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David Ungvary, Converting Verse. The Poetics of Asceticism in Late Roman Gaul, Oxford, 2024.

Éditeur : Oxford University Press
Collection : Oxford Studies in Late Antiquity
288 pages
ISBN : 9780197600740
$120.00

For centuries, the Roman aristocracy encoded its social and cultural superiority in classical poetry. In the late Roman world, however, Christian poets--especially those in the outlying provinces of Gaul--began to experiment with poetry as a medium for exploring and asserting ascetic identities which were based on the disciplined rejection of worldly life and set in opposition to secular nobility.
Converting Verse offers a new cultural history of this ascetic transformation of Latin poetry and fortifies our understanding of the Christianization of Roman culture in Late Antiquity. It provides a fresh account of the ways Gallo-Roman Christian poets composed verse amid barbarian incursions, the rise of monasticism, and the collapse of the Western Roman Empire itself, showing how they responded to cultural instability with literary performances of spiritual discipline and religious reform. Through the fifth century, these poets--Paulinus of Nola, Paulinus of Pella, Sidonius Apollinaris, and Avitus of Vienne, among others--wrote poetry that urged and expressed the recalibration of traditional dynamics between literature and identity in the Roman world, and in the process reinvented Latin poetry's power and purpose.

Gabriel Naudé, Œuvres complètes. X A Pentas Quaestionum iatro-philologicarum / Cinq questions iatrophilologiques. Édiion d'Anna Lisa Schino. Traduction du latin par Davide Del Forno, Paris, 2024.

Éditeur : Classiques Garnier
Collection : Textes de philosophie, n° 24
557 pages
ISBN : 978-2-406-17174-4
48 €

Dans les cinq Questions iatrophilologiques (1632-1639), Gabriel Naudé s'interroge sur la durée de la vie : ce qui la détermine, ce qui la menace, comment la prolonger, si les Modernes vivent plus longtemps que les Anciens, si la mort est prédéterminée.

Source : Classiques Garnier

Cicero, Laelius de amicitia, edited by Katharina Volk and James E.G. Zetzel, Cambridge, 2024.

Éditeur : Cambridge University Press
Collection : Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics
X-238 pages
ISBN : 978-1-1089-4085-6
29.17 €

Cicero's last dialogue, De amicitia, is a work of stylistic brilliance containing the fullest examination of the values and problems of friendship to survive from the Greco-Roman world. How do we make (and lose) friends? If a conflict arises between personal affection and ethical behavior, how do we decide what is right? What kinds of people make the most suitable friends? Written in 44 BCE, De amicitia provides both a striking analysis of the conflicts between personal and civic loyalty and a strong statement about the close links between friendship, wisdom, and virtue. In the first full commentary on De amicitia in more than a century, Katharina Volk and James Zetzel provide an illuminating guide to the dialogue, explaining language and style, philosophy, and historical context. An appendix contains a text with commentary of Cicero's famous correspondence with Matius about political and personal loyalty after the assassination of Caesar.

Source : Cambridge University Press

Giovanni Cupaiuolo (dir.), Bollettino di studi latini 54, fasc. II, Luglio - Dicembre 2024.

Éditeur : Paolo Loffredo Editore
ISBN : 0006-6583

BOLLETTINO DI STUDI LATINI
Periodico semestrale d'informazione bibliografica
fondato da Fabio Cupaiuolo

Giovanni Cupaiuolo (dir.), Bollettino di studi latini 54, fasc. I, Gennaio-Giugno 2024.

Éditeur : Paolo Loffredo editore
ISBN : 0006-6583

BOLLETTINO DI STUDI LATINI
Periodico semestrale d'informazione bibliografica
fondato da Fabio Cupaiuolo

Florence Garambois-Vasquez, Les incontournables de la littérature latine, Paris, 2024.

Éditeur : Ellipses
254 pages
ISBN : 9782340098336
28 €

Cet ouvrage se propose d'examiner une sélection des grands textes de la littérature latine. Cette anthologie a la particularité de s'inscrire dans une longue diachronie et d'éclairer certains textes latins peu étudiés . Elle s'adresse aux latinistes d'une manière générale mais également à des non-latinistes, intéressés par le monde romain.