El "De secretis mulierum" atribuido a Alberto Magno: estudio, edición crítica y traducción
José Pablo BARRAGÁN NIETO, El De secretis mulierum atribuido a Alberto Magno – Estudio, edición crítica y traducción. I Premio Internacional de Tesis Doctorales Fundación Ana María Aldama Roy de Estudios Latinos. FIDEM, Porto 2012. Collection Textes et etudes du Moyen Âge, nº 63. 600 p.; ISBN 978-2-503-54392-5
Desde los comienzos de la Baja Edad Media y hasta el siglo XVII circularon por Europa una enorme cantidad de libros... more
Desde los comienzos de la Baja Edad Media y hasta el siglo XVII circularon por Europa una enorme cantidad de libros que prometían revelar a sus lectores los misterios de la naturaleza y de las artes. Estos «libros de secretos» constituyen un tipo muy particular de literatura técnica, situado a medio camino entre los recetarios y los textos herméticos, y abierto a gran cantidad de temáticas, desde la fisiognomía hasta la magia, aunque las más extendidas fueron la alquimia y la medicina.
En este volumen se presenta la primera edición crítica del De secretis mulierum, un tratado bajomedieval de origen alemán que se inserta dentro de esa tradición de los libros de secretos y que constituye el primer representante de los secreta mulierum o «secretos de las mujeres», un subgénero muy particular, relacionado tanto con la filosofía natural como con la medicina y dedicado a desvelar los misterios del proceso de la generación humana. El De secretis mulierum, que conoció una amplísima difusión durante varios siglos, hecho al que no fue ajena su adscripción, errónea, a Alberto Magno, es un documento de gran importancia no sólo para los investigadores interesados en la filosofía natural y la medicina de las épocas medieval y renacentista, sino también para los que trabajen en campos como la astrología, la fisiognomía o la historia de las mujeres. Todos ellos encontrarán en la edición crítica del tratado una base textual sólida y segura sobre la que llevar a cabo sus investigaciones. El volumen incluye además una traducción del texto latino al castellano, así como un estudio introductorio en el que se realiza un acercamiento general a los libros de secretos medievales, prestando especial atención a los de contenido médico y, dentro de estos, a los secreta mulierum
Greek Vase-Painting and the Origins of Visual Humour, Cambridge/NY: Cambridge University Press 2012 (Paperback)
Not yet published - available from August 2012
Greek Vase-Painting and the Origins of Visual Humour (Hardback)
Cambridge/NY: Cambridge University Press 2009
This book is a comprehensive study of visual humour in ancient Greece, with special emphasis on works created in... more This book is a comprehensive study of visual humour in ancient Greece, with special emphasis on works created in Athens and Boeotia. Alexandre Mitchell brings an interdisciplinary approach to this topic, combining theories and methods of art history, archaeology, and classics with the anthropology of humour, and thereby establishing new ways of looking at art and visual humour in particular. Understanding what visual humour was to the ancients and how it functioned as a tool of social cohesion is only one facet of this study. Mitchell also focuses on the social truths that his study of humour unveils: democracy and freedom of expression, politics and religion, Greek vases and trends in fashion, market-driven production, proper and improper behaviour, popular versus elite culture, carnival in situ, and the place of women, foreigners, workers, and labourers within the Greek city. Richly illustrated with more than 140 drawings and photographs, as well as with analytical tables of comic representations according to different themes, painters, and techniques, this study amply documents the comic representations that formed an important part of ancient Greek visual language from the 6th through 4th centuries BC.
![](http://photos.academia.edu/311291/96849/420359/tiny_luigi.cicala.jpg?1326386422 "<strong>Luigi Cicala</strong><br/>University of Naples "Federico II""){kind=small}
![](http://photos.academia.edu/831703/476916/600785/tiny_lorenzo.miletti.jpg?1331629329 "<strong>Lorenzo Miletti</strong><br/>University of Naples "Federico II""){kind=small}
Download (.pdf) Landscape, Ethnicity and Identity in the pre-roman Mediterranean, Oxford [Oxbow] 2012.
Co-edited with Simon Stoddart
The main concern of this volume is the multi-layered concept of ethnicity.
Contributors examine and... more
The main concern of this volume is the multi-layered concept of ethnicity.
Contributors examine and contextualise contrasting definitions of ethnicity and identity as implicit in two perspectives, one from the classical tradition and another from the prehistoric and anthropological tradition.
They look at the role of textual sources in reconstructing ethnicity and introduce fresh and innovative archaeological data in reconstructing ethnicity, either from fieldwork or from new combinations of old data.
Finally, in contrast to many traditional approaches to ethnicity, they examine the relative and interacting role of natural and cultural features in the landscape in the construction of ethnicity.
The volume is headed by the contribution of Andrea Carandini whose work challenges the conceptions of many in the combination of text and archaeology. He begins by examining the mythology surrounding the founding of Rome, taking into consideration the recent archaeological evidence from the Palatine and the Forum. Here primacy is given to construction of place and mythological descent. Anthony Snodgrass, Robin Osborne, Tim Cornell and Christopher Smith offer replies to his arguments.
Overall, the nineteen papers presented here show that a modern interdisciplinary and international archaeology that combines material data and textual evidence - critically - can provide a powerful lesson for the full understanding of the ideologies of ancient and modern societies. 336p, 120 illus (Oxbow Books, 2011).
Table of Contents
1. Introduction: contextualising ethnicity (Gabriele Cifani and Simon Stoddart)
2. Urban landscapes and ethnic identity of Early Rome (Andrea Carandini)
Comments (T. Cornell, C. Smith, A. Snodgrass and R. Osborne)
3. Landscape, ethnicity, and the Greek polis (Robin Osborne)
4. The discovery of Carian Melia and the archaic Panionion in the Mycale (Hans Lohmann)
5. Multi-ethnicity and population movement in Ancient Greece (John Bintliff)
6. Hybrid forms of identity (Greek/native Italic) on the border between Taranto and the Messapians (Gert-Jan Burgers)
7. Before the Samnites: Molise in the eighth and sixth century BC (Alessandro Naso)
8. Ethnicity, identity and state formation in the Latin Landscape. Problems and Approaches (Francesca Fulminante)
9. Ethnicity and identity of the Latins. Evidence from the sanctuaries between the sixth and the fourth centuries BC (Letizia Ceccarelli)
10. Political landscapes and local identities in Archaic central Italy – Interpreting the material from Nepi (VT, Lazio) and Cisterna Grande (Crustumerium, RM, Lazio) (Ulla Rajala)
11. Landscapes and ethnic frontiers in the middle Tiber valley (Gabriele Cifani)
12. The Grotte di Castro project: defining a boundary of identity (Gabriele Cifani, Letizia Ceccarelli and Simon Stoddart)
13. Between text, body and context: expressing Umbrian identity in the landscape (Simon Stoddart)
14. Space, boundaries and the representation of identity in the ancient Veneto (Kathryn Lomas)
15. Identities, Frontiers and Landscapes in the Guadalquivir Valley (Eighth century BC- fourth century BC) (Arturo Ruiz and Manuel Molinos)
16. Landscape and Ethnic Identities in the Iberian Early States: The example of the Eastern Iberian Peninsula (Ignacio Grau Mira)
17. The politics of identity: ethnicity and the economy of power in Iron Age northern Iberia (Alfredo González-ruibal)
18. Changing identities in a changing landscape: social dynamics from a colonial situation in early Iron Age Iberia (Jaime Vives-ferrándiz)
19. Endnote: Situating Ethnicity (Simon Stoddart and Skylar Neil)
Bonus vir. Politica filosofia retorica e diritto nel de officiis di Cicerone
Napoli 2011
(Modelli teorici e metodologici nella storia del diritto privato - Quaderni: 5)
ISBN: 978-88-243-2062-7
Mythos, Katalog und Prophezeiung
Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag 2006 (Palingenesia. 87).
Reviews:
Markus Aspen, Classical Review 57n2 (2007), pp. 344-345.
Roxana B. Martínez Nieto, Emerita 75n2 (2007), pp. 354-357.
Evina Sistakou, Gnomon 80 (2008), pp. 640-642.
Cicerone – il letterato, il politico, l’uomo. Somnium Scipionis e antologia delle opere, «Progetto Chorus – Gli Autori», Antologia monografica per il triennio, Petrini, Torino 2005, X + 182 pp., ISBN 88-494-1084-0.
Recensioni: Silvia CONDORELLI, «BSL» XXXV, 2005, 662-663. Recensioni: Silvia CONDORELLI, «BSL» XXXV, 2005, 662-663.
L. ANNAEI SENECAE De clementia libri duo, Prolegomeni, testo critico e commento a cura di E. MALASPINA, «Culture antiche. Studi e testi» XIII, Edizioni dell’Orso, Alessandria 2001, 480 pp.; 2005 riveduta e corretta, 488 pp., ISBN 88-7694-500-8
Recensioni: Antonella BORGO, «BSL» XXXI, 2001, 601-603 | Rosalba DIMUNDO, «Aufidus» XV, 45 2001, 100-101 | Michael... more Recensioni: Antonella BORGO, «BSL» XXXI, 2001, 601-603 | Rosalba DIMUNDO, «Aufidus» XV, 45 2001, 100-101 | Michael WINTERBOTTOM, «BMCR» 01.08.08 | B. CLAROT, «LEC» LXX, 2002, 201 | Francesco CORSARO, «Orpheus» XXIII, 2002, 287-290 | Flaviana FICCA, «Vichiana» IV, 2002, 89-94 | Luigi MUNZI, «RFIC» CXXX, 2002, 254-256 | Bruno ROCHETTE, «AC» LXXI, 2002, 338-339 | François-Régis CHAUMARTIN, «Latomus» LXII, 2003, 685-688 | David KONSTAN, «CR» LIII, 2003, 367-369 | Serena FERRANDO, «Maia» LV, 2003, 224-225 | J.-Y. MALEUVRE, «RBPh» LXXXI, 2003, 211 | Salvatore MONDA, «Res publica litterarum» XXVI, 2003, 193-198 | Harry HINE, «Gnomon» LXXIX, 2007, 657-658.
A. BALBO, L. GIORDANO, M. GUERRA, M. GUGLIELMO, E. MALASPINA, S. ROTA, R. STROCCHIO, B. VILLA, Bibliografia senecana del XX secolo, ideata e diretta da I. LANA, a cura di E. MALASPINA, Pàtron Editore, Bologna 2005, XXXII + 878 pp., ISBN 88-555-2831-9.
Recensioni: Antonella BORGO, «BSL» XXXVI, 2006, 291 | William M. CALDER IIII, «CW» C, 2006, 175-176 | Francesco... more Recensioni: Antonella BORGO, «BSL» XXXVI, 2006, 291 | William M. CALDER IIII, «CW» C, 2006, 175-176 | Francesco CORSARO, «Orpheus» XXVII, 2006, 215-217 | R. Scott SMITH, «CR» LVII, 2007, 417-420.
Cronologia Ciceroniana in CD-Rom, in N. MARINONE, Cronologia Ciceroniana, «Collana di studi ciceroniani» VI, seconda edizione aggiornata e corretta con nuova versione interattiva in CD-Rom a cura di E. MALASPINA, Centro di Studi Ciceroniani – Pàtron Editore, Roma Bologna 2004. (CD-Rom) Nuova versione on line con integrazioni ed aggiornamenti dal titolo Ephemerides Tullianae nel sito della Société internationale des Amis de Cicéron
Recensioni: Fidel A. SÁNCHEZ, «Revista de Estudios Latinos» IV 2004, 292-293 | Roberto CRISTOFOLI, «GIF» LVI, 2004,... more Recensioni: Fidel A. SÁNCHEZ, «Revista de Estudios Latinos» IV 2004, 292-293 | Roberto CRISTOFOLI, «GIF» LVI, 2004, 307-312 | Walter ENGLERT, «BMCR» 05.09.11 | Paul Marius MARTIN, «REL» LXXXIII, 2005, 318-320 | Aires A. NASCIMENTO, «Euphrosyne» XXXIII, 2005, 557-559 | Chiara RENDA, «Vichiana» VII, 2005, 420-421 | Bruno ROCHETTE, «LEC» LXXIII, 2005, 82-83 | Olli SALOMIES, «Arctos» XXXIX, 2005, 228-230 | Dario MANTOVANI, «Athenaeum» XCIV, 2006, 378 | John T. RAMSEY, «CPh» CI, 2006, 424-429 | Catherine STEEL, «CR» LVI, 2006, 246 | Lucienne DESCHAMPS, «REA» CVIII, 2006, 777-778 | F. VAN HAEPEREN, «RBPh» LXXXV, 2007, 184 | Lucia PASETTI, «Lexis» XXV, 2007, 457-458 | Daniel KNECHT, «AC» LIX, 2008, 427-428 | Philippe MOREAU, «Latomus» LXVII, 2008, 245.
Cinco ensaios Antiguidade/ Essays on Antiquity
by Marcus Mota
Cinco ensaios sobre a antiguidade
Sandra Lúcia Rodrigues da Rocha (org.)
Formato 14x21 cm, 110 páginas
ISBN 978-85-391-338-6
O teatro grego é a origem do teatro ocidental? Como traduções de textos clássicos manipulam valores culturais? Como se deve ensinar a filosofia antiga no Brasil? Qual é a relação entre narrativas cristãs, como os Atos de João, o romance e a biografia gregos? Que sentido político ou ideológico podem assumir as referências à épica grega em outro corpus poético, na modernidade? Essas são algumas das questões gerais que instigam as reflexões presentes nos ensaios deste livro. No âmbito dos temas selecionados, os Cinco Ensaios sobre a Antiguidade problematizam, indiretamente, não só o que constitui objeto de reflexão em estudos clássicos, mas também como tais estudos têm se desenvolvido, lançando um olhar crítico para modos diversos de apropriação da cultura greco-romana, do século XVIII aos nossos dias.
Book in portuguese
1. Prefácio 7
Sandra Lúcia Rodrigues da Rocha
2. Outras... more
Book in portuguese
1. Prefácio 7
Sandra Lúcia Rodrigues da Rocha
2. Outras antiguidades: James Macpherson e os clássicos 13
A.P. Leme Lopes
3. Viver e ensinar: modalidades marginais da história da filosofia antiga 31
Gabriele Cornelli
4. Teatro grego: novas perspectivas 45
Marcus Mota
5. Interferências da tradução em Heródoto e Tucídides: percepções sobre a escrita na Grécia 67
Sandra Lúcia Rodrigues da Rocha
6. Entre fé e ficção: prosa literária do período romano-helenístico 89
Pedro Ipiranga Júnior
Open access to social science journals in Latin America
Contribution in UNESCO book
Babini, Dominique (2010). Open access to social science journals in Latin America. Flash en libro “World Social Science Report 2010”. Paris, Unesco/International Social Science Council, 2010. P.310-311. http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0018/001883/188333e.pdf
African Athena: New Agendas
Co-edited with Dr Daniell Orrells and Dr Tessa Roynon
The appearance of Martin Bernal's Black Athena: The Afro-Asian Roots of Classical Civilization in 1987 sparked intense... more
The appearance of Martin Bernal's Black Athena: The Afro-Asian Roots of Classical Civilization in 1987 sparked intense debate and controversy in Africa, Europe, and North America. His detailed genealogy of the 'fabrication of Greece' and his claims for the influence of ancient African and Near Eastern cultures on the making of classical Greece, questioned many intellectuals' assumptions about the nature of ancient history.
The transportation of enslaved African persons into Europe, the Americas, and the Caribbean, brought African and diasporic African people into contact in significant numbers with the Greek and Latin classics for the first time in modern history. In African Athena, the contributors explore the impact of the modern African disapora from the sixteenth century onwards on Western notions of history and culture, examining the role Bernal's claim has played in European and American understandings of history, and in classical, European, American and Caribbean literary production.
African Athena examines the history of intellectuals and literary writers who contested the white, dominant Euro-American constructions of the classical past and its influence on the present.
Martin Bernal has written an Afterword to this collection.
Die Religion der Kelten in den antiken literarischen Zeugnissen. Sammlung, Übersetzung und Kommentierung, Bd. III: Von Arrianos bis zum Ausklang der Antike (= Mitteilungen der Prähistorischen Kommission der ÖAW, Bd. 75), Wien 2011 [640 Seiten, € 91,00; Print Edition: ISBN 978 3 7001 6997 0, Online Edition: 978 3 7001 7220 8]
Gegenstand dieser Arbeit ist die Religion der Kelten, so wie sie in der antiken literarischen Überlieferung... more
Gegenstand dieser Arbeit ist die Religion der Kelten, so wie sie in der antiken literarischen Überlieferung dargestellt ist. Für diesen Bereich keltischen Lebens bilden die griechischen und lateinischen literarischen Nachrichten, neben den archäologischen und epigraphischen Befunden, unsere wichtigste Quelle. Dieses Material wurde in den 30er Jahren des 19. Jh.s erstmals von Johannes ZWICKER in seinen Fontes Historiae Religionis Celticae zusammengestellt. In dieser bis heute nicht ersetzten Sammlung blieben jedoch viele relevante Zeugnisse unberücksichtigt; außerdem wurden nur die Originaltexte ohne jeglichen Kommentar angeführt. Ziel der vorliegenden Untersuchung ist es, diese Defizite zu beheben: Zum besseren Verständnis wird den griechischen und lateinischen Testimonien eine deutsche Übersetzung zur Seite gestellt. Weiters ist jedes der chronologisch angeordneten Zeugnisse mit einem ausführlichen Kommentar versehen, in dem unter Berücksichtigung der einschlägigen modernen Forschungsliteratur die oftmals problematischen Stellen möglichst umfassend analysiert werden. Berücksichtigt werden hierbei Fragen der Text- und Quellenkritik, ferner wird das einzelne Testimonium in den größeren Rahmen des jeweiligen Werkes gestellt und auf textimmanente Bezüge und Eigengesetzlichkeiten gewisser Literaturgattungen eingegangen. In der anschließenden inhaltlichen Analyse wird der religionshistorische Informationsgehalt und Aussagewert dargelegt und interpretiert. Zu diesem Zweck wurden die Forschungsergebnisse diverser Disziplinen herangezogen, die oftmals zu einem besseren Verständnis der rein literarischen Zeugnisse beitragen und diese zu bestätigen oder zu korregieren vermögen. Der vorliegende Band ist der letzte der auf drei Bände angelegten Sammlung. Er enthält insgesamt 339 Zeugnisse von 108 verschiedenen Autoren, beginnend mit dem im 2. Jh. n. Chr. schreibenden Arrianos bis hin zu dem italienischen Humanisten Natalis Comes (16. Jh. n. Chr.).
The subject of this work is the religion of the Celts as far as depicted in the ancient literary sources. Our knowledge of this part of Celtic life is, beside epigraphic monuments and archaeological findings, mainly based on the Greek and Latin literary testimonies. This material was for the first time collected in the thirties of the last century by Johannes ZWICKER in his Fontes Historiae Religionis Celticae. In this collection, which is not replaced till today, a lot of relevant passages are missing; moreover it is a mere text-collection without any commentary. The scope of the present research is to overcome with these deficits: For the sake of a better understanding the Greek and Latin testimonies are presented with an attached German translation. Furthermore the chronologically arranged passages are furnished with a detailed commentary, in which these often problematic testimonies are thoroughly analysed on the basis of current research. Questions of textual criticism and Quellenkritik are taken into consideration. The particular testimonies are treated in the larger framework of the relevant work, the intrinsic text references and the special features of specific literary genera are taken into account. In the following textual analysis the information content of the testimonies is interpreted. For this purpose the results of various relevant scientific disciplines were gathered together. This allows a better understanding of the literary testimonies i.e. confirmations, corrections or supplements. The present volume is the last of the three-volume collection. It contains 339 passages from 108 different authors, starting with the 2nd century AD writer Arrianos and ending with the Italian humanist Natalis Comes (16th century AD).