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Germanicus and his large family (his wife Agrippina Major and nine children) embodied in Tiberius' Rome a new political model that looked beyond the boundaries of tradition and opened up to elements that had remained outside the scene of... more
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The reference in a pentameter by Ticida to Valerius Cato's poem Lydia as maxima cura is a bilingual wordplay and complex allusion to Callimachus' description of a poem by Antimachus, possibly the Lyde as "the large woman" (fr. 1.12 Pf.)
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Journal of Biblical Literature 141 (2022): 337–57.
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""Ancient Greece is famous as the civilization which "gave" the world democracy. Democracy has in modern times become the rallying cry of liberation from supposed totalitarianism and dictatorship. It is embedded in the assumptions of... more
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The paper focuses on Greek epitaphs set up for dogs and attempts to demonstrate the kind of data that can be extracted from such texts. It analyses the texts of canine epitaphs and compares them not only to similar Latin inscriptions and... more
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Το νέο βιβλίο του Δημήτρη Πλάντζου εντάσσεται στον χώρο της πολιτισμικής κριτικής και στόχος του είναι να διερευνήσει τους τρό-πους με τους οποίους η κλασική αρχαιότητα επιβάλλεται ως βιο-πολιτικό εργαλείο στη σημερινή Ελλάδα· δηλαδή ως... more
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"This publication presents the first study of the defining features of Psellos' Chronographia, written in the 11th century. Character is the single most important feature of the Chronographia written by Michael Psellos (1018-1081?). It... more
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Che posto occupavano gli animali nell’antichità? Come noi oggi, anche i Greci e i Romani avevano a che fare con cani, cavalli, galline; avevano allevamenti, vivari, acquari, e adottavano pratiche zootecniche. Amavano i loro animali da... more
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Η διδακτική αυτή προσέγγιση αφορά στο σχεδιασμό και την υλοποίηση της διδασκαλίας στο πλαίσιο ενός μαθήματος φιλοσοφίας σχετικά με τις θεωρίες της γνώσης στη Β΄ Γενικού Λυκείου, με βάση το διδακτικό βιβλίο Αρχές Φιλοσοφίας στο... more
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This paper explores the principles underlying decisions to inscribe Athenian laws and decrees on stone, finding (against a recent paper by Michael Osborne) that many laws and decrees were not inscribed, including those of ephemeral... more
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Preface; I. Introduction: I.1 Prelude "To Imitate the Bees"; I.2 Towards an Interpretation of Spolia: Delimitations and Methods; I.3 Reuse The Development of a New Architectural Practice; II. Translatio of Materials: II.1 Fragments and... more
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Intended as a companion for students and teachers using Words & Ideas (Wauconda: Bolchazy-Carducci 2009), this key provides answers to all the Exercises, Word Study and For Consideration questions. The key assists teachers and augments... more
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From the Contents: François Salviat, Le vin de Thasos. Amphores, vin et sources écrites; François Salviat, Vignes et vins anciens de Maronée à Mende; François Salviat, Le vin de Rhodes et les plantations du Dème d' Amos; François Salviat,... more
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The seeds of a culture of elite drug use that were sown in the first season of Rome blossom to full prominence in the show’s second series as male and female characters within the city and without are shown conspicuously consuming... more
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Thoroughly rewritten 7th edition of a textbook for freshmen students of history, classics, archaeology, ancient studies and a general readership interested in the history of ancient Near East and the Graeco-Roman world. The new edition... more
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My review of Emily Wilson's translation of Seneca's tragedies.
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A life narrative as short addendum to Chapter IV/Lives in Translation. In Xenophon's Anabasis, Book IV, beginning of Chapter 8. Xenophon's army reaches the land of the Macrones at the east of Trabzon. The Macrones are lined up for... more
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Intended as a companion for students and teachers using Words & Ideas (Wauconda: Bolchazy-Carducci 2012), this key provides answers to all the Exercises, Word Study and For Consideration questions. The key assists teachers and augments... more
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ABSTRACT: In the New Testament Vulgate, the Greek verb μισέω (“to hate”) is translated either as the Latin verb odi, or as the constructions with support verb odio habeo and odio sum. In order to understand the criteria that explain these... more
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The second Book of the Politics has been object of multiple considerations, but it has called the attention of the scholars mainly because of its detailed criticism of Plato's political projects, especially the Republic. In fact Aristotle... more
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A brief look at the role and position of women in Spartan society in the Classical period.
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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
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An experiment in distant reading on the texts that tell the myth of Procne and Philomela in classical Latin literature and on the section of book VI of Ovid's Metamorphoses telling the story, in comparison with the whole of the... more
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With Empedocles, the qualities of a creative religious, mytho-poetic imagination fluent in Homer, Hesiod, Pindar, and Parmenides allies itself with a rational mind keenly interested in understanding the natural world.: The first... more
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"Latijnse morfologie" bevat een volledige bespreking van de verbuigingen en vervoegingen van het klassieke Latijn. Ook talrijke relevante uitzonderingen en bijzonderheden die in vele schoolboeken onvermeld blijven, komen aan bod.... more
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The mental hygiene and eugenics movements in North America began in tandem across Canada and the United States, ending with the mental hygiene movements opposing one another. With notable figures on both sides of the border, the driving... more
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A study in the narrative devices and narratology employed by Ovid, with a specific focus on Book VIII.
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Widely revered as the father of Western literature, Homer was the author of The Iliad and The Odyssey, the epic poems which immortalised such names as Achilles, Cyclops, Menelaus, and Helen of Troy. In this vivid introduction, Elton... more
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Introduzione ai libri V-VI Bibliografia Sigle e abbreviazioni usate negli apparati critici Testo e traduzione libro V Testo e traduzione libro VI Commento al libro V Capitoli 1 - 8 (M. E. De Luna) p. 263 - Capitoli 9 - 12 (C. Zizza) p.... more
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