Sapiens ubique civis
CONTENTS, PREFACE
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PART ONE: GREEK LITERATURE
Giulia Maria Chesi: Odysseus' polutropia and the Dialektik der Aufklärung: Odysseus between Enlightenment and semiotics
Marina SolÍS de Ovando: Euripides under the "happy ending" empire: Iphigenia among the Taurians as a real tragedy
Trinidad Silva: The sophia of the unwise: knowledge for the purpose of wrongness in Plato
Jorge Torres: Plato's medicalisation of Justice In Republic IV
Yasuhiro Katsumata: Travel and the Greek σοφία: A Study of the Phoenician Merchant in Philostratus' Heroicus
PART TWO: ROMAN LITERATURE
Doukissa Kamini: The contribution of the law of epikleros to the comic effect of Phormio
Frantzeska Katsari: The war of the generations: when adulescentes and senes act unexpectedly
Tobias Dänzer: Rhetoric on Rhetoric: Criticism of Oratory in Seneca's Troades
Gergő Gellérfi: On the Sources of Juvenal's Satire 3
Carmela Cioffi: Terentium interpretari - Punctuation as an exegetical problem in A. Donatus' Commentum
PART THREE: ANCIENT HISTORY
Attila Hajdú: Portrait of Pericles in Ephorus' Universal History - The causes of the Peloponnesian War (D. S. 12,38,1?41,1)
Krisztián Márványos: Some aspects of Tiberius' trials from the viewpoint of Libo Drusus case
Márk Sólyom: The Epitome de Caesaribus and the Thirty Tyrants
István Gergő Farkas: New data on the use of term Raetia-Vindelicia
Ákos Zimonyi: "Archiatres id est medicus sapientissimus" - Changes in the meaning of the term archiatros in the Roman Empire
Gábor Széll: "Propter potentiorem principalitatem" - The beginnings of the Primacy of the Church of Rome
Gábor Horti: The defense-in-depth in the Roman Empire
Federico Ugolini: Preliminary Account on the Geomorphology of the Roman Port of Ariminum
PART FOUR: ANCIENT RELIGION
Sam Baroody: The Bacchus temple at Baalbek - Defining temple function and the language of syncretism
Viktória Jármi: Discrepancies within a Cult and a Myth: Some Aspect of the figure of Hercules in the Roman Tradition
Dóra Kovács: Liberalia in Ovid - Liber in the Roman religion
Gyula Lindner: Superstition and Propitiation Plutarch and the Phrygian-Lydian Confession Inscriptions
PART FIVE: LATE ANTIQUITY AND RECEPTION
Ágnes Mihálykó: Greek and Coptic in the Late Antique Christian Magical Tradition
Francesco Lubian: The Construction of a Literary (Sub-) Genre: the Case of the Late Antique tituli historiarum - with a Commentary on Rusticus Helpidius' Tristicha V and VI
Aleksandra Krauze-kołOdziej: Hades as the ruler of the Damned in the mosaic complex on the west wall of Basilica Santa Maria Assunta in Torcello, Italy
Erika Juhász: "Nobis id maxime studendum, ut obsequi studeamus"
György Palotás: Birth and Death in Michael Verancius' Poems Written to the Szapolyai Family in 1540
Preface
The Department of Classical Philology and Neo-Latin Studies at the University of Szeged is one of the most recognized institutes in Hungary for classical studies. The University of Szeged was founded in 1921; the town incorporated the Franz Joseph Hungarian Royal University, which had moved there from Kolozsvár (now called Cluj-Napoca in Romanian) after the Treaty of Trianon. The educational profile of the university and the reorganised department can be characterised by university lecturers such as József Huszti, László Juhász, Aurél Förster, and Károly Marót. In 1940, the Franz Joseph Hungarian Royal University returned to Kolozsvár. Aurél Förster, our university professor, also left at that time. He was replaced by Károly Kerényi, who came from the university department in Pécs, which had closed not long before. Although officially a professor at the University of Szeged until 1949, he moved to Switzerland in 1943, where he worked for the University of Basel, then for the University of Zurich.
During the first decades of its history, the department in Szeged educated teachers majoring in Greek and Latin. Its autonomy was terminated in 1950, but the department again became an independent institute after the Hungarian revolution of 1956. From 1957 on, the department has continued to educate Greek and Latin language and literature. Samu Szádeczky-Kardoss, József Visy, Béla Czúth and István Károly Horváth were among the most distinguished instructors during the period immediately following the reorganization.
After the end of communism (1989), due to the changes in educational policies, the teaching of Ancient Greek and Latin was driven into the background again, becoming the subject of secondary schools. This greatly disadvantaged the university institutes, which specialised in classical studies. Due to the successful economic policy and management at the University of Szeged, there were no dismissals at our department, but at present. Nevertheless, it remains difficult to institute improvements and to employ young scholars. Despite these circumstances, due to the efforts of Ibolya Tar, the Head of the department, an independent doctoral school was founded in Szeged. After further reorganisations, Professor László Szörényi and other outstanding instructors started to work at the department. Moreover, the research profile was expanded to include a doctoral school specialising in Neo-Latin studies. Since the establishment of these two doctoral schools, several young scholars have started to contribute to the success of Hungarian classical studies and Neo-Latin studies.
This volume compiles papers presented at the Sapiens Ubique Civis conference, which was, in itself, the result of our efforts to extend the international relations of our department and doctoral school. The primary aim of the conference was to attract PhD students from within Hungary and throughout the world to Szeged. The conference was organised in 2013 and was a great success. We arranged a similar conference in 2014, and we hope to organise events like this in the years to come. Attendance at the 2014 conference demonstrates that the lecturers return to Szeged with pleasure and, further, share the reputation of the event with their colleagues and universities. Several of our past participants have since received their academic degrees, and have published books and monographs so that they might be involved as chairs of sessions or plenary lecturers at future conferences.
This volume represents the multiplicity of the participants' interests. The papers focus on issues of Greek and Roman literature, the history of religion, the diverse fields of ancient history, classical archaeology, as well as the reception of late antiquity and ancient cultures. Researchers were not expected to analyse a given topic, but were encouraged to show the latest results of their own research. We intend to keep this format in the future and invite participants to speak on their fields of expertise.
Furthermore, the Sapiens Ubique Conference is intended to demonstrate to governmental authorities responsible for regulating and financing national education that the study of classical languages and literatures is not a self-contained activity. By researching and revealing the past, scholars contribute to the understanding of the crucial moments of our history. Young scholars and students new to the field may play an important role in the comprehension and the academic investigation of our shared European culture. Their work thus far verifies the phrase that we chose as the motto of our conference: the wise is a citizen everywhere.