The volumes published in the series Beiträge zur Altertumskunde comprise monographs, collective volumes, editions, translations and commentaries on various topics from the fields of Greek and Latin ...Philology, Ancient History, Archeology, Ancient Philosophy as well as Classical Reception Studies. The series thus offers indispensable research tools for a wide range of disciplines related to Ancient Studies.
In his carmina, Venantius Fortunatus (sixth century) has left us three figurate poems that depict the cross as an image, while its verses describe the cross textually. He is thus an author who ...completely detaches figurate poems from the pagan tradition and inscribes them in the Christian one. The aim of this essay is to examine these poems from a pictorialist perspective. To this end, after a brief presentation of all three poems, they are considered, firstly, as ekphraseis that draw on a three-step representation: The figure depicts a cross that points to transcendence, the verses describe it, and they have the potential to evoke an additional mental image in the reader. Secondly, I examine what image and text, and thus the figurate poems as intermedial products, gain through the respective other medium. This results, thirdly, in an analysis of the figurate poems within the categories of iconism, aniconism, and anti-iconism.
This article investigates the role of sensory metaphors of food and hunger in the communicative project of the Confessions. Under the broad framework of cognitive poetics, which focuses on the ...interaction between text and audience, I analyse how sensory language contributes to an appeal to the readers’ sensory imaginations and emotions that they might be responsive to the viewpoint put forward by the text. I find that Augustine stimulates and reorientates especially his Manichaean readers’ intuitive but also cultural and familiar conceptions of the sensible world in relation to God, of their religious food and dietary rituals and, by extension, of their experience of God. This, I argue, seems to be a persuasive device to encourage new interpretation of the senses as signs which point towards immaterial reality, and new understanding of man’s relationship to God as utterly transcendent and unchangeable.
Santo Mazzarino war eine beherrschende Gestalt der italienischen Altertumskunde in der 2. Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts. Jeder assoziiert mit ihm Forschung und geschichtliche Darstellung speziell der ...Spätantike. Im Rahmen einer umfassenden Erörterung der Bedeutung des italienischen Historiker sollte auch untersucht werden, wie weit er sich mit dem weiten Geld der epigraphischen Forschung befasst und ihre Quellen in seine Darstellungen einbezogen hat. Dabei zeigte sich, dass Mazzarino, auch auf der Basis seiner Mitarbeit am Dizionario epigrafico, sich weit stärker mit dieser Quellengattung befasst hat, als dies allgemein bekannt ist. Santo Mazzarino was a dominant figure in Italian classical studies in the second half of the 20th century. His name is usually associated with ground-breaking research and major historical accounts, especially of Late Antiquity. This paper discusses the extent to which Mazzarino dealt with the broad field of epigraphic research and included its evidence in his work. Its key finding is that Mazzarino, not least through his collaboration with the Dizionario epigrafico, engaged with this category of sources far more strongly than is generally known.
En el presente artículo se analizan las transformaciones que, a partir del siglo IV, experimentan los obispos cristianos por su estrecha vinculación con el poder imperial: si en un principio ...Constantino quiso ponerlos a su servicio como estrechos colaboradores en la administración del Imperio, pronto algunos de ellos, con gran personalidad, se sirvieron de los honores y privilegios adquiridos para reclamar una independencia allí donde — a diferencia de lo que sucederá en Constantinopla a partir de Teodosio I— su elección no dependía del emperador.
This study evaluates the treatment of children in death through an examination of the available archaeological evidence related to mortuary practices from Late Roman and Early Byzantine (L) Ibida ...(Slava Rusă, Tulcea County, Romania). Certain components such as burial location, grave type, orientation, body position, and grave goods were analyzed based on a sample of 41 non‑adult individual burials. A differential approach that involved making a comparison and highlighting the similarities and differences between non‑adult and adult burials was used. The instances where adults and non‑adults were buried together in the same grave were also discussed. Although differences were apparent in certain instances, it was found that children were not necessarily buried differently than adults. The limits of the study determined by the current state of research and by sample sizes are highlighted. Additionally, it is acknowledged that caution should be exercised as material remains and their interpretation only reveal a part of the entire story related to any mortuary behavior.
Articolul discută tratamentul funerar documentat în cazul mormintelor de copii din epoca romano‑bizantină descoperite în situl de la (L) Ibida (comuna Slava Rusă, județul Tulcea). Pe baza unui lot de 41 de morminte individuale au fost analizate diverse elemente, precum localizarea înmormântărilor, tipurile de morminte, orientarea acestora, poziția scheletului și inventarul funerar (acolo unde este cazul). Au fost incluse în studiu și mormintele de adulți (n = 82), în cadrul unei abordări comparative care să evalueze eventuale similitudini și diferențe în ceea ce privește tratamentul funerar aplicat celor două categorii (non‑adulți și adulți). Mormintele duble în care apar atât schelete (sau fragmente din schelete) de adulți, cât și de copii, au fost de asemenea discutate. Cu toate că s‑a putut documenta un oarecare grad de diferențiere pentru anumite elemente ale practicilor funerare, ipoteza existenței unui tratament funerar diferențiat pe criteriu de vârstă nu se poate susține. Limitele studiului de față, rezultat al stadiului actual al cercetării și determinate de dimensiunea loturilor disponibile, sunt amintite de‑a lungul textului.
During the archaeological excavations in the north-eastern part of the
thermae at Constantine the Great?s villa in Mediana, in the 2022 campaign,
in a layer of debris two fragments of marble relief ...with a representation of
Nike/Victoria standing on a globe were discovered. The fine grain white
marble used for the icon, with its exquisite modelling, suggest that it was
made from expensive marble by the hands of a skilful artisan in the period
from the 3rd to the 4th century. The fact that the relief was discovered in
the area of an imperial residential complex relates it to other known
Central Balkan finds with Victoria representations, discovered in Galerius?
imperial domain Felix Romuliana and Moesia Superior?s capital Viminacium.
All these mythological objects can be dated into the period of the 3rd and
the 4th century, attesting that the goddess? symbolism did not lose any of
its popularity in the period of Late Antiquity - on the contrary, it
announced the transformation of the goddess into an angel and, later on, as
the one who blessed the emperors during their coronation. Thus, the question
of Victoria?s different roles (goddess or personification) again arises,
gaining a new meaning in the early Byzantine period.
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