- Dipartimento di Civiltà e Forme del Sapere - Seminario di Storia Antica - Ex Convento dei Salesiani, via dei Mille, 19 - 56126 PISA
- Gnosticism, Neoplatonism and late antique philosophy, Marius Victorinus, History of Religion, Late Antiquity, Flavius Cresconius Corippus, and 26 moreMartianus Capella, Chinese Studies, Opera, Dracontius, Ancient Religion, Roman Religion, Hermetism, Claudius Claudianus, Celtic religion, Comparative mythology, Indoeuropean Mythology, Indoeuropean Studies, Western Esotericism (History), Early Christianity, Tertullian, Arnobius of Sicca, Theurgy, History of Freemasonry, Late Roman Empire, Jingjiao, Patristics and Late Antiquity, Neoplatonism, Hermeticism, Greek Magical Papyri, Ancient Greek Religion, and Hermetic Corpusedit
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Review: Salvatore Lilla, Il silenzio nella filosofia greca (Presocratici - Platone - Giudeo-ellenismo - Ermetismo - Medioplatonismo - Oracoli Caldaici - Neoplatonismo - Gnosticismo - Padri Greci). Galleria di ritratti e raccolta di testimonianze, Roma 2013, “Augustinianum” 53 (2013), pp. 573-575.more
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Redazione dei capitoli: II,1: Atanasio, pp. 7-27; II,2: I Padri Cappadoci, pp. 29-196; II,3: Giovanni Crisostomo, pp. 197-217; II,4: Tra cristianesimo e paideia antica: Sinesio di Cirene e Nonno di Panopoli, pp. 219-248; II,10: Ascesi,... more
Redazione dei capitoli: II,1: Atanasio, pp. 7-27; II,2: I Padri Cappadoci, pp. 29-196; II,3: Giovanni Crisostomo, pp. 197-217; II,4: Tra cristianesimo e paideia antica: Sinesio di Cirene e Nonno di Panopoli, pp. 219-248; II,10: Ascesi, spiritualità ed esegesi nel V secolo greco e nella prima metà del VI, pp. 495-520; II,11: La poesia liturgica greca, pp. 521-552.
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Redazione dei capitoli: 6. L'evoluzione delle discipline scientifiche ed il sorgere della grande oratoria, pp. 133-155; 7. Molteplici aspetti della cultura in età sillana, pp. 156-170; 14. Scienza, erudizione e antiquaria, pp. 271-285;... more
Redazione dei capitoli: 6. L'evoluzione delle discipline scientifiche ed il sorgere della grande oratoria, pp. 133-155; 7. Molteplici aspetti della cultura in età sillana, pp. 156-170; 14. Scienza, erudizione e antiquaria, pp. 271-285; 15. Figure minori dell'età ciceroniana, pp. 286-298; 23. Poesia minore dell'età augustea, pp. 417-425; 25. Scrittori scientifici e tecnici dell'età augustea, pp. 447-457; 26. La moda delle declamazioni, pp. 458-464; 28. Varietà e sperimentazione tra Augusto e Nerone, pp. 477-500; 33. Generi minori di poesia e prosa nella seconda metà del I secolo, pp. 555-567; 44. Le tendenze letterarie: l'arcaismo e i poetae novelli, pp. 662-675; 46. Eruditi, grammatici, giuristi nel II sec. d.C., pp. 693-700; 52. Letteratura pagana del III secolo e dell'età costantiniana, pp. 742-770; 57. Biografia ed agiografia, pp. 815-819; 59. La poesia pagana del IV e V secolo, pp. 837-855; 61. Eruditi, letterati e filosofi nel IV secolo, pp. 870-883; 64. Scrittori tecnici dal IV al VI secolo, pp. 932-951.
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Forthcoming conferences on Latin as a 'global' language and on Eurasian relations in the early modern period
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The call for papers for the 18th Annual Conference of the European Association for the Study of Religions, Pisa 30 August – 3 September 2021, is now open. We invite delegates to submit their abstracts for either workshop sessions, short... more
The call for papers for the 18th Annual Conference of the European Association for the Study of Religions, Pisa 30 August – 3 September 2021, is now open.
We invite delegates to submit their abstracts for either workshop sessions, short individual communications, or posters (the final deadline is 31 January 2021).
Please visit
https://www.easr2021.org/how-to-submit-a-proposal/
We invite delegates to submit their abstracts for either workshop sessions, short individual communications, or posters (the final deadline is 31 January 2021).
Please visit
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Research Interests: Religion, Comparative Religion, Sociology of Religion, Philosophy Of Religion, History of Religion, and 14 morePsychology of Religion, Popular Culture and Religious Studies, Ancient Religion, Religion and Globalization, Cognitive Science of Religion, Gender and religion (Women s Studies), Religious History, World Religions, Comparative Religions, Religious Studies, Philosophy and Religious Studies, Comparative Study of World Religions, Theology and Religious Studies, and Anthropology of Religion
The call for papers for the 18th Annual Conference of the European Association for the Study of Religions, Pisa 30 August – 3 September 2021, is now open. We invite delegates to submit their abstracts for either workshop sessions, short... more
The call for papers for the 18th Annual Conference of the European Association for the Study of Religions, Pisa 30 August – 3 September 2021, is now open.
We invite delegates to submit their abstracts for either workshop sessions, short individual communications, or posters (the final deadline is 31 January 2021).
Please visit
https://www.easr2021.org/how-to-submit-a-proposal/
We invite delegates to submit their abstracts for either workshop sessions, short individual communications, or posters (the final deadline is 31 January 2021).
Please visit
https://www.easr2021.org/how-to-submit-a-proposal/
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Giovedì 5 novembre 2020, ore 10.00 la Prof.ssa Maria G. Castello (Università di Torino) terrà una lezione dal titolo Tra storiografia e mitografia: il "curioso" caso della crux e della crocifissione L'incontro si svolgerà telematicamente... more
Giovedì 5 novembre 2020, ore 10.00 la Prof.ssa Maria G. Castello (Università di Torino) terrà una lezione dal titolo Tra storiografia e mitografia: il "curioso" caso della crux e della crocifissione
L'incontro si svolgerà telematicamente sulla piattaforma Google Meets, per partecipare scrivere a chiara.tommasi@unipi.it
L'incontro si svolgerà telematicamente sulla piattaforma Google Meets, per partecipare scrivere a chiara.tommasi@unipi.it
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Il giorno 29 ottobre alle ore 10 nell'ambito del corso di Storia del Cristianesimo il Prof. Enrico Norelli terrà un seminario dal titolo "Gesù in Marcione"
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Seminario di studi a partire dalla pubblicazione di I.P. Culianu, Iocari serio. Scienza e arte nel pensiero del Rinascimento , Torino 2017
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Nell'ambito dell'iniziativa "Lezioni di Storia Antica", lunedì 15 gennaio 2018 il Prof. Marco Pasi terrà una conferenza su "Giuseppe Mazzini e l'esoterismo: un dossier aperto" Università di Pisa, Dipartimento di Civiltà e Forme del... more
Nell'ambito dell'iniziativa "Lezioni di Storia Antica",
lunedì 15 gennaio 2018 il Prof. Marco Pasi terrà una conferenza su "Giuseppe Mazzini e l'esoterismo: un dossier aperto"
Università di Pisa, Dipartimento di Civiltà e Forme del Sapere, via dei Mille 19, Aula dei Seminari, secondo piano.
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lunedì 15 gennaio 2018 il Prof. Marco Pasi terrà una conferenza su "Giuseppe Mazzini e l'esoterismo: un dossier aperto"
Università di Pisa, Dipartimento di Civiltà e Forme del Sapere, via dei Mille 19, Aula dei Seminari, secondo piano.
Tutti gli interessati sono cordialmente invitati
Herausgegeben von Chiara Ombretta Tommasi, Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete, Helmut Seng Questo volume costituisce il frutto della seconda parte del progetto Il Lato oscuro della tarda antichità. Marginalità e integrazione delle... more
Herausgegeben von Chiara Ombretta Tommasi, Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete, Helmut Seng Questo volume costituisce il frutto della seconda parte del progetto Il Lato oscuro della tarda antichità. Marginalità e integrazione delle correnti esoteriche nella spiritualità filosofica dei secoli II-IV, da noi coordinato e svoltosi nel corso delle conferenze di ricerca trilaterali finanziate dal Centro per l’Eccellenza Europea di Villa Vigoni, dalla Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme e dalla ..
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The present contribution provides an examination of the relationship between the emperor and the divine sphere in Latin panegyric poetry of the fifth and sixth centuries. Following the path magisterially set forth by Claudian, poets like... more
The present contribution provides an examination of the relationship between the emperor and the divine sphere in Latin panegyric poetry of the fifth and sixth centuries. Following the path magisterially set forth by Claudian, poets like Sidonius Apollinaris and, later on, Corippus employs the same literary genre to praise the newly-come Germanic kings or the Eastern Emperor. They have, however, to face a profoundly transformed historical and political realm, not to mention a different approach towards religion. Whereas Panegyrici Latini and Claudian could make wide use of mythological similes to celebrate Rome, her grandeur and the deeds of the emperor, his successors deal with the ancient gods in quite a clear-cut or, so to say, crystallized way. They show a conservative (and, to some extent, nostalgic) attitude and still believe in the endurance of Rome, which is fated to last eternally. The sacralization of Rome (with the concurring ideas of a Christian providence and the litera...
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In his paper Claudio Moreschini tried to show how widespread a fortune the myth of Medea and the Argonauts had in Italian literature from the earliest testimonies to the sixteenth century. Following the same lines, in turn, I will discuss... more
In his paper Claudio Moreschini tried to show how widespread a fortune the myth of Medea and the Argonauts had in Italian literature from the earliest testimonies to the sixteenth century. Following the same lines, in turn, I will discuss other examples of such a fortune in Italian music (namely, opera) and art, which sometimes are in close connection to literary models. For the sake of brevity, I will take into account only Italian works and therefore I will not discuss other important testimonies from European art and music
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The secret name of Rome between antiquarianism and exoterismus Starting from a well known passage in the Saturnalia (3,9), where Macrobius describes the ancient, and probably cognate rituals of evocatio and devotio hostium, this paper... more
The secret name of Rome between antiquarianism and exoterismus Starting from a well known passage in the Saturnalia (3,9), where Macrobius describes the ancient, and probably cognate rituals of evocatio and devotio hostium, this paper scrutinizes some other Greco-Roman sources that deal either with the notion of a secret name or with a tutelary deity of Rome, whose knowledge and utterance was strictly prohibited, in order to forestall the danger of an enemy’s evocatio. Besides an obviously implied Redetabu, it is possible to argue for a political use of this motif – namely in the famous episode of Valerius Soranus, allegedly accused to have divulged the secret during the Social War or, later, of Stilicho, proditor arcani imperii. Finally, the discussion of Lydus’ De Mensibus 4,73, which apparently reveals the sacred and the mysteric names of Rome (stating that the city was also called Flora and Amor) allows us to examine in detail some more esoteric interpretations, concerning the probably bisexual nature of the tutelary deity, and offers a hint to present a little known Italian theatrical text about the Sacred Origins of Rome. Originally written in 1914 by a Sicilian nobleman, the representation of this work was made possible ten years later thanks to some neopagan and traditionalist intellectuals, in an attempt at reviving Roman traditions under the newly established Fascist regime. tommasi@flcl.unipi.it
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Research Interests: Gnosticism, Philosophy, Neoplatonism and late antique philosophy, History of Religion, Galen, and 13 moreAugustine, Plotinus, Proclus, Gregory of Nyssa, Ancient Medicine, Neoplatonism, Late Antique Art and Archaeology, Basil of Caesarea, Christian Neoplatonism, Origen of Alexandria, Patristics and Late Antiquity, Greek Patristics, and Ancient Greek Science and Philosophy
This paper considers how late antique Latin authors (mainly Augustine and Corippus) dealt with ancestral rites and practices of probable autochthonous (i. e. Berber) origin and provided an ideological resemantisation. Although motivated... more
This paper considers how late antique Latin authors (mainly Augustine and Corippus) dealt with ancestral rites and practices of probable autochthonous (i. e. Berber) origin and provided an ideological resemantisation. Although motivated by anti-pagan pleas and also allowing for some exaggeration, they nevertheless provide reliable information, which can be compared against epigraphic evidence, and offer further contributions that enrich the knowledge of the North African local pantheon, otherwise largely documented by epigraphical evidence. It might therefore be surmised that, notwithstanding the deep Christianisation of the region, at the end of the Roman Empire, North Africa still witnessed the survival of residual and isolated pagan fringes.