https://journals.phil.muni.cz/graeco-latina-brunensia/issue/feed 2024-12-16T12:31:54+01:00 Graeco-Latina Brunensia glb@phil.muni.cz Open Journal Systems https://journals.phil.muni.cz/graeco-latina-brunensia/article/view/39799 2024-12-16T12:31:50+01:00 Katarina Petrovićová email@journals.phil.muni.cz Václav Blažek email@journals.phil.muni.cz 2024-12-04T00:00:00+01:00 Copyright © https://journals.phil.muni.cz/graeco-latina-brunensia/article/view/39800 2024-12-16T12:31:50+01:00 Martina Ježová email@journals.phil.muni.cz 2024-12-04T00:00:00+01:00 Copyright © https://journals.phil.muni.cz/graeco-latina-brunensia/article/view/39801 2024-12-16T12:31:50+01:00 Marek Babic email@journals.phil.muni.cz

The paper analyzes Latin literary references to the architecture of private baths in the Roman Empire. These sumptuous buildings in cities provoked a new type of reflection in a wide range of literary genres, both in the Imperial period and in Late Antiquity. The ekphrasis of both monumental and private baths took on a new character and were embedded in the central part of poetic and prose works of ancient authors. Mentions and descriptions of luxurious private baths celebrated not only the architecture itself, but also the builders and investors. The study argues that the Latin literary references demonstrate high emotional expectations of aesthetics and luxury in the architectural standards of private baths among wealthy aristocrats. Both public and private baths in imperial Rome became benchmarks of luxury architecture designed for enjoyment and entertainment. The article defines the main literary topoi, which, in connection with the description of private baths, appeared in both the poetry and prose of the imperial period. It is about light and its effects, marble and its beauty, water, and its pleasures.

2024-12-04T00:00:00+01:00 Copyright © https://journals.phil.muni.cz/graeco-latina-brunensia/article/view/39802 2024-12-16T12:31:51+01:00 Marilena De Gregorio email@journals.phil.muni.cz

The word uirtus was used in a technical way by many authors and over a fairly long period of time. In this paper evidences from the 1st c. BC to the 6th c. AD are presented. Virtus is handled in many domains, such as health, nature, science, medicine, veterinary science and architecture. In this essay, numerous examples of different values and meanings of uirtus are discussed, taking into account the difference between literal and metaphorical meaning. The literal meaning (uirtus as value, quality) is very frequent and usually refers to natural elements. Among the meanings of uirtus, both literal and metaphoric, it is possible to note a first distinction between singular and plural: in some authors and in some fields, the word is present only in one or in the other form. In medical and veterinary works, for example, only the singular is attested, in the meaning of 'power' referred to medicine and remedies. Virtus also appears only in the singular form in Anthimus' Epistula de obseruatione ciborum, a text which combines information about food with dietetic and health advice. Anthimus uses uirtus three times both directly referring to some food and to its effects from the medical point of view. This paper shows the different values of the word in the Epistula as compared to other technical treatises. Another point which is discussed is the semantic and pragmatic correlation between uis and uirtus and the influence that uis could have had on uirtus.

2024-12-04T00:00:00+01:00 Copyright © https://journals.phil.muni.cz/graeco-latina-brunensia/article/view/39803 2024-12-16T12:31:52+01:00 Ondřej Kvapil email@journals.phil.muni.cz

This article aims to show an ideological link between the ideas on rulership of the Philosopher Aristotle, king Alexander III. of Macedon and king Seleucus I. of the Seleucid empire. These ideas concern the ideal form of monarchical government, the unique virtue of a ruler, the implications of a ruler's superior qualities and their consequences. The article will seek to provide evidence for such a link by presenting several passages from various relevant sources, such as the philosophical, historical, and biographical works of Aristotle, Arrian, Plutarch and Appian. First, the ideas and thoughts expressed in Aristotle's Politics on virtue and an ideal kingdom shall be analysed; then, their connection with Alexander the Great shall be explored; and finally, their influence extending to Seleucus shall be examined. A focus shall be concentrated on various speeches claimed to be spoken by Alexander and Seleucus, and the similarity between them and their contexts. Some examples of theories possibly contradicting the claim of the article shall be briefly discussed and commented on. Hopefully, this article will shed some light on the notably Ancient Greek origins of Hellenistic absolute monarchy conducive to their proper understanding.

2024-12-04T00:00:00+01:00 Copyright © https://journals.phil.muni.cz/graeco-latina-brunensia/article/view/39804 2024-12-16T12:31:52+01:00 Ezra la Roi email@journals.phil.muni.cz Emmanuel Roumanis email@journals.phil.muni.cz

Though the Atticist lexica have often been seen as 'codifying' a prestige variety, there have been very few studies of the specific ways in which Atticist lexica linguistically establish and accord overt prestige, i.e. a higher perceived social status of language use as recognized explicitly within a community. Therefore, we demonstrate that impersonal deontic modal expressions (forms of δεῖ and χρή) are used by the Atticist lexicographers in three ways to record usage norms with overt prestige: (1) report norms with overt prestige (incl. via negative association with social groups), (2) construct norms with overt prestige, and (3) negotiate norms with overt prestige. Our findings attest to a significant diversity within Atticist lexicography with regard to overt prestige: Aelius Dionysius and Pausanias (based on the limited material) seem to almost exclusively report norms, whereas Phrynichus reports, constructs and negotiates norms, and the Antiatticist exclusively (re)negotiates norms.

2024-12-04T00:00:00+01:00 Copyright © https://journals.phil.muni.cz/graeco-latina-brunensia/article/view/39805 2024-12-16T12:31:53+01:00 Alla Linko email@journals.phil.muni.cz

This article is devoted to a historical and philological analysis of the ancient toponymy of the Cilician Plain (Κιλικία πεδιάς) – a region of Asia Minor lying at the junction of Anatolia and Syria. Ancient toponyms of Greek and Latin origin are studied in detail for etymology, morphological structure and lexico-semantic features. Particular attention is paid to the use of toponyms in texts of different times, as well as epigraphic and numismatic sources, recording all surviving attestations, as well as to the problem of identifying the original form of a toponym and its etymologization. The features of the renaming of geographical objects in the Hellenistic-Roman period are considered. The paper contains an attempt to create a general classification of ancient Greek and Latin toponyms of Plain Cilicia according to chronology and to determine the word-formation models of toponyms peculiar to each historical period. The question of the possible attribution of some toponyms to the epoch of the «Sea Peoples» is being considered.

2024-12-04T00:00:00+01:00 Copyright © https://journals.phil.muni.cz/graeco-latina-brunensia/article/view/39806 2024-12-16T12:31:53+01:00 Silvia Tantimonaco email@journals.phil.muni.cz

This paper examines the Latin formula debitum reddere ('settling a debt'), found in both pagan and Christian inscriptions with the meaning of 'dying'. In this formula, death is depicted as the fulfilment of a legal obligation, a debt typically owed to Nature, Fate or the Christian God. Although the primary focus is epigraphic, both inscriptions and literary sources are analysed to trace the origin and development of this metaphor, which is interpreted in light of its Stoic philosophical background. The paper also explores other related formulae with similar meanings (e.g. uitam/spiritum/animam reddere), possible folk-etymological associations (such as obitum reddere and uotum reddere in funerary contexts), and further developments of the concept of dying as the return of a borrowed existence (including the absolute use of reddere to mean 'dying' and the use of redditio as a synonym for 'death'). Several references suggest that the metaphor debitum reddere may have been particularly popular in Roman Africa.

2024-12-04T00:00:00+01:00 Copyright © https://journals.phil.muni.cz/graeco-latina-brunensia/article/view/39807 2024-12-16T12:31:53+01:00 Heiko Ullrich email@journals.phil.muni.cz

The paradosis of Iuv. 9.134–134a offers the implausible repetition altera maior / spes superest – tu tantum erucis imprime dentem; / gratus eris – tu tantum erucis imprime dentem; hence many editors have deleted one verse or the other; others have proposed a lacuna after spes superest, filled by the doublette. The following note suggests a reconstruction of the verse by proposing a parallel to both 1.37–41 and 12.111–114 by reading uetulis ut Gillo Histerque beatis instead of the first tu tantum erucis imprime dentem: Since the context requires exempla for successful captatores Gillo and Pacuvius Hister (who are introduced in the first and twelfth satire respectively in this context) are the most likely candidates.

2024-12-04T00:00:00+01:00 Copyright © https://journals.phil.muni.cz/graeco-latina-brunensia/article/view/39808 2024-12-16T12:31:54+01:00 Giovanbattista Galdi email@journals.phil.muni.cz 2024-12-04T00:00:00+01:00 Copyright ©