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Hyper-capitalism and extreme identity politics are driving us to distraction. Both destroy the basis of a common life shared across ages and classes. The COVID-19 crisis could accelerate these tendencies further, or it could herald something more hopeful: a post-liberal moment. Adrian Pabst argues that now is the time for an alternative – postliberalism – that is centred around trust, dignity, and human relationships. Instead of reverting to the destabilising inhumanity of 'just-in-time' free-market globalisation, we could build a politics upon the sense of localism and community spirit, the valuing of family, place and belonging, which was a real theme of lockdown. We are not obliged to put up with the restoration of a broken status quo that erodes trust, undermines institutions and trashes our precious natural environment. We could build a pluralist democracy, decentralise the state, and promote embedded, mutualist markets. This bold book shows that only a politics which fuses economic justice with social solidarity and ecological balance can overcome our deep divisions and save us from authoritarian backlash.
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Adespota Papyracea Hexametra Graeca provides a comprehensive corpus of ‘anonymous’ hexameter texts on papyri, parchments, ostraca and tablets that have appeared in the current and past two centuries. The project has three main objectives: i) to retrieve and determine how many and what type of unidentified hexameter poems reached us via Egyptian papyri; ii) to restore a readable and reliable text for these poems, providing straightforward access to material that has been hard-to-reach in print format, is still unavailable online, or has not been previously translated into English or any other modern language; iii) to discuss, insofar as the fragmentary state of the evidence allows, issues of style, metre, and attribution. Overall, it aspires to serve as a fresh and solid starting-point for future assessment of Greek poetry in Egypt from the Archaic period to Late Antiquity.This first volume of papyrus adespota contains: i) a catalogue of hexameter adespota, and ii) critical editions with English translation and commentary of: cosmologies and foundation poems (no. 01–06), astronomical and astrological texts (07–12), didactic and technical poetry (13–16), hymns (17–32), fragments of erotic content (33–38); epithalamia (39–43); and two hexameter anthologies, the Goodspeed papyrus (44) and the so-called Pamprepius codex (45). Future volumes will contain: Encomia and Lamentations (46–67); Bucolic (68–71), and Epic poetry (72–144); assemblages of Homeric verses (145–154); magical verses (155–166); oracles (167–169); fragments of uncertain genre or content (170–204); hexameter quotes from grammatical papyri and ancient commentaries (205–216); παίγνια (217–219); gnomic hexameters (220–221); pangrams (222–235); texts copied or produced within a school context (236–242).
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Il libro offre, attraverso un’analisi delle testimonianze letterarie ed epigrafiche, una panoramica sull’uso del termine periegetes a partire dalla sua comparsa nel I secolo a.C., includendo anche interpretazioni e usi tardi, attestati in epoca bizantina e moderna. In particolare, viene affrontato il problema dell’utilizzo della parola per gli scrittori ellenistici di opere letterarie a carattere storico-antiquario, considerando la possibilità che tale impiego sia tipico dell’epoca romano-imperiale e collegato ai fenomeni culturali diffusi in questa era. Inoltre, si ridiscutono i casi in cui periegetes viene applicato a figure che accompagnano gli stranieri nella visita di città e santuari della Grecia, mostrando le differenze tra i personaggi descritti e la difficoltà a far confluire insieme tutte le testimonianze, come invece si tende spesso a fare. In questo contesto, particolare rilievo viene riservato a Plutarco di Cheronea, che impiega il termine in varie occasioni e in riferimento a figure diverse, così che è possibile tracciare profili piuttosto dettagliati dei personaggi in questione. Si riconsiderano, inoltre, gli usi della parola nelle epigrafi, che generalmente vengono accostate alle testimonianze letterarie, ma che in realtà sembrano restituire un’immagine diversa delle funzioni ricoperte dai personaggi nominati. Infine, si affronta il problema del rapporto del termine periegetes con exegetes, soprattutto in relazione a Pausania, che impiega quest’ultima parola per indicare informatori e fonti scritte.
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