Samobójstwo estetyczne. Na marginesie Quo vadis Henryka Sienkiewicza (ESTHETICAL SUICIDE. ON THE MARGIN OF 'QUO VADIS?' BY H. SIENKIEWICZ) [PDF]
Analiza i Egzystencja, 2006 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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Ospitare una lingua: tentazioni, esitazioni, affondi
Linguae &: Rivista di Lingue e Culture Moderne, 2018 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]
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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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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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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