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Hispania et Roma
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The Making of a Heretic
Silenced for 1,600 years, the "heretics" speak for themselves in this account of the Priscillianist controversy that began in fourth-century Spain. In a close examination of rediscovered texts, Virginia Burrus provides an unusual opportunity to explore heresy from the point of view of the followers of Priscillian and to reevaluate the reliability of the historical record. Her analysis takes into account the concepts of gender, authority, and public and private space that informed established religion's response to this early Christian movement. Priscillian, who began his career as a lay teacher with particular influence among women, faced charges of heresy along with accusations of sorcery a...
Ammianus Marcellinus
In Ammianus Marcellinus: An Annotated Bibliography, 1474 to the Present, Fred W. Jenkins surveys scholarship on Ammianus from the editio princeps to the present. Included are bibliographies, editions, translations, commentaries, concordances and indexes, Web sites, and secondary scholarship in many languages.
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the ERC funded project PLATINUM (ERC-StG 2014 n°636983) in response to Tiziano Dorandi’s recollections of a series of unpublished notes on Latin texts on papyrus.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 PLATINUM followed the unpublished intuition by Robert Marichal as one path of investigation in its own research and work.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...
Hispanojewish Archaeology (2 vols.)
In Hispanojewish Archaeology Alexander Bar-Magen Numhauser describes the material culture of the Jewish communities in Hispania of the first millennium CE by studying their archaeological remains in the Iberian Peninsula and surrounding western Mediterranean regions.
2012
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Cesti
Iulius Africanus (3rd cent.) is a fascinating writer in a period of transition. Widely travelled, he belongs to the intellectual élite of the second sophistic. His two main works present a similar encyclopedic approach, but very different contents. He can be considered the “father of Christian chronography”, since he authored the first Christian world chronicle (Chronographiae). However, he also wrote a comprehensive and multifaceted manual of many fields of knowledge, where the religious character is open to debate. The preserved fragments of the Cesti treat military, technical, medical and many other topics. These texts are presented in an entirely new critical edition. The transmissi...
A Commentary on Lucan, "De bello civili" IV
Book 4 of Lucan’s epic contrasts Europe with Africa. At the battle of Lerida (Spain), a violent storm causes the local rivers to flood the plain between the two hills where the opposing armies are camped. Asso’s commentary traces Lucan’s reminiscences of early Greek tales of creation, when Chaos held the elements in indistinct confusion. This primordial broth sets the tone for the whole book. After the battle, the scene switches to the Adriatic shore of Illyricum (Albania), and finally to Africa, where the proto-mythical water of the beginning of the book cedes to the dryness of the desert. The narrative unfolds against the background of the War of the Elements. The Spanish deluge is r...
Memoriae civitatum: arqueología y epigrafía de la ciudad romana
El Imperio romano estuvo constituido por un gran número de variopintas ciudades de las cuales han llegado a nosotros abundantes ruinas arqueológicas y textos epigráficos. El estudio de estos testimonios directos del pasado nos permite recomponer y reinterpretar memorias colectivas que han sobrevivido al paso del tiempo. Aflora de este modo la identidad de cada civitas, plasmada con frecuencia en sus monumentos conmemorativos, en estrecha vinculación con el tejido social y el paisaje urbano, además de con el desarrollo de la vida política y religiosa de la comunidad correspondiente. Esta obra pretende buscar los elementos en común y, al mismo tiempo, profundizar en las singularidades de diferentes memoriae civitatum, tras pasar por el tamiz del historiador. Con este fin se han recopilado veintidós estudios de base epigráfica y/o arqueológica, referidos a distintos casos de ciudades, en su mayoría de época altoimperial. El marco geográfico nos ubica sobre todo en las provincias romanas de Baetica, Hispania citerior y Lusitania, pero también en las de Moesia superior y Aquitania, pasando por la misma Roma.
