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Confronting Identities in the Roman Empire
This open access edited volume offers an understanding of how ancient texts, ranging from the historical and biographical to the oratorical and epistolary, demonstrate the negotiation and renegotiation of the concepts of otherness, identity and culture. Drawing together new research from emerging and senior scholars from across the world, Confronting Identities in the Roman Empire presents an up-to-date insight into notions of identity and otherness, both at the level of the individual and community, in the ancient world. Roman identity is perceived as the result of the multiple interactions with the Other. The contributors analyse specific ancient case studies in order to define the network...
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.
Confronting Identities in the Roman Empire
"This open access edited volume offers an understanding of how ancient texts, ranging from the historical and biographical to the oratorical and epistolary, demonstrate the negotiation and renegotiation of the concepts of otherness, identity and culture. Drawing together new research from emerging and senior scholars from across the world, this book presents an up-to-date insight into notions of identity and otherness, both at the level of the individual and community, in the ancient world. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by FCT - Foundation for Science and Technology, I.P., under the project Rome our Home: (Auto)biographical Tradition and the Shaping of Identity(ies) (PTDC/LLT-OUT/28431/2017)"--
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.
Cultural Hegemony in a Scientific World
This volume in political epistemology offers a comprehensive discussion of the multiple applicability of Gramscian concepts and categories to the historical, sociological, and cultural analysis of science. The authors argue that the perspective of hegemony and subalternity allows us critically to assess the political directedness of scientific practices as well as to reflect on the ideological status of disciplines that deal with science at a meta-level – historical, socio-historical, and epistemological. Contributors include: Massimiliano Badino, Javier Balsa, Lino Camprubí, Ana Carneiro, Luís Miguel Carolino, Riccardo Ciavolella, Roger Cooter, Alina-Sandra Cucu, Maria Paula Diogo, Isabel Jiménez Lucena, Annelies Lannoy, Jorge Molero Mesa, Agustí Nieto-Galan, Pietro Daniel Omodeo, Matteo Realdi, Jaume Sastre-Juan, Arne Schirrmacher, Ana Simões, Carlos Tabernero Holgado, and Carlos Ziller Camenietzki.
Translating Ancient Greek Drama in Early Modern Europe
The volume brings together contributions on 15th and 16th century translation throughout Europe (in particular Italy, France, Spain, Portugal, Germany, and England). Whilst studies of the reception of ancient Greek drama in this period have generally focused on one national tradition, this book widens the geographical and linguistic scope so as to approach it as a European phenomenon. Latin translations are particularly emblematic of this broader scope: translators from all over Europe latinised Greek drama and, as they did so, developed networks of translators and practices of translation that could transcend national borders. The chapters collected here demonstrate that translation theory ...
Arabian Sinai
The last King of Babylon, Nabonidus, led a handful of Israelites to Jerusalem after the fall of his kingdom and devised a 'new religion' at a nondescript mesa in the Arabian Desert, later called "Sinai."
Augustan Papers
Der vorliegende Band markiert den zweitausendsten Todestag des princeps mit einer Reihe von Studien, die neue Zugänge zum römischen Herrscher Augustus und seiner Regentschaft bieten. Die thematisch weit gefächerten Beiträge fokussieren zentrale Themen der Augustusforschung aus der Sicht des 21. Jahrhunderts. Der Band bietet Studien aus archäologischer, philologischer und althistorischer Perspektive, die auf der Tagung ‚XIV A.D. SAECVLVM AVGVSTVM. The Age of Augustus‘ im September 2014 in Lissabon präsentiert und diskutiert wurden. Mit dem Titel, Augustan Papers, wird an das 80. Jubiläum der Publikation Roman Papers (1939) von Ronald Syme erinnert. ********** The present volume mar...
Violência e transgressão: uma trajetória da Humanidade
Este volume pretende reunir um conjunto de reflexões referentes à ideia de ‘Crime e violência’, como são expressos na Antiguidade greco-latina e na sua recepção. Depois de um texto introdutório que explora a terminologia específica deste assunto, seguem-se doze artigos que cobrem um lapso temporal que vai da época arcaica da Grécia à contemporaneidade portuguesa. A inclusão de diversos géneros literários permite também observar diferentes modelos estéticos na abordagem do assunto. Épica, tragédia, retórica, romance, dão voz a diferentes contextos em que a violência é central, bem como ao entendimento que cada sociedade retira desse fenómeno humano. This volume want...
Idades e Género na literatura e na arte da Grécia antiga
Este volume apresenta algumas reflexões sobre as ideias de idade e género na Grécia antiga. Reúne sete estudos de investigadores espanhóis, portugueses e argentinos, que se baseiam em diferentes fontes: literárias, iconográficas, epigráficas e sociais. Os trabalhos não se centram no cidadão, isto é, no varão adulto, no cidadão de acordo com a definição aristotélica, mas nas crianças, nos anciãos, nas donzelas. Explora-se inclusive o campo da prostituição masculina. Trata-se de um estudo que, com base na abundante bibliografia publicada nos últimos anos sobre estes aspectos, apresenta uma reflexão de conjunto sobre as margens da cidadania vista sob os parâmetros de gén...
