Latin mythology and its European reflexes [PDF]
Diversitate si Identitate Culturala in Europa, 2021 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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The origins of the Romance analytic passive : evidence from word order [PDF]
, 2017 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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Comments on a Roman Stamped Brass Ingot
Gephyra, 2015 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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Encolpio e Ascilto, all’ombra di Epimeteo. Nota a Petronio, Satyricon, 7, 4
Gaia, 2021 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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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]
Hypothekai, 2023 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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'Non humana viscera sed centies sestertium comesse' (Petr. Sat. 141, 7): Philomela and the cannibal heredipetae in the Crotonian section of Petronius' Satyricon [PDF]
, 2013 The connection between the themes of money and death is widespread in Petronius' Satyricon, and is definitely not limited to the Cena Trimalchionis, where it has been widely examined.
Monella, P
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La fiction, une réalité outrée ? Le Satiricon et la critique politique
Cahiers d’Études Italiennes, 2022 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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0243 Il volto di Bologna. Immagini, tradizioni e luoghi di una nazione a Roma
RIHA Journal, 2020 This paper aims to define the role of the Bolognese 'nation' in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Rome. The church of Saints John the Evangelist and Petronius, built in 1576 under the Bolognese Pope Gregory XIII, represents the first instance of this ...
Giulia Iseppi
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Figures du lycanthrope à l’âge baroque
Etudes Epistémè, 2019 The image of the werewolf, whose roots can be found in Pline’s or Petronius’ tales of metamorphosis, undergoes an intriguing reinterpretation in the Baroque era under the name of “lycanthrope”. This new figure of the werewolf does not belong to the realm
Édith Girval
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Inscription dedicated to Neptune from the territory of ancient Doclea [PDF]
Starinar, 2009 A new votive inscription from the territory of Doclea has recently been published. The reading of the text needs revision, and consequently, reinterpretation.
Grbić Dragana
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