T. Moreau, A. Bodin (éd.), Réseaux sociaux et contraintes dans l'Antiquité Tardive, 2014.

Éditeur : Revue des Études Tardo-Antiques
Collection : Supplément 1
336 pages
ISBN : 2115-8266

Les contributions rassemblées dans ce numéro spécial de la Revue des Études Tardo-antiques font suite à la journée d'études qui s'est tenue le 27 juin 2013 à la Maison d'Archéologie & d'Ethnologie, René-Ginouvès (MAE), sur le campus de l'université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense.

Dans l'Antiquité tardive, les structures de pensée ont évolué du IIIe au VIe siècle, qu'il s'agisse des lois, de l'idéologie de l'État romain, des normes de conduite également définies par la chrétienté, des critères identitaires, ethniques et familiaux. Les études qui composent ce livre ont été distribuées en quatre thèmes qui relèvent d'approches, de problématiques et de réflexions liées à la famille, à la position de fonctionnaire et de rhéteur, à l'appartenance religieuse, et celles qui déterminent les comportements des groupes sociaux. Ces contributions permettent d'amorcer un virage thématique : plutôt que d'étudier la formation des réseaux selon la seule perspective positive de protection et de promotion sociale, le présent ouvrage apporte un éclairage sur des dynamiques inverses : celles de d'exclusion, de la soumission, des maintiens ou mises en périphérie, des évictions et des soustractions. Poids des contraintes et variété des réseaux ressortent comme les deux principaux accents de l'ensemble des articles qui sont ici présentés.

Tristan Power et Roy K. Gibson (éd.), Suetonius the Biographer. Studies in Roman Lives, Oxford, 2014.

Éditeur : Oxford University Press
352 pages
ISBN : 978-0-19-969710-6
£ 70

The biographer Suetonius is one of the most fascinating writers of ancient Rome, but he is rarely afforded serious critical attention. This volume of new essays focuses on the various aspects of Suetonius' work, from his lost biographical writing on Roman courtesans to his imperial portraits of the Caesars.
Beginning with an introduction that assesses the originality of Suetonius as a writer and situates the essays within the context of debates and controversies over his biographical form, the collection addresses the issues surrounding his style, themes, and early influence on literature in three parts. The first part discusses formal features of Suetonian biography, such as his literary techniques, manners of citation and quotation, and devices of allusion and closure. The middle section is devoted to readings of the individual Lives, treating several topics - from Suetonius' decision to begin his collection with Julius Caesar, to fictional elements in his death scene of the emperor Caligula, and to the theme of solitude in his Life of Domitian. The last part examines the ways in which Suetonius transgresses the boundaries of ancient biography by looking at his influence on epistolographers, antiquarians, commentators, and later biographers.
This volume is essential reading for anyone who wants to know why Suetonius' Lives are such a unique and powerful medium for the stories of ancient Rome, and how they became the primary model for later biography.

Stefan Tilg, Apuleius' Metamorphoses A Study in Roman Fiction, Oxford, 2014.

Éditeur : Oxford University Press
208 pages
ISBN : 978-0-19-870683-0
£ 45

This volume reveals how Apuleius' Metamorphoses - the only fully extant Roman novel and a classic of world literature - works as a piece of literature, exploring its poetics and the way in which questions of production and reception are reflected in its text. Providing a roughly linear reading of key passages, the volume develops an original idea of Apuleius as an ambitious writer led by the literary tradition, rhetoric, and Platonism, and argues that he created what we could call a seriocomic 'philosophical novel' avant la lettre. The author focuses, in particular, on the ways in which Apuleius drew attention to his achievement and introduced the Greek ass story to Roman literature. Thus, the volume also sheds new light on the forms and the literary and intellectual potential of the genre of the ancient novel.

Revue d'Etudes Augustiniennes et Patristiques 60/1, 2014.

Éditeur : Institut d'Études Augustiniennes
II + 174 pages
ISBN : 978-2-85121-273-3
47,50 €

Table of Contents
Tim DENECKER, Heber or Habraham? Ambrosiaster and Augustine on Language History
Jérôme LAGOUANÈRE, Le schème de l'hebdomade dans les premiers écrits de saint Augustin
Lucia SAUDELLI, "Dieu" ou "démon" de Socrate? Augustin contre Apulée
Jeffrey AUBIN, Augustin et la rhétorique à la fin du IVe siècle: quelques liens entre le De doctrina christiana et le De rhetorica
Gilbert DAHAN, "Être avec (le) Christ ou vivre pour ses frères". L'exégèse de Philippiens 1, 23-24 aux XIIe et XIIIe siècles
Antoine BRIX, La Tabula De ciuitate Dei dite de Robert Kilwardby. Problèmes d'attribution et tradition manuscrite
Comptes rendus bibliographiques

Source : Brepols

Revisiting Vergil and Roman Religion

Symposium Cumanum 2015, June 23-26, 2015

Directors: John F. Miller (Virginia) and Christopher Nappa (Minnesota)

The Vergilian Society invites proposals for papers for the 2015 Symposium Cumanum at the Villa Vergiliana in Cuma, Italy.

In 1998, the publication of Beard, North, and Price's Religions of Rome and Feeney's Literature and Religion at Rome revolutionized the way we understand the religious practices of the Romans. In the intervening fifteen years, work on Latin literature has increasingly taken this new understanding as its point of departure. In the case of Vergil, significant studies of individual questions have been produced (e. g., Dyson's King of the Wood, Panoussi's Greek Tragedy in Vergil's Aeneid, Miller's Apollo and the Poets), but the time has come for a full reassessment of the religious dimensions of Vergilian poetry. This conference will bring together scholars from across the world to assess the poetry of Vergil in light of newer work on Roman religion.