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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.
