Chiara Di Serio
Biographic Data
| ID | 6014860 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chiara Di Serio |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chiara |
| FAMILY NAME | Di Serio |
| SIGNATURE | DI SERIO C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cyprus |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3256-3129 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Activating Rituals (II)
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Slow Diplomacy
This Forum Discussion explores the notion of slow diplomacy via an engagement with the tradition of diplomatic epistolography. Specifically, it examines an overlooked aspect of diplomatic practice operating beyond the instrumental, fast-paced, and solution-based exchanges of diplomatic communication. Our focus on epistolography shifts from letters as static artifacts and correspondences to letters as “silent envoys” and iterative performances tha…
Ritual Practices Performed by the Prophetess Manto in the Greco-Roman Sources
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Activating Rituals (I)
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Narrazioni callimachee sulle statue divine
Questo studio si concentra su alcune narrazioni di Callimaco dedicate alle descrizioni delle statue degli dèi, principalmente quelle contenute nei frammenti degli Aitia, nei Giambi e nell’inno Per i lavacri di Pallas. L’interesse di questa ricerca è rivolto alla questione dell’identificazione tra il dio e la sua immagine. Dai testi callimachei esaminati emerge l’idea che non sempre è possibile distinguere tra la agency della statua e il potere de…
Tales in Athenaeus of divine statues preventing or favoring journeys
This article focuses on two stories contained in Deipnosophists 15 by Athenaeus of Naucratis. Both stories are comprised in the section in which Athenaeus discusses the use of crowns in festive rituals. Athenaeus attributes the first story (672a–e) to Menodotus of Samos. Here we read that some Tyrrhenians went to Samos to steal the simulacrum of Hera. But, having boarded the ship with the statue, they were unable to set sail. Thus, they unloaded …
Iris, Zephyros and Eros
In a lesser known mythological tradition Eros is the son of Iris and Zephyros. His mother, Iris, belongs to a lineage of winged beings who are connected to a pre-cosmic dimension that precedes the historical reality ruled and guaranteed by Zeus. His father, Zephyros, is a wind and also a winged being whose story is linked to the birth of other superhuman beings who contribute to the foundation of a reality not yet fully established. Equally, Eros…
The Indian River that Flows from Paradise
In the Jewish Antiquities (I, 1, 3), when paraphrasing the passage of Genesis 2, 10–15, Flavius Josephus notes that the four rivers springing in paradise are the Phison (Φεισὼν), which passes through India and is called Ganges by the Greeks, the Euphrates and Tigris, which flow into the Red Sea, and finally the Geon, which crosses Egypt and is called the Nile by the Greeks. Starting from Josephus’ comments, this research focuses on the various in…
The Brahmans’ Utopia from the Greek Sources to John of Salisbury’s Policraticus
This work focuses on the Graeco-Roman sources which describe the remote space inhabited by the Brahmans, the Indian sages who met Alexander the Great. The aim of the research is to illustrate: a) the impact of the descriptions by Greek authors who employ the topos of the spatial remoteness of the Brahmans from the Western world; b) how the same theme becomes even more evident in the late antique sources up to the medieval texts, among which a pas…
An Ethnographic Catalogue in George the Monk’s Chronicle
In Book I of George the Monk’s Chronicle we read a long chapter dedicated to Alexander the Great, which includes an extensive section on his encounter with the Brahmans and the description of their customs. In particular, George the Monk follows the first part of the treatise De Gentibus Indiae et Bragmanibus by Palladius, of which he provides almost verbatim excerpts. Thereafter, we find an ethnographic section devoted to the customs of the Sere…
Utopian Elements in Porphyry’s De abstinentia
In the long passage of De abstinentia, IV, 2–18, Porphyry mentions a series of “groups” (ἔθνη) as examples of abstinence from animal food: the ancient Greeks of the “golden age”, the Lacedaemonians of Lycurgus’ era, the Egyptian priests, the Essenes among the Jews, the Magi among the Persians and the gymnosophists among the Indians. Such an association does not seem at all accidental, since Porphyry refers to a tradition in which these communitie…
The Brahmans’ Lifestyle in the Refutatio omnium haeresium
This research focuses on the analysis of chapter I 24 of the Refutatio omnium haeresium. Here the author presents the lifestyle of the Brahmans. Their habits are very peculiar: for instance, it is their custom to be naked, to eat fruits of the earth and to avoid meat from animals. There are no women nor children with them. They despise death, always celebrate God and raise hymns in his honour. Moreover they also believe that God is Logos. The tex…
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Utopian Elements in Porphyry’s De abstinentia
In the long passage of De abstinentia, IV, 2–18, Porphyry mentions a series of “groups” (ἔθνη) as examples of abstinence from animal food: the ancient Greeks of the “golden age”, the Lacedaemonians of Lycurgus’ era, the Egyptian priests, the Essenes among the Jews, the Magi among the Persians and the gymnosophists among the Indians. Such an association does not seem at all accidental, since Porphyry refers to a tradition in which these communitie…
The Brahmans’ Lifestyle in the Refutatio omnium haeresium
This research focuses on the analysis of chapter I 24 of the Refutatio omnium haeresium. Here the author presents the lifestyle of the Brahmans. Their habits are very peculiar: for instance, it is their custom to be naked, to eat fruits of the earth and to avoid meat from animals. There are no women nor children with them. They despise death, always celebrate God and raise hymns in his honour. Moreover they also believe that God is Logos. The tex…
The Brahmans’ Utopia from the Greek Sources to John of Salisbury’s Policraticus
This work focuses on the Graeco-Roman sources which describe the remote space inhabited by the Brahmans, the Indian sages who met Alexander the Great. The aim of the research is to illustrate: a) the impact of the descriptions by Greek authors who employ the topos of the spatial remoteness of the Brahmans from the Western world; b) how the same theme becomes even more evident in the late antique sources up to the medieval texts, among which a pas…
An Ethnographic Catalogue in George the Monk’s Chronicle
In Book I of George the Monk’s Chronicle we read a long chapter dedicated to Alexander the Great, which includes an extensive section on his encounter with the Brahmans and the description of their customs. In particular, George the Monk follows the first part of the treatise De Gentibus Indiae et Bragmanibus by Palladius, of which he provides almost verbatim excerpts. Thereafter, we find an ethnographic section devoted to the customs of the Sere…
The Indian River that Flows from Paradise
In the Jewish Antiquities (I, 1, 3), when paraphrasing the passage of Genesis 2, 10–15, Flavius Josephus notes that the four rivers springing in paradise are the Phison (Φεισὼν), which passes through India and is called Ganges by the Greeks, the Euphrates and Tigris, which flow into the Red Sea, and finally the Geon, which crosses Egypt and is called the Nile by the Greeks. Starting from Josephus’ comments, this research focuses on the various in…
Iris, Zephyros and Eros
In a lesser known mythological tradition Eros is the son of Iris and Zephyros. His mother, Iris, belongs to a lineage of winged beings who are connected to a pre-cosmic dimension that precedes the historical reality ruled and guaranteed by Zeus. His father, Zephyros, is a wind and also a winged being whose story is linked to the birth of other superhuman beings who contribute to the foundation of a reality not yet fully established. Equally, Eros…
Narrazioni callimachee sulle statue divine
Questo studio si concentra su alcune narrazioni di Callimaco dedicate alle descrizioni delle statue degli dèi, principalmente quelle contenute nei frammenti degli Aitia, nei Giambi e nell’inno Per i lavacri di Pallas. L’interesse di questa ricerca è rivolto alla questione dell’identificazione tra il dio e la sua immagine. Dai testi callimachei esaminati emerge l’idea che non sempre è possibile distinguere tra la agency della statua e il potere de…
Tales in Athenaeus of divine statues preventing or favoring journeys
This article focuses on two stories contained in Deipnosophists 15 by Athenaeus of Naucratis. Both stories are comprised in the section in which Athenaeus discusses the use of crowns in festive rituals. Athenaeus attributes the first story (672a–e) to Menodotus of Samos. Here we read that some Tyrrhenians went to Samos to steal the simulacrum of Hera. But, having boarded the ship with the statue, they were unable to set sail. Thus, they unloaded …
Ritual Practices Performed by the Prophetess Manto in the Greco-Roman Sources
Open access – no commercial reuse
Activating Rituals (I)
Open access – no commercial reuse
Activating Rituals (II)
Open access – no commercial reuse
Slow Diplomacy
This Forum Discussion explores the notion of slow diplomacy via an engagement with the tradition of diplomatic epistolography. Specifically, it examines an overlooked aspect of diplomatic practice operating beyond the instrumental, fast-paced, and solution-based exchanges of diplomatic communication. Our focus on epistolography shifts from letters as static artifacts and correspondences to letters as “silent envoys” and iterative performances tha…
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