El dinamismo de las imágenes sagradas

Análisis de las figuras de Marte, Término, Juventas y Júpiter en Antiquitates Rerum Divinarum 40-41, de Varrón

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ID21847425
AuthorsGuillermina Bogdan (Teradata (United Kingdom), corresponding author)
Year2021
Volume15
Publication date2021-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueMythos (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1972-2516 • E-ISSN: 2037-7746
PublisherOpenEdition (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.4000/mythos.3630
OpenAlexW4200283540
LanguageES
References cited20

This contribution starts with the description put forward in Moralee (2018) of the Capitoline temple as a sacred space. Basing its reading of the space on Cancik (1986), Edwards (1996) and Fitzgerald-Spentzou (2018), and their arguments about the importance of formation of these spaces from mythical and literary sources, it aims to interpret the function of an antiquarian such as Varro as that of a discursive source on a site of radical interest for Rome such as the Capitoline temple. Which elements does the author emphasize in describing the images that compose this temple? Which functions does the version told in Antiquitates rerum divinarum play in the construction of Roman identity and memory for contemporaries and for today's readers alike? Varro's work as an antiquarian is not limited to recording names and rites, deities and myths, but gives those deities a role in the construction of Roman memory. Mars, Terminus and Juventas, and even the power of Jupiter, in the case-study discussed here, allow him to question and highlight specific features of the Roman people, which had shaped and would keep shaping their identity both for their contemporaries and for us

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