scholarly journals Roma en la poesía de Ida Vitale: lengua, literatura y civilización

Nova Tellus ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 161-176
Author(s):  
Josefa Fernández Zambudio
Keyword(s):  
Classical Tradition ◽  
Roman World ◽  
Roman Literature ◽  
Latin Language ◽  
Accurate Expression

In this paper we focus on significant examples of the dialogue between the uruguayan poet Ida Vitale and the Roman World. We explore her reception of Rome through Latin Language and Roman Literature, Religion, Society, History and Archaeology. These elements are linked to the search of an accurate expression. The lack of studies on Ida Vitale, especially on Classical tradition, and the contextualization in her Poetics justify our contribution itself.

The Ritual Background of the Dying God in Cyprus and Syro-Palestine

1982 ◽  
Vol 75 (3) ◽  
pp. 313-359 ◽  
Author(s):  
Noel Robertson
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
General Type ◽  
Urban Society ◽  
Late Bronze Age ◽  
Near Eastern ◽  
Common Culture ◽  
Central Figure ◽  
Roman World ◽  
Greco Roman ◽  
Roman Literature

In Frazer'sGolden Boughthe leading instance of the central figure whom he called “the dying god” was Adonis, famous from Greco-Roman literature and art but firmly localized in Semitic Phoenicia, Syria, and Cyprus. Since Frazer wrote, his other Near Eastern instances have been so transformed by increasing knowledge that it can be doubted whether they severally belong to the same type or indeed whether any general type exists. Adonis has hardly shared in these discoveries and debates, for research has emphasized instead the large developments which overtook his worship within the Greco-Roman world. Most of this research does not bear at all on the origins of Adonis, but scholars have sometimes been so bemused by the Greek elements as to forget or deny the Semitic. Everything has been called into question at different times. Such features of his myth as the boar and the myrrh tree and the incest are discounted as Greek embroidery; his peculiar festival, with mourning women and miniature gardens of lettuce, is traced to the preoccupations of Greek urban society; even the Semitic derivation derivation of his name is disputed. This Greek exclusivism cannot be sustained. All accounts of Adonis' life and lineage, and all analogies for his worship converge in the Levant — not in a single site or land, but in Phoenicia, coastal Syria and Cyprus together, lands which from the Late Bronze Age onward display a distinctive common culture, above all with respect to religion. This is where Adonis is at home, and where we may look for evidence to explain the figure of the dying god.

Legal Education and Legal Culture in Gaul during the Principate

2020 ◽  
pp. 462-485
Author(s):  
Matthijs Wibier
Keyword(s):  
Daily Life ◽  
Legal Education ◽  
Cultural Models ◽  
Legal Culture ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Roman Law ◽  
The West ◽  
Roman Literature ◽  
Latin Language ◽  
Cultural Sphere

From a conceptual point of view, it has often been pointed out that education is a key way in which cultural models, expectations, and standards are disseminated. The pervasiveness and success of the Greek model known as enkyklios paideia have been amply charted for the Hellenistic and Imperial Periods. Similar developments have been traced in the context of Roman education and Latin literacy in the provinces, not least the West. However, these studies have focused primarily on—to use a contested term—acculturation in certain aspects of daily life as well as in terms of education in the Latin language and in Roman literature, while law has been largely left out. Part of the reason for this is no doubt the lack of much very direct evidence. Yet the evidence there is, in particular the paraphrase of Gaius’ Institutes known as the Fragmenta Augustodunensia (FA), has in fact been unduly marginalized. Accordingly, this chapter shows that, focusing on Autun and its cultural sphere, it is possible to piece together a picture of how students in Imperial Gaul were trained in the basics of Roman law.

scholarly journals The features of the Latin grammatical system as the cognitive-communicative basis of medical terminology

2021 ◽  
pp. 54-61
Author(s):  
Т.Я. Кузнецова
Keyword(s):  
Syntactic Structure ◽  
Professional Communication ◽  
Common Language ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Medical Terminology ◽  
Parts Of Speech ◽  
Cognitive Research ◽  
Latin Language ◽  
Accurate Expression ◽  
Structured Knowledge

В статье рассматривается проблема адекватности грамматической системы латинского языка ее использованию в медицинской терминологии. Актуальность темы обусловлена когнитивно-коммуникативным подходом к анализу материала. С появлением когнитивных исследований термин предстает не как застывшее образование, но как представляемый чувственно и мыслительно воспринимаемый объект. В его основе лежит концепт, квант структурированного знания. Научная новизна исследования заключается в анализе роли латинской грамматики в процессе формирования медицинской терминологии коллективным адресантом, гуманистами эпохи Возрождения. Сущность системы латинского склонения имен существительных состоит в присоединении к различным основам сравнительно небольшого числа падежных окончаний, сходных для ряда склонений. Номинации в процессе коммуникации осуществляются общими процессами и принципами. Склонение I и II групп имен прилагательных дифференцировано в зависимости от того, на какие типы склонения имен существительных они ориентированы. Термины-словосочетания рассматриваются в аспекте межуровневого взаимодействия морфологии и синтаксиса. Имея четкую когнитивную и коммуникативную направленность, термины-словосочетания отличаются строгой семантической, морфологической и синтаксической структурой. Особенности грамматической системы латинского языка обусловливают в медицине легкость восприятия, глубину понимания адресатом и быстроту его реакции в процессе профессиональной коммуникации. The paper discusses the problem of the adequacy of the grammatical system of the Latin language in medical terminology. The relevance of the topic is due to the cognitive-communicative approach to the analysis of the material. Anthropocentrism, with its focus on the intelligent human being, necessitated a review of the terminology and interpretation of the term as a word limited by its special purpose and an unambiguous and accurate expression of the concept. With the advent of cognitive research, the term appears not as a ‘frozen’ formation, but as a sensually and mentally perceived object. It is based on the concept, a “quantum” of structured knowledge. However, stepping from the field of a common language the language of medicine, the word presenting the concept becomes the name of the concept, expressing medical reality as a term. The scientific novelty of the study is to solve the problem of the formation of medical terminology based on the system of the Latin grammar, morphology and syntax by the collective addressee, humanists of the Renaissance. For medical terminology, two parts of speech are chiefly required for professional purposes: nouns and adjectives. The essence of the Latin declension system of the noun consists in attaching a relatively small number of case endings to various stems, with some endings shared by different declinations. The process of nomination is guarded by general principles. Adjectives are divided into two groups. The first and second declension of adjectives is differentiated depending on the declension of nouns they modify. Phrase terms are considered in the inter-layer interaction of morphology and syntax. There is special attention to psychosystematics, which puts forward the concept of linguistic virtuality — the repository in our thinking in terms of concepts (cogitative algorithms for the formation of words as parts of speech) (G. Guillaume, L. M. Skrelina) before their use in speech (small syntax). With a clear cognitive and communicative orientation, phrase terms are distinguished by a formal semantic, morphological and syntactic structure. In medicine, the peculiarities of Latin grammar facilitate perception, contribute to the depth of understanding by the addressees and the speed of their reaction in the process of professional communication

Building a Roman Funeral Pyre

Antichthon ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 34 ◽  
pp. 30-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Noy
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
Second Century ◽  
Roman Art ◽  
Archaeological Evidence ◽  
Roman World ◽  
Roman Literature ◽  
Changes Over Time ◽  
Cultural Homogenisation ◽  
Over Time

Until the second century A.D., the bodies of most people who died at Rome and in the western provinces of the Empire ended up on a funeral pyre, to be reduced to ashes which would be placed in a grave. The practical arrangements for this process have attracted some attention from archaeologists but virtually none from ancient historians. In this paper I shall try to combine literary and archaeological evidence to reconstruct how the pyre was prepared. I hope that this will provide a fuller background than currently exists for understanding the numerous brief references which can be found in Roman literature and the two surviving representations of a pyre (other than an emperor's) in Roman art. Cremation had different traditions in different areas, e.g. as an elite practice in parts of Gaul, even if ultimately it ‘may have been thought of as a sign of allegiance to Rome.’ There clearly were local differences, not just between provinces but between places quite close together, as well as changes over time, but many of the rites of cremation appear to have been similar throughout the Western Roman Empire, illustrating what Morris calls ‘a massive cultural homogenisation of the Roman world at a time when political and economic regionalism was increasing’.

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