Marco Formisano
Biographic Data
| ID | 3997846 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marco Formisano |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marco |
| FAMILY NAME | Formisano |
| SIGNATURE | FORMISANO M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ghent University Hospital |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5292-5211 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 7 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Lógica secreta de Fedra
Em duas contribuições recentes ao estudo da tragédia grega (2018 e 2023), David Konstan enfatizou a uchronie, ou seja, o convite ao leitor para imaginar possibilidades narrativas alternativas, como uma característica deste gênero específico. Partindo dessa observação, argumento que, em Hipólito, de Eurípides, Fedra acaba por ser não apenas uma personagem dentro da trama trágica, mas também sua autora, uma vez que cria uma narrativa alternativa qu…
Lucian the Doorkeeper
As every reader of Lucian knows, he always belongs to something without belonging to it wholly. His relationship to his own Greek identity is undoubtedly the most symbolic instance: although wholly mastering the Greek language, he emphasises his being a barbarian. Lucian’s foreignness is a typical mark of his protean authorial persona throughout his œuvre, producing a constant tension between an inside and an outside as Lucian emphasises his own …
A Late Antique Poetics
The poetry of the late Roman world has a fascinating history. Sometimes an object of derision, sometimes an object of admiration, it has found numerous detractors and defenders among classicists and Latin literary critics. This volume explores the scholarly approaches to late Latin poetry that have developed over the last forty years, and it seeks especially to develop, complement and challenge the seminal concept of the ‘Jeweled Style’ proposed …
Epitomic Writing in Late Antiquity and Beyond: Forms of Unabridged Writing
This volume makes a powerful argument for epitome (combining textual dismemberment and re-composition) as a broad hermeneutic field encompassing multifarious historical, conceptual and aesthetical concerns. The contributors gather from across the globe to present case studies of the ‘summing up’ of cultural artefacts, literary and artistic, in epitomic writing, and as a collective they demonstrate the importance of this genre that has been largel…
Echo’s revenge. Ovid’s Metamorphoses and Spike Jonze’s her
How productive can a comparison be between an ancient Latin text and a modern film? What are the methodological implications and how might this comparison fundamentally change the perception and interpretation of both text and film? In this article Spike Jonze’s film her (2013) and the episode of Echo and Narcissus in Ovid’s Metamorphoses (book 3) are discussed together, not because it is possible to establish a direct influence of the Latin poem…
Marginality, Canonicity, Passion
In recent years the discipline of classics has been experiencing a profound transformation, which affects not only methodologies and hermeneutic practices (i.e. how classicists read and interpret ancient literature) but also, and more importantly, the objects of study themselves (i.e. what they read and interpret). One of the most important factors has been the establishment of reception studies. The reception of classical literature and culture …
Fragile Expertise and the Authority of the Past
Displacing Tradition
This chapter brings together three of the most widely read late Latin poems—Ausonius’s Mosella, Claudian’s De raptu Proserpinae, and Rutilius Namatianus’s De reditu suo—under a single thematic umbrella: displacement. Displacement in these texts emerges not only as a journey or physical movement; it can also be read allegorically, that is, as a process of distantiation from the centre, which is represented by the language of the classical poetic t…
Knowledge, Text and Practice in Ancient Technical Writing
The relationship between theory and practice, in other words between norms indicated in a text and their extra-textual application, is one of the most fascinating issues in the history and theory of science. Yet this aspect has often been taken for granted and never explored in depth. The essays contained in this volume provide a complex and nuanced discussion of this relationship as it emerges in ancient Greek and Roman culture in a number of fi…
Authority and Expertise in Ancient Scientific Culture
Der Fall Roms und seine Wiederauferstehungen in Antike und Mittelalter
This collection of essays analyzes the construction of the “fall” of Rome from a range of perspectives native to different disciplines. Subjects addressed include comparable discourses dating from the earlier history of Rome, the perception of this historical moment by writers living at the time it occurred, and its reception in Byzantium and Western Europe during the Middle Ages.
Late Latin encyclopaedism
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Encyclopaedism from Antiquity to the Renaissance
There is a rich body of encyclopaedic writing which survives from the two millennia before the Enlightenment. This book sheds new light on that material. It traces the development of traditions of knowledge ordering which stretched back to Pliny and Varro and others in the classical world. It works with a broad concept of encyclopaedism, resisting the idea that there was any clear pre-modern genre of the 'encyclopaedia', and showing instead how t…
Perpetua’s Prisons
Perpetua's Passions
This book is a collection of studies about Perpetua, a young female Christian martyr who was executed in 203 AD. Like her spiritual guide, Saturus, Perpetua left a diary, and a few years after their deaths a fellow Christian collected these writings and supplied them with an introduction and epilogue: the so-called Passion of Perpetua. The result is one of the most fascinating and enigmatic works of antiquity, which this book examines from a wide…
War in Words
Towards an aesthetic paradigm of Late Antiquity
Le présent article part d'une considération de caractère général à propos de l'étude de la littérature de l'Antiquité tardive : bien que la période en question ait été réévaluée dans le cadre des sciences de l'Antiquité et quand bien même elle représente désormais un domaine privilégié de la recherche historique et archéologique, diverses sont les raisons qui rendent opaque l'étude de la production littéraire tardoantique. On se réfère ici, d'un …
Marginality, Canonicity, Passion
In recent years the discipline of classics has been experiencing a profound transformation, which affects not only methodologies and hermeneutic practices (i.e. how classicists read and interpret ancient literature) but also, and more importantly, the objects of study themselves (i.e. what they read and interpret). One of the most important factors has been the establishment of reception studies. The reception of classical literature and culture …
Towards an aesthetic paradigm of Late Antiquity
Le présent article part d'une considération de caractère général à propos de l'étude de la littérature de l'Antiquité tardive : bien que la période en question ait été réévaluée dans le cadre des sciences de l'Antiquité et quand bien même elle représente désormais un domaine privilégié de la recherche historique et archéologique, diverses sont les raisons qui rendent opaque l'étude de la production littéraire tardoantique. On se réfère ici, d'un …
Perpetua's Passions
This book is a collection of studies about Perpetua, a young female Christian martyr who was executed in 203 AD. Like her spiritual guide, Saturus, Perpetua left a diary, and a few years after their deaths a fellow Christian collected these writings and supplied them with an introduction and epilogue: the so-called Passion of Perpetua. The result is one of the most fascinating and enigmatic works of antiquity, which this book examines from a wide…
Towards an aesthetic paradigm of Late Antiquity
Le présent article part d'une considération de caractère général à propos de l'étude de la littérature de l'Antiquité tardive : bien que la période en question ait été réévaluée dans le cadre des sciences de l'Antiquité et quand bien même elle représente désormais un domaine privilégié de la recherche historique et archéologique, diverses sont les raisons qui rendent opaque l'étude de la production littéraire tardoantique. On se réfère ici, d'un …
War in Words
Perpetua’s Prisons
Perpetua's Passions
This book is a collection of studies about Perpetua, a young female Christian martyr who was executed in 203 AD. Like her spiritual guide, Saturus, Perpetua left a diary, and a few years after their deaths a fellow Christian collected these writings and supplied them with an introduction and epilogue: the so-called Passion of Perpetua. The result is one of the most fascinating and enigmatic works of antiquity, which this book examines from a wide…
Der Fall Roms und seine Wiederauferstehungen in Antike und Mittelalter
This collection of essays analyzes the construction of the “fall” of Rome from a range of perspectives native to different disciplines. Subjects addressed include comparable discourses dating from the earlier history of Rome, the perception of this historical moment by writers living at the time it occurred, and its reception in Byzantium and Western Europe during the Middle Ages.
Late Latin encyclopaedism
A summary is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
Encyclopaedism from Antiquity to the Renaissance
There is a rich body of encyclopaedic writing which survives from the two millennia before the Enlightenment. This book sheds new light on that material. It traces the development of traditions of knowledge ordering which stretched back to Pliny and Varro and others in the classical world. It works with a broad concept of encyclopaedism, resisting the idea that there was any clear pre-modern genre of the 'encyclopaedia', and showing instead how t…
Fragile Expertise and the Authority of the Past
Displacing Tradition
This chapter brings together three of the most widely read late Latin poems—Ausonius’s Mosella, Claudian’s De raptu Proserpinae, and Rutilius Namatianus’s De reditu suo—under a single thematic umbrella: displacement. Displacement in these texts emerges not only as a journey or physical movement; it can also be read allegorically, that is, as a process of distantiation from the centre, which is represented by the language of the classical poetic t…
Knowledge, Text and Practice in Ancient Technical Writing
The relationship between theory and practice, in other words between norms indicated in a text and their extra-textual application, is one of the most fascinating issues in the history and theory of science. Yet this aspect has often been taken for granted and never explored in depth. The essays contained in this volume provide a complex and nuanced discussion of this relationship as it emerges in ancient Greek and Roman culture in a number of fi…
Authority and Expertise in Ancient Scientific Culture
Marginality, Canonicity, Passion
In recent years the discipline of classics has been experiencing a profound transformation, which affects not only methodologies and hermeneutic practices (i.e. how classicists read and interpret ancient literature) but also, and more importantly, the objects of study themselves (i.e. what they read and interpret). One of the most important factors has been the establishment of reception studies. The reception of classical literature and culture …
Echo’s revenge. Ovid’s Metamorphoses and Spike Jonze’s her
How productive can a comparison be between an ancient Latin text and a modern film? What are the methodological implications and how might this comparison fundamentally change the perception and interpretation of both text and film? In this article Spike Jonze’s film her (2013) and the episode of Echo and Narcissus in Ovid’s Metamorphoses (book 3) are discussed together, not because it is possible to establish a direct influence of the Latin poem…
Epitomic Writing in Late Antiquity and Beyond: Forms of Unabridged Writing
This volume makes a powerful argument for epitome (combining textual dismemberment and re-composition) as a broad hermeneutic field encompassing multifarious historical, conceptual and aesthetical concerns. The contributors gather from across the globe to present case studies of the ‘summing up’ of cultural artefacts, literary and artistic, in epitomic writing, and as a collective they demonstrate the importance of this genre that has been largel…
A Late Antique Poetics
The poetry of the late Roman world has a fascinating history. Sometimes an object of derision, sometimes an object of admiration, it has found numerous detractors and defenders among classicists and Latin literary critics. This volume explores the scholarly approaches to late Latin poetry that have developed over the last forty years, and it seeks especially to develop, complement and challenge the seminal concept of the ‘Jeweled Style’ proposed …
Lucian the Doorkeeper
As every reader of Lucian knows, he always belongs to something without belonging to it wholly. His relationship to his own Greek identity is undoubtedly the most symbolic instance: although wholly mastering the Greek language, he emphasises his being a barbarian. Lucian’s foreignness is a typical mark of his protean authorial persona throughout his œuvre, producing a constant tension between an inside and an outside as Lucian emphasises his own …
Lógica secreta de Fedra
Em duas contribuições recentes ao estudo da tragédia grega (2018 e 2023), David Konstan enfatizou a uchronie, ou seja, o convite ao leitor para imaginar possibilidades narrativas alternativas, como uma característica deste gênero específico. Partindo dessa observação, argumento que, em Hipólito, de Eurípides, Fedra acaba por ser não apenas uma personagem dentro da trama trágica, mas também sua autora, uma vez que cria uma narrativa alternativa qu…
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