Meet the editors

Maria Helena Trindade Lopes is a Full Professor (Egyptology) at the NOVA Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa. She is also an Executive Coordinator of the Department of History and Coordinator of the Master Course in Egyptology in the NOVA Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities of the U.N.L. and elected member of the Faculty Council. Maria Helena Trindade Lopes is also a researcher

at the CHAM (Center for the Humanities) at NOVA F.C.S.H. / UNL, a member of the Plenary Committee of the CHAM Board and Coordinator of the "Antiquity to its Reception" Group at CHAM. She is the author of scientific books, chapters, books and two historical novels. She has published over 110 articles in national and foreign academic journals and proceedings of scientific meetings. She has participated in several international congresses of Egyptology and is the Director of the first Portuguese Archaeological Project in Egypt (Apriés Palace, Memphis), which started in 2000 and finished in 2010. In 2003 she was awarded the Grand Officer Medal of Public Instruction. At this moment, her research focus is: The Reception of Antiquity and the Mediterranean World.

Isabel Gomes de Almeida is an Invited Assistant Professor of the History Department at NOVA FCSH. Currently, she is one of the vice-directors of the Executive Committee of CHAM (Centre for the Humanities) where she also coordinates the multimedia project. Since 2018, she has been the editor of the second series of *Res Antiquitatis – Journal of Ancient History.* She has a PhD in history, specializing in the field of ancient history, by Universidade

NOVA de Lisboa (2015), with a thesis focused on the construction of the divine figure of Inanna/Ištar in Mesopotamia (IV-II millennia BC). Her current research interests are history of religions, history of women, and reception of antiquity in early modern and modern times.

Maria de Fátima Rosa is an invited professor at FCSH, Universidade Nova de Lisboa. She has a PhD in the history of ancient Mesopotamia from the same university, with a thesis focused on the comprehension of the notions of time and order in the Syro-Mesopotamian kingdom of Mari, during the Amorite period. She is an integrated researcher at CHAM – Centre for the Humanities (FCSH-UNL and UAc) and the vice-coordinator of the

research group "Antiquity and its Reception". Since 2017, she has been the editor of the 2nd series of the journal *Res Antiquitatis*. She is currently working on a project that aims to analyse the reception of Mesopotamian antiquity in 20th century European and North-American cinema.

Contents

**Section 1**

**Section 2**

**Section 3**

Late Antiquity: Then and Now

from Ancient Egypt to Contemporaneity

An Historical-Legal Perspective

*by Arnaldo Marcone*

*by André Patrício*

*by Mario Riberi*

*by Rosa Maria Giusto*

**Preface III**

Introduction **1**

**Chapter 1 3** Introductory Chapter: The Importance of Reception Studies for Ancient History *by Helena Trindade Lopes, Isabel Gomes de Almeida and Maria de Fátima Rosa*

Notions of Antiquity **11**

**Chapter 2 13**

Reception and Survival of Antiquity **27**

**Chapter 3 29** The Immutability of the Core Construction of a Chair: The Building Techniques

**Chapter 4 45**

**Chapter 5 55**

Enlightenment and Neoclassicism in *La Clemenza di Tito of Mozart*:

Reuse and Re-conversion of the Monumental Heritage in Naples

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Preface

Making here use of part of the title of the book of Raymond Carver – "What do we

For the majority of the population, the term immediately transports us to a notion of an ancient age or ancient world (the Parthenon, Athens and the Coliseum of Rome), which condenses in itself the Greco-Roman world. This reduces *antiquity* to antiquity that was structurally essential for the construction and emergence of the

For others, by the way of their religious backgrounds, *antiquity* goes back in time and enlarges its space of action, allowing for the emergence of Palestine as a

But these two visions (old and supported by a scientific ignorance of the ancient geographies and chronologies) enclose the history in a limited time and space. As if there would never have been a world before. As if the civilization that we called ourselves as inheritors, the so-called "occidental civilization" was the first step in

I advise you to do an exercise. Raise the veil of some of the narratives pertaining to certain characters that history has consecrated. Take, as an example, the case of Joseph of Egypt, son of the patriarch Jacob and his beloved Rachel, a biblical character whose bibliography is narrated in the book of Genesis, chapters 37 to 50.

His history, rich in adventures and incidents, will convert him into one of the most famous protagonists of the Judaic, Christian and Islamic worlds, in other words a universally relatable persona, that seduced writers like Thomas Mann, painters such as Francesco Granacci, Andrea del Sarto, Jacopo Carucci, Francesco Ubertini, Rembrandt, Antonio del Castillo y Saavedra, Peter von Cornelius, Friedrich Overbeck, Wilhelm Schadow, Philipp Veit and Richard Rappaport, musicians like Andrew Lloyd Webber and animated musical directors like Robert Ramirez and Rob LaDuca. Joseph, the youngest son of Jacob jumped from an ancient time and confined geography to a world without borders and without time. He has been

However, in the popular imaginary, Joseph continued to be the most loved son of Jacob that, for years, lived and conquered great honours in Egypt, the country of

And suddenly, without realizing it, with the story of Joseph, geography also changes. In that ancient world consecrated by the biblical texts there were not only Hebrews that lived in a "promised land" and that served a single God. In that world, there existed also a great civilization – "The Two Lands", by which the Nile Country

was designated and in whose territory Semitic tribes lived for centuries.

What do we talk about when we talk about *antiquity*?

talk about when we talk about love?"

civilization called *occidental*.

the history of man on earth.

consecrated in history.

the Pharaohs.

primordial territory.
