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Urban Transformations in the Late Antique West: Materials, Agents, and Models
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 380

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
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 300

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.

Antologia Grega. Epitáfios (livro VII)
  • Language: pt-BR
  • Pages: 302

Antologia Grega. Epitáfios (livro VII)

O livro VII da Antologia Grega reúne um total de 748 epigramas que, salvo algumas exceções, respondem à categorização de epitáfios. Planudes copiou 582 destes epigramas, onze dos quais ausentes da tradição palatina, não sendo claro o critério que levou à exclusão dos outros 179 presentes em P. Dialógico ou não, desde as suas origens o epitáfio encena, implicitamente que seja, uma relação efémera entre o defunto celebrado e outro indivíduo que o lê. Trata-se de imortalizar, de garantir que o primeiro mantém, por via da memória (mnema), uma relação com o mundo dos vivos, conseguida no momento em que o seu nome é pronunciado pelo transeunte que o lê na lápide.

Posthuman Transformation in Ancient Mediterranean Thought
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 207

Posthuman Transformation in Ancient Mediterranean Thought

Ancient theories of posthuman transformation can shape, chasten, and reform modern (biotechnical) theories of posthuman enhancement.

Moses among the Greek Lawgivers
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 280

Moses among the Greek Lawgivers

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2023-09-04
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  • Publisher: BRILL

Josephus’ Antiquities introduces Moses as the Jewish lawgiver, adapting the biblical account for a new audience. But who was that audience, and what did they understand by the term lawgiver (νομοθέτης)? This book uses Plutarch’s Lives as a proxy for an imagined audience, providing a historically grounded but flexible model of a lawgiver, against which some of the otherwise invisible forces shaping Josephus’ choices are thrown into sharp relief. This method reveals patterns of appeal and challenge in Josephus’ intriguing and lively account of Moses’ legislative activities.

Antologia grega. Epigramas de autores cristãos
  • Language: pt-BR
  • Pages: 154

Antologia grega. Epigramas de autores cristãos

Neste volume se reúnem os dois livros de epigramas compostos exclusivamente por autores cristãos sobre temas, episódios e figuras daquela que, a partir do século IV, foi oficialmente reconhecida como a nova religião do Império. A encabeçar a Antologia, o livro I inclui 123 peças ditas “piedosas e divinas”, maioritariamente de poetas anónimos: dedicatórias de monumentos, invocações a Cristo ou à Virgem, epigramas ecfrásticos e peças de géneros diversos. Por sua vez, o livro VIII oferece uma recolha de 254 epigramas fúnebres de Gregório de Nazianzo, um dos Padres da Igreja (Capadócia, 329-389), das quais apenas 158 são formalmente epitáfios. As restantes, subordinadas ao tema unitário da morte, têm a forma de orações de defuntos pelos parentes vivos, autorreflexões breves do autor e, a fechar o livro, a extensa série dos epigramas (mais de 40) contra os profanadores de tumbas.

Antologia grega. Epigramas votivos e morais
  • Language: pt-BR
  • Pages: 196

Antologia grega. Epigramas votivos e morais

O livro VI da Antologia Grega inclui 358 epigramas votivos, peças pouco extensas que, destinadas a ser gravadas ou exercícios poéticos sobre um modelo mais antigo, expressam as razões da oferenda a uma divindade de objetos do dia-a-dia do indivíduo que os dedica. Simplicidade e sinceridade são os termos que melhor resumem a maioria destes textos. Quanto ao livro X, já apelidado livro de Páladas pelo elevado número de composições desse poeta nele incluídas, contempla 126 epigramas que devem ler-se como ponto de chegada de uma tradição antiquíssima de poesia gnómica e moralizante. Oscilam estas composições entre o mais luminoso dos otimismos e o mais extremo pessimismo, pesando o prato da balança, com distinção, para o último.

Our Beloved Polites: Studies presented to P.J. Rhodes
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 394

Our Beloved Polites: Studies presented to P.J. Rhodes

Twenty-eight contributions pay tribute to one of the most remarkable historians of ancient Greece, Professor P. J. Rhodes, to celebrate his life and work which has been and will continue to be a major reference for scholars around the world. The volume is organised in four sections: History and Biography, Law, Politics, and Epigraphy.

Epitaphs for the Heroes
  • Language: en

Epitaphs for the Heroes

The Pepli Epitaphia seem to have been of the predilection of Byzantine poets and scholars, as well as late-Renaissance editors. In spite of their editorial record during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, they were to be critically recovered only much later, in the nineteenth century. Made known and copied initially from a single thirteenth-century manuscript ({La in this edition), the corpus was in that century to be added with fifteen new components, identified among John Tzetzes' Scholia to the Carmina Iliaca. From this point on--and with the exception of some epigrams collected in other sources, namely the Greek Anthology--any edition or critical consideration of the text had to de...