Francesca Mattaliano
Dr. Francesca Mattaliano graduated in Classical Literature at Palermo’s University in 2003 (Final mark: 110/110 with Distinction, the dissertation was awarded of the “Merante” prize during the same year) and she got a PhD in History of Ancient Sicily on 2007.
In 2006 and 2007 she studied and researched in different topics at Library of the Italian School of Athens, while in 2006 she studied at Department of Ancient History at Malaga’s University.
In 2008 she attended a post-graduated Diploma Program to qualify as High School teacher (Subjects: Greek, Latin, Italian Literature, History and Geography).
Furthermore, she took part as Lecturer in many international conferences and she taught as OFA Tutor (Level Zero) in History courses at University.
Nowadays, she is working as researcher at the Department of Cultural Heritage (Project title: “Intercultural relationships in the Ancient Mediterranean Sea: The Western Greeks and « the others»”), she is also a member of the team who works for the historical journal «Hormos» and partner of the Sicilian Institute of Ancient History «E. Manni»
Her scientific activities has prevalently been carried out in the context of Ancient history and historiography. Her current research is focusing on the lives of Greek and Roman women, with special reference to Plutarch’s works.
In 2006 and 2007 she studied and researched in different topics at Library of the Italian School of Athens, while in 2006 she studied at Department of Ancient History at Malaga’s University.
In 2008 she attended a post-graduated Diploma Program to qualify as High School teacher (Subjects: Greek, Latin, Italian Literature, History and Geography).
Furthermore, she took part as Lecturer in many international conferences and she taught as OFA Tutor (Level Zero) in History courses at University.
Nowadays, she is working as researcher at the Department of Cultural Heritage (Project title: “Intercultural relationships in the Ancient Mediterranean Sea: The Western Greeks and « the others»”), she is also a member of the team who works for the historical journal «Hormos» and partner of the Sicilian Institute of Ancient History «E. Manni»
Her scientific activities has prevalently been carried out in the context of Ancient history and historiography. Her current research is focusing on the lives of Greek and Roman women, with special reference to Plutarch’s works.
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Nell’articolo, attraverso un esame delle testimonianze storiche relative alle figure femminili nel mondo antico, in particolare le biografie plutarchee, si evidenzia una tendenza diffusa nella storiografia greca e romana che utilizza l’influenza delle donne quale strumento di pubblica denigrazione. In particolare, appaiono esemplari le vicende di quattro di loro, tutte accomunate dal biasimo per la loro attiva presenza nella vita politica dei loro uomini: Aspasia, l’etera milesia amante dello stratego ateniese Pericle, Elpinice, sorella dello stratego Cimone, Clodia, sorella del tribuno della plebe Clodio e Fulvia, moglie del triumviro Marco Antonio, tutte soggetti capaci di attirare a sé un medesimo giudizio morale di riprovazione e di biasimo da parte di una storiografia che rimane appannaggio esclusivo del genere maschile. La rottura dell’ordine che, sola, può giustificare il primo piano alla donna, si materializza così, nel racconto degli storici, attraverso situazioni emotivamente coinvolgenti capaci di far presa su fasce sempre più larghe di lettori da addestrare e pilotare politicamente.
Aspasia • Elpinice • Clodia • Fulvia • Pericle • Cimone • Clodio • Marco Antonio • Plutarco • Cicerone
In the article, by means of an examination of the historical evidences related to the female figures in the ancient world (especially the Lives of Plutarch), it is highlighted a tendency to the Greek and Roman historiography that uses the influence of women as a mean for the public denigration. Particularly, the lives of four of these women are exemplary because of their common point: the fault for their active presence in the political life of their men. Aspasia, the Milesian courtesan lover of the Athenian statesman Pericles, Elpinice, sister of Cimon strategos, Clodia, sister of the tribune Publius Clodius Pulcher, and Fulvia, wife of Triumvir Mark Antony, are all women able to attract to them the same moral judgment of condemnation and disapproval by a part of a historiography that remains exclusive prerogative of the male gender. The breaking of the order, that is the only thing which can justify the foreground on the woman, in the historical narrative materializes through situations emotionally engaging able to establish a foothold in larger and larger groups of readers to train and drive politically.
Aspasia • Elpinice • Clodia • Fulvia • Pericles • Cimon • Clodius • Mark Antony • Plutarch • Cicero
Nell’Archaiologia siceliota, Tucidide presenta le notizie relative alla fondazione di Siracusa in accordo a un’ideale di brevitas che ne comprime i confini all’interno della più grande parentesi dedicata alle spedizioni calcidesi. Di Siracusa Tucidide menziona soltanto il nome del fondatore: Archia, un eraclide proveniente da Corinto e la data, in cronologia relativa, di appena un anno successivo a quella di Naxos, ricordando, inoltre, la rimozione dell’ethnos siculo dall’isola di Ortigia (di cui però non cita il toponimo) e una notazione riguardante la crescita esponenziale della popolazione siracusana compresa all’interno della mura. Attraverso una scansione in brevi dossier sui principali aspetti connessi con la ricostruzione tucididea, si legge il paragrafo in questione alla luce delle testimonianze offerte sia dall’Archaiologia tucididea del I libro, sia da altre in nostro possesso: in particolare, brani tratti da Ibico, Strabone, Pausania, dagli scolii pindarici e dal Marmor Parium.
The article analyzes the main subjects of the ancient battle exhortations, especially the ways of communication and the practice of text’s reprocessing in the Greek historiography. Throughout the analysis of some fonts about the realistic suggestions of soldier’s keynote, as well as the popular theme of phobos in the army and the specific skills required to the commanders, we get to some observations that come from different opinions, but not so far from Mogens Herman Hansen’s point of view. The Dutch scholar thinks that most of the battle exhortations are a fictitious ancient reconstruction: the complexity and length of the sentences, in fact, couldn’t be heard from soldiers in the field and furthermore in rhetorical theory there is not any sign of the battle exhortation. For this reason it will be analyzed a text of Aristotele’s Rhetorica, in which the Author seems to theorize the pattern of battle exhortation, and a speech of Timoleon, written by Timaeus and reported by Polybius, whose text seems to be very close to the real military practice.
Through the examination of literal testimonies derived from pseudo-platonic Erissia, from an Andocide’s oration and from Bibliotheca Historica by Diodorus Siculus, we want to rebuild a general overview of the diplomatic relationship between Athens and Syracuse during the fifth century B.C. It will be examined some ideological slogan, also present in the Thucydide’s work, used with reference to the relationships between poleis: homoiotropia, philia e symmachia.
2009, 27, núm. 2, 125-261
Francesca Mattaliano, por su parte, aborda en el capítulo décimo (“Il papiro di Artemidoro tra Eratostene e Strabone”) la importancia del Papiro de Artemidoro en lo que respecta al análisis de la Península Ibérica y la influencia del mismo en la obra de Estrabón y, por ende, en la concepción que de Iberia se tiene en gran parte
de la Antigüedad y en nuestros días. La autora acompaña su texto con variadas ilustraciones tanto del propio papiro como de otros mapas antiguos (la Tabula Peutingeriana o el mapa de Soleto) que permiten contextualizar las concepciones geográficas de la época.
Nell’ampio campo d’indagine tucidideo l’assottigliamento del crinale tra le due realtà politiche che, pur distanti per natura, divengono, al pari di individui e organismi vitali “simili per modi e affini”, offre una chiave di lettura di forte impatto ideologico della spedizione ateniese in Sicilia che vide coinvolti soggetti storici – Nicia, Alcibiade, Ermocrate, Gilippo – di assoluta centralità.
La teorèsi analogica riguarda in Tucidide i puntelli stessi dello Stato – organizzazione militare, istituzioni politiche, indole dei cittadini – e conduce, attraverso raffinate strategie storiografiche, alla comprensione della disfatta ateniese nell’isola, presentata come “necessaria” nel fitto intreccio degli avvenimenti narrati.
In Thucydides’ History the purely conceptual category of the homoiotropia becomes a heuristic coordinate that is highly significant for the definition of a system of structural analogies between the poleis of Athens and Syracuse in the course of the fifth century BC. In the wide-ranging field of Thucydidean studies the narrowing of the divide between the two political realities, which despite their different natures become – like individuals and living organizations – “akin and similar in their ways”, provides a powerful ideological key for a better understanding of the Athenians’ expedition to Sicily, dealing as it does with actual historical characters – Alcibiades, Nicias, Hermocrates, Gylippus - of central importance. Thucydides’ analogical theorizing concerns the very props of the State – the military organization, the political institutions as well as the character of the citizens - and, thanks to his refined historiographical technique, permits a more complete understanding of the Athenians’ defeat in Sicily, which is presented as a “necessity” in the serried network of events recounted.
Nell’articolo, attraverso un esame delle testimonianze storiche relative alle figure femminili nel mondo antico, in particolare le biografie plutarchee, si evidenzia una tendenza diffusa nella storiografia greca e romana che utilizza l’influenza delle donne quale strumento di pubblica denigrazione. In particolare, appaiono esemplari le vicende di quattro di loro, tutte accomunate dal biasimo per la loro attiva presenza nella vita politica dei loro uomini: Aspasia, l’etera milesia amante dello stratego ateniese Pericle, Elpinice, sorella dello stratego Cimone, Clodia, sorella del tribuno della plebe Clodio e Fulvia, moglie del triumviro Marco Antonio, tutte soggetti capaci di attirare a sé un medesimo giudizio morale di riprovazione e di biasimo da parte di una storiografia che rimane appannaggio esclusivo del genere maschile. La rottura dell’ordine che, sola, può giustificare il primo piano alla donna, si materializza così, nel racconto degli storici, attraverso situazioni emotivamente coinvolgenti capaci di far presa su fasce sempre più larghe di lettori da addestrare e pilotare politicamente.
Aspasia • Elpinice • Clodia • Fulvia • Pericle • Cimone • Clodio • Marco Antonio • Plutarco • Cicerone
In the article, by means of an examination of the historical evidences related to the female figures in the ancient world (especially the Lives of Plutarch), it is highlighted a tendency to the Greek and Roman historiography that uses the influence of women as a mean for the public denigration. Particularly, the lives of four of these women are exemplary because of their common point: the fault for their active presence in the political life of their men. Aspasia, the Milesian courtesan lover of the Athenian statesman Pericles, Elpinice, sister of Cimon strategos, Clodia, sister of the tribune Publius Clodius Pulcher, and Fulvia, wife of Triumvir Mark Antony, are all women able to attract to them the same moral judgment of condemnation and disapproval by a part of a historiography that remains exclusive prerogative of the male gender. The breaking of the order, that is the only thing which can justify the foreground on the woman, in the historical narrative materializes through situations emotionally engaging able to establish a foothold in larger and larger groups of readers to train and drive politically.
Aspasia • Elpinice • Clodia • Fulvia • Pericles • Cimon • Clodius • Mark Antony • Plutarch • Cicero
Nell’Archaiologia siceliota, Tucidide presenta le notizie relative alla fondazione di Siracusa in accordo a un’ideale di brevitas che ne comprime i confini all’interno della più grande parentesi dedicata alle spedizioni calcidesi. Di Siracusa Tucidide menziona soltanto il nome del fondatore: Archia, un eraclide proveniente da Corinto e la data, in cronologia relativa, di appena un anno successivo a quella di Naxos, ricordando, inoltre, la rimozione dell’ethnos siculo dall’isola di Ortigia (di cui però non cita il toponimo) e una notazione riguardante la crescita esponenziale della popolazione siracusana compresa all’interno della mura. Attraverso una scansione in brevi dossier sui principali aspetti connessi con la ricostruzione tucididea, si legge il paragrafo in questione alla luce delle testimonianze offerte sia dall’Archaiologia tucididea del I libro, sia da altre in nostro possesso: in particolare, brani tratti da Ibico, Strabone, Pausania, dagli scolii pindarici e dal Marmor Parium.
The article analyzes the main subjects of the ancient battle exhortations, especially the ways of communication and the practice of text’s reprocessing in the Greek historiography. Throughout the analysis of some fonts about the realistic suggestions of soldier’s keynote, as well as the popular theme of phobos in the army and the specific skills required to the commanders, we get to some observations that come from different opinions, but not so far from Mogens Herman Hansen’s point of view. The Dutch scholar thinks that most of the battle exhortations are a fictitious ancient reconstruction: the complexity and length of the sentences, in fact, couldn’t be heard from soldiers in the field and furthermore in rhetorical theory there is not any sign of the battle exhortation. For this reason it will be analyzed a text of Aristotele’s Rhetorica, in which the Author seems to theorize the pattern of battle exhortation, and a speech of Timoleon, written by Timaeus and reported by Polybius, whose text seems to be very close to the real military practice.
Through the examination of literal testimonies derived from pseudo-platonic Erissia, from an Andocide’s oration and from Bibliotheca Historica by Diodorus Siculus, we want to rebuild a general overview of the diplomatic relationship between Athens and Syracuse during the fifth century B.C. It will be examined some ideological slogan, also present in the Thucydide’s work, used with reference to the relationships between poleis: homoiotropia, philia e symmachia.
2009, 27, núm. 2, 125-261
Francesca Mattaliano, por su parte, aborda en el capítulo décimo (“Il papiro di Artemidoro tra Eratostene e Strabone”) la importancia del Papiro de Artemidoro en lo que respecta al análisis de la Península Ibérica y la influencia del mismo en la obra de Estrabón y, por ende, en la concepción que de Iberia se tiene en gran parte
de la Antigüedad y en nuestros días. La autora acompaña su texto con variadas ilustraciones tanto del propio papiro como de otros mapas antiguos (la Tabula Peutingeriana o el mapa de Soleto) que permiten contextualizar las concepciones geográficas de la época.
Nell’ampio campo d’indagine tucidideo l’assottigliamento del crinale tra le due realtà politiche che, pur distanti per natura, divengono, al pari di individui e organismi vitali “simili per modi e affini”, offre una chiave di lettura di forte impatto ideologico della spedizione ateniese in Sicilia che vide coinvolti soggetti storici – Nicia, Alcibiade, Ermocrate, Gilippo – di assoluta centralità.
La teorèsi analogica riguarda in Tucidide i puntelli stessi dello Stato – organizzazione militare, istituzioni politiche, indole dei cittadini – e conduce, attraverso raffinate strategie storiografiche, alla comprensione della disfatta ateniese nell’isola, presentata come “necessaria” nel fitto intreccio degli avvenimenti narrati.
In Thucydides’ History the purely conceptual category of the homoiotropia becomes a heuristic coordinate that is highly significant for the definition of a system of structural analogies between the poleis of Athens and Syracuse in the course of the fifth century BC. In the wide-ranging field of Thucydidean studies the narrowing of the divide between the two political realities, which despite their different natures become – like individuals and living organizations – “akin and similar in their ways”, provides a powerful ideological key for a better understanding of the Athenians’ expedition to Sicily, dealing as it does with actual historical characters – Alcibiades, Nicias, Hermocrates, Gylippus - of central importance. Thucydides’ analogical theorizing concerns the very props of the State – the military organization, the political institutions as well as the character of the citizens - and, thanks to his refined historiographical technique, permits a more complete understanding of the Athenians’ defeat in Sicily, which is presented as a “necessity” in the serried network of events recounted.