Books by Federico Santangelo
This book offers a distinctive take on the civil wars that unfolded in the Late Roman Republic. I... more This book offers a distinctive take on the civil wars that unfolded in the Late Roman Republic. It frames their discussion against the backdrop of the Mediterranean contexts in which they were fought, and sets out to bring to the centre of the debate the significance of provincial agency on a traumatic and complex process, which cannot be understood through an exclusive focus on Roman and Italian developments. The study of the late Republican civil wars can be productively read as an exercise of ‘connected history’, in which the fundamental interdependence of the Mediterranean world comes to the fore through a set of case studies that await to be understood through a properly integrative approach. Our project brings together an international and diverse lineup of scholars, who engage with a wide range of literary, documentary, and archaeological material, and make a collective contribution to the reframing of a problem that requires a collaborative and interdisciplinary outlook, and can yield invaluable insights to the understanding of the Roman imperial project.
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La religione dei Romani, Bari-Roma: Laterza, 2022
Edited Books by Federico Santangelo
Habelt Verlag, 2022
W. Eck-F. Santangelo-K. Vössing (eds.), Emperor, Army, and Society. Studies in Ro-man Imperial Hi... more W. Eck-F. Santangelo-K. Vössing (eds.), Emperor, Army, and Society. Studies in Ro-man Imperial History for Anthony R. Birley (Antiquitas 1.77), Bonn: Habelt Verlag, 2022.
Oxford University Press, 2023
This volume gathers twelve studies on key aspects of the history of Rome and its empire between t... more This volume gathers twelve studies on key aspects of the history of Rome and its empire between the end of the Hannibalic War (200 BCE) and the election of Tiberius Gracchus to the tribunate (134 BCE). Through this periodization, which places the focus on what intervened between two major and well-studied historical turning points in Republican history, the book aims to bring new light to the interplay between imperial expansion, political volatility, and intellectual developments, and on the various levels on which historical change unfolded.
The lack of a continuous ancient narrative for this period, even late or derivative, has shaped much of the historiographical discourse about it. This volume seeks to convey a new sense of the depth of the period and establishes new connections among aspects of human agency and action that are usually considered in isolation from one another. It puts in dialogue contributions on a range of topics as diverse as climate change, oratory, agrarian laws, urban architecture, and the civilian military, among others. The result is a diverse, multifocal, non-hierarchical assessment of a critical but often understudied period in Roman history.
In this volume, seven authors offer distinctive insights into overarching issues in the study of ... more In this volume, seven authors offer distinctive insights into overarching issues in the study of wealth across the Greco-Roman worlds: the sources and maintenance of wealth; the implications for differently organised societies of the division between wealthy and impoverished individuals and groups; and the moral implications of that divide. Some papers address general methodological issues and engage with scholarly debates in sociology and economic theory; others focus on specific historical problems and clusters of evidence. Taken together, the papers open up new perspectives on wealth in the ancient world, its complex relationship with power, and the tensions and contradictions it entails.
This volume collects twenty-six previously unpublished studies on Republican history by the late ... more This volume collects twenty-six previously unpublished studies on Republican history by the late Sir Ronald Syme (1903-1989), drawn from the archive of Syme's papers at the Bodleian Library. This set of papers sheds light on aspects of Republican history that were either overlooked or tangentially discussed in Syme's published work. They range across a wide spectrum of topics, including the political history of the second century BC, the age of Sulla, the conspiracy of Catiline, problems of constitutional law, and the Roman conquest of Umbria. Each of them makes a distinctive contribution to specific historical problems. Taken as a whole, they enable us to reach a more comprehensive assessment of Syme's intellectual and historiographical profile.
The papers are preceded by an introduction that places them within the context of Syme's work and of the current historiography on the Roman Republic, and are followed by a full set of bibliographical addenda.
Estátuas na Religião Romana - Coimbra University Press, 2020
This volume brings together nine studies on statues of divinities in the Roman Mediterranean, c... more This volume brings together nine studies on statues of divinities in the Roman Mediterranean, considering them as historical products characterised by the plasticity and dynamism of their forms and meanings. Visual languages, iconographic elements, spatial conceptions, modes of behaviour, actions and performance that created the divine, as well as intellectual constructs, narratives and knowledge that made divine beings present are issues that make up this collection of contributions by an interdisciplinary and international team.
Themed Issues by Federico Santangelo
Special Issue of Mythos. Rivista di Storia delle Religioni 15 (2021), 3-186
Special Issue of Letras Clássicas n. s. 1 (2021), 2-139.
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Books by Federico Santangelo
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Edited Books by Federico Santangelo
The lack of a continuous ancient narrative for this period, even late or derivative, has shaped much of the historiographical discourse about it. This volume seeks to convey a new sense of the depth of the period and establishes new connections among aspects of human agency and action that are usually considered in isolation from one another. It puts in dialogue contributions on a range of topics as diverse as climate change, oratory, agrarian laws, urban architecture, and the civilian military, among others. The result is a diverse, multifocal, non-hierarchical assessment of a critical but often understudied period in Roman history.
The papers are preceded by an introduction that places them within the context of Syme's work and of the current historiography on the Roman Republic, and are followed by a full set of bibliographical addenda.
Themed Issues by Federico Santangelo
Available in: https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111431772/html
The lack of a continuous ancient narrative for this period, even late or derivative, has shaped much of the historiographical discourse about it. This volume seeks to convey a new sense of the depth of the period and establishes new connections among aspects of human agency and action that are usually considered in isolation from one another. It puts in dialogue contributions on a range of topics as diverse as climate change, oratory, agrarian laws, urban architecture, and the civilian military, among others. The result is a diverse, multifocal, non-hierarchical assessment of a critical but often understudied period in Roman history.
The papers are preceded by an introduction that places them within the context of Syme's work and of the current historiography on the Roman Republic, and are followed by a full set of bibliographical addenda.
We are glad to announce the publication of the inaugural issue of History of Classical Scholarship, a new Open Access journal exclusively devoted to the history of the studies on the Greek and Roman world.
We invite contributions on any aspects of the history of classical studies, in any geographical context, from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century, and are keen to host papers covering the whole range of the discipline: from ancient history to literary studies, from epigraphy and numismatics to art history and archaeology, from textual criticism to religious and linguistic studies. We also welcome editions of significant items from the Nachlässe of classical scholars, including letters and documents that may shed light on matters of historical or historiographical interest.
We publish papers in English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish.
The contents of the journal are accessible at https://www.hcsjournal.org. Submissions and informal queries may be addressed to the Editors, Lorenzo Calvelli (lorenzoc@unive.it) and Federico Santangelo (federico.santangelo@ncl.ac.uk)
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HCS 1 (2019) – Table of Contents
Lorenzo CALVELLI, Federico SANTANGELO, A New Journal: Contents, Methods, Perspectives
Gerard GONZÁLEZ GERMAIN, Conrad Peutinger, Reader of Inscriptions: A Note on the Rediscovery of His Copy of the Epigrammata Antiquae Urbis (Rome, 1521)
Ginette VAGENHEIM, L'épitaphe comme exemplum virtutis dans les macrobies des Antichi eroi et huomini illustri de Pirro Ligorio (1512 c. - 1583)
Massimiliano DI FAZIO, Gli Etruschi nella cultura popolare italiana del XIX secolo. Le indagini di Charles G. Leland
Judith P. HALLETT, The Legacy of the Drunken Duchess: Grace Harriet Macurdy, Barbara McManus and Classics at Vassar College, 1893-1946
Luciano CANFORA, La lettera di Catilina: Norden, Marchesi, Syme
Christopher STRAY, The Glory and the Grandeur: John Clarke Stobart and the Defence of High Culture in a Democratic Age
Ilse HILBOLD, Jules Marouzeau and L'Année philologique: The Genesis of a Reform in Classical Bibliography
Ben CARTLIDGE, E.R. Dodds' Lecture Notes on Hesiod's Works and Days
Werner ECK, An Overseas Look at British Scholars: Prosopographie und Administration des Imperium Romanum
Oswyn MURRAY, Between East and West: Memories of the Cold War
We are glad to announce the publication of the second issue (2020) of History of Classical Scholarship (HCS).
All contents of the journal are available in Open Access at https://www.hcsjournal.org
Submissions and informal queries may be addressed to the Editors, Lorenzo Calvelli (lorenzoc@unive.it) and Federico Santangelo (federico.santangelo@ncl.ac.uk)
We invite contributions on any aspects of the history of classical studies, in any geographical context, from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century, and are keen to host papers covering the whole range of the discipline: from ancient history to literary studies, from epigraphy and numismatics to art history and archaeology, from textual criticism to religious and linguistic studies. We also welcome editions of significant items from the Nachlässe of classical scholars, including letters and documents that may shed light on matters of historical or historiographical interest.
We publish papers in English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish.
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HCS 2 (2020) – Table of Contents
Roel KONIJNENDIJK, Who Wrote Kromayer's Survey of Greek Warfare?
Arnaldo MARCONE, Tra attualizzazione e 'pentitismo': Sallustio secondo Concetto Marchesi
Immacolata ERAMO, The Discovery of Aelian's Tactica Theoria in Italian Humanism
Orazio PORTUESE, Una lettera inedita di Augusto Campana per la tradizione di Cic. Scaur. 4 ed Epigr. Bob. 63
Vittorio SALDUTTI, Alle origini di Demokratie und Klassenkampf im Altertum. Il dibattito tra Arthur Rosenberg, Otto Jenssen ed Ettore Ciccotti sulla democrazia ateniese
Ramsay MACMULLEN, Top Scholars in Classical and Late Antiquity
Stanley M. BURSTEIN, "The Essence of Classical Culture": Werner Jaeger's First Public Address in the United States
Oswyn MURRAY, The Reception of Vernant in the English-Speaking World
David S. WIESEN † (edited by Stanley M. BURSTEIN), Cicero's Image in America and the Discovery of De Republica
Nathan PILKINGTON, How and Why I Count(ed). A Response to Ramsay MacMullen
Simone RENDINA and Sascha SCHÄFER, The Artist and the Historian. Thomas Mann's Letters to Otto Seeck
Rowland SMITH, The Apostate in Albion: Evocations of the Emperor Julian in English Disputation and Satire, ca. 1600 to ca. 1750
Alessandra COPPOLA, Un'iscrizione greca inedita di Melchiorre Cesarotti al palazzo del Catajo
Historical writing about Rome in both Latin and Greek forms an integrated topic. There are two strands in ancient writing about the Romans and their empire: (a) the Romans’ own tradition of histories of the deeds of the Roman people at home and at war, and (b) Greek historical responses, some developing their own models (Polybius, Josephus) and the others building on what both the Roman historians and earlier Greeks had written (Dionysius, Appian, Cassius Dio). Whereas older scholarship tended to privilege a small group of ‘great historians’ (the likes of Sallust, Livy, Tacitus), recent work has rightly brought out the diversity of the traditions and recognized that even ‘minor’ writers are worth exploring not just as sources, but for their own concerns and reinterpretation of their material (such as The Fragments of the Roman Historians (2013), and the collected volumes on Velleius Paterculus (Cowan 2011) and Appian (Welch 2015)). The study of these historiographical traditions is essential as a counterbalance to the traditional use of ancient authors as a handy resource, with scholars looking at isolated sections of their structure. This fragmentary use of the ancient evidence makes us forget to reflect on their work in its textual and contextual entirety.
UNIRIO, Rio de Janeiro - 10-12 July 2017
English/Portuguese versions
We are pleased to announce the Colloquium Cicero and Roman Religion, held by Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and Newcastle University, UK, with the support of the British Academy (Newton Advanced International Fellowship programme).
The Colloquium will take place at the Auditorium of the Escola da Magistratura do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (EMERJ), Rua Dom Manuel, 25, 1º andar, Centro – Rio de Janeiro (http://www.emerj.tjrj.jus.br/paginas/aescola/localizacao.html). All welcome!
Temos o gosto de anunciar o Colóquio Cícero e a Religião Romana, promovido pela Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro e a Newcastle University, sob o patrocínio da British Academy (Newton Advanced International Fellowship programme).
O Colóquio será realizado no Auditório da Escola da Magistratura do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (EMERJ), Rua Dom Manuel, 25, 1º andar, Centro – Rio de Janeiro (http://www.emerj.tjrj.jus.br/paginas/aescola/localizacao.html). Todas(os) serão bem-vindas(os)!
Program/Programação:
July 10th
13:30 h – Welcome & Opening – Recepção & Abertura - Chair: Claudia Beltrão (UNIRIO) and Federico Santangelo (Newcastle University
14:00 h – 14:50 h – Valentina Arena (University College London): "Cicero and the Power of Religious Knowledge"/"Cícero e o Poder do Conhecimento Religioso".
14:50 – 15:00 h – Coffee break
15:00 – 15:50 h – Federico Santangelo (Newcastle University): "Cicero on Divine and Human Foresight” / "Cicero sobre a Previsão Divina e Humana"
15:50 – 16:40 – Claudia Beltrão (Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro): "The God and the Consul in Cicero's Third Catilinarian" /"O Deus e o Consul na 3ª Catilinária de Cícero".
July 11th
9:45 h – Welcome
10:00 – 10:50 h – María Emilia Cairo (Universidad Nacional de La Plata - Conicet): "Una lectura de De haruspicum responso de Ciceron: algunas reflexiones en torno a la identidad romana"/ "Uma leitura do De haruspicum responso de Cícero: algumas reflexões acerca da identidade romana".
10:50 – 11:00 h – Alexandre Carneiro C. Lima (Universidade Federal Fluminense) and Patricia V. von Benkö Horvat (Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro): "Statues of Diana/Artemis in Cicero (De signis – Verr. 2.72-83) and Pausanias (Hellados periegesis II. 2.3)"/ "Estátuas de Diana/Artemis em Cícero (De signis – Verr. 2.72-83) e Pausânias (Hellados periegesis II.2.3)".
11:00 – 11:10 h – Coffee break
11:10 – 12:00 h – Maria Eichler (Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro): "Epicurean pietas and Political Action in Lucretius and Cicero"/ "Pietas Epicurista e Ação Política em Lucrécio e Cícero".
12:00 – 14:00 h – Lunch Time
14:00 – 14:50 h – Carlos Gustavo Direito (Escola da Magistratura do Estado do Rio de Janeiro/Pontifícia Universidade Católica): "Parricide in the Roman Republic: the case of Sextus Roscius"/"Parricídio na República Romana: o caso de Sextio Róscio".
14:50 – 15:40 h – Deivid Valerio Gaia (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro):"Cicero in Cyprus: Public Powers and Conflict Resolution"/"Cicero em Chipre: Poderes Públicos e Resolução de Conflitos".
15:40 – 15:50 h – Coffee break
15:50 – 16:40 h – Erica Christyane Silva (Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo): "A Population of Divine and Sacred Statues in Late Antiquity"/"Uma População de Estátuas Divinas e Sagradas na Antiguidade Tardia".
July 12t
9:45 h – Welcome
10:00 – 10:50 h – Katherine East (Newcastle University): "Editing Ciceronian Religion in the Enlightenment"/"Editando a Religião de Cícero no Iluminismo".
10:50 – 11: 20 h – Greg Woolf (ICS – University of London): "The Politics of Syncretism in Classical Antiquity"/"A Política do Sincretismo na Antiguidade Clássica".
12:00 – Closing remarks: Claudia Beltrão (UNIRIO) and Federico Santangelo (Newcastle University).
La misura dell’autorevolezza del commento di Gabba si trae anche da un dato negativo: l’impresa non è mai stata ripetuta in oltre mezzo secolo.
Questa riedizione intende riproporre alla comunità degli studiosi uno strumento di lavoro tuttora fondamentale. La nota bibliografica conclusiva ha l’obiettivo di consentire al lettore di individuare le linee principali del dibattito successivo sul testo di Appiano e di integrarne i temi e gli esiti nell’uso di quest’opera. Un libro che continua a trasmettere una lezione esemplare a chi lo legga e lo consulti, a oltre sessant’anni dalla sua prima edizione.