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Claudia Moatti, Sur la politique. Cinq grandes leçons romaines, Rome, 2025.

Éditeur : École française de Rome
Collection : Lectures méditerranéennes
308 pages
ISBN : 978-2-7283-1849-0
18 €

Repenser la res publica, d'où vient (mais par quels détours, quels malentendus !) le terme moderne de « république », c'est, à travers l'expérience romaine antique, éclairer de grandes questions actuelles : qu'est-ce que le peuple ? Quelle part de conflictualité peut-on tolérer dans l'espace public ? La participation directe est-elle plus démocratique que le système représentatif, la liberté toujours désirable ? Quelle place reconnaître à l'Autre dans la cité ? Ou encore : comment un individu ou un groupe, en s'auto-proclamant défenseur de la grandeur de l'État, devient-il autoritaire… ?

Charles C. Chiasson, Herodotus and the Greek Poetic Tradition, Cambridge, 2025.

Éditeur : Cambridge University Press
760 pages
ISBN : 9781009503693
£140.00

This is the first comprehensive analysis in any language of Herodotus' interaction with the Greek poetic tradition, including epic, lyric, and tragic poetry. It is essential reading for scholars of ancient Greek storytelling (including myth) and those interested in the hybrid nature of narrative history, as both a true or truth-based account of past events and a necessarily creative account, which requires the author to present data in a meaningful and engrossing literary form. Close readings of specific passages demonstrate how Herodotus uses the linguistic, thematic, and narrative resources of the poets to channel and challenge their social authority, and to engage the emotions and intellect of a broad Hellenic audience steeped in the traditions of poetic performance. Herodotus adopts or adapts some poetic features while rejecting others (explicitly or implicitly) as a means of defining the nature of his own research and narrative.

Anna Maria Wasyl (éd.), Blossius Aemilius Dracontius, Opera omnia. Vol. II Carmina christiana (Satisfactio, De laudibus Dei), Cracovie, 2025.

Éditeur : Historia Iagellonica
Collection : Hortus Philologiae
443 pages
ISBN : 978-83-67497-63-3
60 PLN

Blozjusz Emiliusz Drakoncjusz, Dzieła, tom II: Utwory chrześcijańskie. W kręgu poezji Drakoncjusza. Wstęp i opracowanie całości Anna Maria Wasyl. Przekład z komentarzami: Anna Maria Wasyl, Natalia Cichoń-Piecuch, Bartosz Jan Kołoczek, Patryk Michał Ryczkowski, Kraków: Towarzystwo Wydawnicze Historia Iagellonica 2025.

The edition includes ample introductory study, Latin text, Polish translation, and commentary to the entire corpus of Dracontius poetry. Volume II comprises Carmina christiana: Satisfactio and De laudibus Dei. In addition, a corollary part presents three minor poems datable to the Vandal era and most presumably intertextually related to Dracontius's texts: Concubitus Martis et Veneris by Reposianus, Aegritudo Perdicae, and In laudem Solis.

Anna Maria Wasyl (éd.), Blossius Aemilius Dracontius, Opera omnia. Vol. I Carmina Profana (Romulea, Orestis tragoedia, Epigrammata et Fragmenta), Cracovie, 2025.

Éditeur : Historia Iagellonica
Collection : Hortus Philologiae
449 pages
ISBN : 978-83-67497-62-6
60 PLN

Blozjusz Emiliusz Drakoncjusz, Dzieła, tom I: Utwory świeckie. Wstęp i opracowanie całości Anna Maria Wasyl. Przekład z komentarzami: Anna Maria Wasyl, Natalia Cichoń-Piecuch, Bartosz Jan Kołoczek, Patryk Michał Ryczkowski, Kraków: Towarzystwo Wydawnicze Historia Iagellonica 2025.

The edition includes ample introductory study, Latin text, Polish translation, and commentary to the entire corpus of Dracontius poetry. Volume I is dedicated to his secular poems (Carmina Profana): Romulea, Orestis tragoedia, Epigrammata et Fragmenta.

Cixila de Tolède, Vie et hauts faits de saint Ildephonse de Tolède. Traduction et édition critique par Thomas Deswarte, Paris, 2025.

Éditeur : Classiques Garnier
Collection : Bibliothèque d'histoire médiévale, 42
247 pages
ISBN : 978-2-406-18330-3
28 €

La Vie et hauts faits de saint Ildephonse présente la vie de cet évêque († 667) et les deux miracles des saintes Léocadie et Marie à Tolède. Son édition, sa traduction française et son étude montrent que cette Vie fut écrite au milieu du VIII^e siècle, avant d'être redécouverte à la fin du XI^e siècle.

Source : Classiques Garnier

Andrew R. Dyck, Cicero. The Man and His Works, Cambridge, 2025.

Éditeur : Cambridge University Press
1117 pages
ISBN : 9781107085640
£ 150.00

Cicero is one of the most important historical figures of classical antiquity. He rose from a provincial family to become consul at Rome in 63 BC and continued to play an active role in politics before his murder under the triumvirs Octavian, Mark Antony, and Lepidus. He also engaged in Roman intellectual culture, writing key works on both rhetoric and philosophy. We have a very large body of written evidence by and about him – far more than for any other figure of the Roman Republic – including private correspondence not intended for publication. However, previous biographers – in mapping his political career – have mostly overlooked his other activities. Taking a broader perspective enables a much fuller and richer profile of him to emerge. This epochal new portrait of Rome's great orator offers a more complete picture of the man, his personality, and his works in the overall context of his remarkable life.

Source : Cambridge University Press