A lo largo de los siglos IV a I a. C., los antiguos griegos desarrollaron un creciente interés por algunos de los pueblos con los que estaban en contacto. A pesar de valorar enormemente su propia cultura, la civilización helena se abrió a apreciar y aprovechar los conocimientos de los que ellos concebían como bárbaros. En este ensayo clásico sobre los intercambios culturales, Arnaldo Momigliano investiga la circulación internacional de ideas que se dieron sobre todo entre Grecia y los roma...

This Element provides an overview of Aegeomania: the fascination, sometimes bordering on the obsession, with the Aegean Bronze Age, which manifests itself in the uses of Aegean Bronze Age material culture to create something new in literature, the visual and performing arts, and many other cultural practices. It discusses the role that Aegeomania can play in our understanding of the Aegean Bronze Age and illustrates this with examples from the 1870s to the present, which include, among man...

“L’Innominato” analizzato in questo saggio (1913) di Attilio Momigliano è ovviamente il famosissimo personaggio dei Promessi sposi di Alessandro Manzoni: una delle figure psicologicamente più complesse e interessanti del romanzo. In preda a una profonda crisi spirituale, l’Innominato coglie nell’incontro con Lucia un segno, una luce che lo porta alla conversione.

Carlo Porta (Milano, 15 giugno 1775 – Milano, 5 gennaio 1821) è stato un poeta italiano, nato a Milano sotto la dominazione austriaca. È considerato il maggior poeta in milanese.Attilio Momigliano (Ceva, 7 marzo 1883 – Firenze, 2 aprile 1952) è stato un critico letterario italiano. Attraverso i suoi saggi si può cogliere sempre un doppio interesse, sia per l'analisi psicologica e culturale, sia per quella della struttura poetica. T...

Longlisted for the Runciman Book Award 2021Shortlisted for the European Association of Archaeologists 2023 book prizeIn Search of the Labyrinth explores the enduring cultural legacy of Minoan Crete by offering an overview of Minoan archaeology and modern responses to it in literature, the visual and performing arts, and other cultural practices. The focus is on the twentieth century, and on responses that involve a clear engagement ...

This book reflects certain continuity, dealing with the issue of how to be an analyst—through the different stages by which the author's psychoanalytic identity develops, from candidate to analyst and sometimes on to training analyst—in the continually changing world of our time.

This book presents a way to formulate, from several points of view, "Psychoanalysis as an encounter between two persons", and highlights the aspects of symmetry and affective exchange of this encounter where analysis is seen as a relationship between two minds. In this shared experience the study of the mind of the Analyst and of his method of work grows in importance as the source of benefits and misdirections which can be exchanged in the encounter with the patient. In this context, the ...

In 1909 the Scottish archaeologist Duncan Mackenzie, Sir Arthur Evans’s right-hand man on the excavations of the legendary ‘Palace of Minos’ at Knossos since 1900, was appointed ‘Explorer’ of the Palestine Exploration Fund (PEF). From the spring of 1910 until December 1912 he was engaged in archaeological fieldwork in Palestine, especially directing excavation campaigns at Ain Shems (biblical Beth Shemesh) – an important site in the Shephelah of Judah at the crossroads of Canaanite, Philis...

Hellenomania, the second volume in the MANIA series, presents a wide-ranging, multi-disciplinary exploration of the modern reception of ancient Greek material culture in cultural practices ranging from literature to architecture, stage and costume design, painting, sculpture, cinema, and the performing arts. It examines both canonical and less familiar responses to both real and imagined Greek antiquities from the seventeenth century to the present, across various national context...