RATIONES RERUM 27 – Rivista di filologia e storia

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Massimo Di Marco, Ellanico e la “carta” di Ecateo. Per una revisione dell’esegesi di FGrHist 4 T13, p. 9 → Estratto

Cinzia Bearzot, Le organizzazioni internazionali greche tra rappresentatività e illusione paritaria, p. 27 → Estratto

Andrea Marcucci, Σοφῶς ὑποκρίνεσθαι. Polisemia di un’espressione aristofanea (Acarnesi 401; Vespe 53), p. 43 → Estratto

Alessia Arcangeli, Nota epigrafica ai frammenti magico-incantatori da Selinunte, p. 57 → Estratto

Elena Sofia Capra, E poi non rimase nessuno. L’attacco persiano contro Eretria e Atene in Platone, p. 65 → Estratto

Martina Gatto, La statua del Riso e altri exempla lacedemoni in Coricio di Gaza. Riuso e costruzione del passato spartano nella retorica tardoantica, p. 91 → Estratto

Edoardo Bona, Gerolamo, Origene e la correzione del testo sacro. Un’eco origeniana nella Praefatio in Euangelium, p. 115 → Estratto

Filomena Giannotti, The “Invention” of St Ambrose. Dario Fo’s Stage Performance (on the Centenary of his Birth), p. 133 → Estratto

 

Recensioni

Giuseppe Squillace, rec. di Silvia Ferrara – Laura Bellinato, Il profumo degli dèi. Fragranze del Mediterraneo antico, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2026, p. 157

Francesca Mestre, rec. di Maria Elena De Luna et alii (curr.), Spazi, modi e rappresentazioni dell’identità nel mondo greco e romano. Casi di permanenze e trasformazioni, Milano, Jouvence (“Antiquitas – Saggi”, 9), 2025, p. 160

Giuseppe Squillace, rec. di Dominique Lenfant, L’oligarchie des Trente à Athènes (404-403 av. J.-C.). Sources et histoire, Paris, Les Belles Lettres, 2026, p. 166

Francesca Panetta, rec. di Biagio Santorelli, Storia della lingua latina, Roma, Carocci (“Studi Superiori”, 1516), 2025, p. 169

Serena Bianchetti, rec. di Piergiorgio Parroni – David Lodesani, Pomponii Melae De chorographia libri tres, Tivoli (Roma), Edizioni TORED, 2025, p. 173

Paolo Chiesa, rec. di Marina Passalacqua, Frammenti di filologia nei secoli IX e X, Firenze, SISMEL – Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2025, p. 179

Virgilio Costa, rec. di Raul Mordenti, Lo Zibaldone Laurenziano autografo di Boccaccio, Roma, Istituto Storico Italiano per il Medioevo (“Antiquitates”, 61), 2025, p. 183

 

Libri ricevuti, p. 191

Abstracts, p. 197

Indice analitico (a cura di Carlo Di Giovine), p. 201

Istruzioni per gli autori, p. 205

 

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Massimo Di Marco
Ellanico e la “carta” di Ecateo. Per una revisione dell’esegesi di FGrHist 4 T13
pp. 9-26
According to most scholars, Strabo (1, 1, 11) credits Hecataeus with being the first to compose a work of geography covering the whole inhabited world, while denying that he, like Anaximander, also produced a geographical map. This article sets out to show that this interpretation is groundless: the γράμμα of Hecataeus mentioned by Strabo is not the Periegesis, but rather the map designed to accompany that work. Agathemerus (1, 1) states unambiguously that Hecataeus produced a map, and the sentence that follows, Ἑλλάνικος … ἀπλάστως παρέδωκε τὴν ἱστορίαν, does not mean that «Hellanicus handed down the fruits of his research unaccompanied by any map» or «transmitted his history without artistry», but rather «he handed down the story (scil. of Hecataeus’ map and of the admiration it aroused) without indulging in invention». This in turn suggests that the citation of Hellanicus as a source for Hecataeus’ map already stood in Eratosthenes, from whom both Strabo and Agathemerus derive their information.

 

Cinzia Bearzot
Le organizzazioni internazionali greche tra rappresentatività e illusione paritaria
pp. 27-42
This article analyses the problem of representation in different contexts: permanent military leagues such as the Delian and the Peloponnesian League; federal states such as Boeotia in the fifth and fourth centuries BC; and occasional military alliances such as the anti-Spartan coalition led by Thebes after Leuctra, at the height of its hegemony. The aim is to show that a system of representation which takes into account the size of the population – and therefore its military potential – proves in practice more efficient, better able to forestall discontent and more effective in safeguarding parity among members, whether of symmachiai or of federal structures, than apparently more egalitarian and “democratic” arrangements.

 

Andrea Marcucci
Σοφῶς ὑποκρίνεσθαι: polisemia di un’espressione aristofanea (Acarnesi 401; Vespe 53)
pp. 43-55
This article explores the expression σοφῶς ὑποκρίνεσθαι in Aristophanes, focusing on Acharnians 401 and Wasps 53, where it displays a deliberate polysemy: «explain wisely», «answer learnedly» and «perform skilfully». In the Acharnians, Dikaiopolis praises Euripides’ Slave for his sophisticated, Euripidean responses, in an exchange that blends comic and paratragic effects. In the Wasps, Sosias’ compliment to Xanthias acknowledges at once his skill as a dream-interpreter and his skill as an actor, playing with the expectations of the audience. In both plays the manuscript variants bring out the interpretative difficulties posed by the semantic range of the expression: the article argues for retaining ὑποκρίνεσθαι against ἀποκρίνεσθαι and σοφῶς against σαφῶς. The expression thus links intelligence, dramatic performance and metatheatrical awareness, and highlights Aristophanes’ playful manipulation of theatrical codes.

 

Alessia Arcangeli
Nota epigrafica ai frammenti magico-incantatori da Selinunte
pp. 57-63
This article re-examines two lead fragments, originally published by Giovanna Rocca among a group of Selinuntine inscriptions, which bear the ἐπῳδή that contains the Ephesia Grammata. Drawing on a fresh autopsy of the two pieces, it reconsiders both their physical relationship to one another and the reading of a pivotal passage. The discussion then situates the fragments within the textual tradition of the Ephesia Grammata, attending in particular to the mechanisms of textual variation and to the interaction between local ritual settings and the transmission of the incantatory formula in Classical Selinous. The reassessment of the epigraphic evidence proposed here also has wider implications for our understanding of the development and diffusion of this tradition.

 

Elena Sofia Capra
E poi non rimase nessuno. L’attacco persiano contro Eretria e Atene in Platone
pp. 65-90
This article explores Plato’s unconventional use of historical material concerning the Persian attack on Eretria in 490 BC. Through an analysis of the Menexenus (240a-d) and the Laws (3, 698c-e), it shows how Plato departs from Herodotus in order to emphasize the psychological impact of the Persian σαγήνεια and of the alarming reports that reached Athens. Whereas Athenian authors generally pass over the fall of Eretria in silence, Plato makes it a key narrative device with which to criticize Greek disunity and the short-sighted cowardice of the πόλεις that failed to send help. The paper argues that Plato’s accounts function less as objective history than as a “history of propaganda”, and that they amount to a reflection on how Athens remembered her past and on the perceived failure of Hellenism during the first Persian invasion of Greece.

 

Martina Gatto
La statua del Riso e altri exempla lacedemoni in Coricio di Gaza. Riuso e costruzione del passato spartano nella retorica tardoantica
pp. 91-114
This article examines the reception of the Spartan tradition in the corpus of Choricius of Gaza, a late antique rhetorician active in the first half of the sixth century AD. The analysis begins with the Apologia mimorum, in which Choricius mentions a Spartan statuette of Laughter – a detail otherwise attested only in Plutarch’s Life of Lycurgus, where the notice is credited to the local historian Sosibius the Laconian. The discussion then turns to further passages in which the rhetorician draws on exempla, topoi and historical episodes from the Lacedaemonian tradition. A survey of the declamations, panegyrics, dialexeis and funeral orations shows how Sparta and its most celebrated historical figures provided a flexible rhetorical repertoire, deployed for different argumentative purposes across a range of contexts and genres.

 

Edoardo Bona
Gerolamo, Origene e la correzione del testo sacro. Un’eco origeniana nella Praefatio in Euangelium
pp. 115-131
In the Praefatio in Euangelium, with reference to the textual corruption of the manuscript witnesses of the Gospels, Jerome employs an expression that closely echoes a passage of Origen’s Commentary on Matthew. A careful examination of the wider context shows that, in undertaking his translation of Scripture, Jerome consciously draws upon Origen’s authority and presents himself as following in his predecessor’s footsteps. At the same time, he adapts Origen’s language to a different historical and intellectual setting and develops positions that are distinctly his own.

 

Filomena Giannotti
The “Invention” of St Ambrose. Dario Fo’s Stage Performance (on the Centenary of His Birth)
pp. 133-155
On the centenary of the birth of Dario Fo (24 March 1926), the last Italian writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, this paper aims to highlight two works devoted by the artist to a significant figure from Late Antiquity: Bishop Ambrose. These are the narrative text Sant’Ambrogio e l’invenzione di Milano (2009) and the corresponding lecture-show, staged at the Piccolo Teatro di Milano in the same year. In investigating one of the reasons behind Fo’s interest in Ambrose – namely the bishop’s struggle against wealthy landowners and his solidarity with people of humble means – the paper identifies a number of parallels with Ambrose’s De Nabuthae (1, 1-2; 13, 56; 15, 63). This important text of the early Church, in condemning the inequalities of the world and pointing to how a fairer society may be constructed, continues to probe our consciences today.