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• Commune sepulcrum: The ‘Catullan’ Memory of Troy in Vergil’s Aeneid

  247–260

  Péter Somfai

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  In Roman literature, Troy appears as a locus memoriae on several occasions. As a locus memoriae is an image of a location’s past state, it inevitably recalls that past state’s absence in the present. Troy as a literary locus memoriae recalls its own present absence, that it is only a ruin, or – according to Lucan – even less than a ruin. In this context, a literary phenomenon, i. e. the depiction of Troy being the equivalent of the absence of/or the grief for the loss of something or somebody can later be traced in the Roman poetry. Catullus, mourning his brother’s death at Troy, calls the city the common grave (commune sepulcrum) of Asia and Europe in his carmen 68. Regarding Troy, several complex allusions can be noticed in Vergil’s Aeneid recalling both Catullus 68 and 101, the two poems that are in both thematic and intertextual connection with each other. The purpose of the present study is to examine – by means of analysing the above mentioned intertexts – what kind of special locus memoriae Troy becomes in the Aeneid. This will be of crucial importance to observe the way Troy later appears in Lucan’s Bellum Civile.

• Gemstones from Roman Britain: Recorded in the Portable Antiquities Scheme

  25–41

  Martin Henig

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  183

  Roman gems have continued to be discovered in Roman Britain and published in archaeological reports and notes since the author completed his Corpus of Gems from British Sites in 1978. A new source of glyptic material can be found in the on-line publication of Portable Antiquities (Portable Antiquities Scheme) which includes intaglios, most of them found without stratigraphical context, by users of metal detectors, though many are set in rings, which provide significant aids in dating. Others were clearly re-used as they are set in seal matrices or medieval rings and were frequently freshly imported at that period from southern Europe. In the High Middle Ages, as in Roman times, intaglios reflect the interests, and patterns of thought of those who wore and valued these beautiful objects.

• Les professions de foi de Gerbert, pape Sylvestre II

  207–215

  Jean-Pierre Levet

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  59

  Sont étudiées, outre la profession de foi religieuse explicite prononcée par Gerbert lors de son accession au siège archiépiscopal de Reims en 991, toutes les professions de foi implicites et reconstituées qui ont jalonné son existence de philosophe, de savant, de penseur politique, d’érudit et de serviteur de l’Église universelle. Elles concernent la définition de la philosophia, la sagesse (sapientia), les sciences et en particulier la physique du nombre, l’unité des sciences, la morale et la politique, la culture gréco-latine, l’enseignement, le projet impérial, l’Europe, l’ Église et son unité, la Hongrie du roi saint Étienne.