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Licinia Ricottilli (éd.), Modalità della comunicazione in Roma antica, Bologne, 2018.

Éditeur : Pàtron
Collection : Testi e manuali per l'insegnamento universitario del Latino
208 pages
ISBN : 9788855534154
23 €

Il volume si concentra sulle modalità linguistica, gestuale e paralinguistica della comunicazione in Roma antica, sulle caratteristiche di tali modalità e sulle loro riprese nella letteratura latina; è curato da Licinia Ricottilli e raccoglie contributi di Renata Raccanelli, Evita Calabrese e Giulia Beghini, oltre ad un'introduzione e un contributo della curatrice. Gli studi qui raccolti spaziano dalle predilezioni linguistiche di Augusto alle strategie utilizzate da Seneca nell'interazione con i destinatari-allievi, alle formule allocutive che attingono ad una terminologia pseudoparentale ed infine ad aspetti della rappresentazione gestuale in Terenzio ed in Petronio.

Sergio Audano et Giovanni Cipriani (éd.), Aspetti della fortuna dell'antico nella cultura europea: atti della Quattordicesima Giornata di Studi (Sestri Levante, 10 marzo 2017), Foggia, 2018.

Éditeur : Il Castello Edizioni
Collection : Echo
340 pages
ISBN : 9788865722053
25 €

Si avverte oggi il bisogno urgente di una concreta proposta culturale, etica, politica che contribuisca a ricostruire il tessuto connettivo di una società troppo sfilacciata e angosciata. Può questo volume offrire un contributo in questa direzione? È un tentativo. Ogni momento di crisi apre grandi interrogativi che coinvolgono in radice l'esistenza umana, nelle sue problematiche e nelle sue dinamiche: vale, quindi, la pena intensificare il dialogo tra noi, che viviamo questa fase complessa del XXI secolo, e la civiltà antica attraverso le tante mediazioni ed esperienze che sono state elaborate nel corso del tempo.

María del Mar Rodríguez Alcocer (éd.), Dialogues d'Histoire Ancienne Vol. 44 N°1, Besançon, 2018.

Éditeur : Presses Universitaires de Franche-Comté
355 pages
ISBN : 9782848676289

Sommaire :
María del Mar Rodríguez Alcocer, Analfabetismo espartano, críticas atenienses y cultura oral
Cristina Soraci, Diritto latino, cittadinanza romana e municipalizzazione: trasformazioni graduali e progressive in Sicilia tra Cesare e Augusto
Ignacio Simón Cornago, C.Licinius Adin: uno de los últimos iberos
Ridha Ghaddhab, Centuriation et statut juridique de Sullecthum (Salakta)
Alessandro Maranesi, Tradition in the Making: New Approaches on Panegyricus Latinus, XII(9)
Mohamed-Arbi Nsiri, Ubi tantae splendidissimae civitates? : De la cité classique à la cité chrétienne, le cas de l'Afrique tardo-antique

Lauren Kinnee, The Greek and Roman Trophy From Battlefield Marker to Icon of Power, Londres-New York, 2018.

Éditeur : Routledge
162 pages
ISBN : 9780415788380
115 £

In The Greek and Roman Trophy: From Battlefield Marker to Icon of Power, Kinnee presents the first monographic treatment of ancient trophies in sixty years. The study spans Archaic Greece through the Augustan Principate. Kinnee aims to create a holistic view of this complex monument-type by breaking down boundaries between the study of art history, philology, the history of warfare, and the anthropology of religion and magic. Ultimately, the kaleidoscopic picture that emerges is of an ad hoc anthropomorphic Greek talisman that gradually developed into a sophisticated, Augustan sculptural or architectural statement of power. The former, a product of the hoplite phalanx, disappeared from battlefields as the Macedonian cavalry grew in importance, shifting instead onto coins and into rhetoric, where it became a statement of military might. For their part, the Romans seem to have encountered the trophy as an icon on Syracusan coinage. Recognizing its value as a statement of territorial ownership, the Romans spent two centuries honing the trophy-concept into an empire-building tool, planted at key locations around the Mediterranean to assert Roman presence and dominance.

Rafael Domingo, Roman Law: An Introduction, Londres-New York, 2018.

Éditeur : Routledge
238 pages
ISBN : 9780815362777
29,99 £

Roman Law: An Introduction offers a clear and accessible introduction to Roman law for students of any legal tradition. In the thousand years between the Law of the Twelve Tables and Justinian's massive Codification, the Romans developed the most sophisticated and comprehensive secular legal system of Antiquity, which remains at the heart of the civil law tradition of Europe, Latin America, and some countries of Asia and Africa. Roman lawyers created new legal concepts, ideas, rules, and mechanisms that most Western legal systems still apply. The study of Roman law thus facilitates understanding among people of different cultures by inspiring a kind of legal common sense and breadth of knowledge.

Peter J. Heslin, Propertius, Greek Myth, and Virgil. Rivalry, Allegory, and Polemic, Oxford, 2018.

Éditeur : Oxford University Press
320 pages
ISBN : 9780199541577
$ 85.00

This volume offers a strikingly innovative account of Propertius' relationship with Virgil, positing a keen rivalry between two of the greatest poets of Latin literature, contemporaries within the circle of Maecenas. It begins by examining all of the references to Greek mythology in Propertius' first book; these passages emerge as strongly intertextual in nature, providing a way for the poet to situate himself with respect to his predecessors, both Greek and Roman. More specifically, myth is also the medium of a sustained polemic with Virgil's Eclogues, published only a few years earlier. Virgil's response can be traced in the Georgics, and subsequently, in his second and third books, Propertius continued to use mythology and its relationship to contemporary events as a vehicle for literary polemic. This volume argues that their competition can be seen as exemplifying a revised model for how the poets within Maecenas' circle interacted and engaged with each other's work - a model based on rivalry rather than ideological adhesion or subversion - while also painting a revealing picture of how Virgil was viewed by a contemporary in the days before his death had canonized his work as an instant classic. In particular, its novel interpretation offers us a new understanding of Propertius, one of the foundational figures in Western love poetry, and how his frequent references to other poets, especially Gallus and Ennius, take on new meanings when interpreted as responses to Virgil's changing career.

Source : Oxford University Press