scholarly journals LAS CONSTRUCCIONES AB URBE CONDITA EN GRIEGO, CON ESPECIAL ATENCIÓN A LOS USOS HOMÉRICOS

Argos ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. e0015
Author(s):  
Tomás Fernández
Keyword(s):  
Ab Urbe Condita

El presente artículo se propone estudiar las construcciones ab urbe condita en Homero (un ejemplo típico: ἐς ἠέλιον καταδύντα, “hasta la puesta del sol”) y, subsidiariamente, en otros autores griegos. Su fin es demostrar que estas construcciones se distinguen de otras análogas por cuatro características, a saber: a) el participio es imprescindible, salvo en un limitado grupo de verbos (de “ser”, “llegar a ser” y análogos); b) el participio siempre modifica al núcleo de un término preposicional; c) el participio es predicativo, no atributivo; d) el participio tiene una posición relativamente fija.

Reading and Writing History

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Rutledge
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Culture ◽  
Reading And Writing ◽  
Ab Urbe Condita ◽  
The City ◽  
Classical History

This essay attends to the neglected marginal commentary that John Bellenden composed to accompany his translation of the first five books of Livy’s Ab Urbe Condita (From the Founding of the City). It argues that the approaches of the commentary (Latinate, learned, antiquarian) stand in sharp opposition to the vernacular, courtly project that Bellenden’s translation has generally been understood to be. It suggests that the work may owe rather more than has been realized to Bellenden’s engagement with the intellectual culture of the new university in Aberdeen in the later 1530s and offers an important window onto the variety of ways in which classical history was being read during the reign of James V.

Inscriptional Intermediality in Livy

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 74-95
Author(s):  
Morgan E. Palmer
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
Latin Literature ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Narrative Technique ◽  
Ab Urbe Condita

Abstract The term monumentum is used in Latin literature to describe a range of monuments across media, including temples, literary works, statues, and inscriptions. This article surveys the variety of monumenta in Livy’s Ab urbe condita, which range from the text itself to victory inscriptions and bronze sculptures meant to commemorate military as well as political achievements. The borders between historiography and physical artefacts are often blurred by Livy through inscriptional intermediality, a phenomenon defined as the mixing of visual and textual media. By outlining how Livy achieves this combination, and demonstrating how the specific ratio of literary, linguistic, and topographical features in his ekphrases generate unique impressions of real-world monuments, this chapter re-reads Livy’s history from the perspective of intermedial theory. This process not only advances our understanding of the Ab urbe condita as a literary work, but also thrusts individual aspects of Livy’s narrative technique – including visuality and unique formulae such as the introductory formula tabula … cum indice hoc posita est (Livy 41.28.8) – into the spotlight.

Titi Livi ab Urbe Condita. Tomus I. Libri I-V

1976 ◽  
Vol 69 (6) ◽  
pp. 411
Author(s):  
Konrad Gries ◽  
Robert M. Ogilvie
Keyword(s):  
Ab Urbe Condita

I. The Augustan Historian

1974 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 5-7
Keyword(s):  
Nazi Germany ◽  
The Political ◽  
New Order ◽  
The Past ◽  
Ab Urbe Condita ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Relationship

During the past forty years the dominant preoccupation of scholars writing on Livy has been the relationship between the historian and the emperor Augustus, and its effects on the Ab Urbe Condita. Tacitus’ testimony that the two were on friendly terms, and Suetonius’ revelation that Livy found time to encourage the historical studies of the future emperor Claudius, appeared to have ominous overtones to scholars writing against the political backcloth of Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy. Though the subject had not been wholly ignored previously, the success of the German cultural propaganda-machine stimulated a spate of approving or critical treatments. While some were hailing Livy as the historian whose work signalled and glorified the new order, others following a similar interpretation were markedly scathing.

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