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Gesine Manuwald (éd.), Fragmentary Republican Latin Oratory Volume III, Harvard, 2019.

Éditeur : Harvard University Press
Collection : Ancient & Classical
580 pages
ISBN : 9780674997233
21 €

The Loeb Classical Library series Fragmentary Republican Latin continues with oratory, an important element of Roman life from the earliest times, essential to running public affairs and for advancing individual careers long before it acquired literary dimensions, which happened once orators decided to write up and circulate written versions of their speeches after delivery.
Beginning with Appius Claudius Caecus (340–273 BC), this three-volume edition covers the full range of speech-making—political, juridical, and epideictic (display)—and with the exceptions of Cato the Elder and Cicero includes all individuals for whom speech-making is attested and for whose speeches quotations, descriptive testimonia, or historiographic recreations survive.

Kristine Bøggild Johannsen et Jane Hjarl Peters (dir.), Family Lives Aspects of Life and Death in Ancient Families, Copenhague, 2019.

Éditeur : Museum Tusculanum Press
Collection : Acta hyperborea
341 pages
ISBN : 978-87-635-4639-3
54 €

This richly illustrated volume offers an informative and essential guide to understanding notions of family – in the broadest terms – in a broad geographical and cultural range within the Mediterranean area of the ancient world. The book examines facets of the ancient family and its many constellations through such diverse phenomena as life and death, religion, social status, age, and gender, in the context of both the public and the private spheres of ancient society. In this way, it sheds light on a wide range of aspects pertaining to the family: the family in the oikos/domus, theatre performances and burial contexts; how the family is reflected in votive practices, political propaganda, the Roman navy and negotiations; and how gender roles manifested both in private and in public.
The book is the outcome of a seminar held by the Collegium Hyperboreum in November 2015 and entitled Families in the Ancient World, where scholars from the Nordic countries came together across disciplines and academic levels to discuss ancient families.

Source : Museum Tusculanum Press

Antony Augoustakis et R. Joy Littlewood (dir.), Campania in the Flavian Poetic Imagination, Oxford, 2019.

Éditeur : Oxford University Press
xviii, 330 pages
ISBN : 9780198807742
75 £

The region of Campania with its fertility and volcanic landscape exercised great influence over the Roman cultural imagination. A hub of activity outside the city of Rome, the Bay of Naples was a place of otium, leisure and quiet, repose and literary productivity, and yet also a place of danger: the looming Vesuvius inspired both fear and awe in the region's inhabitants, while the Phlegraean Fields evoked the story of the gigantomachy and sulphurous lakes invited entry to the Underworld. For Flavian writers in particular, Campania became a locus for literary activity and geographical disaster when in 79 CE, the eruption of the volcano annihilated a great expanse of the region, burying under a mass of ash and lava the surrounding cities of Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Stabiae. In the aftermath of such tragedy the writers examined in this volume - Martial, Silius Italicus, Statius, and Valerius Flaccus - continued to live, work, and write about Campania, which emerges from their work as an alluring region held in the balance of luxury and peril.

Etienne Wolff, La réception d'Ausone dans les littératures européennes, Bordeaux, 2019.

Éditeur : Ausonius Éditions
Collection : Scripta Receptoria (15)
374 pages
ISBN : 9782356132451
25 €

Ce volume La réception d'Ausone dans les littératures européennes contient les communications prononcées au colloque international qui s'est tenu, sous le même intitulé, à l'Université de Paris Nanterre les 26 et 27 octobre 2017. Elles émanent toutes de spécialistes reconnus et sont présentées ici selon un ordre chronologico-thématique. Il s'agissait de s'intéresser à la survie d'Ausone en Occident, en étudiant moins l'influence éventuelle d'Ausone sur les auteurs de l'Antiquité tardive, que celle qu'il a exercée sur la littérature latine médiévale et renaissante et sur les littératures nationales de l'Europe, jusqu'à nos jours. Bien sûr on ne prétendait pas aborder de manière exhaustive tous les aspects d'un sujet si vaste. On voulait, plus modestement, par des approches croisées et plurielles (étude de la transmission manuscrite, histoire des éditions et traductions, intertextualité, influence littéraire, etc.), montrer l'importance du destin posthume d'Ausone. Les contributions, riches et variées, certaines synthétiques, d'autres plus ponctuelles, ont en tout cas balayé un large champ. Elles dessinent une carte de l'actualité d'Ausone à toutes les époques.

Suzanne Adema, Tenses in Vergil's Aeneid: narrative style and structure, Leyde-Boston, 2019.

Éditeur : Brill
Collection : Amsterdam studies in classical philology
x, 306 pages
ISBN : 9789004383241
105 €

The narrative style of the Aeneid suggests immediacy and involves the reader, while at the same time both narrator and reader know what the outcomes of the story will be. In ‘Tenses in Vergil's Aeneid: Narrative Style and Structure', Suzanne Adema investigates the role of the Latin tenses in this presentational style. Adema presents a framework to analyze and describe the use of tenses in Latin narrative texts from a linguistic and narratological point of view. The framework concerns the temporal relations between a narrator and the states of affairs in his story on the sentence level, discourse modes on the global text level and narrative progression on the level of narrative and descriptive sequences.

Jean Meyers et Michel Tarayre (éd.), Les Errances de frère Félix, pèlerin en Terre sainte, en Arabie et en Egypte. Tome VII, traité 7, Paris, 2019.

Éditeur : Cassiques Garnier
Collection : Collection des Textes littéraires du Moyen Âge, n° 50
520 pages
ISBN : 978-2-406-07880-7
59 €

Le traité 7, premier de la deuxième partie de l'Evagatorium, raconte le pèlerinage au mont Sinaï. On y suit les pèlerins lors de la difficile traversée du désert d'Arabie jusqu'au monastère Sainte-Catherine. Frère Félix donne un témoignage où il contribue largement à la rencontre entre savoir et expérience.

Source : Classiques Garnier