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ALCUNE CONSIDERAZIONI SULLA COSIDDETTA LEX ZIELIŃSKI E SULLA GENESI DELL’ODISSEA
2022
The article traces the story of the so-called Lex Zieliński, according to which Homer is incapable of dealing with contemporary events at the same time and must therefore narrate them one by one. It examines the different interpretations of the law and the objections raised by various scholars in the last century, highlighting, however, that in some cases the theories of the Polish scholar are the only convincing way to explain some passages (few, but still present) of the Iliad and the Odyssey, which if understood according to modern narrative logic would be incomprehensible. Zieliński’s studies, therefore, at least in their original form, free of subsequent additions and modifications, he…
L’Omero dei “simposi letterari”, l'Omero della Cena Trimalchionis
2022
Expressions, verses and sequences dealt from the Iliad and the Odyssey are the basis of the conversations held in Plato’s and Xenophon’s ‘literary symposia’, representing the privileged repertoire of images and codified situations for both quantity and variety of subjects to which both Socrate and the other characters referred to when they gathered at table, sometimes intervening also on textual exegesis problems. Direct projection of an aural / oral civilization in which the Homeric texts still constitute the tribal ‘encyclopedia’ of the Greek world, the two Symposia reveal their own alterity with respect to the Convivium of the Seven Wise by Plutarch in which the quotations from the two a…
Die Homerische Frage
1885
De duobus locis Horatianis Aristippo pendentibus
2001
Generare in comune. Teorie e rappresentazioni dell'ibrido nel sapere zoologico dei Greci e dei Romani.
2008
Di cosa parlavano veramente i Greci e i Romani quando si riferivano a quelli che noi chiamiamo oggi "ibridi"? Generare in comune si configura come un viaggio nelle teorie della riproduzione del mondo antico, per arrivare a marcare una serie di differenze antropologiche fra "Noi" e "Loro" attraverso le quali si tenta di riorientare il dibattito bioetico contemporaneo. Lo sguardo sul mondo antico si configura così come una sorta di dispositivo per l'esplorazione di prospettive inedite da contrapporre da un lato al misticismo della natura, dall'altro alla bestializzazione dell'umano e alla mercificazione della vita.
Ecos ovidianos en una adaptación de Eurípides: Hécuba triste de Pérez de Oliva
2014
Hécuba triste de Pérez de Oliva, considerada una de las primeras traducciones a lengua vernácula de una tragedia griega, es una adaptación peculiar de la Hécuba de Eurípides que incorpora notables cambios, algunos de ellos por influencia de otras tragedias griegas. En este trabajo estudiamos varios motivos utilizados por Oliva que remiten a otros textos, entre los que destacan obras relacionadas directa o indirectamente con Ovidio.
Metafora i piękno w "Iliadzie" Homera
2017
Iliada Homera jest wielowarstwową opowieścią o heroicznej przeszłości achajskiej arystokracji. Choć skażeni winą, ate, choć zaangażowani w niesprawiedliwą, łupieżczą wojnę, bohaterowie achajskiej historii dosięgają wzoru cnoty, arete – męstwa połączonego z mądrością. Wina zarówno Achajów – Achillesa i Agamemnona, jak i Trojan – Parysa i Hektora, przesłania oraz odbiera im część chwały, jaka winna wypływać z mądrego męstwa połączonego z szacunkiem dla zwyciężonych. Wina zrodzona z pokusy, której nie mogą się oprzeć jako śmiertelni, paradoksalnie obarcza ich odpowiedzialnością za zło, nad którym nie panują. Jednak spadająca na nich kara staje się ekspiacją i aktem odzyskania heroicznej cnoty.…
Towards a Reconstruction of Indo-European Culture: Semantic Functions of IE *men-
2003
The aim of this paper is to recover the semantic values involved in IE *men- in order to reconstruct some cognitive process modalities in regard to "Indo-European ideology" (Campanile 1992). After focusing on the apparent semantic split noticeable between Homeric Greek and Vedic in the uses derived from *men-, I argue for the presence of striking parallel paths using the methods of textual comparison. Then, the role of lexical nucleus' polysemy in originating the linguistic change is highlighted, without disregarding an Indo-European typological perspective within the realm of the so-called "basic lexicon" to which the root at issue belongs.
From Thinking to Raging: Reflexes of Indo-European *men- Polysemy in Homer
2020
This paper aims at investigating the semantic value of the verb μαίνομαι “to rage, to be furious” in Homeric Greek, in order to clarify the striking semantic relationship between the common ‘irrational’ meaning of the verb and the original ‘rational’ meaning of the Indo-European root *men- “to think”, to which the verb traces back. The corresponding words for μαίνομαι in other Indo-European languages (e.g. OInd. mányatē; Av. mainyeite; OIr. (do)moiniur; OCS mъnjo; Lit. miniu) can be translated as “to think”, thus showing an opposite meaning. From a textual analysis of all the occurrences of μαίνομαι in the Iliad and the Odyssey, the study aims at finding semantic traces of the original mean…
Homeric k-aorists and/or k-perfects?
2013
In classical Greek the aorist indicatives of dído:mi, je:mi, and títhe:mi end in -ka, -kas, -ke following a long vowel in the singular. Homeric Greek utilizes k-forms, both augmented and non-augmented, of these three verbs, and attests to third person plural forms ending in -kan and even to a first person plural form such as êne:kamen. There is a broad consensus regarding these forms as typical of Greek, while their relation to the k-perfect is still discussed. The paper considers the -k- to have a phonetic origin deriving from a laryngeal root,viz from *h1 or *h3, when they come into contact with *h2,the laryngeal of *-h2e, the ancient first person singular ending of the original perfect. …