e s a m e guild. T h e economic i n t e r d e p e n d e n c e a p p e a r e d especially v i v i d l y w h e n t h e guild p e r f o r m e d t h e w o r k in c o m m o n , b u t we h a v e no evidence t h a t t h e guilds u s e d c o m m o n stocks of r a w m a t e r i a l s , as is asserted b y s o m e scholars basing t h e i r a r g u m e n t on t h e t e x t of P . O x y . I , 85 (338 A.D.). T h e m e m b e r s h i p of t h e guild u n d o u b t e d l y c o n t r i b u t e d t o t h e d e v e l o p m e n t of t h e consciousness of solidarity, a n d u n i t e d a n d consolidated t h e c r a f t s m e n in t h e struggle f o r t h e i r i n t e r e s t s , p e r h a p s as well as in t h e struggle for t h e increase of salaries a n d t h e
