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.
Author(s): Stefano Rocchi, Cecilia Mussini
Series: Philologus. Supplemente / Philologus. Supplementary Volumes, 7
Publisher: De Gruyter
Year: 2017
Language: English
Pages: 336
Preface
Contents
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
I. Thinking the past: categories and structures of the antique
Mankind’s Past: Evolution or Progress?
Semantica senecana del primitivo
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
Tarda antichità anacronica. Tra storiografia e panegirico
II. Functionalizations of the past
Livy’s antiquities: rethinking the distant past in the Ab urbe condita
Princeps et res publica: Des multiples façons de se référer au passé
Apud antiquos. La ricostruzione dell’antichità nell’insegnamento di Poliziano
I nuovi antichi. Classicismo e petrarchismo fra Bembo e Tasso
III. Veteres: the relation to past authorities
The Burden of Antiquity in Horace and in the Dialogus de oratoribus
Fronto’s and Gellius′ veteres
Vetustas e antiquitas, veteres e antiqui nei grammatici latini
Quando i giuristi diventarono ‘veteres’. Augusto e Sabino, i tempi del potere e i tempi della giurisprudenza
Convertire l’enciclopedia: Agostino e Varrone
Index Nominum et Rerum Potiorum
