Déchéance et réhabilitation des objets, des espaces, des personnes dans l’Antiquité gréco-romaine - Autour des questions de déclassement et reclassement. Actes du colloque de Toulouse des 11-12 avril 2019, 2024
Beauty is at stake in Paul Treherne’s seminal investigation of masculinity and warriorhood in lif... more Beauty is at stake in Paul Treherne’s seminal investigation of masculinity and warriorhood in life and death in Bronze Age Europe. The warrior’s beauty is seen as constructed through a series of paraphernalia that range from weaponry to (self-)grooming objects. Aim of the research is to investigate Mycenaean Age warrior graves in order to examine changes and meaning in the composition of funerary inventories through the introduction, elimination, and reintroduction of certain categories of objects, or even through evading categories that are meaningful and clearly used during life. At the same time, different kinds of written sources, clay tablets in Linear B or, on an image creating level, the epic poetry, favor (according to their own purposes)different objects when referring to weapons and warriors, for example, defensive weaponry in the clay tablets; however, this is not the case in graves. Different kinds of weapons simultaneously gain and loose meaning and value in constructing warriorhood in various sets of contemporary contexts; are they related to significant moments of change would be a question to ask. A comparative view of these different contexts in evolution seems to us useful for investigating in depth what beauty was.
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These points of interest are seen against the background of the definition and viability of the political profile of both Atlantis and Athens, and reckoned as central to the political workings and understanding of both entities.
On the other hand, archive, oral tradition and writing are also
investigated with respect to the intricate chains pertaining to the transmission
of the Atlantis logos as variously related by Critias, and with respect to the
impact of their status in the transmission chains on their use and meaning in the logos itself.
Finally, the two sides of the investigation are briefly considered against
the political developments and warfare, and the making, use, and preservation of documents and memory in 5th and 4th century historical Athens.
Greek and for their geographical and chronological attributions has been proposed to Antiquity specialists. Ithaca, as the tool is called, was trained to restore fragmentary texts that were put forward in Antiquity as inscriptions (i.e., texts engraved on stone and other materials, and meant to be exposed in a public place). Many of these texts have a formulaic quality in the sense that their structure, lexical choices, turns of phrase or syntactic organization can potentially be inferred from other texts belonging to the same category, and accordingly, lost portions of text
can be restored by the specialists. Our aim is to check its performance against a series of examples belonging to a funerary inscription from Callatis that we recently published, a text positing its own challenges in order to make it usable for Ithaca.
undertaken by the team from the University of Bucharest in Istros (Istria, Constanța County, Romania), in the Acropolă Centru-Sud (Acropolis Centre-South) Sector, since 2013. All three were found in a secondary position (fig. 2) and are very badly preserved or highly fragmentary.
From the first (no. 1, fig. 3, dated to the 3rd c. BC) only the popular name Dionysios and probably letters from a patronym are preserved; the second (no. 2, fig. 4, late Hellenistic-early Roman) has preserved four letters of another popular name in Istros, Artemidoros, while from the third (no. 3, fig. 6, 3rd-1st c. BC) only the letters TPI are left, from the dative singular in the 3rd declension of the name of a deity – the Mother of Gods or, more likely, Demeter.
These points of interest are seen against the background of the definition and viability of the political profile of both Atlantis and Athens, and reckoned as central to the political workings and understanding of both entities.
On the other hand, archive, oral tradition and writing are also
investigated with respect to the intricate chains pertaining to the transmission
of the Atlantis logos as variously related by Critias, and with respect to the
impact of their status in the transmission chains on their use and meaning in the logos itself.
Finally, the two sides of the investigation are briefly considered against
the political developments and warfare, and the making, use, and preservation of documents and memory in 5th and 4th century historical Athens.
Greek and for their geographical and chronological attributions has been proposed to Antiquity specialists. Ithaca, as the tool is called, was trained to restore fragmentary texts that were put forward in Antiquity as inscriptions (i.e., texts engraved on stone and other materials, and meant to be exposed in a public place). Many of these texts have a formulaic quality in the sense that their structure, lexical choices, turns of phrase or syntactic organization can potentially be inferred from other texts belonging to the same category, and accordingly, lost portions of text
can be restored by the specialists. Our aim is to check its performance against a series of examples belonging to a funerary inscription from Callatis that we recently published, a text positing its own challenges in order to make it usable for Ithaca.
undertaken by the team from the University of Bucharest in Istros (Istria, Constanța County, Romania), in the Acropolă Centru-Sud (Acropolis Centre-South) Sector, since 2013. All three were found in a secondary position (fig. 2) and are very badly preserved or highly fragmentary.
From the first (no. 1, fig. 3, dated to the 3rd c. BC) only the popular name Dionysios and probably letters from a patronym are preserved; the second (no. 2, fig. 4, late Hellenistic-early Roman) has preserved four letters of another popular name in Istros, Artemidoros, while from the third (no. 3, fig. 6, 3rd-1st c. BC) only the letters TPI are left, from the dative singular in the 3rd declension of the name of a deity – the Mother of Gods or, more likely, Demeter.
perceived through various shades of Otherness. In general, scholars commented on the hyperbolic descriptions and on the abundance of precious metals in these material settings while also stressing that objects made of these metals appear (much) later in the archaeological
record. These descriptions would be, in their opinion, exacerbated projections of luxurious settings in real life. However, this suggests a particular effort was done to create telling material settings for these beings in correlation on the one hand, to their status and behaviour, and on the other hand, to the narrative imperatives. We would like to explore in depth how the particular material cultures created in the epics participated in the construction of the nonhumanness of the characters and in the narrative progression, while also highlighting broader
issues like Otherness, nature/culture, gender or insularity relevant to these literary constructions of materiality.
Structuralist flavored views on Odysseus’ travels look on the worlds and cultures encountered by the Homeric hero as upside down worlds constructed in opposition to cultured existence. Although intending to propose an approach from a social anthropological perspective as well, we would like to take a step further and investigate a specific episode, Odysseus’ encounter with Polyphemos, not as an incursion in an upside down world (as Vidal-Naquet proposed), but as a reflection of the danger-fraught encounters between people not belonging to or found on the fringes of one’s own social network (based on shared cultural values and constructed on present and inherited guest-host relationships, commensality, and gift-exchanges). While as a rule, scholars focused on the dangers encountered with by Odysseus and his men during their completely unlooked for and unexpectedly long journey in strange lands, discussing them from Odysseus’ perspective, we would rather like to dwell on the inherent symmetry of such episodes, stating that they are never about only one main character, and should be looked at equally from both perspectives. For the case study we chose to focus our attention on, no matter whose voice we listen as story-teller, there is a story behind both parties involved, on one hand Odysseus and his men, on the other the Cyclops Polyphemos, as guests and host in this equally unwanted meeting. From this perspective, it must be emphasized that not only guests are open to become victims to unknown dangers when ‘visiting’ (willingly or not) individuals or communities not belonging to their own network of kinship, friends and allies, but also hosts are open to danger in similar degrees from the barging in their homes of complete strangers, who are literally ‘nobody’ for them in social terms, as Odysseus wittingly remarks. https://fontearetusa.wordpress.com/homer-in-sicily-abstracts/