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Law and Ethics in Greek and Roman Declamation
Ancient declamation—the practice of delivering speeches on the basis of fictitious scenarios—defies easy categorization. It stands at the crossroads of several modern disciplines. It is only within the past few decades that the full complexity of declamation, and the promise inherent in its study, have come to be recognized. This volume, which contains thirteen essays from an international team of scholars, engages with the multidisciplinary nature of declamation, focusing in particular on the various interactions in declamation between rhetoric, literature, law, and ethics. Contributions pursue a range of topics, but also complement each other. Separate essays by Brescia, Lentano, and L...
Archaeologies, Origins, Antiquities
This book examines the narratives of early cultural history in ancient Greece and Rome, spanning from a macrocosmic outlook to a microcosmic exploration of individual stories, familial dynamics, and societal contexts. The collection investigates the concepts of archaeologies, origins, and antiquities through a multifaceted approach, considering literary, rhetorical, philosophical, historical, and epigraphic viewpoints. Each chapter delves into various aspects of cultural history, encompassing the influence of Homeric scholarship on Thucydides’ ‘Archaeology,’ Plato’s concept of ‘archaeologies’, the interpretation of the past through Hellenistic inscriptions, and the cultural histo...
›Humanitas‹ in the Imperial Age
This book investigates one of the most polysemic Latin words, humanitas. While the first chapter briefly retraces the history of humanitas from its origins, the book as a whole focuses on its uses in the pagan literary texts from the Trajanic (late first century CE) to the Theodosian age (late fourth century CE). The aim of this study is to explore the extent to which the different meanings usually attributed to humanitas by dictionaries (roughly ‘human nature’, ‘education and culture’, ‘philanthropy’) are much more nuanced and in continuous relation with one another, and how the use of humanitas by some authors often performs clear rhetorical and/or ideological strategies. This ...
Brill's Companion to Seneca
This new and important introduction to Seneca provides a systematic and concise presentation of this author’s philosophical works and his tragedies. It provides handbook style surveys of each genuine or attributed work, giving dates and brief descriptions, and taking into account the most important philosophical and philological issues. In addition, they provide accounts of the major steps in the history of their later influence. The cultural background of the texts and the most important problem areas within the philosophic and tragic corpus of Seneca are dealt with in separate essays.
Die lateinische Deklamation
Von der ausgehenden Republik bis in die späte Kaiserzeit war die lateinische Deklamation als rhetorische Übung wesentlicher Teil der schulischen Ausbildung und in ihrer Erscheinungsform als Prunkrede prägendes Element der römischen Gesellschaft überhaupt. Nachdem sie seitens der Forschung lange Zeit wenig Beachtung gefunden hat, ist sie in den vergangenen Jahrzehnten zunehmend in den Fokus von Philologie, Geschichtswissenschaft und Rechtsgeschichte geraten. Das vorliegende Studienbuch gewährt einen Überblick über ihre Entwicklung, ihre gesellschaftliche Bedeutung und ihren historischen Informationsgehalt. Wenngleich es sich auf die vier Hauptquellen konzentriert – die Werke von Sen...
Chi ha paura dei Greci e dei Romani?
Il dialogo è tutto nelle relazioni umane e sociali, interromperlo non può che metterle a rischio. Eppure, è proprio questo che avviene quando si manifesta la paura dei Greci e dei Romani, un fenomeno recente in grande crescita: un'interruzione del dialogo fra noi e i classici, fra noi e la storia, fra noi e il passato. I classici antichi sono diventati soggetti di cui aver paura. Non era facile prevedere che un giorno qualcuno avrebbe messo in guardia i giovani dalla lettura delle opere greche e romane, cospargendole di avvisi di pericolo o addirittura escludendone direttamente alcune dal canone; gli stessi che avrebbero accusato i classici di aver contaminato la nostra cultura con il raz...
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