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Papers by Fabrizio Gaetano
Shaping Boundaries: Ethnicity and Geography in the Eastern Mediterranean Area (First Millennium BC), Proceedings of the 15th Melammu Workshop, Verona, 19–21 January 2022, 2023
Naming and Mapping the Gods in the Ancient Mediterranean
Mediterraneo Antico. Economie, società, culture 23, 1-2, 2020
Despite Aristotle's firm opinion on the differences between poetry and historiogra-phy, an elegia... more Despite Aristotle's firm opinion on the differences between poetry and historiogra-phy, an elegiac inscription set up in Herodotus' hometown, Halicarnassus, praised him as " the pedestrian Homer of historiography ". As it is well known, the uncertain author of the treatise On the Sublime referred to Herodotus as ὁμηρικώτατος, " the most Homeric ". In my paper, I will not take into consideration the literary connections between Homer and Herodotus, so much analyzed by modern scholars. I will rather discuss a specific verb, τεκμαίρομαι, and try to demonstrate that the way in which Herodotus employs it still partially depends on the Ho-meric background of the verb itself.
This paper, developed along the lines of the historical anthropological method, aims to investiga... more This paper, developed along the lines of the historical anthropological method, aims to investigate the notion of memory in Herodotus’ Histories, by focusing on some terms such as μνᾶσθαι and μνήμη. The analysis shall reveal how Herodotus’ use of verbs and verbal phrases conveying the meaning of memory is intended more toward guiding his recipients through the structure of the narrative than toward enacting a personal recollection of events meant for historical reconstruction. Moreover, as it is likely that Herodotus’ attention to guiding his audience is due to the partly oral enunciation of his historiographical discourse, it becomes possible to add a new interpretative perspective to the topic of the relationship between orality and writing in the historiography of the 5th century B.C.
Rendiconti Seminari by Fabrizio Gaetano
Seminario LAMA del 10/12/2012, in cui il dott. Fabrizio Gaetano ha presentato gli esiti del suo t... more Seminario LAMA del 10/12/2012, in cui il dott. Fabrizio Gaetano ha presentato gli esiti del suo tirocinio presso il centre ANHIMA di Parigi, nel corso del quale ha lavorato sul carteggio tra Ignace Meyerson e Jean-Pierre Vernant.
PDF scaricabile al link: http://lama.humnet.unipi.it/?p=650
Conference Presentations by Fabrizio Gaetano
by Laboratorio di Antropologia del Mondo Antico Università di Pisa, Marialilia Cavallaro, Gloria Mugelli, Fabrizio Gaetano, Margherita Spadafora, paola tosoni, Stefano Acerbo, Lucio Maria Valletta, Andrea Taddei, Carlamaria Lucci, and Sofia Ranzato
Twenty-five years after the foundation of a dedicated university course in Historical Anthropol... more Twenty-five years after the foundation of a dedicated university course in Historical Anthropology of the Ancient World at the University of Pisa, the conference aims to foster discussion about the study of relationships between Forms of Thought, Forms of Societies and Greek Literature of the Archaic and Classical Periods and to take stock on the most recent trends of research in this field.
Speakers include Valeria Andò, Alberto Bernabè Pajares, Simone Beta, Cléo Carastro, Giovanni Cerri, Vittorio Citti, Franco Ferrari, Florence Gherchanoc, François Hartog, Robert Parker, Alain Schnapp.
http://lama.fileli.unipi.it/lama2018
In 2.112, during his inquiries in Egypt about the ancient Pharaoh Proteus, the historian sees a t... more In 2.112, during his inquiries in Egypt about the ancient Pharaoh Proteus, the historian sees a temple devoted to the Foreign Aphrodite, whom he assumes to be Helen, Menelaus' wife. He asks his sources, the Egyptian priests, when Helen stopped by them, in order to confront the indigenous tradition with the poetic one told by Homer. Herodotus cites two passages from the Odyssey and one from the Iliad: he aims to demonstrate that Homer knew the same version of the story that the priests relate, but chose to overlook it as not suited to his own poetry.
Modern commentators have suggested to delete the Odyssey quotations as a gloss, because of their lack of relevance for Herodotus’ purpose. However, it seems possible to propose a different perspective, if one supposes that the three quotations do not just confirm the priests’ tale. In my opinion, these quotations – and the entire episode as a whole – play an important role in Herodotus’ attempt to connect the ancient Egyptian past to the Greek past and, by other means that I shall also consider, to insert the former into a temporal framework which would result fully understandable to a fifth century audience. Homeric quotations evoke the mythical heritage that Herodotus shares with his public and allow him to establish an appropriate ground for understanding, which rests on the interaction between myth and history.
The re-contextualisation of what we may call the epic memory into the new cultural frame represented by the Herodotean work reveals how Homeric quotations serve as narrative devices: they are not re-handled, but conformed to the needs of historiographical discourse and its condition of enunciation.
Book Reviews by Fabrizio Gaetano
Books by Fabrizio Gaetano
Shaping Boundaries: Ethnicity and Geography in the Eastern Mediterranean Area (First Millennium BC), Proceedings of the 15th Melammu Workshop, Verona, 19–21 January 2022, 2023
Naming and Mapping the Gods in the Ancient Mediterranean
Mediterraneo Antico. Economie, società, culture 23, 1-2, 2020
Despite Aristotle's firm opinion on the differences between poetry and historiogra-phy, an elegia... more Despite Aristotle's firm opinion on the differences between poetry and historiogra-phy, an elegiac inscription set up in Herodotus' hometown, Halicarnassus, praised him as " the pedestrian Homer of historiography ". As it is well known, the uncertain author of the treatise On the Sublime referred to Herodotus as ὁμηρικώτατος, " the most Homeric ". In my paper, I will not take into consideration the literary connections between Homer and Herodotus, so much analyzed by modern scholars. I will rather discuss a specific verb, τεκμαίρομαι, and try to demonstrate that the way in which Herodotus employs it still partially depends on the Ho-meric background of the verb itself.
This paper, developed along the lines of the historical anthropological method, aims to investiga... more This paper, developed along the lines of the historical anthropological method, aims to investigate the notion of memory in Herodotus’ Histories, by focusing on some terms such as μνᾶσθαι and μνήμη. The analysis shall reveal how Herodotus’ use of verbs and verbal phrases conveying the meaning of memory is intended more toward guiding his recipients through the structure of the narrative than toward enacting a personal recollection of events meant for historical reconstruction. Moreover, as it is likely that Herodotus’ attention to guiding his audience is due to the partly oral enunciation of his historiographical discourse, it becomes possible to add a new interpretative perspective to the topic of the relationship between orality and writing in the historiography of the 5th century B.C.
Seminario LAMA del 10/12/2012, in cui il dott. Fabrizio Gaetano ha presentato gli esiti del suo t... more Seminario LAMA del 10/12/2012, in cui il dott. Fabrizio Gaetano ha presentato gli esiti del suo tirocinio presso il centre ANHIMA di Parigi, nel corso del quale ha lavorato sul carteggio tra Ignace Meyerson e Jean-Pierre Vernant.
PDF scaricabile al link: http://lama.humnet.unipi.it/?p=650
by Laboratorio di Antropologia del Mondo Antico Università di Pisa, Marialilia Cavallaro, Gloria Mugelli, Fabrizio Gaetano, Margherita Spadafora, paola tosoni, Stefano Acerbo, Lucio Maria Valletta, Andrea Taddei, Carlamaria Lucci, and Sofia Ranzato
Twenty-five years after the foundation of a dedicated university course in Historical Anthropol... more Twenty-five years after the foundation of a dedicated university course in Historical Anthropology of the Ancient World at the University of Pisa, the conference aims to foster discussion about the study of relationships between Forms of Thought, Forms of Societies and Greek Literature of the Archaic and Classical Periods and to take stock on the most recent trends of research in this field.
Speakers include Valeria Andò, Alberto Bernabè Pajares, Simone Beta, Cléo Carastro, Giovanni Cerri, Vittorio Citti, Franco Ferrari, Florence Gherchanoc, François Hartog, Robert Parker, Alain Schnapp.
http://lama.fileli.unipi.it/lama2018
In 2.112, during his inquiries in Egypt about the ancient Pharaoh Proteus, the historian sees a t... more In 2.112, during his inquiries in Egypt about the ancient Pharaoh Proteus, the historian sees a temple devoted to the Foreign Aphrodite, whom he assumes to be Helen, Menelaus' wife. He asks his sources, the Egyptian priests, when Helen stopped by them, in order to confront the indigenous tradition with the poetic one told by Homer. Herodotus cites two passages from the Odyssey and one from the Iliad: he aims to demonstrate that Homer knew the same version of the story that the priests relate, but chose to overlook it as not suited to his own poetry.
Modern commentators have suggested to delete the Odyssey quotations as a gloss, because of their lack of relevance for Herodotus’ purpose. However, it seems possible to propose a different perspective, if one supposes that the three quotations do not just confirm the priests’ tale. In my opinion, these quotations – and the entire episode as a whole – play an important role in Herodotus’ attempt to connect the ancient Egyptian past to the Greek past and, by other means that I shall also consider, to insert the former into a temporal framework which would result fully understandable to a fifth century audience. Homeric quotations evoke the mythical heritage that Herodotus shares with his public and allow him to establish an appropriate ground for understanding, which rests on the interaction between myth and history.
The re-contextualisation of what we may call the epic memory into the new cultural frame represented by the Herodotean work reveals how Homeric quotations serve as narrative devices: they are not re-handled, but conformed to the needs of historiographical discourse and its condition of enunciation.