Andreas Gavrielatos
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https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4587-3158
Born in Athens, I grew up in Chalkis, the city where Aristotle spent the last days of his life. I first read Ancient Greek at the age of 8 and I am passionate about Classics ever since. The reason I majored in Classics is definitely not because I want to become rich. Nor famous. It is rather the result of a cognitive approach, namely that Classics make me a better person. Perhaps one day more people like me achieve to convince the world that Classics can make modernity a better place.
I like Seneca, for he teaches me how to become happy not in a superficial, but in a deep way. However, I adore Persius, for a) he died young, b) he was brave, c) it's like he wrote having present time in mind (as a proper geek, I get excited by time travelling, but I know that it is not the case here). I became passionate about bilingualism in ancient world as well as people's personal names.
Thesis synopsis:
The potters' names which occur on stamps on terra sigillata (samian ware) (Gaul, 1st-3rd cent. AD) are the material under examination. The names are examined in two aspects; firstly, they provide information for the customs of nomenclature in Gaul. Secondly, the names are examined as testaments of the bilingual situation in Gaul. The former aims to answer questions for Roman Nomenclature and the latter to represent the changes Latin language went through her development along with the interference of Gaulish.
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4587-3158
Born in Athens, I grew up in Chalkis, the city where Aristotle spent the last days of his life. I first read Ancient Greek at the age of 8 and I am passionate about Classics ever since. The reason I majored in Classics is definitely not because I want to become rich. Nor famous. It is rather the result of a cognitive approach, namely that Classics make me a better person. Perhaps one day more people like me achieve to convince the world that Classics can make modernity a better place.
I like Seneca, for he teaches me how to become happy not in a superficial, but in a deep way. However, I adore Persius, for a) he died young, b) he was brave, c) it's like he wrote having present time in mind (as a proper geek, I get excited by time travelling, but I know that it is not the case here). I became passionate about bilingualism in ancient world as well as people's personal names.
Thesis synopsis:
The potters' names which occur on stamps on terra sigillata (samian ware) (Gaul, 1st-3rd cent. AD) are the material under examination. The names are examined in two aspects; firstly, they provide information for the customs of nomenclature in Gaul. Secondly, the names are examined as testaments of the bilingual situation in Gaul. The former aims to answer questions for Roman Nomenclature and the latter to represent the changes Latin language went through her development along with the interference of Gaulish.
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Morgane Andrieu, LabEx Archimede/Université Paul Valéry Montpellier 3
Names on terra sigillata in socio-linguistic and socio-onomastic approaches to Roman names
Andreas Gavrielatos, University of Reading (UK)
JEUDI 31 MAI 2018, 14h00
Bibliothèque ArAr - 1er étage MOM - 7 rue Raulin - Lyon 7e
https://www.arar.mom.fr/recherche-et-activites/seminaires-de-ceramologie/seminaire-mai-2018
The employment of this characterisation by Persius remains overlooked in scholarship, in favour of the Polydamas et Troiades that dominate the previous question. It is the purpose of this paper to examine the nature of nugae in this satirical context: a) as a collective description of the unjustly praised literary production and subsequently the literature Persius attacks, and b) as a reference to the satire’s nature as an anti-epic genre. His satires are vindicated by the character of these works. From this perspective, Persius’ literary criticism is redefined for its own merit, leaving aside the social critique. At the same time, the nugae is examined as a paradigm in this criticism, applicable to other examples of the despised literature.
The exploration of Persius’ literary criticism, following the Stoic poetics of his days and the principles laid out by Horace in his Ars Poetica, with nugae as its departing point will be an innovative approach.
Roman satire found in fluidity an antagonist, as opposed to the genre’s solidarity in the style and its themes. At the same time, the satirists exploit the association of moisture and wetness with moral decay in order to support the depiction of the caricatured personalities they address their mockery to. Bodily fluids are often used from this perspective. This paper aims to exam these exploitations with a focus on the fluidity that is produces by/in the body, which consequently enhances the idea of grotesque and enables the satirist’s case study to be ridiculed.
The material for the support of this examination will be drawn from, but not restricted to, the satires of Persius. Although bodily fluids are key elements in some of his picturesque description of the condemned society, they have not attracted the necessary attention by scholarship. The bodily fluids are used in order to enhance the wetness of a scene and point to a degeneration that can be equal to moral corruption, effeminacy and decay in society. Moreover, they are employed for their function as products of the body and thus linked to the human senses and passions. And these passions evoke the satirist’s attack. Apart from the appearance of bodily fluids in the various pictures, the language used is also appropriate for this purpose. With the paradigm of Persius, cases from the satiric tradition of Rome will also be approached for the same effect.
This can be a starting point towards a better understanding of Alcibiades’ reception in the corpus of a satirist with a broad range of allusions to his contemporary society, public opinion, and literature. Since Satire is per se inextricably linked to its contemporary society, the figure of Alcibiades will be seen at a metapoetical level, offering a nuance to his presence in common thought and perception. Is Alcibiades being used as a complementary (or even supplementary) element to the figure of Socrates or is Alcibiades the main protagonist here? Are the qualities attributed to this persona the ones drawn from earlier literature or has he become a commonplace for a particular identity? And finally, how is this identity shaped; towards a Roman reconstruction of the character or a revitalization of a Greek personality of great renown?
These questions stimulate an approach to the text with Alcibiades as the central point of focus, resulted from the painstaking attention of Persius to his characters. The satiric Alcibiades will be proved to be a multi-faceted figure, encapsulating the philosophical implications for Socrates methods and teaching, allusions to Greek comedy, as well as an indicative example of the Roman reality, offering an effective mechanism for satiric discourse altogether.
An almost constant source for Roman personal names has proved to be the ceramics. Names inscribed on ceramics have attracted the interest of archaeology and even of history, since it has been claimed that e.g. terra sigillata can provide a secure way of dating sites. The names on ceramics need however to be examined in their own terms, since there is almost never a context they occur in. Therefore, morphological code-switching needs to be cautiously approached as well as the definitions of ‘cover-names’, ‘translation-names’, and ‘assonance names’, which have been widely used for the study of bilingual onomastics from Roman inscriptions of the western provinces – let aside the African provinces. Moreover, there is lack of knowledge (except for a significantly few cases) for any other aspects of the persons’ identities, whilst it is impossible to recreate a family tree. On the other hand, research on the names of the bilingual-speaking western provinces based on the epigraphic record has focused on their distribution along with their linguistic features, in order to come into conclusions for the impact of bilingualism in naming, the self-presentation through naming, and consequently its social aspects. All these well-known and established facts need to be integrated into a theoretical vehicle with its own mechanisms and intertwined constraints in order to deeply understand, securely handle, and research the names found on ceramics, always in relation to the epigraphic habit of the according areas. Do the same patterns occur in the names on ceramics? Moreover, what constraints apply in the ways these names can be examined for their bilingual features and on contrary what methodological rules and mechanisms do they suggest?
Our paper aims to contribute to these questions and suggest possible conclusions drawn on examples from Roman Gaul. To offer a synthetic approach, the results of archaeological, historical, and linguistic approaches on these names will be considered always in parallel with the aspects of Romanisation and linguistic diversity in the area. At the same time, the epigraphic research on the inscriptions of the provinces is fundamental and extensive, not least on the onomastics of the area. Thus, a comparison of the patterns and the customs will be the basic methodological tool in order to answer at what extent the names on ceramics can testify for the linguistic character of the area and the level of bilingualism. It will be shown that the names on ceramics should not be overlooked and that their value for the research on bilingual onomastics needs to be reconsidered. Finally, the paper will suggest the mechanisms and propose the necessary caveats, which would assure a secure way of engaging the names on ceramics in the study of onomastics for epigraphic purposes.
The members of the particular community stamp their products with their names, which have recently come to light with a nine-volume catalogue. These names represent a clear case of bilingualism in the area, as Adams has recognised. Along with Latin, Gaulish names are incorporated in the Roman naming system with linguistic alternations and similar semantic connotations, which are most effectively explained with the terms of ‘assonance’ and ‘translation names’, respectively. Whereas their linguistic features are the results of bilingualism, their semantic connotations reveal the corresponding cultural conflict. Furthermore, one finds Greek names being used as well. However this fact can be historically justified, the additional traces of common connotations and the linguistic elements of the majority of names indicate a higher influence of Greek nomenclature on the area, which needs further investigation.
This paper aims not merely to present the case, but also to examine the appearance of Greek elements in the naming practices of an area already bilingual with a constant cultural conflict between indigenous and Roman aspects. It will be seen that the Latin language has been the vehicle for transmission of naming elements to the Gaulish system, and at the same time that universally appreciated connotations have been common among the three languages."
- Interactions, intersections and Intertextuality: Philosophical influences in the portrayal of leaders in historiography, philosophy’s treatment of historical figures with respect to the relevant events, etc.
- Exemplarity: Exempla of leadership in various genres and/or authors and their interrelations
- Poetic representations: The ways in which presentations of leading figures in poetry like Lucan’s Caesar and Vergil’s Aeneas are influenced by principles of leadership from Historiography and/or Philosophy
- Praise VS contempt: Different attitudes towards same modes of leadership in different genres and the interpretation of this relation (e.g. between epic and satire, tragedy and comedy)
- Reception of leadership values: the reception of good leadership descriptions in authors like Homer or Plato by later authors
Evidence
• Evidence for documented but not survived poetic activity and its reception in the historical, social, and literary context.
• Poetic compositions shared within communities and networks without any intention to be published can be examples of this.
• Poetic compositions publicly displayed (e.g. inscriptions), but not published.
• Testimonia of oral composition.
Poetics
• Poetics of the poetry of the people: stylization; metres and canons; compliance with or divergence from the traditional forms?
• Themes in the poetry of the people: love, death, wittiness, satire.
• Short poetic compositions that cannot be defined in terms of genre.
Poetry as cultural activity
• Forms and contexts of poetic recitations and performing acts in their historical and literary contexts; the evidence for mime.
• Literary production that is deliberately associated with or disassociated from social classes and its implications. Poetic composition beyond the city of Rome.
• Poetic production and/against consumption; different compositions in private/public spheres of cultural activities; was the consumed poetry the same or correspondent to the poetry they composed and/or published?
• Poetry of the people and interaction with the historical, social, and political contexts.
• The poetic exploitation of Cyprus (as a place or theme);
• the literary landscape and production in Cyprus from the archaic period up to the Late Antiquity;
• Cyprus as a possible literary topos;
• the perception of Cyprus as place: references to, and descriptions of, the island and its habitants;
• reception of Cypriot themes and traditions in classical literature.
• utilizing interdisciplinary approaches
• examining the nature of the name-wordplay (semantics and/or etymology)
• focusing on case studies from early periods of literature, and
the reception and use of early names in later times (e.g. Shakespeare).