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CONTENTS October 17th, 2011 [pages 6-15] I Persecution and the Art of Writing or Towards a Hermeneutics of Suspicion from interpretation of the meaning between lines to explanation of the transcendental effect of forms 1. ‘PERSECUTION’:... more
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      CensorshipPoeticsPropertiusHorace
This book of satires from the Roman poet Horace was his first published work. Rather than a collection of satirical sideswipes, as the genre might have dictated, the book is a wiry, tight, muscular, interlaced hexameter artwork of... more
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      Ancient HistoryRoman HistoryRoman RepublicRoman poetry
Horace’s Epist. 1.7 poses notoriously difficult problems about the author’s relationship with Maecenas. This article proposes that we identify the Calaber hospes of v. 14 with Augustus, and that the entire poem be understood as an... more
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      HoraceAugustusMENAMaecenas
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      HomerAristophanesRoman poetryHorace
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Despite appearances, Augustus harbored a deep enmity against Horace. The poet knew he was threatened, as shown in particular by Od. 3.13, analyzed here. Strangely, Horace died just a few days after Maecenas, as he had announced in Od.... more
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      HoraceOdes (Classics)MurderVirgil
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"This essay focuses on the 114th epistle of Seneca, where the philosopher investigates in detail the causes of the decadence of the contemporary literature, identifying in the literary work of Maecenas and in his person the archetype... more
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      Latin LiteratureSenecaLatin Language and LiteratureLatin Literature (in Classics) - Seneca
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This paper gives a new account of Roman birthday-cult and the genius in the works of Horace. Horace’s implicit theology of genius, it argues, related the public sphere of the nascent State (itself buttressed by birthday cult) to the... more
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      Latin LiteratureRoman ReligionHoraceAnimal Sacrifice (Anthropology)
This paper is the translation of a reworked excerpt from my book Jeux de Masques dans l'élégie latine, Peeters, 1998, pp. 193-96, where I aim to demonstrate that the speakers of Ovid's Am. 1.4 and 2.5 identify respectively with Augustus... more
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      OvidAugustusAdulteryLatin love elegy
Documentation and interpretation of the building and its III style paintings
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      Topography of Ancient Rome (Archaeology)Tiberius (Emperor)Roman Wall PaintingMaecenas
Paper about P. Vedius Pollio, published in R. Goulet (éd.), Dictionnaire des Philosophes Antiques, V, 2, p. 1206-1210
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      SlaveryGreek EpigraphyRoman VillaeLatin Epigraphy
Janvier 27 avant n. è. : sur les décombres de la défunte République, Octavien/Auguste posait les fondations du Principat. À ses côtés, fidèle entre tous, Mécène, appelé à devenir l'archétype du patron littéraire. Depuis les guerres... more
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      Latin LiteratureAugustan PoetryPropagandaIdeology
Vers le milieu du Ier siècle avant n. è., un vaste mouvement de renouveau des lettres latines, dans une large mesure inspiré par l’impérialisme romain et le sentiment d’un affaiblissement dû aux guerres civiles, émergea et trouva son... more
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      Latin LiteratureAugustusSallustMaecenas
In eleg. in Maecen. 1 22 l’anonimo poeta introduce il principale argomento difensivo contro le accuse, rivolte a Mecenate dai suoi detrattori, di essere discinctus, tanto nel cultus quanto nell’animo. I manoscritti recano: diluuii hoc... more
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      Latin LiteratureM. Valerius MartialisIntertextualityLatin poetry
Gianfranco Mosconi, "Maecenas 37: proposta testuale", in «Rivista di cultura classica e medievale» 45, 2003, 2, pp. 255-275. Le molte correzioni proposte per Maecenas 37 presentano ognuna vari problemi, che ne rendono difficile... more
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      PhilologyClassicsLatin LiteratureRoman History
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      Imperial RomeMaecenasUrbanisme RomainAuguste
Herleitung, Analyse und Explikation von Gemeinsamkeit und Differenz der beiden Förderungsmodelle, die allzuhäufig verwechselt und vermengt werden.
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      EntrepreneurshipEconomic SociologyEntrepreneurial EconomicsSocial Entrepreneurship
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      Latin LiteratureRoman HistoryMaecenas
This chapter focuses on the topic of the Roman triumph and on its Dionysian influence. The Roman triumph, a victorious return to the center of political power (Rome) from the conquered periphery of a growing Roman Empire, can be seen to... more
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      SenecaOvidDionysusRoman Triumph
1. Introduction. - L'image de Mécène dont nous avons hérité est singulière, contradictoire, quelque peu déconcertante. À bien des égards, on ne saurait s'en étonner, elle laisse le sentiment d'une construction a posteriori. Celle-ci doit... more
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      StoicismSenecaAugustan PrincipateEmperor Nero
Peer-review. Articoli e note inviati per la pubblicazione alla rivista sono sottoposti -nella forma del doppio anonimato -a peer-review di due esperti, di cui uno almeno esterno al Comitato Scientifico o alla Direzione. Ogni due anni... more
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      Augustan PrincipateEpicureanismPolitical OppositionsMaecenas
Augustus readily practiced ambiguity on his own, but he hated it in others. This paper argues that he went so far as to sneak into Horace's Ars Poetica and add 8 lines (445-52) particularly condemning ambiguity in poetry. An addendum also... more
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      ClassicsOvidMetamorphosesHorace
Auguste (27 avant notre ère/14 de notre ère) est le premier prince romain. Traditionnellement présenté comme froid, calculateur, manipulateur et hypocrite, parfois comme un caméléon, l’homme aux trois pères (Caius Octavius, Jules César,... more
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      Cultural StudiesAugustan PoetryImperial HistoryImperial Rome
The purpose of the present article is to discuss the utilitarian role of the Roman satire, with a main approach onHoracès Sermones. Roman imagery tended to be more superficial than the Greek before the Augustan siècle d`or, and very often... more
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      Augustan PoetryHoraceRoman SatirePolitical propaganda and Literature
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      Latin LiteratureGeorgic LiteratureGeorgicsVirgil
Des fragments poétiques moins longs que 20 lignes 1 le plus connu est celui qui reste de la biographie d'Horace écrite par Suétone : ni te visceribus meis, Horati, plus iam diligo, tu tuum 2 sodalem †nimio † videas strigosiorem. 3 La... more
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      ClassicsAugustan PoetryPoetryRoman poetry
Maecenas and the Augustan Poets: the Background of a Cultural Ambition. Behind the desire to promote Latin literature lies a historical and cultural background that allows a greater understanding of the partnership between Maecenas and... more
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      Intellectual HistoryAugustan PoetryCiceroPropertius
Mécène, descendant des rois étrusques, ami du premier empereur, Auguste, et personnalité phare de la fin de la République romaine et de l'Empire naissant, demeure aujourd'hui encore une figure méconnue. Tout à la fois diplomate,... more
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      Cultural StudiesLatin LiteraturePropertiusHorace
By representing Maecenas in eleven of his eighteen satires, Horace introduces political realities. But the role of Maecenas is much more important. Horace makes of him an Epicurean persona, which embodies the main philosophical principles... more
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      Latin LiteratureHoraceAncient PhilosophyRoman Satire
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      AugustusMaecenas
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      Topography of Ancient Rome (Archaeology)PropertiusHoraceAugustus
Le livre de Clément Chillet (CC), tiré d'une thèse de doctorat soutenue en 2012, ne se veut pas
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      Roman HistoryRomantic poetryEarly RomeRoman Empire
Maecenas 62: una proposta testuale, in «Vichiana», IV serie, 8, 2, 2006, pp. 192-202. Il tràdito "purpurea...nive" in Maeceans 62 è indifendibile e va considerato sicuramente corrotto; una correzione paloegraficamente economica e in... more
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      Latin LiteratureAugustan PoetryAugustan PrincipateLatin Elegiac Poetry
Mécène fut tout à la fois l’un des principaux collaborateurs d’Octavien/Auguste et l’un des acteurs les plus énigmatiques de cette période. Les conditions qui firent qu’il dut ou qu’il voulut abandonner ses activités politiques demeurent... more
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      AugustusRoman senateMaecenasOrdo equester
Review of Costa, S., Mecenate. Frammenti e testimonianze latine, Milano: La Vita Felice, 2014. Pp. 292. Pb. ISBN 978-88-77-99612-1. € 13,50.
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      Latin LiteratureAugustan PoetrySenecaAugustan Principate
The project of an ideal monarchy that Dio Cassius put into the mouth of Maecenas is considered by modern scholars to be the political programme of the senatorial aristocracy of the early third century A. D., who were ready, to give up... more
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      Cassius DioAugustan PrincipateAugustusMaecenas
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      Research FundingMécénat culturelPatronageMaecenas
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Peer-review. Articoli e note inviati per la pubblicazione alla rivista sono sottoposti -nella forma del doppio anonimato -a peer-review di due esperti, di cui uno almeno esterno al Comitato Scientifico o alla Direzione. Nel secondo... more
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      Augustan PoetryAugustan PrincipateAugustan RomeMaecenas
The rhyton, or drinking horn, is a vessel known from the Mediterranean, Near Eastern, and Central Asian worlds. Associated with wine and banqueting both in imagery of Dionysus and secular feasting contexts, rhyta (particularly those known... more
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      Parthian EmpireAugustan RomeArabian/Persian Gulf ArchaeologyRoman Art
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      MythologyClassicsLatin LiteratureRoman History