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‘Abitare negli occhi’: Cicerone, Verre, Lilibeo
2022
Parlare di Cicerone a Lilibeo significa rievocare uno dei più celebri processi che l’antichità ci consegna, quelle Verrine che segnano, se non proprio il debutto del giovane Arpinate sulla scena politica di Roma, il momento più alto dell’avvio della sua carriera. Notoriamente, infatti, è grazie al delicato compito che Cicerone svolge nel corso di questo affaire giudiziario a proiettarlo tra gli astri nascenti di una nuova classe politica, avviandolo ad immediati successi. Speaking of Cicero in Lilibeo means recalling one of the most famous processes that antiquity gives us, those Verrines that mark, if not the debut of the young Arpinate on the political scene in Rome, the highest moment of…
Lilibeo nelle Verrine
2021
The essay analyzes the passages of Cicero's Verrinae regarding Lilybaeum and the numerous events of misappropriation and infringement by the governor of the island.
Gérer la haine, fabriquer l’ennemi. Grecs et Carthaginois en Sicile entre les Ve et IVe siècles av. J.-C.
2012
Managing hate, creating the enemy. Greeks and Carthaginians in Sicily between the Vth and IVth century B. C. This paper’s aim is to consider the historiographic perception of the Carthaginians as the typical and utmost enemy of the Greeks in Sicily, between the end of the Vth and the beginning of the IVth century B. C. The focus is put on the ways the enemy is fabricated and hate managed, through the peculiar part given the Carthaginians by Diodorus in the sieges of Selinous and Motya. In these narratives, the role of hate is fundamental to define the relationship between cultural identity and alterity and between reciprocity and asymmetry.