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Antonio Aste (éd.), Vibii sequestris de fluminibus fontibus lacubus nemoribus paludibus montibus gentibus per litteras, Tricase (Lecce), 2021.

Éditeur : Youcanprint
Collection : Università e ricerca
132 pages
ISBN : 9791220321426
12€

Nel filone della letteratura scolastica di epoca tarda si colloca il compendio geografico che Vibio Sequestre dedica al figlio. Opera di valore assai modesto che, pur tuttavia, ebbe una certa fortuna nella tradizione manoscritta venendo divulgata e commentata da F. Petrarca e G. Boccaccio. Attraverso uno scrupoloso riesame delle fonti letterarie e autografe, in particolare il cod. Vat. Lat. 4929, si propone questa nuova edizione critica del libello vibiano arricchita da una traduzione e commento filologico per riproporre all'attenzione un testo espressione significativa di quel processo di "cristallizzazione" della letteratura latina del tardo impero.

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Antonio Aste, Forme e contenuti del dramma attico, Tricase (Lecce), 2021.

Éditeur : Youcanprint
Collection : Università e ricerca
134 pages
ISBN : 9791220321433
14 €

Il teatro greco racchiude in sè tre componenti (politica, religiosa e agonale) che l'hanno caratterizzato facendone una delle più significative testimonianze della cultura occidentale. In questa monografia se ne ripercorrono i tratti peculiari relativi alla messa in scena ed alla drammaturgia. L'autore ha orientato la propria ricerca su due filoni precipui: lo studio dell'Historia Augusta (e.g. La Vita Aelii dell'H.A., Aracne 2007; Avidio Cassio. Aspetti storici e letterari di una secessione, Aracne, 2011, in stampa), e quello del dramma antico attraverso l'esame di alcune figure del mito e delle loro rielaborazioni moderne nonché degli elementi strutturali della drammaturgia grecoromana (e.g. Il teatro antico a Roma, Libellula, 2009; Andromaque, je pense à vous: il viaggio di Andromaca, in "Zetesis", XXIX 2 (2009), pp. 22-37; Eracle: il semidio, in "Zetesis", XXX 2 (2010), pp. 48-69.). Attualmente è cultore della materia in lingua latina presso la Facoltà di Lettere di Cagliari.

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Martin Vöhler, Therese Fuhrer and Stavros Frangoulidis (éd.), Strategies of Ambiguity in Ancient Literature, Berlin & Boston, 2021.

Éditeur : De Gruyter
Collection : Edited volume
xi + 422 pages
ISBN : 9783110715415
129,95 €

The Department of Classics at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and the Department of Classics at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich are pleased to announce the publication of the 13th Trends in Classics Conference Series (May 23-26, 2019) on Strategies of Ambiguity in Ancient Literature, edited by Martin Vöhler, Therese Fuhrer and Stavros Frangoulidis, Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, 2021 (https://www.degruyter.com/document/isbn/9783110715842/html).

Ioannis Ziogas, Law and Love in Ovid. Courting Justice in the Age of Augustus, Oxford, 2021.

Éditeur : Oxford University Press
Collection : Classics in Theory Series
448 pages
ISBN : 9780198845140
$ 115.00

In classical scholarship, the presence of legal language in love poetry is commonly interpreted as absurd and incongruous. Ovid's legalisms have been described as frivolous, humorous, and ornamental. Law and Love in Ovid challenges this wide-spread, but ill-informed view. Legal discourse in Latin love poetry is not incidental, but fundamental. Inspired by recent work in the interdisciplinary field of law and literature, Ioannis Ziogas argues that the Roman elegiac poets point to love as the site of law's emergence.
The Latin elegiac poets may say 'make love, not law', but in order to make love, they have to make law. Drawing on Agamben, Foucault, and Butler, Law and Love in Ovid explores the juridico-discursive nature of Ovid's love poetry, constructions of sovereignty, imperialism, authority, biopolitics, and the ways in which poetic diction has the force of law. The book is methodologically ambitious, combining legal theory with historically informed closed readings of numerous primary sources.

Koen De Temmerman (éd.), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Biography, Oxford, 2020.

Éditeur : Oxford University Press
800 pages
ISBN : 9780198703013
£ 110.00

Biography is one of the most widespread literary genres worldwide. Biographies and autobiographies of actors, politicians, Nobel Prize winners, and other famous figures have never been more prominent in book shops and publishers' catalogues. This Handbook offers a wide-ranging, multi-authored survey on biography in Antiquity from its earliest representatives to Late Antiquity. It aims to be a broad introduction and a reference tool on the one hand, and to move significantly beyond the state-of-the-art on the other. To this end, it addresses conceptual questions about this sprawling genre, offers both in-depth readings of key texts and diachronic studies, and deals with the reception of ancient biography across multiple eras up to the present day. In addition, it takes a wide approach to the concept of ancient biography by examining biographical depictions in different textual and visual media (epigraphy, sculpture, architecture) and by providing outlines of biographical developments in ancient and late antique cultures other than Graeco-Roman.
Highly accessible, this book aims at a broad audience ranging from specialists to newcomers in the field. Chapters provide English translations of ancient (and modern) terminology and citations. In addition, all individual chapters are concluded by a section containing suggestions for further reading on their specific topic.

Aske Damtoft Poulsen et Arne Jönsson (éd.), Usages of the Past in Roman Historiography, Leyde, 2021.

Éditeur :
Collection : Historiography of Rome and Its Empire, 9
xvi-344 pages
ISBN : 978-90-04-44502-4
119 €

Usages of the Past in Roman Historiography contains 11 articles on how the Ancient Roman historians used, and manipulated, the past. What did they seek to accomplish by participating in its re-creation, what tools did they have at their disposal to do so, and which underlying conceptualisations of history can we glimpse behind their efforts? Key themes include the impact of the transformation from Republic to Empire on the production of history, the nature of intertextuality in historical writing, and the frontiers between history and other literary genres. The volume, edited by Aske Damtoft Poulsen and Arne Jönsson, encompasses diverse approaches to the study of Roman history and historiography, with contributors from the UK, US, Sweden, Germany, Denmark, and Italy.

Source : Brill