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Contextualising Fregellae: Local Interests in a “Globalised” Mediterranean
207-225Views:252The 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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Life and Work of Prague Master Simon of Tišnov
297-308Views:216The 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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The Haughty Soul of the Avenger: The Myth of Lucius Brutus in the Aeneid (6,817–823)
55–71.Views:127In 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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Sed bono vinci satius est… Analyse von Sall. J. 42,2–4 und seiner Deutungen
237-273.Views:26No 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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A Note on Ciris 218
171–172.Views:134This article contains a suggestion concerning the Ciris. The author tries to explain the reasons for the corruption in verse 218 and offers a tentative solution.
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More Additions to Maltby’s Lexicon of Ancient Latin Etymologies and Marangoni’s Supplementum Etymologicum: The Scholia to Statius
45–56Views:116Etymology has recently become one of the most vibrant spheres of classical scholarship. Maltby’s epoch-making Lexicon has now been complemented by Marangoni’s Supplementum Etymologicum. The present article offers addenda to both. It limits itself to the scholia on Statius.
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« Ils rapportent à son sujet une foule de récits extraordinaires » (Denys d’Halicarnasse, II, 60, 4): Remarques comparatives sur la tradition relative à Numa Pompilius
37-53.Views:28No 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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Magical Hand Depictions in the Roman Provinces
79–99.Views:27No 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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Apollo Propugnator, Diana Victrix: Erscheint die Militär und Siegesthematik bei den Darstellungen der Götter Apollo und Diana in der Münzprägung der Zeit der Soldatenkaiser (235-284/285 n. Chr.)?
115–134Views:182The figures of Diana and Apollo are frequently represented in Roman coinage. Such is the case in the soldier-emperors’ era, when one finds different representations of them both. They are depicted in various poses with altered attributes, while the gods are often named differently in the legend on the reverse. My article focuses on those types where the gods are not only displayed with weapons (bow and arrow) but also with legends connected with fighting and winning: Apollo Propugnator, Diana Victrix. I took a closer look at the figure of Diana and realised that she is represented as the goddess of hunting: she does not fight but protects hunters and ensures the success of hunting. The Apollo Propugnator type is a version known from the local coinage of Eastern Greek cities; this type is appropriated temporarily by imperial propaganda, but does not have an enduring role. In the cases of Diana and Apollo the military theme is impermanent and secondary; nor does it have an important impact.
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Les pii fratres de Catane, Amphinomos et Anapias, chez Solin
339-354.Views:23No 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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Livy's 5 and 6 books.: Linked or Separated?
81-93.Views:68No 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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Der Münzmeister Cordi
109-115.Views:24No 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 Research of the Anthropology of Gregory of Nyssa in Hungary
195–197.Views:73No 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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Augustus as Princeps Senatus
203–218Views:469Octavian took the title of princeps senatus during the first lectio senatus of his long reign. The article deals with the role of the title of princeps of the Senate in the system of government under Augustus. I argue that the first Roman Emperor attached importance to his position of the princeps senatus not only in the context of the First settlement but during his whole long reign. The Emperor was eager to highlight the overall importance of this post. Moreover, he defined his place in the Senate with this position and it had functional significance for him during sessions of the consilium publicum. The restoration of the title of princeps senatus took place in a new circumstance. The reality of the epoch led to some transformations in the title’s functionality.
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La lexicographie latine de l’époque humaniste
401-427.Views:26No 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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Renovatio imperii - Corona Hungariae regia (Idea Europae unitae in opusculo Sancti Stephani, quod "Libellus de institutione morum sive admonitio spiritualis" inscribitur)
193-205.Views:30No 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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Lucius Brutus of Rome and Cypselus of Corinth
27–44.Views:306The story of Lucius Brutus, the founder of the Roman Republic has often been analysed as a historical story, somewhat mythicised, and embellished by literary tropes; and some have also interpreted it as primarily a myth, historicised by a later Roman culture more interested in the exemplary than in the marvelous. Starting out in the latter tradition, this article explores a connection that has been hinted at from antiquity, and has been analysed from the historical and historiographic perspective to some extent, but has not been interpreted in detail as a connection between two myths: the numerous parallels that the story of Brutus and the Tarquins, as told by Virgil, Livy and Ovid, has to the saga of the aristocratic Bacchiad and the tyrannical Cypselid families of early Corinth, as told by Herodotus and Aristotle. The newly discovered parallels (and the re-examination of the known ones) between these stories also invite the reader to reflect on the ways they might have evolved, their political and cultural functionality and on the complex interplay between myth and history.
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Catull in Gedicht 10
223-235.Views:71No 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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Camilla and the Dresses
119–132.Views:141This article aims to create a context around a single line of the Aeneid. The narrator's statement narrating Camilla's death (femineo predae et spoliorum ardebat amore 11,782) is traditionally understood as prejudiced against women and does not quite fit with the earlier portrayal of Camilla's figure. The paper will argue that, on the one hand, the interpretation of the line is not as clear-cut as it may seem at first sight, and on the other hand, that the motivation attributed to Camilla by this statement contains an element that is quite unique in the Aeneid, and is characterised by ambivalence of values rather than by a clear rejection of her morality. The analysis tries to interpret the whole sentence through the nature of the spoils (praeda) mentioned in the sentence. By comparing Camilla's appearance and the clothing of her opponents in battle, it seeks to formulate connections between the different characters in the story.
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The Kulmian letters patent of the Teutonic Order of 1233
205–232Views:165This study subjects to scrutiny the articles of the Kulmian letters patent of 1233 which determined the conditions of private and public law in the would-be state of the Teutonic Order in Prussia. The Kulmer Handfeste had laid down, at the same time, the privileges facilitating planned settlement prior to the conquest of Prussian lands. This diploma ruled on the conditions pertaining to the order of succession, the size of plots, the system of field utilization, fishing and hunting rights as well as those of criminal law and court procedures. It determined the privileges as well as the obligations linked to land-grants while it also determined the conditions of providing for the sustenance of parishes, as well as the currency of the future Teutonic state.
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Theophrastus on the Origin of Music
33-36.Views:26No 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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Marco Aurelio e la Pannonia
71–78.Views:24No 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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Quis est nam ludus in undis? (Virgil, Eclogue IX 39-43)
43–58Views:241The undis-acrostic that has recently been discovered in Eclogue IX 34-38 has proved problematic. The present article argues that the acrostic’s point is the etymology of litus as the place where these “waves” do not “play” (39: ludus), but “strike” (43: feriant for synonymous but exceedingly scarce lidant). This acrostic is accordingly hot-potato politics, since it pertains to the land confiscations round Virgil’s “wave”-begirt Mantua. The poet also provides endorsement in the form of an unidentified onomastic.
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Il saturnino di Floro: Elementi di continuità , omissioni e incongruenze nel ritratto di un seditiosus
325-337.Views:61No 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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Le lunghe notti del 63
57-79.Views:74No 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.