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Ridha Kaabia (éd.), Cultes et lieux de culte en Byzacène antique, Sousse, 2017.

Éditeur : Faculté des Lettres & des Sciences Humaines de Sousse
208 pages
ISBN : 978-9938-926-25-5
35 D.TN

Sommaire
Introduction
Mohamed Grira : Mercur(ius) Sobr(ius) Aug(ustus) : A propos d'une nouvelle dédicace de Bir el Goussate (environs de Limisa-Ksar Lemsa en Tunisie)
Lamia Ben Abid : Le panthéon de Limisa à travers l'épigraphie latine
Slah Selmi: Duodecimuiri Urbis Romae à Sufetula
Ridha Ghaddhab et Ridha Kaabia : Aedes Mineruae inter Adrumentinos et T(h)ysdritanos : essai de localisation
Olfa Hsini-Hamdi & Lotfi Naddari : Le monument du culte impérial à Thysdrus: le dossier épigraphique et iconographique
Hédi Fareh et Anis Hajlaoui : Nouveaux témoignages sur le christianisme en Byzacène de l'Ouest (Beld Gammouda)
Samira Zoubiri : Les stratégies ritualisées de protection en Byzacène romaine
Arbia Hélali : Les mosaïques de Thaenae : la culture gréco-romaine en images
Samira Shili : Les impies: permanence d'un concept de saint Augustin à Al-Wancharissi

Véronique Boudon-Millot et Serena Buzzi (éd.), Guérison, religion et raison. De la médecine hippocratique aux neurosciences, Paris, 2017.

Éditeur : De Boccard
Collection : Orient&Méditerranée 24
230 pages
ISBN : 978-2-7018-0522-1
Euro 39,00

Le présent volume ambitionne de prendre en compte sur un temps long depuis la naissance de Ia médecine occidentale de tradition hippocratique en Grèce au Ve siècle avant notre ère jusqu'aux dernières avancées des neurosciences, Ies principaux aspects culturels, philosophiques, psychologiques, sociaux et religieux susceptibles d'entrer en jeu dans Ie processus de guérison. Il s'inscrit donc à I'intersection de la médecine et de Ia philosophie, mais aussi de l'histoire des sciences, des idées et des religions. En s'intéressant aux différentes médecines dites « rationnelles » et « alternatives », il s'efforce notamment d'éclairer Ie processus cognitif à I'origine de Ia prise de décision par Ie médecin et le ròle de Ia raison et de la religion dans la réussite ou I'échec du traitement pour le patient.

Serena Buzzi (éd.), Il regime di salute in medicina. Dalla dieta ippocratica all'epigenetica, Alessandria, 2017.

Éditeur : Edizioni dell'Orso
Collection : Hellenica
276 pages
ISBN : 978-88-6274-741-1
Euro 20,00

Collana HELLENICA
Collana di testi e strumenti di letteratura greca antica, medievale, umanistica
diretta da Enrico V. Maltese

Abstract: Antichisti, storici della medicina, medici e operatori nel campo sanitario, provenienti da vari atenei d'Italia ed Europa, si interrogano qui sull'importanza del regime di salute. Vengono indagati il rapporto tra salute e malattia, il ruolo dell'alimentazione, dell'ambiente, dello sport, dello stile di vita, dei comportamenti, della comunicazione, della terapia e della farmacologia. Il dialogo vivace, condotto con metodi e prospettive diverse, permette al lettore di trovare inattesi punti di convergenza fra il mondo antico e quello moderno e contemporaneo. La medicina da sempre infatti è teatro di paradigmi spesso concorrenti e a volte ricorrenti. Quella complessità di regole e di relazioni che in Ippocrate definisce il regime di salute trova una corrispondenza nel riconoscimento dell'interazione fra ambiente e assetto genetico individuale nella scienza contemporanea.

Cristina Rosillo-López, Public Opinion and Politics in the Late Roman Republic, Cambridge, 2017.

Éditeur : Cambridge University Press
280 pages
ISBN : 9781107145078
75 £

This book investigates the working mechanisms of public opinion in Late Republican Rome as a part of informal politics. It explores the political interaction (and sometimes opposition) between the elite and the people through various means, such as rumours, gossip, political literature, popular verses and graffiti. It also proposes the existence of a public sphere in Late Republican Rome and analyses public opinion in that time as a system of control. By applying the spatial turn to politics, it becomes possible to study sociability and informal meetings where public opinion circulated. What emerges is a wider concept of the political participation of the people, not just restricted to voting or participating in the assemblies.

Argues that public opinion existed in the Late Roman Republic and analyses its working mechanisms
Explores a wider approach to the political participation of the people
Applies the spatial turn to politics in order to locate informal politics in its actual archaeological setting.

Source : Cambridge University Press

Paula Hershkowitz, Prudentius, Spain, and late antique Christianity: poetry, visual culture, and the cult of martyrs, Cambridge, 2017.

Éditeur : Cambridge University Press
xiii, 254 pages
ISBN : 9781107149601

This book provides an innovative approach to the Hispano-Roman Christian poet Prudentius and his poetry. It is a breakthrough in Prudentian scholarship which unifies the differing disciplines of history, archaeology, literature and art history in arguing that Prudentius and his envisaged Spanish audience cannot be fully understood in isolation from their environment in late fourth- and early fifth-century Spain. Paula Hershkowitz focuses on Prudentius' Peristephanon, his collection of verses celebrating the deaths of martyrs, and places these poems within the context of Prudentius' world, uniquely employing material, visual and textual remains as evidence for its religious, social and cultural affiliations. It also draws on this material evidence to contextualise Prudentius' awareness of the significance of the visual as a means of promoting beliefs against the background of this crucial formative period in religious history when many of his Spanish audience were not yet fully committed to the Christian faith.

Source : Cambridge University Press

Robert Germany, Mimetic contagion: art and artifice in Terence's Eunuch, Oxford-New York, 2016.

Éditeur : Oxford University Press
Collection : Oxford studies in ancient culture and representation
vi, 198 pages
ISBN : 9780198738732
55 £

When we are confronted with a work of art, what is its effect on us? In contrast to post-Enlightenment conceptions, which tend to restrict themselves to aesthetic or discursive responses, the ancient Greeks and Romans often conceived works of art as having a more dynamic effect on their viewers, inspiring them to direct imitation of what they saw represented. This notion of 'mimetic contagion' was a persistent and widespread mode of framing response to art across the ancient world, discernible in both popular and elevated cultural forms, yet deployed differently in various historical contexts; it is only under the specificity of a particular cultural moment's concerns that it becomes most useful as a lens for understanding how that culture is attempting to negotiate the problems of representation.