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Adamantius 21 (2015), journal edited by Alberto Camplani (director) and Antonio Cacciari (vice-director): General Index and Introduction to the Theme section on Bodmer Papyri, preceedings of a conference organized by Gianfranco Agosti,... more
Adamantius 21 (2015), journal edited by Alberto Camplani (director) and Antonio Cacciari (vice-director): General Index  and Introduction to the Theme section on Bodmer Papyri, preceedings of a conference organized by Gianfranco Agosti, Paola Buzi, Alberto Camplani
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recensioni: G. Montefoschi, Corriere della Sera 7.6.2005, p. 35; A. Rotondo, Adamantius 11, 2005, pp. 552-557; R. Shorrock, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2006.03.37
recensioni: A. Ruiz, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2004.07.60; G. Lozza, Byzantinische Zeitschrift, 97, 2004, pp. 571-573; Th. Duc, Revue de Philologie 78, 2004, 355-356; S.F. Johnson, Classical Review 55, 2005, pp. 474-476; A.M. Taragna,... more
recensioni: A. Ruiz, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2004.07.60; G. Lozza, Byzantinische Zeitschrift, 97, 2004, pp. 571-573; Th. Duc, Revue de Philologie 78, 2004, 355-356; S.F. Johnson, Classical Review 55, 2005, pp. 474-476; A.M. Taragna, Medioevo Greco 5, 2005, pp. 300-301; G. Strano, Orpheus 26, 2005, pp. 252-253; M. Whitby, Eikasmos 17, 2006, pp. 553-561; A. Rotondo, Adamantius. Annuario di Letteratura Cristiana antica e di Studi giudaico-ellenistici 12, 2006, pp. 611-614; D. Accorinti, Gnomon 80, 2008, 6-15
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Sacred Thresholds. The Door to the Sanctuary in Late Antiquity offers a far-reaching account of boundaries within pagan and Christian sanctuaries: gateways in a precinct, outer doors of a temple or church, inner doors of a cella. The... more
Sacred Thresholds. The Door to the Sanctuary in Late Antiquity offers a far-reaching account of boundaries within pagan and Christian sanctuaries: gateways in a precinct, outer doors of a temple or church, inner doors of a cella. The study of these liminal spaces within Late Antiquity – itself a key period of transition during the spread of Christianity, when cultural paradigms were redefined – demands an approach that is both interdisciplinary and diachronic. Emilie van Opstall brings together both upcoming and noted scholars of Greek and Latin literature and epigraphy, archaeology, art history, philosophy, and religion to discuss the experience of those who crossed from the worldly to the divine, both physically and symbolically. What did this passage from the profane to the sacred mean to them, on a sensory, emotive and intellectual level? Who was excluded, and who was admitted? The articles each offer a unique perspective on pagan and Christian sanctuary doors in the Late Antique Mediterranean.

Contributors: Gianfranco Agosti, Sible de Blaauw, Christian Boudignon, Ildikó Csepregi, Juliette Day, Roald Dijkstra, Gaëlle Herbert de la Portbarré-Viard, Emilie van Opstall, Evelien Roels, Brooke Shilling, Lucia Tissi, Christina Williamson .

Publication Date: 10 July 2018
ISBN: 978-90-04-36900-9
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L’articolo analizza alcune iscrizioni tardoantiche relative al culto di San Sergio, in particolare due epigrammi dell’ dell’Hauran, I.Syrie 2412= 22/36/04 (Soada/Dionysias, Deir-el-Kadi, del V/VI sec. e IGLS XV/1 186 = SGO 22/14/04... more
L’articolo analizza alcune iscrizioni tardoantiche relative al culto di San Sergio, in particolare due epigrammi dell’ dell’Hauran, I.Syrie 2412= 22/36/04 (Soada/Dionysias, Deir-el-Kadi, del V/VI sec. e IGLS XV/1 186 = SGO 22/14/04 (Azra‘, VI sec.). Entrambe queste iscrizioni vengono poste a confronto con testi metrici costantinopolitani, rispettivamente uno dei epigrammi dell’abside della Chiesa delle Blacherne (AP I 3) e l’iscrizione per la chiesa dei SS Sergio e Bacco (APApp I 358 Cougny = 210 Preger). La vicinanza nel riuso di idee e stilemi letterari fra questi epigrammi suggerisce che testi della capitale particolarmente significativi avessero una certa circolazione ed entrassero nelle raccolte di modelli delle botteghe epigrafiche della periferia dell’Impero
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This paper studies the reception of the Homeric Hymns in some pagan and Christian poets of Late Antiquity. It offers some methodological remarks on ‘quotations’ or ‘allusions’ and re-use of epic code; and on the need to distinguish... more
This paper studies the reception of the Homeric Hymns in
some pagan and Christian poets of Late Antiquity. It offers
some methodological remarks on ‘quotations’ or ‘allusions’
and re-use of epic code; and on the need to distinguish
between instances of epic language reused by Late Antique
poets and actual quotations or borrowings from the Homeric
Hymns. After an overall view on the presence of the Hymns in
some major poets of Late Antiquity (especially Nonnus of
Panopolis, Proclus, the Orphic Argonautica), I deal with the
reception of the Hymns to Hermes, whose presence can be
detected in papyri, inscriptions and highbrow poems (either
pagans or Christians) from the second century until the fifth
century AD. I argue that in Late Antiquity the concept of epic
code was extended to the whole Homeric corpus, probably by
the influence of school education.
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The paper deals with the concept of ‘democratisation of the culture’, introduced by Santo Mazzarino, and its possible adaptation to the metrical inscriptions (mainly Christians) of late antiquity. The presence of new models and of new... more
The paper deals with the concept of ‘democratisation of the culture’, introduced by Santo Mazzarino, and its possible adaptation to the metrical inscriptions (mainly Christians) of late antiquity. The presence of new models and of new agents in the diffusion of culture is here considered against the background of classical paideia, which was often absorbed in uncanonical or even ‘erroneous’ ways in inscriptions that we might define ‘popular’ especially for their ‘centrifugal’ and innovative features. The adoption of Mazzarino’s model will also
allow us to consider metrical inscriptions according to a different interpretive model, and one not necessarily related to classical norms. From this perspective, classical paideia should be considered not as the fixed norm of aesthetic values, but rather as a common ground on which centrifugal innovations were inserted (ascending democratisation) and whose social prestige continued to be important in lower and provincial contexts (descending democratisation).
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Introduction to the Monographic Section of Adamantius 21 (2015)
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The present work aims to describe some guidelines of the research on literariness in Late Greek inscriptional poems (IV-VIth c. AD). Literary aspects of inscriptions are considered from the perspective of reception and of communication... more
The present work aims to describe some guidelines of the research on literariness in Late Greek inscriptional poems (IV-VIth c. AD). Literary aspects of inscriptions are considered
from the perspective of reception and of communication strategies. After briefly examining the signatures of metrical inscriptions as a social value (examples from Aphrodisias, Rome, Palestine, Syria), the paper focuses on material aspects (mise en texte, paratextual signs etc.) trying to assess the role they played on audience’s ability of perceiving the literary content of the text. Further, some considerations on different levels of education and on the performance of inscriptional texts are offered. The last paragraph deals with the presence of epigraphic vocabulary and phraseology in highbrow literature.
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Secondo Corso di Alta Formazione sulla Tarda Antichità
Centro e Periferia
Roma, Sapienza, 25 gennaio-5 febbraio 2021
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I Corso di Formazione sulla Tarda Antichità: La Metodologia della Ricerca
Sapienza Università di Roma
aprile-giugno 2019
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Conference on etymology programme
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The role assigned by the late antique poet Nonnus of Panopolis (mid-fifth century CE) to Modaios, king of the ‘Indians’, in a few passages of his huge poem Dionysiaca, suggests that the choice of the character may be attributable to a... more
The role assigned by the late antique poet Nonnus of Panopolis (mid-fifth century CE) to Modaios, king of the ‘Indians’, in a few passages of his huge poem Dionysiaca, suggests that the choice of the character may be attributable to a connection between the Greek name of the king (Μωδαῖος) and the somewhat enigmatic MḤDYS, a mid-fifth-century king of Aksum, known only from numismatic evidence. The hypothesis opens the way to further reflection on the role allusions to contemporary events play in Nonnus’s poem as an evidence of a precise awareness about Aksum in Late Antique Egypt.
Ce colloque, qui s’est tenu au Collège de France les 13 et 14 juin 2018, est à ma connaissance le premier qui soit consacré à Horapollon, un de ces Grecs qui s’est intéressé à l’écriture des anciens Égyptiens à une époque où celle-ci... more
Ce colloque, qui s’est tenu au Collège de France les 13 et 14 juin 2018, est à ma connaissance le premier qui soit consacré à Horapollon, un de ces Grecs qui s’est intéressé à l’écriture des anciens Égyptiens à une époque où celle-ci n’était désormais plus utilisée. Horapollon est donc le témoin de ce courant égyptophilique grec qui a livré tant de témoignages depuis Homère et Hérodote et qui, chez les derniers adeptes du paganisme dont il se revendiquait, s’exacerba en un dernier sursaut. Dans le domaine des hiéroglyphes, ce courant est inauguré et clôturé par deux auteurs qui passent pour avoir laissé les deux seules oeuvres grecques connues pour être entièrement consacrées à cette écriture : Chérémon et Horapollon (respectivement Ier et Ve siècles apr. J.-C.). Leur date a quelque chose de presque symbolique : le premier a vécu à l’époque où commence à s’étioler l’usage du démotique, dernier avatar des hiéroglyphes qui servait aux Égyptiens d’écriture usuelle ; le second est contemporain de la dernière trace connue du démotique, un graffito de 452/453 sur un mur du temple de Philae. Encadrant donc le déclin irréversible des vieilles écritures égyptiennes, les oeuvres de Chérémon et d’Horapollon témoignent de la fin d’une époque, en même temps qu’elles illustrent l’attirance irrésistible de l’hellénisme impérial et protobyzantin pour l’antique culture pharaonique, que celui-ci chercha à défendre contre la montée du christianisme au prix de contresens qui marqueront longtemps notre vision de l’Égypte et de ses hiéroglyphes. Si l’oeuvre de Chérémon est perdue, celle d’Horapollon nous est parvenue sous la forme d’un traité en deux livres de respectivement 70 et 119 chapitres décrivant environ 200 hiéroglyphes égyptiens, et elle n’a cessé d’exercer depuis sa redécouverte une fascination sur les esprits et dans les arts dont notre colloque essaie de mieux comprendre les raisons.
Μάρτυρι μύθῳ. Poetry, History and Society in Roman Empire and Late Antiquity. International Conference, Paris, Sorbonne University, 8-10 September 2022. The proposed papers may deal with all the poetic genres practiced in the imperial,... more
Μάρτυρι μύθῳ. Poetry, History and Society in Roman Empire and Late Antiquity.

International Conference, Paris, Sorbonne University, 8-10 September 2022.

The proposed papers may deal with all the poetic genres practiced in the imperial, late and protobyzantine periods, whether they belong to the Pagan or Christian domain, and whether they have been the object of codicological, papyrological or epigraphic transmission. This includes epic poetry (Quintus of Smyrna, Orphic Argonautica, Gregory of Nazianzus, Vision of Dorotheus, Blemyomachie, Nonnus of Panopolis, Metaphrasis Psalmorum...), epyllion (Triphiodorus, Musaeus, Coluthus) and epigram (Palladas, Paul the Silentiary, Agathias), but also didactic and scientific poetry (Dionysius Periegetes, Manetho, Marcellus of Side, Andromachus, Oppian of Cilicia, Pseudo-Oppian, Maximus, Orphic Lithika...), poetry of circumstance and ekphraseis (Pamprepius, John of Gaza, Christodorus of Coptos, Dioscorus of Aphrodito), theater (plays attributed to Lucian of Samosata), oracles (Chaldean Oracles, Sibylline Oracles, Chaldaïques, Sibyllins, Theosophy of Tübingen), hymns (Mesomedes, Synesius, Proclus) and other anonymous works, the present list being given only as examples.
Confirmed and young researchers are invited to submit their abstracts of no more than 500 words to poesiehistoire@sciencesconf.org before the 31st of December 2021. The abstracts should be written in any language used in the field of Greek studies. The scientific Committee will deliver the results of his reviews by the end of February 2022. Shortly after the conference, the papers will be collected in order to be published in a collective book.
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