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Gendered and Gendering Insults and Compliments in the Latin Novels

Eugesta, 2013
The chief and subsidiary narrators (generally male) in Petronius and Apuleius’ fictions voice judgments on men’s and women’s actions, words and other sounds, and gestures.
Donald Lateiner
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Pontius Pilatus in der Darstellung des Bellum Iudaicum

Protokolle zur Bibel, 2016
The picture of Pontius Pilate, the fifth Roman governor of Judaea, is all in all a negative one but it proves to be the result of a complex literary strategy in Josephus’ Bellum Iudaicum.
Martin Stowasser
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Sénèque et la cuisine romaine

Kentron, 2019
Seneca criticizes gastronomic luxury by providing us with many details of the refinement of Roman cuisine. If he criticizes the choice of the pursuit of the pleasures of the table, he attacks mostly a culinary diet and an ...
Jérôme Laurent
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Bisclavret, versipelles, denasare. Metamorfosi da Plauto e Apuleio a Maria di Francia

Lexicon Philosophicum
Marie de France's lai of Bisclavret is a medieval narrative of metamorphosis that invites commentary due to its complexity and numerous intertextual references.
Roberto Talamo
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«Humourism» in European Literature

Enthymema, 2010
What is Tradition? We usually (and wrongly) think it coincides with History. It would be better to think of Traditions, that is various experiences that co-exist in history and can be picked up to build on one’s system of values to be passed on to future
Daniela Marcheschi
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A perspective on the vocabulary common to Classical and Vulgar Latin [PDF]

Diacronia, 2018
This paper stems from two different perspectives—that of the Latinists, and that of the Romanists—upon the concept of ‘Vulgar Latin’, perspectives that have given rise to a friendly debate between Pierre Flobert and Eugeniu Coșeriu. We try to highlight a
George Bogdan Țâra
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COMENTARIO PERDIDO A PETRONIO

Myrtia, 1990
A series of letters written by D. Juan de Fonseca y Figueroa (1578-1627), to be found in the manuscript 'Madrid, Biblioteca Nacional' 12639, provide information about the existence of a Commentary to Petronius.
Francisca Moya del Baño, Filomena Fortuny Previ   +1 more
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The Satiricon and the Christian Oral Tradition

Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies, 2001
A number of passages in the Satyricon reveal knowledge of Christianity, which Petronius can have acquired during his official duties in the eastern provinces.
J. Allen Cabaniss
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Edible Insects: A Historical and Cultural Perspective on Entomophagy with a Focus on Western Societies. [PDF]

Insects, 2023
Olivadese M, Dindo ML.
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The Evolution of Book Circulation in Imperial Age: Legal and Christian Literature

Studia Historica: Historia Antigua, 2019
With the Principate legal literature gained in importance as consequence of the democratization of knowledge. An unlearned character in Petronius’ Satyricon sought to buy aliquot libra rubricata (law-texts), in order to enable his son to acquire ...
Arnaldo MARCONE
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