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Some peculiarities of the carnivalization in ancient position to serious are comparatively analyzed in the descriptions of the symposions in the «Satyricon» of Petronius and the «Symposium» of Plato.
Віктор Левченко
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Encolpio e Ascilto, all’ombra di Epimeteo. Nota a Petronio, Satyricon, 7, 4
In Satyricon, 7, 4 ff., Encolpius and Ascyltos realize too late that they have come to a brothel. Modern scholars have argued that this scene prefigures a motif running through all of the surviving text by Petronius: the schoolmen’s failure to ...
Gian Franco Gianotti
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Exploring Pompeii: discovering hospitality through research synergy [PDF]
Hospitality research continues to broaden through an ever-increasing dialogue and alignment with a greater number of academic disciplines. This paper demonstrates how an enhanced understanding of hospitality can be achieved through synergy between ...
André J. +41 more
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Samobójstwo estetyczne. Na marginesie Quo vadis Henryka Sienkiewicza (ESTHETICAL SUICIDE. ON THE MARGIN OF 'QUO VADIS?' BY H. SIENKIEWICZ) [PDF]
The article presents the Petronius' suicide (as a character of 'Quo vadis?') in the context of ancient and Christian concept of death and dying. Petronius' death arranged as a piece of art (to realize the idea of beauty) is an icon of the ancient Rome's ...
Ireneusz Ziemiński
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Educating the sovereign: court teachers of the heirs of the roman emperors of the late 4th century – the first half of the 5th century [PDF]
This article is dedicated to a variety of problems related to the education of the heirs of the Valentinian-Theodosius dynasty. It covers the biographies of the tutors of the royal children (Auso-nius, Themistius, Arsenius, Antiochus, Anastasius ...
Michail VEDESHKIN
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The origins of the Romance analytic passive : evidence from word order [PDF]
This chapter argues that despite formal resemblances, Latin perfect tense BE-periphrases of the type amatus sum ‘I was loved’ are not the historical source of Romance present tense passives like Italian sono amato and French je suis aimé (both meaning ‘I
Danckaert, Lieven
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Ospitare una lingua: tentazioni, esitazioni, affondi
Petronius’ “tasty novel of the slums”, Apuleius’ mannerisms, Guiraut Riquier’s alliterative lyric, the rewriting of the Roman de la Rose in the neo-vulgar dialect of Ancona, an Occitan twentieth-century epic, a gothic novel in Limousine dialect where Man
Monica Longobardi
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Latin mythology and its European reflexes [PDF]
This paper tries to synthesise the evolution and specificity of Latin mythology. Its primitive forms were mostly rural, with minor indigenous deities, and consisted mainly of ritual for practical purposes (invoking protection for agricultural crops ...
Petre Gheorghe BÂRLEA
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Comments on a Roman Stamped Brass Ingot
A Roman brass ingot, which appeared on the antiquities market, is described in detail. It is stamped three times showing the name most probably of a freedman, Gaius Petronius Hermes.
Peter Rothenhöfer
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La fiction, une réalité outrée ? Le Satiricon et la critique politique
The Satiricon, an incomplete work of uncertain authorship and undetermined status, has sometimes been denied the status of a historical source. However, it is strewn with realistic details that encourage comparison with legal, scientific or epigraphic ...
Marie-Claire Ferriès
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