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Crises (Staseis) and Changes (Metabolai)
This book aims to build a solid and proper contribution to the contemporary global debate on the experience of democracy and its possibilities as the most effective mediator of a series of challenges, a debate that is necessarily rooted in the critical reassessment of its Greek cultural heritage. The book is articulated around the identification of a concrete problem: the need for studies that critically discuss Athenian democracy, seen as a daily problem and practice, based on its staseis (crises) and metabolai (changes), and whose solutions and strategies may still contribute to the reflection on the social, intellectual and ethical-political challenges of contemporary democracy.
Urban Transformations in the Late Antique West: Materials, Agents, and Models
This volume is the fruit of a highly productive international research gathering academic and professional (field- and museum) colleagues to discuss new results and approaches, recent finds and alternative theoretical assessments of the period of transition and transformation of classical towns in Late Antiquity. Experts from an array of modern countries attended and presented to help compare and contrast critically archaeologies of diverse regions and to debate the qualities of the archaeology and the current modes of study. While a number of papers inevitably focused on evidence available for both Spain and Portugal, we were delighted to have a spread of contributions that extended the picture to other territories in the Late Roman West and Mediterranean. The emphasis was very much on the images presented by archaeology (rescue and research works, recent and past), but textual data were also brought into play by various contributors.
Visitors from beyond the Grave
The monograph deals with the topic of ghosts in universal literature from a polyhedral perspective, making use of different perspectives, all of which highlight the resilience of these figures from the very beginning of literature up to the present day. Therefore, the aim of this volume is to focus on how ghosts have been translated and transformed over the years within literature written in the following languages: Classical Greek and Latin, Spanish, Italian, and English.
Unrest in the Roman Empire
Despite Roman claims to have brought peace, unrest was widespread in the Roman empire. Revolts, protests and piracy were common occurrences. How did contemporaries relate to and make sense of such phenomena? This volume gathers eleven contributions by specialists in the various literatures and modes of thinking that flourished in the empire between the second century BCE and the fifth century CE - including Graeco-Roman historiography and philosophy, Jewish prophecy, Christian apology and the writings of the Tannaitic rabbis - to investigate these questions. Each contribution analyses the discourses by which the diverse authors of these texts understood instances of unrest. Together the contributions expand our understanding of the varied politics that pervaded the Roman empire. They highlight the intellectual labour at every level of society that went to (re)making this imperial formation throughout its long history.
Fracasso e verdade na recepção de Políbio e Tucídides
Este livro discute o problema da recepção dos – ou nos – textos de Tucídides e Políbio pelos vieses narrativo, historiográfico, literário e/ou cultural. Está subdividido em oito meditações. Na primeira, são apresentados três procedimentos metodológicos (recepção, mediação e comparação) que articulam, ao longo das outras sete, a discussão dos integrantes nucleadores (fracassos políticos, verdades) do referido problema.
Seneca the Elder and His Rediscovered ›Historiae ab initio bellorum civilium‹
The refreshed insights into early-imperial Roman historiography this book offers are linked to a recent discovery. In the spring of 2014, the binders of the archive of Robert Marichal were dusted off by the ERC funded project PLATINUM (ERC-StG 2014 n°636983) in response to Tiziano Dorandi’s recollections of a series of unpublished notes on Latin texts on papyrus. Among these was an in-progress edition of the Latin rolls from Herculaneum, together with Marichal’s intuition that one of them had to be ascribed to a certain ‘Annaeus Seneca’. PLATINUM followed the unpublished intuition by Robert Marichal as one path of investigation in its own research and work. Working on the Latin P.He...
A nova era tecnológica
O livro A nova era da tecnologia pretende lançar luz sobre as diversas camadas das dinâmicas e fenômenos associados às redes sociais virtuais, inteligência artificial e realidades virtuais, com os respectivos perigos que cada uma delas representa ao nosso futuro. A obra conta com dois ensaios: o primeiro com um olhar psicanalítico de Caio Garrido, reflexões sobre como as redes sociais nos afetam, e a relação entre realidade virtual e realidade psíquica. E o segundo, escrito por Fábio Zuccolotto, que apoiado pelas Ciências Sociais e Psicanálise, mostra a desestruturação do sujeito na modernidade. Ambos lançam a questão: Estaríamos preparados o suficiente para lidar com a tec...
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Artigos Sobre História, Política, Geopolítica e Outras Vertentes, e Trabalhos Acadêmicos de História Antiga e Medieval
A Humanidade vive neste planeta, desde seus primórdios, há milhões de anos, tendo de ser testada a cada momento na sua luta pela sobrevivência. Desde as primeiras sociedades coletoras, passando pelo início da civilização e até o ocaso do socialismo na Europa Oriental, reinos e impérios surgiram, sistemas – malignos e benignos – apareceram e nada, até hoje, foi suficiente para eliminar o sofrimento humano. E isso é a História, cujos componentes principais são a política e a geopolítica, intrinsecamente ligadas, com o surgimento de inúmeras sociedades cujas ligações são conectadas pelos interesses próprios, e não pelo bem comum a todos. É má a natureza humana, combin...
