Esta Tese tem como tema a problemática do fim do antigo ethos e o ocaso das ilusões no mundo moderno com base na reflexão de Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837) sobre os seus efeitos nefastos. Tal reflexão considera também a problemática da barbárie moderna e pressupõe, igualmente, as formas anteriores da barbárie: a primitiva e a medieval. Na presente investigação não se retorna à questão da ideia de uma filosofia leopardiana ou de uma proposta de sistema no seu interior, pois não se trata, quer da antiga querela de um Leopardi poeta ou filósofo quer de uma exposição pormenorizada acerca de uma filosofia em Leopardi. Nesta investigação adotam-se as seguintes hipóteses interpretativas: i) o Discorso sopra lo stato presente dei costumi deglitaliani, escrito em 1824, contribui para uma compreensão da análise leopardiana acerca do processo de modernização europeia; ii) o Discorso pressupõe uma nova mudança no desenvolvimento da obra leopardiana, da nova crise ocorrida no seu pensamento em 1824, seguida da nova concepção de natureza, não mais aquela amorosa, mas uma natura matrigna, responsável por todos os males e a infelicidade humana; iii) Leopardi aborda elementos fundamentais das mudanças ocorridas no ethos após o processo de modernização europeu com base em um diagnóstico da situação econômica, social, cultural e política italiana; iv) no seu diagnóstico sobre a modernização, ele indica um novo princípio de conservação da vida civil; v) a experiência da modernização, por causa da nova forma de racionalidade e de espiritualização das coisas e do homem, põe em risco a vitalidade humana e conduz a uma nova barbárie: barbárie da sociedade. Ao investigar a experiência filosófica italiana dos séculos XVIII e XIX, Leopardi destaca os rumos tomados pela racionalidade e os riscos identificados por ele de uma barbárie dos novos tempos. Ele denomina o século XIX como século de morte em virtude do desaparecimento da dimensão poética e das ilusões, tão necessárias à conservação da existência humana. Trata-se de uma critica aos novos fenômenos de banalização da vida no mundo moderno e de suas degenerescências: ruína das ilusões, vacuidade dos valores e risco da barbárie da sociedade. / The theme of this thesis is the end of the ancient ethos, the twilight of illusions in the modern world and its adverse effects based on the reflection of Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837). Such reflection also considers the issue of modern barbarism and presupposes its earlier forms, namely, the primitive and medieval barbarism. This research does not investigate the idea of a Leopardi\'s philosophy nor the proposal of a system inside his philosophy. It does not approach the old quarrel over Leopardi as a poet or as philosopher, nor a detailed exposition of philosophy in Leopardi\'s work. This research adopts the following interpretative hypotheses: i) the Discorso sopra lo stato presente dei costumi deglitaliani, written in 1824, contributes to the understanding of the Leopardi\'s interpretation of the European modernization process; ii) the Discorso presupposes a new change in the development of Leopardi\'s work, because of the new crisis in his thought in 1824, followed by a new conception of nature, which is no longer a loving one, but a natura matrigna, responsible for all evil and human misery; iii) Leopardi addresses the main economic, social, cultural and political changes in the Italian ethos after the European modernization process; iv) His diagnosis of modernization indicates a new principle of the conservation of civil life; v) the experience of modernization endangers human vitality and leads to a new barbarism, because of the new rationality and spiritualization of objects and man, namely, the barbarism of society. Leopardi emphasizes the new forms of rationality and their risks, a new era of barbarism, in his investigation of the philosophical experience of the Italian Eighteenth and Nineteenth centuries. He calls the Nineteenth century the century of death because of the disappearance of the poetic dimension and of the illusions, that are so necessary for the preservation of human existence. This thesis focus a critique of the new phenomena of banalization of life in the modern world and its degeneracies, namely, the end of illusions, vacancy of values and the risk of the society barbarism.

Em seis décadas de atividade, entre 1927 e 1987, Arnaldo Dante Momigliano (1908- 1987) publicou mais de setecentos artigos e resenhas, que formam o corpus de sua obra. Em função da opção de Momigliano por estudos de extensão limitada, apresentados na forma de artigos e conferências, sua obra possui um caráter disperso, o que torna difícil uma visualização clara de sua totalidade. Ainda que compilada nos volumes dos Contributi publicados ao longo da vida do historiador (e após sua morte), tal compilação se apresenta problemática. A presente pesquisa visa propor um mapeamento da obra de Momigliano e uma discussão e contextualização da mesma, centrada nos principais focos de sua produção, com ênfase nas questões da história da historiografia e da paz e liberdade no mundo antigo. / In six decades of activity, between 1927 and 1987, Arnaldo Dante Momigliano (1908- 1987) published more than seven hundred articles and reviews, which form the body of his work. Due to his option for studies of limited extension, presented in the form of articles and conferences, his work possesses a dispersed character, what makes a clear visualization of its totality difficult. Although compiled in the nine volumes of the Contributi published along the historian\'s life (and after his death), such compilation is problematic. The present research proposes to trace a map of Momiglianos work and a discussion and contextualization of this work, centered in the main focuses of his production, with emphasis in the subjects of the history of the historiography and the peace and liberty in the ancient world.

Em seis décadas de atividade, entre 1927 e 1987, Arnaldo Dante Momigliano (1908- 1987) publicou mais de setecentos artigos e resenhas, que formam o corpus de sua obra. Em função da opção de Momigliano por estudos de extensão limitada, apresentados na forma de artigos e conferências, sua obra possui um caráter disperso, o que torna difícil uma visualização clara de sua totalidade. Ainda que compilada nos volumes dos Contributi publicados ao longo da vida do historiador (e após sua morte), tal compilação se apresenta problemática. A presente pesquisa visa propor um mapeamento da obra de Momigliano e uma discussão e contextualização da mesma, centrada nos principais focos de sua produção, com ênfase nas questões da história da historiografia e da paz e liberdade no mundo antigo. / In six decades of activity, between 1927 and 1987, Arnaldo Dante Momigliano (1908- 1987) published more than seven hundred articles and reviews, which form the body of his work. Due to his option for studies of limited extension, presented in the form of articles and conferences, his work possesses a dispersed character, what makes a clear visualization of its totality difficult. Although compiled in the nine volumes of the Contributi published along the historian\'s life (and after his death), such compilation is problematic. The present research proposes to trace a map of Momiglianos work and a discussion and contextualization of this work, centered in the main focuses of his production, with emphasis in the subjects of the history of the historiography and the peace and liberty in the ancient world.

Historisches Denken entwickeln am Gegenstand der altorientalischen,griechischen und römischen Antike, das ist Anliegen der didaktischen Handreichung für die gymnasiale Oberstufe. Didaktisch-methodische Überlegungen, Sachinformationen und ein handlungsorientierter Materialteil bieten für Lehrer und Schüler ein ideenreiches Angebot zur Auswahl für einen interessegeleiteten Geschichtsunterricht.

The aim of this thesis is to establish the political, economic, and military history of Samos over a millennium, from the first arrival of colonists in the Minoan and Mykenaian Ages to the submission of Samos to imperial Athens in 439 B.C. There is little evidence available for the earlier part of this period. And such later traditions about the Ionian Migration as there are have come under severe attack by modern writers, both in detail and on general grounds of chronology. But there are striking instances of the accurate preservation of information going back at least as far, notably in the case of Mopsos of Kolophon, now confirmed even as to date by Hittite records and by the bilingual inscription of Karatepe. Consequently, it is reasonable to take the traditional narrative as a basis, and see whether it receives confirmation from other sources, chiefly archaeological. Apart from the autochthonous Lelegian king Ankaios, we read in ancient writers of several different immigrant groups in the island: fugitives from Krete in the time of Minos, on their way to found Miletos; 'Aiolians' from Lesbos, sent to found a cleruchy some time before the Trojan War; 'Karians' under Tembrion; 'Ionians' from Epidauros under the leadership of Prokles. Prokles' son Leogoros became involved in war against Androklos, founder of Ephesos and one of the Neleid leaders of the general Ionian Migration. This fact enables us to fix the traditional date of Prokles' arrival in Samos to c. 1125, since the Migration took place four generations after the Sack of Troy, which should be dated, following Herodotos and with archaeological confirmation, to c. 1240. The archaeological remains in Samos agree with these traditions. At Tigani there is Minoan pottery contemporary with - or even slightly earlier than - that from the settlements at Miletos. Gradually this gave way to Mykenaian styles, until the Kretan element had quite disappeared. By the time of the Trojan War, however, the Greek element had left Tigani, no doubt replaced by Tembrion's 'Karians'. When the next Greek pottery appears it is LH III C and Sub-mykenaian, not at Tigani but at the Heraion. It may be, therefore, that of the two settlements under Tembrion and Prokles mentioned by the Etymologicon Magnum Tigani is Astypalaia, the Heraion Chesia. In the course of the Ionian Migration, the new Samians sided with the natives against the Neleids, and for a while the island was conquered and held by Androklos. The Samians went into exile for ten years, some traditionally to Anaia and others to Samothrake. There is evidence that a third group sailed further, and founded Kelenderis in Kilikia: the name of this Samian colony occurs in the Karatepe inscription, invoking Ba'al KRNTRS; and since Samian interest in the orient was not resumed until half a century after that inscription was set up, the Greek place-name would seem to have been given before the Dark Age. Names in -nd- of course are as commonly Anatolian as Greek. But there is only one other Kelenderis, and that near Epidauros, serving to confirm that the Samians did indeed come from the eastern Argolid. There is other evidence in support of this tradition (which can be traced as far back as Herodotos in an explicit form), notably the fact that the eponymous hero of the Samian colony Perinthos (602 B.C.) was an Epidaurian and companion of Orestes. For more than three hundred years, c. 1100-750, we are virtually without evidence for Samian history. We must infer from the names of tribes and months that the traditions of Neleid Ionia were assimilated during this period, and it is probable that Samos received Neleid kings. Otherwise there is only the small but steady sequence of pottery and primitive architecture at the Heraion to assure us of the continuity of the islands's habitation. Recorded history reopens in the second half of the eighth century, when we find the self-conscious Ionians destroying the Karian-infiltrated town of Melie. It seems that Samos and Priene made the attach, against the vain resistance of Miletos, itself part Karian, and Kolophon, Melie's metropolis. The victors parcelled out the territory between them, Priens taking Melie itself, Samos the coastal strip northwards from there to Ephesos. The precise border of the two parcels was to be a matter of recurrent dispute between Samos and Priene. It was about the same time that these Ionian alliances were swept into the wider struggle which grew from the agrarian dispute of Chalkis and Eretria over Lelanton. Samos fought on the side of Chalkis, and at the same time helped Sparta against Messenia and received help from Corinth, while Miletos sent aid to Eretria and may have opposed Sparta on behalf of Messenia. The literary tradition of the alliances has archaeological support. Samos shared in the Athenian disaster at Aigina c. 700, and, like Athens, spent much of the first half of the seventh century in reconstruction. This century was politically and economically the age of the Geomoroi, certain defined artistocratic families said to have held their lands ever since the original settlement. Their period of rule marked the avoidance of warfare in favour of commercial expansion overseas. In the first half of the century they had inaugurated large-scale trade with the Near-Eastern kingdoms and with Kypros. In the second half they were the first to find a new source of silver and tin at Tartessos, Cadiz (638 B.C.). Some time previously Samians had become active in Egypt: first mercenaries in the service of Psamatik I; later, after the establishment of Milesian Naukratis c. 650, merchants who secured a special place in the treaty-port. After a short interlude of tyranny, the Geomoroi founded a group of colonies in Propontis, of which the most notable was Perinthos (602. B.C.). Ensuing warfare with Megara, Lesbos, and Priene, weakened the oligarchy and led to the rise of a short-lived democracy, followed by tyranny under Syloson I c. 590. Five years later he was able to make an alliance with Miletos, now entering two generations of stasis and glad even of so unlikely an ally as Samos. Priene was defeated at last, and a new division made of the lands of the Mykale peninsula. Syloson was succeeded by a relative, perhaps a nephew, Polykrates I, whose existence, hitherto unsuspected by modern writers, is argued from literary and archaeological evidence. Under him Samos reached the peak of her prosperity basing megaloprepeia at home upon increased trade abroad. It was this tyrant who reformed the whole basis of Samian agriculture, fostered industry (notably the cosmetic trade), and embarked on the programme of public works which so thrilled Herodotos. He gained an empire among the coastal towns of Ionia and ruled the islands as far as Delos, enjoying the powerful alliance of Sparta and Lydia. Yet when Kyros conquered Lydia, Polykrates rejoiced; for Phokaia was destroyed, and she was Samos' strongest commercial rival, having seized the monopoly of the Tartessian trade. Polykrates was confident that the shipless Persians would leave him alone. In this he was mistaken, and after a raid in which the Heraion was burned down and a cemetery desecrated, the tyranny fell and was replaced by an oligarchy friendly to Persia c. 540. In 533 Polykrates II made himself tyrant and resumed his father's independent policies. For eight years he enforced a rigid military austerity to equal that of Sparta, and defied the Persians. But by 525 it had become clear that the Persians must in the end conquer, and Polykrates deserted his Egyptian allies, following the Kypriote example in going over to the Persian side. The significance of his famous thalassocracy was that his fleet held the balance between the navies of Egypt and Persian Phoinikia. It was probably this that persuaded the Spartans to attempt to unseat him after his defection.

This thesis argues that sanctuaries of the gods played a significant role in the political life of the Greek polis in the archaic and classical periods, and that the politics of the period cannot be understood fully without consideration of religion. It uses the text of Herodotos as a source of evidence about the history and perceptions of the period, but also makes use of other literary and archaeological evidence, so that the resulting models may be considered generally useful for the study of the period. Ch. 1 lays out the background to the subject; ch. 2 is an analysis of the activities related to sanctuaries described by Herodotos; ch. 3 examines sanctuaries as the meeting places of federations of Greek states, as well as investigating the nature of sanctuaries as areas of bounded space, showing that political meetings were frequently, if not always, held in sanctuaries, and that this was perceived as allowing some divine influence on decisions; ch. 4 investigates the dedications made at sanctuaries by foreigners, as part of a diplomatic process, showing that they provided a means of access to the polis as well as the god; ch. 5 compares the dedication of booty at sanctuaries with the construction of the battlefield trophy; ch. 6 argues that Herodotos portrays divine intervention as always happening through sanctuaries; ch. 7 argues that Herodotos' frequent mentions of Delphi are a sign of its importance in Greek history, not his own interest; ch. 8 draws some of these ideas together and suggests some general explanations for the importance of sanctuaries, as providing symbolic control of access to the polis, and bestowing authority on decisions taken by assemblies. Finally it suggests that Herodotos's inclusion of religious matters in his histories increases his importance as a source and an historian.

[Truncated abstract] This thesis focuses on the significance of the beauty of Helen of Troy in the Encomium of Helen written by the fourth-century philosopher Isocrates. Previous traditions, and especially epic poetry and tragedy, had assessed Helen’s beauty and either blamed or excused her for causing the Trojan War. Isocrates moved beyond this dichotomy to create a new focus on her beauty as the ultimate source of all that made Greek culture distinctive. Modern scholarship, however, has been generally unsympathetic we may almost say blind to this projected beauty. The meaning of beauty in Isocrates’ work has been overlooked by scholars in favor of its rhetorical structure. The work was criticized for its disjointed arrangement and lack of seriousness. The Helen has been interpreted as a reaction to contemporary rhetorical issues or as merely an educational manifesto. This thesis aims to identify and clarify the ideology underlying Isocrates’ construction of Helen’s beauty in his encomium. … The Helen of Isocrates is also compared with the contemporary Platonic work Phaedrus, which explores beauty as a means of arriving at pure knowledge. In this case, comparisons are drawn thematically and reveal that while the two works share similar topics and aims regarding the notions of beauty, Isocrate’s aesthetic idea is much more practically grounded and intended to be of benefit to the entire society when compared to the more idealistic and individual Platonic notion. Finally, the reasons for Isocrates’ choice of beauty as a major theme for the Helen are explored through a comparison of Helen’s beauty to that of Hellas an equation which Isocrates deems important for the fourth-century society.

Esta Tese tem como tema a problemática do fim do antigo ethos e o ocaso das ilusões no mundo moderno com base na reflexão de Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837) sobre os seus efeitos nefastos. Tal reflexão considera também a problemática da barbárie moderna e pressupõe, igualmente, as formas anteriores da barbárie: a primitiva e a medieval. Na presente investigação não se retorna à questão da ideia de uma filosofia leopardiana ou de uma proposta de sistema no seu interior, pois não se trata, quer da antiga querela de um Leopardi poeta ou filósofo quer de uma exposição pormenorizada acerca de uma filosofia em Leopardi. Nesta investigação adotam-se as seguintes hipóteses interpretativas: i) o Discorso sopra lo stato presente dei costumi deglitaliani, escrito em 1824, contribui para uma compreensão da análise leopardiana acerca do processo de modernização europeia; ii) o Discorso pressupõe uma nova mudança no desenvolvimento da obra leopardiana, da nova crise ocorrida no seu pensamento em 1824, seguida da nova concepção de natureza, não mais aquela amorosa, mas uma natura matrigna, responsável por todos os males e a infelicidade humana; iii) Leopardi aborda elementos fundamentais das mudanças ocorridas no ethos após o processo de modernização europeu com base em um diagnóstico da situação econômica, social, cultural e política italiana; iv) no seu diagnóstico sobre a modernização, ele indica um novo princípio de conservação da vida civil; v) a experiência da modernização, por causa da nova forma de racionalidade e de espiritualização das coisas e do homem, põe em risco a vitalidade humana e conduz a uma nova barbárie: barbárie da sociedade. Ao investigar a experiência filosófica italiana dos séculos XVIII e XIX, Leopardi destaca os rumos tomados pela racionalidade e os riscos identificados por ele de uma barbárie dos novos tempos. Ele denomina o século XIX como século de morte em virtude do desaparecimento da dimensão poética e das ilusões, tão necessárias à conservação da existência humana. Trata-se de uma critica aos novos fenômenos de banalização da vida no mundo moderno e de suas degenerescências: ruína das ilusões, vacuidade dos valores e risco da barbárie da sociedade. / The theme of this thesis is the end of the ancient ethos, the twilight of illusions in the modern world and its adverse effects based on the reflection of Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837). Such reflection also considers the issue of modern barbarism and presupposes its earlier forms, namely, the primitive and medieval barbarism. This research does not investigate the idea of a Leopardi\'s philosophy nor the proposal of a system inside his philosophy. It does not approach the old quarrel over Leopardi as a poet or as philosopher, nor a detailed exposition of philosophy in Leopardi\'s work. This research adopts the following interpretative hypotheses: i) the Discorso sopra lo stato presente dei costumi deglitaliani, written in 1824, contributes to the understanding of the Leopardi\'s interpretation of the European modernization process; ii) the Discorso presupposes a new change in the development of Leopardi\'s work, because of the new crisis in his thought in 1824, followed by a new conception of nature, which is no longer a loving one, but a natura matrigna, responsible for all evil and human misery; iii) Leopardi addresses the main economic, social, cultural and political changes in the Italian ethos after the European modernization process; iv) His diagnosis of modernization indicates a new principle of the conservation of civil life; v) the experience of modernization endangers human vitality and leads to a new barbarism, because of the new rationality and spiritualization of objects and man, namely, the barbarism of society. Leopardi emphasizes the new forms of rationality and their risks, a new era of barbarism, in his investigation of the philosophical experience of the Italian Eighteenth and Nineteenth centuries. He calls the Nineteenth century the century of death because of the disappearance of the poetic dimension and of the illusions, that are so necessary for the preservation of human existence. This thesis focus a critique of the new phenomena of banalization of life in the modern world and its degeneracies, namely, the end of illusions, vacancy of values and the risk of the society barbarism.

The goal of this thesis is to offer a psychoanalytical understanding of Thomas Mann's short story Death in Venice. This understanding is achieved through analysis of motive of godhood and the explanation of two dominant themes of the story, love and death. This thesis also compares the story of novella with Plato's dialogue Phaedrus and draws paralels between message of the novela and Sigmund Freud's work Beyond the pleasure principle and two of the fragments from Heraclitus of Ephesus. Thesis also offers brief research of what was already written about Death in Venice. The findings of my interpretation are compared to Heinz Kohut's interpretation of Death in Venice from 1957. KEY WORDS god, godhood, antiquity, eros, love, death

The aim of this thesis is to approach Ptolemaic and Imperial royal sculpture in Egypt dating between 300 BC and AD 220 (the reigns of Ptolemy I and Caracalla) from a contextual point of view. To collect together the statuary items (recognised as statues, statue heads and fragments, and inscribed bases and plinths) that are identifiably royal and have a secure archaeological context, that is a secure find spot or a recoverable provenance, within Egypt. I then used this material, alongside other types of evidence such as textual sources and numismatic material, to consider the distribution, style, placement, and functions of the royal statues, and to answer the primary questions of where were these statues located? what was the relationship between statue, especially statue style, and placement? And what changes can be identified between Ptolemaic and Imperial royal sculpture? From analysis of the sculptural evidence, this thesis was able to create a catalogue of 103 entries composed of 157 statuary items, and use this to identify the different styles of royal statues that existed in Ptolemaic and Imperial Egypt and the primary spaces for the placement of such imagery, namely religious and urban space. The results of this thesis, based on the available evidence, was the identification of a division between sculptural style and context regarding the royal statues, with Egyptian-style material being placed in Egyptian contexts, Greek-style material in Greek, and Imperial-style statues associated with classical contexts. The functions of the statues appear to have also typically been closely related to statue style and placement. Many of the statues were often directly associated with their location, meaning they were an intrinsic part of the function and appearance of the context they occupied, as well as acting as representations of the monarchs. Primarily, the royal statues acted as a way to establish and maintain communication between different groups in Egypt.