Search results for "ancient"

A study of the acoustic parameters of ancient theaters

2013

Although many centuries have passed, in many ancient theatres evocative theatrical performances still take place, especially during summer. Greek and Latin architects care for equilibrium of proportions offers not only an intense quality of view but also a high quality acoustics. In our study we did an analysis both theoretical and experimental of the acoustic parameters of the ancient theaters of Syracuse, Segesta, and Akrai, in Sicily and the theater of Bulla Regia, in Jendouba (Tunisia), it was only simulated, because of the inability to reach the scene for reasons due to the political turmoil. A measurement session was carried out by our team in the framework of a wide research project …

Scienza e archeologia. Un efficace connubio per la divulgazione della cultura scientifica

2017

Memory and Religion in the Greek World

2013

The necessity to build a common base of shared values on which to establish any type of social relationship and overcome the use of violence for the resolution of arguments has often found more effective answers drawing from the sacred sphere and its resources. With its complex verbal and gestural structure and its close connection with the other effective enunciated forms the oath is an instrument, both religious and political at the same time, which permits the preservation of the memory of the expressed affirmations and the commitments taken on. Thanks to the convergence of actions and words, both functional towards the creation of binding situations, the oath is a guarantee as much on t…

Memoria, spazio, identità. Una premessa

2023

Memory, which has always been a subject of research and reflection, entered by right with Émile Durkheim and Marcel Mauss into the space of 'total social facts', i.e. the group of those aspects of human behaviour that support the ideological structure of social universes and regulate the capacity to perform a given action, regardless of intentionality, of both individuals and groups. What emerges is the problematic nature of the very nature of memory and its relationship to history and historians.

Sicilia terra amata dalle dee

2010

Forthcoming.

Uomini e alberi. Tre indagini storico-religiose. Nota introduttiva

2021

In this introductory note I present three essays on the relationship between trees and rituals in ancient Mediterranean civilisations and in Vedic India.

Aspetti della storiografia moderna su ethne e religioni nella Sicilia antica

2013

Obiettivo del testo è tentare di indicare alcuni aspetti del dibattito storiografico moderno sul rapporto tra etnicità e culti nella Sicilia antica, partendo dal presupposto, credo ampiamente condiviso, che ogni ricostruzione storica del passato è anche un terreno di scontro sul presente dello storico. Vi è insomma un rapporto fondamentale tra presente e passato, rapporto che si inscrive dialetticamente nella tensione comprendere il presente mediante il passato e comprendere il passato mediante il presente. In questa prospettiva orientare la questione delle origini in una direzione piuttosto che in un’altra diventa funzionale a opzioni ideologiche e a strategie di legittimazione politica, c…

recensione Esteban Calderón Dorda, Sabino Perea Yébenes (eds), Estudios sobre el vocabulario religioso griego

2020

recensione del volume edito da Esteban Calderón Dorda, Sabino Perea Yébenes, sul tema "Estudios sobre el vocabulario religioso griego" Review of Esteban Calderón Dorda, Sabino Perea Yébenes (eds), Estudios sobre el vocabulario religioso griego

rec. D. Foraboschi, Violenze Antiche. Testo pubblicato postumo a cura di Silvia Bussi

2020

review of Daniele Foraboschi, Violenze Antiche: Testo pubblicato postumo a cura di Silvia Bussi. Il volume di Daniele Foraboschi è uscito postumo, poco dopo la scomparsa dell’autore l’11 settembre 2018. Ne è curatrice Silvia Bussi, cui si deve anche un ritratto intellettuale di Foraboschi

Ancient Artistic Motifs on Italian Memorials from the Unity to the Aftermath of World War I

2022

In the decades subsequent to the unification of the Kingdom of Italy, achieved in 1861 with the proclamation of Vittorio Emanuele II as the king of the new State, the Italian peninsula became covered with many commemorative monuments. These were devoted, first of all, to honour the men who played a leading role in the heroic deeds of the Risorgimento but also to remember the places where the major historical events occurred. Afterwards as well, the Italian State went on erecting memorials, in order to celebrate other facts and casualties, as it happened on the occasion of the unsuccessful colonial attempts in the African land and then, above all, after the World War I. Many of these commemo…