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Caneva Stefano

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Main Referenced Co-authors
Dechevez, Julien  (2)
Coppola, Alessandra (1)
Delli Pizzi, Aurian (1)
Delli Pizzi, Aurian  (1)
Massa, Francesco (1)
Main Referenced Keywords
ruler cults (11); Alexander (8); Arsinoe (8); Hellenistic period (8); Apollonius Rhodius (6);
Main Referenced Disciplines
Classical & oriental studies (34)
History (26)
Literature (6)
Arts & humanities: Multidisciplinary, general & others (3)
Social work & social policy (1)

Publications (total 69)

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Caneva, S. (2014). Ruler cults in practice: Sacrifices and libations for Arsinoe Philadelphos, from Alexandria and beyond. In F. Muccioli & T. Gnoli (Eds.), Divinizzazione, culto del sovrano e apoteosi. Tra Antichità e Medioevo (pp. 25-58). Bologna, Italy: Bononia University Press. https://hdl.handle.net/2268/161829

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Caneva, S. (2013). Arsinoe divinizzata al fianco del re vivente Tolemeo II. Uno studio di propaganda greco-egiziana (270-246 a.C.). Historia: Zeitschrift für alte Geschichte, 62.3, 280-322. https://hdl.handle.net/2268/111695

Caneva, S. (In press). Review of L. Bricault, « Une dédicace-double d’Éphèse pour Ptolémée, Arsinoé, Sarapis et Isis », Bibliotheca Isiaca III (2014), 7-10. Bibliotheca Isiaca, IV.
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Caneva, S. (In press). Incense in Hellenistic Ruler Cult. In M. Bradley & A. Grand-Clément (Ed.), Sensing Divinity: Incense, Religion, and the Ancient Sensorium. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press.
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Caneva, S. (2022). Le rôle du gymnase : espace, rituels et acteurs sociaux dans une perspective comparatiste. In G. Lenzo & C. Nihan (Eds.), Les cultes aux rois et aux héros dans l’antiquité : continuités et changements à l’époque hellénistique. Leuven, Belgium: Peeters.
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Caneva, S., & Dechevez, J. (2021). Review of A. Bowman and Ch. Crowther, The Epigraphy of Ptolemaic Egypt. Bryn Mawr Classical Review.
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Dechevez, J., & Caneva, S. (29 April 2021). L'oracle d’Ammon de Siwa, entre Égypte et monde gréco-macédonien. Pratique oraculaire, discours politique, mémoire culturelle [Paper presentation]. Séminaire organisé en collégialité "Vie et Sociétés des mondes antiques" (HIST0172-1).

Caneva, S. (2019). Kings and Elites in an Intercultural Tradition: From Diodorus to the Egyptian Temples. Greece and Rome, 65. doi:10.1017/S0017383519000032
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Caneva, S., & Coppola, A. (November 2018). Nuovi culti eroici nell'alto Ellenismo: una riconsiderazione di destinatari, attori e contesti [Paper presentation]. Diventare eroe / dio nella prima età ellenistica, Bologna, Italy.

Caneva, S. (04 October 2018). A la table du souverain. Modération, excès et hiérarchie dans les banquets de cour hellénistiques et impériaux [Paper presentation]. Le corps des souverains dans les mondes hellénistique et romain, Rennes, France.

Caneva, S. (May 2018). Hellenistic cultic foundations for the dead: Civic, royal, individual, and groups' initiatives in interaction [Paper presentation]. 19th International Congress of Classical Archaeology, Cologne, Germany.

Caneva, S. (2018). King and Pharaoh: Religious Encounters and the Ruler Cult in Ptolemaic Egypt. In Beyond the Nile: Egypt and the Classical World (pp. 137-142). Los Angeles CA, United States: Getty Foundation.
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Caneva, S. (2018). Materiality matters: What do we learn from small inscribed objects related to ruler cults? In S. Caneva (Ed.), The Materiality of Hellenistic Ruler Cults. Liège, Belgium: Presses Universitaires de Liège.
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Caneva, S. (2018). Ptolemy I: Politics, Religion and the Transition to Hellenistic Egypt. In T. Howe (Ed.), Ptolemy I Soter: A Self-Made Man (pp. 88-127). Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxbow.
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Caneva, S. (2018). Review of R. Veymiers, R. Veymiers, « Sarapis et Neôtera élus parmi les dieux », Revue archéologique 2014, fascicule 1, p. 37-56. Bibliotheca Isiaca.
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Caneva, S. (Ed.). (2017). #ConnectingYouth Policy e-Booklet: Youth, Education and the Access to the EU Labour Market. A selection of research and policy texts on digital skills, active citizenship, multilingualism and #ConnectingYouth policy recommendations. Erasmus+ Agency.

Caneva, S. (17 February 2017). Practicalities of Hellenistic Ruler Cult (PHRC): Towards a semantic markup of ritual action and its social underpinnings [Paper presentation]. Classical Philology goes Digital: Working on Textual Phenomena of Ancient Texts, Potsdam, Germany.

Caneva, S. (2017). SigNet – a network of Hellenistic sealings & archives Digital tools and methodologies for big data mining, cross-media quantitative and qualitative analysis, museum engagement and citizen science [Poster presentation]. AIUCD Annual Meeting, Rome, Italy.

Caneva, S. (2016). The persea tree from Alexander to Late Antiquity: A contribution to the cultural and social history of Greco-Roman Egypt. Ancient Society, 45. doi:10.2143/AS.46.0.3167450
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Caneva, S. (2016). Ritual Intercession in the Ptolemaic Kingdom A Survey of Grammar, Semantics and Agency. Erga-Logoi: Rivista di Storia, Letteratura, Diritto eCultura Dell'antichità, 4 (2), 117-154. doi:10.7358/erga-2016-002-cane
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Caneva, S. (2016). Beyond isolation: Re-positioning ruler cults in the Hellenistic culture. Erga-Logoi: Rivista di Storia, Letteratura, Diritto eCultura Dell'antichità, 4 (2), 9-15. doi:10.7358/erga-2016-002-intr
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Caneva, S. (2016). From Alexander to the Theoi Adelphoi: Foundation and Legitimation of a Dynasty. Leuven, Belgium: Peeters.

Caneva, S. (2016). Short notes on 3rd-century Ptolemaic royal formulae and festivals. Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 200, 207–214.
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Caneva, S. (2016). Configurations publiques de Dionysos dans le cadre de l'hellénisation de Rome. In V. Pirenne, C. Bonnet, ... G. Pironti (Eds.), Dieux des Grecs, dieux des Romains : panthéons en dialogue à travers l’histoire et l’historiographie (pp. 99-116). Rome, Italy: Institut historique belge de Rome.
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Caneva, S. (2016). SigNet: A Digital Platform for Hellenistic Sealings and Archives. In M. Ioannides, Digital Heritage. Progress in Cultural Heritage: Documentation, Preservation, and Protection 6th International Conference, EuroMed 2016, Nicosia, Cyprus, October 31 – November 5, 2016, Proceedings, Part II (pp. 222-231). Springer.
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Caneva, S. (2016). Review of L. Bricault, M.J. Versluys (eds), Egyptian Gods in the Hellenistic and Roman Mediterranean: Image and Reality Between Local and Global, Caltanissetta, Salvatore Sciascia Editore, 2012 (Suppl. Mythos 3). Kernos: Revue Internationale et Pluridisciplinaire de Religion Grecque, 29, 451-456.
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Caneva, S., & Delli Pizzi, A. (2015). Given to a Deity? Religious and Social Reappraisal of Human Consecrations in the Hellenistic and Roman East. Classical Quarterly, 65 (1), 167-191. doi:10.1017/S0009838814000676
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Caneva, S. (2015). Paradoxon ! Perception de la puissance divine et du pouvoir royal dans l’Alexandrie des Ptolémées. Mythos. Rivista di Storia delle Religioni, 8 (2014), 55-75. doi:10.1400/232887
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Caneva, S. (2015). Costruire una dea. Arsinoe II attraverso le sue denominazioni divine. Athenaeum, 103 (1), 95-122.
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Caneva, S., & Delli Pizzi, A. (2014). Classical and Hellenistic statuettes of the so–called “Temple Boys”: A religious and social reappraisal. In C. Terranova (Ed.), La presenza dei bambini nelle religioni del Mediterraneo antico. La vita e la morte, i rituali e i culti tra archeologia, antropologia e storia delle religioni (pp. 495-521). Roma, Italy: Aracne.
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Caneva, S. (2014). Ruler cults in practice: Sacrifices and libations for Arsinoe Philadelphos, from Alexandria and beyond. In F. Muccioli & T. Gnoli (Eds.), Divinizzazione, culto del sovrano e apoteosi. Tra Antichità e Medioevo (pp. 25-58). Bologna, Italy: Bononia University Press.

Caneva, S. (25 January 2014). L’apport des cultes royaux hellénistiques au débat sur la polis religion dans le monde hellénistique [Paper presentation]. Atelier Chronos, INHA, 2 rue Vivienne, 75002 Paris, France.

Caneva, S. (2014). Courtly Love, Stars, and Power: The Queens in Third Century Royal Couples, through Poetry and Epigraphic Texts. In A. Harder, R. Regtuit, ... G. C. Wakker (Eds.), Hellenistic Poetry in Context (pp. 25-57). Leuven, Belgium: Peeters.
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Caneva, S. (2013). Edipo alla tavola rotonda della decolonizzazione. The Gods Are not to Blame di Ola Rotimi. In P. Pinotti & M. Stella (Eds.), Edipo. Margini confini periferie (pp. 339-370). Pisa, Italy: ETS.

Caneva, S. (September 2013). Giulio Massimilla (ed.), Callimaco, Aitia. Libro terzo e quarto, «Biblioteca di studi antichi» 92, Pisa/Roma, Fabrizio Serra editore, 2010. Athenaeum, 101.I-II.
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Caneva, S. (May 2013). J.E. Skinner, The Invention of Greek Ethnography: From Homer to Herodotus. Oxford, University Press, 2012. Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 2013.05.05.
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Caneva, S. (2013). La face cachée des intrigues de cour. Prolégomènes à une étude du rôle des femmes royales dans les royaumes hellénistiques. Mètis: Revue d'Anthropologie du Monde Grec Ancien: Philologie, Histoire, Archéologie, 133-151.
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Caneva, S., & Paul, S. (26 April 2013). Héroïsation et Divinisation dans la Méditerranée Hellénistique : Introduction [Paper presentation]. Des hommes aux dieux. Processus d'héroïsation et de divinisation dans la Méditerranée Hellénistique, Liège, Belgium.

Caneva, S. (07 February 2013). Renewed in Translation: The Persea Tree from Egypt to the Greeks [Paper presentation]. (Re)productive Traditions in Ancient Egypt, Liège, Belgium.

Caneva, S. (February 2013). Il coro del re. Capo e comprimari nella storiografia e nell’epos fra IV e III secolo a.C. Quaderni di Storia, 77, 167-206.
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Caneva, S. (2013). The agyieus pillar, Egyptian legal papyri, and the cult of Arsinoe Philadephos in the streets of Alexandria. ORBi-University of Liège. https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/139233.

Caneva, S. (2013). Beate Dignas, R.R.R. Smith (eds), Historical & Religious Memory in the Ancient World, Oxford, University Press, 2012. Kernos: Revue Internationale et Pluridisciplinaire de Religion Grecque, 26, 415-419.
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Caneva, S. (2013). Arsinoe divinizzata al fianco del re vivente Tolemeo II. Uno studio di propaganda greco-egiziana (270-246 a.C.). Historia: Zeitschrift für alte Geschichte, 62.3, 280-322.
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Caneva, S. (2013). M. Caccamo Caltabiano, C. Raccuia, E. Santagati (a cura di) Tyrannis, Basileia, Imperium: forme, prassi e simboli del potere politico nel mondo greco e romano. Atti delle Giornate seminariali in onore di S. Nerina Consolo Langher, Messina, 17-19 dicembre 2007 (Pelorias, 18), Messina, Dipertimento di Scienze dell'Antichità, 2010. Mythos. Rivista di Storia delle Religioni, 6, 107-112.
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Caneva, S. (07 December 2012). Arsinoé II, déesse gréco-égyptienne à travers quelques petites stèles prolémaiques [Paper presentation]. Jounrée d'études NEITH: Contacts religieux dans la Méditerranée hellénistique : le rôle de l’empire ptolémaïque, Liège, Belgium.

Caneva, S. (14 November 2012). La hiérarchie des merveilles : le paradoxon entre perception du divin et du pouvoir dans la culture hellénistique [Paper presentation]. Séminaire dans le cours de Master I et II, Toulouse, France.

Caneva, S. (September 2012). R. Hunter, Critical Moments in Classical Literature. Studies in the Ancient View of Literature and Its Uses, Cambridge, University PRESS, 2009. Athenaeum, 100. I-II, 687-689.
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Caneva, S. (September 2012). D. Graninger : Cult and Koinon in Hellenistic Thessaly, Leiden, Brill, 2011. Kernos: Revue Internationale et Pluridisciplinaire de Religion Grecque, 25, 356-358.
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Caneva, S. (September 2012). F. Prescendi, Y. Volokhine (éd.), Dans le laboratoire de l’historien des religions. Mélanges offerts à Philippe Borgeaud, Genève, Labor et Fides, 2011. Kernos: Revue Internationale et Pluridisciplinaire de Religion Grecque, 25, 379-380.
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Caneva, S. (20 March 2012). Arsinoé II Philadelphos divinisée à côté du roi vivant Ptolémée II. Aspects cultuels et politiques des cultes royaux entre sources grecques et égyptiennes [Paper presentation]. Cours "La pensée religieuse des Grecs" par M.me V. Pirenne-Delforge, Liège, Belgium.

Caneva, S. (15 January 2012). Arsinoe II divinizzata al fianco del re vivente Tolemeo II. Uno studio di propaganda greco-egiziana [Paper presentation]. Ciclo di incontri della Scuola di Dottorato in Storia Antica, Università di Padova, Padova, Italy.

Caneva, S. (2012). Compte rendu de Giulio Massimilla (ed.), Callimaco. Aitia: libro terzo e quarto. Biblioteca di studi antichi 92. Pisa/Roma: Fabrizio Serra editore, 2010. ORBi-University of Liège. https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/131894.

Caneva, S. (2012). Between Drama and Ideology: The case of Oedipus in Yoruba Theatrical Practice and Theory. In C. Hanratty & E. Ioannidou (Eds.), Epidaurus Encounters. Greek Drama, Ancient Theatre and Modern Performance (pp. 167-174). Berlin, Germany: Parodos.

Caneva, S. (2012). D’Hérodote à Alexandre. L’appropriation gréco-macédonienne d’Ammon de Siwa, entre pratique oraculaire et légitimation du pouvoir. Mythos. Rivista di Storia delle Religioni, 2 (2012), 205-234.
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Caneva, S. (2012). Queens and ruler cults in Early Hellenism: Festivals, Administration, and Ideology. Kernos: Revue Internationale et Pluridisciplinaire de Religion Grecque, 25, 75-102.
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Caneva, S. (18 December 2011). Motivations des consécrations et âge des personnes consacrées à la Mère des Dieux Autocthone de Leukopétra (Macédoine, II-IV siècles ap. J.-Ch.) [Paper presentation]. Séminaire du 18 décembre 2011 : L’enfant dans le rite, Liège, Belgium.

Caneva, S. (18 October 2011). L’altra faccia dell’amore. Quattro parole chiave per lo studio del ruolo delle donne regali nelle corti ellenistiche [Paper presentation]. Cantieri d'Autunno, I edizione, Pavia, Italy.

Caneva, S. (2011). Da Alessandro ai Theoi Adelphoi. Fondazione e legittimazione della dinastia tolemaica, tra IV e III secolo a.C [Doctoral thesis, Scuola Superiore di Studi Storici dell'Università di San Marino]. ORBi-University of Liège. https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/111697

Caneva, S. (2011). S. Bussi, D. Foraboschi (éds), Roma e l'eredità ellenistica. Atti del convegno internazionale, Milano, Università statale, 14-16 gennaio 2009. "Studi ellenistici" 23. Pisa/Roma, Fabrizio Serra, 2010. Bryn Mawr Classical Review, (2011.05.59).
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Caneva, S. (January 2011). La poesia ellenistica e la storia. Considerazioni sullo stato dell'arte e sulle prospettive di ricerca. Quaderni di Storia, 73, 221-234.
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Caneva, S. (2011). They were Soldiers. Civil War, Lieux de Mémoire, and Anonymity through Aeschylus’ Persae and Seven against Thebes. ORBi-University of Liège. https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/111676.

Caneva, S. (2010). Da Crono agli eroi. Ordine e disordine, violenza e homonoia nelle Argonautiche di Apollonio Rodio. In V. Andò & N. Cusumano (Eds.), Come bestie? Forme e paradossi della violenza tra mondo antico e disagio contemporaneo (pp. 141-164). Caltanissetta-Roma, Italy: Salvatore Sciascia.
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Caneva, S., & Massa, F. (December 2010). Théâtre et histoire dans l’Athènes du ve siècle. En écho au Colloque international « La Storia sulla scena attica di v secolo » (Pavie, 18-20 février 2010). Anabases: Traditions et Réception de l'Antiquité, 12, 183-192.
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Caneva, S. (2010). Argonautiques IV. 257-293. De l'Egypte devenue texte au texte qui devient monde. In I. Millat-Pilot (Ed.), Monde du texte, texte du monde. Préface de Claude Calame (pp. 49-66). Grenoble, France: Millon.
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Caneva, S. (2010). Linguaggi della festa e linguaggi del potere ad Alessandria, nella Grande Processione di Tolemeo Filadelfo. In E. Bona & M. Curnis (Eds.), Linguaggi del potere, poteri del linguaggio (pp. 173-189). Alessandria, Italy: Edizioni dell'Orso.
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Caneva, S. (2010). Raccontare Zeus. Poesia e cultura di corte ad Alessandria, a partire dall’Inno I di Callimaco. Pallas: Revue d'Études Antiques, 83, 295-311.
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Caneva, S. (15 September 2009). I culti regali nel primo ellenismo: il fenomeno religioso fra dinamiche socio-politiche e portata culturale. Prospettive per un approccio interdisciplinare alle fonti testuali [Paper presentation]. IX Annual Meeting of the European Association for the Study of Religions, Messina, September 14-17 2009, Messina, Italy.

Caneva, S. (13 May 2008). Oedipe à la table ronde de la décolonisation. The Gods are not to Blame par Ola Rotimi [Paper presentation]. Sémaine grecque de l'ENS, Paris, France.

Caneva, S. (2007). Riti indicibili. La parola e l’abominio fra Baccanti e Heart of Darkness. In A. Beltrametti (Ed.), Studi e materiali per le Baccanti di Euripide. Storia Memorie Spettacoli (pp. 303-332). Pavia, Italy: Ibis.

Caneva, S. (2007). Raccontare nel tempo. Narrazione epica e cronologia nelle Argonautiche di Apollonio Rodio. In S. Caneva & V. Tarenzi (Eds.), Il lavoro sul mito nell’epica greca. Letture di Omero e Apollonio (pp. 67-135). Pisa, Italy: ETS.

Caneva, S., & Tarenzi, V. (2007). Il lavoro sul mito nell’epica greca. Letture di Omero e Apollonio. Con una premessa di Diego Lanza. Pisa, Italy: ETS.

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