Imagines antiquitatis : representations, concepts, receptions of the past in Roman antiquity and the early Italian renaissance / editors, Stefano Rocchi, Cecilia Mussini.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mussini, Cecilia, editor.

Rocchi, Stefano, 1980- editor.

Series:

Philologus (Berlin, Germany). Supplemente ; 7.

Philologus. Supplemente = Philologus. Supplementary, 2199-0255 ; Volume 7

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Civilization, Classical--Influence.

Civilization, Classical.

Classical literature--Appreciation.

Classical literature.

Civilization, Ancient, in art.

Renaissance--Classical influences.

Renaissance.

Rome--Civilization.

Rome.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 327 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin : De Gruyter, 2017.

Language Note:

In German and English.

Summary:

In the last few years a reconsideration of the past of the ancients and of the concepts correlated to it (e.g. the ʻclassicalʼ) has been important to many scholars. The present volume adds to the range of perspectives on the antique by expanding research to include different, hitherto unexplored spheres, whether that be chronological perspectives or disciplinary ones, as well as by opening up the discussion to include textual types that previous studies have treated little or not at all. Fourteen essays on various fields aim at defining the categories in which the past is constructed, thought, valued, functionalized and redrawn. They concentrate on the category of the ʻantiqueʼ and the role it plays in texts and authors, with specific reference to the ʻtopicalizationʼ, conceptualization and renegotiation of the ʻantiqueʼ and the ʻancientsʼ. The textual types analysed belong to the following fields: ancient philosophy and history of ideas, ethnography, historiography and antiquarianism, literature and philology, grammar and Roman law, Renaissance studies.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Preface

Contents

List of Abbreviations

Introduction / Rocchi, Stefano / Mussini, Cecilia

I. Thinking the past: categories and structures of the antique

Mankind's Past: Evolution or Progress? / Konstan, David

Semantica senecana del primitivo / Mazzoli, Giancarlo

Quando i romani 'scoprirono' gli armeni: il re Tigran e la tigre (Varrone, ling. 5.100)

The past in Pausanias: its narration, structure and relationship with the present / Schreyer, Julian

Tarda antichità anacronica. Tra storiografia e panegirico / Formisano, Marco

II. Functionalizations of the past

Livy's antiquities: rethinking the distant past in the Ab urbe condita / Fabrizi, Virginia

Princeps et res publica: Des multiples façons de se référer au passé / Moatti, Claudia

Apud antiquos. La ricostruzione dell'antichità nell'insegnamento di Poliziano / Mussini, Cecilia

I nuovi antichi. Classicismo e petrarchismo fra Bembo e Tasso / Regn, Gerhard

III. Veteres: the relation to past authorities

The Burden of Antiquity in Horace and in the Dialogus de oratoribus / Rocchi, Stefano

Fronto's and Gellius' veteres / Holford-Strevens, Leofranc

Vetustas e antiquitas, veteres e antiqui nei grammatici latini / De Nonno, Mario

Quando i giuristi diventarono 'veteres'. Augusto e Sabino, i tempi del potere e i tempi della giurisprudenza / Mantovani, Dario

Convertire l'enciclopedia: Agostino e Varrone / Gasti, Fabio

Index Nominum et Rerum Potiorum

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

3-11-052112-1

3-11-052168-7

OCLC:

999367571