Η διατήρηση της ισορροπίας ανάμεσα στην ιδιωτική και τη δημόσια σφαίρα είναι ένα αρκετά δύσκολο εγχείρημα για ένα άτομο, ιδίως όταν μια ερωτική ιστορία ταράξει τη ζωή και την καθημερινότητά του. Η ερωτική ζωή ενός ατόμου αποτελεί ενδεικτικό στοιχείο του ήθους του όχι μόνο στα όρια της προσωπικής ζωής αλλά και της δημόσιας σφαίρας. Αντικείμενο της παρούσας μελέτης είναι οι κοινωνικές διαστάσεις που λαμβάνει ο έρωτας και ο γάμος τόσο στα Γαμικά Παραγγέλματα και τον Ερωτικό, όσο και στους Βίους του Περικλή και του Αντωνίου του Πλουτάρχου. Η αλληλεξάρτηση ατόμου-κοινωνίας όταν εμφανίζονται ο έρωτας και ο γάμος αφενός και αφετέρου οι αντιλήψεις της κοινωνίας που συνδέονται με αυτό το δίπολο κατέχουν εξέχουσα θέση στα υπό εξέταση κείμενα. / The conservation of the equilibrium amongst of personal and public domain is harsh for the individual especially when a love story discomfit his daily routine. The love life of an individual is one of the major element to illustrate his ethos, not only in the shade of private life but also in this of public domain. This research project will examine the social aspects which love and marriage take place in Plutarch’s Gamika Pareggelmata, Erotikos, Life of Pericles and Antonius. Following this, the interrelationship of individual-society when love and marriage appear. Thus, society’s beliefs which are connected with the particular dipole and the importance of this in the under advisement passages.

Uppsatsen utforskar legenden om den helige Antonius frestelse och det intryck helgonberättelsen lämnat på konsten. En ikonografisk metod används för att beskriva den litteratur som skapat och utvecklat berättelsen och ur detta systematiseras de motiv som sedan översatts till bildkonsten. Genom att analysera nio olika avbildningar av Antonius skapas en kronologisk följd över hur skildringarna genomgått en transformation sedan 1500-talet. / This thesis explores the legend of Saint Anthony and his temptations, and the impression his hagiography has left on the visual arts. An iconographic method is employed to investigate literature connected to the origin and later evolution of the story, which is used to classify motifs and concepts subsequently translated into painting. Via analysis of nine different depictions of Anthony, a chronological sequence is formed which lists the transformation these portrayals have undergone since the 16th century.

This dissertation aims to focus on the way in which Marc Antony has been portrayed in Antiquity by a careful and critical study of what the ancient (mainly literary) sources have to reveal about this historical personage. A number of primary sources present a very negative view of Antony under the influence of various political persuasions, and this will be compared and contrasted with later ancient views. The study will pursue this under key themes such as the personality of Antony, his military and political career as well as the role that he played in the East. Modern scholarly interpretations of Antony’s character and actions will also be brought into the discussion, so that an objective evaluation of the contribution which Antony has made to the history of the Roman Republic, insofar as objectivity is possible, may be arrived at. / Language Services / M.A. (with specialisation in Ancient Languages and Cultures)

This dissertation aims to focus on the way in which Marc Antony has been portrayed in Antiquity by a careful and critical study of what the ancient (mainly literary) sources have to reveal about this historical personage. A number of primary sources present a very negative view of Antony under the influence of various political persuasions, and this will be compared and contrasted with later ancient views. The study will pursue this under key themes such as the personality of Antony, his military and political career as well as the role that he played in the East. Modern scholarly interpretations of Antony’s character and actions will also be brought into the discussion, so that an objective evaluation of the contribution which Antony has made to the history of the Roman Republic, insofar as objectivity is possible, may be arrived at. / Language Services / M.A. (with specialisation in Ancient Languages and Cultures)

Annotation: The work is dedicated to tapestries from Prague Castle collections, hanging in the State Rooms and the ones that are stored in Prague Castle depository. The tapestries always played an important role in decorating the interior and still help to create a festive atmosphere of this place, usually not accessible to the public. The author focuses on detailed identification of three baroque series known as Anthony and Cleopatra and Months of the year. The serie Anthony and Cleopatra dates back to the turn of the 17th and the 18th centuries. Convolutes of the tapestries of the cycle Months of the year (represented at Prague Castle in two ways - figurally and non-figurally) were made at the beginning of the 18th century as well as in the years 1728-1736. The tapestry on the theme of the life of Anthony and Cleopatra consists of eight pieces. Seven of them belong to an elementary part of Prague Castle collection, the eighth is in Vienna. The serie Months of the year has a similar history. It consists of ten pieces, nine of them are situated at Prague Castle, the tenth is again in Vienna. Longstory short, the work is dedicated to baroque tapestries that help to create genius loci of Prague Castle. After a brief introduction providing the informative insight into the issue, the explanation of the history...

Oggetto di questo articolo è la Leggenda di sant’Antonio abate conservata nella terza unità codicologica del Mscr.Dresd.Ob.6, uno tra gli otto codici del XV sec. nella lingua del sì presenti nella Sächsische Landesbibliothek – Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden (SLUB). Avendo fornito alcune informazioni riguardanti l’intero manoscritto, ci si concentrerà sulla terza unità codicologica, descrivendone le principali caratteristiche formali e contenutistiche, collocando il testo ivi conservato nel più ampio contesto culturale della predicazione medievale in volgare. Sulla base di una rigorosa analisi del testo (analisi linguistica, ma anche analisi dei segni paragrafematici e della grafia), si tenterà di comprenderne l’uso e la provenienza. L’analisi si conclude con un paragrafo dedicato alla sintassi, rilevando come la Leggenda di sant’Antonio abate da un lato segua le norme sintattiche proprie dell’italiano antico e dall’altro sia fortemente influenzata dal modello neotestamentario e dalla sua funzione di supporto alla predicazione. Le conclusioni delle mie ricerche metteranno infine in luce il rapporto tra questo testo – con la sua punteggiatura e sintassi – e l’oralità propria del contesto omiletico.

This research examines how, when and why the Romans assigned and defined the tasks of preparing and commanding fleets during the Republic. In doing so, it brings new evidence to bear on the wider debates about the nature of the prouincia and the institutional and administrative development of the Roman empire. The communis opinio is that a prouincia originally represented a functional “sphere of operation” that was allotted or assigned to a magistrate and that it only later developed a geographical meaning with territorial connotations through the process of “provincialisation.” This research challenges that view through an analysis of the evidence for the definition, assignment and practical use of the prouincia classis and other prouinciae connected with the command of fleets. Drawing upon and analysing the lists of administrative arrangements to be found in the “annalistic” sections of the surviving books of Livy’s History, it argues that prouinciae were defined in specific geographical and functional terms long before the development of permanent territorial empire. This offers a new perspective which points to and elucidates the flexible use of the prouincia as a means of separating magistrates and promagistrates in space or by function in space. It argues that the rationale for this was to limit conflicts between commanders over command and triumphal rights. By combining evidence from a wide range of sources after the loss of Livy’s History from 167, the research shows that the above rationale for demarcating prouinciae still applied in the first century B.C. However, it also demonstrates that there were significant changes with the assignment of vast Mediterranean-wide naval prouinciae in the first half of the first century B.C. It argues that the definition of these prouinciae was made possible by the development of a singular collective Mediterranean-wide ora maritima, which was brought about by the Romans’ increasing “acknowledgement of empire.” The negative political and institutional implications of these developments are also assessed. Finally, in discussing the above, this research also provides new insights into the role and auctoritas of the Senate, the function and freedom of magistrates, and the Romans’ conceptualisation of their empire.