Syriac Lexis and Lexica. Compiling ancient and modern vocabularies
(2024)
Book
Nicosia, M. (in press). Syriac Lexis and Lexica. Compiling ancient and modern vocabularies. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press
Dr Mara Nicosia's Outputs (12)
Antony of Tagrit and the progymnasmata: Towards a Syriac rhetorical theory in the Abbasid Era (2024)
Journal Article
Nicosia, M. (in press). Antony of Tagrit and the progymnasmata: Towards a Syriac rhetorical theory in the Abbasid Era. Histoire Epistémologie Langage,This paper investigates the engagement with Greek progymnasmata exercises shown by the first rhetorical handbook in Syriac: Antony of Tagrit’s On Rhetoric (ninth century). Despite lacking any specific reference to progymnastic authors or texts and ha... Read More about Antony of Tagrit and the progymnasmata: Towards a Syriac rhetorical theory in the Abbasid Era.
Syriac Rhetorical Lexica: Towards the Compilation of a Trilingual Dictionary (2024)
Book Chapter
Nicosia, M. Syriac Rhetorical Lexica: Towards the Compilation of a Trilingual Dictionary. In M. Nicosia, & R. Contini (Eds.), Syriac Lexis and Lexica. Compiling ancient and modern vocabularies. Gorgias PressThe paper discusses the challenges posed by the creation of a trilingual lexicon (Syriac-Greek-Arabic) of the technical vocabulary of rhetoric and its advantages. It will present the selected corpus, the proposed layout of the lemmas, and a selection... Read More about Syriac Rhetorical Lexica: Towards the Compilation of a Trilingual Dictionary.
Heliodorus’ Aethiopica in Antony of Tagrit’s Fifth Book of Rhetoric: A Follow-up Study, Sixteen Years after the Discovery (2023)
Journal Article
Nicosia, M. (in press). Heliodorus’ Aethiopica in Antony of Tagrit’s Fifth Book of Rhetoric: A Follow-up Study, Sixteen Years after the Discovery. Le Muséon, 137(1-2), 137-169. https://doi.org/10.2143/MUS.137.1.3293318Due to the absence of Syriac translations of ancient Greek novels or explicit references to any of them in the Syriac literature, scholars agreed for a long time that these texts never reached Syriac environments. However, in 2008, Aldo Corcella reco... Read More about Heliodorus’ Aethiopica in Antony of Tagrit’s Fifth Book of Rhetoric: A Follow-up Study, Sixteen Years after the Discovery.
Crafting Traditions: Antony of Tagrit, his “Classics” and the Syriac Classicising Rhetorical Learning (2023)
Book Chapter
Nicosia, M. (in press). Crafting Traditions: Antony of Tagrit, his “Classics” and the Syriac Classicising Rhetorical Learning. In F. Spingou, C. Virág, & N. Gaul (Eds.), Performing Antiquity: Classics, Community and Power in Medieval Eurasia
Graeco-Aramaica: A Look at Greek Words in Christian Palestinian Aramaic (2023)
Journal Article
Nicosia, M. (in press). Graeco-Aramaica: A Look at Greek Words in Christian Palestinian Aramaic. Syriaca, 1,
Greek Influences on Syriac and Contact-Induced Changes: Reflections on a Recent Book (2021)
Journal Article
Nicosia, M. (2021). Greek Influences on Syriac and Contact-Induced Changes: Reflections on a Recent Book. Annali sezione Orientale, 81(1-2), 175-186. https://doi.org/10.1163/24685631-12340116
Reassessing Antony of Tagrit : when did he actually live? (2021)
Journal Article
Nicosia, M. (2021). Reassessing Antony of Tagrit : when did he actually live?. Oriens christianus, 104, 67-88
Western Neo-Aramaic as an Islamic Language? A Look at Some Lexical and Sociolinguistic Issues (2020)
Journal Article
Contini, R., & Nicosia, M. (2020). Western Neo-Aramaic as an Islamic Language? A Look at Some Lexical and Sociolinguistic Issues. Eurasian Studies (Roma), 18(1), https://doi.org/10.1163/24685623-12340086
From Antony of Tagrit to the Arabic version : the Syriac technical vocabulary of rhetoric and the migration of words (2020)
Journal Article
Nicosia, M. (2020). From Antony of Tagrit to the Arabic version : the Syriac technical vocabulary of rhetoric and the migration of words. Hugoye (Washington, D.C.), 23(1), 61-97Rhetoric was part of the borrowed Greek educational system of the Enkyklios paideia, together with logic and grammar. However, the technical terminology had to be adapted, so the question is which strategies were used to create the vocabulary of Syri... Read More about From Antony of Tagrit to the Arabic version : the Syriac technical vocabulary of rhetoric and the migration of words.
La rhétorique d’Aristote dans les milieux syriaques et arabes : histoire d’un épisode de transmission intellectuelle dans l’Antiquité tardive (2019)
Book Chapter
Nicosia, M. (2019). La rhétorique d’Aristote dans les milieux syriaques et arabes : histoire d’un épisode de transmission intellectuelle dans l’Antiquité tardive. In E. Fiori, & H. Hugonnard-Roche (Eds.), La philosophie en syriaque (267-286). Geuthner
Crafting Traditions: Antony of Tagrit, his ‘Classics’ and the Syriac Classicising Rhetorical Learning
Book Chapter
Nicosia, M. Crafting Traditions: Antony of Tagrit, his ‘Classics’ and the Syriac Classicising Rhetorical Learning. In C. Virág, & F. Spingou (Eds.), Performing Antiquity: Classics, Community and Power in Medieval Eurasia (forthcoming). Edinburgh University Press