Search results for "Pompey"
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Allearsi col nemico. Pompeo, alcuni pregiudizi etnografici, i destini della storia nell’ottavo libro della Pharsalia di Lucano
2022
Analisi del passo dell'ottavo libro della Pharsalia, in cui si delibera sulle decisioni da prendere in merito alle alleanze. Il discorso si rivela carico di alcuni pregiudizi etnografici Analysis of the passage from the eighth book of Pharsalia, in which it deliberates on the decisions to be taken regarding the alliances. The speech turns out to be laden with some ethnographic prejudices
Pasajes de París / 4: Sus usos culturales
2006
Lucullus en «clair-obscur»: mérites et extravagances d’un citoyen de la Rome républicaine durant l’époque impériale
2013
International audience; One of the most interesting figures of Roman history with respect to the construction of historical memory is L. Licinius Lucullus. Although remarkable for his military success and appreciated for his generosity towards the inhabitants of the provinces subject to the Romans, which dedicated to him some inscriptions that are monumenta in his memory, his tendency to excess and extravagance was significantly recorded in certain literary sources producing a distinctly chiaroscuro portrait. The evaluation of his conduct seems contradictory already in Cicero who tends to denigrate Lucullus in some harangues for his rapacity but later praises his military success when conve…
Investigación sobre la arqueología de la muerte en Pompeya. Investigating the archaeology of death in Pompeii
2023
En el año 2008 Mary Beard publicaba: "Pompeii: the life of a Roman town" , el libro comienza narrando la huida durante la erupción del Vesubio de un grupo de quince fugitivos que se aventuró a escapar por una de las puertas al este de ciudad, se trataba concretamente de Porta Nola. Beard relata detalladamente cómo fue aquella fuga desesperada, los objetos que acompañaban a aquellos desafortunados pompeyanos y de qué forma perecieron finalmente en el área funeraria, apenas al salir de la ciudad. Beard también describe lúcidamente el monumento funerario de Esquilia Polla y la tumba de Marcus Obellius Firmus, su inscripción y los jocosos grafitis garabateados en sus paredes. Para nosotros, la …