Travel in the Ancient World Research Papers (original) (raw)

2025, Museum Helveticum

Review (written in German) on the "Anaplous Bosporou" of Dionysios Byzantios / Dionysius of Byzantium - edited, translated and commented by M. Billerbeck.
[ms. submitted and accepted for publication]

2025, The Illumination of History: A Festschrift in Honor of Glen L. Thompson, ed. by Aaron Michael Jensen

Visitors to İznik (ancient Nicaea) today see little more than a sleepy
rural town situated among expanses of olive groves on the east end of a
scenic lake. It is hard to imagine that in the Roman period Nicaea vied
with Nicomedia (modern İzmit) to be the capital and leading city of the
province of Bithynia. Today neighboring İzmit is a bustling industrial
city situated on the main highway between Istanbul and Ankara. Yet Nicaea was to be the center not only of Bithynia but of the whole Roman
Empire for a moment in time in 325 CE. There Constantine convened
the first ecumenical council. This article will first address some issues of
historical background regarding these cities. Next to be presented is the
geographical and hodological situation both of Nicomedia and Nicaea.
Nicaea’s four gates and their relationship to Bithynia’s road network will
be discussed in depth. It will conclude by offering a fresh hypothesis regarding how the emperor, some bishops, and their attendants might have
traveled to Nicaea to reach this historic council.

2025, The Antiquaries Journal

Between 1899 and 1902, Anglo-French archaeologist George Bonsor carried out an exploration of the Scilly Isles (United Kingdom). At that time the archipelago was believed to be the Cassiterides or Tin Islands mentioned by authors such as Strabo, Pliny the Elder and Ptolemyan idea first posited by William Camden in his Britannia (1586). Adopting Camden's theory and guided by ancient literature on the Cassiterideswhich refers to the Phoenicians as the first controllers of this trade route-Bonsor sought traces of the Phoenicians and their tin trade in the Scilly Isles, becoming the first person to conduct such research from an archaeological perspective. Not having found any evidence, his exploration remained unpublished and went mostly unnoticed in debates about the Tin Islands over following decades. This paper presents a brief historiographical account on the Cassiterides before and after the explorations, as well as a critical analysis of Bonsor's field notes regarding his use of ancient sources and his archaeological method. The analysis carried out suggests that Bonsor's archaeological exploration has been overlooked thus far and that a new assessment of his work is required.

2024, Les métamorphoses d'Apulée à travers les lieux et les âges: réceptions, réécritures, héritages

Auteur africain, de culture grecque, d’expression latine et de diffusion
méditerranéenne et européenne, tant dans les strates populaires que savantes, Apulée de Madaure est l’auteur d’un roman dont le succès et l’influence ne se sont jamais démentis. La fortune prodigieuse de ses Métamorphoses renvoie sans doute à la prodigieuse richesse de sa poétique, aux innombrables facettes de cette œuvre complexe, à l’alchimie
de sa composition.

2024

A travers une douzaine de contributions, cet ouvrage s'intéresse au devenir des Métamorphoses d'Apulée, à la réception de cette œuvre et à sa transmission au fil des siècles, à l'influence qu'elle a exercée sur la création littéraire et... more

2024

As Bickerman once said, 'time is the proper dimension of history' , 2 yet for a subject defi ned by time, we spend precious little of it considering the impacts of time and chronology on how we study the past. In many respects, this can be said of the study of the Hellenistic period overall, which is, as the chapters in this volume explore, essentially a modern construction imposed upon the past. Th at is not to say that the events, cultures, developments and crises of the Hellenistic era did not occur, but rather that grouping them together into a coherent framework can cause as many problems as it solves. Th is volume aims to interrogate this underlying tension through the lens of a series of case studies centred on the Peloponnese. A focus on this period in this region allows for a reassessment of standard narratives and facilitates the exploration of a range of new perspectives and approaches. Key to this is a renewed attention to interdisciplinarity, especially the intersection of text and material culture. Th is chapter is my attempt at a consideration of the temporal lens on the operation of history and archaeology. Th e examples of the curatorial nature of the Polybian manuscript tradition and the archaeological history of the altars of Olympia are used to argue that the processes of transmission, reconstruction, selectivity and subjectivity dictate how we conceive of and study the material from the Hellenistic Peloponnese. Acknowledging this frees us to embrace invention as a critical perspective for studying the past. We tend to take it as a given that our own chronography-our way of situating ourselves relative to the past and the periodizations that ensue-is a logical and intuitive mode of engaging with the past. 3 Despite Droysen's invocation to view the Hellenistic period as a cultural rather than a political construct, 4 scholarship on the periodization of the Hellenistic has tended to focus on several key political events as the beginning and end points of the period. 5 However, it is worth remembering that there was no discussion of the Hellenistic period during the lived experience of the inhabitants of that epochinstead, there were local dating systems and chronographies based on eponymous archons, or regnal dates, or Olympic victors, or other local dating systems. 6 Almost all of these systems were inadequate and contentious at some point-the Greeks never really sorted out the inconsistencies between reckoning time in lunar months and solar years, 7 for example-but they were designed to address the needs of specifi c communities, not macro-histories. As a result, they are inconsistent. We, too, have never reconciled the inconsistencies in our basic chronographies, and I have increasingly come to the realization that this is a problem. For us, the accumulated was a period unlike the previous three conventional art-historical markers of earlier Greek history-the Geometric, the Archaic and the Classical. 11 Th ough it began as a period book-ended by the deaths of two monarchs, it is a period designation that has become fl uid and mutable-we invent the boundaries we want based on where we are studying and what we are asking. Perhaps Sparta's 'Hellenistic phase' begins in the aft ermath of Leuktra (371 BCE); perhaps its onset is delayed until Areus assumes his throne (280 BCE). 12 Perhaps Korinthos' Hellenistic phase ends with Mummius (146 BCE); perhaps we can see its echoes down to 44 BCE. 13 None of these varying defi nitions has much to do with Alexandros III or Cleopatra, and yet they pervade the literature.

2024, Carsulae e Ocriculum, tra archeologia e rievocazione

2024, A Cultural History of Exploration

Volume 1: A Cultural History of Exploration in Antiquity
Edited by Daniela Dueck, Bar Ilan University, Israel
Series Preface, Lauren Beck
Introduction, Daniela Dueck
1. Technologies of Exploration, Pascal Arnaud
2. Motivations and Methodologies for Exploration, Colin Adams
3. Ideal and Idealized Explorer Typologies, Serena Bianchetti
4. The Explored and their Explorations, Joseph Skinner
5. Verbalizing Exploration, Chiara Maria Mauro
6. Visualizing Exploration, Johannes Wietzke
7. Authority, Finance, and Exploration, Paul Kosmin

2024

Panel "Pausanias from different perspectives".

2024

Although the fear of Yhwh has been presented as an intrinsic feature of the ancient Israelite religion, the fear of God(s) is not limited to the people of Israel in the Hebrew Bible, and similar ideas of fearing deities occur in various texts produced by neighbouring cultures in the ancient eastern Mediterranean. This article investigates the prosocial role of this virtue in situations of human mobility and intercultural contact in the light of the Hebrew Bible and the Odyssey. First, I analyse those Hebrew Bible texts in which the fear of God(s) characterizes or is presented as being intelligible to non‑Israelite people in situations involving movement and cultural encounter (Gen 20:11; 42:18; Exod 1:17, 21; Deut 25:18; Jon 1:9). Second, I explore the fear motif in other texts from the ancient eastern Mediterranean region and argue that biblical scholars have overlooked illuminating intertexts found in ancient Greek literature. I especially highlight the interpretative importance of the Odyssey, which frequently stresses the prosocial role of the virtue of fearing deities in the context of travel and contact with outsiders. In so doing, the Odyssey helps us see how the Hebrew Bible texts portraying the fear of God(s) as a universalistic virtue are rooted in and belong to a broader ancient Mediterranean milieu.

2024, Mobility and Masks: Cultural Identity in Travel Literature

This chapter examines the relationship between travel and slavery in two poems of Horace (Epistles 1.14 and Odes 1.22), arguing that mobility and enslavement were closely linked in the Roman mind. The prestige of travel was emphasized by... more

2024

Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt et Nasser Ghalamkari, deux ecrivains contemporains revisitent les problematiques de leurs epoques par une reflexion sur la figure de l’immigre, qui est capture entre deux cultures et deux pays, victime des forces qui le depassent et soumis a un voyage plein d’epreuves comme celui d’Ulysse. L’itineraire du voyage force des personnages de Schmitt et de Ghalamkari decrit l’histoire de l’errance en vue d’atteindre la terre promise. Le decryptage des recits de voyage de l’immigre dans ces deux romans montre les etapes de deracinement socioculturel chez les deux heros qui s’engagent dans la voie des voyages initiatiques, comme expressions symboliques de leurs transformations. Comment les personnages surmontent-ils l’epreuve de cette quete identitaire au cours de ce voyage ? Les deux œuvres deviennent un vaste territoire a explorer a travers l’itineraire du voyage des deux heros du Moyen-Orient, en proie a l’absence d’identite, qui commencent un voyage a la recherche ...

2024, Reading Acts

In This Way We Came to Rome is a commentary on Paul’s travel implied in Acts 28:13–14. Paul arrived in the port city of Puteoli and stayed there for seven days before traveling to Rome. The authors aim to allow readers to travel the road Paul traveled and “see it through his eyes.” Well documented and richly illustrated, Thompson and Wilson succeed in their goal. Readers will follow a suggested route for a seven-day trip from the port city of Puteoli to Rome. Whether Paul took this exact route or not, this book will be an excellent primer for travel in the Roman world.

2024, T.Rood & M.Tamiolaki (edd.), Xenophon’s Anabasis and its Reception (Berlin & Boston)

Book 4 is unusual for the amount of time the army's real-world whereabouts are hard to grasp accurately. This chapter investigates the treatment of human and physical geography in the book-both the interaction of landscape with narrative (e.g. the recording of distance or the choosing of routes) and the geographical and topographical building blocks of the story (mountains, plains, rivers, flora and fauna, built environment)-to investigate whether Book 4 is different in these terms as well. The conclusion is that there are six respects in which 4 is unlike other books, but that the difficulty of locating the army is not so much due to these differences as to the paucity of comprehensible geographical proper names, and that Anabasis as a whole (4 included), though an unusual example of Greek history-writing, is not that far from the manner of Greek historians in general in its representation of geographical space.

2023, HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe)

2023, Advances in computational intelligence and robotics book series

Churches have a long tradition using technology to grow their audience and to connect worshippers. Technologies used in Christian service are not even perceived as such: consider architecture, the organ, and light. Yet, faith-based organizations have always been critical of new technologies. The authors used design science research methodologies to develop an artifact of the Eucharist of a Catholic service. "Instant Church" is an interactive machine that guides visitors through the service and creates an individualized wafer with a laser-engraved QR-code that points to a random Tweet with a hate message that invites a moment of thought. Over 700 visitors saw that exhibit. A qualitative evaluation showed a high positive acceptance by users under40 while older visitors had a negative perspective. The artifact proved to be a highly suitable tool to invite a critical discourse and at the same time serves as a learning tool about the service. Interactive intelligent solutions reach the generation of digital natives and enable the discourse on the relationship between technology and faith.

2023, Routledge eBooks

Thinking of literature as spatial information with Geographic Information System (thereon GIS) is emerging into a science known as Geographic Information Science (Harris, Bergeron, and Rouse 2010). The geospatial information community has been contributing methods, ontologies, use cases and datasets compatible to GIS as means of enabling research in the humanities and social sciences. In praxis, the application of GIS for spatial narratives means essentially unfolding their historical, non-cartesian complexity into layers of meaning-making; it can even facilitate a deeper thinking of place both as the locus for exploring human activity particularly as a contested terrain of competing definitions and as a linking mechanism for information from disparate sources, e.g., the compatibility of text to the actual archaeological data on the ground. This chapter provides a novel perspective on GIS as both an epistemic device and a method for information organisation by focusing on the process of creating a digital cartographic edition, essentially a GIS of Pausanias's 2nd century CE ten-volume travellers' guide, the Description of Greece. The ten volumes comprise a narrative time machine that binds together place and artefact with its notional origin and purpose. Methodical but inconsistent in listing temples, statues, hero shrines, altars and other spaces as "Greek" places, Pausanias constructs an idiosyncratic view of Greek cultural heritage. His method, which he mentions in passing, is overtly personal and selective: "Such in my opinion are the most famous legends (logoi) and sights (theorêmata) among the Athenians, and from the beginning my narrative has picked out of much material the things that deserve to be recorded". Pausanias, Description of Greece HYPERLINK "https://scaife.perseus.org/ reader/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0525.tlg001.perseus-grc2:1.39.3/" 1.39.3 To create a contemporary GIS out of a 2nd century CE non-cartesian, literary description of Greek heritage is a challenging scholarly endeavour

2023, V. J. Pereira, J. A. Guerra, M. J. Pato, L. A. Andrade (eds). Advantages, and Economic Dimensions of Pilgrimage Routes. Ed. IGI GLOBAL pp.63-80.

This study will tackle with the figure of Paulinus of Nola, a Roman senator, and an important figure too during Late Antiquity, for his religious conversion during the primitive Christianity. Through a biographical study the authors delve into this character and his gradual inclusion in the early Church, becoming bishop of Nola. Paulinus was closely linked to the martyr and the saint Felix (3rd century). That is why Paulinus will be the patron of a primitive pilgrimage to the tomb of Felix, introducing patronage for the demands of the pilgrims traveling to Nola, as the repair of the road, the creation of shelters, purchase of offerings, etc.

2023, GEIMA Historia Antigua Ediciones, Universidad Andrés Bello, Chile, 2023

Este libro ha sido aprobado por el Consejo Editorial del Sello Editorial GEIMA Historia Antigua Ediciones, después de haber sido sometido a referato externo en el que se ha evaluado la calidad académica del manuscrito. El comité de evaluadores está conformado por académicos nacionales e internacionales de trayectoria reconocida en los estudios del mundo antiguo.

2023, Medecine et numismatique antique

Presque toutes les cultures anciennes ont utilisé une personnification de la guérison à travers un dieumédecin aux capacités quasiment miraculeuses. Chez les Grecs de la période classique, c'est Asklepios qui occupe cette fonction.

2023, I serpenti alati in Erodoto e gli itinerari della Via dell'incenso

Il contributo si propone di riconsiderare l’annosa questione dei serpenti alati. L'Arabia introdotta da Erodoto in due punti delle sue Storie da un punto doppio di punto di vista: da un lato si cercherà di chiarire gli aspetti reali della questione facendo rinvii alle stesse parole dello storico; d'altra parte proveremo a testare la credibilità del racconto per mezzo di alcune fonti successive che, senza mai riferendosi espressamente all'argomento enunciato da Erodoto, lo implica e può fornire una spiegazione dell'origine e delle modalità di diffusione della storia dei serpenti alati che giunsero alle orecchie dello storico.

2023

In the Mediterranean Sea the era between 2500-2000was a period of prosperous commercial activity related to the metal known as cassiterite (i.e. tin ore or tin oxide, SnO2). The historical facts that have been gathered up to date present that the shipping fleets of the Minoans conducted most of this commerce, along with other merchants from the Aegean Sea. Moreover, the sea was not the only route of transport for the aforementioned metal, since also continental paths were in use. In this way, the Greek geographical area was interlocked with the areas of extraction, production and exportation of cassiterite. There were two primary Kassiterean islands: Ireland and Britain. Almost all ancient writers referring to them placed these islands in the North-Western part of Europe: ‗North and across of Artabron ‘ (modern day Galicia), as Strabo notes. Britain at that time was often mentioned as ‗Albion‘, whilst Ireland as ‗Hibernia ‘ or ‗Hernia‘. The latter seemed to have a significant amount...

2023, Chiron

The letter of safe conduct written by C. Fannius to Cos for Judaean envoys dates to 161 BCE, as argued long ago by Niese. It is our only extant example of such a letter, and some of its features reflect its template. Indeed, the letter tells us more about diplomatic travel in general than the precise facts of this diplomatic encounter. Recent attempts to redate the letter and recontextualize its contents are argued against.

2023, Rubicon XXXIV. évf. 391. sz. (2023/8) 20-29.

Bár napjainkban az államfők utazásai sokkal kevésbé ceremoniálisak, mint a régebbi korokban, az egyes országok vezetőinek idegen országokban tett látogatásai még mindig a hírek élén szerepelnek, és a diplomáciai protokollnak megfelelően katonai vagy polgári tiszteletadással köszöntik őket azon a helyen, ahová ellátogatnak. A római császárok utazásainak szinte minden részletét vallási és politikai protokoll írta elő: a Rómából történő ünnepélyes elindulástól (profectio) a még ünnepélyesebb megérkezésig (adventus),

2023, Les récits de voyage dans l'Antiquité. Entre fiction et réalité

Itinera facta, itinera ficta : pistes pour une histoire du récit de voyage dans la littérature latine classique et tardive ………………………………………….p. 3 PREMIERE PARTIE : ITINERA FACTA A. Rutilius Namatianus en son temps 1) Le sauvage dans le De reditu de Rutilius Namatianus : un non-lieu………………p. 15 2) Le poème de Rutilius Namatianus et la tradition du récit de voyage antique : à propos du « genre » du De reditu suo ……………………………………………………..p. 29 3) Religion et récit de voyage. Le Peristephanon de Prudence et le De reditu suo de Rutilius Namatianus ………………………………………………………………p. 41 4) Ecriture du voyage et pratique de l'amitié dans l'Antiquité tardive : Rutilius Namatianus et Paulin de Nole …………………………………………………….p. 73 B. Egérie 1) Trame biblique et présence des lieux saints dans l'Itinerarium d'Egérie …………p. 91 2) Peut-on considérer les premiers pèlerinages chrétiens comme des formes de commentaires de la Bible ? ………………………………………………………p. 103 DEUXIEME PARTIE : ITINERA FICTA 1) Strabon et les voyageurs : l'émergence d'une analyse pragmatique de la fiction en prose ……………………………………………………………………………p. 121 2) Lucius, parent de Plutarque, ou : Comment lire les Métamorphoses d'Apulée p. 137 3) La Déesse syrienne, dea peregrina : la mise en récit de l'altérité religieuse dans les Métamorphoses d'Apulée ………………………………………………………p. 159 4) La conversion du récit de voyage antique dans les Vies de Moines de Jérôme....p. 175 TROISIEME PARTIE : ENTRE-DEUX : FIGURES DE VOYAGEURS 1) Ante lectoris oculos...uitam exponere : le projet littéraire de Jérôme dans ses Vies de moines …………………………………………………………………………..p. 195 2) La récriture du Carmen 4 de Catulle par Ovide (Tristes I, 10) : voyage, dédoublement et gémellité mythique …………………………………………………………...p. 213 3) Voyage réel et voyage spirituel dans la première littérature chrétienne de langue latine : la Passion de Marien, Jacques et leurs compagnons …………………….p. 229 Annexe 1 : Comptes rendus sur mon livre Ecritures du voyage …………………p. 231

2023, in: Resonanzen. Gerd Theissen zum 80. Geburtstag, ed. P. von Gemünden, A. Merz, H. Schwier (Gütersloh: Gütersloher Verlagshaus, 2023), 19-23.

2023, Literary Geographies

Sometime in the second century CE, Pausanias of Magnesia (modern-day Turkey) wrote the Description of Greece. Ostensibly a tour of the places to see on the Greek mainland, the Description also provides historical accounts related to the topography through which Pausanias moves. Little attention has been given to how these building blocks of narrative, the entities of place and time, relate to and intersect with each other. In this article, we establish a framework for systematically investigating Pausanias's chronotopes through a process of semantic annotation. We describe our typology for categorizing place and time, with the aim of enabling this text's database of information-the descriptions of the built environment, its temples, statues, etc.-to be mapped and analysed. Our emphasis, however, is on how the technology equally facilitates close reading, as we trace how individual locations, objects and people relate to each other through the unfolding of chronotopes, and examine how in turn these chronotopes transform our understanding of

2023

The myth of the Odyssey is one of the archetypal stories of the collective imaginary. All the narratives of travel and wonder composed in the ancient world have received its imprint. The influence of the Odyssey is also patent in the... more

2023

In ancient Greece, as today, an intricate web of transportation routes crisscrossed the landscape, facilitating quotidian and periodic movements of diverse kinds within and between urban, suburban, and rural communities. Religious... more

2023

This paper is an edited version of that presented in the international Conference Ancient Greece and Contemporary World: The Influence of Greek Thought on Philosophy, Science and Technology (Ancient Olympia, Greece, 28- 31 August 2016), published under the reference ‘“The Representation of the Kingdom of Tartessus by the Ancient Greeks Revisited: New Evidence for a Forgotten Cause’, by Juan J. R. Villarias-Robles & Antonio Rodriguez-Ramirez. In S. A. Paipetis (ed.), 2017, Ancient Greece and Contemporary World: The Influence of Greek Thought on Philosophy, Science and Technology. An International Conference (Ancient Olympia, 28-31 August 2016) (ISBN: 978-960-530-171-2), pp. 133-141. Athens: University of Patras & International Center for Sciences and Hellenic Values

2023

This paper investigates a particular aspect of the concept of the boundary in relation to the Roman feminine world. For Roman women the limen, the threshold of their house, is ideally and culturally their limes, the boundary beyond which their action can no longer be free, but it is controlled according to precise ethical canons that prevent women from participating in political life or to move freely outside the Urbs. Through the analysis of literary texts, chosen between the Republican and Augustan ages and beyond, locutions such as limen, domi, intra vs. extra, ultra, clearly mark this marginality imposed by mos maiorum. The transgression of these limits implies an abdication of the main traditional female values, such as modesty and decensy, and therefore damages the women's honour: in conclusion is thoroughly analysed the exemplary case of Giulia major exiled by her father Augustus with a public accusation of immoral behavior.

2023

Gwenaëlle Janty, André Del Apports d'un SIG pour l' analyse des relations spatiales réseau d'irrigation-patrimoine bâti : le cas de l' oasis de Figuig, Maroc ...

2023, The Voyage of the argonauts

I cleaned up the PDF file for this book written by by Janet Ruth Bacon in 1900. A remarkable work about the legendary quest of Jason and the Argonauts seeking the Golden Fleece in Colchis.
The book has been out of print for years.

2022, Information and Knowledge Organisation in Digital Humanities

2022, Cahiers d’études italiennes

Les Métamorphoses d'Apulée constituent, avec le Satiricon de Pétrone, l'un des seuls textes de l'Antiquité romaine qui puissent être considérés comme relevant du genre romanesque, ou à tout le moins de ses prémices 1. Également connu sous le titre L'Âne d'or, ce roman, ou, pour échapper à l'accusation d'anachronisme, ce récit en prose à caractère romanesque, a été rédigé en latin dans le courant du II e siècle apr. J.-C. par L. Apuleius, issu de l'élite municipale de Madaure, petite cité de la province d'Afrique 2. 2 Le récit a pour trame principale les (més)aventures du jeune Lucius, fils de bonne famille qui profite d'un voyage d'affaires en Thessalie 3 , terre de sorcellerie 4 , pour assouvir sa soif d'aventures et son goût pour l'occulte 5. Parvenu à Hypata, Lucius élit domicile chez son hôte, le grigou Milon 6 , dont il séduit la jeune servante, Photis 7. Cette dernière lui apprend que Pamphile, l'épouse de Milon, pratique les arts magiques 8. Aiguillonné par la curiosité, Lucius assiste, dissimulé, à la transformation nocturne de Pamphile en grand-duc et à son envol 9. Brûlant de faire de même, il s'enduit d'onguent magique ; hélas, à la suite d'une erreur de mixture, voilà Lucius transformé, non en hibou, mais en âne 10. Il n'en conserve pas moins sinon la parole, du moins conscience humaine, et apprend de Photis qu'il lui suffit de manger des roses pour redevenir homme 11. Mais alors que Lucius se trouve sur le point de croquer une guirlande de ces fleurs ornant une statue de la déesse Épone, des brigands mettent à sac la maison de Milon et font main basse sur l'écurie 12. Et voilà Lucius, l'homme transformé en âne, emporté dans une folle cavale à travers la Grèce, passant de maître en maître et Les Métamorphoses d'Apulée : entre mondes grec et romain, un document pour l'... Cahiers d'études italiennes, 35 | 2022 4 Cette approche réaliste du texte apuléien, sans être aucunement rejetée, demande toutefois à être mise préalablement en perspective, à l'exemple du traitement auquel a été soumis le Satiricon de Pétrone dans les années 1970 32. La prudence est en effet de mise avant d'adopter une lecture documentaire des Métamorphoses d'Apulée : c'est ce que nous nous proposons de mettre en lumière dans cet article. On s'intéressera d'abord à la genèse de la composition de l'oeuvre, qui soulève la question du contexte culturel, grec, romain, africain romanisé ou méditerranéen au sens large, des épisodes relatés dans le texte ; trois exemples nous permettront ensuite d'illustrer le cheminement parsemé d'embûches qu'il faut affronter lorsque, pour aborder ce récit en document pour l'histoire du quotidien dans l'Empire romain au II e siècle apr. J.-C., on tente de séparer le « bon grain historique » de l'« ivraie romanesque » dans les Métamorphoses. Cette contribution, rapprochée de celle que Marie-Claire Ferriès Les Métamorphoses d'Apulée : entre mondes grec et romain, un document pour l'... Cahiers d'études italiennes, 35 | 2022 8 Si les identifications de ce mystérieux auteur ont pu varier, la plupart des critiques, depuis l'étude fondatrice de Karl Bürger 49 , s'accordent en revanche à faire des Metamorphoseis la source d'inspiration d'Apulée 50. Toute la question est alors de savoir ce que contenaient ces Métamorphoses originelles, et ce qui peut a contrario être imputé, dans la version latine, à la verve créatrice d'Apulée, voire à la transposition en littérature du monde de l'auteur africain ; chercher, pour reprendre les mots d'Antonio Mazzarino, l'Apuleianità di Apuleio 51 , à la manière du Plautinisches im Plautus d'Eduard Fraenkel 52. À terme, cette enquête visant à distinguer les traits originaux de l'oeuvre des remaniements apuléiens et à identifier, sur cette base, les influences culturelles, grecques, orientales, occidentales, africaines ou autres du récit, contribuerait à valider ou au contraire à réfuter son usage comme source pour l'histoire de ces différents Les Métamorphoses d'Apulée : entre mondes grec et romain, un document pour l'...

2022, Information and Knowledge Organisation in Digital Humanities

2022

How does 'digital' apply to ancient pasts? Digital methods, especially methods relating to identifying, visualizing, and analysing spatial data, have become increasingly important within the fields ...

2022

In the Festschrift zum 70. Geburtstag von Anthony R. Birley, Richard Talbert published an article about a map which, as the author affirms, skipped the attention of the historians. In fact, it is a set of nine maps, at a scale of approximately 1:3,400,000, illustrating, according to a modern representation, the Roman world. The geographical space represented starts from the Antonine Wall and Britain in the left side and ends to Hierasycaminos on the border between Egypt and Nubia. The maps are part of a two volume project, commissioned by Agricol Fortia d'Urban (1756-1843). The book, entitled Recueil des Itinéraires Anciens comprenant l'Itinéraire d'Antonin, la Table de Peutinger et un choix des périples grecs, avec dix cartes dressées par M. le Colonel Lapie, was published in 1845 by the Imprimerie Royale, Paris. The maps were created by one of the most famous French cartographer of the XIXth century, Pierre M. Lapie (1799-1850). Our study discusses the information from...

2022, Starinar

Our contribution is focused on the analysis and interpretation of several pieces of historical data regarding the Emona-Singidunum road along the Drava River, from three important ancient documents: Itinerarium Burdigalense sive Hierosolymitanum, Tabula Peutingeriana and Itinerarium Antonini. The key question of this study is: can the Bordeaux itinerary bring more light to the question of the sources of these ancient documents? If so, which method should be used to prove this? Therefore, we decided to compare data from the Peutinger map and the Antonine itinerary with those contained in the Bordeaux itinerary, by discussing a sector of the Aquileia-Viminacium road, more precisely, the route between Emona and Siscia. The objective was to see if there are resemblances or differences between these documents. After this comparative analysis of the three ancient sources, we reached some general conclusions and observations concerning these documents. The most important observation is tha...

2022, in Latino. Cultura e lingua alle radici dell’Occidente, vol. 30, edited by E. Cantone for «Corriere della Sera», Milano, RCS MediaGroup

2022, New Testament Studies

The route of Paul's first journey between Perga and Pisidian Antioch is still disputed. This article examines the three alternatives proposed by scholars. It explores the geographical and historical evidence for each route, looking especially at the extensive road system that existed in Pamphylia, Pisidia, and south Galatia in the first century. Bible atlases routinely depict one route and the reasons for this choice are discussed. Based on a review of the evidence, a fresh hypothesis for the route of the first journey is suggested.

2022

At this time, I will not be addressing race relations between those in Europe. 11 Homer's Iliad and Odyssey are approximated to have been written in 750 BCE, though these epics existed through oral tradition for longer, giving me a 2,768-year range of sources. 12 "We see that Greek literature, followed by Latin literature, has given later European civilization two highly seductive and therefore extremely powerful tools, suggesting that it is possible to classify humans into superior and inferior groups" (Isaac 2004, 163); "Herodotus' descriptions of the exotic customs of foreign peoples… became models for Renaissance historians and ethnographers" (Grafton 1992, 38); Additionally, a section of Aristotle's Politics, known as the "theory of natural slavery" was used by the Spaniards to justify their treatment of indigenous Americans (Isaac 2004, 200-201). 13 "Ancient and later authorities coexist, pulled out of geographical and chronological context to debate in a sort of "philosophical present," rather like the "ethnographic present" in which modern anthropologists have represented their subjects" (Grafton 1992, 16).

2022

This paper examines the contribution of narratives of travel to the formation of the comparative study of literature. In connection with this theme the works of three writers from different ages (Herodotus, John de Mandeville, Jean de... more

2022, Journal for the Study of Judaism