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V. Panoussi et W. Hutton (éd.), Memory, Ritual, and Identity in Ancient Greece and Rome

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Vassiliki Panoussi et William Hutton (éd.), Memory, Ritual, and Identity in Ancient Greece and Rome, Berlin, 2025.

Éditeur : De Gruyter
446 pages
ISBN : 9783111197319
139,95 €

The essays in this volume consider the triptych of memory, ritual, and identity in ancient Greece and Rome. The issue of identity has recently dominated the arena of public discourse with renewed urgency, and in antiquity as in the current day, identities were created through an amalgamation of multivalent views and values. Individual identities were inextricably linked to collective identifications and informed by shared memories and experiences; these in turn shaped the narratives and practices that perpetuated connections within the community. Ritual played a foundational role in this process, as a deeply felt, iterative action that brought members of a community together to form powerful memories through which they negotiated their relationships with one another and with society at large. With contributions on ancient Greek and Roman literature, politics, religion, and material culture, and with a chronological scope ranging from archaic Greece to early Christendom, this volume examines the synergy of memory, ritual, and identity from multiple disciplinary perspectives and provides both an illustration of the variety of configurations that synergy took in Greco-Roman antiquity and how they persisted and evolved over time.

 

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F. Lozano, J. M. Cortés Copete et E. Muñiz-Grijalvo (éd.), Narratives of the Roman Empire. How to Make Rome with Words and Rituals

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Fernando Lozano, Juan Manuel Cortés Copete et Elena Muñiz-Grijalvo (éd.), Narratives of the Roman Empire. How to Make Rome with Words and Rituals, Berlin, 2025.

Éditeur : De Gruyter
376 pages
ISBN : 9783111706931
129,95 €

Since Republican times, Rome has fostered ideological constructs aimed at justifying its conquest and domination of the Mediterranean. This process gathered steam in the imperial age, as the contributions of the conquered regions gradually assimilated into the empire.
Words and rituals represented the empire not as the Roman domination of conquered nations, but as a community capable of integrating the provincials. This was not merely an ideological construct: the new community was indeed a result of the integration of different peoples and their political, cultural and religious traditions.
This idea of empire was present at very different levels: documents directly emanating from the emperors and all kinds of literature. Rites also contributed to shaping imperial discourse, laying firm ideological foundations for the symbolic construction of the community and disseminating the imperial discourse among its members.
Words and rituals contributed to creating new mindsets that progressively supplemented the old political and social mores and customs with a new ‘narrative of empire', and vice versa: narratives contributed to shaping the very idea of empire.

 

Source : De Gruyter Brill

 

K. Matijević, R. Raja et J. Rüpke (dir.), Caesar’s Visions and Impact on the Roman Empire

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Krešimir Matijević, Rubina Raja et Jörg Rüpke (dir.), Caesar's Visions and Impact on the Roman Empire: Revisiting the Archaeological and Historical Record of the 40s BC, Turnhout, 2025.

Éditeur : Brepols
Collection : Rome Studies, vol. 2
x + 236 pages
ISBN : 978-2-503-61930-9
130 € (H.T.)

Conqueror of Gaul, textbook author, demagogue, gravedigger of the Republic, first emperor: Caesar, and in particular the Caesar of the 40s BC, is equally Roman superstar and notorious dictator, and certainly one of the most controversial figures of Roman history. Bringing together specialists of various disciplines and representatives of different schools of thought, this volume offers a fresh appreciation of both Caesar as an historical character and of a period that irrevocably turned Rome into a military, political, and cultural centre and a point of reference for the ancient Mediterranean world.

 

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Macrobe, Saturnales. Tome I : Introduction générale. Livre I

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Macrobe, Saturnales. Tome I : Introduction générale. Livre I. Direction et introduction générale par Benjamin Goldlust. Texte établi par Tristan Isaac. Traduit par Benjamin Goldlust et Tristan Isaac. Commentaire par Nicole Belayche, Yann Berthelet, Benjamin Goldlust et Tristan Isaac, Paris, 2025.

Éditeur : Les Belles Lettres
Collection : Collection des universités de France. Série latine
CLXXI + 645 pages
ISBN : 9782251015057
85 €

Les Saturnales (vers 430 après J.-C.) sont un banquet littéraire fictif, lointain héritier du Banquet de Platon, qui, à l'occasion de la fête de décembre en l'honneur du dieu Saturne, réunit douze orateurs pour des conversations savantes portant sur maints domaines du savoir, à commencer par la religion ancienne. Mais les Saturnales sont d'une importance décisive également du point de vue de l'érudition littéraire, de la théorie de l'imitation, ainsi que de la réception de Virgile. Elles sont enfin une œuvre qui, quoique nourrie de nombreux éléments compilés, répond à un projet artistique innovant.

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R. Angelini, Orbis Normannicus

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Roberto Angelini, Orbis Normannicus. Repertorio degli autori latini in Normandia (secoli X-XIII), Florence, 2025.

Éditeur : Sismel - Edizioni del Galluzzo
Collection : Quaderni di CALMA, 5
LXXXV-496 pages
ISBN : 978-88-9290-322-7
65 €

Tra il X e l'XI secolo, l'acquietarsi delle incursioni dei Normanni e il loro assestamento nel Ducato di Normandia ebbero decise conseguenze in tutta Europa, dalla conquista del trono inglese al dominio degli Altavilla in Italia meridionale, fino alla creazione di principati feudali in Terra Santa. Al crocevia dell'anno Mille, e per più di due secoli, l'antica Neustria fu luogo di origine o di approdo di alcuni fra i maggiori intellettuali dell'epoca: illustri filosofi o teologi quali Lanfranco di Pavia o Anselmo d'Aosta, cronisti come Orderico Vitale, Enrico di Huntingdon, Roberto di Torigni, poeti che, come Ildeberto, Marbodo, Balderico, furono interpreti della più raffinata versificazione. Insieme a questi nomi, la pubblicazione raccoglie oltre un centinaio di schede su autori nati o vissuti anche per un breve periodo in Normandia dalle origini ducali, databili nel 911, al 1214, anno della battaglia di Bouvines. Secondo le norme del Compendium Auctorum Latinorum Medii Aevi (C.A.L.M.A.), ciascuna voce fornisce il canone delle opere, corredate di descrizione e della bibliografia più aggiornata su manoscritti, edizioni e studi. Completa il volume una ricostruzione storica su autori e centri di produzione letteraria latina in Normandia tra X e XIII secolo.

 

Source : SISMEL - Edizioni del Galluzzo

 

E. Bartoli (éd), Medieval Women in Letters

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Elisabetta Bartoli (éd), Medieval Women in Letters. Letters by Women, to Women, and about Women in Medieval Literatures, Turnhout, 2025.

Éditeur : Brepols
Collection : Utrecht Studies in Medieval Literacy, 66
xiv + 376 pages
ISBN : 978-2-503-61681-0
110 €

The letter was the most widespread means of communication in the Middle Ages and the most practiced literary genre also among women. This volume, produced under the auspices of the Medieval Women in Letters project from the MedioEvA Center (University of Siena, Rome Sapienza and Tours), explores the rhetorical, literary, thematic, and historical-cultural aspects of the female epistolography in the Middle Ages. Latin literature constitutes a cohesive element between the various vernacular languages that were establishing themselves during the Middle Ages, and this volume promotes the study of women's literature and medieval woman by adopting a consistently comparative and translinguistic method, analyzing women's literature in all the languages used in medieval Europe.

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Tite-Live, Histoire romaine, Livre IX

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Tite-Live, Histoire romaine. Tome IX : Livre IX. Texte établi, traduit et commenté par Dominique Briquel et Charles Guittard, Paris, 2025.

Éditeur : Les Belles Lettres
Collection : Collection des universités de France. Série latine
CL-370 pages
ISBN : 9782251015033
59 €


Le livre IX de l'Histoire romaine de Tite-Live traite de la période allant de 321 à 304 : il s'achève sur l'année qui voit la conclusion de la deuxième guerre samnite, dans laquelle Rome s'était engagée en 326, à la suite de l'intervention l'année précédente des Samnites aux côtés des Paleopolitains dans l'affaire de Naples et du refus hautain opposé par les Samnites aux ambassadeurs venus leur présenter les doléances romaines. Le livre VIII avait exposé les événements survenus durant les quatre premières années du conflit, de 326 à 322. Mais, alors que le livre VIII se clôt sur le succès des armées romaines, qui incite les Samnites, en 322, à proposer la paix – en une démarche à laquelle Rome oppose une fin de non-recevoir –, le livre IX commence par l'évocation, pour l'année 321, d'un des plus grands revers que l'Vrbs ait connus au cours de son histoire, le désastre des Fourches Caudines, où les légions, bloquées dans un défilé par les Samnites, durent se résoudre à capituler, sans même, humiliation suprême, qu'il leur eût été possible de se mesurer à l'ennemi les armes à la main. Le livre expose donc la lente remontée de Rome après cette catastrophe et s'achève sur la revanche complète de ceux que l'ennemi samnite croyait avoir définitivement vaincus en 321. Ce qui sous-tend le récit est, par conséquent, avant tout le retournement progressif de la situation après la catastrophe, aboutissant au triomphe final de Rome, et le livre IX acquiert de ce fait une unité qui en fait un des plus construits de l'oeuvre livienne. C'est donc une grande page de l'histoire de Rome que nous offre l'historien padouan – ou plus exactement de l'image qu'elle s'en est donnée.

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