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3. Bearzot (C.), Landucci (F.) éd., Studi sull’epitome di Giustino I. Dagli Assiri a Filippo II di Macedonia, 2014
No full textLefèvre François. 3. Bearzot (C.), Landucci (F.) éd., Studi sull’epitome di Giustino I. Dagli Assiri a Filippo II di Macedonia, 2014. In: Revue des Études Grecques, tome 128, fascicule 1, Janvier-juin 2015. pp. 240-241
POxy LXXI 4808: contenuto e problemi
Full text linkPOxy LXXI 4808 transmits either a private text writtenby a learned reader or, more likely, a fragment from a handbook composed for schools and for the pursuit of more advanced learning. Through schematic accounts of three historians of Alexander the Great (Onesicritus, Cares, and Cleitarchus) and of Hieronymus of Cardia and Polybius, the document clearly favors historiography that is devoted to the representation of reality and the reconstruction of events that is as accurate as possible, as opposed to an encomiastichistoriography focused on great personalities and moreoriented towards myth and the fabulous or pure entertaintment
I sovrani Argeadi, signori della Macedonia
No full textA foreword introduces the paper on Valerius Maximus and the complex Quellenforschung of his work, followed by the survey of the mentions of Macedonian rulers.
The inquiry reveals that before Philip II and Alexander the Great, Valerius Maximus only knows Archelaos. Also, Philip II is cited only five times, and only
twice he is the protagonist of the narrated stories. Alexander the Great, conversely, appears twenty-four times (nine as protagonist): after Hannibal, he is the
most cited character among the so-called exterae gentes of Valerius’ work.
Several scholars have analyzed Valerius’ approach to Alexander’s deeds. According to some scholars, Valerius negatively judged Alexander. According to
others, however, his judgment was favourable. Since, among the nine episodes devoted to Alexander, six are favourable to the king and only three hostile, I argue that Valerius is not a hostile source to Alexander
Gli intellettuali a corte: storia di una presenza dalla corte macedone alle corti ellenistiche
No full textThe presence of intellectuals in the Hellenistic courts appears as a development of what had happened, starting from the end of the fifth century BC in the court of Macedonian kings, which always remained the point of reference for the sovereigns of the kingdoms born from the ashes of Alexander's empire.
Already king Archelaus, at the end of the fifth century BC, had been a great patron, welcoming many Athenian intellectuals in Pella and among them Euripides. This patronage tradition had been continued with Philip II, who had invited Aristotle to his court, to be the tutor of his son and heir Alexander. This latter brought with him intellectuals and philosophers to the East, although for some of them, like Callisthenes of Olynthos, the experience ended in tragedy.
After Alexander’s death, each dynast built up his own court. Here, it is enough to make reference to the court of Alexandria in Egypt, where, thanks to Ptolemies’ generosity, the most famous Library of the ancient world was organized, located within the so-called Museum, a place aimed to let the greatest scholars of the time meet and study
I Galati in Macedonia. Storia di una razzia
No full textStarting in 280 BC, the life of people settled in the southern part of the Balkan peninsula was disrupted by the invasion of Celtic bands (the Galatians of the Greek sources), who destroyed everything they found. The main source for these events is Justin’s Epitome of the Philippic Histories, together with some fragments of Diodorus’ book XXII, a digression on the history of Byzantium in Polybius’ book IV and a narrative excursus in Pausanias’ book X. In general, modern scholars have focused on Galatians’ attack against Delphi and overlooked Macedonian events, that we therefore aim to analyze.
Galatians’ arrival in Macedonia was favoured by the fact that the country had fallen into a deep crisis after Lysimachus’ death in battle in February 281 BC. At that time, he was the ruler of a kingdom straddling Europe and Asia; the winner, Seleucus I, was killed in September of the same year by Ptolemy Ceraunus, who proclaimed himself king of Macedonia. The latter was defeated and killed by the Galatians in February 279 BC and in the next two years the Macedonians were at the mercy of appalling raids. In 277 BC however, quite unexpectedly, the Galatians were defeated by Demetrius Poliorcetes’ son, Antigonus Gonatas, a landless king who for ten years has been trying to become master of any kind of country in the Aegean area. Thanks to this victory, Antigonus Gonatas became king of Macedonia and remained on the throne until his death in 239 BC.
The story of this sovereign is narrated in particular by Justin, who preserves the ‘Antigonid’ version of Galatians’ defeat. In my opinion, this version, totally obscured by the rest of the ancient tradition, has, as its primary source, the Histories of Hieronymus of Cardia, Gonatas’ official historian
Logografi, retori, filosofi alla “Scuola dell’Ellade”: aspettative e opportunità
No full textThis paper considers different categories of traveling intellectuals (logographers, rhetoricians, sophists and philosophers): “qualified migrants” who abandon, more or less stably, their own city and their own environment, due to educational or professional motives, and move around the world of the classical age which is culturally headed by Athens. The purpose is to question about their expectations (rich earnings, qualified work, an adequate public, the recognition of cultural authority; rarely real integration) and about the opportunities they encountered
Alien plant invasions in Mediterranean habitats. An assessment for Sicily
Full text linkLevels of plant invasions in different habitat types were assessed in several regional studies, but few of them were from the Mediterranean. Here we compare the levels of vascular plant invasion across habitats and plant communities of Sicily. We used a large dataset of plant species presences/absences in vegetation plots to analyze the invasion patterns across habitats considering biogeography, life form and phenology of alien plants. Vegetation plots were classified based on the EUNIS classification of European habitats. The invasiveness of each species was expressed in terms of its absolute and percentage frequency. Representation of different life forms and phenological patterns was compared between alien and native species. The fidelity of alien species to individual habitats was calculated using the phi coefficient. Our analysis shows that annual and woody species are the most represented life forms in the alien flora of Sicily and that alien species tend to have a longer flowering period than the native species. The investigated habitats differed strongly in their level of invasion by alien species, ranging from 0 to 15.6% of aliens of all species recorded. Most of the habitats were colonized by very few alien species or completely lacked them, except for sandy coasts, naturally-disturbed riverbeds, and synanthropic habitats. It must be noted, however, that the number of alien species occurring in a given habitat does not relate to the severity of the impact of invasion in that habitat. Some habitats are invaded by few (or single) species, which attain a high cover, transforming the whole ecosystem. The habitat-based approach proved to be suitable for evaluating the habitat specificity and frequency of alien species at a regional scale, improving the capacity for risk assessment in different ecological contexts
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