Initium Turbandi Omnia a Femina Ortum Est

Fabia Minor and the Election of 367 B. C

Bibliographic Data

ID5140969
AuthorsChristina S Kraus (corresponding author)
Year1991
Volume45
Issue4
Pages314
Publication date1991-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenuePhoenix (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0031-8299 • E-ISSN: 1929-4883
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/1088102
OpenAlexW2316646133
LanguageEN
Citations received27

ONE OF THE TECHNIQUES THAT Livy uses to give his voluminous history coherence is repetition. This is observable on many levels, two of the most distinctive being the use of key words to link related but separate episodes1 and the repetition of whole narrative elements.2 These repeated narrative elements may or may not deliberately echo one another. Some are loci communes (e.g., the sack of cities);3 others, while conventional, are meant to be read together and often allude directly to one another, such as the narratives of populares who support plebeian causes, especially those of the canonical three revolutionaries, Spurius Cassius (2.41), Spurius Maelius (4.12-16), and Marcus Manlius (6.11-20).4 One such conventional narrative is the tale that may be called for convenience the Lucretia story, in which (in broad outline) an outrage committed against a woman is avenged, usually by her relatives, by punishing

Humanities · Minor (academic · Political science · Classical Antiquity Studies · Classical Studies and Legal History · Historical and Linguistic Studies · Philosophy

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