J. D. Chaplin, I. Peirano Garrison et Ch. Stray (éd.), Commenting on the Past. Essays in Honor of Christina Shuttleworth Kraus

Jeudi, 13 Novembre 2025 08:08 Marie Ledentu

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Jane D. Chaplin, Irene Peirano Garrison et Christopher Stray (éd.), Commenting on the Past. Essays in Honor of Christina Shuttleworth Kraus, Berlin-Boston, 2025.

Éditeur : De Gruyter
Collection : Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes, 193
XIX-314 pages
ISBN : 978-3-11-077781-9
139,95 €

This Festschrift celebrates the career of Christina S. Kraus. For nearly four decades, Professor Kraus has been an influential voice, contributing to and sometimes defining numerous sub-fields in the study of classical literature, from commentaries to prose style and from Greek tragedy to Roman historians. She has collaborated with scholars to produce volumes on the commentary as a genre of scholarship and the idea of the canon. She is perhaps best known for her work on Livy and Roman historiography.

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C. Moatti, Sur la politique. Cinq grandes leçons romaines

Mercredi, 12 Novembre 2025 08:06 Marie Ledentu

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Claudia Moatti, Sur la politique. Cinq grandes leçons romaines, Rome, 2025.

Éditeur : École française de Rome
Collection : Lectures méditerranéennes
308 pages
ISBN : 978-2-7283-1849-0
18 €

Repenser la res publica, d'où vient (mais par quels détours, quels malentendus !) le terme moderne de « république », c'est, à travers l'expérience romaine antique, éclairer de grandes questions actuelles : qu'est-ce que le peuple ? Quelle part de conflictualité peut-on tolérer dans l'espace public ? La participation directe est-elle plus démocratique que le système représentatif, la liberté toujours désirable ? Quelle place reconnaître à l'Autre dans la cité ? Ou encore : comment un individu ou un groupe, en s'auto-proclamant défenseur de la grandeur de l'État, devient-il autoritaire… ?

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Ch. C. Chiasson, Herodotus and the Greek Poetic Tradition

Lundi, 10 Novembre 2025 08:09 Marie Ledentu

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Charles C. Chiasson, Herodotus and the Greek Poetic Tradition, Cambridge, 2025.

Éditeur : Cambridge University Press
760 pages
ISBN : 9781009503693
£140.00

This is the first comprehensive analysis in any language of Herodotus' interaction with the Greek poetic tradition, including epic, lyric, and tragic poetry. It is essential reading for scholars of ancient Greek storytelling (including myth) and those interested in the hybrid nature of narrative history, as both a true or truth-based account of past events and a necessarily creative account, which requires the author to present data in a meaningful and engrossing literary form. Close readings of specific passages demonstrate how Herodotus uses the linguistic, thematic, and narrative resources of the poets to channel and challenge their social authority, and to engage the emotions and intellect of a broad Hellenic audience steeped in the traditions of poetic performance. Herodotus adopts or adapts some poetic features while rejecting others (explicitly or implicitly) as a means of defining the nature of his own research and narrative.

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