The main point of this paper is that in the Homeric world a mother looks at her motherhood not as... more The main point of this paper is that in the Homeric world a mother looks at her motherhood not as a dual relationship between herself and her child but as a wider relationship in which the whole community (the family, the house, the city) is involved. In the view of a Homeric mother her child is not someone that she alone has the right to love, but someone that she must share (so to say) with many other people. I try to show this by looking at the behaviour of the \u201cgreat mothers\u201d of the Homeric poems, Penelope, Hecuba and Anticleia
This article focuses on the opening scene of Heliodorus’ novel, a very elaborate ekphrasis that r... more This article focuses on the opening scene of Heliodorus’ novel, a very elaborate ekphrasis that results in a famously sophisticated interplay between visual and textual data. My aim is to trace their interrelation back to the Odyssey ’s Mnesterophonia , the obvious model of the scene. I also try to show that Heliodorus, while conjuring up the Odyssey , integrates into his narrative the later tradition relevant to the Mnesterophonia , which had of course a rich reception, both literary and iconographic. All in all, Heliodorus emerges as a master of intertextuality as well as of intervisuality.
Discussion of Posidippus 95 AB: the offering of Medeios to Apollo (a statue of a skeletal body) i... more Discussion of Posidippus 95 AB: the offering of Medeios to Apollo (a statue of a skeletal body) is intended to reproduce the famous dedication made by Hippocrates and so to present the donor as a Hippocrates redivivus
In the Greek novel love and sea are two opposite polarities: lovers must experience the sea and i... more In the Greek novel love and sea are two opposite polarities: lovers must experience the sea and its negative force to have the right to come back to love and its positive energy. In Achilles Tatius\u2019 romance this rule is, at least apparently, respected, because Leucippe is kidnapped in the island of Pharos by pirates who escape on a boat, in vain followed by Cleitophon\u2019s vessel. But in two occasions, at the end of book two and in book five, navigation turns to be the setting of erotic conversations: a debate on homosexual and heterosexual love and a oarismo\u2018s between Melite and Cleitophon. This paper discusses how Achilles Tatius accepts the traditional opposition of sea and love only to refuse it, showing once again his freedom in the treatment of novelistic conventions
Il volume contiene il racconto dei miti di cui \ue8 protagonista il dio Apollo, un'antologia ... more Il volume contiene il racconto dei miti di cui \ue8 protagonista il dio Apollo, un'antologia di brani letterari commentati e una bibliografia
Novembre 12th, 2008, Giampiera Arrigoni promoted an afternoon meeting on the Italian edition of M... more Novembre 12th, 2008, Giampiera Arrigoni promoted an afternoon meeting on the Italian edition of Mary Lefkowitz's book" Greek Gods, Human Lives: What We Can Learn from Myths"(Novara, 2008). The papers by Zanetto and Gioseffi are a product of that discussion
La recensione esprime un giudizio positivo sulla nuova edizione di Caritone curata da B. Reardon:... more La recensione esprime un giudizio positivo sulla nuova edizione di Caritone curata da B. Reardon: accurata la ricollazione del codice F, equilibrate le scelte editoriali. Il recensore discute alcuni passi, in cui la sua valutazione diverge da quella dell'editore
The main point of this paper is that in the Homeric world a mother looks at her motherhood not as... more The main point of this paper is that in the Homeric world a mother looks at her motherhood not as a dual relationship between herself and her child but as a wider relationship in which the whole community (the family, the house, the city) is involved. In the view of a Homeric mother her child is not someone that she alone has the right to love, but someone that she must share (so to say) with many other people. I try to show this by looking at the behaviour of the \u201cgreat mothers\u201d of the Homeric poems, Penelope, Hecuba and Anticleia
This article focuses on the opening scene of Heliodorus’ novel, a very elaborate ekphrasis that r... more This article focuses on the opening scene of Heliodorus’ novel, a very elaborate ekphrasis that results in a famously sophisticated interplay between visual and textual data. My aim is to trace their interrelation back to the Odyssey ’s Mnesterophonia , the obvious model of the scene. I also try to show that Heliodorus, while conjuring up the Odyssey , integrates into his narrative the later tradition relevant to the Mnesterophonia , which had of course a rich reception, both literary and iconographic. All in all, Heliodorus emerges as a master of intertextuality as well as of intervisuality.
Discussion of Posidippus 95 AB: the offering of Medeios to Apollo (a statue of a skeletal body) i... more Discussion of Posidippus 95 AB: the offering of Medeios to Apollo (a statue of a skeletal body) is intended to reproduce the famous dedication made by Hippocrates and so to present the donor as a Hippocrates redivivus
In the Greek novel love and sea are two opposite polarities: lovers must experience the sea and i... more In the Greek novel love and sea are two opposite polarities: lovers must experience the sea and its negative force to have the right to come back to love and its positive energy. In Achilles Tatius\u2019 romance this rule is, at least apparently, respected, because Leucippe is kidnapped in the island of Pharos by pirates who escape on a boat, in vain followed by Cleitophon\u2019s vessel. But in two occasions, at the end of book two and in book five, navigation turns to be the setting of erotic conversations: a debate on homosexual and heterosexual love and a oarismo\u2018s between Melite and Cleitophon. This paper discusses how Achilles Tatius accepts the traditional opposition of sea and love only to refuse it, showing once again his freedom in the treatment of novelistic conventions
Il volume contiene il racconto dei miti di cui \ue8 protagonista il dio Apollo, un'antologia ... more Il volume contiene il racconto dei miti di cui \ue8 protagonista il dio Apollo, un'antologia di brani letterari commentati e una bibliografia
Novembre 12th, 2008, Giampiera Arrigoni promoted an afternoon meeting on the Italian edition of M... more Novembre 12th, 2008, Giampiera Arrigoni promoted an afternoon meeting on the Italian edition of Mary Lefkowitz's book" Greek Gods, Human Lives: What We Can Learn from Myths"(Novara, 2008). The papers by Zanetto and Gioseffi are a product of that discussion
La recensione esprime un giudizio positivo sulla nuova edizione di Caritone curata da B. Reardon:... more La recensione esprime un giudizio positivo sulla nuova edizione di Caritone curata da B. Reardon: accurata la ricollazione del codice F, equilibrate le scelte editoriali. Il recensore discute alcuni passi, in cui la sua valutazione diverge da quella dell'editore
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