O presente trabalho intitula-se Valério Máximo, Roma e o outro: imagens da Grécia em Roma no século I d.C.. Tem por objetivo analisar, dentro da obra Feitos e Ditos Memoráveis de Valério Máximo, escritor romano do século I d.C., as diferentes formas de representação dos gregos e de sua influência cultural. Pretendemos apresentar duas visões axiais presentes no texto. Uma apresenta a Grécia sob uma imagem positiva, reconhecendo as numerosas contribuições da cultura grega aos romanos. A outra, negativa, vê os gregos como potencialmente corruptores, e procura rotulá-los com defeitos. Há uma utilização pragmática destes dois tropoi retóricos. Esses variam de acordo com a necessidade do autor de ilustrar um dado feito ou dito memorável sob um tema predeterminado, como "sobre os ingratos", por exemplo. Os Feitos e Ditos Memoráveis possuem grande variedade de assuntos e uma organização por temática, constituindo assim um importante registro dos temas relevantes na cultura romana na primeira metade do século I d.C.. O presente trabalho foi realizado com o apoio do CNPq - Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico - Brasil, sob a forma da concessão de Bolsa de Mestrado. / The following work is entitled Valerius Maximus, Rome and the other: images of Greece in Rome in the first century AD. It aims to analyse, in the work Memorable Doings and Sayings of Valerius Maximus, Roman writer of the first century AD, the different representations of the Greeks and their cultural influence. We intend to present two main approaches, as they appear depicted in the text. The first one presents Greece under a positive image, recognizing the many contributions of Greek culture to the Romans. The other, negative, sees Greeks as potential corruptors, and intends to criticize them. There is a pragmatic use of those two rhetorical tropoi. They vary according to the author´s need to illustrate a given memorable deed or saying under a predetermined theme, such as "on the ungrateful" for instance. The Memorable Doings and Sayings encompasses a large variety of matters, and a thematical organization, thus constituting an important record of relevant themes in Roman culture on the first half of the first century AD. This work was done with the support of the National Council for Scientifical and Technological Development - CNPq - Brazil, through the concession of a Mastery scholarship.

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The dissertation presents an annotated critical edition of Benvento da Imola's Expositio to the first of Valerius Maximus' books, flanked by a service edition of the recollectae of Benvenuto's Bolognese course (Part II). The Introduction (Part I), in addition to explaining criteria and methods of the edition, brings order within the manuscript tradition of the Expositio and the recollecte; special attention is given to those manuscripts that seem to convey an "intermediate" redaction of the commentary, which the present work seeks to attribute to the Paduan Ludovico Buzzacarini. The long-held view that a commentary on Valerius Maximus by Giovanni Conversini exists, preserved in ms. Correr 855, is also refuted. The Observations (Part III) highlight the differences between the Expositio and the recollecte and the structural features of the commentary. Part IV updates the relationships between Benvenuto, on the one hand, and Petrarch and Boccaccio, on the other, in light of quotations and mentions of the two Corone made in the commentary on Valerius Maximus, which are more often implicit than explicit. Finally, we note the complete absence of quotations from Dante and the Commedia in the Expositio, significant of the author's desire to root his exegesis in classical antiquity. / La tesi presenta un'edizione critica commentata dell'Expositio di Benvento da Imola al primo di libro di Valerio Massimo, affiancata da un'edizione di servizio delle recollecte del corso bolognese di Benvenuto (Parte II). L'Introduzione (Parte I), oltre a spiegare criteri e metodi di edizione, mette ordine all'interno della tradizione manoscritta di Expositio e recollecte; una particolare attenzione è data a quei manoscritti che paiono trasmettere una redazione del commento “intermedia”, che il presente lavoro cerca di attribuire al padovano Ludovico Buzzacarini. Viene inoltre confutata l'opinione a lungo invalsa che esista, conservato nel ms. Correr 855, un commento a Valerio Massimo di Giovanni Conversini. Le Osservazioni (Parte III) mettono in rilievo le differenze tra l'Expositio e le recollecte e i caratteri strutturali del commento. La Parte IV aggiorna i rapporti tra Benvenuto, da una parte, e Petrarca e Boccaccio, dall'altra, alla luce di citazioni e menzioni delle due Corone fatte nel commento a Valerio Massimo, più spesso implicite che esplicite. Si rileva infine la completa assenza di citazioni di Dante e della Commedia nell'Expositio, significativo della volontà dell'autore di radicare l'esegesi nell'antichità classica.

This thesis investigates how understandings of history in diverse texts of the Graeco-Roman period illuminate Lukan eschatology. Two strands of Lukan scholarship have contributed to an enduring tendency to underestimate the centrality of eschatology to Luke/Acts. Hans Conzelmann's thesis, that Luke focused on history rather than eschatology as a response to the parousia's delay, has dominated Lukan scholarship since the mid-twentieth century, with concomitant assumptions about Luke's politics and understanding of suffering. Recent Lukan scholarship has centred instead on genre and rhetoric, examining Luke/Acts predominantly in relation to ancient texts deemed the same genre while overlooking themes (including those of an eschatological character) that these texts do not share. This thesis offers a fresh approach. It illuminates the inherent connections between Luke's understanding of history and its end, and demonstrates significant ways in which Luke's eschatological consciousness shapes key themes of his account. By extending comparisons to a wider range of texts, this study overcomes two clear methodological shortfalls in current research: limiting comparisons of key themes to texts of similar genre, and separating non-Jewish from Jewish texts. Having established the need for a new examination of Luke's eschatology in Chapter 1, in Chapter 2 I set out the study's method of comparing diverse texts on themes that cut across genres. Chapters 3 to 6 then consider each key text and Luke/Acts in relation to a different aspect of their writers' conceptions of history: the direction and shape of history; determinism and divine guidance; human culpability and freedom; and the present and the end of history. The analysis shows that in every aspect of history examined, Luke/Acts shares significant features of the texts with which, because they do not share its genre, it is not normally compared. Setting Luke/Acts in conversation with a broader range of texts highlights Luke's periodised, teleological view of history and provides a nuanced picture of Luke's understanding of divine and human agency, all of which is affected in fundamental ways by his portrayal of the present time already within the final period of history. As a result, this study not only clarifies Lukan eschatology, but reaffirms the importance of eschatology for Lukan politics and theodicy.