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Una nota testuale alla Galene di Andromaco il Vecchio (Andr.15)

2017

This paper wants to propose a conjecture to a corrupted pass (v. 15) of the so called Galene, the pharmacological poem in 87 elegiac couplets written by Andromachus the Elder.

Andromachus the Elder snakes NicanderSettore L-FIL-LET/02 - Lingua E Letteratura Greca
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NOMI DI SERPENTE IN NICANDRO. DRIINO/CHELIDRO IDRO E CHERSIDRO.

2015

the aim of this paper is to argue that the snake called dryinas should be identified only with another snake, the chelydrus, and not with the more famous hydrus, as is written in Nicander’s Theriaká v. 414. In fact this verse is an interpolation

Nicander Snakes Dryinas Theriaká.
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L’ASPIDE SANGUINARIA: ESEGESI DI UN PASSO DEI THERIAKÁ DI NICANDRO (vv. 157-89)

2015

In a passage of Nicander’s Theriaká on the snake called aspis the adjective ἀμυδρότατον is attested (Th. 158). The aim of this paper is to define the meaning of this adjective. Ancient and modern scholars have variously interpreted it: some of them referred ἀμυδρότατον to the laziness and sluggishness of the animal, others to its perniciousness. However, both these meanings are quite atypical: ἀμυδρός usually means ‘weak, faint, obscure’. Here I suggest that the value of the adjective ἀμυδρότατον in Th. 158 should be related to its original meaning.

Nicander’s Theriaká aspis snakes Th. 158.
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Il tarantismo in Sicilia

2017

Il testo prende in esame il complesso di materiali editi e inediti (fonti storiche e archivistiche, documenti musicali, testimonianze etnografiche) che attestano la presenza del tarantismo in Sicilia dalla metà del Seicento alla fine dell’Ottocento. Il caso siciliano viene quindi inquadrato nell’ambito dell’ampia letteratura che ruota intorno al fenomeno, a partire dal classico studio di Ernesto De Martino fino al dibattito sull’interpretazione del fenomeno fra i poli dell’esorcismo e della possessione, dovuto soprattutto all’etnomusicologo francese Gilber Rouget. L’analisi viene quindi estesa alla tradizione dei guaritori dei morsi di serpenti (i ciaràuli), che con il tarantismo condividon…

Settore L-ART/08 - EtnomusicologiaThe text examines published and unpublished materials – such as historical and ethnographic sources archive records and musical documents – which testify the presence of tarantism in Sicily from mid-17th century to the end of the 19th. The Sicilian case is then considered in a wider context of contributions on the theme starting from the ‘classic’ De Martino’work up to the debate on the interpretation of the phenomenon between the poles of exorcism and possession chiefly rased by French ethnomusicologist Gilbert Rouget. The analyses is therefore expanded to the tradition of snakes bites healers (the ciaràuli) which shares with tarantism the spider symbolism and to certain kinds of religious processions characterised by frantic ‘dances’ which suggest elements of functional continuity with tarantism musical-choreutic therapy.
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Names of Snakes in Latvian Texts of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

2020

Names of Snakes in Latvian Texts of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries This article analyses the naming of snakes in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Latvian texts which are taken from the Corpus of Early Written Latvian Texts, containing the first Latvian dictionaries, religious texts, and some secular texts. The objective of the paper is to try to determine how precisely the translators of religious texts rendered names of snakes, and to ascertain whether any semantic changes have taken place, or whether religious texts show specific use. The study also aims to find out if taboo of dangerous animals, snakes in particular, and related euphemisation is reflected in early Latvian text…

lcsh:Ethnology. Social and cultural anthropologyLinguistics and Language16th and 17th century latvian textsHistorylcsh:PG1-9665LatvianLithuaniannames of snakessemantic changesLanguage and Linguisticslanguage.human_languagelcsh:GN301-674taboolcsh:Slavic languages. Baltic languages. Albanian languageslanguageeuphemismsTheologyActa Baltico-Slavica
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