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Speaking the Unspeakable: Engaging Nefas in Lucan and Rwanda 1994
Full text linkLucan’s Bellum Civile can be read as an epic that functions in the mode of trauma literature, i.e. a work that explicitly seeks to represent a horror that defies its very representation. Toward this end, this article applies the lens of modern trauma studies to a comparative reading of Lucan set alongside selections from two literary representations of the Rwanda genocide of 1994. By reading these ancient and modern texts alongside each other, we can gain greater insight into some of the shared rhetorical and narrative strategies that these writers from such different time periods have employed. In the face of lingering trauma, these ancient and modern strategies on one hand emphasize speechlessness (nefas and the threat of silence) and yet on the other hand engage the audience and invite them into the space of trauma through the senses of sight, sound, and emotion. The Roman poet Lucan, like his modern counterparts, seeks to guide his readers into a haunting encounter with the deeper traumatic reality of these conflicts such that they can no longer be unwitnessed or ignored
The Roman Fresco Experience. Report
Full text linkThe present text is a report of a workshop session on Roman fresco-making led by the artist Rayda Guzmán. The workshop was held in Nov. 2016 and was integrated within the programme of an undergraduate module on Ancient Pompeii and its Modern Receptions (Classical Ciivilisation degree) at the University of Roehampton (London). The workshop consisted of a theoretical and a practical session, during which the students were asked to reproduce grafments of a large naturalistic fresco. Both parts of the session were visually documented step by step; the vidos are now available on YouTube (The Roman Fresco Experience, Roehampton)
Fantasie violente: il sogno ad occhi aperti in Omero e nel cinema
Full text linkDaydreams and visions are much used in fiction; filmmaking is perhaps the best way to represent them, thanks to its most powerful tool: editing. This paper focuses on a particular category of daydreams: violent phantasies. As a consequence of a public humiliation, often involving an erotic frustration, a character visualizes himself killing or harming his opponent, while in the real world such an action would be inappropriate. Taking cinema and visual rhetoric as a useful reference and with the aid of narratology, the paper analyses some scenes in Homer wherein the representation of violent phantasies is particularly interesting from this point of view.Sogni ad occhi aperti e visioni sono molto usati nelle opere narrative, e il cinema trova nel montaggio uno dei mezzi più efficaci di rappresentare tali fenomeni. L’articolo prende in esame la particolare categoria delle fantasie violente: a seguito di un’umiliazione pubblica, che spesso ricopre una frustrazione erotica, un personaggio visualizza se stesso nell’atto di uccidere o ferire un avversario, mentre nella realtà un’iniziativa del genere risulterebbe inappropriata. L’articolo prende come riferimento cinema e retorica dell’immagine per analizzare, col supporto della narratologia, alcune scene omeriche dove la rappresentazione di fantasie violente è particolarmente interessante da questo punto di vista
Intertextuelle Emotion oder Geschlechter im Krieg: die Lemnosepisode bei Valerius Flaccus im Vergleich zu den Darstellungen des Statius und Apollonios
Full text linkDer Mythos von den lemnischen Frauen, die in einer durch göttliche Mächte verursachten Raserei die gesamte männliche Bevölkerung der Insel Lemnos ermorden, bietet ein interessantes Beispiel für die literarische Darstellung von Emotionen, deren Entwicklung und Konsequenzen. In dieser Erzählung eines Bürgerkrieges, der eigentlich ein Krieg zwischen den Geschlechtern ist, spielen Emotionen insbesondere in ihrer Zuordnung auf männliche und weibliche Figuren sowie auf Gruppen bzw. Individuen eine bedeutende Rolle. Die wichtigsten Darstellungen des Mythos finden sich bei Apollonios Rhodios, Valerius Flaccus und Statius; es liegen bereits Studien vor, die sich mit Unterschieden zwischen den genannten Texten befassen. Dieser Aufsatz möchte einen Beitrag zur Forschungsdiskussion liefern, indem er insbesondere die unterschiedlichen Darstellungen und Entwicklungen der Emotionen sowie deren Bedeutung für das Fortschreiten der mythischen Handlung in den Blick nimmt
Zenobia of 1001 nights – Alexander Baron’s novel Queen of the East
Full text linkThe central theme of this article is Alexander Baron’s historical novel Queen of the East (GB 1956). The main goal is to prove to what extent the modern author’s description of the heroine, the Palmyrene Queen Zenobia, is shaped by the 19th century discourses of orientalism by which means the ancient ruler is turned into an harem girl. Moreover, the text and its paratexts are interpreted against the background of the 1950s by addressing socio-political, economic, and cultural contexts. As a result, it can be proven that the 1956 portrait of Zenobia serves different purposes: on the one hand her story can be labelled escape fiction for the reader as well as for the author (who had to cope with some identity problems because of his Jewishness), on the other hand the book might be read as a tutorial in contemporary female subordination
Antike erfahren - analog, partizipativ, kritisch. Ein Gespräch mit den Ausstellungsmachern von "Spiel mit der Antike"
Full text linkThe special exhibition "Spiel mit der Antike - Das Bild der Antike in modernen Brettspielen" will run until October 1st 2017 at the City Museum at Fembo House Nuremberg. The exhibition designed by the Swiss Game Museum in 2014 shows about 60 games of Greek and Roman antiquity. The art historian Dr. Andreas Curtius from the The City of Nuremberg's Art Collections and the museologist Christin Lumme from the German Games Archive Nuremberg played a decisive role in the realization of the temporary exhibition. I walked with them through the exhibition to talk about the reception of antiquity, the use of digital media in the museum and the fascinating effects of art objects.
Review of Fabre-Serris, Keith (eds.), Women and War in Antiquity
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Acque fenicie
Full text linkuna delle maggiori difficoltà per la ricostruzione della storia della religione fenicia è la perdita delle fonti letterarie di questa civiltà. Le fonti classiche e cristiane che riportano notizie sulla cultura fenicio-punica sono ideologicamente orientate e quindi da utilizzare con cautela. In questo contributo si propone un confronto tra il modo di presentare la mitologia fenicia del teologo cristiano Eusebio di Cesarea e del filosofo neoplatonico Damascio e la struttura narrativa dello scrittore francese George Pere
Rezension: Thomas E. Jenkins, Antiquity Now. The Classical World in the Contemporary American Imagination. Cambridge University Press (Cambridge 2015), viii & 253 S. ISBN: 978-0-521-19626-0, 67 £ & Ute Schüren, Daniel Marc Segesser, Thomas Späth (Eds.), Globalized Antiquity. Uses and Perceptions of the Past in South Asia, Mesoamerica and Europe. Reimer (Berlin 2015), 352 S. ISBN: 978-3-496-01600-7, 45 €
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