Why did human beings first begin to write history? Lisa Irene Hau argues that a driving force among Greek historians was the desire to use the past to teach lessons about the present and for the ...future. She uncovers the moral messages of the ancient Greek writers of history and the techniques they used to bring them across. Hau also shows how moral didacticism was an integral part of the writing of history from its inception in the 5th century BC, how it developed over the next 500 years in parallel with the development of historiography as a genre and how the moral messages on display remained surprisingly stable across this period. For the ancient Greek historiographers, moral didacticism was a way of making sense of the past and making it relevant to the present; but this does not mean that they falsified events: truth and morality were compatible and synergistic ends.
Les fils de Pompée, Cnaeus et Sextus, sont deux acteurs majeurs des guerres civiles de la fin de la République romaine. Cette thèse propose de reconsidérer leur parcours politique et militaire durant ...les années 46 à 35 av. J.-C, en soulevant deux questions complémentaires : de quelle façon construisirent-ils leur légitimité et leur pouvoir ? Quelle était la composition de leur entourage et comment fonctionnait-il ? Pour en traiter, des sources littéraires sont à notre disposition – notamment Cicéron, Appien et Cassius Dion –, mais afin d’approfondir l’enquête il a fallu réaliser deux études préalables : d’abord, un examen des émissions monétaires des deux frères, pour analyser la représentation de leur pouvoir et de leur légitimité ; ensuite, une prosopographie de leur entourage afin d’identifier leurs partisans et de comprendre la façon dont se forme puis évolue ce groupe. Les acquis de ces deux études ont permis, outre une analyse plus approfondie de leur action en péninsule Ibérique et Sicile, d’apporter de nouveaux éléments aux réflexions en cours sur la nature et le fonctionnement des formations politiques à Rome à la fin de la République.
Ippocrate e gli altri Alfageme, Ignacio Rodríguez; Boudon-Millot, Véronique; Bourbon, Florence ...
11/2021
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Indagare ‘Ippocrate’, la sua gestazione, la sua vitalità, significa allargare lo sguardo su ciò che lo ha preceduto e accompagnato, in Grecia e nelle culture circonvicine, su un mondo mediterraneo ...che è luogo di scambio di idee in forma di opere letterarie o di ‘scienza’, di filosofia, religione e magia, di antropologia e politica, diritto ed economia, secondo precisi meccanismi di diffusione dei testi, la loro geografia, il consolidarsi in corpora e canoni. A quella che chiamiamo ‘medicina ippocratica’ spetta, così, il posto d’onore per chi miri alla comprensione del fertilissimo ambiente del quinto e quarto secolo a.C., un ambiente ‘scientifico’, storico, letterario, filosofico. E ad essere illuminato da una migliore conoscenza di quel paradigma medico è anche il più vasto contesto sociale e culturale del mondo greco, un percorso che ha attraversato la storia dell’Occidente: gli sforzi che gli ippocratici hanno compiuto per la conoscenza del corpo umano, della sua struttura, funzionamento, interconnessione e della sua relazione con l’ambiente esterno, ebbero sull’intero edificio del sapere antico un impatto che sarebbe stato duraturo, e avrebbe inciso in profondità. Dal Sedicesimo Colloquio Internazionale Ippocratico, un volume che ribadisce la vivacità e la ricchezza degli studi ippocratici.
Between the deaths of the Emperors Julian (363) and Justinian (565), the Roman Empire underwent momentous changes. Most obviously, control of the west was lost to barbarian groups during the fifth ...century, and although parts were recovered by Justinian, the empire's centre of gravity shifted irrevocably to the east, with its focal point now the city of Constantinople. Equally important was the increasing dominance of Christianity not only in religious life, but also in politics, society and culture.
Doug Lee charts these and other significant developments which contributed to the transformation of ancient Rome and its empire into Byzantium and the early medieval west. By emphasising the resilience of the east during late antiquity and the continuing vitality of urban life and the economy, this volume offers an alternative perspective to the traditional paradigm of decline and fall.
Key features:• Provides a clear analytical narrative of pivotal political, military, and religious developments• Complements this with an examination of overarching trends in urban life and the economy• Gives particular attention to the dynamics of political and religious power and of Roman-barbarian relations during the fifth century
What were the limits of knowledge of the physical world in Greek and Roman antiquity? How far did travellers get and what did they know about far-away regions? How did they describe foreign countries ...and peoples? How did they measure the earth, and distances and heights on it? Ideas about the physical and cultural world are a key aspect of ancient history, but until now there has been no up-to-date modern overview of the subject. This book explores the beginnings and development of geographical ideas in Classical antiquity and demonstrates technical methods for describing landscape, topographies and ethnographies. The survey relies on a variety of sources: philosophical and scientific texts but also poems and travelogues; papyrological remains and visual monuments.
Transcending the dialectic between appearance and reality, Euripides succeeded in giving human intelligibility to a new Helena, who never loved Paris nor fled with him. Menelaus' wife must vindicate ...to her newfound husband that she is the real Helena, quite different from the ghost that the hero brought with him from Troy. The volume analyzes the various resources of re-characterization of Helena in Euripides' tragedy. ; Los personajes de la tragedia ática han sido ampliamente estudiados desde perspectivas en las que, a menudo, sus palabras y actos se explican a partir de nuestras nociones modernas sobre la mente humana y la personalidad, y desde valoraciones éticas y juicios morales ajenos a la Grecia clásica. El ensayo Rescatando a Helena se propone contemplar la caracterización de Helena en la tragedia homónima de Eurípides desde una perspectiva en la que la inteligibilidad humana del personaje no procede del supuesto descubrimiento de su conciencia interna o de su psique individual, sino de la adecuada subordinación de la caracterización de Helena a la acción de la obra en la que dicha caracterización está orgánicamente integrada. En vez de aislar al personaje del contexto dramático al que pertenece, como si estuviese dotado de una identidad idiosincrática, mi ensayo no intenta descubrir quién es realmente Helena leyendo entre líneas por debajo de la superficie textual, sino cómo sus palabras y acciones logran conmover eficazmente al auditorio original de la obra. Frente a nuestras lecturas eruditas y reflexivas de los textos conservados, los espectadores del siglo V a. C. acudían al Teatro de Dioniso para ver y oír las acciones y las palabras de los personajes trágicos dentro de un espectáculo más amplio que incluía música y danza. Es decir, la tragedia ática era ante todo una experiencia emocional, no una ocasión para la introspección psicológica o la reflexión filosófica.
From premodern societies onward, humans have constructed and produced images of ideal masculinity to define the roles available for boys to grow into, and images for adult men to imitate. The figure ...of Alexander the Great has fascinated people both within and outside academia. As a historical character, military commander, cultural figure and representative of the male gender, Alexander’s popularity is beyond dispute. Almost from the moment of his death Alexander’s deeds have had a paradigmatic aspect: for over 2300 years he has been represented as a paragon of manhood - an example to be followed by other men - and through his myth people have negotiated assumptions about masculinity. This work breaks new ground by considering the ancient and medieval reception of Alexander the Great from a gender studies perspective. It explores the masculine ideals of the Greco-Roman and medieval past through the figure of Alexander the Great, analysing the gendered views of masculinities in those periods and relates them to the ways in which Alexander’s masculinity was presented. It does this by investigating Alexander’s appearance and its relation to definitions of masculinity, the way his childhood and adulthood are presented, his martial performance and skill, proper and improper sexual behaviour, and finally through his emotions and mental attributes. Masculine Ideals and Alexander the Great will appeal to students and scholars alike as well as to those more generally interested in the portrayal of masculinity and gender, particularly in relation to Alexander the Great and his image throughout history.
The appearance of new media and its enormous diffusion in the last decades of the 20th century and up to the present has greatly increased and diversified the reception of Egyptian themes and motifs ...and Egyptian influence in various cultural spheres. So-called ‘popular’ or ‘pop’ culture (cinema, genre fiction, TV-series, comics, graffiti, computer and video games, rock and heavy music, radio serials, among others) often makes use of narratives and motifs drawn from the observation and study of ancient Egypt, updated and reinterpreted in various ways, and which is now the subject of study by scholars of Egyptology. The present monograph seeks to provide new evidence of this interdisciplinarity between Egyptology and popular culture. It explores the conscious reinterpretation of the past in the work of contemporary authors, who shape an image of the Egyptian reality that in each case is determined by their own circumstances and contexts.
