Search results for "Ancient Greece"
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Murals and tourism: heritage, politics and identity
2018
A decade ago, the well-read Latinist Pierre Vidal-Naquet (2001) assertively called attention to the fact that Ancient Greece welcomed thousands of travelers in search of Achilleś Tomb and other att...
Travestirsi per Dioniso
2020
Starting from the definition of “performativity” and “gender parody” developed by Judith Butler, this paper aims to investigate the performative functions of male cross-dressing within the dynamics of social categorization in classical Athens. For this purpose I have adopted an eclectic hermeneutic toolbox, borrowing elements from Harvey Sacks’ Membership Categorization Analysis to René Girard’s scapegoat theory. Through the philological analysis of some literary representations of transvestism, such as Pentheus’ cross-dressing in Euripides’ "Bacchae", and the anthropological interpretation of the mythical-ritual complex relating to the effeminacy of Dionysus, my work focuses on the polyval…
Il saggio critico moderno dal punto di vista dei Greci antichi (perché gli antichi non scrissero saggi critici?)
2007
La Grecia antica non ha conosciuto il genere letterario del saggio scientifico perché esso è connesso con istituzioni (l'Università) e un modo di pensare (specialistico) che in quel mondo non esistevano. Ancient Greece did not know the literary genre of the scientific essay because it is connected with institutions (like the University) and a (specialized) way of thinking that did not exist in that world.
Kinship between cities and peoples
2012
As Herodotus explains (8.144.2), the whole Greek-speaking people was envisaged like one big “family” composed of kinsmen. Nevertheless, within this wide “family” there were various degrees of blood relationship due to the ancestral subdivision of the Hellenic people into the early gene of Aiolians, Ionians, and Dorians. Keywords: ancient Greece; assimilation and exclusion; cultural history; Greek history; nations and peoples; political history
История Греции в классическую эпоху
1916
Содержание: I. Политико-географическій очеркъ античной Греціи ; II. Героическій вѣкъ ; III. Начало городской жизни ; IV. Спарта и Аѳины въ IV в. до Р. Х. ; V. Греко-персидскія войны ; VI. Великая Аѳинская республика ; VII. Торговый подъемъ Аѳинъ и большая междоусобная война ; VIII. Паденіе аѳинской державы ; IX. Раздробленіе Греціи и объединеніе Сициліи ; X. Послѣднія объединительныя попытки и упадокъ политическаго интереса въ Греціи ; XI. Гибель республиканской Греціи.
“From Savage to Sublime (And Partway Back): Indians and Antiquity in Early Nineteenth-Century American Literature”
2016
This article examines the comparisons made between Indians and Antiquity in early nineteenth-century American literature (notably in the works of Washington Irving and James Fenimore Cooper); to do so, it begins by reaching back to references in European and American writings of the eighteenth century. One of the main motivations behind the associations between Native Americans and the Ancient World made in the early decades of the nineteenth century was to “elevate” Indians in order to transform them into worthy symbols of the recently established United States. Such associations also rendered them suitable subjects for treatment by authors inspired to a large extent by the Romantic Moveme…
Il Dioniso delle "Baccanti" e i "piegatori di pini". Polivalenza di un'immagine leggendaria
2021
This paper investigates the mythical and ritual background of Dionysus’ representation as “fir-bender” in Euripides’ "Bacchae" (ll. 1061 ff.), in an attempt to shed light not only on the dramaturgical aspects of the tragic plot, but also on the cultural categories that make this representation intelligible to the Athenian audience at the end of the fifth century BC. Following Louis Gernet’s historical-anthropological approach based on the notion of "polyvalence des images", this paper aims to define a mythical pattern – the connection between the bending of a tree and the dismemberment of a human victim – already attested in the Attic legend of Theseus and Sinis, in which both characters se…
Minerali, piante, animali e uomini: indagine lessicale sul rapporto tra i regni naturali e l’ambiente nella Grecia antica
2021
L’articolo indaga il rapporto che sussiste nella Grecia antica tra la terra e i cosiddetti «regni naturali» (minerale, vegetale, animale, umano) alla luce del lessico utilizzato per indicarlo e mostra che, a differenza di quanto avviene presso di noi, esso è spesso analogo per tutti e quattro gli ambiti. L’azione della terra (o altri elementi eco-sistemici) nei confronti degli elementi che appartengono ai diversi regni, infatti, è tendenzialmente designata dagli stessi verbi (vengono presi in considerazione phýein, ghennán, bóskein, tréphein, phérein, anadidónai): la terra phýei (e ugualmente possono essere usati anche gli altri verbi) sia uomini, sia animali, sia piante, sia minerali. Th…
Riso e sorriso e altri saggi sulla nonviolenza nella Grecia antica
2018
Is nonviolence a specificity of oriental culture? The book explores the presence, in ancient Greece, of forms of thought and actions that can be brought back to the idea of nonviolent conflict management. It identifies the role that laughter and smile can play in the resolution of interpersonal contrasts; it illustrates the advice of ‘work on oneself’ as well as on the other, given by ancient philosophers; it focuses on some rules to combat violence without resorting to violence; it presents female mediation practices and identifies various forms of diplomacy, both from above and from below; at least it shows the effective dynamics in view of the reconciliation between adversaries in cases …
Peithò o l’argomentazione relazionale al servizio della comunità nella Grecia antica
2016
In the Greek world, in the face of the dialectical argument of ‘intellectuals’, which unfolds in the discussion ideally without time limits with individuals (present or virtual) and plays with their agreement all steps deemed necessary to arrive at “truth”, the persuasive argument of political rhetoric, expressed monologically in a limited time and in the face of a collective audience, always has the need to maintain a good relation with this last one. The main features of this type of argument are absence of hierarchy, community dimension, pluralism, negotiation and mediation skills, and reception of the listener. And as the risk of dialectics is the eristic (but also the authoritarian pre…