Along the Silk Roads, Between Western and Eastern Asia.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Balbo, Andrea.

Series:

Roma Sinica Series

Roma Sinica Series ; v.7

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (336 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin/Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2026.

Summary:

Roma Sinica. Mutual interactions between Ancient Roman and Eastern Thought is an original series in classical and comparative studies. Generously supported by the SIAC (International Society of Cicero's friends), it aims to publish works concerning the relationships between Ancient Western (Greek, Roman) and Eastern (Korean, Chinese, Japanese) thought.

Contents:

Intro

Introduction

1 Ancient Explorations

Beyond Scrolls and Codices: The Diversity of Stories, Languages and Scripts Along the Silk Roads

1 Premises

2 The Silk Roads

3 Beyond the Codex

4 Beyond the First Millennium

5 Beyond Classical Languages

Maruts and the Ritual Paths to Immortality: Hints of Indo-Iranian Doctrines

1 Premise

2 Maruts and Frauuaṣ̌is: A Discussion on the Earliest Assumptions

2.1 Bands of Warriors and the Source of Abundance

2.2 Providing and Distributing Water

3 The Wings of Maruts and Frauuaṣ̌is

4 Etymological Remarks

5 Intermediate Summary

6 On a Maruts' Rite to Gain Access to Heaven: Sāmavedic Brāhmaṇas

7 Looking Backwards: Traces of an Ancient Culture

7.1 Dyutāna of the Maruts, Not a Trivial sthāpati

7.2 Nitāna of the Maruts: Only a Name Variation?

7 Conclusions

Mapping the Silk Land: The Far East in Some Western Geographical Texts

2 The Periplus Maris Erythraei

3 Ptolemy

4 Ammianus Marcellinus

5 Cosmas Indicopleustes

6 Brahmans

On Rome, Diadems and other Topics Between Iran and Turfan

2 Rome, Parthians and Persians

3 The Roman Empire in Manichaean texts

4 A Christian Persian Tomb in Constantinople

5 Rome in Zoroastrian Texts

6 The 'Caesar' in Kušan Kingdom

7 Roman Epithets in Turkic Central Asia

8 Byzantine-Iranian Connections against the ʿAbbasid Caliphate

9 Romulus and Remus at Samarkanda

10 Roman Echoes in Sogdian Texts

2 Modern Refractions: History

Scribi e scrittura negli Historiarum Indicarum Libri XVI di Giovanni Pietro Maffei

1 Premessa

2 La scrittura in India

3 La scrittura in Brasile

4 La scrittura in Cina

5 La scrittura in Giappone

6 Conclusioni.

Two Sources for the Early Jesuit Mission to China: Matteo Ricci's Commentari and Michele Ruggieri's Relatione

Appendix

A List of 17th-Century Editions of Nicholas Trigault's De christiana expeditione

The Earliest Latin and Spanish Translations of the Confucian Four Books: Old and New Perspectives

1 Introduction

2 Manuscript R: An Overview

3 Manuscript N: A New Discovery

4 Textual Comparison of NL and R

5 The Spanish Confucius: NS, E and T

6 Latin and Spanish Translations: A Comparison

Matteo Ricci Betrayed? Trigault's Overly Cautious Translation of the Entrata della Compagnia di Giesù e Christianità nella Cina and the Origins of the European Idealisation of China

2 Trigault's Mission in Europe

3 Textual Comparison

4 China's Rulers

5 Confucius and His Religion

6 Jesuits Evangelisation Strategies

7 Trigault's Editorial Project

8 Pantoja's Letter

9 Conclusions

Christians in Late-18th-Century Sichuan Province

"Les pieds sont en haut et la tête en bas" : Some Considerations on de Guignes's 'Upside-Down' Histoire des Huns

3 Philosophic Encounters

Aristotelian Philosophy Along the Maritime Silk Roads in Late Ming

2 The Maritime Road to China through Japan

3 The Direct Maritime Road to China

4 The Hybrid Maritime Road to China

5 Conclusion

Some Topics of Mencius' Philosophy in its First Latin Translation (c. 1590)

1 Mencius and his Translators

1.1 Translations of Mencius

1.2 The manuscript

1.3 Mencius

1.4 Issues of Translators

2 The Government

2.1 On the Government as Inner Calling

Commentary

2.2 On the Proper Reward for Government Officials

3 Economy

3.1 On Economy: What is the Real Profit for a Country?

3.2 On Economy: Just Taxation

Commentary.

3.3 On Economy: The Market Value of Products

4 Human nature

4.1 On Human Nature: The Goodness of Human Nature

4.2 On Human Nature: Feelings and Relations

4.3 On Human Nature: The Sense of Shame

4.4 On Human Nature: The Way of Heaven

The Difficult Search for Seneca the Younger in the Confucius Sinarum Philosophus

4 Future Perspectives

Greek Epigraphy in SERICAGreek Epigraphy in SERICA

1 Greek Epigraphy Beyond the Euphrates River: A Glimpse

2 Silk Roads and Greek Epigraphic Evidence: Historical Premises

3 Selection Criteria for the SERICA Database

4 Epigraphic Records: An Example

Prime analisi computazionali sulla lingua dei testi latini di SERICA

1 Introduzione: testometria del latino medievale e moderno e progetti del Centro di Studi Comparati "I Deug-Su"

2 Applicazioni di metodi computazionali alla ricerca sui testi latini di SERICA

2.1 Lavoro Preliminare

2.1.1 Lessico

Type-Token ratios

Lexical Innovation Rate/Tasso di innovazione lessicale

Distribuzione delle forme e dei lemmi nel documento

Liste di frequenza

Word n-grams

Collocates

Confronto tra testi

Cluster analysis

2.1.2 Morfologia

2.1.3 Sintassi

2.1.4 Prospettive sulla sintassi: il topic modelling

3 Conclusioni

Bibliography

Index of Personal Names, Places and Anonymous Works.

Notes:

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ISBN:

3-11-171858-1

OCLC:

1587108495