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Древние цивилизации: социум и человек. Доклады конференции Российской ассоциации антиковедов с международным участием
The edition is a collection of conference reports, held by the Russian Society of Classical Studies in cooperation with the Scientific and Educational Centre for Classical Studies at Yaroslavl Demidov State University with the financial support of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (project 18-09-20043). The collection includes reports of thematic plenary sessions: 1. Ancient civilizations of the East and the West: common, special, contacts. 2. Real sources of the study of ancient societies: finds, collections, interpretations. 3. The ancient Greek polis: economy, power, political leadership. 4. Legal regulation in ancient societies. 5. The Roman state of the era of the Republic and the Principate: power and its carriers. 6. Romans, Italic peoples, provincials, barbarians: „own“, „neighbors“, „others“. 7. The man of ancient society: worldview, value system, interpersonal communication, leisure. 8. Christianity: society, ideologues, believers. 9. Classical historians: society and scientist.
The analysis of Pericles' leadership pattern
The article analyzes the features of perception of the past and the present in the work of Valerius Maximus, the author of the collected moralizing stories “Factorum et dictorum memorabilium libri novem” (first half of the 1st century A.D.). This work belongs to the time of the transition from Republic to Empire. The author tries not to reproach the idealized antiquity focusing criticism on the relatively recent period of the crisis of the Republic. At the same time he avoids too frequent comparison with the present, as well as direct reference to it, because it was fraught with implicit criticism of Emperor’ policy. His work is a timeless discussion of morality and ethics and this discussion is considerate providing the reader with an opportunity to reflect and draw the right conclusions. With all the admiration for the ancient mores Valerius Maximus in fact and mentally refers to the new era.
This essay examines the quantitative aspects of Greco-Roman science, represented by a group of established disciplines that since the fourth century b.c.e. had been called mathēmata or mathēmatikai epistēmai. Among the mathēmata, which in antiquity normally comprised mathematics, mathematical astronomy, harmonics, mechanics, and optics, the essay also includes geography. Using a data set based on The Encyclopaedia of Ancient Natural Scientists, it considers a community of mathēmatikoi (as they called themselves), or ancient scientists (as they are defined for the purposes of this essay), from a sociological point of view, focusing on the size of the scientific population known to us and its disciplinary, temporal, and geographical distribution. A diachronic comparison of neighboring and partly overlapping communities—ancient scientists and philosophers—allows the pattern of their interrelationship to be traced. An examination of centers of science throughout ancient history reveals that there were five major sites—Athens, Alexandria, Rhodes, Rome, and Byzantium/Constantinople—that appeared, in succession, as leaders. These conclusions serve to reopen the issue of the place of mathēmata and mathēmatikoi in ancient society.
The chapter describes the peculiarities of the creative method of Strabo and tells about the possibilities and perspectives of the use of his description of the Black Sea region as a source of historical knowledge.
In this article Karpenko proposes the hypothesis on possible (indirect) influence of the ideal of ancient Platonic love on the development of courtly relations in the Middle Ages. Taking into account the fact that direct influence is impossible, the author makes an attempt to define their common features. Such elements become evident in the process of comparing Plato's texts (Symposium and Phaedrus) and a number of medieval sources. Karpenko concludes that there is a certain similarity (perhaps even identity) between some key features of Platonic love and courtly love (in the part when the influence of the Roman de la Rose is less). The author has also appealed to related resources of such experts as Vladimir Shishmarev, Johan Huizinga, Jacques Le Goff, Georges Duby, an dothers. The research is based on the method of the comparative analysis of texts, the method of the historical analysis and hermeneutical method (i.e. description of cultural practices of particular epochs through interpreting literary sources). The novelty of the article is caused by the fact that the author makes an atempt to discover cultural relations and continuity in the spheres where these relations and continuity are not evident but nevertheless can be recorded based on the example of definite proofs found in original sources. This practice may be applied to other spheres of sciences to demonstrate either a fact of cultural heritage or a fact of accidental creation of similar values in different cultural environments. Keywords: troubadours and trouveres, Roman de la Rose (Romance of the Rose), fine amour, amour courtois, Middle Ages, ancientry, ancient world, Platonic love, courtesy , Provencal poetry, knighthood.
The collection of the articles publishrd in honor of prof.I.E.Surikov