Browsing Classics and Ancient History by Title
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Alexander and Africa (332-331 BC and beyond): the facts, the traditions and the problems
(Classical Association of South Africa, 2014)No abstract available -
Alexander, Agathos Daimon and Ptolemy: the Alexandrian foundation myth in dialogue
(University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014-10-23)Abstract not available -
The ancient Greek address system and some proposed sociolinguistic universals
(Cambridge University Press, 1997-03)This article summarizes the results of a longer study of address forms in Ancient Greek, based on 11,891 address tokens from a variety of sources. It argues that the Greek evidence appears to contradict two tendencies, ... -
Aphrodisians on Display : The Public Image of a Local Élite
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Aquinas on Parts, Wholes, and Aristotelian Anti-Reductionism
(Sismel Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2015)The paper discusses Aquinas’s Aristotelian claim that substances are not aggregates of either their ordinary parts or their metaphysical constituents. The analysis is conducted through a survey of Aquinas’s mereological ... -
Are Matter and Form Parts? Aristotle’s and Neo-Aristotelian Hylomorphism
(Quodlibet edizioni, 2018)The paper takes issue with Koslicki’s Neo-Aristotelian Mereology (NAM) and more particularly with her understanding of hylomorphism in mereological terms. NAM centres on two characteristic claims: (i) that Aristotle’s form ... -
Aristotle's Metaphysics
(Oxford University Press, 2017-09-27)Aristotle’s Metaphysics, one of the most influential works in Western thought, is a collection of fourteen treatises or books. The title is not by Aristotle and is due to a Hellenistic editor, traditionally identified with ... -
Atena e l’ottovolante: “affective turn”, estetica postmoderna e ricezione dell’antico
(University of Rome, 2015-07-01)The author investigates in this article the forms of Classical reception, in particular in reference to the visual and performing arts and with a special focus on the role of Classical Antiquity in postmodern aesthetics. ... -
Athenaeus the Navigator
(Cambridge University Press, 2008)This study concerns navigation in a geographical sense and in the sense of the reader finding a way through a complex text with the help of points of reference. Recent studies in Athenaeus have suggested that he was a more ... -
Beheading the Gorgon: Myth, Symbolism and Appropriation
(Springer, 2016)Book chapter: pp. 823-824, appearing in: S. Goffredo, Z. Dubinsky (eds.), The Cnidaria, Past, Present and Future, Springer International Publishing, Switzerland. 2016. ISBN: 978-3-319-31305-4 -
Caput mundi: Rome as Center in Roman Representation and Construction of Space
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Scavi di San Martino, Romagnano Sesia
The excavations carried out at the church of San Martino in 1998 were intended to clarify some of the architectural and chronological problems which had been posed over the last two excavation seasons.1 This report will ... -
The community of the Hellenes
(Cambridge University Press, 2015)A phenomenon that is closely linked to federalism among the Greek city states is the development and definition of the Hellenic community. As regional and local identities were taking shape, also by at least the mid sixth ... -
A Companion to Roman Art
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A Companion to the Latin Medieval Commentaries on Aristotle’s Metaphysics
(Brill, 2014)In fourteen substantial essays this volume reconstructs the late medieval reception of this work, by focusing on the main medieval commentators and a common set of metaphysical topics.