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"Besides numerous significant works concerning the fields of both natural and humanistic disciplines written by the famous Renaissance scholar Faustus Vrančić, there is also a less well-known manuscript, Illyrica historia, fragmenta ex... more
Review-essay of translations of Horace: The Essential Horace: Odes, Epodes, Satires, and Epistles, translated by Burton Raffel, with a Foreword and an After- word by W. R. Johnson (San Francisco: North Point Press, 1983). The Complete... more
These essays on late antiquity traverse a territory in which Christian and pagan imagery and practices compete, coexist, and intermingle. The iconography of the most significant late antique ceramic, African Red Slip Ware, is an important... more
A panorama of refrain as a form in Greco-Roman poetry and religious cults, with an attempt to explain its peripherality, due in part to ancient religions ́ public nature.
Tipo di tesi Tesi di dottorato di ricerca Autore BENELLI, LUCA URN etd-12092013-172526 Titolo SAPPHOSTUDIEN ZU AUSGEWÄHLTEN FRAGMENTEN Settore scientifico disciplinare L-FIL-LET/02 Corso di studi DISCIPLINE UMANISTICHE Commissione tutor... more
Complete book, free, but under copyright and not to be sold. 200 idioms from DBG (Caesar's De Bello Gallico) are presented along with the original Latin context and the translation of that passage. This book can be used at all levels of... more
Though separated in time and space, different cultures and countries, Arun Kolatkar and T.S. Eliot echo an ideological attitude thereby resulting in a similar basic conflict and mood in their respective poems Jejuri and The Wasteland.... more
L'articolo tratta della genesi e della diffusione del testo agiografico anonimo noto come "Actus Silvestri", il quale rovescia la memoria storica del battesimo ariano di Costantino attribuendo al vescovo di Roma, Silvestro I, la... more
This paper studies the treatment of the Sibyl and Virgil in a speech attributed to Constantine the Great. Scholars generally focus on the role played by one or the other of these two figures in that writing. To do justice to the economy... more
The paper is devoted to one ostracon from Masada. It offers a new interpretation of the name that was part of the so-called “Lots” and suggests that it derives from Greek. This reading positions the ostracon as part of a large group of... more
This paper explores the selection process of the Roman equestrian officials in the second century AD with the question, What roles did personal relationships and specific skills play? Among all the high equestrian offices, the post ab... more
F. Gazzano, Cicerone e le 'fabulae' di Erodoto, in Heorté. Studi in onore di Michele R. Cataudella in occasione del suo 80° compleanno a cura di Ilenia Achilli, Giuseppe Mariotta, Salvo Micciché e Anna Maria Seminara, Roma Edizioni Quasar... more
For the interpretation of mythological subjects In the Roman funerary art the author systematically applies the analysis of the Key of Dreams by Artemidorus of Daldis, Greek author of the Antonine period. The funerary art was studied... more
There are certain invariants of heroic poetry, elements that define it essentially: the theme – a narrative about “extraordinary deeds”, famous, adventurous topics, in the style of “traditional heroic mythology” (Marino) – and the... more
Nel contributo si rintracciano e si analizzano i prodromi, la genesi e le forme dell'esiziale contrapposizione sofoclea tra Aiace e Atena, prestandosi particolare attenzione alle conseguenze di tale conflitto sull'evento capitale della... more
Das spannungsreiche Verhältnis zwischen "patroni" und "clientes" hat in den letzten Jahren zunehmend das Interesse der Forschung geweckt. Die literarische Darstellung dieser Spannung ist Thema des vorliegenden Buches. Eine zentrale Rolle... more
As a contribution to the archaeological research on polychromy, this study analyses the written sources on the colouration of ancient sculpture. It addresses all types of materials, from clay to chryselephantine works. The texts refer not... more
This paper can be downloaded for free - Articolo liberamente scaricabile This paper compares a number of epigrams from the Garland of Philip and their likely models in the Garland of Meleager. By such a comparison, this work aims to... more
Euripides’ interest in religious phenomena and particularly in Dionysism provides the major link between the poet and the New Musicians. In fact, far from embodying the final collapse of the religious impulse, New Music constitutes a... more
المؤتمر الدولى الخامس (الكلمة والصورة فى الحضارات القديمة ) THE FIFTH INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS (THE WORD AND IMAGE IN ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS) خلال 29 إلى 31 مارس 2014 29 - 31 March 2014 دار الضيافة - جامعة عين شمس مركز الدراسات البردية... more
« Can ancient Greek and Latin poetry touch a young woman or man in 2018 ? »
(A Conference at Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Sevilla, 01/26/2018, and at Universidad de Huelva, 01/27/2018)
(A Conference at Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Sevilla, 01/26/2018, and at Universidad de Huelva, 01/27/2018)
The study examines some Etruscan urns, one Apulian oinochoe and a Roman sarcophagus illustrating a peculiar account of Agamemnon’s and Aigisthos’ murder. Subsequently, the difficult issue of identifying some of the characters represented... more
La conferenza ha avuto lo scopo di fornire una panoramica sul rapporto fra cane e uomo nella società greco-romana, con particolare riguardo alle attenzioni riservate dai padroni ai propri animali da compagnia, testimoniate anche dalle... more
The Brill Encyclopedia of Early Christianity (BEEC) focuses on the history of early Christianity, covering texts, authors, ideas, and their reception. The BEEC aims both to provide a critical review of the methods used in Early Christian... more
Collection and analysis of the Greek epigrams preserved by the Anthologies as composed by Roman authors at Ovid's time and beyond.
The intertextual links between Lucan’s and Tacitus’ impressive ekphraseis of certain imagined northern groves have been recognised for a long time and discussed as evidence for the literary connections between different genres in the Late... more
In view of the forthcoming exhibition Nero: The Man Behind the Myth (The British Museum, 27 May 2021– 24 Oct 2021; https://www.britishmuseum.org/exhibitions/nero-man-behind-myth), I thought that it might be appropriate to upload a review... more
in: Translation and Transmission. Collection of Articles, J. Hämeen-Anttila & I. Lindstedt (eds.). Series: The Intellectual Heritage of the Ancient and Mediaeval Near East 3, Ugarit-Verlag, Münster, 139-79. Based on the workshop... more