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« Rien dans les mains, rien dans les poches ». Louis Gernet e Jean-Pierre Vernant e lo studio della tirannide in Grecia
2022
The article aims both at exploring the contribution of L. Gernet and J.-P. Vernant to the study of tyranny in Greece and at reconstructing the intellectual and academic context in which these considerations were developed. These two scholars devoted only a couple of short essays to that topic, managing to trace the behavioural patterns of the Greek tyrants in the mythical past. The results that they reached and the approach they applied to the ancient sources arose a wide debate and had a considerable impact on the later studies on the tyranny.
Femmes indigènes et colons grecs : quelques observations
2010
Colloque organisé par la Maison René-Ginouvès, Nanterre, 10-12 juin 2009
Euergetikotatos.. kai philodoxotatos eis tous Hellenas. Riflessioni sui rapporti fra Ierone II e il mondo greco
2004
The paper analyzes the testimonia (literary and epigraphical sources, archaeological data) referring to the euergetism of the king Hieron II.
Concept and Treatment of Hydrocephalus in the Greco-Roman and Early Arabic Medicine
2007
In the ancient medical literature hydrocephalus was not often described although its existence and symptomatology were well known. Most detailed descriptions of hydrocephalus including the surgical treatment are extant in the encyclopaedic works on medicine of the physicians Oreibasios and Aetios from Amida from the 4th and 6th centuries AD, respectively. Because of their broad scientific interests, this type of physicians, typical for the late Roman empire, were known as philosophy-physicians (iota alpha tau rho o sigma o phi iota sigma tau alpha iota). They defined hydrocephalus in contrast to our present understanding as a fluid collection excluding abscesses visible as a bulging tumour …