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Libanio tra attualità e tradizione. L’orazione IX
2022
Libanius’ speech IX reveals the persistence in Libanius of the interest in the religious dimension, free from the polemical tones adopted elsewhere. A global cosmic perspective pervades the speech. The Kalendae Ianuarie festival, marking the beginning of the new year, was a parenthesis of joy and carefreeness for all the inhabitants of the empire, regardless of their religious beliefs. The relevance of this anniversary as a vehicle of imperial ideology for the unity of the empire could explain Theodosius’ rescript of 389 to the praefectus Urbis Romae Albinus on the legal calendar of Rome, which, including not only Easter, but also the Kalendae, would have surprised Libanius himself first. T…
Una capitale intermittente: la vicenda di Antiochia di Siria nel IV secolo d.C.
2020
Thanks to the mass of information that can be extrapolated from Libanius of Antioch, it is possible to select the two facies of the city on the Oronte in Late Antiquity, i.e. Antioch as administrative capital (of the province of Syria; of the Diocese of the East), and Antioch as imperial capital (although not in the strict sense: but the city played the role of ‘episodic capital’). This contribution aims at focusing on Antioch as ‘imperial capital intermittently’, highlighting: the implications both at economic- logis- tical (supply related to the presence of the court) and urban-monumental level (new buildings already starting from Diocletian) as well as the relationship with the other cit…
Antiochia di Siria di fronte al problema dell’immigrazione. (Lib., Or. 56, 22-23)
2018
In the paragraphs 22-23 of the speech 56, Libanius proposes the expulsion of foreigners from the city of Antioch. The measure, in fact, is not so peremptory, as it contains rather the criterion whereby to separate the good or moderate from the bad or intemperate: having home, wife, children and work is the condition for making a good citizen. Thus emerges a subtle discrimen among the foreigners who constituted the claque, disease of the city, and which therefore deserved to be eradicated away, and the other xenoi fully incorporated into the social and citizen context within which they could safely remain.
ΟΥΔΕΙΣ ΟΥΝ ΕΛΕΥΘΕΡΟΣ (Lib., Or. XXV, 72). Libertà e dignità nell’Antiochia del IV secolo
2012
The present reflection takes its starting point from Libanius, Or. 25, 71. Through a series of concrete examples, the speaker succeeds to show the bonds of mutual dependence that bind man as a social being.
Metafore animali, suoni onomatopeici e proverbi in alcune orazioni kata archonton di Libanio
2011
The work is presented as a reading tool aimed at analysing the relationship between signifier and signified in the animal metaphors in the orations of Libanius of Antioch. Greek man in animals isolated psychological manifestations in which he recognised his own. A prominent place was occupied by animals 'symbolic' of positive or negative qualities. Several such symbolic figures appear in Libanius' writing: the wolf is an animal-symbol, which emerges above all other animal metaphors due to the variability of its referents (from the governor to members of the claque) .
Les sources textuelles de l’histoire urbaine d’Antioche sur l’Oronte : pour un Lexicon Topographicum Antiochenum
2010
This chronicle is a summary of the Atelier International jeudi 21 et vendredi 22 janvier 2010, Paris-8/École Normale Les sources textuelles de l’histoire urbaine d’Antioche sur l’Oronte : pour un Lexicon Topographicum
Abusi, terrore, violenza. Qualche esempio di ‘disfunzionamento’ nell’amministrazione della giustizia nel IV secolo d.C.
2012
With all the rhetorical amplification of some formulas, realism and accuracy of the testimony by the rhetor Libanius of Antioch on the arbitrary administration of justice by the governors of Syriac metropolis impress the mark of cruelty upon the judicial practice of the time: tortures to wrest confessions or testimonies distinguished themselves by their unusual brutality. The study of the criminal justice system leads to a sociological analysis, although the juridical and social status was losing importance in light of the gravity of the crimen.
LA PERCEZIONE DEL BARBARICUM. LIBANIO E LA REALTÀ EXTRA ANTIOCHENA
2015
This paper aims at exploring both the city of Antioch in the 4th century ad as a transit city, thus a melting-pot of cultures, and Libanius the rhetor: but they will be considered with regard to the extra- Antiochian context. Between the lines of Libanius’speeches emerges the primary function of the Empire, that is to say the defence of the polis – a perfect microcosm – against barbarian hordes, observed according to classical stereotypes. Much has already written about Libanius’ image deformation of barbaric peoples, influenced by literary tradition: nevertheless, a careful analysis of his works will show some ability to place them in the wake of Libanius’ coeval climate, especially when t…
Libanios, Discours. XI. Antiochicos. - Texte établi et traduit par M. Casevitz et O. Lagacherie. Notes complémentaires de C. Saliou - Paris : Les Bel…
2018
Review of the volume in the prestigious Collection des Universités de France, and which presents the first complete French translation of the Libanius' oration XI. The text is established and translated by Michel and Odile Lagacherie. Catherine Saliou wrote the complementary commentary notes and the presentation of the discourse in the introduction to the text, with the exception of the part concerning the manuscript tradition, which was edited by Casevitz.
LA DONNA, IL DIRITTO E IL PATRIMONIO NELLA TESTIMONIANZA LIBANIANA
2010
In this study about the role of Antiochian imperial women I aim at investigating the interrelationship between law and society and at analysing the way social changes lead to birth of new laws, in the period marked by a gradual replacement inside the Mediterranean world. Leafing through the numerous pages dedicated to Antiochene society in the 4th century by an author such as Libanius, who has always set himself up as a strenuous defender of the Hellenic tradition and champion of the ancient civic ideal, and who was influenced less than anyone else by the attraction of the new ideas of Christianity, a pattern emerges thanks to which we can understand the degree of consideration to which wom…