Structuration de l'espace et structuration sociale dans le senatus consultum De Bacchanalibus

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ID4082594
AuthorsCyril Binot (corresponding author)
Year2013
Issue90
Pages301-309
Publication date2013-01-03
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePallas (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0031-0387 • E-ISSN: 2272-7639
PublisherOpenEdition (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.4000/pallas.1033
OpenAlexW1914699951
LanguageFR
References cited12

In the numerous studies and interpretations of the famous senatus consultum De Bacchanalibus, the emphasis has not been laid so far on the use of the term priuatus in the body of the inscription. The term is meant to limit in a twofold way the exercise of the cult both in space and in practice : it is at the heart of public intervention in what can be called the private sphere. For the first time in official language priuatus is used as an adjective to express a reality which is not that of the State, of the political space or of the relationship between the individual-citizen and the community ; it does not expressly designate a private place either, but the theoretical space, the private, and also refers to a social practice, “privately”. What is at stake in the text is to manifest a private space that does not evade public control : the senatus consultum, by operating this classification, tries to bring over the private to the side of the official, of the accepted, of the luminous, through a structuring opposition priuatus/publicus. That intervention in the realm of social practices further underscores the correspondence between a concrete space, a theoretical space and the practices which legitimately take place in it. Once again it is the State which here operates to determine what belongs to the public and what belongs to the private spheres, defining their respective spaces and practices

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