The aim of this essay is to highlight the pacifist dimension of Dio of Prusa’s Olympic (XIIth) speech, given presumably during the Olympic games of the year 105 a.C.; Dio’s reserve against the Dacian Trajanic war is underlined, which is considered as an expression of aggressive imperialism on the part of the Romans. From this point of view, the Olympic is naturally paralleled by the Trojan (XIth) speech, through which Dio aims at deconstructing the myth of the Trojan war, the original ideological foundation of the contrast between Greeks and barbarians.Si evidenzia la dimensione pacifistica dell’Olimpico (XII) di Dione di Prusa, un discorso pronunciato verosimilmente in occasione dei giochi olimpici del 105, del quale viene sottolineata la ...
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Discussion of passages of Greek and Latin literature (until I century B.C.) in which a human being i...
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In the present work I compare the "classic" aspect of the Homeric epic on the Trojan war with the bi...
The theme of Armorum iudicium has its roots in the epic poetry of Homeric Cycle. Afterwards, it beco...
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The Prometheus Bound ascribed to Aeschylus reflects the traumatic transition from the ancient world ...
The Second Persian War, despite the stereotypical image that celebrated it as a Pan-Hellenic feat, d...
The aim of this essay is to examine the rules of duelling in Greek epic poetry from Homer and Arctin...
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Speaking of “historical mistakes” with reference to “Troy” is nonsense, for the simple reason that t...
The goal of the article is to show the reasons why, starting from the fifth-century BC, Athens decid...
The religious interest is one of the most clearly identifiable aspects of the personality of Dio of...
L’articolo prende spunto dallo studio che Vittorio de Caprariis ha dedicato al Panegyricus ad Philip...
The contribution aims at showing how the same “revisionism” attested in Greek tradition about Homer ...
The essay starts from the need to underline the profound irreconcilability existing in modern times ...
Discussion of passages of Greek and Latin literature (until I century B.C.) in which a human being i...
In un passo di un’orazione, Dione Crisostomo cita due supplizi quale esempio di quelli inflitti dai ...
In the present work I compare the "classic" aspect of the Homeric epic on the Trojan war with the bi...
The theme of Armorum iudicium has its roots in the epic poetry of Homeric Cycle. Afterwards, it beco...
This paper focuses on the Spartan harmost Thibron, who led two expeditions to Asia in the first deca...
The Prometheus Bound ascribed to Aeschylus reflects the traumatic transition from the ancient world ...
The Second Persian War, despite the stereotypical image that celebrated it as a Pan-Hellenic feat, d...
The aim of this essay is to examine the rules of duelling in Greek epic poetry from Homer and Arctin...
"For the most beautiful Italian" D'Annunzio and the myth of latin renaissance Abstract The theme o...
Speaking of “historical mistakes” with reference to “Troy” is nonsense, for the simple reason that t...
The goal of the article is to show the reasons why, starting from the fifth-century BC, Athens decid...
The religious interest is one of the most clearly identifiable aspects of the personality of Dio of...
L’articolo prende spunto dallo studio che Vittorio de Caprariis ha dedicato al Panegyricus ad Philip...
The contribution aims at showing how the same “revisionism” attested in Greek tradition about Homer ...
The essay starts from the need to underline the profound irreconcilability existing in modern times ...
Discussion of passages of Greek and Latin literature (until I century B.C.) in which a human being i...