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Memory and religious experience in the Greco-Roman world
2013
The concepts of memory and experience have stimulated interest in a wide range of recent cultural studies. In the history of scholarship on religion in Mediterranean antiquity, scholars have focused on the emotional dimension of both terms by employing the concepts of ‚Christianity‘ and its derivative, ‚oriental religion‘. Only recently analyses in this field started focusing on interaction and individual experience. Research initiatives at Palermo and Erfurt have taken up this lead and brought together a group of scholars testing such approaches for new perspectives on the history of religion in the Greek and Roman world. This volume reviews the cognitive and emotional dimensions of such e…
Le regard dans la Mostellaria de Plaute
2014
Au premier abord, la thématique de la vue et du regard évoque davantage les mythes thébains, ou le Cycle épique et les tragédies qui s’en inspirent, que la comédie : ce sont Œdipe et Tirésias, Penthée et Actéon, qui furent punis d’avoir vu ce qu’ils n’auraient pas dû voir. Je visitai récemment une exposition sur Shakespeare au British Museum : un reliquaire contenant l’œil d’un Jésuite exécuté en 1606, qui y était présenté pour son lien politique avec Macbeth, me fit davantage penser au Roi L...
Concept and Treatment of Hydrocephalus in the Greco-Roman and Early Arabic Medicine
2007
In the ancient medical literature hydrocephalus was not often described although its existence and symptomatology were well known. Most detailed descriptions of hydrocephalus including the surgical treatment are extant in the encyclopaedic works on medicine of the physicians Oreibasios and Aetios from Amida from the 4th and 6th centuries AD, respectively. Because of their broad scientific interests, this type of physicians, typical for the late Roman empire, were known as philosophy-physicians (iota alpha tau rho o sigma o phi iota sigma tau alpha iota). They defined hydrocephalus in contrast to our present understanding as a fluid collection excluding abscesses visible as a bulging tumour …