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Anne Queyrel Bottineau et Régine Utard (dir.), Flatterie et flatteurs dans les sociétés antiques. Pratiques, acteurs, morales, Paris, 2025.

Éditeur : Classiques Garnier
Collection : Kaïnon - Anthropologie de la pensée ancienne, n° 33
639 pages
ISBN : 978-2-406-18958-9
45 €

S'inscrivant dans le champ de l'histoire des mentalités, les contributions du volume étudient le comportement de flatterie, phénomène humain universel, tel qu'il fut dénoncé par les penseurs antiques. Le concept de flatterie est appréhendé par l'examen des pratiques des flatteurs, fondées sur l'intérêt et le mensonge. Les relations inégales à l'intérieur du couple formé par le flatteur et le flatté y sont envisagées dans la vie en société et dans les systèmes politiques, de manière à dégager les notions d'identité et de dépendance. Le volume met en évidence les morales, avec les biais respectifs de ceux qui les énoncent, qui sous-tendent, de la Grèce archaïque à la Rome impériale, la réprobation des flatteurs.

Radosław Karasiewicz-Szczypiorski, Apsaros: A Roman Fort on the Colchis Coast, Turnhout, 2025.

Éditeur : Brepols
Collection : Warsaw Studies in Archaeology, vol. 15
293 pages
ISBN : 978-2-503-61857-9
155€ (H.T.)

From AD 63/64, when the Roman Empire annexed the kingdom known as Pontus Polemoniacus, up to c. 257 and the invasion of the Borans, the coast of Colchis, in modern-day Georgia, hosted a Roman garrison system that stretched along the south-eastern edge of the Black Sea. One such Roman fort, at the site of Apsaros (Gonio, Georgia) has been the subject of intensive interdisciplinary research, with a focus on exploring the site and its environs to shed new light on the history, chronology, and periodization of the Roman military presence. From the discovery of traces of the presence of four cohorts of the V Macedonian legion through to analysis of the ruins of the garrison commander's house, which was equipped with private baths and decorated with mosaics, this volume draws together ground-breaking new research to shed new light on Roman Colchis, the garrisons who lived here, and their complicated relations with local tribes.

Maria Elena De Luna, Alessandro Cristofori et Giuseppina Paola Viscardi (dir.), Spazi, modi e rappresentazioni dell'identità nel mondo greco e romano. Casi di permanenze e trasformazioni, Milan, 2025.

Éditeur : Editoriale Jouvence
Collection : "Antiquitas / Saggi" 9
LXI-353 pages
ISBN : 9791256220762

Indice:
A. Panaino, "Prefazione";
M.E. De Luna, A. Cristofori, G.P. Viscardi, "Introduzione. Interpretazioni e studi sull'identità nel mondo greco e romano";
A. Inglese, "Alla ricerca dell'identità. Aspetti teorici e pratiche epigrafiche";
M. Mari, "Le identità di una città antica alla prova del tempo. Il caso di Anfipoli";
A. Robu, "Métropoles et ‘colonies' dans le monde grec: le rôle des nomima dans la création des identités des apoikiai";
E. Franchi, "Al di là dell'identità. I Focidesi e i loro vicini (Tessali, Locresi Epicnemidi, Locresi Ipocnemidi)";
O. Coloru, "Da Dioniso ad Alessandro: plasmare e negoziare identità tra Bajaur e Swat in età ellenistica"; L. Paoletti, "L'identità di Alessandro e dei Seleucidi nella tradizione letteraria iranica: da entità demoniache a speculum principis";
F. Reali, "L'evoluzione delle comunità rurali nella valle superiore del Caistro: istituzioni e autorappresentazioni tra età tardo-ellenistica e romana";
J. Pàmias, "Le Baccanti di Euripide: dissoluzione delle identità, tra Kulturkritik e crisi politica";
A.I. Jiménez San Cristóbal, "Prodigi, oracoli e tiasi bacchici a Magnesia sul Meandro";
R. Tosi, "L'identità femminile nella letteratura proverbiale";
F. Cenerini, B. Girotti, "Divae e ultime divae: verso una nuova identità?";
G. Brizzi, "L'identità oltre le identità: dalla gens alla civitas, dall'Italia all'orbis terrarum"

Stavroula Kefallonitis (dir.), Constitutions mixtes. Généalogie d'une idée, Paris, 2025.

Éditeur : Classiques Garnier
Collection : Rencontres, n° 698 - Série : Science politique, n° 16.
593 pages
ISBN : 978-2-406-19008-0
58 €

La constitution mixte parcourt l'histoire politique occidentale. Gouvernement idéal ? Combinaison de monarchie, d'aristocratie, de démocratie ou autre ? Elle répartit les pouvoirs de manière variable, plasticité qui explique sa pérennité, mais aussi la difficulté d'en saisir continuités et ruptures.
The mixed constitution runs through Western political history. Ideal government? A combination of monarchy, aristocracy, democracy or something else? It distributes powers in various ways, a plasticity explaining its durability, but also the difficulty of understanding its continuities and ruptures. 

Hermann Amon, The Roman Empire Third Century “Crisis”, Leyde-Boston, 2025.

Éditeur : Brill
Collection : Brill Research Perspectives in Ancient History
viii-156 pages
ISBN : 978-90-04-74628-2
73.85 €

The years from the assassination of Severus Alexander to Diocletian's rise to power (235–284) remain of interest to ancient historians. This period, commonly known as the Third Century “Crisis,” exerted a significant influence on the political, economic, and socioreligious developments of late antiquity. This period witnessed assaults on the empire's borders by Germans and Persians, along with an acceleration of changes resulting from these attacks. Drawing on ancient literary sources and the work of modern scholars, this volume offers an overview of critical issues faced by the empire, including border wars, the roles of the emperor, the Senate, and the equestrian order, as well as issues of finance and currency. Furthermore, specific attention is given to the regions of Gaul, Palmyra, and Egypt.

Source : Brill

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.

Source : De Gruyter Brill