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Cicéron, De la divination. Tome II, livre II. Introduction spécifique et commentaire par Yves Lehmann. Texte établi et traduit par François Guillaumont, Paris, 2023.

Éditeur : Les Belles Lettres
Collection : Collection des universités de France Série latine - Collection Budé, 438
XXXVI-236 pages
ISBN : 9782251014982
49 €

Les deux livres du De diuinatione se présentent comme un dialogue philosophique de villa, tenu à Tusculum, entre Cicéron et son frère Quintus. La question porte sur le crédit qu'il convient d'accorder à la divination. Au livre 1, Quintus se montre affirmatif ; son exposé, d'orientation globalement stoïcienne, repose sur de nombreux exemples, tant grecs que romains. Mais au livre 2, Cicéron, qui s'inspire des académiciens Carnéade et Clitomaque, adopte une position plus nuancée, voire nettement sceptique ; il admet cependant l'importance de la divination comme facteur de modération dans la vie politico-religieuse. La rédaction du De diuinatione étant achevée pour l'essentiel à la mort de César, l'Arpinate - soucieux de renouer avec l'action politique - y intègre le bilan de son oeuvre philosophique.

Andrew G. Scott, An Age of Iron and Rust: Cassius Dio and the History of His Time, Leyde-Boston, 2023.

Éditeur : Brill
Collection : Historiography of Rome and Its Empire, 18
268 pages
ISBN : 978-90- 04-54111-5
130.80 €

Cassius Dio described his own age as one of “iron and rust.” This study, which is the first of its kind in English, examines the decline and decay that Cassius Dio diagnosed in this period (180-229 CE) through an analysis of the author's historiographic method and narrative construction. It shows that the final books were a crucial part of Dio's work, and it explains how Dio approached a period that he considered unworthy of history in view of his larger historiographic project.

Source : Brill

Myrto Garani, David Konstan et Gretchen Reydams-Schils (éd.), The Oxford Handbook of Roman Philosophy, Oxford, 2023.

Éditeur : Oxford University Press
Collection : Oxford Handbooks
664 pages
ISBN : 9780199328383
£ 97.00

Several decades of scholarship have demonstrated that Roman thinkers developed in new and stimulating directions the systems of thought they inherited from the Greeks, and that, taken together, they offer many perspectives that are of philosophical interest in their own right. The Oxford Handbook of Roman Philosophy explores a range of such Roman philosophical perspectives through thirty-four newly commissioned essays. Where Roman philosophy has long been considered a mere extension of Hellenistic systems of thought, this volume moves beyond the search for sources and parallels and situates Roman philosophy in its distinctive cultural context.

Fragmentary Republican Latin, Vol. VI Livius Andronicus. Naevius. Caecilius. Edited and translated by Robert Maltby and Niall W. Slater Cambridge (MA), 2022.

Éditeur : Harvard University Press
Collection : Loeb Classical Library, 314
736 pages
ISBN : 978-0-674-99748-6
25 €

The Loeb Classical Library series Fragmentary Republican Latin continues with three highly influential pioneers in the creation and development of Latin poetry.
Livius Andronicus (born ca. 292 BC) was regarded by the Romans as the founder of Latin literature, introducing tragedy and comedy, adapting Homer's Odyssey into Saturnian verse, and composing a nationally important hymn for Juno. A meeting place for writers and actors was established in the temple of Minerva on the Aventine in recognition of his poetic achievements.

Darja Šterbenc Erker, Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid's Fasti. Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, Leyde-Boston, 2023.

Éditeur : Brill
Collection : Mnemosyne, Supplements, 466
XVI-297 pages
ISBN : 978-90-04-52703-4
153.60 €

Ovid's Fasti offers multifocal views of Augustan religion to convey ambivalences, inconsistencies and paradoxes in the imperial family's religious agenda. Darja Šterbenc Erker explores Ovid's irreverent and ambiguous presentations of calendrical aeitiologies, deifications and imperial gods that humorously call to mind Arachne's tapestry depicting faulty gods and that stand in sharp contrast to the poet's more serious discussions of the values he cherishes, such as freedom and poetic immortality. Especially in the exilic revisions of the poem, Ovid emphasises the motif of bestowing divine honours upon mortals through poetry. For him, the stars in the heavens do not represent deified statesmen but immortal authors.

Source : Brill

Mathilde Cambron-Goulet, Partager les savoirs. Pratiques orales et écrites de la philosophie dans l'Antiquité , Paris, 2023.

Éditeur : Classiques Garnier
Collection : Kaïnon - Anthropologie de la pensée ancienne, 23
269 pages
ISBN : 978-2-406-14430-4
32 €

Les philosophes de l'Antiquité se méfient de l'écriture : la philosophie est pour eux une pratique de partage des savoirs. Aussi préfèrent-ils qu'elle prenne vie et se déploie dans le corps même des philosophes, dans des pratiques savantes amicales et des activités conviviales.

Source : Classiques Garnier