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European Academy of Religion International Conference - Vienna, 8-12 July 2025 1) New forms of dialogue between States and religions in Europe: from bilaterality towards multilaterality? 2) State and Church relations in Italy: towards a... more

European Academy of Religion International Conference - Vienna, 8-12 July 2025

New forms of dialogue between States and religions in Europe: from bilaterality towards multilaterality?
State and Church relations in Italy: towards a new model of collaboration?
Safeguarding the intangible religious cultural heritage: from the 2003 UNESCO convention towards a new understanding in Italian law and canon law

2025, SISTE ET LEGE. EXHIBITED WRITING AND THE COMMUNITIES OF ANCIENT ITALY (3RD-1ST CENTURIES BC) edited by Ignacio Simón Cornago

Siste et lege. Ego-inscriptions in special locations. The evidence of the pre-Roman Italian languages · The article deals with non-official and spontaneous inscriptions that were scratched or engraved on the walls of various buildings or rocks throughout history and in different cul-
tures. After a review of the definitions of these writing activities provided by studies from other disciplines, the author attempts to provide a framework based on an integrated approach of anthropology of writing, geo-semiotics, and landscape phenomenology, arriving at a definition
of « egotic writings ». Examples drawn from the pre-Roman, modern and contemporary worlds serve as examples of the texts examined.

2025, »Ressourcen der Resilienz« in der Antike Materielle, performative und narrative Praktiken und Strategien

Resilienz ist in den letzten Jahren ein Schlagwort geworden, das sich nicht nur in unzähligen tagespolitischen, sondern auch fachwissenschaftlichen Debatten finden lässt. Der Begriff ist mit einem Gefühl von Unsicherheit und der Erwartung eines Ausnahmezustands konnotiert, wobei die Unmöglichkeit, sich gegen die Unwägbarkeiten der Zukunft abzusichern, ebenso mitschwingt. Er bedeutet aber auch, dass unvorhersehbare systemische Störungen einerseits natürlich sind und andererseits überstanden werden können -wenn nicht von allen, dann wenigstens von vielen, darunter einige, die vielleicht sogar Nutzen aus unterschiedlichen Desastern ziehen können 1 . Wissenschaftsgeschichtlich markieren dabei vor allem die 1970er Jahre für die Verwendung des Terminus »Resilienz« einen wichtigen Zeitraum, da er ab dieser Zeit vermehrt in unterschiedlichen Disziplinen verwendet wurde. Einen wichtigen Meilenstein bildet sicherlich die Arbeit des Systemökologen Crawford S. Holling, der Resilienz 1973 verwendete, um vor allem die bis dahin (und z. T. nach wie vor vertretene) Ansicht zu verwerfen, wonach natürliche Ökosysteme von einem Gleichgewichts-zustand geprägt seien. Resilienz bezeichnete nach ihm dabei die Fähigkeit eines ökologischen Systems, Stress zu absorbieren und dennoch funktionsfähig zu bleiben 2 . Auch in anderen disziplinären Kontexten wird der Begriff Resilienz seitdem häufiger verwendet. Parallel zu den Umweltwissenschaften wird er besonders in der Psychologie benutzt, wo er die individuelle (oder kollektive) Fähigkeit bezeichnet, mit Widrigkeiten, Unglücksfällen oder Schicksalsschlägen umzugehen. In ökonomischen Zusammenhängen meint er die Widerstandsfähigkeit nationaler Wirtschaftssysteme im Kontext eines Konjunkturabschwungs. Und in den Sozialwissenschaften umschreibt er u. a. die Persistenz von Ansichten, Ideen und Technologien, die ständige Erneuerungsprozesse überdauern oder diese mit anstoßen 3 . Was auffällt, ist, dass all diese unterschiedlichen Perspektiven eine historische Sichtweise zumindest implizieren 4 . Denn in allen Konzepten ist dem Begriff Resilienz die Vorstellung von Wandel eingeschrieben, dem über einen längeren Zeitraum verfolgbare Veränderungen zugrunde liegen und der 1 Siehe dazu: MacKinnon/Derickson 2012. 2 Siehe Holling 1973, 14, der Resilienz definiert als »measure of the persistence of systems and of their ability to absorb change and disturbance and still maintain the same relationships between populations and state variables«. Die Genese seines Konzepts wird beschrieben in Folke 2006, bes. 254-255. Eine zentrale Weiterentwicklung stellt Gunderson/Holling 2002 mit der Ausformulierung der »adaptive cycles« dar. Als Resilienz in den 1970er Jahren im Zusammenhang mit der Ölkrise zunächst in amerikanischen, später in europäischen Sicherheitskreisen verwendet wurde, war damit nicht zuletzt das Bemühen verbunden, kritische Infrastruktur vor Sabotage und Systemzusammenbrüchen zu schützen (Walker/Cooper 2011). Auf politischer Ebene war mit dem Gedanken der Resilienz zugleich eine Infragestellung des weltpolitischen Idealbilds der »nachhaltigen Entwicklung« angedeutet, wie sie vom Club of Rome und anderen Institutionen erarbeitet worden war (Seefried 2015). Da Ressourcen ohnehin endlich sind, ging es weniger darum, möglichst lang andauernden, nachhaltigen Nutzen aus ihnen zu ziehen, sondern die zugrunde liegenden sozioökonomischen oder ökologischen Systeme so auszurichten, dass sie möglichst gut mit Mangelzuständen zurechtkommen könnten (vgl. Möller/Rieger 2019). Diese Systeme durchlaufen dabei, so die Vorstellung, adaptive Zyklen (adaptive cycles).

2025, Nea Estia vol. 190, fasc. 1901

This article examines the names of heroes, mythical figures, and notable historical figures that appeared alongside the names of ordinary people during the Roman period, often preceded by the adjective 'neos' (e.g. 'neos Homer', 'neos Themistocles', 'neos Conon'). These names indicate an elective kinship rather than a blood relationship, linking their bearers to the realms of myth and history.

2025, in Guillaume Ducoeur, Céline Redard (ed.), Traditions écrites, collections et processus de normativité, Université de Strasbourg, Publications de l’institut d’histoire des religions 7, 2025, p. 87-111.

La tradition sur Numa n’attribuait pas seulement à ce roi la création des principales institutions religieuses de la cité, mais aussi des institutions de nature plus politique et sociale, comme la répartition des citoyens en corps de métiers organisés en « collèges », ou la réorganisation du calendrier civique, le calendrier dit « numaïque » (encore que, dans ce cas, il y ait aussi une dimension religieuse sur la nature faste ou néfaste des jours de chaque mois). Enfin, probablement depuis la fin du IVe siècle av. J.-C., une tradition véhiculée par plusieurs familles de l’aristocratie républicaine romaine et enrichie par Ennius et par Fulvius Nobilior au IIe siècle, faisait du roi Numa, qui avait vécu de la fin du VIIIe au début du VIIe s., un disciple de Pythagore, le philosophe grec qui vécut en Italie du Sud à la fin du VIe et au début du Ve siècle av. J.-C. L’ensemble de ces traditions permettaient de présenter Numa comme un nomothète, un faiseur de lois ou de normes à l’origine des principales institutions civiques et religieuses de la cité, et donc, par conséquent, des normes « canoniques » qui réglaient la religion publique de l’État romain.

2025, Land

Geoarchaeological work and excavations of the Helike Project over the last 30 years in the Helike coastal plain, Gulf of Corinth, have yielded abundant evidence on ancient settlements, as well as the surrounding landscape and environmental changes that resulted from geological phenomena and catastrophic events. The research methods applied by the Helike Project followed a multidisciplinary approach, including combined archaeological excavations and palaeoseismological trenching, geophysical prospection, archaeometric, environmental, and soil micromorphology analyses, and computer-based landscape modelling. A wealth of settlement remains that were unearthed across the plain, ranging in date from the Early Helladic period (3rd millennium BC) to the Late Antiquity (5th century AD), indicates that the ancient inhabitants of the area chose to always resettle in the area by adjusting their ways of living to the geomorphology and natural hazards, prevailing each time. Our results show that disasters in the area increased between the Geometric and Roman times due to severe earthquakes that occurred approximately every 300 years. In particular, archaeological and geological finds recovered from the Late Classical-Hellenistic Helike settlement, which was revived in the western part of the plain shortly after the disastrous 373 BC earthquake, have enriched our knowledge regarding the historical seismicity of the region and past human-environment relationships.

2025, Revista Jurídica Mario Alario D´Filippo

El presente texto aborda, a modo de ensayo, una revisión analítico-histórica del Derecho Romano y sus aportaciones sustanciales en la tradición jurídica de occidente. Así, sustenta la tesis de que existen otras instituciones y conceptos que han transcendido los contenidos del derecho privado para irradiar la práctica judicial y las instituciones básicas de la cultura jurídica en occidente.

2025, Reseña de: Esparta. Historia, carácter, orígenes y estrategia. ESPACIO, TIEMPO Y FORMA SERIE II HISTORIA ANTIGUA. REVISTA DE LA FACULTAD DE GEOGRAFÍA E HISTORIA UNED.

Reseña del libro "Esparta: Historia, carácter, orígenes y estrategias".
Autor: Paul Rahe. Córdoba, Erasmus Ediciones, 2024, 341 pp., ISBN: 9788410199989.

2025

This thesis analyses how the 6th-century general Belisarius was commemorated in Byzantine cultural memory through Assmann’s concept of cultural memory, from descriptions of Belisarius’ lifetime until his appearance in the Belisariad-poem in the 14-16th centuries. First, it will explore the genesis of the contemporary notion that the general was a victim of phthonos (‘envy’). Second, it will explain how Belisarius became a relatable figure for later authors’ own times against the historical background of the 10th-12th centuries, which saw renewed Byzantine military activity and innovations in literary expression that both facilitated a renewed interest in the ancient general. Finally, the three editions of the popular Belisariad-poem reveal the use of Belisarius’ memory as a moral didactic figure over the course of the 15th century. The conclusion of this research is that the figure of Belisarius was increasingly commemorated as a timeless multilayered moral character in Byzantine cultural memory.

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L'Empire romain, Paris, éditions de Fallois, 1993.
Traducción José Torres.

2025, positanonews

Non si tratta di una semplice passeggiata tra rovine, ma di un vero e proprio viaggio nel tempo. Ogni pietra, ogni frammento murario che incontreremo è un testimone silenzioso di secoli di vicende, di miti intrecciati alla storia, di presenze monastiche e di una natura selvaggia che ha plasmato e, a volte, reclamato queste antiche strutture. Preparatevi a decifrare le tracce di un passato contestato, a riconoscere gli spolia romani riutilizzati, a immaginare la vita dei monaci benedettini in questo eremo affacciato sul mare, e a comprendere come un luogo di spiritualità e presidio territoriale sia diventato, nel corso dei secoli, una suggestiva rovina romantica.

2025, Conimbriga

Taking as a starting point a paper published in the previous issue
of Conimbriga (Fernández Calo, “The Callaeci and the eponymic
issue”), various historiographical aspects are discussed, essentially
based on classical literary sources and Latin epigraphy, concerning
the location, both of the urban center of Cale, mentioned
for the first time in the “Antonine Itinerary”, and of the populus/
ciuitas of the Callaeci, which literary tradition identifies as the
first indigenous community located north of the Douro River that
confronted the Roman consul Decimus Iunius Brutus when he
made a military incursion to the northwest of the peninsula, in
138-137 BC. The triumph of the mission made Brutus to adopt the
honorific cognomen Calaicus, celebrated in several monuments
in Rome. It is concluded that, despite the fact that the study presented
by Fernández Calo has the purpose of renewing the discussion
on a fundamental theme of the Ancient History of the
Northwest, the lack of new sources, namely epigraphic ones, does
not allow significant gains to be achieved in the interpretation of
the available data.

2025, De rerum natura. Ecomitocrítica y protoecología a través de las Artes y la Literatura.

En el presente trabajo hacemos un estudio del mito de Filemón y Baucis, narrado por Ovidio, y su metamorfosis en dos árboles unidos desde sus raíces. Mitemas como la prueba de la hospitalidad, la personalidad simulada, la pietas in deos, el premio de los dioses y el castigo de la impiedad se van sucediendo en la narración.
In this paper we study the myth of Philemon and Baucis, narrated by Ovid, and their metamorphosis into two trees united at their roots. Mythemes such as the test of hospitality, the simulated personality, pietas in deos, the reward of the gods and the punishment of impiety follow one after the other in the narrative.

2025, L'Europe et la phénomène migratoire contemporain

Conférence sans références prononcée en 2010. Exposé synthétique sur les formes et l'évolution des pratiques impérialistes romaines à l'égard des provinciaux. Unreferenced lecture given in 2010. Synthetic presentation on the forms and... more

Conférence sans références prononcée en 2010. Exposé synthétique sur les formes et l'évolution des pratiques impérialistes romaines à l'égard des provinciaux.
Unreferenced lecture given in 2010. Synthetic presentation on the forms and evolution of Roman imperialist practices, from predation to integration, towards the provincials.

2025

La pubblicazione di articoli e note proposti alla Rivista è subordinata alla valutazione positiva espressa su di essi (rispettando l'anonimato dell'autore e in forma anonima) da due lettori scelti dal Direttore in primo luogo tra i componenti del Comitato scientifico internazionale. Ciò in adesione al comune indirizzo delle Riviste romanistiche italiane (AG., RISG., BIDR., AUPA., SDHI., Iura, Index, Roma e America, IAH., Quaderni Lupiensi, Diritto@storia, TSDP.), in seguito alle indicazioni del gruppo di lavoro promosso dal Consorzio interuniversitario Gérard Boulvert e a conseguenti delibere del CUN e del CNR. Gli autori sono invitati a inviare alla Rivista insieme con il testo da pubblicare un abstract in lingua diversa da quella del contributo e «parole chiave» nelle due lingue.

2025, Atti dell’Accademia Romanistica Costantiniana. Per I cinquant’anni della “Costantiniana”. XXVI, Oriente e Occidente in dialogo. In onore di Jean-Michel Carrié

The emergence of a second Senate on the banks of the Bosporus
represents one of the most impactful outcomes of the Constantinian
revolution. In this paper, sources related to the establishment of the
Eastern Senate are reviewed. From this reading it can be deduced
that the Constantinople assembly took on a supra-municipal and
imperial physiognomy as early as the end of Constantine’s reign.
The transfer of the first Western senators to the East can also be
dated to this phase; it was a phenomenon that took place gradually
and not by force of a rule (usually placed just before 357). The last
part of the article focuses on the social shape of the two senates and
the different aftermaths they experienced during the fifth century

2025, Palamedes. A Journal of Ancient History

The speech Pro Roscio Amerino, delivered by Cicero in 80 BCE, is considered his de facto debut as an orator and an exceptionally successful one. Cicero spoke before quaestio de sicariis et veneficiis in defence of Roscius of Ameria, accused of patricide. Beyond its legal aspects, this speech also served as a political critique of the Sullan state, with subtle yet pointed references to Sulla himself. Employing a wide range of rhetorical devices, Cicero outlined a vision for the reform of the Republic, including calls for the restoration of the rule of law and moral renewal. In particular, he devoted significant attention to the role of the nobilitas, often adopting a critical tone. This paper offers a comprehensive analysis of Cicero's critique of the Sullan regime and his proposed framework for the Republic's restoration as expressed in Pro Roscio Amerino.

2025, El campamento legionario de Cáceres el Viejo (Cáceres, España), escenario de la Guerra de Sertorio

2025

radovi • proceedings • akten • xvii roman military equipment conference • zagreb • 2010 455 During the decade long systematic archaeological research conducted on the site of Gardun (modern village of Trilj next to Sinj), the location of a former Roman military camp Tilurium, a total of 155 coins were discovered, of which 99 can be precisely identified and dated. 2 As with all other items discovered during archaeological excavations at this site, numismatic findings were systematically documented, conserved, and published, and in this manner became available to the scientists and the broader public.

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2025, Traian and the Danubian Provinces. The political, economic and religious life in the Danubian Provinces: Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on the Roman Danubian Provinces, Zagreb, 15th - 17th November 2017.

Dio cassius, when speaking of Trajan before he was an emperor, described the dream he once had predicting his great future and his prudent rule (68.5.1): "Trajan, before he became emperor, had had a dream of the following nature. he thought that an old man in purple-boarded toga and vesture and with a crown upon his head, as the senate is represented in pictures, impressed a seal upon him with a finger ring, first on the left side of his neck and then on the right. When he became emperor, he sent a letter to the senate, written with his own hand in which he declared, among other things, that he would not slay nor disfranchise any good man; and he confirmed this by oaths not only at the time but also later. " 1 since Dio's text is the only source mentioning Trajan's dream, we have no means of corroborating the story, so it could be false and it could be true -Marina Milićević Bradač -Ana Pavlović trajaN aNd the SeNate. icoNograPhic MeSSageS oF MoNuMeNtS aNd coiNS marina milićević bradač ana Pavlović Department of archaeology faculty of humanities and social sciences university of Zagreb ivana Lučića 3 hr -10000 Zagreb

2025, B. Currás Refojos, I. Sastre Prats (eds.), Las caras del imperio: mecanismos de control y estrategias de resistencia, Besançon, 2025, 91-109.

La escasez y la aparente contradicción de las fuentes sobre la krypteía, alimentadas por el secreto inherente al kósmos espartano, han generado múltiples definiciones e interpretaciones en torno al origen, características y funcionalidad de esta institución. Platón y su escoliasta por un lado, y Aristóteles (apud Heraclides Lembo) y Plutarco por otro, nos conducen a dos realidades divergentes de lo que habría sido la krypteía. Tras analizar y contextualizar estas fuentes en el debate ideológico del siglo IV a.C. sobre la esclavización de los mesenios, el presente artículo defiende que, al margen del elemento iniciatorio que parece revestir la prueba, debe relativizarse su perfil de caza salvaje de un ser humano en favor de dotarla de una finalidad práctica, la de vigilar y proteger la chóra de la polis. En época helenística la krypteía quedó desnaturalizada, pero siglos después Plutarco, imbuido de mirage, la rescató del olvido para recrearla de manera un tanto colorista y fantasiosa.

2025

Que esta Memoria, titulada "Considerations during the Proposal Stages of a Marine Fisheries Reserve in Conil de la Frontera (Spain)", presentada por D. Sarah Camilleri, resume su trabajo de Tesis de Máster y, considerando que reúne todos los requisitos legales, autorizan su presentación y defensa para optar al grado de Máster en Gestión del Agua y Costera.

2025, Politics

In this article, I offer a reading of the pirate in Carl Schmitt inspired by Reinhart Koselleck's study on asymmetric counterconcepts. I argue that the pirate in Schmitt marks a negative asymmetric counterconceptual position associated with a space of exception in relation to which one may also identify the outlaw enemy of humanity. In displacing the political and mapping the pirate's position within Schmitt's conceptual order, the significance of this article's main contribution is to draw attention to a specific asymmetric counterconceptual structuring that marks the limits of 'our' international political world with the dehumanized negativity of its constitutive outsider. Rereading Koselleck's methodological qualification on the structural iterability of asymmetric counterconcepts, the article suggests that the spectre of the pirate lives on, haunting the outer limits of the international and legitimizing abject forms of violence.

2025, Torino, UTET, 1964

a cura di Italo Lana.

2025, Theoretical Roman Archaeology Journal

2025, Paris, Les Belles Lettres, 1961

Texte établi, traduit et commenté par Pierre Grimal.
Sextus Julius Frontinus, De aquaeductu urbis Romae .
Frontinus's chief work is De aquaeductu, in two books, an official report to the emperor on the state of the aqueducts of Rome. It presents a history and description of the water-supply of Rome, including the laws relating to its use and maintenance. He provides the history, sizes and discharge rates of all of the nine aqueducts of Rome at the time at which he was writing at the turn of the 1st century AD: the Aqua Marcia, Aqua Appia, Aqua Alsietina, Aqua Tepula, Anio Vetus, Anio Novus, Aqua Virgo, Aqua Claudia and Aqua Augusta. Frontinus describes the quality of water delivered by each, mainly depending on their source, be it river, lake, or spring.

2025, Mediterranean Journal of Humanities, XV/1 (2025)

Çalışmamızın konusu oluşturan Telesphoros Heykelciği, Anadolu'da şimdiye kadar tespit edilen beşinci bağımsız mermer Telesphoros heykelciği olarak öne çıkmaktadır. • Anadolu örneklerinin bazı deformasyon ve noksanlıkları mevcutken eserimiz neredeyse kusursuz korunma durumuyla dikkat çekmektedir. • Telesphoros'un kapüşonu üzerinde yer alan yıldız motifiyle bilinen diğer Telesphoros betimlemelerinden ayrışmaktadır. • Çalışmamızın, Telesphoros kültü ile ikonografisine yeni bir perspektif getireceği, çocuk tanrının daha bilinir olmasına bir katkı sağlayacağı düşünülmektedir. Öz: Telesphoros, kendine has bir ikonografisi olan ve çoğunlukla bir çocuk olarak betimlenen bir tanrıdır. Telesphoros, neredeyse tüm vücudunu saran kukuletalı (cucullus) bir pelerin ile tanımlanır. Tanrının kökeni konusunda fikir birliği olmasa da Batı Anadolu'da çok yoğun bir tapınım gördüğü arkeolojik ve nümismatik verilerle kanıtlanmıştır. Telesphoros'un adının geçtiği en erken epigrafik kalıntı ve en erken nümismatik veri, Pergamon kentini işaret etmektedir. Yunan mitolojisinde yeri bulunmayan Telesphoros, Asklepios ve Hygeia ile birlikte sağaltıcı tanrı rolündedir. Bazı mezar kontekstlerinden hareketle, Telesphoros'un ölüye öteki dünyada eşlik etme ve onu koruma fonksiyonu da bulunduğu anlaşılmaktadır. Çalışmamızın konusunu oluşturan Gaye Çarmıklı koleksiyonundan mermer Telesphoros heykeli, alışılagelmiş Telesphoros ikonografisindedir. Eseri Anadolu'da çok az örneği olan mermer Telesphoros heykelciklerinden ayıran iki önemli unsur, kusursuza yakın korunma durumu ve kapüşonundaki yıldız motifidir. Telesphoros kültü ve ikonografisi hakkında bilgiler de sunan çalışmamız, Anadolu'daki Telesphoros kültüne ve çocuk tanrının Anadolu'daki bilinirliğine bir katkı yapmayı amaçlamaktadır.

2025

L’archivio dello storico dell’arte pietroburghese Vladimir Frolov contiene un album con vedute italiane, appartenuto al suo trisavolo, il famoso architetto Nikolaj Benois (1813-1898). L’album 'italiano' contiene 48 raffinati acquerelli, tra i quali dominano quelli raffiguranti la Città Eterna e i suoi grandi monumenti, ma anche molti soggetti poco conosciuti, quali la periferia di Roma e varie località dell’Italia meridionale.

2025, In F. Pirson, B. Schütt, & T. Schulz (Eds.), Micro-regions as spaces of socio-ecological interaction: 1st milestone workshop of the project “The Transformation of the Pergamon Micro-Region between the Hellenistic and the Roman Imperial Period”, Istanbul, 11–12 March 2022 (Vol. 3, pp. 51–58). Berl...

2025

In recent years, the debate on Romanisation has often been framed in terms of identity. Discussions have concentrated on how the expansion of empire impacted on the constructed or self-ascribed sense of belonging of its inhabitants, and... more

2025, Paris, Aubier, 1975 [1953]

Ce livre a été écrit, sous sa première forme, en un temps où la conception que l'on se faisait de l'histoire, de ses fins, de ses méthodes commençait à changer. Depuis lors, c'està-dire pendant plus de vingt ans, cette transformation s'est poursuivie et accélérée. Si bien que cet ouvrage, qui pouvait sembler hardi à cette époque, risque maintenant de paraître désuet. Pourtant, nous n'avons pas cru devoir lui apporter des modifications de structure. L'essentiel de celle-ci, qui est la mise sur le même plan des faits politiques, économiques et spirituels, nous paraît toujours valable. Peut-être même est-ce le point qui en est le plus actuel : le développement démesuré pris par la notion de « civilisation », notion obscure entre toutes, l'apparition dans le champ de l'histoire de ce que l'on appelle aujourd'hui les « mentalités » ont tendu à établir d'une manière plus étroite, et plus exigeante, des rapports entre les divers aspects d'un temps. Il n'est plus question de considérer les beaux-arts ou la littérature comme des épiphénomènes, des produits d'un moment donné; on comprend mieux qu'autrefois que l'esthétique d'un siècle peut, en une certaine façon, en dominer le devenir ou en conditionner le futur. Il n'existe pas de barrière entre l'historique et le quotidien; tout est de l'histoire, et l'histoire a commencé par être le quotidien. Et ce qui importe le plus, c'est probablement la vision que les hommes ont des choses, les désirs qui les animent, leur manière d'accepter ou de refuser leur monde. Depuis la première rédaction de ce livre, bien des travaux ont été poursuivis, sur les problèmes dont il traite. Des conceptions qui, alors, n'étaient encore que des hypothèses ont été confirmées, de nouvelles théories ont fait leur apparition -sur l'histoire du théâtre notamment -et il est possible aujourd'hui de construire des développements plus nourris et peut-être mieux fondés. Des disciplines longtemps séparées ont tendu à se rapprocher. Ainsi, l'histoire des doctrines philosophiques a cessé de demeurer à l'écart de l'histoire sociale ou politique; de l'une à l'autre s'esquissent des passages; on ne considère plus que la philosophie s'est trouvée fixée une fois pour toutes dans la pensée des grands maîtres de la pensée hellène, Platon, Aristote, Zénon ou Épicure, on admet (du moins la plupart des historiens modernes de la philosophie commencent-ils à accepter ce point de vue) que, sous la répétition des formules, un langage nouveau pouvait être tenu et entendu de génération en génération. On se défie des schématisations commodes de naguère, ce qui complique, certes, les données des problèmes, mais leur enlève une simplicité trompeuse. A la recherche des sources se substitue la quête de la vie des doctrines. On prend conscience que la pensée humaine est, elle aussi, quotidienne, sans cesse recommencée, et non pas acquise une fois pour toutes. Cette perpétuelle remise en question, aussi menue soit-elle, par moments, est le moteur même de l'histoire spirituelle. Telles sont les raisons qui nous ont amenés non pas à faire à ce livre quelques corrections et additions de détail, ni non plus à le modifier de fond en comble, mais à essayer de le repenser, dans son ensemble, pour faire en sorte qu'il soit plus profitable aux lecteurs qui cherchent à mieux connaître le phénomène historique que constitua, il y a quelque deux mille ans, la fusion de la culture hellénique et de la civilisation romaine, union dont notre monde est issu, et qui aurait pu ne pas être. tiques et aussi économiques. Peu de temps après la chute de Carthage, les Romains s'installeront définitivement en Asie mineure, où les a appelés le testament du roi de Pergame, Attale III. Entre Pergame (devenue la province

2025, Paris, Editions de Fallois, 1995

2025, Mélanges de l'École française de Rome. Antiquité

La notice inédite fournie par Pirro Ligorio, concernant la date et le lieu de découverte de CIL VI, 9015 (= 29847b), peut être accueillie sans réticence, car plusieurs éléments -la transcription correcte du texte épigraphique et l'exécution précise du dessin, la forme du nouveau témoin découvert : un morceau de papier griffonné « sur le terrain », la découverte d'autres inscriptions par d'autres personnes dans les mêmes circonstances -plaident en faveur de l'authenticité du récit ligorien. L'identification des copistes successifs de la fiche de Ligorio (Panvinio, Orsini) confirme sa présence dans les recueils épigraphiques contemporains, source principale des inscriptions aujourd'hui perdues. Le seul dessin (v. au verso) antique du plan des édifices accompagnant l'inscription permet de mesurer la fidélité de Ligorio par rapport à l'original heureusement conservé, et par conséquent la valeur de son témoignage.

2025, Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes

2025, Toronto Journal of Theology

Ancient associations had very few extant regulations, but those that have survived indicate a variety of functions, such as outlining the structure of the association; delineating the rights, responsibilities, and privileges of members; and establishing norms of behaviour and consequences for non-compliance. Moreover, by-laws codified procedures for decision-making, dispute resolution, and the amendment of governing regulations. The by-laws of these ancient occupational and religious groups can be compared to modern academic societies and in so doing shed light on one another's practices. In particular, the concern with purpose, membership, finance, meetings, and especially behaviour cross the temporal and cultural divide in ways that allow the Canadian Society of Biblical Studies and other academic societies to think more carefully about how they are constituted and, more importantly, how they might respond to broader societal situations that are not directly in their purview.

2025, Vigiliae Christianae

In the 2011 issue of Vigiliae Christianae, Mark DelCogliano challenged my attribution of the Homoiousian response to the Dated Creed of summer 359 to Basil of Ancyra. In this article, I confirm Basil’s authorship with new philological and stylistic evidence and compare Basil’s role with that of George of Laodicea, the other main figure of the Homoiousian party, which md considered as the primary author of the document.

2025, The Classical Quarterly

Book 12 of Tacitus’ Annals spotlights the ascent of Agrippina, the new wife of Claudius and mother of Nero, to the heights of power in imperial Rome. This paper examines how Tacitus deepens and complicates that characterization through an allusion to Ovid's depiction of Augustus in Tristia Book 2. The allusion, coming in Ann. 12.22 as Agrippina is consolidating her power, serves to cast her as a figure of awesome anger and authority on a par with Augustus himself, but also as lacking the ability Augustus had to put limits on that anger. The allusion thus underscores the Annals’ broader arc of the unruly collapse of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, while at the same time revealing the deftness of the historian of the Julio-Claudians at continuing and complicating the themes of the famed poet of Augustus.

2025, J. Lang, C. Marcks-Jacobs (Hg), Arbeit am Bildnis, Regensbug 91-103is. Festschrift für Dietrich Boschung

La figura de Calígula ha despertado un interés en los historiadores que se justifica por las peculiaridades mostradas por el emperador durante su breve principado, entre las que siempre se ha destacado su volun tad firme de relacionarse con los dioses de muy diversas formas; la siempre criticada parcialidad por parte de las fuentes escritas sobre Gaio se contrapone a la realidad representada por los testimonios arqueológi cos que brindan, quizá, la mejor forma de aproximación que en la actualidad puede hacerse hacia su persona. Es por ello por lo que puede resultar de interés el estudio que realizamos así sobre una escultura sedente del emperador localizada en el foro de Torreparedones y que cuenta con la peculiaridad de ser única en el tipo representado, algo que hay que achacar, como veremos más adelante, al contexto local en el que se enmarca. La presente aportación parte del conocimiento exhaustivo de una escultura sedente completa del emperador Calígula, con cabeza reelaborada en Divus Claudius Augustus, y tiene como objetivos funda mentales el conocer la recepción en ámbito local de una escultura imperial y determinar las caracterís ticas locales, si las hubiera, observables en dicha escultura. Además, tendremos ocasión de comprobar de qué modo el tipo elegido por aquella comunidad se ve muy determinado por las esculturas ya presentes en el ámbito oficial donde se inserta la nueva imagen; finalmente haremos alusión al modo de transmi sión de modelos. Es importante reseñar que, excepto la cabeza, que se encuentra reelaborada con un retrato del emperador Claudio, el resto de la escultura es original del periodo caliguleo, de dónde el interés para analizarla en profundidad. En el mes de diciembre del año 2011 se localizó en el yacimiento iberoromano de Torreparedones (Baena, provincia de Córdoba) un grupo formado por tres estatuas sedentes que, tras su uso, habían sido ocultadas en la sala de la curia de esta ciudad a comienzos del siglo III de nuestra era 1. Dichas estatuas, dos masculinas y una femenina, se conservan hoy día en el Museo Histórico de Baena (Fig. en color 1) y han sido objeto de diversos análisis y estudios, sobre todo la que representa a Divus Augustus Pater (Fig. en color 1, centro) 2. La otra masculina está representando a Divus Claudius reelaborada de una escultura de Calígula (Fig. en color 1, izquierda), y la tercera (Fig. en color 1, derecha), carente de retrato, ha sido identificada como Diva Augusta 3. La aparición de este grupo se une al conocido en años anteriores 4 , al que aludiremos más adelante.

2025, Gephyra

Two inscribed bases of votive offerings to Zeus Larasios from Tralleis (Aydin), dating from the late second or early third century AD, have been repeatedly discussed ever since the first of them was published in the 19th century. The starting point of the discussion has been the fact that the women who dedicated the offerings identify themselves as pallakai (concubines), a sacred function that was hereditary and could be held only once (or in exceptional cases twice) in a lifetime. There is no agreement among scholars on the duties performed by the pallakai every four years, on the occasion of the penteteric festival of Zeus Larasios. The hypothesis that they were sacred prostitutes, put forward by W. Ramsey in 1883, has been abandoned. The proposal of K. Latte to recognize the pallakai as prophetesses (on the model of the Pythia) is also problematic. The explanation of the term pallake or pallakis by ancient lexicographers as a young girl at the beginning of puberty suggests that t...

2025

An example of a microphotograph of deciduous oak from Ostia synagogue. Modern 'smallwood' (or coppice) being taken to market in the Sarno valley, Campania. Probable fuel types for different activities. Plan of the modern remains of the Forum Baths at Ostia. Plan of the modern remains of Room 15. Plan of the modern remains of Room 16. Plan of the modern remains of Room 17. Plan of the modern remains of Room 18. Plan of the modern remains of Room 19. Kiln at Oudhna, Tunisia. Schematic plan of the Leptiminus kiln site. Kiln at Moknine pottery production site today. Location map of the production centres discussed. Pots at Idfina. Workshop at Idfina with piles of sugar cane pressings and scrap wood and a kiln. Adding sawdust to a beginning firing at Rahmaneyah. Adding scrap wood to an ongoing firing at Damanhur. Ongoing firing with agricultural waste at Gezira Isa. Map of the Marmarica showing the investigation area. Pottery production sites in the Eastern Marmarica 7.2 Natural prerequisites along the coastline in the Eastern Marmarica. Wadi Qasaba. Trench of the wasters heap. Pressing facility. Wadi Umm el-Ashdan. Reconstruction of the pottery kiln. Trench of a pottery kiln. Wadi Umm el-Ashdan. Different agricultural areas in the watershed system. Wadi Umm el-Ashdan. View on planting mounds as they appear on surface (teleilat el-einab).

2025

This book, and the conference upon which it was based, were funded by: the Oxford Roman Economy Project (OxREP), University of Oxford; a private contribution from Jim Ball (former FAO forestry director, and Commonwealth forests director); the British School at Rome; and the Finnish Institute of Rome. The editors would also like to acknowledge the support of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, and the Department of Archaeology (University of Sydney).

2025

TImber and fuel as leVers of Greco-roman conTrol* 99752_Entretiens_LXIII_2017_08_Veal.indd 317 11/04/17 08:10 brought to you by CORE View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk provided by Apollo 1 HumpHRey / oleson / sHeRwood (1998) 43-44: historical references to petroleum products. other non-wood products included animal dung and bones, agricultural plant residues, especially olive lees. see CoubRay / ZeCH-matteRne / monteix (forthcoming); Rowan (2015). 2 meiggs (1982). 3 HaRRis (2013b) provides a range of chapters that analyse many types of environmental data, offering a significant advance on studies mostly limited to the historical sources, such as tHommen (2012). diosono (2008a); (2008b) focuses on wood, and combines historical and archaeological sources, but do not address economics to any great degree. 4 Veal (2013) 38-40. 99752_Entretiens_LXIII_2017_08_Veal.indd 318 11/04/17 08:10 99752_Entretiens_LXIII_2017_08_Veal.indd 320 11/04/17 08:10 13 on deforestation generally see HaRRis (2013a). a well-known example of deforestation is the island of elba, which was heavily mined for iron ore, starting with the etruscans. by c. the 3 rd century bc, ore was being shipped to the mainland to be smelted in Populonia because woodland on elba was exhausted: di pasquale et al. (2014).

2025, Vallesia

Wüstung, Alpen, Mittelalter, Trockenmauern, Abri, 14C-Datierung, Holzkohle

2025

In seguito alla definitiva sconfitta di Licinio, occorsa nel 324, Costantino si trovò ad amministrare un impero assai vasto e riunificato sotto il potere di un unico sovrano. Stante l’assenza di una normativa del primo imperatore cristiano che prevedesse una complessiva e omogenea disciplina delle strutture giurisdizionali, risulta estremamente difficile capire come i vari funzionari coinvolti si trovarono ad amministrare la giustizia in età costantiniana. Nondimeno, come le fonti sembrano suggerire, la configurazione finale, risultante dalla riforma della prefettura del pretorio (325-331) e dalle disposizioni dell’editto del 330-331, in parte modificative dell’apparato concepito alla fine del III secolo da Diocleziano potrebbe essere considerata, soprattutto con riguardo alla competenza
concorrente e alla cognitio vice sacra, in qualche misura come il frutto di un’opera già sperimentata da Costantino a partire dal 313 nella pars occidentale. Infatti, i primi interventi dell’imperatore relativi alla giurisdizione si concentrarono in particolar modo nella penisola italica, la quale, nonostante il suo statuto per certi versi tradizionalmente eccezionale, rappresenta da questo punto di vista un vero e proprio laboratorio di modelli giurisdizionali che poi saranno compiutamente realizzati e applicati dopo la riunificazione anche nella pars Orientis.

2025, Thiasos 14

This contribution aims to resume the analysis of an inscription from the acropolis of Saturo – the sanctuary centre of the Tarantine chora – published in 1997, which mentions the presence of an Athenaion. First, an attempt will be made to evaluate archival data and archaeological evidence to establish whether the inscribed block belongs to the Late Archaic oikos on the summit of the site. Next, a larger section will focus on the meaning of the verb θακέω, as attested in the inscription, in relation to the practice of welcoming supplicants. These procedures will be examined in more detail through an analysis of literary sources, comparisons with other epigraphic documentation, and a survey of specialist literature on the subject. Finally, the text from Saturo – for which a metrical interpretation is proposed – will be considered within the context of the social interactions taking place in the chora of Taranto.