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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…

Animals Greek Literature Greek Culture Roman Literature Latin Culture
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The horses that cried for Caesar.

2013

Aunque ante cualquier pasaje de la literatura grecorromana muchos autores acostumbran a buscar exegesis eruditas y rebuscados paralelos literarios, el análisis de un presagio de la muerte de Julio Cesar nos ayudará a demostrar cómo en numerosos casos es más bien la tradición popular, el costumbrismo, lo que constituye el verdadero germen de la creación literario. Although many writers are used to searching for erudite exegeses and elaborate parallels in every passage of Greco–Roman literature, a consideration of an omen of Julius Caesar’s death can help us to demonstrate how the popular tradition of local manner writing often constitutes the true seed of literary creation. Humanidades

Emperadors RomaPresagioGreco-Roman literatureLiteratura grecorromanaOmenCaballosHorsesGrief6202 Teoría Análisis y Crítica Literarias6202.01 Crítica de TextosDuelo
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Vox Naturae: The Myth of Animal Nature in the Latin Roman Republic

2016

The paper examines the representation of animals as embodiment of nature in the culture of the late Roman republic. By discussing a selection of passages from Sallust, Cicero and Lucretius in conjunction with other Greek and Latin sources, the paper shows that the typically Western myth of 'animal nature' - the cultural belief that animal mirror a perennial state of nature, as opposed to human society - played a very important role in the ethical debate of the first century BC and took in this period a form which was bound to influence the centuries to come.

Stoicismlate Roman republicRoman literature and philosophyCiceroVarroSettore L-FIL-LET/04 - Lingua E Letteratura LatinaEpicureanismcultural representation of animalanthropology of the ancient world.Lucretiucultural representation of animals; late Roman republic; Sallust; Cicero; Lucretius; Varro; Roman literature and philosophy; Stoicism; Epicureanism; New Academy; anthropology of the ancient world.SallustNew Academy
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Evil, Progress, and Fall: Moral Readings of Time and Cultural Development in Roman Literature and Philosophy

2014

Latin literature and philosophyRoman culturecultural developmentanthropology of the ancient worldRoman LiteratureRoman Philosophytime; socio-cultural history; Roman culture; anthropology of the ancient world; Latin literature and philosophytimeSettore L-FIL-LET/04 - Lingua E Letteratura Latinasocio-cultural history
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