Contenido: In Byzantine society, reading in public was common. Who was in charge of this was aware of its influence in the auditorium. The well-crafted text and the expressiveness of the speaker were fundamental. In this paper we focus on the use of George of Pisidia (610?-632?) ἔκφρασις in a fragment of Expeditio Persica, (vv. 225-280), where he recounts the final part of the first campaign of the Emperor Heraclius (610?-641), with the purpose of captivating the attention of the courteous elite that surrounded him, exalting his figure as a representative of the Christian faith.

Contenido: This paper studies the system of legis actions and their mode of representation in Plautus´stage in relation to the loving motive. The analysis of different scenes allows to show that the plautine comedy is a source for the knowledge and reconstruction of the social and legal reality of Rome because the play writer questions certain topics that have been accepted without objections. 

Contenido: The descent or the Tyrant (Cat.) is a dialogue by Lucian of Samosata formed by the rhetorical topics of Hades and Tyranny. The studies on this piece focused on the theme of the abuse of the power. Nevertheless, Mestre (2013) has indicate the importance of the myth as an element in tension with satire. This paper proposes an analysis of the strategies of redefinition of the mythical versions. The purpose is to show that the relations between myth and satire construct levels of meaning where not only the ridicule of the excesses of power can be read, but also the parodic elaboration.   

Contenido: El objetivo de este trabajo es analizar la figura del rey justo, presente en Teogonía y territorializarlo en el linaje diurno que es una de las tantas formas que encarna la dicotomía de lo Mismo en su contraposición con lo Otro. En esa territorialización el rey cumple la función de sostenedor de un orden que emana de los dioses y cuyas características se encuentran en los adjetivos asociados a su figura.

Contenido: This contribution analyzes a cognitive methodology and takes to the system the presence of the eunuchs, also focuses the development of manhood’s idea in the Byzantine culture. It recognizes basic problems concerning the representation of manhood, as cognitive codes, that revises the idea of the ‘complete’ man, compared to the neutered man. This research uses the anthropological knowledges referred to the epistemic categories of sociology and puts those in relation to the work of doctrine. Therefore, it examines the problems concerning the representation of homus byzantinus and femina byzantina adverse the eunuchs. In this way, it scrutinizes the differences of genders adverse the sexual capacity of the eunuchs, which models concrete perception of a tertium genus. 

Contenido: The present article explores the meanings of the verb ἀκούω in Herodotus and Thucydides. The semantic study of various syntactic constructions of the verb uncovers its fundamental and metaphorical values, its semantic domains and the specificities by which these are constituted.

Contenido: The present article explores the meanings of the verbs ὁρῶ, βλέπω, θεάομαι in Thucydides. The semantic study of various syntactic constructions of the verbs uncovers their fundamental value as well as their specificities and their metaphorical value.

Contenido: Isidoro’s Isis Hymns are four poems which most of them are dedicated to the goddess Isis except for one that is dedicated to a local hero, probably the founder of the temple where they are inscribed. This work focuses on the two hymns dedicated to the goddess written in hexameter and makes special emphasis on the differences between these texts and the rest of the Isiac corpus, in order to try to explain their particularities taking account of their context of inscription and therefore cult. 

Contenido: Music cultivation had a prominent place within the Hellenistic program of παιδεία spread in Rome towards the end of the Republic. It is not surprising, then, that musical references abound in the works of poets, reflecting the inextricable union between both arts. In Roman elegy, these references function as cultured winks; the consideration of musical instruments can be a valid way to unravel them.    

Contenido: El presente trabajo se centra en la construcción de la máscara satírica en el Iter Siculum, única composición del libro III de Lucilio. Teniendo en cuenta que Horacio, Persio y Juvenal caracterizaron al poeta arcaico como un héroe épico en sus sátiras programáticas, se propone la posibilidad de que éste sea un recurso que él mismo haya desplegado en sus libros de Sátiras. A partir del análisis de los fragmentos 97-98 M y 102-104 M, se argumentará que en el comienzo de la sátira el autor construye su yo-poético como un héroe odiseico en plena performance narrativa.