La tragedia di Eschilo: testo, ipotesti, performance: Atti del Convegno Internazionale (Pisa, 1-2 ottobre 2025)

La tragedia di Eschilo: testo, ipotesti, performance: Atti del Convegno Internazionale (Pisa, 1-2 ottobre 2025)

Enrico Medda(editor)

Andrea Taddei(editor)

 

The study of Aeschylus’ tragedy requires the integration of diverse and complex skills: textual criticism, literary criticism, performance studies, historical-anthropological approaches, and analysis of ancient and modern reception. The research group members of the 2022 PRIN project dedicated to Aeschylean tragedy some of these lines at the international conference held in Pisa on October 1-2, 2025, whose proceedings this volume collects. Among the topics addressed: the Aeschylean conception of language, various aspects of the Libation Bearers (Electra’s role and ritual texture of the first episode), a group of possibly Aeschylean adespota fragments, mythic geography in Prometheus Bound, metaphorical landscapes in the Suppliants, the link between Aeschylean diction and previous archaic lyric models, some typical Aeschylean figures of repetition, the development of Iphigenia’s character in the major tragedians. The interdisciplinary dialogue illuminates Aeschylus’ dramaturgical evolution, emphasizing intertextuality and performative staging. 

 

Title	La tragedia di Eschilo: testo, ipotesti, performance
Subtitle	Atti del Convegno Internazionale (Pisa, 1-2 ottobre 2025)
Contributor	Enrico Medda(editor)
	Andrea Taddei(editor)
DOI	https://doi.org/10.30687/979-12-5742-013-0
Landing page	https://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/979-12-5742-013-0/
License	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari – Venice University Press
Published on	2026-02-26
Series	Lexis Supplements vol. 22 ISSN Print: 2724-3362 ISSN Digital: 2724-3362
ISBN	979-12-5742-013-0 (PDF)

 

The Reception of Sumerian Literature in the Western Periphery

The Reception of Sumerian Literature in the Western Periphery

Maurizio Viano (author)

 

This book investigates the transmission of Sumerian literature to Syria and Anatolia (i.e. the Western periphery) during the Late Bronze Age. Sumerian is the most ancient language so far documented and remained for about three millennia the language of culture in Mesopotamia for its association with scribal education. With the end of the Old Babylonian period, Sumerian literary and lexical texts were disseminated to regions outside Mesopotamia. The volume, however, is not limited to the documentation stemming from peripheral sites but also includes a comprehensive study of contemporary Mesopotamian sources, i.e. Middle Babylonian and Middle Assyrian. Sumerian literature is best known through the Old Babylonian texts, to which countless studies were dedicated, while the subsequent period is poorly known and has been neglected by scholars for the scarcity of sources. Nevertheless, the Late Bronze Age is extremely important for the Sumerian literature because the process of selection and modification of texts that ended up in the first millennium canonization started in this period. Therefore, this book aims at filling a gap in our comprehension of the history of Sumerian literature. The primary objective of this book is the identification of the tradition of texts discovered in the Western periphery in comparison with second and first millennium Mesopotamian sources. The subject has been approached from different perspectives, taking into account philological, cultural, and historical aspects. 

DOI	https://doi.org/10.14277/978-88-6969-076-1
Landing page	https://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-7543-417-5/
License	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Copyright	Maurizio Viano
Publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari – Venice University Press
Publication place	Venice, Italy
Published on	2016-07-08
Series	Antiquity Studies vol. 9 ISSN Print: 2610-9344 ISSN Digital: 2610-9344
ISBN	978-88-6969-076-1 (PDF)

 

 

Plutarch's Science of Natural Problems: A Study with Commentary on Quaestiones Naturales

Plutarch's Science of Natural Problems: A Study with Commentary on Quaestiones Naturales

Michiel Meeusen (author)

 

The role of natural science in the Roman Imperial Era In his Quaestiones naturales, Plutarch unmistakeably demonstrates a huge interest in the world of natural phenomena. The work of this famous intellectual and philosopher from Chaeronea consists of forty-one natural problems that address a wide variety of questions, sometimes rather peculiar ones, and answers pertaining to ancient Greek physics, including problems related to the fields of zoology, botany, meteorology and their respective subdisciplines. By providing a thorough study of and commentary on this generally neglected text, written by one of the most influential and prolific writers from Antiquity, this book contributes to our better understanding of Plutarch’s natural scientific programme and, the condition and role of ancient natural science in the Roman Imperial Era in general. This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content). 

DOI	https://doi.org/10.11116/9789461662293
Landing page	https://chooser.crossref.org/?doi=10.11116%2F9789461662293
License	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode
Publisher	Leuven University Press
Publication place	Leuven, BE
Published on	2017-02-10
Series	Plutarchea Hypomnemata vol. 1 ISSN Print: ISSN Digital:
ISBN	978-94-6270-084-0 (Hardback)
	978-94-6166-229-3 (PDF)

 

 

Sofocle, Niobe: Introduzione, testo critico, commento e traduzione

Sofocle, Niobe: Introduzione, testo critico, commento e traduzione

Leyla Ozbek (editor)

 

The myth regarding Niobe was already extremely famous in ancient times, and her actions still resonate today. She offended the goddess Leto by comparing her own offspring to Leto’s two children, Apollo and Artemis, and was punished by the goddess in a horrendous way, with the killing of her children. Her legendary mourning is already quoted in one of the most famous passages of the Iliad, during the encounter between Achilles and Priam. While Aeschylus, in his now fragmentary play on Niobe, represented on stage her silent mourning on the tomb of her children (a prelude to her metamorphosis into a forever weeping stone on Mount Sipylus), Sophocles focused his tragedy on the most shocking part of the myth: the killing of Niobe’s sons and daughters by Apollo and Artemis. This volume contains a new critical edition of Sophocles’ Niobe with a translation and a commentary. The text also includes fragments and testimonia that were not taken into account in the fourth volume of TrGF by Stefan Radt. The papyrus fragments and testimonies have been re-edited following direct personal re-examination of the original manuscripts. The introduction focuses on the content and mutual collocation of the fragments and testimonies, proposing a new dispositio fragmentorum (accompanied by a new numeration). This new disposition will shed new light on the overall reconstruction of the plot of the tragedy and of its staging. In the commentary, testimonia and fragments, in which the text is preserved in full or can be at least partially reconstructed, are followed by an Italian translation. The translation is followed by a general introduction in which the content and the context of each fragment and testimony are given, together with a metrical analysis of the passage (in the case of poetic fragments) and a commentary that examines textual and papyrological problems, as well as aspects of vocabulary, grammar and syntax, trying also to reconstruct key scenes of the play and their staging. Visual representations of Niobe’s myth that are useful for understanding important details of the story are discussed and examined within the commentary. The volume is closed by an appendix that considers four fragments to which Radt refers at the end of his introduction to the Niobe. These fragments have been attributed to this play in the past but should not be considered as part of it now, either because their attribution is erroneous or, at best, because it is extremely doubtful. 

DOI	https://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-710-4
Landing page	https://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-738-8/
License	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Copyright	Leyla Ozbek
Publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari – Venice University Press
Publication place	Venice, Italy
Published on	2023-12-20
Series	Lexis Supplements vol. 13 ISSN Print: 2724-3362 ISSN Digital: 2724-3362
ISBN	978-88-6969-710-4 (Paperback)
	978-88-6969-710-4 (PDF)

 

 

Epigrafia ostiense dopo il CIL. 2000 iscrizioni funerarie: Nuova edizione ampliata, riveduta e corretta nel testo e negli indici

Epigrafia ostiense dopo il CIL. 2000 iscrizioni funerarie: Nuova edizione ampliata, riveduta e corretta nel testo e negli indici

Maria Letizia Caldelli (editor)

Mireille Cébeillac-Gervasoni (editor)

Nicolas Laubry (editor)

Ilaria Manzini (editor)

 Raffaella Marchesini (editor)

 

Right after Rome, the ancient city of Ostia is the archaeological site where the most considerable number of Latin inscriptions has been discovered. After the publication of the XIV volume of the Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum (1887) and the Supplementum Ostiense (1930), a significant number of new inscriptions was brought to light during the “Grandi Scavi 1938-1942”, the majority of which remained unpublished. About ten years ago, a group of Italian and French researchers started a project for the systematic edition of this evidence. This publication, which is the result of the project, was first issued in 2018. It counted more than 2000 new funerary Latin inscriptions, discovered in Ostia and currently preserved there (plus 168 lost inscriptions). Following the modern standards of edition, the volume represents a remarkable contribution to the knowledge of the onomastics, the families of the city, and the iura sepulchrorum. For each inscription, a high-quality picture is provided. The second part of the book consists of the index, which adopts the traditional thematic classification. The volume is completed by a short bibliography, an index of the published inscriptions, and the inventory of the inscriptions. The second edition presented here is an update of the 2018 volume, with a Supplement at the end of the main catalogue. In addition to some recovered inscriptions or new readings of previously lost inscriptions, it contains numerous connections between fragments which had been considered separately, as well as bibliographical complements. Moreover, thirty new entries for texts previously omitted have been appended. Indexes and correspondences have been completely revised accordingly. 

DOI	https://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-591-9
Landing page	https://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-612-1/
License	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Copyright	Maria Letizia Caldelli, Raffaella Marchesini, Filippo Marini Recchia, Nicolas Laubry, Mireille Cébeillac-Gervasoni, Fausto Zevi, Ilaria Manzini
Publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari – Venice University Press
Publication place	Venice, Italy
Published on	2023-01-26
Series	Antiquity Studies vol. 15 ISSN Print: 2610-9344 ISSN Digital: 2610-9344
ISBN	978-88-6969-591-9 (Paperback)
	978-88-6969-591-9 (PDF)

 

The Gift of Altino: Archeology Writings in Honour of Margherita Tirelli

The Gift of Altino: Archeology Writings in Honour of Margherita Tirelli

Anna Marinetti, Giovannella Cresci Marrone, Giovanna Gambacurta

 

Antiquity Studies vol. 23

In this volume, colleagues and friends pay tribute to Margherita Tirelli, archaeologist, curious and lively interpreter of an archaeological method that has marked a particularly flourishing season of excavations, discoveries, studies and non-superficial initiatives of valorisation. To Altino, as the progenitor of Venice, Margherita Tirelli has dedicated and continues to dedicate her uninterrupted attention, from the excavations to the delicate transition to the new prestigious museum site. In this perspective, the scholar has developed a fruitful collaboration with the Department of Humanistic Studies of Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, concretised in a convention of studies and research and in six conferences of Altino studies, aimed at investigating various themes: from the funerary to the social and the sacred. The diachronic spectrum of its archaeological, historical and epigraphic interests is reflected in the articulation of the contributions dedicated to it here: from the culture of the ancient Veneti to the themes of Romanity, up to a specific focus on glass production. The volume closes with a work on glass from the ‘historical’ age, a subject that still sees her as a reference figure in the Venetian context, and one dedicated to the choices of museum layout, a subject of communication in which she has been able to combine elegance and effectiveness with her collaborators. 

Publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari – Venice University Press
Publication place	Venice, Italy
Published on	2019-12-16
Series	Antiquity Studies vol. 23 ISSN Print: 2610-9344 ISSN Digital: 2610-9344
ISBN	978-88-6969-380-9 (PDF)

 

Powers and Legitimacy in the Ancient World: From Nanterre to Venice in Memory of Pierre Carlier

Powers and Legitimacy in the Ancient World: From Nanterre to Venice in Memory of Pierre Carlier

Stefania De Vido(editor)

 

Antiquity Studies vol. 4

The history of politics in the ancient world was one of the central interests of Pierre Carlier, who passed away in 2011. The tribute of this book is dedicated to the scholar who strongly desired and cultivated the scientific and didactic relations between the Universities of Venice and Nanterre, in which the trace of his teaching becomes the thread that holds together the reflections on some central aspects of ancient political experience: the progressive definition of the power of the king and the tyrant, the difficult dialectic between the aristocracy and the other components of society, the echoes of more ancient themes in the political legitimation of the Hellenistic and Roman ages. 

Publisher Edizioni Ca’ Foscari – Venice University Press Publication place Venice, Italy Published on 2014-11-25 Series Antiquity Studies vol. 4 ISSN Print: 2610-9344 ISSN Digital: 2610-9344 ISBN 978-88-97735-86-1 (PDF)