Elizabeth Rawson
Biographic Data
| ID | 1033910 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elizabeth Rawson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elizabeth |
| FAMILY NAME | Rawson |
| SIGNATURE | RAWSON E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Corpus Christi College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 88 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 820 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 86 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| H-INDEX | 13 |
The Seductive Allure of Neuroscience Explanations
Explanations of psychological phenomena seem to generate more public interest when they contain neuroscientific information. Even irrelevant neuroscience information in an explanation of a psychological phenomenon may interfere with people's abilities to critically consider the underlying logic of this explanation. We tested this hypothesis by giving naïve adults, students in a neuroscience course, and neuroscience experts brief descriptions of p…
Roman Rulers and the Philosophic Adviser
THERE has been a great deal of discussion of the clash between philosophers, or those under the influence of philosophers, and Roman emperors whom they regarded as tyrants. Much less attention has been paid to the other side of the coin, and to the philosophers who were, or were claimed to have been, honoured political advisers to the emperors and other great Romans.
The Cambridge Ancient History, Second Edition Volume 9: The Last Age of the Roman Republic 146-43 B. C
Uzbekistan diary: The society's tour, May 3-20, 1994
Journal de voyage de l'un des membres de la Royal Central Asian Society en Ouzbekistan, de Tashkent a Boukhara, effectue en 1994
The aftermath of the Ides
When Caesar had fallen at the foot of Pompey's statue Brutus lifted his dagger and called aloud on Cicero's name, congratulating him on the recovery of liberty. The nervous old man had not been in the plot, but was a very senior consular and the embodiment of Republican principle; if Brutus hoped, however, for prompt endorsement or even help in keeping the senators in their places he did not get it. They fled in terror, and there was panic in the…
The fall of the Roman Republic
At the beginning of this volume readers were offered a brief survey of opinions down the ages about the causes of the fall of the Republic; now, with the facts before them, they will have formed opinions of their own. However, they may still, reasonably, expect the editors of the volume to state theirs: how should this tumultuous period be summed up, and, especially, are there any integrating concepts to link the political and military narrative …
The Cambridge Ancient History
Volume IX of the second edition of The Cambridge Ancient History has for its main theme the process commonly known as the 'Fall of the Roman Republic'. Chapters 1-12 supply a narrative of the period from 133 BC to the death of Cicero in 43 BC, with a prelude analysing the situation and problems of the Republic from the turning-point year 146 BC. Chapters 13-19 offer analysis of aspects of Roman society, institutions, and ideas during the period. …
The Cambridge Ancient History: Volume 9, the Last Age of the Roman Republic, 146-43 BC
Volume IX of the second edition of The Cambridge Ancient History has for its main theme the process commonly known as the 'Fall of the Roman Republic'. Chapters 1-12 supply a narrative of the period from 133 BC to the death of Cicero in 43 BC, with a prelude analysing the situation and problems of the Republic from the turning-point year 146 BC. Chapters 13-19 offer analysis of aspects of Roman society, institutions, and ideas during the period. …
Theatrical Life in Republican Rome and Italy
Rome, by the early third century, was obviously the dominant state in Italy both militarily and politically. She was not, however, dominant either economically or culturally. Where the last field is concerned, T. P. Wiseman has recently written stimulatingly on activity in the Italian cities in the Hellenistic period, but though recognizing in general terms that there was a busy theatrical life he docs not discuss this in detail; and the paper in…
The French Revolution and its Aftermath
Warnings have been uttered of late against supposing that classical antiquity, far from having a significant influence upon the course of events in the French Revolution, was even referred to, by most of the leading figures of the time, with any great frequency or seriousness, and against giving too much political importance to superficial classical fashions. Such warnings are doubtless justified; but it is misleading either to take all the class…
Sparta Rediviva
It is not possible to recount here in any detail the well-known history of the recovery and diffusion of the main works of Greek literature; nor, clearly, to consider all Sparta’s appearances in Renaissance writings, which would require profound knowledge of the period. It must suffice to indicate the main features of the interest she aroused, quoting some of the most famous (and often, in this respect, typical rather than original) works of the …
Title Pages
Discrimina Ordinum: The Lex Julia Theatralis
The games in Rome were not simply a supreme expression of euergetism, or a method of their giver to gain popularity with the plebs and impress foreigners with Rome’s splendour; they were central to its culture in innumerable ways. They had also always been to some extent, and were even more after Augustus’ death, as the people lost its right to elect magistrates and pass laws, political gatherings where public opinion was made known and political…
Scipio, Laelius, Furius, and the Ancestral Religion
In the anxieties of the Second Punic War the Romans sought divine aid alike from new Greek and even oriental cults and from ancient Italian rites. But in the subsequent decades a deeper-and to some extent a disenchanted-knowledge of Greece and things Greek combined with the nationalistic pride of a conquering people (and one already committed to reverence of its ancestors) to create a new consciousness of the Roman religious tradition, and of the…
The Middle Ages
It was inevitable that, given her place in Jewish apologetic literature and the Graeco-Roman ethical and rhetorical tradition, Sparta should occasionally attract the attention of the Fathers of the Church. During the great age of debate, when some Christians, in self-defence, were ready to assimilate a part of pagan culture, we find Tertullian describing Christian heroism as outdoing all precedents, including the Lacedaemonian endurance of fiagel…
More on the Clientelae of the Patrician Claudii
In Historia 1973 I published an article on ‘The Eastern Clientelae of Clodius and the Claudii’ [ =pp. 102-24 above], setting out material gathered over a number of years on the subject of the patrician family’s connections with the Oscan and Greek-speaking world, and suggesting that these might help to explain some of the acts of P. Clodius. Nothing can be more irritating for the reader than to find mostly minor corrections and additions–some of …
Laconism in the Hellenistic Age
The great figures of the fourth century continued to a remarkable extent to dominate Greek intellectual history, whether in rhetoric, historiography, or political theory. One proof of this is the astonishing persistence of interest in Sparta; for the place itself, deprived of territory by Philip and defeated again under Alexander, was henceforth of no importance beyond the Peloponnese.
The Interpretation of Cicero’s De legibus
Cicero is not usually thought of as an enigmatic author. His style is generally full and explicit; he is sufficiently self–conscious to explain in detail his intentions in writing many of his literary works, which also often act as mutual commentaries. But the De legibus forms the exception; uncertain in date, debated as to its sources, fragmentary in preservation, ignored, it seems, both in the letters and the other treatises, in parts oracular …
Crassorum Funera
The recent appearance of two would-be biographies of M. Crassus (the subject, as reviewers have observed, is recalcitrant to the proposed treatment) has led to a good deal of concentration upon him, at least in the English-speaking world. And yet not much solid advance has been, or perhaps can be, made. All I wish to do is to make one more unprovable suggestion, and to reconsider the motive for Crassus’ final, and disastrous, campaign.
Speciosa Locis Morataque Recte
A tendency to sententiousness, and to the broader teaching of moral lessons, goes back in ancient drama to the fifth century nc, when prose was undeveloped and the poets were still the teachers on serious subjects. Even after philosophy, in particular, had been hived off, the theatre continued to moralize; indeed New Comedy probably did so more readily than Middle Comedy, whether because of its greater seriousness, in parts at least, and the fact…
Sparta in Germany
For all the mass of works dealing with German thought and German writers in their relation to die Antike, there seems to be no special study of the German attitude to Sparta -perhaps because the Spartans are here so often concealed under the more general rubric of Dorians, or even of Greeks. But the story is of some interest. It could only be properly told by someone very familiar with the intellectual history of Germany during the past two centu…
Religion and Politics In the Late Second Century BC at Rome
Polybius and Cicero, in well-known passages, assert the importance of religion in Roman public life; 1 and the ways in which the nobility controlled and used religion for political ends have been amply demonstrated for the period where our evidence is fullest, the first century BC. It is very hard to suppose that their predecessors were not attempting to do the same thing in the late second century, an age of vital political struggles. But though…
Spartans on the Stage
When we turn from political theory to the arts we are reminded again how specialized was the interest that Sparta aroused. Hardly more than in antiquity do scenes from Spartan history make their way into the Renaissance or Baroque repertoire of the visual arts. And it is a commentary on Sparta’s generally disappointing role in imaginative literature that the only poetic references at all generally familiar, in this country at least, are those of …
The Fourth Century in Greece
By 404 B.C. Sparta had brought Athens to her knees and succeeded to the hegemony of most of Greece. The impression made by this achievement was enormous, though to us Athens’ mistakes and Persia’s gold may seem to have had a good deal to do with it. There seems to have been a spate of literature, now almost entirely lost, describing Sparta’s institutions from a crudely utilitarian viewpoint, even though Athens, and some of Sparta’s former allies,…
Lucius Crassus and Cicero: The Formation of a Statesman
If we remember anything about Cicero’s political ideas, it is that he believed in the right and duty of the senate to exercise supremacy in Rome, but that he also advocated a concordia ordinum, an alliance between and recognition of the common interests of senators and equites, to whom property and the status quo were sacred. Closely connected with this is the idea of a consensus omnium bonorum, a wider alliance to include most of the plebs, and …
Intellectual life in the late Roman Republic
Roman Culture and Society: Collected Papers
The late Elizabeth Rawson (1934-1988) was a distinguished specialist in the history, society, and culture of the later Roman Republic and Augustan period, whose sudden death at the end of a visit to China came when she was at the height of her powers, and had just been elected as a Fellow of the British Academy. Her papers form a closely related group, published over a short period of time between 1971 and 1989. The topics covered include the wor…
Discrimina Ordinum: The Lex Julia Theatralis
DISCRIMINA ORDINUM: LA LEX JULIA THEATRALIS L'articolo tenta di discutere in modo esauriente la testimonianza relativa alia legge di Augusto che fissava posti speciali nel teatro (e, sembra, nell'anfiteatro) a vari gruppi speciali: la descrizione di Svetonio di tale sistemazione è lungi dall'essere completa. Vengono presi in considerazione precedenti a Roma, in Italia o in Grecia (specialmente Atene e Sparta), sebbene non vi siano paralleli per u…
The Literary Sources for the Pre-Marian Army
The subject of the arms and organisation of the Roman army in and before the mid-second century B.C. is one of almost inextricable confusion. The amount of weight to be put on the various contradictory pieces of literary evidence is still to a great extent uncertain: which of them are antiquarian reconstructions rather than genuine tradition, and if they are reconstructions, how intelligent are they and on what sort of evidence are they based? Ar…
The Spartan Tradition in European Thought
Ancient polemics on Sparta (by Plato, Aristotle, Plutarch, and others) have had a remarkable afterlife in the political and educational thought of Renaissance Italy, the France of the Philosophes, Whig England, and Nazi Germany. This book outlines the little we know of ancient Sparta, describes Greek reaction to the ambiguous institutions of the great rival to democratic Athens, makes a first attempt to follow the subsequent fortunes of the debat…
Theatrical Life in Republican Rome and Italy
LA VITA TEATRALE NELLA ROMA REPUBBLICANA Nell'articolo si esamina la vita teatrale in Italia, in particolare in Campania e nel Lazio dal III secolo a.C. fino alla fine della Repubblica, e si sostiene che tra queste regioni e Roma vi fosse in questo campo uno scambio maggiore di quanto normalmente si creda. Le compagnie che parlavano in greco, osco e latino venivano a Roma, e quelle romane facevano tournées fuori Roma, come dimostra un passo frain…
Caesar's Heritage: Hellenistic Kings and their Roman Equals
In 44 B.C. Caesar, newly declared dictator perpetuo , told a crowd hailing him halfheartedly as king that they were mistaken: he was ‘not Rex but Caesar’; but he punished the tribunes who removed the diadems placed on his statues, and who arrested a man for putting them there. Not long after, at the Lupercalia, the consul Mark Antony thrice offered a diadem to Caesar, who was sitting, as Cicero, doubtless an eye-witness, describes him, ‘amictus t…
Cicero the Historian and Cicero the Antiquarian
Cicero's views on history and historians, and his general conceptions of the past, have received a good deal of attention—some, most recently, in Rambaud's short book Cicéron et l' Histoire Romaine ; but his historical practice has had less consideration. True, practically every passage in which he refers to an event of the past has been somewhere thoroughly elucidated, and the sources to which he turned in any particular work have been investiga…
Caesar, Etruria and the Disciplina Etrusca
In investigating the workings of the Roman clientela system in the first century B.C., we are accustomed to finding a complex pattern. Within a province or other area, different cities or even different families inside a city may look to different Roman magnates, or even have a plethora of patrons, who can be played off against each other. For example, Sicily in Cicero's time was particularly richly provided: various branches of the patrician and…
Religion and Politics in the Late Second Century B. C. at Rome
POLYBIUS AND CICERO, in well-known passages, assert the importance of religion in Roman public life;1 and the ways in which the nobility controlled and used religion for political ends have been amply demonstrated for the period where our evidence is fullest, the first century B.C.2 It is very hard to suppose that their predecessors were not attempting to do the same thing in the late second century, an age of vital political struggles. But thoug…
The Introduction of Logical Organisation in Roman Prose Literature
L'INTRODUZIONE DELL'ORGANIZZAZIONE LOGICA NELLA LETTERATURA DI PROSA ROMANA Fu dall'inizio del primo secolo a.C. che i Romani impararono a formulare dissertazioni su tutti gli argomenti (e non semplicemente testi elementari) in conformità alle tecniche di definizione e divisione, in definitiva derivate dalla dialettica greca, sebbene essi le applichino con estrema semplicità ed entusiasmo. Il ruolo di queste tecniche è considerato, tra gli altri,…
Prodigy Lists and the Use of the Annales Maximi
It is generally supposed that on the publication of the Annales Maximi in the Gracchan period (if not already at some point before their formal publication) historians, or some historians influential on the tradition, eagerly made use of this new source of material. The yearly lists of publicly expiated prodigies in Livy and related authors are usually considered to form the best evidence for this view. For given the elder Gato’s remark about the…
Architecture and Sculpture: The Activities of the Cossutii
Among Roman families of the late Republic and early Principate few are so intriguing to the cultural historian as those who had interests in the Eastern Mediterranean, and contributed in one way or another to the gradual Hellenization of Rome, and even, to some extent, the Romanization of the East; while it must be of interest to those concerned with social and economic history to see what can be established about the organization of architectura…
Scipio, Laelius, Furius and the Ancestral Religion
In the anxieties of the Second Punic War the Romans sought divine aid alike from new Greek and even oriental cults and from ancient Italian rites. But in the subsequent decades a deeper—and to some extent a disenchanted—knowledge of Greece and things Greek combined with the nationalistic pride of a conquering people (and one already committed to reverence of its ancestors) to create a new consciousness of the Roman religious tradition, and of the…
L. Cornelius Sisenna and the Early First Century B.C
The most important historical work in Latin that was actually written in the first half of the first century B C. was L. Cornelius Sisenna's history of the War of the Allies and the Civil Wars which followed it, up to Sulla's dictatorship or conceivably death-the most important one that was not written being of course Cicero's. Sallust praised Sisenna's work highly in the Jugurtba , though complaining that it was not sufficiently frank about Sull…
Chariot-Racing in the Roman Republic
CORSE DEI COCCHI NELLA REPUBBLICA ROMANA Si sostiene che le corse dei cocchi a Roma fossero all'origine simili a quelle dell'Etruria, e la loro organizzazione e finanziamento seguissero modelli greci, con uomini importanti che correvano per proprio conto e vincevano ghirlande ed onori per se stessi. Dopo la pubblicazione delle XII Tavole, forse per motivi di povertà o per paura di individui potenti, Roma abbandonò questo sistema, e lo stato comin…
The Life And Death Of Asclepiades Of Bithynia
It can be argued that there was no intellectual figure at work in Rome in the period of the late Republic who had more originality and influence than the Bithynian doctor Asclepiades, who founded an important medical school and was still being attacked nearly three hundred years after his death by Galen, and two hundred years later still by Caelius Aurelianus. His claims to originality rested both on his theory of the causes of disease, and on hi…
Sallust on the Eighties
In Lucan′s second book, an old man looks back to the atrocities perpetrated in the civil strife of the eighties, chiefly on the return of Marius and Cinna to Rome in late 87 and on that of Sulla in 82 (lines 70–233). The episodes that Lucan briefly refers to are all otherwise known, and there seems no particular reason to assume that he is not drawing on Livy as his principal source, as he does for the events of his main narrative, the civil war …
Lucius Crassus and Cicero: The Formation of a Statesman
If we remember anything about Cicero's political ideas, it is that he believed in the right and duty of the senate to exercise supremacy in Rome, but that he also advocated a concordia ordinmi , an alliance between and recognition of the common interests of senators and equites , to whom property and the status quo were sacred. Closely connected with this is the idea of a consensus omnium bonorum , a wider alliance to include most of the plebs , …
The Identity Problems of Q. Cornificius
The problems connected with the Cornificii of the late Republic are various, and all concerned with identification. I have no major discoveries to present, but various minor rectifications and suggestions to make, which should give the younger Q. Cornificius at least more substance. Where he is concerned, one basic identification has been, rightly, generally accepted: that made by Jerome between the poet of the name and the Cornificius who fell i…
Lucius Crassus and Cicero: The Formation of a Statesman
If we remember anything about Cicero's political ideas, it is that he believed in the right and duty of the senate to exercise supremacy in Rome, but that he also advocated a concordia ordinmi , an alliance between and recognition of the common interests of senators and equites , to whom property and the status quo were sacred. Closely connected with this is the idea of a consensus omnium bonorum , a wider alliance to include most of the plebs , …
Prodigy Lists and the Use of the Annales Maximi
It is generally supposed that on the publication of the Annales Maximi in the Gracchan period (if not already at some point before their formal publication) historians, or some historians influential on the tradition, eagerly made use of this new source of material. The yearly lists of publicly expiated prodigies in Livy and related authors are usually considered to form the best evidence for this view. For given the elder Gato’s remark about the…
D. R. Shackleton Bailey, Cicero. (Classical Life and Letters.) London: Duckworth, 1971. Pp. 290. £3·25
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The Interpretation of Ciceros’ ‘De legibus’
Scipio, Laelius, Furius and the Ancestral Religion
In the anxieties of the Second Punic War the Romans sought divine aid alike from new Greek and even oriental cults and from ancient Italian rites. But in the subsequent decades a deeper—and to some extent a disenchanted—knowledge of Greece and things Greek combined with the nationalistic pride of a conquering people (and one already committed to reverence of its ancestors) to create a new consciousness of the Roman religious tradition, and of the…
Religion and Politics in the Late Second Century B. C. at Rome
POLYBIUS AND CICERO, in well-known passages, assert the importance of religion in Roman public life;1 and the ways in which the nobility controlled and used religion for political ends have been amply demonstrated for the period where our evidence is fullest, the first century B.C.2 It is very hard to suppose that their predecessors were not attempting to do the same thing in the late second century, an age of vital political struggles. But thoug…
Architecture and Sculpture: The Activities of the Cossutii
Among Roman families of the late Republic and early Principate few are so intriguing to the cultural historian as those who had interests in the Eastern Mediterranean, and contributed in one way or another to the gradual Hellenization of Rome, and even, to some extent, the Romanization of the East; while it must be of interest to those concerned with social and economic history to see what can be established about the organization of architectura…
Caesar's Heritage: Hellenistic Kings and their Roman Equals
In 44 B.C. Caesar, newly declared dictator perpetuo , told a crowd hailing him halfheartedly as king that they were mistaken: he was ‘not Rex but Caesar’; but he punished the tribunes who removed the diadems placed on his statues, and who arrested a man for putting them there. Not long after, at the Lupercalia, the consul Mark Antony thrice offered a diadem to Caesar, who was sitting, as Cicero, doubtless an eye-witness, describes him, ‘amictus t…
The Ciceronian Aristocracy and Its Properties
Much of the information about the real property of the Roman aristocracy in the Late Republic has already been carefully collected and listed. This chapter does not aim at any sort of completeness; it attempts to make some points, hitherto insufficiently stressed or entirely neglected, about the attitudes which the senatorial class held to its estates, what types of property it preferred (or was permitted) to invest in, and how it assisted its de…
Okko Behrends, Die Wissenschaftslehre im Zivilrecht des Q. Mucius Scaevola Pontifex (Nachrichten der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Göttingen, Philologisch-Historische Klasse VII). Göttingen: Vandenho…
Okko Behrends, Die Wissenschaftslehre im Zivilrecht des Q. Mucius Scaevola Pontifex (Nachrichten der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Göttingen, Philologisch-Historische Klasse VII). Göttingen: Vandenhoeck u. Ruprecht, 1976. Pp. 42. - Volume 67
Remo Gelsomino, Varrone e i sette colli di Roma (Università degli Studi di Siena, Collana di Studi e Testi, 1). Rome: Herder, 1975. Pp. 135, 1 pl. L. 3,500
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Caesar, Etruria and the Disciplina Etrusca
In investigating the workings of the Roman clientela system in the first century B.C., we are accustomed to finding a complex pattern. Within a province or other area, different cities or even different families inside a city may look to different Roman magnates, or even have a plethora of patrons, who can be played off against each other. For example, Sicily in Cicero's time was particularly richly provided: various branches of the patrician and…
The Introduction of Logical Organisation in Roman Prose Literature
L'INTRODUZIONE DELL'ORGANIZZAZIONE LOGICA NELLA LETTERATURA DI PROSA ROMANA Fu dall'inizio del primo secolo a.C. che i Romani impararono a formulare dissertazioni su tutti gli argomenti (e non semplicemente testi elementari) in conformità alle tecniche di definizione e divisione, in definitiva derivate dalla dialettica greca, sebbene essi le applichino con estrema semplicità ed entusiasmo. Il ruolo di queste tecniche è considerato, tra gli altri,…
The Identity Problems of Q. Cornificius
The problems connected with the Cornificii of the late Republic are various, and all concerned with identification. I have no major discoveries to present, but various minor rectifications and suggestions to make, which should give the younger Q. Cornificius at least more substance. Where he is concerned, one basic identification has been, rightly, generally accepted: that made by Jerome between the poet of the name and the Cornificius who fell i…
L. Cornelius Sisenna and the Early First Century B.C
The most important historical work in Latin that was actually written in the first half of the first century B C. was L. Cornelius Sisenna's history of the War of the Allies and the Civil Wars which followed it, up to Sulla's dictatorship or conceivably death-the most important one that was not written being of course Cicero's. Sallust praised Sisenna's work highly in the Jugurtba , though complaining that it was not sufficiently frank about Sull…
A. E. Astin, Cato the Censor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1978. Pp. xi + 371, 2 maps
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Chariot-Racing in the Roman Republic
CORSE DEI COCCHI NELLA REPUBBLICA ROMANA Si sostiene che le corse dei cocchi a Roma fossero all'origine simili a quelle dell'Etruria, e la loro organizzazione e finanziamento seguissero modelli greci, con uomini importanti che correvano per proprio conto e vincevano ghirlande ed onori per se stessi. Dopo la pubblicazione delle XII Tavole, forse per motivi di povertà o per paura di individui potenti, Roma abbandonò questo sistema, e lo stato comin…
The Life And Death Of Asclepiades Of Bithynia
It can be argued that there was no intellectual figure at work in Rome in the period of the late Republic who had more originality and influence than the Bithynian doctor Asclepiades, who founded an important medical school and was still being attacked nearly three hundred years after his death by Galen, and two hundred years later still by Caelius Aurelianus. His claims to originality rested both on his theory of the causes of disease, and on hi…
Intellectual life in the late Roman Republic
C. Saulnier, L'armée et la Guerre chez les Peuples Samnites (VIIe–IVe s.). Paris: De Boccard, 1983. Pp. 157, 50 illus
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Theatrical Life in Republican Rome and Italy
LA VITA TEATRALE NELLA ROMA REPUBBLICANA Nell'articolo si esamina la vita teatrale in Italia, in particolare in Campania e nel Lazio dal III secolo a.C. fino alla fine della Repubblica, e si sostiene che tra queste regioni e Roma vi fosse in questo campo uno scambio maggiore di quanto normalmente si creda. Le compagnie che parlavano in greco, osco e latino venivano a Roma, e quelle romane facevano tournées fuori Roma, come dimostra un passo frain…
Sallust on the Eighties
In Lucan′s second book, an old man looks back to the atrocities perpetrated in the civil strife of the eighties, chiefly on the return of Marius and Cinna to Rome in late 87 and on that of Sulla in 82 (lines 70–233). The episodes that Lucan briefly refers to are all otherwise known, and there seems no particular reason to assume that he is not drawing on Livy as his principal source, as he does for the events of his main narrative, the civil war …
Discrimina Ordinum: The Lex Julia Theatralis
DISCRIMINA ORDINUM: LA LEX JULIA THEATRALIS L'articolo tenta di discutere in modo esauriente la testimonianza relativa alia legge di Augusto che fissava posti speciali nel teatro (e, sembra, nell'anfiteatro) a vari gruppi speciali: la descrizione di Svetonio di tale sistemazione è lungi dall'essere completa. Vengono presi in considerazione precedenti a Roma, in Italia o in Grecia (specialmente Atene e Sparta), sebbene non vi siano paralleli per u…
Intellectual Life in the Late Roman Republic
Roman tradition and the Greek world
This chapter focuses on the Roman tradition and Greek world through the eyes of two contrasted writers, such as Polybius and Fabius Pictor. The other fact that Polybius stresses is the sheer size of the Roman military and naval effort. The manpower resources of Rome and her Italian allies were, in the eyes of a Greek from the Peloponnese, enormous; her navies in particular larger than anything a Greek power could produce. The senator Fabius Picto…
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