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Jonas Grethlein, Ancient Greek Texts and Modern Narrative Theory. Towards a Critical Dialogue, Cambridge, 2023.

Éditeur : Cambridge University Press
224 pages
ISBN : 9781009339599
£ 85.00

The taxonomies of narratology have proven valuable tools for the analysis of ancient literature, but, since they were mostly forged in the analysis of modern novels, they have also occluded the distinct quality of ancient narrative and its understanding in antiquity. Ancient Greek Texts and Modern Narrative Theory paves the way for a new approach to ancient narrative that investigates its specific logic. Jonas Grethlein's sophisticated discussion of a wide range of literary texts in conjunction with works of criticism sheds new light on such central issues as fictionality, voice, Theory of Mind and narrative motivation. The book provides classicists with an introduction to ancient views of narrative but is also a major contribution to a historically sensitive theory of narrative.

Francesca K. A. Martelli, Souvenirs of Cicero. Shaping Memory in the Epistulae ad Familiares, Oxford, 2024.

Éditeur : Oxford University Press
256 pages
ISBN : 9780197761960
£59.00

Cicero's letters have figured prominently in some of western modernity's most cherished illusions about the immediacy of its encounter with Classical antiquity. Celebrated since their discovery in the Renaissance for their intimate mode of self-expression, they have been prized since then for the unparalleled proximity they appear to lend to the events and leading figures of the late Republic. However, the letters were only organized into books and collections and published assuch by editors after Cicero's death, and are therefore also the products of a later era.

Brian A. Krostenko, The Voices of the Consul. The Rhetorics of Cicero's de lege agraria I and II, Oxford, 2024.

Éditeur : Oxford University Press
400 pages
ISBN : 9780199734207
£71.00

The Voices of the Consul is the first book-length study of the rhetoric of "On the Agrarian Law" I and II, the first two speeches that the great Roman orator Cicero gave on his ascension to the leadership of the Roman state-the first to the senate, the second to the people. Through a close and novel linguistic analysis, Brian A. Krostenko draws out Cicero's idealistic visions and shows how Cicero's apparently diffuse attacks on various clauses of an agrarian bill are informed by a consistent and idealistic vision of the functioning of the Roman state in which the people are to take their sovereignty seriously and the senate is to regard its high position responsibly.

The Journal of Medieval Latin 34, 2024.

Éditeur : Brepols
vi, 353 pages
ISBN : 978-2-503-60865-5
96 EUR (excl. VAT)

Table des matières
Luisa Ostacchini, "Ælfric of Eynsham and the Treatise De ebrietate cauenda of Boulogne-sur-Mer, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 63"
Rebecca Menmuir and Simon Whedbee, "Glossing Book 3 of the Pseudo-Ovidian De vetula"
Jérémy Delmulle, "Notes on the Text of the Twelfth-Century Cluniac Relatio metrica de duobus ducibus"
Gregory Hays, "Additional Notes on the Relatio metrica de duobus ducibus"
William Robins, "Quid turbata mente uersaris?: Agnellus of Ravenna and the Story of Apollonius of Tyre"
Gavin Weaire, "Gawain, Son of Viamundus: Problems of Filial and Roman Identity in the De ortu Waluuanii nepotis Arturi"
Thomas C. Sawyer and Paul Vinhage, "Michael of Cornwall's Second Invective Against Henry of Avranches"
Timothy Glover, "Richard Rolle's Commentary on the Lord's Prayer: Composition, Text, Reception"
Carmen Cardelle de Hartmann, "Rational Knowledge and Religious Authority in Petrus Alfonsi"

Source : Brepols

Hilaire de Poitiers, Commentaires sur les Psaumes (127-133), Paris, 2024.

Éditeur : Éditions du Cerf
Collection : Sources chrétiennes, 643
344 pages
ISBN : 9782204161695
52 €

La troisième et dernière cinquantaine de psaumes (100- 150) est la mieux représentée parmi les commentaires d'Hilaire de Poitiers. À la suite des cinq traités de la première cinquantaine (SC 515) et des vingt de la deuxième (SC 565, 603, 605), trente-trois psaumes de la troisième (118-150) ont inspiré à l'évêque des commentaires spirituels.

Stefania Filosini (dir.), Poetic Rewritings in Late Latin Antiquity and Beyond, Turnhout, 2024.

Éditeur : Brepols
Collection : Studi e testi tardoantichi, vol. 23
520 pages
ISBN : 978-2-503-61024-5
110 EUR (excl. VAT)

The essays in this collection present a multifaceted approach to the poetic rewriting of pre-existing texts, a characteristic procedure of late Latin poetry.
‘Rewriting' as the reworking of narrative material based on conscious strategies of composition plays a significant role in much of the Latin poetry of Late Antiquity. This book, resulting from the conference Riscritture poetiche nell'Occidente latino tra tarda antichità e medioevo, which was held on 9-11 May 2022 at the Department of Human Sciences (DSU) of the University of L'Aquila, looks at the range of practices and purposes that inform this procedure, with particular regard to the processes of transcodification enacted – in different historical and cultural contexts – by the recasting of authoritative prose texts into a classicising poetic idiom. The contributions present a multifaceted approach to rewriting, cover a variety of authors, genres, and texts, and cast a glance also at medieval Latin literature. In short, the essays in this collection, by reflecting on the interpretative contribution of the critical category of ‘rewriting', not only add further tesserae to the mosaic of literary studies on Late Latinity, they also invite to grasp the difference between secular and Christian rewritings.