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This article argues for an as-yet-undiscovered double allusion to Aratus’ Phaenomena (1–5 and 100... more This article argues for an as-yet-undiscovered double allusion to Aratus’ Phaenomena (1–5 and 100–7) embedded in Cicero’s De diuinatione (1.79). This intertextual link sheds light on a now-lost passage of Cicero’s Aratea and raises some questions about the relationship between Cicero’s dialogue and Catullus 64.

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This paper aims to analyse the influence of Germanicus’ Phaenomena on Lucan’s Bellum Ciuile. Afte... more This paper aims to analyse the influence of Germanicus’ Phaenomena on Lucan’s Bellum Ciuile. After a brief survey on astronomical reminiscences, I focus on sections relating to the dismantling of the Augustan ideology discourse (Lucan. i 143-157 and vii 860-868), where Lucan evokes Germanicus with an interesting antiphrastic attitude. Beneath the surface of Germanicus’ work, light is cast on Lucan’s reception of Augustus’ Res Gestae (especially in Lucan. v 372-373). The last section of the article is devoted to Lucan’s claim of immortality and its literary sources (Lucan ix 980-986): among Virgil, Ennius and Ovid, we can also appreciate the presence of Germanicus’ poetic self-representation.

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In this paper I will discuss how an epigram by Martial (Mart. 9.20) can be connected to a passage... more In this paper I will discuss how an epigram by Martial (Mart. 9.20) can be connected to a passage of Theocritus’ Encomium to Ptolemy Philadelphus (Theoc. Id. 17.58 – 76): the analysis will be developed in detail in order to enable the reader to perceive all the intertextual links existing between the two texts and will lead to a wider consideration of the literary background of the encomiastic epigram.

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A new discussion of the text of Germ. fr. 3, 16-17 Gain, canvassing, for l. 16, a conjecture firs... more A new discussion of the text of Germ. fr. 3, 16-17 Gain, canvassing, for l. 16, a conjecture first proposed by the Dutch scholar H. de Groot and, for l. 17, advancing a new proposal to emend the transmitted uestigia passus.

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This article aims to show the close link between the representation of Trajan’s deeds in Pliny th... more This article aims to show the close link between the representation of Trajan’s deeds in Pliny the Younger’s Panegyric and those of Augustus as described in the Res gestae. The analysis, developed through an in-depth reading of the most relevant passages, defines Trajan’s twofold attitude towards his model: on the one hand a singular effort to broaden Augustus’ successes, on the other the tendency to manifest his own self-restraint in contrast to the predecessor’s behaviour. The final section of the article is devoted to Pliny’s treatment of the word saeculum, which powerfully invokes the presence of another Augustan theme: the return of the Golden Age.

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The aim of this article is to reconsider a well-known passage of Aratus’ Phaenomena and its Latin... more The aim of this article is to reconsider a well-known passage of Aratus’ Phaenomena and its Latin translations. The analysis deals with the texts by Cicero, Varro of Atax,
Virgil and Avienius, and focuses particularly on a lexical problem of Cicero’s Aratea, consisting in the explanation of the word mollipes. Virgil’s rewriting of Aratus in the first book of Georgics is then discussed in detail in order to demonstrate the presence of a “window reference” so far undiscovered, which may shed light on Avienius’ version of the meteorological sign examined in the present paper.

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The paper reconsiders the authenticity of alis (transmitted by the Aratea manuscripts) in Cic. Ar... more The paper reconsiders the authenticity of alis (transmitted by the Aratea manuscripts) in Cic. Arat. fr. 33, 13 Soubiran, in the light of the variant auris attested in Cicero, De natura deorum.

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(Italian version below). CfP for a conference to be held at the University of Parma on 3rd-4th Ap... more (Italian version below). CfP for a conference to be held at the University of Parma on 3rd-4th April 2023. Deadline for submission of abstracts 16th December 2022.

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Ciceroniana On Line, 2023

A Journal of Roman Thought Peer-reviewed scientific review (ISSN 2532-5353) A Review of the Socié... more A Journal of Roman Thought
Peer-reviewed scientific review (ISSN 2532-5353)
A Review of the Société internationale des Amis de Cicéron
and Centro di Studi Ciceroniani
New Series Volume VII, 2, 2023

Published: 2023-12-31

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