Signa antiquitatis

This book collects the written versions of the “Seminari di Dipartimento 2010”, that is to say papers which were delivered in the year 2010 by professors and young scholars of the Department of Classics of the Università degli Studi di Milano on topics that have a close relationship with the main research fields of the Department. Covered areas are archaeology (excavations in a central place of ancient Gortyna, in Creta), epigraphy (Latin epigraphy as the main mass-medium of the Roman times, unpublished fragments of inscriptions of different periods), classical philology (Hippocrates’ Prognostic read in the Wilamowitz private seminar called Graeca and the main points at issue that Paul Maas entered in his personal copy of the Teubner Hippocrates, the existence of a particular Odyssean framework in the Ephesiaca of Xenophon of Ephesus), history of religions (the gift of Deinomenes from Gela to Athana Lindia, a Gorgon made of cypress having a stone face, which appears in the so-called Lindos Chronicle), indology (narrative in the sculpture of Hoysala temples, a term connected with the semantic field of “desire” in the Vedic texts), and semitic studies (the importance of Song of Songs in the Western culture: some examples of intertextual practice in Hebrew and European poetry).