Reception of Antiquity
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Universität Turin, 13.05.2021, ESCL-Tagung "Narrations des origines" Der Vortrag möchte den funktionalen Zusammenhang von Nacktheit und Imagination untersuchen und aufzeigen, wie innerhalb einer Kultur der Bekleidung das Begehren, unter... more
Abstract In the Gennadius Library of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Greece, is a heretofore unknown large-format volume that contains many extra illustrations, original drawings, and proofs of plates for The Arabian... more
ABSTRACT: This book chapter considers the interest in Etruscan engraved gems and jewellery in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, from the scholarly and collecting activities of Philipp von Stosch, Anton Francesco Gori and others in... more
Neste traballo fago un estudo da presenza da lenda irlandesa de Breogán dentro dos escritos de Manuel Murguía. Cinco son os aspectos que quero analizar aquí: a narrativa da lenda; a interpretación que fixo dela; a adaptación da lenda á... more
Collection of contributions on the reception of ancient historiography in Early Modern Culture and Intellectual History. INDICE INTRODUZIONE I. G. Mastrorosa (Università di Firenze) Oltre ‘riscoperte’, Nachleben e ‘fortuna’:... more
A unique group of sculpture from Early Christian Cyprus comes from the so-called Villa of Theseus, at Nea Paphos. The group comprises (at least) twenty sculptures of divinities and mythological figures, which range in date from the... more
La mia tesi di laurea triennale in Grammatica Latina raccoglieva ed analizzava gli incantesimi in lingua latina presenti nella serie web audiovisiva Netflix "The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina" (2018-2020). Preliminarmente, si è cercato... more
The excavations of the University of Warsaw in the so-called Villa of Theseus in Kato Paphos uncovered a unique group of at least twenty sculptures, predominantly depicting mythological figures and divinities. The building took its... more
Abstract - Roma Triumphans by Biondo Flavio represents the first treatise offering a systematic investigation of the religious, civic and political institutions of ancient Rome, evaluating data from a historical-comparative viewpoint.... more
The paper focuses on the interpretation of Roman Italy and its geographical borders in the Early Modern period, with particular attention to its rebirth in Biondo Flavio’s work - Key words: Italia romana, historical borders, regiones,... more
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In their pleadings Against Timarchos and On the false embassy, Aeschines and Demosthenes both evoke a statue of Solon erected on the agora of Salamis which would show the legislator with his hand inside his cloak, a gesture indicating his... more
El presente artículo tiene como objetivo llamar la atención sobre una obra que ha pasado un tanto desapercibida. Considerada como un trabajo menor de un autor satírico, al-Jāḥiẓ, el Kitāb Fakhr al-Sūdān 'alā al-Bīḑān (La superioridad de... more
Proceedings: Nachleben and the Cultural Memory of Ancient Egypt, Conference at the Warburg Institute, London, December 6–8, 2018
Die frühneuzeitliche Rezeption klassischer Mythen in Text und Bild beförderte nicht nur eine Vielzahl von Deutungsmustern und Bildtraditionen, sondern provozierte zugleich bildliche und literarische Gegenreaktionen in Form neuartiger und... more
Turning to a region of South Italy associated with the heritage of Greater Greece and the geographies of Homer's Odyssey, Marco Benoît Carbone delivers a historical and ethnographic treatment of how places defined in public imagination... more
This contribution aims to perform an iconographical and aesthetic analysis of the image of thePersian empire as it is shown on the cinematographical adaptation of the graphic novel by FrankMiller, “300” (Z. Snyder, 2007). The point of... more