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From the Protohistory to the History of the Text
This volume contains studies by distinguished international scholars on the transmission of major classical Latin texts, including the writings of Plautus, Terence, Cicero, Caesar and Virgil. It offers fresh insights into the protohistory of the text, the phase of its history that precedes the earliest surviving textual witnesses.
Insularity, Identity and Epigraphy in the Roman World
This book explores the subject of islands, their essence and identity, their isolation and their relationships in the Ancient world. It investigates Greek and Roman concepts of insularity, and their practical consequences for the political, economic and social life of the Empire. The contributions examine whether being related to an island was an externally or internally distinctive feature, and whether a tension between insularity and globalisation can be detected in this period. The book also looks at whether there is an insular material culture, an island-based approach to sacredness, or an island-based category of epigraphy.
De un Dios bisoño
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Understanding Integration in the Roman World
Integration is a buzzword in the 21st century. However, academics still do not agree on its meaning and, above all, on its consequences. This book offers numerous examples showing that the inhabitants of the Roman Mediterranean were “integrated”, i.e. were aware of the existence of a common framework of coexistence, without this necessarily resulting in a process of cultural convergence. For instance, the Spanish poet Martial explicitly refused to be considered the brother of the Greek Charmenion (10.65): paradoxically, while reaffirming their differences, his satirical epigram confirms the existence of a common frame of reference that encompassed them both. Understanding integration in the Roman world requires paying attention to the complex and varied responses to diversity in Roman times.
Palaeohispanic Languages and Epigraphies
In addition to Phoenician, Greek, and Latin, at least four writing systems were used between the fifth century BCE and the first century CE to write the indigenous languages of the Iberian peninsula (the so-called Palaeohispanic languages): Tartessian, Iberian, Celtiberian, and Lusitanian. In total over three thousand inscriptions are preserved in what is certainly the largest corpus of epigraphic expression in the western Mediterranean world, with the exception of the Italian peninsula. The aim of this volume is to present the most recent cutting-edge scholarship on these epigraphies and on the languages that they transmit. Utilizing a multidisciplinary approach which draws on the expertise...
Bibliographie Linguistique de L'annee 1999
Setting out the historical national and religious characteristics of the Italians as they impact on the integration within the European Union, this study makes note of the two characteristics that have an adverse effect on Italian national identity: cleavages between north and south and the dominant role of family. It discusses how for Italians family loyalty is stronger than any other allegiance, including feelings towards their country, their nation, or the EU. Due to such subnational allegiances and values, this book notes that Italian civic society is weaker and engagement at the grass roots is less robust than one finds in other democracies, leaving politics in Italy largely in the hands of political parties. The work concludes by noting that EU membership, however, provides no magic bullet for Italy: it cannot change internal cleavages, the Italian worldview, and family values or the country’s mafia-dominated power matrix, and as a result, the underlying absence of fidelity to a shared polity—Italian or European—leave the country as ungovernable as ever.
Itur in antiquam silvam
Los estudiosos han venido proponiendo dos modelos principales para explicar la historia de la transmisión del texto virgiliano en sus primeros siglos: para unos, los codices Vergiliani antiquiores derivarían de un antepasado común en la forma de un arquetipo; para otros, de una «edición antigua». El trabajo que aquí se presenta se propone demostrar que tales hipótesis no son en absoluto, como se ha querido, incompatibles entre sí. Más aún, una reconsideración de las evidencias textuales y de la historia de la transmisión obliga a defender para la llamada «tradición culta» de Virgilio la existencia de un arquetipo datado entre los ss. II-III, que a su vez ha de derivar de una edición antigua fechable entre época neroniana y mediados del s. II. De esa manera pueden justificarse razonablemente las vicisitudes del texto virgiliano entre la muerte del poeta y su estado en los ss. IV-V.
