ARTICLES

1. LUIS POMER MONFERRER

El De fide catholica de Isidoro de Sevilla y la literatura romana – p. 1-23.

Abstract: Anti-Judaic writings of the Late Antiquity include traditional accusations of the adversus Iudaeos literature, as it happens in Isidore of Sevilla´s works, especially in the De fide catholica contra Iudaeos, the first antijewish apology in the Iberian Peninsula and the main source of this polemic in the following centuries. The bishop of Seville assumes an exegetical tradition that repeats the same topoi and arguments that can be observed in the first antijewish polemicists: their obstinacy, blindness and deafness for not acknowledging Jesus Christ as the Messiah; the emptiness of the Jewish laws as circumcision and sabbath; the deicide accusation; the divine punishment as a result of their acts. In this article I am going to compare the topics and arguments of Isidore against Jews with some representative works of the anti-Judaic literature of the first christianity in the Western Roman Empire: the Adversus Iudaeos of Tertullian and Augustine and the passages of this one subject-matter of two works, Divinae Institutiones of Lactantius and Apotheosis of Prudentius. Isidore of Seville continues the steps of his predecessors, who interpreted characters, events and  institutions of the Old Testament in accordance with New Testament.

2. EUGENIO AMATO

Un manoscritto ritrovato di Dione di Prusa – p. 25-34.

Résumé : Le ms. Birmingham, Cadbury Research Library, Special Collections 468, jusqu’ici inconnu des éditeurs de Dion de Pruse, est à identifier avec le manuscrit S qu’on croyait perdu. Il s’agit de ce qui reste d’un parchemin du XIIIe s. (deuxième moitié), renfermant les discours 57 (à partir du § 8 [p. 128, 6 von Arnim]) à 62 (jusqu’au § 2 [p. 143, 7 von Arnim]) de Dion.

3. GIANLUCA PISCINI

L’interprétation des paraboles chez Origène : originalité, codification et variations d’une méthode exégétique – p. 35-65.

Abstract: This paper addresses aspects of the method Origen proposes for the interpretation of the parables. After an overview of the three steps of this method, we will discuss the terminology used to define the first of them, trying to explain it in light of other occurrences in Origen’s works. Then, we will examine the origins and the practical application of Origen’s method of interpretation of the parables, in order to show that, contrary to what has often been affirmed, Origen very rarely follows his own suggestions. The reasons for this gap between theory and practice do not seem to be linked to the context in which the parables appear in the Gospels, nor to the possible alterations that Origen’s text may have undergone or to some structural features of the Commentary on Matthew. Ultimately, the explanation is perhaps found in the variety of approaches and solutions that characterizes Origen’s exegesis. From this point of view, Origen’s reflection on the parables is a perfect example both of his effort to systematize biblical exegesis and of his versatility.

4. GUSTAVO VAGNONE

Dione di Prusa e la ricostruzione del passato: l’or. 61 (Criseide) – p. 67-87.

Abstract: Dio’s narrative in the Chryseis is focused on the diánoia of the young woman, as interpreted and supposed by means of the homeric verses concerning the Chryses’s coming to the Achaean assembly, with the purpose of obtaining the ransom of his daughter from king Agamemnon. The question put by Dio at the end of the speech (“what was the real course of the events?”) may well find its solution in the final words of the Trojan oration.

5. ÁNGEL NARRO

Los beneficiarios de las curaciones de los santos en las primeras colecciones de milagros bizantinas (siglos IV-VII) – p. 89-109.

Abstract: This article deals with four of the main collections of miracles of the Late Antiquity which show the importance of the sanctuaries where the incubatio was practiced. The miracles of Thekla, Cosmas and Damian, Cyrus and John and Artemios feature a wide range of men and women who are used to demonstrate the healing power of the saints and spread the fame of their sanctuaries. Thus, our purpose is to classify the beneficiaries of these healings and determine the role of the characters featured in these miracle tales.

6. PATRICK ROBIANO

Procope de Gaza, lecteur d’Achille Tatius et de Longus – p. 111-125.

Abstract: The Discourses of Procopius of Gaza, especially the Epithalamium for Meles and Antonina recently published and attributed to the Gazean sophist by Eugenio Amato, clearly contain some quotations or echoes of Achilles Tatius’ Leucippe and Clitophon and, in less visible way, Longus’ Daphnis and Chloe. In fact, Procopius shares with these novelists a very close representation of the world. Moreover, his work is a landmark in the history of the Greek literature: first, no contemporary writer seems to have read Longus, and very few Achilles Tatius; second, in the Byzantine time and after, Achilles Tatius and Longus are copied out together in some manuscripts, and Byzantine novelists know them and use them sometimes together. Therefore, as regards reception and transmission of Achilles Tatius and Longus, Procopius appears to be a forunner.

7. GIANLUCA VENTRELLA

Note critiche all’or. 13 di Dione di Prusa con in appendice il Commentario inedito di Adolf Emper – p. 127-152.

Abstract: This paper aims to propose a new strategy of approach for Dio Chrysostom’s thirteenth discourse, whose constitutio textus, in spite of the recent critical edition, continues to raise doubts and perplexities. The transcription of Emper’s relative commentary provided for the first time in the Appendix is here offered as critical, exegetical tool.

8. LAURY-NURIA ANDRÉ

Le paysage des épopées posthomériques : du marais au récit étiologique de peuplement – p. 153-176.

Résumé : Après une réévaluation des zones humides comme espace digne de figurer dans la poésie épique, notamment grâce à une enquête lexicale qui prouve l’intérêt des grecs pour ces espaces hybrides qu’ils ont tenté de cerner au mieux au travers d’un lexique diversifié, j’ai relu le corpus posthomérique pour étudier plus précisément les descriptions des zones humides. En émerge alors une typologie des formes et des fonctions des zones humides qui peuvent être tout aussi bien des marais continentaux que des zones littorales. Leur localisation géographique est révélatrice d’un travail de valorisation des villes et des provinces orientales par la construction d’un paysage vernaculaire qui exploite poétiquement l’hybridité des zones humides. Il apparaît alors une constante de représentation sur plus de huit siècles de perception et de représentation des zones humides dans la littérature épique qui lie étroitement zone humide, récit de peuplement et paysage vernaculaire (oriental). L’étude des variantes poétiques de ces constantes définitionnelles révèle en réalité un processus de construction d’un imaginaire collectif et esthétique autour des zones humides qui pour avoir nourri un tel imaginaire ont occupé une place importante dans le quotidien et la réalité des grecs anciens.

9. DELPHINE LAURITZEN

Sur l’identité de Jean de Gaza. I. – grammatikos et notable – p. 177-210.

Abstract: John, father of the groom in Procopius of Gaza’s Epithalamium for Meles and Antonina, can be identified with the poet John of Gaza. This study focuses on the Description of the Cosmic Panel’s iambic prolog of the same John of Gaza and compares several texts by other Vth-VIth c. CE authors from Byzantine Gaza, such as Procopius of Gaza’s Description of the Image and Choricius’ both Encomia to the bishop Marcian. As a member of a prominent family liable for municipal duties, John appears to have directed, together with his brother Timotheus, the restoration of a public bath. He also described the Cosmic Panel in the same building. However, he states that he was not free in choosing neither his charge nor the subject of the poem; for he was an officially appointed grammatikos, due to follow the wishes of his superiors, the most influential members of the local council.

10. GILLES TRONCHET

Écriture à contraintes : sur les traces de l’Antiquité – p. 211-292.

Résumé : Cet article offre d’abord un tour d’horizon des expériences antiques d’écriture à contrainte, qui débouche sur une typologie raisonnée, susceptible d’une application plus générale ; ensuite il s’attache spécialement à une œuvre qui manifeste un emploi très sophistiqué des contraintes, celle de Porphyre Optatien ; enfin il confronte la pratique de l’écriture à contrainte moderne avec celle de l’Antiquité, pour montrer comment diffèrent d’une époque à l’autre la logique et les enjeux de la démarche.

11. ALDO CORCELLA

Escerpti di Procopio e Coricio di Gaza (e nuovi frammenti procopiani?) in un manoscritto laurenziano – p. 293-306.

Abstract: The collection of passages from ancient rhetors (μεταβάσεις λόγου ἀφ’ ἑτέρου σκοποῦ πρὸς ἕτερον καὶ σχήματα ἐκ διαφόρων ῥητόρων = Transitiones) preserved in the ms. Firenze, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, plut. 58,24 (ff.71-79), to be dated to the 11th or 12th century, contains several excerpts from Choricius and from Procopius of Gaza’s known works. Most of the remaining passages cannot be certainly identified, but some of them are likely to be drawn from Procopius’s lost works.

BULLETIN CRITIQUE

1. MICKAËL RIBREAU

Des Virtuoses et la multitude de J.-M. Salamito à Pélage et le pélagianisme de W. Löhr. Augustin et la Controverse pélagienne. Bilan bibliographique et perspectives (2005-2015) – p. 307-349.

2. MARIE-ODILE BOULNOIS

Chronique d’une découverte et de ses retombées scientifiques : les nouvelles Homélies sur les Psaumes d’Origène – p. 351-362.