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Christoph Schwameis (éd.), Cicero, De praetura Siciliensi (Verr. 2,2). Einleitung und Kommentar, Berlin, 2019.

Éditeur : De Gruyter
Collection : Texte und Kommentare 60
613 pages
ISBN : 978-3-11-065179-9
149 €

Ciceros actio secunda in Verrem gehört zweifellos zu den bekanntesten Reden des großen römischen Politikers. Dennoch wurde sie bisher nur teilweise in moderner Kommentierung erschlossen.
Diese Forschungslücke wird durch den hier vorgelegten Kommentar für De praetura Siciliensi geschlossen. Das zweite Buch der actio secunda ist so unterschiedlichen Themen wie Bestechungen oder Bereicherungen im Zusammenhang mit Zivil- und Kapitalprozessen, Kommunalämtern und Ehrenstatuen sowie der Kooperation mit den Steuerpächtern gewidmet. Der Kommentar berücksichtigt die Erkenntnisse verschiedenster Forschungsdisziplinen, besonders der rechts- und althistorischen Forschung, arbeitet sie kritisch auf und macht sie für das Verständnis der Rede fruchtbar. Vor allem aber beleuchtet er diese Einzelrede erstmals vollständig aus philologischer Sicht, erörtert Sprache, Stil und Textkritik und zeigt vor allem die Raffinesse von Ciceros Redetaktik in dieser Rede und im Zusammenhang des Gesamtkorpus auf.

Gian Bagio Conte (éd.), Publius Vergilius Maro, Aeneis. Editio altera, Berlin, 2019.

Éditeur : De Gruyter
Collection : Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana
384 pages
ISBN : 978-3-11-064903-1
99 €

A new edition of the Aeneid requires not only a systematic and reliable assessment of the text, but also a satisfactory and complete description of the manuscripts' transmission. Here, the seven Late Antique codices were studied anew; the recensio also draws on sources from the Carolingian Age. To this end eight Carolingian testimonies never studied before were collated. The editio altera contains several corrections and additional conjectures.

Source : De Gruyter

Marcus Deufert (éd.), Titus Lucretius Carus, De rerum natura, Berlin, 2019.

Éditeur : De Gruyter
Collection : Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana
314 pages
ISBN : 978-3-11-095951-2
79 €

The edition offers a new critical text of De rerum natura. It has been established after fresh collation of the manuscripts and a critical evaluation of previous editorial scholarship. It is equipped with a critical apparatus, an apparatus of sources and an apparatus of repeated lines. The preface discusses the manuscript tradition of Lucretius and the way the text and apparatuses have been constructed.

Source : De Gruyter

Gesine Manuwald (éd.), Fragmentary Republican Latin Oratory Volume III, Harvard, 2019.

Éditeur : Harvard University Press
Collection : Ancient & Classical
580 pages
ISBN : 9780674997233
21 €

The Loeb Classical Library series Fragmentary Republican Latin continues with oratory, an important element of Roman life from the earliest times, essential to running public affairs and for advancing individual careers long before it acquired literary dimensions, which happened once orators decided to write up and circulate written versions of their speeches after delivery.
Beginning with Appius Claudius Caecus (340–273 BC), this three-volume edition covers the full range of speech-making—political, juridical, and epideictic (display)—and with the exceptions of Cato the Elder and Cicero includes all individuals for whom speech-making is attested and for whose speeches quotations, descriptive testimonia, or historiographic recreations survive.

Kristine Bøggild Johannsen et Jane Hjarl Peters (dir.), Family Lives Aspects of Life and Death in Ancient Families, Copenhague, 2019.

Éditeur : Museum Tusculanum Press
Collection : Acta hyperborea
341 pages
ISBN : 978-87-635-4639-3
54 €

This richly illustrated volume offers an informative and essential guide to understanding notions of family – in the broadest terms – in a broad geographical and cultural range within the Mediterranean area of the ancient world. The book examines facets of the ancient family and its many constellations through such diverse phenomena as life and death, religion, social status, age, and gender, in the context of both the public and the private spheres of ancient society. In this way, it sheds light on a wide range of aspects pertaining to the family: the family in the oikos/domus, theatre performances and burial contexts; how the family is reflected in votive practices, political propaganda, the Roman navy and negotiations; and how gender roles manifested both in private and in public.
The book is the outcome of a seminar held by the Collegium Hyperboreum in November 2015 and entitled Families in the Ancient World, where scholars from the Nordic countries came together across disciplines and academic levels to discuss ancient families.

Source : Museum Tusculanum Press

Antony Augoustakis et R. Joy Littlewood (dir.), Campania in the Flavian Poetic Imagination, Oxford, 2019.

Éditeur : Oxford University Press
xviii, 330 pages
ISBN : 9780198807742
75 £

The region of Campania with its fertility and volcanic landscape exercised great influence over the Roman cultural imagination. A hub of activity outside the city of Rome, the Bay of Naples was a place of otium, leisure and quiet, repose and literary productivity, and yet also a place of danger: the looming Vesuvius inspired both fear and awe in the region's inhabitants, while the Phlegraean Fields evoked the story of the gigantomachy and sulphurous lakes invited entry to the Underworld. For Flavian writers in particular, Campania became a locus for literary activity and geographical disaster when in 79 CE, the eruption of the volcano annihilated a great expanse of the region, burying under a mass of ash and lava the surrounding cities of Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Stabiae. In the aftermath of such tragedy the writers examined in this volume - Martial, Silius Italicus, Statius, and Valerius Flaccus - continued to live, work, and write about Campania, which emerges from their work as an alluring region held in the balance of luxury and peril.