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Alcione e l'alcione. Archeologia del mito: nuclei tematici, funzioni simboliche, storia di contaminazioni
Lo studio prende in considerazione le più antiche testimonianze della letteratura greca riguardanti il mito di Alcione e dell’uccello omonimo, per tentare di enuclearne funzione culturale e nuclei tematici originari. Rientrano nel quadro dell’analisi considerazioni sulla figura di Cleopatra Alcione in Hom. Il. 9, 561, sulle stratificazioni del mito post-omeriche con particolare riguardo per la tradizione esiodea del mito, con un’analisi del fr. 26 Davies di Alcmane (cerili e alcioni) nonché del fr. 508 Page di Simonide, quest’ultimo valutato rispetto agli aspetti ornitologici del mito (i giorni alcionii). Chiude l’indagine una proposta di interpretazione etimologica del nome Alcione (connes…
L'arte mantica alla prova dello scetticismo nell'Edipo re
Since the beginning of the Sophoclean drama OT, King Oedipus, in his attempt to contrast the plague that afflicts Thebes, has to confront the traditional influence of the Delphic oracles and the opinion of the local seer, Tiresias, who is demanding to interpret the words of the God Apollo. In this sense, the Sophoclean drama seems to set into the Attic scene the main traits of its contemporary public debate (second half of the 5th Century BC) about power and fallibility of both oracles and their human interpreters, the so-called manteis. This paper aims by means of a detailed analysis of the dramatic discourse to investigate the positions expressed by the different characters involved in th…
The hallmark of anonymity. Questions of authorship in the Hippocratic Corpus, specifically regarding the so-called 'Author C'
Since Émile Littrés’ time a particular attention has been devoted to a group of Hippocratic treatises (On Generation/On the Nature of the Child + Book IV of Diseases) showing a significant range of affinities and common elements in language, style, tenor and thought. Studies by Hermann Grensemann (in the 1980s) contributed to further philological analysis of the peculiar traits of the so-called Hippocratic ‘author C’, widening the textual basis to be involved in the investigation (including gynaecological treatises like On Diseases of Women 1-2 as well as parts of Infertile Women). Recently new light has also been shed by Elizabeth Craik (editing 2009 the treatise On Glands) on the historic…