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Sébastien Morlet, Christianisme et philosophie. Les premières confrontations (Ier-VIe siècle), Paris, 2014.

Éditeur : Livre de poche
Collection : Antiquité
264 pages
ISBN : 9782253156505
7,10

Dans l'Antiquité, christianisme et philosophie se font face comme deux voies d'accès à la vérité : l'une, par le moyen de la foi, l'autre, par la recherche rationnelle. Les rapports du christianisme et de la philosophie sont cependant plus complexes. Les néoplatoniciens accordent une place grandissante aux éléments extra-rationnels et en viennent à ne plus considérer la raison comme la seule voie d'accès au savoir. Inversement, les chrétiens reconnaissent une certaine vérité dans la philosophie et lui accordent un rôle préliminaire dans l'acquisition de la sagesse. Souvent convaincus que la révélation biblique est la source du savoir grec, les chrétiens présentent leur religion comme la seule « vraie philosophie ». Ce livre retrace les grandes lignes d'une confrontation qui joua un rôle capital dans la formation de la doctrine chrétienne comme dans la transmission de la culture gréco-romaine. Il amène à réviser certaines idées reçues sur le christianisme et son rapport à la raison.

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Isidor de Sevilla, Etimologii XI-XII. Editie bilingva. Editie ingrijita, traducere din limba latina, studiu introductiv, cronologie si note de Anca Crivăţ, Iaşi, 2014.

Éditeur : Polirom
Collection : Biblioteca medievala
280 pages
ISBN : 978-973-46-4282-3
34,95 lei

Ultimul savant al culturii antice, Isidor de Sevilla este si unul dintre fondatorii culturii medievale. Etimologiile sale sint o vasta sinteza a eruditiei antice profane si religioase, pagine si crestine, constituind in acelasi timp prima enciclopedie medievala. Cartile a XI-a (Despre om si monstri) si a XII-a (Despre animale) reprezinta o parte importanta a cartilor despre natura. Cartea a XI-a este un rezumat al cunostintelor pe care le-a avut la dispozitie gindirea medievala despre om, atit in privinta anatomiei si fiziologiei, cit si a psihologiei, un text remarcabil prin meditatia pe care o ofera asupra monstruozitatii ca limita a umanului. Cartea a XII-a este un insemnat izvor pentru literatura didactica si cea de fictiune din Evul Mediu, reliefind statutul extrem de interesant al animalelor in cultura medievala: in cadrul acesteia, ele nu vor fi doar obiecte ale demersului stiintific de tip zoologic, ci si repere ale discursului moralizator si elemente ale discursului alegoric si anagogic.

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Giornale Italiano di Filologia. International Studies of Ancient Sources and their Contexts, 2014.

Éditeur : Brepols

Table des matières:
ARTICOLI E NOTE

FEDERICO CONDELLO Il cane e il fiume: interpretazione di Thgn. 347s. (con un excursus sulla ‘figura d'identificazione')

LUIGI FERRERI Questione teognidea. Questioni di lirica e di oralità

EVA ANAGNOSTOU-LAOUTIDES – DAVID KONSTAN Apollonius Rhodius, Cyzicus and the Near East


CLAUDIA FACCHINI TOSI Neologismi di nomina agentis in –trix

SONIA FRANCISETTI BROLIN Gli Epigoni di Accio: il fr. XIII (v. 302) Ribbeck

GIUSEPPE FLAMMINI La funzione didascalica di alcune strutture prefatorie del De rerum natura: le risorse del poeta – magister

DISKIN CLAY Some Verse Epistles of Catullus

GIUSEPPE RAMIRES "In barba" a Virgilio: un problema di interpretazione e traduzione a Aen. 8, 659

FABRIZIO FERACO La fortuna di Plauto: l'esempio di Solino

ANNA MARANINI – FABIO MARRI Riscoperta di classici ed esegesi tra Sei e Settecento. Muratori e Gisbert Cuper su Paolino da Nola

FRANCESCO CABRAS I Foricoenia amorosi di Jan Kochanowski. Sulla diffusione di Ovidio in Polonia

RETRACTANDO ATQUE EXPOLIENDO

EVA VALVO L'Altro nell'antichità tra ostilità e fascinazione

PATRIZIA LIVIABELLA FURIANI A proposito dell'intervento degli dèi in Erodoto

ROSA MARIA LUCIFORA Il vecchio e il serpente

DAVIDE LODESANI Ammiano geografo, le fonti, il testo, l'interpretazione

IDA G. MASTROROSA Girolamo e l'ascetismo muliebre tardoantico: a proposito di un recente studio sul monachesimo femminile

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Uwe Walter (éd.), Gesetzgebung und politische Kultur in der römischen Republik, Heidelberg, 2014.

Éditeur : Verlag Antike
Collection : Studien zur Alten Geschichte, 20
295 pages
ISBN : 978-3-938032-74-9
€ 59,90 [D]

In den produktiven althistorischen Forschungen zur politischen Kultur der römischen Republik wurde lange Zeit ein wichtiges Feld von Diskursen, Handlungen und Institutionen ein wenig vernachlässigt: die Rechtssetzung.
Die Beiträge des hier vorgelegten Bandes erörtern gleichsam vom Rande her einige Aspekte, bei denen sich neue Perspektiven abzeichnen. Dazu gehören die Rolle der Juristen, das Verhältnis des Volksgesetzes (lex publica) zu anderen Regeln und Normen, die Gesetzgebung als Ausdrucksseite der politischen Kommunikation, die Frage nach dem Stellenwert von Gesetzen, wenn versucht wurde, Übelstände zu bekämpfen oder gar eine konsistente Politik zu implementieren, und nicht zuletzt die Erosion der politischen Ordnung im Verhältnis zur Gesetzgebung.

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Jane Alison, Change Me. Stories of Sexual Transformation from Ovid. Foreword by Elaine Fantham, and Introduction by Alison Keith, Oxford, 2014.

Éditeur : Oxford University Press
208 pages
ISBN : 978-0-19-994165-0
£ 12.99

Ovid's stories melt moral conventions, explore ambiguities, and dissolve boundaries between men, women, animals, gods, plants, and the mineral world; in doing so they contrive to seduce readers. Ovid's dark pleasure in telling such stories with a full register of tones is palpable. But the stories of sexual encounter in the Metamorphoses are also infused with deep questions. What does it mean to have thoughts and passions trapped inside a changeable body? What is a self, and where are its edges? If someone can pierce you in sex and in love, how do you survive? And if your outer form changes, what lasts?
In Change Me, Jane Alison, critically acclaimed author of The Love-Artist, renders substantial portions of Ovid's great epic into elegant and remarkably faithful English. Her focus is on episodes that involve desire, sexuality, and the transformations brought about by powerful emotion; because these themes are so central to the Metamorphoses, Alison introduces them with a selection of elegies from Ovid's Amores, the collection with which the poet launched his career. When these selections are taken together, Alison's Ovid comes alive; the Roman poet's great ability to perform contemporary themes through mythical subject matter, and vice versa, is Alison's guiding principle and Muse. Change Me will transform forever readers' experience of this most ingenious of poets.

William Allan, Classical Literature: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford, 2014.

Éditeur : Oxford University Press
Collection : Very Short Introductions
160 pages
ISBN : 978-0-19-966545-7
£ 7.99

From popular histories through to reworkings of classical subject matter by contemporary poets, dramatists, and novelists, the classical world and the masterpieces of its literature continue to fascinate readers and audiences in a huge variety of media. In this Very Short Introduction, William Allan explores what the 'classics' are and why they continue to shape our Western concepts of literature. Presenting a range of material from both Greek and Latin literature, he illustrates the variety and sophistication of these works, and considers examples from all the major genres.
Ideal for the general reader interested in works of classic literature, as well as students at A-Level and University, this is a lively and lucid guide to the major authors and literary forms of the ancient period.