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The volumes published in the series "Beitrage zur Altertumskunde" comprise monographs, collective volumes, editions, translations and commentaries on various topics from the fields of Greek and Latin Philology, Ancient History, Archeology, Ancient Philosophy as well as Classical Reception Studies. The series thus offers indispensable research tools for a wide range of disciplines related to the Ancient Studies.

Edited by Giampaolo Graziadio, Riccardo Guglielmino, Valeria Lenuzza and Salvatore Vitale

A collection of recent papers presented in honour of Mario Benzi.

E luogo comune che, esaurendosi la stagione della poesia augustea, i motivi di sorso ispiratore e labor limae perdano pregnanza semantica: un giudizio legato alla polemica di Persio contro la poesia contemporanea e al Kallimachos in Rom di Walter Wimmel. Entrambi i topoi subiscono in realta una profonda trasformazione, entrando nei nuovi equilibri del sistema letterario (dopo l'Eneide la poesia epica non scorre piu 'fangosa', mentre i generi minori si collocano all'insegna della festinatio e non della cura formale) e nel delicato dialogo fra...

Claudius Tiberianus war zunachst speculator (eine Art Geheimagent), dann Veteran der romischen Armee. Die Lekture seiner Briefe gibt anhand der offentlichen und privaten Ereignisse und personlichen Verbindungen, die darin zur Sprache kommen, einen fundierten Einblick in das politische, wirtschaftliche und soziale Leben der romischen Provinz Agypten am Beginn des 2. Jh. n.Chr. Alle Texte werden in der Originalsprache (Latein oder Griechisch) und in italienischer Ubersetzung vorgestellt und detailliert kommentiert. Zahlreiche Register erlauben eine direkte Recherche nach allen...

The volume contains the edition of 32 Greek papyrus texts, together with a commentary and translation, from the recently identified Senouthios archive. It consists of correspondence between high-ranking officials from Hermopolites in the first years after the Arabic conquest of Egypt. The letters deal with the requisitions for the erection of the new Egyptian capital of al-Fustat ( Old Cairo ), and throw light on aspects which are otherwise scarcely documented, such as the relationship between Christians and Muslims, or the reaction of the population to the demands of the new rulers. A...