One of Averroes' (Ibn Rushd) earliest works is dedicated to law. The work comprises a summary of al-Ghazali's work on legal theory called al-Mustasfa min 'ilm al-usul. This volume presents a new edition of the Arabic text accompanied by a French translation and commentary. The e…
The "Events after Homer", described by Quintus Smyrnaeus in the third century AD in his Greek epic Posthomerica, are an attempt to bridge the gap between the Iliad and the Odyssey, and to combine the various scattered reports of the battle for Troy into a single tale: the fate o…
Review text: "Cette exploration minutieuse du livre VII est en même temps une excellente introductionà la methode età la culture de Lactance, bon miroir de l'état des esprits au moment où, avec Constantin, le monde gréco-romain va entrer dans une ère nouvelie."Hervé Savon in: L'…
Review text: "Il s'agit d'un travail très soigné et très complet qui atteint parfaitement son but et qui rendra certainement de grands services. Un outil indispensable."Bruno Rochette in: L'Antiquité Classique 77/2008 "An Informationsreichtum, Vollständigkeit, Genauigkeit und te…
Scholarship has widely debated the question about the existence of an 'Italian identity' in the time of the Roman Republic, basing on the few sources available and on the outcomes of the Augustan and imperial age. In this sense, this debate has for a long time been conducted wit…
