Fra Oriente e Occidente, 80 Years Later

Abstract

The four essays in this set mostly originate from the one-day confer­ence Fra Oriente e Occidente: Le vie della cultura e le vie del potere, organized on April 14^th, 2023, at the Fondazione Firpo, in the Biblioteca Nazionale in Turin. A group of scholars who had been exchanging thoughts about Mazzarino’s book, in some cases for decades, decided that, in light especially of the enormous progress in our understanding of Iron Age Anatolia, a shared discussion might be productive. Often praised, rarely engaged with, Fra Oriente e Occidente was a trailblazing contribution that failed to have the impact it could have had. Mazza­rino’s ideas are now part of the intellectual history of the study of antiquity and need to be addressed as such. The authors gathered here, whose main shared characteristic is being themselves passionate readers of Mazzarino, give examples of how engaging with the many insights and hypotheses embedded in Fra Oriente e Occidente can be a fruitful and exhilarating proposition.

Corinne Bonnet, ‘Les Phéniciens de Santo Mazzarino’

Lorenzo d’Alfonso, ‘Formazione e sviluppo del confine politico tra Oriente e Occidente in Anatolia centrale tra il X–VII sec. a.C.’

Maurizio Giangiulio, ‘^URUPuṭu-ia-a-man. Cyrene Between Babylon, Egypt, and Libya — According to Mazzarino: A Reassessment’

Marco Santini, ‘Santo Mazzarino’s Cultural Koiné of Asia Minor and Its “Limits”: New Perspectives on Old Greek Miracles’