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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.

Magali Bailliot, L'iconographie des tablettes de malédiction. Envoûter et dessiner dans l'Antiquité gréco-romaine, Oxford, 2024.

Éditeur : BAR Publishing
Collection : International series 3197
139 pages
ISBN : 9781407361833
£39.00

Le monde gréco-romain a livré environ 1 500 defixiones, dont les textes – gravés sur des tablettes de plomb, des ostraka ou d'autres matériaux – témoignent de la pratique de l'envoûtement. Ce volume réunit, pour la première fois, toutes les tablettes comportant une scène figurée.
Ces images, essentielles à une meilleure compréhension des rituels d'envoûtement, sont classées par thèmes (ligature, momification, etc.) puis décrites et interprétées. Dans le corpus, qui rassemble 103 dessins, le lecteur trouvera des indications sur le lieu et l'état de conservation des tablettes, une bibliographie, ainsi qu'une brève description de chaque scène figurée.

Source : BAR Publishing

William Lewis, Division of Empire. The Reign of the Sons of Constantine, Oxford, 2024.

Éditeur : Oxford University Press
Collection : Oxford Studies in Late Antiquity
240 pages
ISBN : 9780197745144
$120.00

Constantine the Great died on May 22nd in 337 AD, leaving behind three sons--Constantine II, Constantius II, and Constans--to face the challenge of how to rule the Roman Empire. Division of Empire follows the lives of these brothers, beginning with the death of their father, and traces how they first shared the empire as a triarchy, until one by one the heirs of Constantine fell to the sword. Constantine II was killed by his brother Constans in the civil war of 340, and Constans was murdered by a usurper in 350. Constantius was the last man standing of Constantine's sons, and he reunified the empire under the rule of a sole Augustus, like his father. However, the cracks were already starting to show, and his efforts at reunification would soon prove to be a failure.

Angelo Poliziano, Commento inedito alle Bucoliche di Virgilio. A cura di Lorenzo Vespoli, Florence, 2024.

Éditeur : Leo S. Olschki
Collection : Edizione nazionale delle opere di Angelo Poliziano. Testi, X, 3
xxxii-154 pages
ISBN : 9788822269416
29 €

Il commento inedito di Angelo Poliziano (1454-1494) alle Bucoliche di Virgilio è tramandato sotto forma di annotazioni manoscritte da un esemplare dell'edizione romana di Virgilio, stampata nel 1471 da Sweynheym e Pannartz, attualmente conservato presso la Biblioteca Nazionale di Francia. Tale postillato fonde l'esegesi grammaticale, letteraria e antiquaria con quella intertestuale, rivelando sia la vastità culturale che la preparazione filologica di Poliziano sui testi degli autori greci e latini.

Source : Leo S. Olschki

Charles McNelis, Statius: Achilleid. Edited with Introduction, Translation, and Commentary, Oxford, 2024.

Éditeur : Oxford University Press
Collection : Oxford Commentaries on Flavian Poetry
464 pages
ISBN : 9780198871453
$210.00

Statius' Achilleid is the most extensive treatment of the myth of Achilles hiding disguised as a girl on the island of Scyros. In the Achilleid, the hero, who had been trained to be an outstanding warrior by the centaur Chiron, complies with a scheme devised by his divine mother, Thetis, who does not want him to sail to Troy since her son is fated to die there. She proposes that he dress as a girl in order to hide himself from the Greeks who wish to enlist him in the martial expedition; despite his inclinations developed by Chiron, Achilles acquiesces, but only in order to pursue his desire for the princess Deidamia. Odysseus and Diomedes, sent by the Greek army, come to Scyros to reclaim Achilles, and the poem depicts the struggles faced by Deidamia and Achilles' future comrades as they coax him in opposite directions. While Achilles tries to sort out his desires, he reflects upon love, family, social obligations, and the lessons that have been imparted to him.