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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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Robbers and Soldiers: Criminality and Roman Army in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses
This paper aims at discussing the relationship between ancient robbers and Roman army in Apuleius' Metamorphoses. As Apuleius' Metamorphoses has a great deal of information about banditry, deserters and ex-soldiers that can be explored in different ways,
Renata Garraffoni
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Dois episódios petronianos em “Ci, Mãe do Mato”: um estudo de recepção dos clássicos em Macunaíma [PDF]
RESUMO Propõe este artigo um estudo de recepção dos clássicos no capítulo “Ci, Mãe do Mato”, da rapsódia de Mário de Andrade, Macunaíma, de 1928, particularmente de dois episódios do Satyricon, de Petrônio, o importante romance latino do século I d.C: o ...
Fabrício Sparvoli
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Seen and named in narratives: denizens of hell in the early Middle Ages
This article discusses a special type of narrative: encounters with named individuals in hell. The catchment is broad (Homer to Dante) but the focus is on the early Middle Ages. Philological and literary techniques elucidate and reinterpret a number of important visionary texts, Anglo‐Saxon, Merovingian, and Carolingian. Boniface, Ep. 115 re‐emerges as
Danuta Shanzer
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Abstract Charles Gildon (1665–1724) is known today as the ultimate hack writer of Restoration England. Nonetheless, his two fiction collections in the ‘rifled mailbag’ genre — The Post‐Boy Rob'd of His Mail (1692) and The Post‐Man Robb'd of His Mail (1719) — contain insights concerning the structures and practices of information gathering in early ...
Thomas O. Beebee
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A Morte de Petrônio na Narrativa Tacitiana
Este artigo pretende anahsar a construção narrativa elaborada por Tácito, nos Annales, objetivando o estudo detalhado de elementos que possibihtem a possível identificação do personagem tacitiano, Petronio Artbiter Elegantiae, com o autor da obra ...
Claudiomar R. Gonçalves
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Sulle orme di Ercole: modelli epici a confronto tra Ovidio e Petronio
The article aims to explore the connections between the fifteenth book of Ovid’s Metamorphoses and the Bellum civile sung by Eumolpus in Petronius’ Satyricon.
Laura Aresi
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The Carolingian cocio: on the vocabulary of the early medieval petty merchant
The word cocio (i.e. petty merchant or broker in classical Latin) was a rare term that after a long absence in written Latin reappeared in several Carolingian texts. Scholars have posited a medieval semantic shift from ‘merchant’ to ‘vagabond’. But this article argues that this consensus is erroneous.
Shane Bobrycki
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Una de las principales dificultades que plantea el Satyricon de Petronio a la crítica literaria es su categorización genérica. Este trabajo se propone analizar la importancia que tienen los nuevos descubrimientos papiráceos para la consideración de esta ...
Marcos Carmignani
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“Rostov Text” and Context of A.T. Averchenko’s Creativity between 1918-1919th
The author of the article for the first time refers to a little-known period in the biography of the writer-humorist A.T. Averchenko, who visited the Don in 1918-1919th.
Viktoria D. Milenko
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