https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/70436 2026-04-04T21:01:35Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/123148 Title: A commentary on Quintinus' Insulae Melitae Descriptio Abstract: This dissertation does not include any material used in my B.A. (Hons.) Dissertation. In that Dissertation I included a historic introduction to Quintinus and his Insulae Melita Descriptio; I re-edited with emendations his work as it appears in the first edition, i.e . the Lyons one of 1536; I procduced an English translation; and included in the notes references both to emendations of Quintinus and to the translators of Quintinus where these have gone wrong. I had deliberately left out a complete commentary for this Dissertation since research for B.A.(Hons.) Degree had to be limited to a required level. Thiss Commentary therefore contains: l. Notes illustrating the text in its historical and cultural meaning. Under the latter are included allusions and references to Classical writers. These indeed show the general background of Quintinus' Classic education, especially when he is clearly echoing the Classics, as in his repeated use of phrases from Pliny's Natural History which, like many of his Age, he must have known very well. The main authors quoted, .apart from Pliny, are Cicero, Virgil, Ovid and Livy. Abbreviations of Classical references are according to the Oxford Latin Dictionary and Liddell and Scott's Greek-English Lexicon, where these are given. 2. Notes containing references to Quintius' book re-published by various editorsd after the author's own edition, right down to the XVIIIth. Cent. These references are meant to show the importance attached to Quintius all along over a period covering almost three hundred years. Description: M.A.CLASSICS 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/104243 Title: Ruins in a landscape : a consideration of past and present perceptions of archaeological sites in Malta Abstract: The manner in which archaeological sites were and still are perceived strongly influences their management in the present and in the future. This study reviews the perceptions surrounding archaeological sites in the Maltese islands. The Maltese islands offer an interesting case-study in this regard. Situated as they are in the centre of the Mediterranean, these islands passed from the hands of the aristocratic Knights of St. John in 1798, following a brief French occupation (1798- 1800), to becoming a British colony (1800-1964). With this political development in mind, a consideration of the perceptions surrounding archaeological sites and their implications on the archaeological heritage management shall be examined. The aim of this dissertation is to provide an historic overview of the development of the interest in sites and artefacts and how they have been used or abused in the past. The second aim is see to what extent this has impinged on later developments and influenced the perceptions of archaeological sites in Malta. The third aim is to outline one of the major current concerns in the management of Malta's cultural heritage: ownership of, and access to, archaeological sites. The study shall focus on three main carefully chosen case-studies. The case-studies all come from different phases of Malta's past: Borg in-Nadur - Prehistory Għajn Klieb - Phoenician and Punic Ta' Gawħar - Roman However, the three sites all have one fundamental component which is common, namely that in all three cases the present management situation boils down to a land ownership issue with important archaeological sites caught in the middle. All sites are vulnerable to the pressures of modern land use. An attempt shall be made at clarifying the ownership of the sites in question. This painstaking research is a necessary prerequisite to any management plan of an archaeological area. Finally, it is the aim of the dissertation to outline the parties who have a claim at the archaeological site of Borg in-Nadur together with its surrounding landscape. The site of Borg in-Nadur was specifically chosen because in acute form the area illustrates the practicalities of competing claims, ownership and access. Description: B.A.(HONS)ARCHAEOLOGY 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/90249 Title: The rhetorical technique of Juvenal's 'Tenth satire' Abstract: Juvenal wrote his satires in an age of learning and when everybody aimed at precision. As a result, the satires are well-planned rhetorical essays, and the tenth is no exception. This satire, which is about praying, is a very good model of his other satires, with regards to the rhetorical techniques. This technique comprises first of all the compositional structure of the satire, which sets out the arguments considered point by point and not in a rambling way, as does Horace. Each point is then enriched by means of parallelism (symmetry or ‘concinnitas’), by sequences of images, and by the many epithets which Juvenal uses. The rhythm of the satire is aided by the sentence structure, and finally, every point is embellished by means of purple passages, sententiae, dialogue, and various figures of speech. Description: B.A.(HONS)CLASSICS 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/90218 Title: Antony in the 'Philippics' of Cicero Abstract: Cicero’s ‘Philippics’, the Second in particular, hit out at Antony to such a personal extent that revenge followed inevitably. Juvenal regarded the unforgivable Second Philippic as the cause of Cicero’s deaths "Eloquio sed uterque perit orator" (Sat. X. 118) and he goes on to address the Second Philippic: “Ridenda poemata malo, quam te conspicuae, divina philippica, famae, volveris a prima quae proxima” (Sat. X. 124-126) Description: B.A.(HONS)CLASSICS 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z