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A partire dalla sua nuova serie (nr. 1, 2015) su Rudiae.Ricerche sul mondo classico sono apparsi i seguenti articoli con relativo abstract in lingua inglese. Essi sono disposti in ordine alfabetico di autore e poi di annata. Il DOI ne permette l'identificazione unica e funziona come link diretto al testo dell'articolo. Gli articoli qui segnalati sono solo quelli con abstract: sono esclusi quindi premesse, introduzioni, ricordi, note, epiloghi.  Si aggiungono invece le recensioni, per le quali invece si riportano i dati del libro recensito. I casi delle recensioni sono segnalati con un asterisco tra parentesi.

 AUTORI, CONTRIBUTI E ABSTRACT IN LINGUA INGLESE (1, 2015 - ad oggi)

1. Marcello APRILE (Università del Salento, Lecce, Italy)

[1] "Una lunga strada azzurra che porta alla Grecia". Diacronia e diatopia del greco del Salento
n.s. 5, 2019, pp. 103-126 – DOI: 10.1285/i11245344v2019n5p103
ABSTRACT. The paper deals with the diatopic and diachronic development of a western Greek dialect currently spoken in Southern Apulia (Italy).

2. Lorena BARONE (Università del Salento, Lecce, Italy)

[2] Note al De non parcendo in deum delinquentibus: il valore di G ai fini della constitutio textus
n.s. 2, 2016, pp. 27-48 – DOI: 10.1285/i11245344v2016n2p27
ABSTRACT. The De non parcendo in deum delinquentibus of Lucifer of Cagliari has been handed down through two manuscripts: the Vaticanus Reginensis 133, saec. 9th-10th (V), and the Parisinus Latinus Genovefensis 1351, saec. 15th-16th (G). The latter, much less highly regarded than V, is considered by some scholars to be a copy of the former, and therefore irrelevant to the constitutio textus. However, even if the two codices belong to the same family, they prove to be independent of each other because of the presence in G of peculiar errors, of readings supporting the emendations of the editors, and of variants better than those of V. Finally, upholding the independence of the Genovefensis from the Vaticanus makes it possible to reject unnecessary conjectures as well as to single out some wrong readings of the two manuscripts.

3. Nikola D. BELLUCCI (Università «Alma Mater Studiorum» di Bologna, Italy)

[3] Lusso ed eccentricità come parti comiche nei Saturnalia di Macrobio
n.s. 2, 2016, pp. 49-74 – DOI: 10.1285/i11245344v2016n2p49
ABSTRACT. The article aims to interpret the forms and the places of comicality in the Saturnalia by the late Latin author Macrobius. The pretext of the banquet, functional to this miscellaneous work of erudition, is characterized by the association of many plausible reminiscences of previous authors. Despite the fragmentary nature of the work, the comic parts are located in the afternoon and are expressed especially through witty remarks (famous though popular), but also through the hilarity produced by the eccentricity of luxury (understandably criticized), in a pursuit of moderate amusement that the diners (following the author's inspiration) never carry to excess or to the most obscene vulgarity.

4. Christos BINTOUDIS (Università «La Sapienza» di Roma, Italy)

[4] Il "peso" della lingua greca nella riflessione seferiana
n.s. 6-7, 2020-2021, pp. 193-210 – DOI: 10.1285/i11245344v2020-21n6-7p193
ABSTRACT. The short article, written on the occasion of the VI Giornata mondiale della lingua greca, briefly presents the evolution of the Greek language question in relation to the literary language during the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century. It focuses on the case of the essayist and poet George Seferis, presenting the main points of his "linguistic theory" and the position he seems to have taken on key issues about the Greek language and its history.

5. Francesca BIONDI (Università della Calabria, Rende, Italy)

[5] Scholia omerici e annotazioni su papiro per un'antica vexata quaestio
n.s. 2, 2016, pp. 75-88 – DOI: 10.1285/i11245344v2016n2p75
ABSTRACT. Through the analysis of a scholion and two annotations on papyrus, referring to three different Homeric verses, this essay deals with a prosodic problem discussed by ancient Homeric critics. The suggested interpretation relates the above-mentioned scholion and annotations to scholiastic attestations of the traditional pronunciation of the Homeric text, which are linked to Aristarchus' and then Herodian's prosodic interests.

6. Tommaso BRACCINI (Università di Siena, Italy)

[6] Scambiare koukoutzella con vrya: un detto che viene da lontano
n.s. 6-7, 2020-2021, pp. 169-192 – DOI: 10.1285/i11245344v2020-21n6-7p169
ABSTRACT. In Georgios Sphrantzes' Chronicon minus there is an allusion (20.3) to a proverbial saying: two people trying to deceive each other exchanged koukoutzella for vrya. The allusion is partially clarified by the sixteenth-century reworking of Makarios Melissourgos Melissenos, who tells the story behind the saying. This tale can be linked to the folkloric type ATU 1525E, Thieves steal from one another, of which it is the oldest attestation. What remains unclear is the meaning of the two Greek terms, especially the first. A comparison with the attestations of the ATU 1525E type, not coincidentally widespread along all the "Levantine" trade routes (from North Africa to the territories of the Ottoman Empire, to Persia, to India, with offshoots in East Africa and Madagascar), makes it possible, first, to identify a compact nucleus that seems to centre on the ancient cultural area of the late Byzantine Empire (the Balkans and Georgia), and to establish that the koukoutzella are pine cones and the vrya moss. The first term, in particular, was attested until a century ago in the modern Greek dialects spoken in Bithynia and Eastern Thrace. The demotic Greek used in the fifteenth century by the Constantinopolitan courtier Sphrantzes would therefore prove, not surprisingly, to be close to what was spoken a few centuries later in areas immediately adjacent to the Byzantine and then Ottoman capital – at least before the disappearance of their Greek-speaking population following the well-known events of the ανταλλαγή πληθυσμών of 1923.

7. Antonio CACCIARI (Università degli Studi «Alma Mater Studiorum» di Bologna, Italy)

[7] Il greco di un cristiano: il caso di Origene. Note sintattiche e stilistiche in margine a un passo origeniano (Homilia II in psalmum LXXVI)
n.s. 5, 2019, pp. 81-98 – DOI: 10.1285/i11245344v2019n5p81
ABSTRACT. The language and style of many ancient Christian authors have received, over time, far too little attention in the secondary literature. It is therefore not surprising that an author such as Origen, rightly considered the noble father of Christian biblical exegesis, has received so little attention over the centuries with regard to the constitutive linguistic structures of his writings. Through a literary analysis – morphosyntactic and stylistic – of a recently discovered Origenian text (Homilia II in Psalmum LXXVI, 1), it can be said that our author really seems to have fully assimilated the essence of the methods of rhetoric.

8. Paul CANART (Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Città del Vaticano)

[8] Manuscrits de Terre d'Otrante inconnus et moins connus
n.s. 3, 2017, pp. 13-42 – DOI: 10.1285/i11245344v2017n3p13
RÉSUMÉ. Cet article posthume présente onze manuscrits ou fragments de manuscrits peu ou pas connus produits en Terre d’Otrante. S’il y est surtout question de leurs caractéristiques codicologiques et paléographiques, leur contenu a été quelquefois précisé, voire analysé à nouveaux frais.

9. Maria CANNATÀ FERA (Università di Messina, Italy)

[9] Apollo e i suoi fratelli. Prodigi di neonati divini nell'antica Grecia (e altrove)
n.s. 10, 2024, pp. 61-80 – DOI: 10.1285/i11245344v2024n10p61
ABSTRACT. In Greek and Latin mythology, newly born deities reveal extraordinary precocity and perform prodigious feats. Similar phenomena are attested in different cultures, in their high and popular expressions, from Christian to Indian; the presence of common details raises the question of whether we should think of contacts between them, or whether they can be explained as polygenetic processes.

10. Mario CAPASSO (Università del Salento, Lecce, Italy)

[10] Fenomenologia della Vittoria: alcune riflessioni
n.s. 4, 2018, pp. 5-18 – DOI: 10.1285/i11245344v2018n4p5
ABSTRACT. The article focuses on some observations about victory and its consequences drawn from Classical literature and from the modern world.

[11] Noi, eredi privilegiati della lingua greca
n.s. 4, 2018, pp. 19-32 – DOI: 10.1285/i11245344v2018n4p19
ABSTRACT. The article represents an acknowledgment of the great importance of the Greek language and culture as a solid foundation of the Italian language and, more widely, of modern civilization.

11. Alessandro CAPONE (Università del Salento, Lecce, Italy)

[12] Strategie dell'allusione in Gregorio di Nissa: Eunomio, la pozione di Circe e la mandragora
n.s. 10, 2024, pp. 103-126 – DOI: 10.1285/i11245344v2024n10p103
ABSTRACT. The article attempts to highlight the main features of the interpretation of the myth of Circe presented by Gregory of Nyssa, placing it within the hermeneutic history of the Homeric passage and other Gregorian reinterpretations. The contribution considers some words and expressions that are revealing of the approach and reflection of Gregory, who in polemic with Eunomius recalls, more or less subtly, numerous texts of the classical and technical tradition, making his own work extremely evocative and allusive.

[13] Le testimonianze più antiche di Euripide in Terra d'Otranto tra manoscritti e poeti locali
n.s. 3, 2017, pp. 191-218 – DOI: 10.1285/i11245344v2017n3p191
ABSTRACT. The present contribution is divided into three parts: the first examines the poetic production of Giovanni Grasso, discussing its references to Euripides; the second studies Giovanni Grasso's library; the third focuses on the oldest manuscripts of Euripides produced in Terra d'Otranto and tries to highlight their origin and the relationships that connect them. Some final considerations give an overview of the circulation of Euripides' tragedies in Terra d'Otranto and of the cultural environments in which they aroused interest.

12. Mariarosa CARACAUSI (Università di Palermo, Italy)

[14] Nikos Gatsos. Canzoni e poesia
n.s. 8, 2022, pp. 113-130 – DOI: 10.1285/i11245344v2022n8p113
ABSTRACT. The poet Nikos Gatsos, famous for his poem Αμοργός, soon abandoned poetry and found a new means of expression in many songs set to music by composers (Hadjidakis, Theodorakis, Xarchakos and others), managing to communicate his poetic message to a wider and more varied audience.

13. Antonio CATALDO (Università del Salento, Lecce, Italy)

[15] Il Vangelo secondo Matteo di Pier Paolo Pasolini (1964). Una religiosità profonda e tormentata
n.s. 1, 2015, pp. 9-32 – DOI: 10.1285/i11245344v2015n1p9
ABSTRACT. Almost unanimously considered by critics, Catholic ones included, the best film about Jesus ever made, Pier Paolo Pasolini's Vangelo secondo Matteo also reveals the torments of the soul of the filmmaker who, although a declared communist, atheist and anti-clerical, deeply felt the need for the sacred. An element of comfort and support in his search was the figure of Pope John XXIII, whose accession to the throne of St Peter and subsequent convocation of the Second Vatican Council undoubtedly marked the historical and political-religious period and, according to the director himself, inspired his choice. Pasolini, though not a believer, approached the Matthean text with the utmost respect and made a film faithful to the story of the Gospel, but not to its inspiration, because the figure of Christ takes on the dimension of a mythical Hero whose words and actions Pasolini shows, but whose deep motivations he does not understand.

[16] Recensione
n.s. 1, 2015, pp. 199-202 – DOI: 10.1285/i11245344v2015n1p199 (*)
Volume recensito: G. Rinaldi, Cristianesimi nell'antichità. Sviluppi storici e contesti geografici (Secoli I-VIII), Edizioni GBU, Chieti-Roma 2008

14. Carmine CATENACCI (Università degli Studi «G. D’Annunzio», Chieti-Pescara, Italy)

[17] La nave dello Stato. Storia corsara di una metafora e di alcune parole
n.s. 5, 2019, pp. 59-80 – DOI: 10.1285/i11245344v2019n5p59
ABSTRACT. The article retraces some exemplary passages of the metaphor of the ship of State, from the most ancient Greek evidence to some present-day uses. In particular, passages by Alcaeus, Aeschylus and Plato are taken into consideration. Furthermore, the article discusses ancient Greek terminology relating to ships and shows the intense vitality of the Greek language in the reality and imagination of Western culture, in this field as in others.

15. Clive CHANDLER (University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa)

[18] Bucolic and other Pleasures in Longus' Daphnis and Chloe
n.s. 1, 2015, pp. 33-54 – DOI: 10.1285/i11245344v2015n1p33
ABSTRACT. Longus' novel successfully combines the tropes of bucolic with those of heterosexual erotic prose narrative. This paper investigates the impact of this hybridity on the treatment of a prominent and persistent element in the text, the concept and associations of pleasure. It is argued that bucolic pleasure and erotic pleasure can be distinguished, and that erotic pleasure has greater diegetic potential since it frequently entails movement and change. The contrast between the more static bucolic pleasure and its more mobile counterpart contributes to the frustration experienced by the potential lovers, Daphnis and Chloe, which is so important to the story. The conclusion of the novel can be seen to offer a reconciliation of the two types of pleasure, through the satisfaction located in sexual enjoyment combined with indulgence in an artful bucolic lifestyle.

16. Elena COLLA (Liceo classico «G. B. Romagnosi», Parma, Italy)

[19] Πάθος e appello alla pietà: per una datazione di Lys. 24
n.s. 1, 2015, pp. 55-74 – DOI: 10.1285/i11245344v2015n1p55
ABSTRACT. Aristophanes (Wasps, ll. 563-574) testifies that in Athens, sometimes in the same trial, the defendant could resort both to humour and to pathos in order to obtain acquittal. This is what we see in the Lysianic speech On the Cripple. I then examine how pathos is handled, drawing the guidelines for my work from Aristotle's Rhetoric, because it offers a wide and systematic discussion of this emotion. A significant number of correspondences between the two texts emerges from this examination: the variety of topics in the cripple's defence, his character and his condition fit largely within the picture drawn by the philosopher. On the basis of these correspondences, I also explore the possibility of reconsidering the relative chronology of the speech On the Cripple and the Rhetoric and, consequently, the former's traditional attribution to Lysias.

17. P. Benedetto (Giulio) COLUCCI (Istituto Teologico Ortodosso «Santa Eufemia di Calcedonia», Venezia, Italy)

[20] L'itinerarium cuiusdam anglici 1344-1345
n.s. 6-7, 2020-2021, pp. 351-360 – DOI: 10.1285/i11245344v2020-21n6-7p351
ABSTRACT. The Itinerarium cuiusdam Anglici is a Christian itinerarium dated around 1344-1345. It was written by an anonymous pilgrim from England and recounts the writer's journey across Europe to the Holy Land. The itinerarium survives in MS 370, kept in the library of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. It was edited for the first time in 1923 by Fr. Girolamo Golubovich in the Franciscan Bio-bibliography of the Holy Land. The second edition was published in 2010 by Mariana Cocciolo with my help. In the following paper I have chosen to present the Roman stage of the pilgrimage, because I believe it is the most suited to the International Latin Language Day.

18. Sondra DALL’OCO (affiliazione non indicata)

[21] Recensione
n.s. 6-7, 2020-2021, pp. 363-368 – DOI: 10.1285/i11245344v2020-21n6-7p363 (*)
Volume recensito: Desiderio Erasmo da Rotterdam, Il Ciceroniano, testo, introduzione, note, indici, traduzione a cura di F. Bausi e D. Canfora, con la collaborazione di E. Tinelli, Loescher, Torino 2016 (Corona Patrum Erasmiana. II. Series Humanistica, 1)

19. Paolo DE GIORGI (Università del Salento, Lecce, Italy)

[22] Creazioni lessicali in Macario di Magnesia
n.s. 1, 2015, pp. 75-104 – DOI: 10.1285/i11245344v2015n1p75
ABSTRACT. Since the beginning of the 1900s, the Apocriticus of Macarius of Magnesia has been the subject of investigations and critical studies that have highlighted the expertise and rhetorical skills of its author. This article focuses on an analysis of 43 lexical creations, mostly verbs, whose origin and mode of composition we have tried to define. The new lexical creations are in most cases formed by the juxtaposition of prepositions or adjectives; at other times the author may be influenced by the lexical and phonic context in which the lexical creation is placed, or, if necessary, he may prefer a new form according to the method of variatio. These combinatory and creative procedures thus lead to the conclusion that in the Apocriticus of Macarius of Magnesia the rhetorical component sometimes tends to prevail over the strictly apologetic one.

20. Mariella DE SIMONE (Liceo classico «Dante Alighieri», Roma, Italy; Università degli Studi di Salerno, Italy)

[23] La prova di traduzione e la sua sperimentazione alle Olimpiadi di lingue e civiltà classiche e all'Esame di Stato. Diario di un'esperienza e di un metodo
n.s. 9, 2023, pp. 159-182 – DOI: 10.1285/i11245344v2023n9p159
ABSTRACT. The paper starts from the new format of the written test of the State Exam at the classical high school (with co-text, text and questions) to propose a reflection on the renewal of translation teaching, starting from concrete experimental experiences linked to the preparation of students for the "Olympiad of Classical Languages and Civilizations". The test set in the 2019 State Exam (the first ever in the new format) is also analyzed to highlight its merits and limitations in relation to the development of specific skills and competences.

21. Ginetta DE TRANE (Università del Salento, Lecce, Italy)

[24] Iustum bellum e legittima difesa (Caes. B.G. 7, 77)
n.s. 4, 2018, pp. 33-54 – DOI: 10.1285/i11245344v2018n4p33
ABSTRACT. In De Bello Gallico, pages in praise of the "just war" stand out, namely the war of defence and of civilizing conquest. It is believed that Caesar, in writing the Commentarii of the Gallic War, used the theory of bellum iustum to justify his warfare, not in its legal and formal sense, but rather in its ethical and substantial function.

[25] Un triangolo epistolare: Ov. Her. 5 e 16-17
n.s. 4, 2018, pp. 55-72 – DOI: 10.1285/i11245344v2018n4p55
ABSTRACT. Within the epistolary triangle of Oenone, Paris and Helen, the different points of view of the characters reproduce the plurality of treatments which the myth had undergone during the various phases of the Greek and Latin traditions. In other words, Ovid refers to the original form which the mythical story had in ancient sources.

22. Arturo DE VIVO (Università degli Studi «Federico II» di Napoli, Italy)

[26] Il latino della storia, la storia del latino
n.s. 9, 2023, pp. 73-88 – DOI: 10.1285/i11245344v2023n9p73
ABSTRACT. The birth of literature creates a divergence between the sermo cotidianus (which preserves the richness and freedom of a linguistic diasystem open to Italic languages, as well as Greek and Etruscan) and the new literary language that must establish selective rules, initially modeled on Latinitas and then, according to an even stricter criterion, on Urbanitas, the language proper to Rome and its noble élite. The Latin historians, the auctores of the genre, such as Cato and Sallust, both Italics from Sabina, inaugurate a genre of writing that chooses an archaic language to recover traces of that Italic linguistic heritage that the pursuit of urbanitas aimed to erase.

23. Maria Elena DELLA BONA (Università del Salento, Lecce, Italy)

[27] Recensione
n.s. 4, 2018, pp. 183-190 – DOI: 10.1285/i11245344v2018n4p183 (*)
Volume recensito: G. Tedeschi, Spettacoli e trattenimenti dal IV secolo a.C. all'età tardo-antica secondo i documenti epigrafici e papiracei, EUT, Trieste 2017

[28] Riconsiderazioni sull'agone di Delfi: istituzione e premi
n.s. 1, 2015, pp. 105-132 – DOI: 10.1285/i11245344v2015n1p105
ABSTRACT. This article discusses two contrasting opinions, arising from the ancient testimonies, about the foundation of the musical contest of the Pythian Games: the first refers to argumenta a, b and d of Pindar's Pythians and to the Marmor Parium, which set its historical date in 591/90 BC; the second, instead, would postpone it to 586/85 BC, on the basis of a testimony given by Pausanias. The conclusion is that the edition Pausanias refers to is not to be excluded because it is omitted by all the other sources. Rather, he complements these sources, allowing us to discover an edition of the contest that would otherwise have remained unknown. The new interpretation of events proposed in this article also clarifies the chronology of the First Sacred War, which is so closely connected with the foundation of the competition, whose various prizes will be examined. Moreover, specific attention will be paid to the apples awarded in the Imperial Age, along with the laurel crowns.

24. Saulo DELLE DONNE (Università del Salento, Lecce, Italy)

[29] La trattatistica metrica greca minore e la Terra d'Otranto: manoscritti, autori e testi
n.s. 3, 2017, pp. 291-392 – DOI: 10.1285/i11245344v2017n3p291
ABSTRACT. The minor Greek treatises on metres were composed with reference to or alongside the ἐγχειρίδιον of Hephaestion of Alexandria, but they are not a commentary on this Handbook, because they circulated independently and even selected their own topics. In Byzantine Terra d'Otranto it has been possible to identify nine manuscripts: the Vat. gr. 14 (XII2 or XIIex-XIIIin. cent.); the Vrat. Rehd. gr. 26 (XIII2 or XIIIex. cent.); the Vat. Chis. R IV 11 and the Laur. Plut. 57.36 (XIII2 or XIIIex-XIVin. cent.); the Paris. gr. 2558 (XVin. cent.); the Laur. Plut. 56.16 (XVm. cent.); the Ambros. A 110 sup. and the Ambros. E 26 sup. (XVex.-XVIin. cent.); the Paris. suppl. gr. 109 (XVIin. cent.). These manuscripts attest the following texts in Terra d'Otranto: the Tria capita vaticana de re metrica; the Anecdota chisiana de re metrica; the hundred iambs De metro iambico of Ioannes Botaniates; the Tractatus Urbinas de metris; the Appendix Dionysiaca, the most common one; the De diversis metris of Helias Charax; the Iambi de metro iambico of Michael Psellos; chapters or extracts known today only from the Ambros. Q 5 sup., the Ambros. A 110 sup., the Marc. gr. 483 or the Ambros. C 222 inf.; extracts on metre or prosody from George Choiroboskos or Dionysius Thrax; chapters known today from the De metris of Pseudo-Hephaestion; some short anonymous texts, unpublished or published from the manuscripts of Terra d'Otranto.

25. Vincenzo FAI (Università del Salento, Lecce, Italy; Université de Liège, Liège, Belgium)

[30] Recensione
n.s. 4, 2018, pp. 177-182 – DOI: 10.1285/i11245344v2018n4p177 (*)
Volume recensito: E. Puglia, Le Sirene dell'Odissea da Omero a Capossela, Franco Di Mauro Editore, Sorrento 2018

[31] La litote in Callimaco
n.s. 2, 2016, pp. 89-116 – DOI: 10.1285/i11245344v2016n2p89
ABSTRACT. The article, considering the passages of Callimachus' poetry in which litotes occurs, aims to highlight the function of this figure of speech, especially as an instrument of poetic enunciation.

26. Luigi FERRERI (Ricercatore indipendente, Paris, France)

[32] Theogn. 333-334. Esegesi correnti ed esegesi dimenticate
n.s. 10, 2024, pp. 9-38 – DOI: 10.1285/i11245344v2024n10p9
ABSTRACT. This paper deals with the interpretation of Theogn. 333-334, a statement for which there is a lack of specific studies. The paper offers a critical overview of the interpretations of the couplet provided over time and, in particular, of those advanced by now forgotten 16th-century scholars. So, we clarify how it has been interpreted and highlight how even divergent explanations are legitimate in the absence of further elements that might shed light on a gnome that is not only generic, but rather unique. Some recent interpretations have explicitly stated that Cyrnus and the exile would have belonged to different homelands, while the ancient interpretations, from the 16th century, have hypothesised exactly the opposite.

[33] Aristofane, Vespe 712
n.s. 5, 2019, pp. 127-138 – DOI: 10.1285/i11245344v2019n5p127
ABSTRACT. According to the current interpretation, v. 712 of Aristophanes' Wasps refers to the attitude of those who follow the people who have the power to grant or deny salaries, reflecting an attitude of obedience to orders and of submission to the political class. However, an alternative interpretation is also possible: the people's judges must also move as the people who pay them want, in the same way as the olive pickers, who, during the harvest, are forced to move here and there to pick the scattered fruit.

[34] Arch. fr. 13, 5-6 W.²
n.s. 4, 2018, pp. 73-106 – DOI: 10.1285/i11245344v2018n4p73
ABSTRACT. The paper concerns vv. 5 and 6 of Archilochus, fr. 13 W.², in particular the expression κρατερὴν τλημοσύνην, which has not been correctly explained so far. This expression can be satisfactorily explained in the light of a traditional conception common to epic and lyric poetry.

[35] Per l'esegesi dell'elegia per Clearisto (Theogn. 511-522)
n.s. 2, 2016, pp. 117-142 – DOI: 10.1285/i11245344v2016n2p117
ABSTRACT. The paper offers a complement to the interpretation proposed by the same author in the article L'elegia per Clearisto e il tema dell'esilio nella silloge teognidea (Theogn. 511-522), «La Parola del Passato» 62 (2007), pp. 390-418. In the former paper the theme of the elegy for Clearistus (Theogn. 511-522) was studied in connection with the question of wealth; in the present paper, the text of the same elegy is compared to Od. XIX 165-202, which is considered the principal model followed by the author of the elegy.

27. Lee FRATANTUONO (Maynooth University, Ireland)

[36] Candida's Father on True and False Dreams: A Note on Maximianus, Elegy 4.43-6
n.s. 9, 2023, pp. 25-46 – DOI: 10.1285/i11245344v2023n9p25
ABSTRACT. The late antique poems of Maximianus are the last surviving examples of the genre of classical Latin love elegy. Maximianus' verses are replete with intertextual allusions to his predecessors, including the epic poet Virgil. Close consideration of the dream sequence from the fourth elegy will reveal a close engagement with the Gates of Sleep passage from the sixth Aeneid, and of the encounter with the ghost of Cynthia from Propertius, c. 4.7.

28. Flavia FRISONE (Università del Salento, Lecce, Italy)

[37] La tradizione poetico-musicale e la costruzione identitaria nella storia della grecità magnogreca: Eracle fra Reggio e Locri
n.s. 9, 2023, pp. 211-246 – DOI: 10.1285/i11245344v2023n9p211
ABSTRACT. The paper deals with the importance of mythical traditions and their poetic reworking in the process of defining the identity of the Hellenic societies of Magna Graecia and their political-territorial profile. The study is based on a series of sources relating to legends that would have accompanied the definition of the borders between Rhegion and Locroi in extreme southern Calabria. The analysis shows that they relate to the articulation of the mythical heritage of the two cities, but stresses that they should be read above all in the context of the development of the epic and lyric tradition in the two poleis. In this connection, a specific group of traditions concerning Locroi, Croton and other poleis of the so-called 'Ionian Arc' is also identified. They are known through later sources, which have also influenced one another, but which may have originated from a process of 'vulgarisation' of mythical and poetic themes in an archaic chronological horizon.

29. Rodolfo FUNARI (Convitto Nazionale «Vittorio Emanuele II», Roma, Italy)

[38] Mimesi oratoria e vitalità espressiva nella oratio Cottae dal II libro delle Historiae di Sallustio
n.s. 6-7, 2020-2021, pp. 253-280 – DOI: 10.1285/i11245344v2020-21n6-7p253
ABSTRACT. The oratio Cottae belongs to the anthology of orationes and epistulae from the works of Sallust included in the Vatican codex 3864 (ninth century). But the beginning of the speech is preserved also in a fragment from the older codex Floriacensis (fifth century), which moreover permits a partial reconstruction of the context. Gaius Aurelius Cotta, consul in the year 75 B.C., gave his speech in front of the Roman people in a difficult plight for the state because of external wars and wheat shortage at home. The speech reveals the orator's frame of mind in the situation, but also his high rhetorical skill.

30. Francesco G. GIANNACHI (Università del Salento, Lecce, Italy)

[39] "Una lunga strada azzurra che porta alla Grecia". Diacronia e diatopia del greco del Salento
n.s. 5, 2019, pp. 103-126 – DOI: 10.1285/i11245344v2019n5p103
ABSTRACT. The paper deals with the diatopic and diachronic development of a western Greek dialect currently spoken in Southern Apulia (Italy).

[40] Lo iatrosophion del codice Ott. gr. 312
n.s. 3, 2017, pp. 219-246 – DOI: 10.1285/i11245344v2017n3p219
ABSTRACT. The paper deals with two texts transmitted by ms. Ott. gr. 312 on ff. 38v and 41. The iatrosophion of f. 38v is edited and commented on with references to other Byzantine and post-Byzantine texts of the same literary genre.

[41] Il Γεωπονικόν del monaco Agapio di Creta (XVII s.)
n.s. 2, 2016, pp. 143-180 – DOI: 10.1285/i11245344v2016n2p143
ABSTRACT. The paper analyzes the Γεωπονικόν written by Agapius Lando, a Cretan monk of the 17th c. It describes the structure and the main features of the work and presents extracts in Italian translation. The text of the Γεωπονικόν is identified in a codex preserved in the Academy of Athens.

31. Pietro GIANNINI (Università del Salento, Lecce, Italy)

[42] Ibycia
n.s. 8, 2022, pp. 9-32 – DOI: 10.1285/i11245344v2022n8p9
ABSTRACT. In this paper the author collects some contributions on Ibycus and his poetic activity. In the first (I) he defends the subjunctive forms ἔχῃσι and ἐγείρῃσι in fr. 303 Page-Davies. In the second (II) he tries to find in frr. 312 and 330 Page-Davies a metaphorical meaning within the maritime language applied to political situations. In the third (III) he identifies in the name Πολυκράτης, which appears in the text of Himerius, an etymological pun (Πολυκράτης = ὁ πολὺ κράτος ἔχων).

[43] L'iscrizione greca e alcuni motivi iconografici nella Basilica di Santa Caterina d'Alessandria a Galatina. Fra greci e latini. Multiculturalismo nel Salento medievale
n.s. 6-7, 2020-2021, pp. 9-100 – DOI: 10.1285/i11245344v2020-21n6-7p09
ABSTRACT. By granting Raimondello Del Balzo Orsini, in 1385, the authorization to build the church dedicated to St Catherine of Alexandria in (S. Pietro in) Galatina, with an adjoining convent and hospital, Pope Urban VI intended to promote religious Latinization in Terra d'Otranto. The process had difficulty in establishing itself due to the rooted Greek-Latin multiculturalism of medieval Salento. In the church the elements of the Latin tradition prevail, but the Byzantine tradition emerges as a still vital substratum. The reliefs of the Traditio Legis and the Imago Pietatis on the façade belong to the Byzantine tradition. A new reading of the Greek inscription on the lintel of the south door allows us to affirm that it refers to the "chapel of Mary" which, according to some, was already part of a pre-existing Byzantine church incorporated in the right aisle. Finally, the fresco with the allegory of the Church is interpreted as a recognition of the primacy of the Roman Pope and as an expression of the desire for reunification between the Greek and Roman Churches.

[44] A proposito della 'lingua geniale'
n.s. 4, 2018, pp. 107-116 – DOI: 10.1285/i11245344v2018n4p107
ABSTRACT. The article contains some observations on the successful volume La lingua geniale by A. Marcolongo.

[45] Il 'viaggio' della metafora
n.s. 4, 2018, pp. 117-130 – DOI: 10.1285/i11245344v2018n4p117
ABSTRACT. The 'journey' of metaphor is understood in two ways: 1) the journey of metaphor as a rhetorical figure; 2) the journey of metaphor over time, up to our days. As regards the first aspect, it is observed that Aristotle derives the meaning of μεταφορά from its original meaning of «transport»; therefore metaphor originally indicates the «transport» of a meaning from one term to another related to it. However, Aristotle also underlines another important feature of this figure: metaphor as a source of knowledge. As regards the second aspect, the presence of metaphor in contemporary speech, in ordinary language and in journalism is examined, and numerous examples are taken from newspaper articles on different subjects such as sport and politics. It can be concluded that metaphor is not an ornament of speech, but the manifestation of a way of thinking through images, as claimed by G. Vico, P. M. Bertinetto and M. Black.

[46] Il testo classico tra filologia e semiologia
n.s. 2, 2016, pp. 5-26 – DOI: 10.1285/i11245344v2016n2p5
ABSTRACT. The article, originally a lecture addressed to university students, aims to set out in a simple way some of the demands involved in reading classical texts. Traditionally the main objective of philology is the historical interpretation of texts; this objective is mostly realized in the edition of texts and in their analysis as historical and linguistic documents. For this purpose classical philology has developed appropriate tools over time. However, it is possible to go beyond this and to appreciate classical texts as literary texts. In this context modern semiotics offers some ideas that could be helpful: in particular the concept of the text as an organized message with an internal order, and the notion of textual coherence, which involves not only the micro- but also the macro-context.

32. Antonietta GOSTOLI (Università di Perugia, Italy)

[47] Gli agoni poetico-musicali nella storia della musica e della lirica greca disegnata da Eraclide Pontico ap. Ps. Plut. De musica
n.s. 8, 2022, pp. 59-78 – DOI: 10.1285/i11245344v2022n8p59
ABSTRACT. Ps. Plutarch's De musica is an important source for reconstructing the history of ancient Greek music and poetry. The treatise is divided into two parts: the first one is the history of music and poetry from their mythical origins to the 4th century BC; the second one is about the ethical and social function of musical education. This essay intends to focus on the first part. The discussion is mainly about kitharody, starting from its invention by Amphion and comparing it with the metric-rhythmic structures of the compositions of Terpander and Stesichorus; on kitharodic and aulodic nomoi; on the two musical schools founded in Sparta, also in relation to the definition of poetic genres. Heraclides of Pontus is the source of this section. From the text it emerges that the peripatetic scholar made use of written evidence consisting of inscriptions and catalogues of winners of poetic-musical competitions: the Sicyonian Anagraphe, the list of the Pythian victors, the Graphe of the Panathenaea, the Carnean Victors of Hellanicus and other chronicles of poetic-musical competitions.

33. Eugenio IMBRIANI (Università del Salento, Lecce, Italy)

[48] Il bello poteva venire: Pasolini e il grico
n.s. 8, 2022, pp. 131-140 – DOI: 10.1285/i11245344v2022n8p131
ABSTRACT. A few days before his death, Pier Paolo Pasolini gave a lecture in Lecce (in southern Puglia); in the afternoon he went to nearby Calimera, a town in the Salento Grecìa (Greek-speaking area), where he was able to listen to the songs and words of the local language (grico), which he had already had the opportunity to get to know: many years earlier, in fact, he had written the commentary for Cecilia Mangini's film Stendalì, in which the practice of funeral lament in a village of the Grecìa was reconstructed.

34. Walter LAPINI (Università di Genova, Italy)

[49] Scrivere in latino oggi
n.s. 6-7, 2020-2021, pp. 337-350 – DOI: 10.1285/i11245344v2020-21n6-7p337
ABSTRACT. The author draws a brief balance sheet on the use of philological Latin in recent decades. He recalls how the Latin praefatio in critical editions of classical texts has now been supplanted by the English preface. But if philologists abandon Latin in their prefaces, they should also abandon it in their critical apparatus, titles, and abbreviations. Only in the Bibliotheca Teubneriana do praefationes survive, but they are increasingly tainted by imperfections and errors. The conclusion is that English replaces Latin because of our limitations, not because of a choice of modernity. By bowing time and again to those who demand that we lower the bar, the world of the Humanities thinks it can avoid extinction by sacrificing honour, but it will face both extinction and dishonour.

35. Massimo LAZZERI (Università degli Studi di Salerno, Italy)

[50] Osservazioni a Him. or. 27, § 1
n.s. 9, 2023, pp. 47-70 – DOI: 10.1285/i11245344v2023n9p47
ABSTRACT. The paper analyzes Him. or. 27, 1: it re-examines and discusses the incomplete text and offers some exegetical proposals.

36. Fabrizio LELLI (Università del Salento, Lecce, Italy)

[51] Una compilazione medica ebraica del XV secolo: il manoscritto St. Peterburg RGB EVR II A 11
n.s. 3, 2017, pp. 253-270 – DOI: 10.1285/i11245344v2017n3p253
ABSTRACT. The recent rediscovery of Hebrew manuscript material housed in Eastern European libraries and until recently not fully accessible to Western scholars has allowed a new understanding of the scientific sources on which 15th-century Southern Italian Jewish physicians grounded their medical knowledge. In particular, the detailed analysis of Ms. St. Petersburg, Russian National Library, EVR II A 11 casts light on the social and intellectual relationships between Jewish doctors (mainly of Sephardi origin) active in 15th-century Apulia and their communities, as well as on their scientific interests and their strategies for handling and transmitting texts written in languages other than Hebrew.

37. Liana LOMIENTO (Università «Carlo Bo» di Urbino, Italy)

[52] La voce delle Erinni in Aesch., Eum. vv. 117-139
n.s. 6-7, 2020-2021, pp. 131-160 – DOI: 10.1285/i11245344v2020-21n6-7p131
ABSTRACT. Through the analysis of the formal, metrical and rhythmic structure of vv. 117-139, and an in-depth study of the linguistic nature of the sounds uttered by the Erinyes in their 'dialogue' with the shade of Clytemnestra, as indicated by the stage directions in the Medicean codex, this study highlights the dramaturgical and musical innovations displayed in the opening song of the Eumenides.

38. Alessandra MANIERI (Università del Salento, Lecce, Italy)

[53] Pan che non muore: dall'Arcadia alla totalità del cosmo
n.s. 10, 2024, pp. 81-102 – DOI: 10.1285/i11245344v2024n10p81
ABSTRACT. The mythical narrative of the god Pan exemplifies the dynamic nature of ancient Greek myths, conceived as living organisms in constant evolution, open to revisions and reinterpretations. In particular, the god's death and rebirth acquire, in the modern age, a symbolic significance reflecting the enduring legacy of classical culture and its models. This paper explores the transformations of the myth, tracing its development from ancient sources to its reinterpretations in twentieth-century Italian poetry, with a special focus on Pascoli and D'Annunzio.

[54] Recensione
n.s. 1, 2015, pp. 191-198 – DOI: 10.1285/i11245344v2015n1p191 (*)
Volume recensito: O. Olivieri, Miti e culti tebani nella poesia di Pindaro, Fabrizio Serra Editore, Pisa-Roma 2011

39. Leonardo MASONE (Universidad Carlos III, Madrid, Spain)

[55] Spàrtene - Magnesia. L'architettura istituzionale della nuova colonia delle Leggi. Nuovi confronti a conferma di una tesi
n.s. 8, 2022, pp. 33-52 – DOI: 10.1285/i11245344v2022n8p33
ABSTRACT. The latest studies on Magnesia, the city presented in the Nomoi, have revitalized the debate on one of Plato's most important dialogues. The new polis of the Laws does not completely depart from the 'utopia' of the Republic: Kallipolis remains the virtuous point of reference towards which all potential administrative constructions must strive. In the Laws, however, there is an undeniable effort towards concreteness, through specific rules and a more concrete urban organization. Plato points out in great detail the institutional bodies that would have contributed significantly to the creation of the new, functional and unchangeable polis made up of the best Greeks: the assembly, the council, the guardians of the laws, the nocturnal council and all the other magistrates. But what historical examples does Plato actually refer to? A mixture that conveys the originality of Plato's thought.

40. Stefano PARENTI (Università di Regensburg, Germany; Pontificio Ateneo «S. Anselmo», Roma, Italy)

[56] La musica liturgica bizantina nova et vetera
n.s. 8, 2022, pp. 93-112 – DOI: 10.1285/i11245344v2022n8p93
ABSTRACT. The article highlights the contribution of Byzantine liturgical studies carried out over the past half century to a better understanding of the history of Byzantine music. In particular, some commonplaces and outdated confessional terminologies are revisited.

[57] Tipologie dei libri liturgici greci del Salento
n.s. 3, 2017, pp. 43-150 – DOI: 10.1285/i11245344v2017n3p43
ABSTRACT. The inaccuracies of older catalogs continue to influence the descriptions of Byzantine liturgical manuscripts today, especially in the context of palaeography studies. The present study deals with this problem through a critical revision of a conspicuous sector of Greek liturgical books produced in Salento between the twelfth and sixteenth century. The author takes into consideration over eighty manuscripts and fragments of codices used in liturgical worship (with the exceptions of the euchologion and synaxarion), and traces each editorial typology on the basis of the most current and reliable research.

41. Natascia PELLÈ (Università del Salento, Lecce, Italy)

[58] Ricordo di Mario Capasso (7 maggio 1951 - 26 dicembre 2023)
n.s. 9, 2023, pp. 9-22 – DOI: 10.1285/i11245344v2023n9p9 (*)
ABSTRACT. The article briefly commemorates Mario Capasso with a specific focus on his scientific, teaching, and administrative activities carried out at the University of Lecce.

42. Massimo RAFFA (Università del Salento, Lecce, Italy)

[59] Taranto e lo sviluppo della teoria musicale greca
n.s. 10, 2024, pp. 39-54 – DOI: 10.1285/i11245344v2024n10p39
ABSTRACT. Archytas and Aristoxenus are crucial in the history of Greek music theory in the last decades of the V cent. and the IV cent. BC. The former is an outstanding representative of Tarantine Pythagoreanism; the latter, although raised in the same environment, was to distance himself from it both geographically and scientifically, and to give the science of harmonics a new basis, apparently different from the Pythagorean doctrine. In this article a reflection is carried out on the common traits in their thought, in order to define the specific contribution of Magna Graecia, if any, to the development of ancient harmonics.

43. Enrico RENNA (Ricercatore indipendente, Napoli, Italy)

[60] Ex italico sermone in latinum. Per la storia di una prassi traduttiva tra Otto e Novecento
n.s. 9, 2023, pp. 95-158 – DOI: 10.1285/i11245344v2023n9p95
ABSTRACT. After the Unification, in the Italian school system, with ups and downs, translation from the classics of Italian literature into Latin was institutionalized as an exercise distinct from composition in the same language. Memorable, with 57 reprints, remains Lo stile latino (1893) by Giovanni Battista Gandino, a leading figure of the University of Bologna and teacher of Giovanni Pascoli. Subsequently, some manuals are reviewed, including Meletemata by Virgilio Paladini and Scriver latino by Ugo Enrico Paoli, in which the theoretical part relating to style is combined with practical examples in Latin. Finally, after the teaching experiences of Giovanni Pascoli and Paolo Fossataro, we report the balanced position of Alfonso Traina on translation from Italian into Latin, before its elimination.

44. Marco RIZZI (Università Cattolica del «Sacro Cuore», Milano, Italy)

[61] Cristo canto nuovo in Clemente di Alessandria
n.s. 6-7, 2020-2021, pp. 161-168 – DOI: 10.1285/i11245344v2020-21n6-7p161
ABSTRACT. The paper examines the use of the Homeric syntagm "winged word" in Clement of Alexandria, particularly in the proemium of his Protrepticus and in his Hymn to the Logos handed down as an appendix to his Pedagogue. In Clement's Christian context, the logos, synonymous with "word", is identified with Christ, the incarnate Logos of God. Christ is thus contrasted with the singers of the classical tradition, and thanks to his redemptive action human beings can become one with the word they sing and with the Word that saves them, raising them like a wing to heaven.

45. Ilaria RIZZINI (IIS «Taramelli - Foscolo», Liceo classico «Ugo Foscolo», Pavia, Italy)

[62] Dal pensiero ordinato l'ordine del pensiero. Ricadute didattiche ed epistemologiche dell'insegnamento del latino (ovvero, nascita di una forma mentis)
n.s. 9, 2023, pp. 183-208 – DOI: 10.1285/i11245344v2023n9p183
ABSTRACT. This work aims to examine the argumentative strategies used in two passages, one in prose (Cic., De Re Publica VI, 26-27), the other in poetry (Lucr., De Rerum Natura III, 417-831) which discuss and support two opposite theories: the immortality of the soul (the former), and the soul's mortality (the latter). I intend to demonstrate that the same linguistic and syntactic structures, using similar skills and expertise, can effectively give shape to antithetical theories, whose meaning is not based on content, but on the forms that express them. The didactic impact of this approach is instrumental not only in getting students to learn about/understand two masters in the history of ancient literature, but also, by deconstructing the structures of the text and showing its mechanisms, in helping them build their own argumentative method, and teaching them how to use it.

46. Luana RIZZO (Università del Salento, Lecce, Italy)

[63] La circolazione degli Inni orfici in Terra d'Otranto fra XV e XVI secolo
n.s. 3, 2017, pp. 393-414 – DOI: 10.1285/i11245344v2017n3p393
ABSTRACT. The essay illustrates the circulation of Orphic doctrines in Salento as witnessed by several manuscripts written in this area. Among these, the unpublished Vaticanus graecus 2264, which contains, in addition to the text of the Hymns, an extensive commentary – the only one extant for these texts – is of particular importance. Pending the publication of the commentary, the author sets out its contents, inspired by a syncretism between Christian and Orphic doctrines. He also relates these contents, on the one hand, to the Ficinian currents of the Italian Renaissance and, on the other, to the culture of southern Italy, which had its own independent contact with Greek-Byzantine culture.

47. Caterina ROMANO (Università del Salento, Lecce, Italy)

[64] La tradizione poetico-musicale e la costruzione identitaria nella storia della grecità magnogreca: Eracle fra Reggio e Locri
n.s. 9, 2023, pp. 211-246 – DOI: 10.1285/i11245344v2023n9p211
ABSTRACT. The paper deals with the importance of mythical traditions and their poetic reworking in the process of defining the identity of the Hellenic societies of Magna Graecia and their political-territorial profile. The study is based on a series of sources relating to legends that would have accompanied the definition of the borders between Rhegion and Locroi in extreme southern Calabria. The analysis shows that they relate to the articulation of the mythical heritage of the two cities, but stresses that they should be read above all in the context of the development of the epic and lyric tradition in the two poleis. In this connection, a specific group of traditions concerning Locroi, Croton and other poleis of the so-called 'Ionian Arc' is also identified. They are known through later sources, which have also influenced one another, but which may have originated from a process of 'vulgarisation' of mythical and poetic themes in an archaic chronological horizon.

48. Linda SAFRAN (Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto, Canada)

[65] La mise-en-page dei testi pubblici nel Salento medievale
n.s. 3, 2017, pp. 271-290 – DOI: 10.1285/i11245344v2017n3p271
ABSTRACT. There are different ways to understand a text beyond the most common method of sequential reading. Examining the mise-en-page—that is, the design or impagination of the space devoted to writing—can help us move beyond the language of the text itself to get closer to its reception. Three inscriptions in Greek (a dedicatory stela of a hospital in Andrano, a painted epitaph in a subterranean chapel at Carpignano, and an incised funerary text at S. Maria di Cerrate) and two incised in Hebrew (both from Brindisi) are studied here. The manipulation of such features as composition, color, or the size and placement of certain words helps create additional meaning in these texts that transcends a simple reading. The mise-en-page creates a space between the textual and visual worlds that accords agency to the planner, craftsman, and readers of the text.

49. Giovanni SALANITRO (Università di Catania, Italy)

[66] Brevi considerazioni sulla evoluzione della lingua latina
n.s. 9, 2023, pp. 89-94 – DOI: 10.1285/i11245344v2023n9p89
ABSTRACT. This paper illustrates the evolution of the Latin language.

[67] L'importanza dello studio del latino, oggi
n.s. 6-7, 2020-2021, pp. 243-252 – DOI: 10.1285/i11245344v2020-21n6-7p243
ABSTRACT. It is necessary to remember that the Italian language is rooted in Latin, as we can see from its evolution over the centuries. Therefore, it is worth studying Latin even nowadays, in the Web era.

50. Maria Giovanna SANDRI (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy)

[68] Una schedografia salentina sinora trascurata: il Laur. Plut. 89, 25
n.s. 4, 2018, pp. 131-144 – DOI: 10.1285/i11245344v2018n4p131
ABSTRACT. The Laur. Plut. 89, 25 is a long-neglected schedographic codex. This paper provides the first description of its contents and the first codicological analysis of the manuscript. First, it shows that this codex preserves an extra-Moschopulean schedography, which can be traced back to the first of the classes identified by J.J. Keaney. Then it reveals the context of the genesis of this manuscript, mainly on palaeographic grounds, showing that it is a product of the Italian Salento and that it must be dated between the end of the 13th and the early 14th century.

51. Emanuela SAPONARO (Università del Salento, Lecce, Italy)

[69] La replica di Origene all'Ἀληθὴς λόγος di Celso: un'analisi lessicale
n.s. 1, 2015, pp. 133-162 – DOI: 10.1285/i11245344v2015n1p133
ABSTRACT. In Contra Celsum Origen's purpose is to refute the pagan Celsus' treatise against the Christians, the Ἀληθὴς λόγος, replying point by point to his opponent's arguments in a very detailed way and trying to put him in a bad light, not least through careful lexical choices. The Alexandrian theologian, in fact, constantly uses vocabulary which highlights every lie, absurdity, foolishness and mistake in the writing of his pagan rival, described as ignorant and incompetent, guided only by his hatred of the Christians. Therefore Celsus, in Origen's words, does not deserve to be considered a true philosopher but only a boaster who, with no seriousness, has put together a series of accusations which are inconsistent and, despite the title given to his work, untrue.

52. Claudio SCHIANO (Università degli Studi «Aldo Moro» di Bari, Italy)

[70] Omnes civitates nostre obedient venerationi: Nicola di Otranto e le fonti latine
n.s. 3, 2017, pp. 151-190 – DOI: 10.1285/i11245344v2017n3p151
ABSTRACT. Nicholas-Nektarios' activity as a translator and cultural interpreter is revealed by his theological writings, where Greek and Latin sources coexist. Studying the quotations from Latin sources in the Tria syntagmata may show how the author meant to call Greek and Latin communities back to the unity of teaching of early Christians; usually, Nicholas-Nektarios reads his Latin sources through Greek versions or other intermediaries, but sometimes the direct approach to the original Latin text can be proved. His attempt at publishing the work in Greek and Latin at the same time raises some difficult philological issues.

53. Gianni SCHILARDI (Ricercatore indipendente, Lecce, Italy)

[71] Lo sguardo del griko
n.s. 6-7, 2020-2021, pp. 211-228 – DOI: 10.1285/i11245344v2020-21n6-7p211
ABSTRACT. This contribution is intended as a testimony, albeit belated, within an ancient querelle, in favour of historical Griko-Salentine bilingualism.

54. Francesco SERRATÌ (École normale supérieure – PSL, Paris, France)

[72] Recensione
n.s. 10, 2024, pp. 129-134 – DOI: 10.1285/i11245344v2024n10p129 (*)
Volume recensito: Materialità della medicina antica. Aspetti grafici e materiali dei papiri medici dall'antico Egitto, a cura di N. Reggiani, Parma 2024

55. Marco UGENTI (Liceo «Pietro Colonna», Galatina, Lecce, Italy)

[73] Recensione
n.s. 5, 2019, pp. 139-142 – DOI: 10.1285/i11245344v2019n5p139 (*)
Volume recensito: D. Micalella, Giuliano scrittore. La storia, le storie e il mito, Edizioni dell'Orso, Alessandria 2018, pp. 126

[74] Oltre la traduzione: per un recupero di significatività delle discipline classiche. Riflessioni su un intervento didattico
n.s. 1, 2015, pp. 163-188 – DOI: 10.1285/i11245344v2015n1p163
ABSTRACT. This paper presents a study of the possibility of making the study of Latin language and literature more meaningful for the new generations. Specifically, after a teaching experience during the preparation courses for the Latin certamina, we tried to go beyond simple translation by enhancing cooperative learning and text analysis in order to foster a deep and comprehensive understanding of the text.

56. Valerio UGENTI (Università del Salento, Lecce, Italy)

[75] Note critiche al testo dell'Apocritico di Macario di Magnesia (3, 1-8)
n.s. 4, 2018, pp. 145-158 – DOI: 10.1285/i11245344v2018n4p145
ABSTRACT. Textual criticism of five passages of Macarius Magnes' Apocriticus: 3,1,1 defending ὀφθείς of the manuscript against ὤφθη of Harnack; 3, 2, 1 defending optative μὴ φοβηθεῖτε of the manuscript against μὴ φοβηθῆτε of Blondel; 3, 4, 7 defending οὐ γὰρ δίκαιον of the manuscript against δίκαιον γὰρ of Harnack; 3, 6, 1 defending δὲ ἔχουσαν of the manuscript against δ' ἔχουσαν of Goulet; 3, 8, 5 integrating μὲν after the first βίᾳ.

[76] La cultura umanistica nella società del 2000
n.s. 4, 2018, pp. 159-174 – DOI: 10.1285/i11245344v2018n4p159
ABSTRACT. Classical studies, philological studies in particular, give as their first result the capacity to organize thought and express it effectively. However, the model is not sophistic rhetoric, but the Stoic λόγος which transforms χάος into κόσμος, and the creating Λόγος of St John's Gospel. A humanist is the expression of the critical conscience and historical memory of society. The critical conscience expresses itself in the commendation of slowness and in the commendation of heresy, because they reveal the capacity to reflect carefully and to assume one's own responsibilities. Historical memory allows the recovery of the roots of our civilization, which is characterized by the Christian reinterpretation of classical humanitas. The final point of the discourse is the affirmation of the supremacy of knowledge over the capacity to do, as well as the supremacy of knowledge over the material product, because matter is sterile while the human spirit is fruitful.

57. Biagio VIRGILIO (Università di Pisa, Italy)

[77] L'iscrizione greca e alcuni motivi iconografici nella Basilica di Santa Caterina d'Alessandria a Galatina. Fra greci e latini. Multiculturalismo nel Salento medievale
n.s. 6-7, 2020-2021, pp. 9-100 – DOI: 10.1285/i11245344v2020-21n6-7p09
ABSTRACT. By granting Raimondello Del Balzo Orsini, in 1385, the authorization to build the church dedicated to St Catherine of Alexandria in (S. Pietro in) Galatina, with an adjoining convent and hospital, Pope Urban VI intended to promote religious Latinization in Terra d'Otranto. The process had difficulty in establishing itself due to the rooted Greek-Latin multiculturalism of medieval Salento. In the church the elements of the Latin tradition prevail, but the Byzantine tradition emerges as a still vital substratum. The reliefs of the Traditio Legis and the Imago Pietatis on the façade belong to the Byzantine tradition. A new reading of the Greek inscription on the lintel of the south door allows us to affirm that it refers to the "chapel of Mary" which, according to some, was already part of a pre-existing Byzantine church incorporated in the right aisle. Finally, the fresco with the allegory of the Church is interpreted as a recognition of the primacy of the Roman Pope and as an expression of the desire for reunification between the Greek and Roman Churches.

58. Paolo VITI (Università del Salento, Lecce, Italy)

[78] Il Latino tra Medioevo e Umanesimo
n.s. 6-7, 2020-2021, pp. 281-336 – DOI: 10.1285/i11245344v2020-21n6-7p281
ABSTRACT. Starting from the mid-thirteenth century, a culture based on intellectual strength, on the dignity of man and on the recovery of classical texts developed: it is a distinctive line of awareness, already present in the fourteenth century with Francesco Petrarca and Giovanni Boccaccio and then throughout the fifteenth century, above all thanks to the commitment of Coluccio Salutati, Leonardo Bruni, Lorenzo Valla, Domizio Calderini, Angelo Poliziano and Ermolao Barbaro. With them – but also with Carlo Marsuppini and Poggio Bracciolini – a philology capable of combining doctrine and erudition is applied to restore the correctness of a text and recover the original version of a work.

59. Onofrio VOX (Università del Salento, Lecce, Italy)

[79] Epiphonemata nel corpus epistolare di Alcifrone
n.s. 6-7, 2020-2021, pp. 101-126 – DOI: 10.1285/i11245344v2020-21n6-7p101
ABSTRACT. This paper analyzes a noteworthy rhetorical-stylistic feature of Alciphron's corpus of fictitious letters, namely the epiphonema, a reflective utterance that emphatically caps the narration (diegema) or, more rarely, introduces it – a feature inherited from Menander's comedy. The identifiable occurrences of the epiphonema in the corpus are briefly discussed in order and then listed in an index by type.

60. Claudio ZAMAGNI (Università «Sapienza» di Roma, Italy)

[80] La συμφωνία dei testi nella letteratura greca cristiana. Le Domande e risposte sui vangeli di Eusebio
n.s. 8, 2022, pp. 79-92 – DOI: 10.1285/i11245344v2022n8p79
ABSTRACT. The term συμφωνία and the related musical terms are used more and more often, in the development of Greek literature, with a metaphorical value. In the Christian context of the early 4th century, this leads the term to take on, as its main and perhaps only meaning, its newest metaphorical sense of criterion of truth, particularly in the context of the textual veracity of the Sacred Book.

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