Jeudi, 27 Novembre 2025 08:03
Jacques Elfassi
Lisa Cordes, Marco Formisano et Janja Soldo (éd.), Italo Calvino and Classics. Lightness, Quickness, Multiplicity, Leyde-Boston, 2025.
Éditeur : Brill
Collection : Mnemosyne, Supplements, 488
X-363 pages
ISBN : 978-90-04-71508-0
125,55 €
In his Memos for the Next Millennium, the Italian writer Italo Calvino identified five literary qualities that should accompany writers and readers into the literature of the future: lightness, quickness, exactitude, visibility, multiplicity. Though never finished, the Memos continue to inspire readers and scholars. This volume turns three of Calvino's poetic qualities – lightness, quickness, multiplicity – into powerful hermeneutic strategies for reading ancient and late antique texts, ranging widely from Homer's Iliad to Claudian's carmina minora. It is the first book to read ancient literature through the lens of Calvino's Memos, thus fostering a new discussion of the interactions between modern and ancient texts as well as between methodologies.
Source : Brill
Mardi, 25 Novembre 2025 08:08
Marie Ledentu
Christoph Pieper et Verena Schulz (éd.), Forgetting and Power in Greek and Latin Literature, Stuttgart, 2025.
Éditeur : Franz Steiner Verlag
Collection : Palingenesia, 145
317 pages
ISBN : 978-3-515-14020-1
70 €
Forgetting pervades Greek and Roman culture: it shapes the underworld, divine spheres, and human life. Forgetting stands at the beginning of life, when the souls of the dead drink forgetfulness from the river Lethe in the underworld before they are reborn. In Hesiod, Lethe (Forgetfulness) is personified as a goddess, the daughter of Eris (Strife). In Ovid, lovers seeking to forget an unhappy love affair turn to the god Amor Lethaeus for help.
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Lundi, 24 Novembre 2025 08:03
Pascale Paré-Rey
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Projets en Sciences des textes anciens: dialogues entre Humanités classiques et numériques
27-28 janvier 2026
Inscriptions ouvertes jusqu'au 18 décembre 2025
Chers collègues,
Nous avons le plaisir de vous informer de l'ouverture des inscriptions aux journées d'études sur les projets en humanités classiques et numériques, qui se tiendront à Aubervilliers, au Campus Condorcet, les 27 et 28 janvier 2026. Elles seront accessibles sur inscription uniquement, que ce soit en présence ou à distance.
Les inscriptions sont ouvertes jusqu'au 18 décembre 2025 sur le site sciences.conf: https://projets-sta.sciencesconf.org/, où ces journées sont présentées, ainsi que le dispositif Antiqui.TXTes qui les porte.
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Vendredi, 21 Novembre 2025 08:06
Jacques Elfassi
Ioannis Deligiannis, Herodoti Historia per Matthiam Palmierum Pisanum e Graeco in Latinum versa. The Latin Translation of Herodotus' ›Histories‹ by Mattia Palmieri, Berlin-Boston, 2025.
Éditeur : De Gruyter
Collection : Transmissions, 13
IX-740 pages
ISBN : 9783110682311
139,95 €
The book contains the editio princeps of Mattia Palmieri's mid-fifteenth-century Latin translation of Herodotus' Histories, almost contemporary or even earlier than that by Lorenzo Valla. It also investigates the intellectual and historical milieu in which Palmieri produced it as preparatory work for his historical works and to secure patronage under a church prelate by offering it to Cardinal Prospero Colonna. It includes some information on Palmieri's life and work and Herodotus' fortuna, a brief comparison between Palmieri's and Valla's translations, Palmieri's Greek model and Livy's influence on him in language and style. It finally approaches some methodological issues related to editing a text preserved in authorially revised versions, because the translation shows three different stages of revision. This first approach of Herodotus by Western scholars is significant, because Herodotus was foremost read as a quarry of information of ethnographical, geographical, historical and anthropological nature, in order for the Europeans to understand peoples they encountered on their exploratory voyages and the Ottomans, who were considered as descendants of the Persians.
Source : De Gruyter Brill
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