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Carl Deroux (dir.), Studies in Latin Literature and Roman History. XVI. , Bruxelles, 2012.

Éditeur : Latomus
Collection : Collection Latomus
670 pages
ISBN : 978-2-87031-2841
92 €

Table des matières

Chr. Reitz, Of Arms and Men : Arming Scenes in the Epic Tradition and in Vergil's Aeneid, 5-22

A. Koptev, From the Tarquin Kingship to the Republic : Three Versions of the Graeco-Roman Historiography, 23-93

R. Cowan, Valerius Cato, Callimachus and the Very Large Girl (Ticida fr 103 FRP), 94-100

A. Vergados and Sh. O' Bryhim, Reconsidering Catullus' Passer, 101-113

R. J. Starr, Catullus 14 and Catullus 1 : Gift Books, Booksellers, and Poetic Statements, 114-125

M. S. Marsilio, Catullus 36 : Love and Literary Criticism, 126-133

D. A. Phillips, Potestas and Auctoritas : Augustus and Elections 27-17 B.C., 134-150

D. Engels, Dionysius of Halicarnassus on Roman Religion, Divination, and Prodigies, 151-175

L. Rivero García, Notes on the Text of Virgil's Aeneid. Apropos the New Teubner Edition, 176-197

L. Fratantuono and C. Susalla, Virgil's Camilla and the Authenticity of the Helen Episode, 198-210

N. Adkin, Virgil and the Etymology of « Tiger », 211-219

W. Liebeschuetz, Propertius 1, 1 : Introducing the Monobiblos, 220-234

M. F. Williams, Old and New Geography : Propertius on Alexander and the Hypanis, Caspian, and Araxes (Prop. I, 12, 3-4 ; II, 30, 19-20 ; IV, 3, 7-10, 35-40), 235-258

B. P. Weinlich, Virtus and Élite Identity in Propertius, 259-276

B. Buxton, A New Reading of the Prima Porta Augustus : the Return of the Eagle of Legio V Alaudae, 277-306

P. Murgatroyd, Wit and Humour at Ovid, Metamorphoses 3.316-338, 307-312

G. Mader, Name Game, Blame Game : Rhetoric and Identity Management in Ovid's Myrrha Episode (Met. X, 298-502), 313-338

L. Fulkerson, Sad Ovid, Angry Augustus, 339-366

A.-M. Lewis, Reconsidering Ovid's Relationship to Perilla (Tristia III, 7), 367-397

R. Edwards, His Father's Son and His Son's Father : Augustus and Germanicus in Tiberian Documents, 398-414

B. Levick, Some Renewals of imperium : Timing and Wording, 415-426

M. Gray-Fow, I. N. R. I., 427-436

D. Woods, Seven Notes on the Reign of Caligula, 437-471

S. Van Overmeire, Nero, the Senate and People of Rome. Reactions to an Emperor's Image, 472-491

J. K. Newman, Notes on Lucan's Epic, 492-529

M. B. Charles and E. Anagnostou-Laoutides, Vespasian, Caenis and Suetonius, 530-547

B. Mulligan, Animal Play : Bilingual Onomastics and the Arrangement of Statius, Silvae 2, 548-581

K. Bradley, The Birthplace of Hadrian : Pursuing Ghosts, 582-613

L. Van Abbema, Ammianus Marcellinus 28, 4 : Juvenalian Vice and Writing of History, 614-638

M. Vannesse, Ammianus Marcellinus on Julian's Persian Expedition(363 A.D.) : a Note on the Supply Chain, 639-645

A. Dupont, A « Status Quaestionis » on Recent Debates on the Chronology and the Dating Methodology of Augustine's Sermones ad Populum, 646-659

C. Deroux, Concerning an Alleged Enigmatic “Hapax” : iot(t)icus (Life of Saint Eligius II, 16, MGH, Scr. rer. Mer. IV, p. 705,13), 660-667

Source : Latomus

Antonino Grillone, Gromatica militare: lo ps. Igino. Prefazione, testo, traduzione e commento , Bruxelles, 2012.

Éditeur : Latomus
Collection : Collection Latomus
269 pages
ISBN : 978-2-87031-2875
49 €

This book aims at presenting military gromatic information from the only extent ancient author writing on those questions, ps. Hyginus (IIIth A.C.) who wrote a work about metatio (land distribution to the troops of the Roman army). Several scholars studied this book until very recently, but generally misunderstood vital points. The present edition an Italian translation mainly studies linguistic questions in order to reassess the debated points: the groma's dispositioning according to the symmetry; the right and left side of a camp's map; the distribution of troops within the camp; the disposition of cohortes legionariae in front and of some troops in the central part of the camp; finally the fortifications in the form of a quarter of a cylinder (claviculae), built out of the wall starting from the jamb of the four doors, and a small excavation next each of them (titulum).

The present book studies the original text and meaning of the de metatione castrorum by proposing a new restitution and a critical apparatus, a translation, an exhaustive preface with explanations about linguistic and textual problems, a commentary, a chapter about the historical evolution of the text from the first edition to the present one and by a Tabula discrepantium.

Source : Latomus

Mark Thomson, Studies in the Historia Augusta, Bruxelles, 2012.

Éditeur : Latomus
Collection : Collection Latomus
155 pages
ISBN : 978-2-87031-2780
27 €

This short monograph examines the authorship, date, context, redaction and reception of the Historia Augusta – a corpus of biographies of emperors and usurpers of the second and third centuries, which purports to be the work of six writers active in the reigns of Diocletian and Constantine.

Thomson accepts the widely held view that one author, a scholarly impostor, composed and redacted the Historia Augusta some time after about 395. Internal evidence –which includes administrative anachronisms and allusions to events, as well as spurious names, genealogies and documents– suggests that the corpus was intended for an audience among the Roman elite of the end of the fourth century.

Thomson argues that the lives were not written for a polemical purpose. Their author instead responded to widespread interest in the works of Suetonius and Marius Maximus; his countless fabrications represented attempts to fill lacunae in the record with material appropriate to the genre of imperial biography. To this end, the scholarly impostor plundered the tradition for literary models and historical examples, apparently unmoved by the strict demands of chronology.

This monograph advances several arguments that may be considered innovative. After examining the evidence of the text and the tradition, Thomson substantively revises existing theories on the redaction of the corpus. He proposes that an extant collection of panegyrics (the Panegyrici Latini) –or some similar work now lost– may have provided a model for the otherwise baffling imposture of collective authorship and tetrarchic date. Thomson also tentatively suggests a connection between the scholarly impostor, the spurious author Flavius Vopiscus Syracusius and a Syracusan poetaster and antiquarian active in the relevant period (Naucellius).

Source : Latomus

Flavio G. Nuvolone, Il numero e la croce: l'homo novus da Aurillac. Prospettive da scritti gerbertiani, Napoli, 2012.

Éditeur : Liguori
Collection : Nuovo Medioevo 87
672 pages
ISBN : 978-88-207-5422-8
33.92 €

Un libro che, con la Prefazione di Pierre Riché (Università di Parigi X), introduce il lettore alle tradizioni scientifiche, dottrinali e manoscritte del centrale Medioevo attraverso la storia di un personaggio straordinario, Gerberto d'Aurillac, nelle vicende politiche e culturali del suo tempo. La formazione in Catalogna, l'arco delle amicizie e gli scambi intellettuali raccontano la nascita delle cifre, le tecniche e le predilezioni della simbologia numerologica. Letture ed abitudini monastiche e didattiche si saldano nel profilo di questo sapiente – talvolta ambizioso, talora contraddittorio – che ebbe ampia fama e sollevò grandi gelosie di dotti e potenti nella monarchia e nell'ecclesiologia dei Franchi come nell'entourage imperiale dell'età degli Ottoni che lo aiutarono a diventare papa Silvestro II.

Source : Liguori Editore

Martin Mayerhofer, Die Erziehung des Menschen. Untersuchungen zu einem Leitmotiv im Wirken von Basilius von Cäsarea, Fribourg, 2013.

Éditeur : Academic Press Fribourg
Collection : Paradosis, 54
318 pages
ISBN : 978-3-7278-1731-1
58 CHF

La théologie des Pères de l'Église orientaux transmet l'idée que la déification de l'homme, soit l'assimilation de l'âme humaine à l'esprit de Dieu, est en fait le but de l'existence humaine. Basile de Césarée, davantage que d'autres Pères a développé cette idée, pas seulement en théorie, mais en essayant de la transposer concrètement sur des hommes dans la réalité, à travers son activité pastorale. Lui-même formé selon les principes d'éducation classique à Athènes (paideia), il les met au service de l'éducation chrétienne. L'éducation des hommes dans le Christ n'a pas uniquement inspiré son ministère et son service épiscopal, mais animait également son action en tant qu'organisateur de la vie ascétique, réformateur social, théologien, législateur ecclésiastique, réformateur liturgique et créateur d'unité au sein de l'église. Cette approche de l'œuvre et des effets de la théorie éducative du grand Cappadocien que l'on avait jusqu'à présent pas encore touchée du doigt le désigne comme étant un Père spirituel et répond à certaines questions, que sa conception de la recherche avait jusqu'alors soulevées.

Die Theologie der östlichen Kirchenväter durchzieht der Gedanke, dass die „Vergöttlichung“ des Menschen, also die Angleichung des menschlichen Geistes an den Geist Gottes, das eigentliche Ziel der menschlichen Existenz ist. Mehr als andere Väter entfaltete Basilius von Cäsarea diesen Gedanken nicht nur in der Theorie, sondern versuchte ihn durch sein pastorales Wirken am konkreten Menschen in die Realität umzusetzen. Selbst in Athen am klassischen Paideia-Ideal geformt, stellte er es in den Dienst der christlichen Erziehung. Die Erziehung des Menschen in Christus inspirierte nicht nur seinen priesterlichen und bischöflichen Dienst, es beseelte seine Tätigkeit als Organisator des asketischen Lebens, als Sozialreformer, Theologen, kirchlichen Gesetzgeber, liturgischen Reformer und kirchlichen Einheitsstifter. Dieser bisher nicht versuchte Ansatz über den Erziehungsgedanken Werk und Wirken des großen Kappadoziers zu fassen, zeigt ihn als geistlichen Vater und gibt Antwort auf manche Fragen, die seine Gestalt der Forschung bisher aufgeworfen hat.

Source : Academic Press Fribourg

Natascha Sojc, Aloys Winterling, Ulrike Wulf-Rheidt (éd.), Palast und Stadt im severischen Rom, Stuttgart, 2013.

Éditeur : Franz Steiner Verlag
306 pages
ISBN : 978-3-515-10300-8
58€

Die Paläste auf dem römischen Palatin waren über Jahrhunderte hinweg Sinnbild für die alles überragende Macht der Kaiser und für die Vorherrschaft Roms in der antiken Welt. Zugleich bildeten sie den konkreten räumlichen Rahmen für die sozialen Interaktionsformen und politischen Organisationsstrukturen des kaiserlichen Hofes. Beide Aspekte werden in diesem Tagungsband erstmals fächerübergreifend untersucht, wobei der Schwerpunkt der severischen Zeit gilt. Spezifisch für die Ausformung von Palast und Hof im antiken Rom – so die übergreifende These – war die Wechselbeziehung zwischen dem kaiserlichem Bereich und seiner städtischen Umwelt. Die Gegenüberstellung beider Sphären wird als wichtige Voraussetzung für ein neues Verständnis der räumlichen und materiellen sowie der sozialen und politischen Veränderungen im kaiserzeitlichen Rom angesehen.