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Contextualising Fregellae: Local Interests in a “Globalised” Mediterranean
207-225Views:257The article employs the Latin colony of Fregellae as a case study to overcome the communis opinio that colonial settlements were parva simulacra Urbis (Gell. XVI.13.9). In particular, the colony, initially founded by Rome in the context of the Second Samnite War, could move away from the Urbs and develop localised interests. Such interests could be explained through a dynamic contact between colonists and local populations, thus forming a variegated social landscape which did not necessarily display cultural similarity with Rome. Similarly, the cityscape could be employed to ascertain how certain colonies chose architectural solutions which took into account localised needs. It is in this context that the article will examine the alliance between Fregellae and Rome in light of the Second Punic War. Traditionally interpreted as a demonstration of blind loyalty, the article will put forth the idea that the colony could decide its alliances in view of potential benefits, which, in the case of Fregellae, were manifested in the economic and military advantages reaped in the eastern Mediterranean. Interestingly, these benefits affected the colony and, more specifically, its architectural facade, as seen in the building activity carried out in the period immediately after the endeavours in the East.
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The Haughty Soul of the Avenger: The Myth of Lucius Brutus in the Aeneid (6,817–823)
55–71.Views:157In Book 6 of the Aeneid, Virgil constructs his own version of an epic Underworld and, innovatively, combines it with a panoply of future Roman heroes. This article focuses on the laconic introduction given to one of these heroes, Lucius Iunius Brutus, the founding father of the Roman Republic. More specifically, it examines the opening lines of a striking passage that, in an act of diction that has puzzled readers since antiquity, applies the adjective superbus to Brutus, rather than to his adversary, Tarquin the Proud, whose cognomen bears precisely this meaning. To interpret these lines, the article will attempt—using other literary versions of the work combined with comparative material from similar narratives—to reconstruct the traditional story of Brutus as it was known to Virgil and his contemporaries to determine, firstly, if this elucidates what such a retelling would have meant to the Augustan reader and, secondly, what its possible political and cultural implications would be if read with the traditional myth in mind.
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Life and Work of Prague Master Simon of Tišnov
297-308Views:220The Bohemian Reformation is a widely researched topic. However, not enough attention is given to all participants during the course events. The aim of this article is to introduce the life and literary work of the little-known University of Prague Master, Simon of Tišnov (ca. 1370–1432), a medieval scholar with roots in the Moravian town called Tišnov, a defender of John Wycliffe’s philosophy, an ardent supporter of the Bohemian reformation movement and, eventually, an objector, or rather an opponent, of those who followed the teachings of John Wycliffe and John Hus. The article is focused on Simon’s very first publication, viz. the Defensio of John Wycliffe’s treatise De probationibus propositionum which is also known under the title Logicae continuatio.
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Piaceri fondamentali e variazioni del piacere: Nota esegetica a Lucrezio II 22
215-222.Views:30No abstract is available for this article, published in Acta Classica Universitatis Scientiarum Debreceniensis, Issue XL-XLI (2004-2005). At the time of publication, abstracts were not required from the authors. Please consult the full text for further details.
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Continuities in late antique literacy: the evidence from North Africa and Gaul
177–185Views:186In this article I reconsider the evidence for ancient literacy from late antique North Africa and Gaul in order to reassess how the end of the “epigraphic habit” in the third century may have changed the popular contexts and notional associations of writing. Analyzing evidence for the Christian “epitaphic habit,” as well as for the production of legal and economic documents between the third and sixth centuries CE, I propose that late antique uses of writing attest to numerous continuities with their early imperial counterparts, including an interest not only in the pragmatic but also the performative character of ancient literacy.
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Ateniesi e spartani reciproci salvatori: Un topos tra retorica e storiografia
17-32.Views:32No abstract is available for this article, published in Acta Classica Universitatis Scientiarum Debreceniensis, Issue XL-XLI (2004-2005). At the time of publication, abstracts were not required from the authors. Please consult the full text for further details.
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Non vulgare genus: Ekphrasis, literarisches Gedächtnis und gattungsspezifische Innovation in der sechsten Ekloge des T. Calpurnius Siculus
57–70.Views:99No abstract is available for this article, published in Acta Classica Universitatis Scientiarum Debreceniensis, Issue XLIII, 2007. At the time of publication, abstracts were not required from the authors. Please consult the full text for further details.
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Epigrafía pública y defixiones: paradigmas (y paradojas) del Occidente Latino
69–77Views:310This paper falls into two main sections. The first deals with the defixio and its traditional definition as an example of so-called private inscriptions. Unlike public epigraphs, which were monumental, crafted by professionals, intended for display, and had (mainly) a commemorative function, defixiones (whether written by magoi or amateurs) are usually considered to be among Antiquity’s most private texts. Nevertheless, curse tablets and public inscriptions share a very important feature: both contained messages meant to endure. This specific feature brings us to the second section of this article, which discusses the influence of public inscriptions on curse tablets: to what extent are defixiones a reflection of monumental epigraphy? Aspects such as the ordinatio of the text, the media employed or the way they were displayed (even inside a tomb) are analyzed in this regard. In an attempt to answer these questions, three publicly displayed curse tablets are discussed in depth.
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Ottaviano, Augusto e il regnum dei Caesares
305-324.Views:31No abstract is available for this article, published in Acta Classica Universitatis Scientiarum Debreceniensis, Issue XL-XLI (2004-2005). At the time of publication, abstracts were not required from the authors. Please consult the full text for further details.
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Die epikureische ἡδονή in Ciceros Werk De finibus bonorum et malorum
47-56.Views:29No abstract is available for this article, published in Acta Classica Universitatis Scientiarum Debreceniensis, Issue XLII, 2006. At the time of publication, abstracts were not required from the authors. Please consult the full text for further details.
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Jerome’s Dream and the Book of Daniel
145–149Views:146Recently Smolak has argued that in the famous account of Jerome’s dream (Epist. 22,30,2) the propheta whose language put him off is Daniel. This passage is also connected by Smolak with Jerome’s later reference to Daniel’s clarus sermo (Epist. 53, 8,16): in Smolak’s view Jerome is here claiming that he has now come to an understanding of Daniel’s “stilistische Klarheit”. The present article endeavours to refute both of these cases.
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La reforme des Saturnales de 218/217 av. J.-C. : Un problème de chronologie livienne (Tite-Live XXII, 1, 19–20).
77-94.Views:70No abstract is available for this article, published in Acta Classica Universitatis Scientiarum Debreceniensis, Issue XL-XLI (2004-2005). At the time of publication, abstracts were not required from the authors. Please consult the full text for further details.
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The Ancient Biography of Aules Persius Flaccus or the So-Called Vita Persii De Commentario Probi Valeri Sublata
183–187.Views:89No abstract is available for this article, published in Acta Classica Universitatis Scientiarum Debreceniensis, Issue XLIII, 2007. At the time of publication, abstracts were not required from the authors. Please consult the full text for further details.
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Mala bestia foras dato. Spelling mistakes and loan phrases as means of interpretation of a Latin magical text
37–48Views:779In 1911, Auguste Audollent received a lead tablet with a Latin inscription on both sides coming from North Africa. It was lying almost undetected and forgotten for nearly one hundred years until the Hungarian visiting professor György Németh rediscovered it in the storage room of the Musée Bargoin in Clermont-Ferrand, France. The recently finished complete reading of the text and its commentary will be published soon by Gy. Németh and the author of the present paper. This article aims to consider all the word forms and phrases of the tablet which differ from the Latin standard in order to look for an answer if the target, the context and the sources can be identified with the help of linguistic tools.
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L’ humanisme de Gerbert et son influence en Hongrie sous le règne de Saint Étienne :: Une leçon de « renaissance » pour l’Europe d’aujourd’hui ?
385-389.Views:68No abstract is available for this article, published in Acta Classica Universitatis Scientiarum Debreceniensis, Issue XL-XLI (2004-2005). At the time of publication, abstracts were not required from the authors. Please consult the full text for further details.
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Die epigraphische Forschung in Ungarn seit 1994
143–157.Views:32No abstract is available for this article, published in Acta Classica Universitatis Scientiarum Debreceniensis, Issue XLII, 2006. At the time of publication, abstracts were not required from the authors. Please consult the full text for further details.
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A Crux in the Proem of Henry of Avranches’ Bordo-Siler (R 129–144,17–18)
155-159Views:216The 13th-century poet Henry of Avranches has given us in the form of his Bordo-Siler what is a chef-d’oeuvre of poetic vituperation. The proem of this important poem is marred by textual corruption in the view of its editor and commentator, A. G. Rigg. The present article endeavours to show that the text is sound. Here we in fact have a reference to the parable of the Prodigal Son. We also have a clever jeu grammatical in the matter of metrical quantity.
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Ciceros Briefe als Briefe
193-214.Views:99No abstract is available for this article, published in Acta Classica Universitatis Scientiarum Debreceniensis, Issue XL-XLI (2004-2005). At the time of publication, abstracts were not required from the authors. Please consult the full text for further details.
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Report on the 7th Hungarian Conference on Ancient Studies
213–216.Views:33No abstract is available for this article, published in Acta Classica Universitatis Scientiarum Debreceniensis, Issue XLIII, 2007. At the time of publication, abstracts were not required from the authors. Please consult the full text for further details.
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Ein Ziegelstempel der Cohors V Callaecorum Lucensium aus Crumerum
79–81Views:132This article presents a tile stamp from Crumerum/Nyergesújfalu, which can be dated to 2nd - 3rd century AD on the basis of military historical evidence. With reference to the new find, it also examines another tile stamp of cohors V Callaecorum Lucensium, which was found in Gerulata/Rusovce.
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Zoltán Kádár (1915–2003)
445-447.Views:66No abstract is available for this article, published in Acta Classica Universitatis Scientiarum Debreceniensis, Issue XL-XLI (2004-2005). At the time of publication, abstracts were not required from the authors. Please consult the full text for further details.
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Un appunto su Antim. fr. 164 Matth.: παιπαλέη
13-16.Views:94No abstract is available for this article, published in Acta Classica Universitatis Scientiarum Debreceniensis, Issue XL-XLI (2004-2005). At the time of publication, abstracts were not required from the authors. Please consult the full text for further details.
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Maecenas Poeta
51–56.Views:87No abstract is available for this article, published in Acta Classica Universitatis Scientiarum Debreceniensis, Issue XLIII, 2007. At the time of publication, abstracts were not required from the authors. Please consult the full text for further details.
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A gold lamella for ‘Blessed’ Abalala
7–20Views:197This article examines a previously unpublished gold lamella of unknown provenance, datable on palaeographical grounds to the 1st century BCE, give-or-take a half century, either side. The tablet preserves three words written in Greek letters that may contain a GrecoPersian formula of protection in the afterlife for its bearer, Abalala, a name of pre-Islamic extraction. The study compares the formula with those on a number of shorter ‘Orphic’ gold lamellae to show that the tiny piece represents a ‘Totenpaß’ for the beneficent dead, rather than a protective charm (phylactery) with the usual voces magicae, although the distinction between magic words and meaningful text is not always clear in such instances.
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La racematio in Seneca apoc. 2, 1 e Marziale 3, 58, 8–9: (con qualche riflessione sulle varie forme di spigolamento dall’antichità ai giorni nostri)
291-303.Views:64No abstract is available for this article, published in Acta Classica Universitatis Scientiarum Debreceniensis, Issue XL-XLI (2004-2005). At the time of publication, abstracts were not required from the authors. Please consult the full text for further details.