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Recensione di S. Lanna, Mesomede. Inno a Physis. Introduzione, testo critico, traduzione e commento (Roma: Quasar, 2013).
2017
Efeso, Ulpiano e il Senato. La contesa per il primato nella provincia Asia nel III sec. d.C.
2019
Nell'Asia Minore romana di epoca imperiale (I–III sec. d.C.) le antiche città greche continuavano a combattere aspramente tra loro per conquistare il primato provinciale: Efeso, Pergamo, Smirne, Sardi, Cizico, Laodicea e le altre poleis erano in competizione per ottenere titoli e privilegi dagli imperatori e dal Senato di Roma, in particolare la custodia di un tempio federale del culto imperiale e il rango di metropoli. L'analisi storica di un importante dossier epigrafico e numismatico di Efeso rivela come la città fosse riuscita, tra l'epoca dei Severi e di Diocleziano (c.a. 193–293), a consolidare la sua posizione grazie all'accorta diplomazia dei notabili cittadini e infine a detenere l…
Going in Homer: The Role of Verb-Inherent Actionality Within Self-Propelled Motion-Event Encoding
2019
The paper aims at investigating the encoding of self-propelled motion events in Homeric Greek in the light of the typology of motion events, taking into account the case of to go. The verbal class of the self-propelled motion refers to those verbs expressing the idea of a simple translational motion, such as to go, to move, without any information about the manner of motion (see, by contrast, the class of the manner-of-motion verbs, such as to run, to swim) or about the path of motion (see, by contrast, the class of the path verbs, such as to enter, to exit). According to Talmy (2000), world languages can be distinguished depending on whether they prototypically express the semantic compone…
Anomalie dell’evergetismo in tempo di guerra: i notabili della provincia d’Asia tra arruolamenti e fiscalità d’emergenza al tempo di Marco Aurelio.
2011
Non sono atti degli apostoli ma scritti demoniaci. Il movimento enkratita nell’Anatolia tardoantica: iscrizioni, eresiologi e testi apocrifi
2017
Different sources (epigraphical, literary, apocryphal) can be used to analyse the Christian heretical sects connected to an enkratite movement (Enkratites, Apotactites, Sakkophoroi, Hydroparastatai, Aerians), which was characterised by radical forms of self-restraint (enkrateia). Epigraphical documents are helpful in setting these communities in the rural background of late antique Anatolia (4th-5th cent. AD). On the other side the apocryphal acts of the apostles offer important hints on social and economic ideas developed by Enkratites and throw new light on their specific Christian Weltanschauung.
Dramme, didrammi e tetradrammi di Panormos e a legenda ṣyṣ nel V secolo a.C.: aggiornamenti e riflessioni intorno alle sequenze dei conî
2019
The main objective of this essay is to comment upon the modes of production and the datings of the 5th century BC non-fractional silver coinage bearing the Greek legend ΠΑΝΟΡΜΟΣ (and variants) and the Punic legend ṣyṣ. The reconstruction of the die sequences published by G. Kenneth Jenkins in 1971 and its recent updates will be discussed in detail. As far as the identification of the issuing authority and of the minting place of the coins with legend ṣyṣ is concerned, for a long time to the center of the scientific research interests, only the inferences made from an analysis of the die sequence have been taken into consideration.
La Ριμάδα κόρης και νέου e i Contrasti italiani
2017
Viene effettuato un confronto tra La Ριμάδα κόρης και νέου (contrasto greco presente in due manoscritti del XV secolo) e i Contrasti italiani di età precedente o anche contemporanei (da Cielo d'Alcamo a Leonardo Giustinian) A comparison is made between La Ριμάδα κόρης και νέου (Greek contrast present in two 15th century manuscripts) and the Italian Contrasts of previous or even contemporary age (from Cielo d'Alcamo to Leonardo Giustinian)
Contextualizing Unguru’s 1975 Attack on the Historiography of Ancient Greek Mathematics
2016
In 1975 S. Unguru published his controversial paper on the need to rewrite the history of ancient Greek mathematics. The origin of the paper is sketched according to Unguru’s own story, and then the paper is contextualized in some of the historiographic and disciplinary discussions and shifts taking place during the decade before its publication. The focus is not only on the history of (Greek) mathematics (J. Klein , A. Szabo , M. S. Mahoney ), but a rather broad approach is taken to capture the wider (U.S.-American, academic) discourse around questions of professionalisation of history of science/mathematics. This analysis shows the complexity of the discursive field in which Unguru’s pape…
Which Dioskouroi? On some Locrian pinakes with music-themed iconography
2016
The paper considers an iconographic type attested to in a series of Locrian pinakes, showing twins on horseback (one of which has a lyra eptacorde, the other a kantharos) in front of a female figure (type 8/35: ASMG S. IV, III, 5, fig. 34); this is considered a variant of a more common type with the Dioscuri on horseback with shield and phiale accompanied by a woman (Elena, Aphrodite or nubenda?). Without prejudice to the identity of the pair of twins, it was found that the variant would intend to emphasize a particular aspect of the male world personified by the Spartan Dioscuroi, namely the paideutic role of music for the male party of the nuptial rituals (recently, summarized in A. Belli…
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 …