Novissima Studia : dieci anni di antichistica milanese

This book collects the written versions of the “Seminari di Dipartimento 2011”. These papers were delivered in the year 2011, namely ten years after the first series of the “Seminari”, 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 (the interpretation of grave documentation in the Po Valley between rivers Trebbia and Panaro; the results of the excavations carried out in the site of Montebello in the middle of the ager tarquiniensis; the research related to a new archaeological project started in Palmyra in 2007 with the creation of an Italian-Syrian joint mission; and the reconstruction of the history of several ancient sculptures which belonged to private collections), numismatics (ritual uses of coins), ancient history (a new geography of ostracism), classical philology (a new analysis of Simonides’ fr. 34 Poltera, rhetoric in Aristophanes’ comedy, a comparison of Seneca’s attitude towards the cause of noblemen with Sallust’s and Juvenal’s blame against the privileges of nobility), medieval philology (the commentary on Cicero, De inventione, which is commonly attributed to the “magister Menegaldus”, as an hitherto unknown example of Sallust’s success in the Middle Age), oriental studies (the interpretation of the story of Sodom and Gomorrah, the myth of the buffalo-slaying goddess in Hindu tradition). The author and subject index of all the proceedings of the “Seminari” from 2001 to 2011 closes this book.