Totalitarianism in times of Austerity : dystopian representations of power in contemporary Greek novels
Petros Marazopoulos
In my paper, I discuss the Greek literary responses to the phenomenon of the economic crisis that erupted in 2008. Dystopian narratives appear to be a popular narrative framework for authors dealing with the economic crisis during the decade of 2010. The purpose of this article is to examine contemporary Greek literary texts that represent societies under economic crisis and were written after the recent recession. Greek authors often used dystopian narratives to depict the relationship between economic politics followed by the European Union, the world system and authoritarianism. These literary works reflect the authors' experiences of the concurrent political and economic reality, serving both as literary responses to the economic system as well as critique to such systems. In addition, the literary texts under examination raise concerns regarding the growing power of economic institutions and their interaction with political power. Greek authors oft en construct claustrophobic narrative structures, to explore themes such as the erosion of individuality, pervasive state surveillance and escalating oppression. In that sense, I explore literary representations of "Economy", "Power", "Europe" and "Work" in times of austerity, discussing them in the wider context of dystopian fiction and the theory of totalitarianism.
History of Greece, Translating and interpreting
Exploring Vergil R. Williams Pp. 79. Self-published, 2023. Paper, £13.65. ISBN: 979-8397052757
Steven Hunt
Theory and practice of education, Ancient history
Classics and Prison Education in the US (E.) Capettini, (N.) Sorkin Rabinowitz (eds.) Pp. x + 135. Abingdon: Routledge, 2021. Cased, £48.99. ISBN: 978-0-367-82061-9.
Gary Fisher, Lois Fisher
Theory and practice of education, Ancient history
Dinheiro e sociedade (Teofrasto, Caracteres)
Maria de Fátima Silva
Para além de todas as ambiguidades no relacionamento dos Caracteres de Teofrasto com outros modelos convencionais na literatura grega, é clara a sua interligação com a sociedade ateniense do séc. IV a. C., de que espelham tipos humanos com as atitudes e comportamentos que lhes são próprios. É na perspectiva da importância do dinheiro na vida da comunidade social desta época que procuraremos avaliar flashes expressivos na maioria dos trinta retratos que compõem o catálogo de Teofrasto: relevância do status financeiro, formas de aquisição de proventos económicos, o significado do dinheiro para o estabelecimento de uma graduação social, os comportamentos que dita, os sinais exteriores que o denunciam, a retórica que lhe é própria. Do conjunto abundante de referências ao vil metal, torna-se clara a evolução sofrida por uma Atenas a que anos de guerra e de crise tinham ditado um modelo de vida mais individualista e de sentido inegavelmente pragmático.
History of the Greco-Roman World, Greek language and literature. Latin language and literature
Rez. Bossmanns, B.: Plinius, Eine kurze Briefauswahl (explica!), V & R 2020; Flaucher, S.: Römische Herrschaft: Die Calgacus-Rede (explica!), V&R 2022, Fugmann, J./Rösch, Chr.: Promis in Rom (explica!), V&R 2022
Joachim Penzel
Greek language and literature. Latin language and literature, Philology. Linguistics
Hrvatski Vergilije u pokušaju - Pavao Ritter Vitezović, Dva stoljeća uplakane Hrvatske-Plorantis Croatiae saecula duo, priredili Zrinka Blažević i Bojan Marotti
Šime Demo
Ancient history, Greek language and literature. Latin language and literature
Das antike Sparta und Kosmetikwerbung – Ideologie in der Cremedose?
Anja Wieber
Als Beispiel für den Einsatz der Antike in der Kosmetikwerbung wird die Präsentation der „Sparta Creme“, eines Produktes aus dem Hause der deutschen Parfümfirma 4711, untersucht. Durch den diachronen Vergleich der Anzeigenwerbung für dieses Produkt von 1934 bis 1954 zeigt sich die Abhängigkeit des Spartabildes vom jeweiligen Zeitgeist. In der Zeit des Nationalismus belegen die Umbenennung der „Allwettercreme“ in „Sparta Creme“ und die weitere Ausrichtung der Werbung –auf inhaltlicher Ebene die Bezugnahme auf das antike Sparta sowie auf bildlicher Ebene die Verweise auf antike Kunst – eine propagandistische Indienstnahme der Körperpflege für die Rasseideologie. Die mit Sparta, laut NS-Ideologie dem Idealtypos des „Rassestaates“, verbundenen Konnotationen bilden den idealen Bezugsrahmen auch in der Kosmetikwerbung: Der deutsche ‚Volkskörper‘ wird angepriesen, Frauen werden besonders als Mütter und zukünftige gesunde Mütter gesunder Kinder angesprochen, während Kinder als ‚Spartakrieger‘ auf ihre Rolle als Soldaten vorbereitet werden. Die Werbung der Nachkriegszeit hingegen sucht neue Wege, die vom martialischen Image des Produkts weg zur Bezugnahme auf die Antike als Chiffre für Luxus führen.
History of the Greco-Roman World, Greek language and literature. Latin language and literature
Esthétique et fonction du corps antiquisant dans la publicité au XXIe siècle
Fabien Bièvre-Perrin, Elise Pampanay
L’Antiquité, qu’elle soit égyptienne, grecque ou romaine, est toujours présente dans la publicité des années 2000 et 2010. Un balayage rapide du corpus permet d’en repérer immédiatement des exemples, qui ont marqué l’histoire de la publicité ou les esprits : tous les trentenaires actuels se souviennent des gladiatrices Beyoncé, Pink et Britney Spears buvant du Pepsi dans un Colisée en folie. Les adolescents d’aujourd’hui ont été sensibles au charme antique des égéries de Paco Rabanne pour ses parfums Invictus et Olympéa. La liste peut être longue, citons également une publicité d’Orangina, dont l’action se situe elle aussi dans le Colisée, toute une série de spots de Ferrero Rocher dans lesquelles les dieux de l’Olympe dégustent les chocolats de l’ambassadeur, les parfums Kouros… À quelques exceptions près, le centre d’attention de ces publicités est, outre le produit vendu, la plastique de ses acteurs.
C’est donc au travers du corps antique et de son esthétique que nous souhaitons questionner ce corpus. Il s’agira ensuite d’identifier les aspects symboliques du corps antique et les valeurs que cherchent à transmettre les publicitaires en le mettant en scène. Nous tenterons ensuite de déterminer si l’apparition d’internet et la disparition progressive de la culture classique des programmes éducatifs ont eu des conséquences sur la fonction de l’Antiquité dans la publicité.
C’est donc au travers du corps antique et de son esthétique que nous souhaitons questionner ce corpus. Il s’agira ensuite d’identifier les aspects symboliques du corps antique et les valeurs que cherchent à transmettre les publicitaires en le mettant en scène. Nous tenterons ensuite de déterminer si l’apparition d’internet et la disparition progressive de la culture classique des programmes éducatifs ont eu des conséquences sur la fonction de l’Antiquité dans la publicité.
History of the Greco-Roman World, Greek language and literature. Latin language and literature
Innuptae ritus imitata Minervae : une comparaison chez Claudien et ses connexions flaviennes
Valéry Berlincourt
Dans son Panégyrique pour le consulat d’Olybrius et Probinus (395), Claudien associe pour représenter Roma des traits descriptifs empruntés à la fois à Athéna et aux Amazones, en accord avec les codes des arts figurés. Cet article analyse et contextualise la comparaison que le poète établit entre Roma et Minerve (Ol. Prob. 84 innuptae ritus imitata Minervae) dans le but d’exposer la complexité des phénomènes intertextuels qui entrent en jeu dans la représentation de la déesse, et, en particulier, l’importance que revêtent à cet égard les modèles offerts par les épopées flaviennes.Outre sa référence à l’iconographie de Roma, la comparaison avec Minerve fonctionne comme un marqueur intertextuel, puisqu’elle s’inscrit dans un ensemble de vers calqués sur un passage de l’Iliade relatant l’action d’Athéna (et d’Héra). Elle peut produire un effet déstabilisant, puisqu’elle introduit des traits descriptifs qui sont ceux, non d’Athéna, mais des Amazones.La diction utilisée pour comparer Roma à Minerve, sur laquelle cet article se penche tout particulièrement, présente des parentés significatives avec Silius Italicus et Stace. Elle rappelle notamment, dans les Punica, une séquence verbale formellement équivalente appliquée non à Minerve mais à Diane. Surtout, elle établit un lien avec la représentation, dans la Thébaïde, des Amazones captives défilant dans le cortège triomphal de Thésée, ainsi qu’avec celle de leur reine Hippolyté, qui a abandonné les coutumes de ses sujettes pour s’unir au vainqueur. L’inversion qui caractérise l’Hippolyté statienne paraît du reste trouver un autre écho chez Claudien dans les vers fescennins, où le poète imagine les Amazones et leur reine cédant à la beauté de l’empereur Honorius.
Greek language and literature. Latin language and literature
The Curse of 300? Popular Culture and Teaching the Spartans
Emma Stafford
I teach Spartan history at the University of Leeds both as part of an introductory course about the Greek World and also as part of a range of more closely-focused Special Subject modules for second and third year undergraduates, including Image of Sparta and Classics on Screen. I use the film 300, and other modern popular culture material, in different ways in each of these modules: as a subject in its own right for Classics on Screen, focusing on questions around what the material says about contemporary culture; and, in Image of Sparta, as a coda to the course's survey of ancient ‘images’, which allows for reflection back over the ancient material. Blanshard and Shahabudin suggest that cinematic output can be ‘…an important vehicle for discussing the values, history, and cultural politics of the classical past. It demands that we think about what are the key elements that make the cultures of the ancient Mediterranean so distinctive and worthy of study’ (Blanshard & Shahabudin, 2011, p. 1). While modern popular receptions of ancient Greek history are not actually on the AS or A Level specifications (perhaps they should be!), they have some potential for teaching at this level if a teacher wants their students to get to grips with the particular topic of Sparta.
Theory and practice of education, Ancient history
Iconografia ciceroniana nella tradizione del ritratto miniato
Giovanna Lazzi
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Philology. Linguistics, Greek language and literature. Latin language and literature
O estudo da história antiga a partir de textos literários: uma proposta teórico-metodológica
Paulo Ângelo de Meneses Sousa
O artigo apresenta e discute uma proposta teórico-metodológica desenvolvida no nosso livro didático A História Antiga a partir de textos literários, inédito, elaborado no decorrer de nossa experiência de ensino na disciplina História Antiga do curso de graduação em História da Universidade Federal do Piauí (Brasil), no qual propomos estudar a História Antiga a partir de textos literários, principalmente da Grécia e Roma antigas.
Greek language and literature. Latin language and literature
Philicus' "Novel Composition" for the Alexandrian Grammarians: Initial Lines and Iambe's Speech
Jerzy Danielewicz
Philicus' "Novel Composition" for the Alexandrian Grammarians: Initial Lines and Iambe's Speech
The Hymn to Demeter (SH 676-80) by Philicus of Corcyra can be viewed as a combination of new and traditional features. It contains a proclamation of novelty, but, at the same time, it is rooted in the hymnic tradition; the traceable characteristics of the conventional hymn, however, are considerably modified by Philicus and practically require redefinition. What seems particularly worth emphasising is the poet’s receptiveness to other than hymnic modes of expression as well as intertextual allusions ranging in time from the archaic period to the present day. Philicus’ poem (dw#ra) is “brought” to the grammatikoi, a specific group of recipients whose opinions must have counted so much that the poet decided to address to them his hymn on par with the gods. Although it is a truism to say that the ancient hymn composers took into account two communicative settings, one formally adopted (the author/performer – the god) and one resulting from the circumstances of their performance (the author/performer – the audience/readers), it is Philicus’ merit to state explicitly what the other poets used to leave implicit.
Ancient history, Greek language and literature. Latin language and literature
Judges 1–12
J. Sasson
Profound changes have occurred in the study of early Israel over the past four decades. In recent years, the pendulum of scholarship has swung toward literary and theological readings that are not significantly informed by the literature of the ancient Near East. Jack M. Sasson’s commentary to the first twelve chapters of the book of Judges is a refreshing corrective to that trend. It aims to expand comprehension of the Hebrew text by explaining its meaning, exploring its contexts, and charting its effect over time. Addressed are issues about the techniques that advance the text’s objectives, the impulses behind its composition, the motivations behind its preservation, the diversity of interpretations during its transmission in several ancient languages, and the learned attention it has gathered over time in faith traditions, Jewish, Christian, and Muslim. In its pages also is a fair sampling from ancient Near Eastern documents to illumine specific biblical passages or to bolster the interpretation of contexts. The result is a Judges that more carefully reflects the culture that produced it. In presenting this fresh translation of the Masoretic text of Judges as received in our days, Sasson does not shy away from citing variant or divergent readings in the few Judges fragments and readily calls on testimonies from diverse Greek, Aramaic, and Latin renderings. The opinions of Jewish, Christian, and Muslim sages are reviewed, as are those of eminent scholars of recent times. With his Introductory Remarks, Notes, and Comments, Sasson addresses specific issues of religious, social, cultural, and historical significance and turns to ancient Near Eastern lore to illustrate how specific actions and events unfolded elsewhere under comparable circumstances. This impressive new appreciation of Judges will be of immense interest to bible specialists, theologians, cultural historians, and students of the ancient world.
Seneca’s Apocolocyntosis and Horace’s belua centiceps (Carm. 2.13.34)
C. Trinacty
Frederico Lourenço, The Lyric Metres of Euripidean Drama, Coimbra, Centro de Estudos Clássicos e Humanísticos da Universidade de Coimbra, 2011, 451 pp., ISBN: 978-989-721-001-3; digital ISBN: 978-989- 721-002-0
Carlos Morais
Até há pouco disponível apenas na escassa edição de autor, que resultou de uma dissertação de doutoramento apresentada à Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa, em 1999, acaba de sair do prelo este magnífico estudo sobre os metros líricos do teatro de Eurípides, da autoria de Frederico Lourenço. Publicado pelo Centro de Estudos Clássicos e Humanísticos da Universidade de Coimbra, na Coleção “Humanitas Supplementum”, n.º 12, esta obra compendia os profundos conhecimentos de métrica e de ecdótica do seu autor, relativos não só à lírica de Eurípides, mas também à de Píndaro, de Baquílides, de Ésquilo, de Sófocles e de Aristófanes, poetas que sempre cita para estabelecer pontos de comparação e melhor sustentar os seus pontos de vista. (...)
History of the Greco-Roman World, Greek language and literature. Latin language and literature
Metzger, Bruce (1914–2007)
Ron J. Bigalke
La estructura del himno ambrosiano y su relación con las funciones tonales de la escala musical
Liliana Pégolo, Miguel Abecian
La utilización del himno religioso en Occidente, como una forma de control ideológico frente al avance de las heterodoxias, fue instaurada definitivamente por Ambrosio, obispo de Milán, al conciliar el material himnódico precedente con las necesidades catequísticas que la época le impuso. El episcopus milanés logró concebir un modelo poético, estrófico y rítmico de fácil recepción que funcionaba como instrumento de conversión e instrucción doctrinal y un regulador de las oraciones litúrgicas. El himno ambrosiano no fue, sin embargo, el primero que se ajustó a los principios del credo niceno en la lucha contra diversas formas de herejía, en particular el arrianismo, pero sí fue el primero que innovó desde lo musical y lo rítmico. Su popularidad, basada en su modo ?cantable?, se cimentó a partir de la novedad de su estructura compositiva, en la que se pueden advertir frecuentes correspondencias métricas y acentuales que posibilitaba una más rápida memorización. A través de esta comunicación se procurará exponer las innovaciones estructurales de la himnodia ambrosiana en materia rítmica, las cuales giran en torno a la repetición arbitraria del número ocho; asimismo el número ocho contiene funciones temático-emotivas comparables con las funciones tonales de la escala musical y, en especial, el modo jónico que es el que llegó hasta hoy como escala mayor natural
Philology. Linguistics, Greek language and literature. Latin language and literature
Visions of a Future Past. Ulysses 31, a Televised Re-interpretation of Homers Classic Myth
Lorenzo Hernández, M. Carmen
Dictionaries in Early Modern Europe: Post-classical heritages: Du Cange and his world
J. Considine