Salvatore Costanza
Biographic Data
| ID | 1491779 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Salvatore Costanza |
| GIVEN NAMES | Salvatore |
| FAMILY NAME | Costanza |
| SIGNATURE | COSTANZA S |
| AFFILIATIONS | National and Kapodistrian University of Athens |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0138-0194 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Clod of Earth and the foundation of Cyrene between myth and history
Prophecy plays a pivotal role in overseas colonization. In this respect, the Clod of Earth story is very significant in Pindar's Fourth Pythian (14–56) for Arcesilaus IV of Cyrene and Apollonius Rhodius' Argonautika 4.1551–1619 on the Libyan episode. According to a Delphic oracle, the imperishable clod lost by the Argonaut Euphemus grows from the sea so to become the Cycladic island of Thera. This is the starting point of Libyan colonization with…
Ungarn als Bollwerk des Abendlandes und der Türkenkrieg zur Zeit von Johannes Hunyadi und Matthias Corvinus
As far as concerns 15th-century Hungary, there is a rhetorical closeness in the literary writings of Italian Humanists such as Enea Silvio Piccolomini, Francesco Filelfo, Antonio Bonfini or Sicilian Pietro Ranzano. Their panegyrics of John Hunyadi and his son King Matthias Corvinus give the exalted portrait of these rulers as Christian warlords and defenders of the Faith against Turks. Hungary is currently identified as bulwark of the Western Chr…
Le critiche ai Cartaginesi nel discorso di Massimino il Trace (Hdn. 7, 8, 5)
The return of Jason and the recall of the exile Damophilus in Pindar's Fourth Pythian Ode
Jason's coming back to Iolcus embodies the return from exile after an unjustified usurpation. Pelias overthrew his half-brother Aeson, and he forced the latter's new-born Jason into exile. In the Fourth Pythian Ode for Arcesilaus IV of Cyrene, Pindar's mythical digression focuses on the perspective of the exile Jason coming back to Iolcus. Pindar focuses on this story in fuller detail because he favors the recall of the exile Damophilus, a disgra…
Johannes Hunyadi und Matthias Corvinus in Filelfos Episteln
Franciscus Filelfus (Tolentino 1398 – Florenz 1481) is the author of the largest Humanistic correspondence in Latin and Greek. He is also a relevant source for the intellectual and political history of his times. In the 1420s, he gained a full knowledge of Greek in Constantinople, where he was integrated into Byzantine élite. In particular, the joint emperor John VIII Palaiologos appointed him as his personal secretary. On behalf of John, Filelfo…
Cupido ludens
Ancient classical culture usually links gambling (plays with knucklebones, dice, pawns) with divination and love's matters. It is noteworthy, to examine playing by knucklebones (Greek astragaloi ). The connection between astragals, games and the erotic sphere clearly appears in Eros-Ganymede episode in the 3rd Book of Apollonius' Argonautica . A fragment of Callimachus also deals with knucklebones. Many Greek lyric and epigrammatic poets echo thi…
Rolling Dice for Divination, Gambling and Homeromanteia
Everyday tools such as dice and knucklebones are associated with gambling and divinatory books founded upon the use of Homeric epics. Papyrological documents about this practice date back to Roman Imperial times. Verses drawn from Iliad and Odyssey were currently assigned to a divinely inspired wisdom. The preface to Homeromanteia shows a link with religious and divinatory ideas current at that time (hilastic invocations, hemeromancy, cledonism)
Francesco Filelfo e gli Jagelloni
Francesco Filelfo (Tolentino 1398- Florence 1481) was an Italian humanist who studied Greek in Padua, Venice and Constantinople, where he lived during his youth (1420- ́27). He is known for his giant Collection of Latin and Greek Letters in 48 books. He also became acquainted with the most prominent personalities of philology, arts and politics at his time. Among them, we must count Władysław II Jagiełło (Vilnius 1362 - Gródek 1434), the granduke…
Giochi di ruolo, competizione e iniziazione in Grecia e a Roma
The serbs and the war against the Turks in the letters of Francesco Filelfo
Francesco Filelfo (Tolentino 1398 ? Florence 1481) was one of the humanists to gain a thorough knowledge of Greek in Constantinople, where he lived in the 1420s. The young learned man was integrated into the Byzantine establishment. In particular, the heir and joint emperor John VIII Palaiologos appointed him as his personal secretary. On behalf of John, Filelfo attended the international congress in Buda in 1423; he met personally with the Holy …
P.Ross. Georg. I 21
Greek papyri dating between the 2 nd and the 4 th centuries AD bear testimony to treatises about hieroscopy, the study of animal entrails, especially the liver, for the purpose of divination. The present article is dedicated to the best preserved handbook on this divinatory technique, P.Ross. Georg. I 21, which provides detailed instructions on how to “read” the entrails. A new critical edition of the papyrus is presented with translation and com…
Suétone, Sur les jeux des Grecs
Caius Tranquillus Suétone (env. 70-122), historien réputé pour les Vies des Césars et érudit aux multiples intérêts, a aussi écrit une monographie sur les jeux gréco-romains, dont ne survivent que de très courts extraits conservés dans des citations tardives. Cette oeuvre était spécifiquement centrée sur la culture ludique, tandis qu’une autre source majeure telle que l’Onomasticon de Julius Pollux, orateur et lexicographe de la IIe moitié du IIe…
Les jeux dans l’Onomasticon I 30 ; VI 107, 109 ; VII 203- 205 ; IX 94-129 de Pollux
Julius Pollux, orateur et lexicographe du IIe siècle ap. J. C., né à Naucratis, colonie grecque de l’Égypte, est connu comme l’auteur d’un dictionnaire du grec classique, l’Onomasticon, où il adopte un classement par matière. Ce dictionnaire en 10 livres est une source majeure pour l’histoire des jeux grécoromains, qu’il décrit à plusieurs reprises, dans une section du livre IX (94-129) et aussi dans le livre VI dédié au symposium pour les jeux d…
Le jeu de la basilinda et autres activités ludiques de harcèlement dans l'Onomasticon de Pollux
Among the plays described by Pollux in his Onomasticon or Dictionnary several ludic practices are characterised by violent components and correspond to the modern notion of bullying. This is the case of basilinda, the king’s play, of chytrinda, the pot’s play, and of chalkê muia, the fly of bronze, a hide-and-seek play. These games must be replaced in the context of ancient ludic culture. They throw light on some specific issues without forgettin…
Il romanzo del potere
Article compte rendu de: Andrea JÖRDENS, Statthalterliche Verwaltung in der römischen Kaiserzeit. Studien zum praefectus Aegypti = Historia. Einzelschriften. 175 (Stuttgart, 2009)
Le jeu de la basilinda et autres activités ludiques de harcèlement dans l'Onomasticon de Pollux
Among the plays described by Pollux in his Onomasticon or Dictionnary several ludic practices are characterised by violent components and correspond to the modern notion of bullying. This is the case of basilinda, the king’s play, of chytrinda, the pot’s play, and of chalkê muia, the fly of bronze, a hide-and-seek play. These games must be replaced in the context of ancient ludic culture. They throw light on some specific issues without forgettin…
Il romanzo del potere
Article compte rendu de: Andrea JÖRDENS, Statthalterliche Verwaltung in der römischen Kaiserzeit. Studien zum praefectus Aegypti = Historia. Einzelschriften. 175 (Stuttgart, 2009)
Les jeux dans l’Onomasticon I 30 ; VI 107, 109 ; VII 203- 205 ; IX 94-129 de Pollux
Julius Pollux, orateur et lexicographe du IIe siècle ap. J. C., né à Naucratis, colonie grecque de l’Égypte, est connu comme l’auteur d’un dictionnaire du grec classique, l’Onomasticon, où il adopte un classement par matière. Ce dictionnaire en 10 livres est une source majeure pour l’histoire des jeux grécoromains, qu’il décrit à plusieurs reprises, dans une section du livre IX (94-129) et aussi dans le livre VI dédié au symposium pour les jeux d…
Le jeu de la basilinda et autres activités ludiques de harcèlement dans l'Onomasticon de Pollux
Among the plays described by Pollux in his Onomasticon or Dictionnary several ludic practices are characterised by violent components and correspond to the modern notion of bullying. This is the case of basilinda, the king’s play, of chytrinda, the pot’s play, and of chalkê muia, the fly of bronze, a hide-and-seek play. These games must be replaced in the context of ancient ludic culture. They throw light on some specific issues without forgettin…
P.Ross. Georg. I 21
Greek papyri dating between the 2 nd and the 4 th centuries AD bear testimony to treatises about hieroscopy, the study of animal entrails, especially the liver, for the purpose of divination. The present article is dedicated to the best preserved handbook on this divinatory technique, P.Ross. Georg. I 21, which provides detailed instructions on how to “read” the entrails. A new critical edition of the papyrus is presented with translation and com…
Suétone, Sur les jeux des Grecs
Caius Tranquillus Suétone (env. 70-122), historien réputé pour les Vies des Césars et érudit aux multiples intérêts, a aussi écrit une monographie sur les jeux gréco-romains, dont ne survivent que de très courts extraits conservés dans des citations tardives. Cette oeuvre était spécifiquement centrée sur la culture ludique, tandis qu’une autre source majeure telle que l’Onomasticon de Julius Pollux, orateur et lexicographe de la IIe moitié du IIe…
Rolling Dice for Divination, Gambling and Homeromanteia
Everyday tools such as dice and knucklebones are associated with gambling and divinatory books founded upon the use of Homeric epics. Papyrological documents about this practice date back to Roman Imperial times. Verses drawn from Iliad and Odyssey were currently assigned to a divinely inspired wisdom. The preface to Homeromanteia shows a link with religious and divinatory ideas current at that time (hilastic invocations, hemeromancy, cledonism)
Francesco Filelfo e gli Jagelloni
Francesco Filelfo (Tolentino 1398- Florence 1481) was an Italian humanist who studied Greek in Padua, Venice and Constantinople, where he lived during his youth (1420- ́27). He is known for his giant Collection of Latin and Greek Letters in 48 books. He also became acquainted with the most prominent personalities of philology, arts and politics at his time. Among them, we must count Władysław II Jagiełło (Vilnius 1362 - Gródek 1434), the granduke…
Giochi di ruolo, competizione e iniziazione in Grecia e a Roma
The serbs and the war against the Turks in the letters of Francesco Filelfo
Francesco Filelfo (Tolentino 1398 ? Florence 1481) was one of the humanists to gain a thorough knowledge of Greek in Constantinople, where he lived in the 1420s. The young learned man was integrated into the Byzantine establishment. In particular, the heir and joint emperor John VIII Palaiologos appointed him as his personal secretary. On behalf of John, Filelfo attended the international congress in Buda in 1423; he met personally with the Holy …
Johannes Hunyadi und Matthias Corvinus in Filelfos Episteln
Franciscus Filelfus (Tolentino 1398 – Florenz 1481) is the author of the largest Humanistic correspondence in Latin and Greek. He is also a relevant source for the intellectual and political history of his times. In the 1420s, he gained a full knowledge of Greek in Constantinople, where he was integrated into Byzantine élite. In particular, the joint emperor John VIII Palaiologos appointed him as his personal secretary. On behalf of John, Filelfo…
Cupido ludens
Ancient classical culture usually links gambling (plays with knucklebones, dice, pawns) with divination and love's matters. It is noteworthy, to examine playing by knucklebones (Greek astragaloi ). The connection between astragals, games and the erotic sphere clearly appears in Eros-Ganymede episode in the 3rd Book of Apollonius' Argonautica . A fragment of Callimachus also deals with knucklebones. Many Greek lyric and epigrammatic poets echo thi…
Le critiche ai Cartaginesi nel discorso di Massimino il Trace (Hdn. 7, 8, 5)
The return of Jason and the recall of the exile Damophilus in Pindar's Fourth Pythian Ode
Jason's coming back to Iolcus embodies the return from exile after an unjustified usurpation. Pelias overthrew his half-brother Aeson, and he forced the latter's new-born Jason into exile. In the Fourth Pythian Ode for Arcesilaus IV of Cyrene, Pindar's mythical digression focuses on the perspective of the exile Jason coming back to Iolcus. Pindar focuses on this story in fuller detail because he favors the recall of the exile Damophilus, a disgra…
Ungarn als Bollwerk des Abendlandes und der Türkenkrieg zur Zeit von Johannes Hunyadi und Matthias Corvinus
As far as concerns 15th-century Hungary, there is a rhetorical closeness in the literary writings of Italian Humanists such as Enea Silvio Piccolomini, Francesco Filelfo, Antonio Bonfini or Sicilian Pietro Ranzano. Their panegyrics of John Hunyadi and his son King Matthias Corvinus give the exalted portrait of these rulers as Christian warlords and defenders of the Faith against Turks. Hungary is currently identified as bulwark of the Western Chr…
The Clod of Earth and the foundation of Cyrene between myth and history
Prophecy plays a pivotal role in overseas colonization. In this respect, the Clod of Earth story is very significant in Pindar's Fourth Pythian (14–56) for Arcesilaus IV of Cyrene and Apollonius Rhodius' Argonautika 4.1551–1619 on the Libyan episode. According to a Delphic oracle, the imperishable clod lost by the Argonaut Euphemus grows from the sea so to become the Cycladic island of Thera. This is the starting point of Libyan colonization with…
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