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Stefano Caneva
Research areas: political and religious history of the Hellenistic and Roman periods; Greek Literature; Cultural History, Digital Humanities
Current researches: the political, religious, and cultural significance of Hellenistic ruler cults; Arsinoe II within the framework of Hellenistic queenship; Ptolemaic political and religious history; cultures and religions in contact in the Hellenistic world
Co-founder and vicepresident of the non-profit association weLand (www.we-land.com).
Member of Wikimedia Italia, Wikimedia Belgium, Società Dante Alighieri Antwerpen.
LinkedIN: www.linkedin.com/pub/stefano-caneva/5b/756/135
Address: Kronenburgstraat 31,
2000 Antwerp
Belgium
https://www.linkedin.com/in/stefanocaneva
Current researches: the political, religious, and cultural significance of Hellenistic ruler cults; Arsinoe II within the framework of Hellenistic queenship; Ptolemaic political and religious history; cultures and religions in contact in the Hellenistic world
Co-founder and vicepresident of the non-profit association weLand (www.we-land.com).
Member of Wikimedia Italia, Wikimedia Belgium, Società Dante Alighieri Antwerpen.
LinkedIN: www.linkedin.com/pub/stefano-caneva/5b/756/135
Address: Kronenburgstraat 31,
2000 Antwerp
Belgium
https://www.linkedin.com/in/stefanocaneva
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En partant de cette ambivalence, je proposerai une brève introduction au genre littéraire hellénistique de la paradoxographie, pour observer ensuite que le succès de cette littérature ne peut être expliqué comme le résultat d’un goût tout érudit pour la classification : au contraire, les catalogues dont nous avons connaissance ne sont que le produit secondaire d’une attention pour le merveilleux largement partagée au sein de la culture hellénistique.
Ce point est préalable au traitement du sujet, qui concerne en premier lieu l’emploi de performances et d’objets pensés pour susciter la merveille du public, comme un canal privilégié de la manifestation du divin et du pouvoir. Je discuterai plusieurs exemples attestés dans les sources anciennes, où la grandeur d’un spectacle, son exotisme, ses effets inattendus garantis par les prodiges de l’art ou de la technologie occupent la première place dans la perception d’une puissance exceptionnelle et manifeste, fût-elle liée aux divinités traditionnelles ou aux souverains divinisés.
Le dernier point de ma discussion regarde les critères qui gouvernent l’accès aux sources du paradoxon. A cet égard j’observerai le lien spécial qui existe entre le dispositif de la merveille et les grands centres de pouvoir hellénistiques : les cours possèdent les ressources pratiques et intellectuelles pour développer ce type de communication et s’en servent pour manifester leur puissance aussi bien que pour signaler une piété hors commun envers les dieux. Si la cour se signale donc comme le centre d’irradiation du paradoxon, la proximité au centre du pouvoir décide de sa hiérarchie, qui passe par l’élite - public choisi et détenteur lui-même d’objets merveilleux - jusqu’aux personnes communes, la foule des sujets qui peuvent seulement se réjouir du spectacle merveilleux du divin, mis en scène par le pouvoir.
En partant de cette question, je propose dans ma contribution une approche visant à analyser, à l’aide de sources aussi littéraires que documentaires, les contextes de contact entre Rome et Dionysos de l’époque hellénistique au début du Principat, pour essayer de mettre en relief les relations entre, d’une part, la répulsion et le refus idéologiques du dionysisme, de l’autre les démarches d’appropriation et d’adaptation, à la culture romaine, de traits caractérisant les cultes hellénistiques de Dionysos et leurs utilisation dans la mise en forme des pratiques du pouvoir et de leurs représentations.
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Il faut remettre en discussion cette lecture évolutionniste, qui s'appuie sur une catégorie, celle des rites de passages, jadis très à la mode mais qui nous semble poser, dans les études de religion grecque antique, plus de problèmes qu'elle n'en résout. En fait, la documentation de Leukopétra se présente beaucoup plus floue et le cadre diachronique où les consécrations macédoniennes s’insèrent nous forcent à proposer des hypothèses plus prudentes sur l'origine de ces pratiques ainsi que sur le statut des personnes dédiées à la déesse.
Questions and methodologies related to the political history of the Hellenistic Mediterranean are combined with the results of recent studies in the functioning of the Greek epicletic system to provide a fresh reassessment of the entanglement between honorific practices and the religious life of Hellenistic communities, from continental Greece to Egypt, from Syracuse to Bactria. Reconsidering the relationships between honours and religion also implies reversing the question of the influence of Greek religion on Hellenistic ruler cults to explore how a new tradition of ritual encounters between human power and the divine sphere may have impacted post-classical developments in Greek polytheism.
Thus the first section of this volume contains a selection of state-ofthe-
art background research and policy texts concerning the main themes of EU youth policy, from non-formal education to citizens’ empowerment, from digital skills to gender gap, from youth entrepreneurship to cybersecurity in education. All the selected texts have been published by leading EU policy institutions or by the European Commission itself (with the exception of the United Nations Resolution at the end of Part Four) and have been released within the last 5 years. Almost all of them, in fact, date to the last 24 months from the release of this booklet. Thus they represent a faithful portrait of youth policy debates ongoing at the time of the #ConnectingYouth project, a point which we expect will increase its dissemination and impact.
The policy guidelines published in the second section (p. 83) are the
results of the activities of #ConnectingYouth at both national and international level. They are meant to provide an encompassing overview of the various types of stakeholders that have taken part in the project. In order to make our recommendations sharper and provide a useful roadmap for their implementation, recommendations are divided in categories corresponding to the diverse topics and target publics that have been taken into account.
While not pretending to be exhaustive or to provide the absolute best anthology of relevant documents available on line, the texts published in the first section of the book have been selected following the criteria of clarity and concision on the one hand, of reusability for open access on the other. The material is organized in 4 parts, of which the first is meant to provide an encompassing overview of the discussed topics. All users will be free to take advantage of this tool in its entirety or in part, in compliance with their own goals and approaches. Following the methodology of the #ConnectingYouth project, the first section is the sole which all the young participants are requested to read in its entirety. For the rest, during the period of preparation of the International Workshop at Villa Vigoni, the young members of each national group have been asked to select a limited number of documents and to report on them to their peers on a weekly basis, under the guidance of their teachers.
In our view, this working method brings about two advantages: first, it keeps within reasonable limits the total amount of time that teachers and students must invest to get acquainted with the variety of the proposed topics, without narrowing the scope of their investigation; second, by working in small groups and with the help of online tutors, young participants can strengthen their organizational and communicational skills and experience a simulation of real life collaboration, where each person or group interacts with others as an “expert” in one or more specific themes.
Il primo è dedicato alla figura della madre di Achille, Teti, quale appare nell'Iliade: a dispetto del ruolo secondario di mater dolorosa che è chiamata ad assolvere nel poema, presenta più di una volta tratti di divinità primaria che evocano storie remote di grande rilievo cosmogonico. Il secondo saggio, curato da Stefano Caneva, analizza la tecnica narrativa di Apollonio Rodio, attraverso la quale la memoria mitica è sottoposta a un riordino insieme spaziale e temporale, che produce una vera e propria mappatura dei miti greci.
Tuttavia, leggendo di seguito i due scritti ci si può accorgere di una loro reciproca coerenza, dovuta sì alla continuità istituzionale del genere epico, pur nelle mutate condizioni di produzione e di fruizione della poesia (oralità vs scrittura), ma anche e soprattutto alla comune attenzione prestata dagli autori al lavoro di selezione e ricontestualizzazione operato sia prima dagli aedi omerici sia poi dal poeta letterato alessandrino.
#ConnectingYouth is a Structured Dialogue Project funded by the Erasmus + Programme of the European Union Under GA 2016-3-IT03-KA347-099676