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Le ›Declamazioni maggiori‹ pseudo-quintilianee nella Roma imperiale
The world portrayed by ancient declamation is often thought to be timeless; but it was in fact deeply rooted in the historical texture of the Roman Empire. The central aim of the volume is to recover this historical dimension, with particular reference to the so-called Major Declamations, a collection wrongly attributed to Quintilian, and now generally thought to be the work of several authors of the second and third centuries AD. Accordingly, many of the twenty studies collected here seek to anchor the Maiores to their period, exploring their chronology and authorship; their relationship to rhetorical education, Greek declamation, and philosophy; their depiction of earlier history; and thei...
The Limits of Exactitude in Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Literature and Textual Transmission
Building on Calvino’s observations on Exactitude in Six Memos for the Next Millennium, the present book elucidates on the possible definitions of exactitude, the endeavor of reaching exactitude, and the undeniable limits to the achievement of this ambitious milestone. The eighteen essays in this interdisciplinary volume show how ancient and medieval authors have been dealing with the problem of exactitude vs. inexactitude and have been able to exploit the ambiguities related to these two concepts to various ends. The articles focus on rhetoric and historiography (section I), exact sciences and technical disciplines (II), the peculiarity of quotations (III), cases of programmatic inexactitu...
Miti di caccia
Nel folto delle inaccessibili foreste del monte Pelio si trova l’antro di Chirone, il centauro saggio, il “maestro” degli eroi. La terra, l’acqua e il legno stesso del Pelio possiedono una forza indomabile: dal tronco dei suoi frassini il centauro ha costruito la lancia di Achille. Nelle “terre selvagge” del mito hanno luogo riti di passaggio e cacce iniziatiche; qui si compie la metamorfosi verso l’età adulta o il fallimento, nel caso sfortunato in cui il cacciatore si trasformi a sua volta in preda. I discepoli di Chirone imparano a misurarsi con la caccia, il rituale di sangue e fuoco per eccellenza, che è innanzitutto sacrificio: in altre parole, uccisione di una parte del proprio “Sé”.
In principio erano i mostri
Dire che i mostri dei Greci e dei Romani siano creature orrifiche e infestanti, a volte ibride e poliforme, altre volte informi o grottesche, forse non basta. Ci sono, infatti, dei tratti e delle funzioni peculiari che distinguono certi tipi di mostri dagli altri. Alcuni sono nati nel momento stesso in cui è nato il cosmo, e vantano parentele imbarazzanti con gli dèi olimpici; altri svolgono la funzione di loro ministri; altri presidiano gli spazi periferici e marginali del mondo conosciuto; altri ancora rappresentano la minaccia iperbolica dell’elemento ferino; altri, infine, incarnano l’essenza stessa del femminile: seducono gli uomini per poi consumarli o divorarli. In altre parole, attentano al corpo maschile inteso ora come metafora del corpo sociale della città, ora come immagine dell’ordine costituito. Ognuno di essi, comunque, fornisce una chiave per decifrare le culture che li hanno generati, permettendo di accedere alle ansie e alle strutture profonde di un immaginario mitologico che ancora oggi ci affascina.
Law and Ethics in Greek and Roman Declamation
Ancient declamation—the practice of delivering speeches on the basis of fictitious scenarios—defies easy categorization. It stands at the crossroads of several modern disciplines. It is only within the past few decades that the full complexity of declamation, and the promise inherent in its study, have come to be recognized. This volume, which contains thirteen essays from an international team of scholars, engages with the multidisciplinary nature of declamation, focusing in particular on the various interactions in declamation between rhetoric, literature, law, and ethics. Contributions pursue a range of topics, but also complement each other. Separate essays by Brescia, Lentano, and L...
Ethics, Identity, and Community in Later Roman Declamation
Rhetorical training was the central component of an elite Roman man's education, and declamations--imaginary courtroom speeches in the character of a fictional or historical individual--were the most advanced exercises in the standard rhetorical curriculum. The Major Declamations is a collection of nineteen full-length Latin speeches attributed in antiquity to Quintilian but most likely composed by a group of authors in the second and third centuries CE. Though there has been a recent revival of interest in Greco-Roman declamation, the Major Declamations has generally been neglected. Ethics, Identity, and Community in Later Roman Declamation is the first book devoted exclusively to the Major...
Introducing Roman Declamation
Introducing Roman Declamation provides an overview of school declamation, that is, the themes on which students of the Roman rhetorical schools cut their teeth and proved their talent. Beginning in the late Republican period and throughout the entire imperial age, the rhetorical schools were an obligatory step in the curriculum of elite education. Despite its huge importance and the sizeability of the preserved material, almost 300 themes, declamation has only in recent times received the scholarly attention it deserves, as the victim of a prejudice that was already widespread in antiquity, owing to the chasm between school themes and the real world. But in fact declamation provides a privil...
Portraying Cicero in Literature, Culture, and Politics
Cicero has played a pivotal role in shaping Western culture. His public persona, his self-portrait as model of Roman prose, philosopher, and statesman, has exerted a durable and profound impact on the educational system and the formation of the ruling class over the centuries. Joining up with recent studies on the reception of Cicero, this volume approaches the figure of Cicero from a ‘biographical’, more than ‘philological’, perspective and considers the multiple ways by which different ages reacted to Cicero and created their ‘Ciceros’. From Cicero’s lifetime to our times, it focuses on how the image of Cicero was revisited and reworked by intellectuals and men of culture, wh...
