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An unnoticed telestich in Virgil, Aeneid 8.246-9?

The aim of this short note is to highlight a possible, hitherto unnoticed, telestich in Verg. Aen. 8.246–9, which presents the Greek word SĒMA (‘portent’, ‘wonder’, ‘prodigy’, ‘tomb’). To justify this identification, I will argue for its significance from its context in the poem (the battle between Hercules and Cacus), pointing out the insistence on the imagery of light and revelation, and the use of the phrase...

The high potential of minor poetry: notes on Hosidius Geta's reworking of Vergi...

This article aims to explore how Hosidius Geta integrates lines of Vergil’s Eclogues and Georgics into his tragedy Medea, written in the form of a cento. I will try to show that Geta arranged the bucolic and georgic material in such a way that it works in a tragic text without generic dissonance. Departing from textual analysis of ll. 131-138 and 250-259 of the cento, I have sought to build on textual evidence ...

[Review] S. McKie, Living and cursing in the roman west: curse tablets and soci...

[Book review] Roman domestic medical practice in Central Italy: from the Middle...

Erichtho the Doctor? Medical observations on Lucan's necromantic episode

This article aims to offer a fresh analysis of two passages in the extensive necromancy episode in Lucan’s Bellum Ciuile: the ritual to reanimate the dead soldier’s corpse (6.667–73), and the surgical procedure Erichtho then proceeds to undertake (6.750–7), resembling the practice of a vivisection. The study will focus mostly on the strong connection of magic to medical traditions in antiquity, with a commentar...

A portuguese treatise on the plague: João Curvo Semedo’s Tratado da Peste

João Curvo Semedo (1635-1719) é autor, entre outras obras, do Tratado da Peste (1680), um trabalho relativo às origens e causas da peste, e à sua prevenção e trata PHQWRV 2 REMHFWLYR GR SUHVHQWH DUWLJR « GLYXOJDU H DSUHVHQWDU HVWH opus, que, ao longo do tempo, foi votado ao esquecimento, perceber de que modo segue a tradição deste género de literatura médica da ‘literatura de peste’, e também realçar o seu valo...

Gynecia. Studies on gynaecology in ancient, medieval and early modern texts

Gynecia. Studies on gynaecology in ancient, medieval and early modern texts

This book is the result of the Third International Gynecia Conference titled “Gynaecology and Embryology in Ancient, Medieval and Early Modern Texts”, which was held at the School of Arts and Humanities at the University of Lisbon on 27–28 June 2022. The conference was organized under the auspices of the project ‘Gynecia: Rodericus a Castro Lusitanus and the Ancient Medical Tradition About Gynaecology and Embry...

Gynaikeia. Colectânea de textos antigos de ginecologia

[Recensão] J. C. Villalba Saló (2021), La naturaleza en la Eneida: descripción,...