Rivista di cultura classica e medioevale. 47. 2. 2005

The RCCM (Classical and Medioeval Culture Review), founded in 1959 by E. Paratore, G. Vinay and C. Giannelli, is published regularly in two annual issues under the guide of the Editor-in-Chief Giampietro Marconi and of a Scientific Committee which sustains the widening of specific sectors of the studies of antiquity: Classical Latin Literature, Late Antique Latin Literature, Roman History, Greek Literature, Greek History, Roman Law, Christian Literature, Byzantine Philology, presence of Classics into modern literatures. Even through the sections Notes and Discussions, Reviews and Books, the RCCM aims at giving a critical contribution to topical problems and at offering a panorama of the unfolding veins of modern reflection about antique and mediaeval