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Prefazione a: Lo scudo di Menandro di Christoforos Christofìs
2020
About the intralingual tradition of Menander's ASPIS
Gli animali nel mondo antico
2018
Che posto occupavano gli animali nell'antichità? Come noi oggi, anche i Greci e i Romani avevano a che fare con cani, cavalli, galline; avevano allevamenti, vivari, acquari, e adottavano pratiche zootecniche. Amavano i loro animali da affezione, mentre ne uccidevano altri e li mangiavano (magari dopo averli sacrificati in onore di una divinità). Conoscevano e usavano animali selvatici o feroci, o esotici come elefanti e pappagalli. Non mancavano, nel loro immaginario, creature aliene che si credeva popolassero paesi lontani, come l'India e l'Etiopia, patrie dei manticora, dei cinocefali, dei grifoni. Quello che per noi sono i dinosauri per loro erano i ciclopi, i pegasi, le chimere, gli uom…
El travestismo dionisíaco.
2015
Uno de los elementos más llamativos de las obras dramáticas de tema dionisíaco es quizá el tema de la vestimenta, como elemento de cambio de roles, y el cambio de naturaleza, lo que aporta la base para el menadismo y la androginia de Dioniso. En el presente trabajo, se pretende realizar una visión al respecto de este fenómeno, el del travestismo, partiendo de las obras clásicas completas de tema dionisíaco, Bacantes de Eurípides y Ranas de Aristófanes; y su pervivencia en épocas posteriores, con especial atención a la época bizantina y posterior. Así mismo, se observa la influencia de este fenómeno y cómo queda reflejado en varios autores que hacen referencia al intercambio de vestimenta en…
La Ριμάδα κόρης και νέου e i Contrasti italiani
2017
Viene effettuato un confronto tra La Ριμάδα κόρης και νέου (contrasto greco presente in due manoscritti del XV secolo) e i Contrasti italiani di età precedente o anche contemporanei (da Cielo d'Alcamo a Leonardo Giustinian) A comparison is made between La Ριμάδα κόρης και νέου (Greek contrast present in two 15th century manuscripts) and the Italian Contrasts of previous or even contemporary age (from Cielo d'Alcamo to Leonardo Giustinian)
Un poeta maledetto ad Atene: Napoleon Lapathiotis
2015
Napoleone Lapathiotis (1888-1944), amante delle letterature e delle arti, è un singolare esempio di esteta nel panorama letterario greco all'inizio del XX secolo. Ispirato da Oscar Wilde, ha cercato di vivere la sua vita come un'opera d'arte, ma la fine è stata tragica a causa dei suoi problemi personali e del complesso contesto storico. La sua opera letteraria (poesie, racconti, poesie in prosa), sebbene convenzionale per quanto riguarda la forma, rispecchia le contraddizioni della sua vita e personalità. Napoleon Lapathiotis (1888-1944), lover of literatures and arts, is a peculiar example of an aesthete in the Greek literary landscape at the beginning of 20th century. Inspired by Oscar W…
Sogno e medicina nell’Asclepieo di Pergamo
2009
The article discusses the main aspects of the onirical therapy in Greek theurgical medicine, practised, as well known, in Asclepius' temples all over Greek territor ies. Iamata, written sources and chronicles fournish reliable testimonies of activities performed in the sacred structures, most of which concerning the reading and interpretations of dreams. A privileged witness of these practices is Aelius Aristides, in the Ieroi Logoi describing the particular link connecting his psychological and metaphorical diseases to the divine power of Asclepius, revealing his healing terrific capacitis mainly through therapeutic dreams
Changing definitions of Asia
2012
The meaning of Asia has changed drastically during the millennia the concept has been in use. Its usage was established in Greek literature 2,500 years ago as a geographic reference to lands inhabited by the Greeks at the Eastern side of the Aegean Sea. Over the ensuing centuries, Asia’s Western boundary was extended to the rivers Don in the North and Nile in the South. At that time, it hardly contained any definite political or civilisational meanings. These were added to the concept in 1730 in a kind of Swedish–Russian cooperation when the Urals were redefined to form the boundary between Europe and Asia, the former starting to represent progress, and the latter its opposite. This situati…
Do Homeric Heroes Make Real Decisions?
1990
Bruno Snell has made familiar a certain thesis about the Homeric poems, to the effect that these poems depict a primitive form of mindedness. The area of mindedness concerned is agency, and the content of the thesis is that Homeric agents are not agents in the fullest sense: they do not make choices in clear self-awareness of what they are doing; choices are madeforthem rather thanbythem; in some cases the instigators of action are gods, in other cases they are forces acting internally on the agent and over which he has no control. Homeric heroes act in the way Descartes thought an animal acts: agitur, non agit. Such agents ‘handeln nicht eigentlich (d.h. mil vollem Bewuβtsein eigenen Hande…
Dal kētos al sēnmurv? Mutazioni iconografiche e transizioni simboliche del kētos dall’Antichità al Medioevo (secolo XIII)
2016
Using literary and iconographic sources the paper discusses the image of kētos from Antiquity to Middle Ages. The kētos, according with Greek literature, was used in the myths of both Perseus and Andromeda and Heracles and Hesione. The archaic images of the sea-monster are identifiable on Corinthian vases, on which we have only heads of leonine form. From 5th century the classical type of kētos is distinguished from all other Greek sea-monsters by a long neck, fins (also like wings), long muzzle and corrugated upper surface (like a crocodile), and leonine forelegs. Separated from histories of Andromeda and Hesione, the kētos is represented as a mount of marine gods and, especially, Nereides…