Roman Historiography

P. FONTAINE, Des «remparts de Romulus» aux murs du Palatin. Du mythe à l'archéologie

by Paul Fontaine

in  P.-A. Deproost et A. Meurant [Éd.], Images d'origines. Origines d'une image, Louvain-la-Neuve, 2004, p. 35-54.

Appels au lynchage militaire et "droit au massacre" à Rome, en 68-70 après J.C.

by Pauline Duchêne

Intervention faite dans le cadre du colloque international "Clameur publique et émotions judiciaires, de l'Antiquité à nos jours", organisé à Poitiers les 8 et 9 décembre 2011 par M. Cassan, F. Chauvaud et P. Prétou.

L’histoire de deux défaites : Tolosa et Caepio (106-105 av. J.-C.)

by Pierre Moret

PREPRINT - in: F. Pina Polo (ed.), Vae victis ! Perdedores en el mundo antiguo (9-10 de junio de 2011, Zaragoza), Universitat de Barcelona, Col.lecció Instrumenta, en prensa.

L'historiographie romaine a connu deux versions des actions du consul Caepio en Gaule Transalpine en 106-105 av. J.-C.... more L'historiographie romaine a connu deux versions des actions du consul Caepio en Gaule Transalpine en 106-105 av. J.-C. et de leurs conséquences judiciaires. Comme l'avait montré Mario Segre dans un article méconnu, ces traditions concurrentes trouvent racine dans les luttes politiques de la fin du IIe siècle, et l'une d'elles s'est greffée sur la légende populaire de l'or de Toulouse. C'est dans ce cadre qu'il convient de réexaminer le témoignage de Posidonius sur les aires sacrées des Tolosates.

Review: Polybius, The Histories (Loeb Vols. III & IV), revised by C. Habicht

by D B Campbell

From: Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2012.03.53.

Velleius Paterculus and the Pannonii: Making up the numbers

by Danijel Dzino

Godišnjak Centra za Balkanološka ispitivanja XXXV/33 (2006), 145-159.

Review - Peter Wesseling (1692-1764): Vetera romanorum itineraria, siue Antonini Augusti Itinerarium, cum integris Jos. Simleri, Hieron. Suritae, et And. Schotti notis. Itinerarium Hierosolymitanum, et Hieroclis grammatici synecdemus. Curante Petro Wesselingio... -- Amstelaedami, Apud J. Wetstenium & G. Smith, 1735. - [26], 762, [56] p.: il.; 4o Portada a dos tintas. -- Frontispicio calc.: L. F. D. B. inv.; P. Tanié schulp

by Jerónimo Sánchez Velasco

published in

José Beltrán Fortes -  Eduardo Peñalver Gómez: La Antigüedad en el Fondo Antiguo de la Biblioteca de la Universidad de Sevilla. nº 98, pp. 273-274.

http://expobus.us.es/mundoantiguo/index.htm http://expobus.us.es/mundoantiguo/index.htm

Giarelli Luca, 2012. «Res publica Camunnorum»: a small Roman Republic in the Alps

by Luca Giarelli

For citation use: [Giarelli, L. 2012, 25 February. ““Res publica Camunnorum”: a small Roman Republic in the Alps.” Yaroslavl State University, Centre for Classical Studies. http://antik-yar.ru/events-2/ancient-civilization-political-institutions-and-legal-regulation/giarellil?lang=en].

Valle Camonica is a valley located in the central Alps. It was the place where the Camunian civilization developed.... more Valle Camonica is a valley located in the central Alps. It was the place where the Camunian civilization developed. The Romans conquered the area in 16 B.C. and subdued the population of the Camunni. In the 1st century the Camunni were well integrated into Roman system, gained the Roman citizenship. They were assigned to the Quirina tribus and gained administrative autonomy with the institution of a republic: the res publica Camunnorum. Archaeological finds show a well Romanized population: the city of Cividate Camuno became the Roman centre of the valley, with the construction of a forum, thermae, theater, amphitheater and necropolis. Among Camunni citizens there were magistrates like duumviri, aediles, quaestors, while in military many men served in Roman army in many locations of the Empire.

Seelentag - Trajan, Hadrian und Antoninus Pius. Deutungsmuster und Perspektiven

by Gunnar Seelentag

Seelentag - Kinder statt Legionen: Die Vorbereitung der Nachfolge Vespasians. Der Befund der Münzen und methodische Bemerkungen zum Umgang mit den literarischen Quellen

by Gunnar Seelentag

Seelentag - “dem Staate zu Nutzen, dem Kaiser zur Ehre”. Senatsgesandtschaften im Principat

by Gunnar Seelentag

Greek Models for the Tarquin Monarchy in the Roman Historiography, in: Antiquitas Aeterna, vol. III, Nizhnij Novgorod, 2011, p. 93-118. [in Russian]

by Aleksandr Koptev

According to the Roman historical tradition, the Etruscan Tarquin family ruled in Rome from the late seventh to the... more According to the Roman historical tradition, the Etruscan Tarquin family ruled in Rome from the late seventh to the end of the sixth century B.C. The last king Tarquinius the Proud and his sons were banished from Rome by the people, whose leader L. Junius Brutus became the founder of the Roman Republic. This historical conception was created by the early Roman historians in the second century B.C. In this period, the Roman Republic struggled against the Hellenistic monarchs for the Eastern Mediterranean and ideologically opposed its own republican «freedom» to the monarchic «tyranism». For the description of the transition from the ancient kingship to the Republic, the second-century Roman historians adopted the Greek conception, according to which the tyrannical rule of the last king provoked a revolt against him.
The article argues the existence of two stages for the formation of the tradition about the Tarquins. Roman historians of the first half of the second century B.C used the accounts of Herodotus and Thucydides as a model to describe the transition from the Tarquin kingship to the Republic. Therefore, the fall of the early monarchy in Rome was represented on the example of the banishment of the Peisistratid tyrannical family from Athens. Both events took place in 510 B.C.
The great interest of the Roman nobility in Hellenistic culture manifested itself, among other things, in the creative work of Lucius Accius, the poet who used Greek mythological personages to portray the Roman history. His tragedy «Brutus» in which the fall of the Tarquin house was depicted is especially important in this respect. Accius represented the Tarquin clan on the model of the mythical clan of Pelopidai, the descendants of Pelops, Tantalus’ son. Many borrowings from the tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides were used to describe the «Roman Pelopidai». The work of Accius appeared acceptable to the Roman historians Cassius Hemina and Calpurnius Piso, who invented the images, which had been created by Accius, to the Roman historiography.

Perceptions chrétiennes des pratiques divinatoires romaines

by David Colling

Published in 'Revue Belge de Philologie et d'Histoire', 85, 2007, p. 93-124

À travers des textes d'auteurs chrétiens (Tertullien, Minucius Felix, Arnobe, Lactance, le Code de Théodose, Saint... more À travers des textes d'auteurs chrétiens (Tertullien, Minucius Felix, Arnobe, Lactance, le Code de Théodose, Saint Augustin, Orose, Salvien de Marseille, Césaire d'Arles), l'article étudie la perception de la raison d'être des pratiques divinatoires païennes et de leurs prêtres (augures, haruspices, prêtres des livres sibyllins).

« Un patricien au service du prince et de la res publica ? M. Valerius Messalla Messallinus (cos. 3 av. J.-C.) », Revue Historique, 659, 2011, p. 561-588.

by Cyrielle Landrea

This paper aims to reconsider the relationships between the nobiles and the Princeps. While describing the principate... more This paper aims to reconsider the relationships between the nobiles and the Princeps. While describing the principate traditionally as the rise of a new regime, a part of the republican nobilitas was still pertaining to the circle of power, like the Valerii Messallae, an old patrician stirps. Here, we focus on M. Valerius Messalla Messallinus (cos. 3), a member of the gens Valeria, son of Messalla Corvinus (cos. 31), whose career took place above all during Augustus’ principate. The two parts of this great career are examined: the cursus honorum on the one hand, the priesthoods on the other. We can wonder if he served the Princeps or the res publica. The principate has indeed changed the political practices and the senators have sometimes been considered as supporters of the adulatio Principis. And yet, Messallinus, like many others, served both res publica and the emperor, because the most important thing was the perpetuation of the gens.

The massacre of Old Men by the Gauls in 390 B.C. and the Social Meaning of Old Age in Archaic Rome, in: On Old Age: Approaching Death in Antiquity and the Middle Ages, edited by Christian Krötzl and Katariina Mustakallio (Studies in the History of Daily Life, vol. 2), Brepols, Turnhout 2012, p. 153-182.

by Aleksandr Koptev

¿Dónde estaban los Turdetani? Recovecos y metamorfosis de un nombre, de Catón a Estrabón

by Pierre Moret

In M. Álvarez Martí-Aguilar (ed.), Fenicios en Tartesos: nuevas perspectivas, Oxford, Archaeopress, BAR S2245, 2011, p. 235-248

A new scrutiny of Livy’s account for the year 195 and of Cato’s fragments leads us to assume that the people called... more A new scrutiny of Livy’s account for the year 195 and of Cato’s fragments leads us to assume that the people called Turdetani by the Romans at the beginning of the conquest of Spain was situated in Southeast Meseta, presumably in the surroundings of the saltus Castulonensis. A completely different location, in the lower Guadalquivir valley, is given by Strabo to Turdetania in the third book of his Geography. Nevertheless, Strabo’s conception appears to be quite isolated when compared with other sources. Significant authors (mainly Roman ones) do not designate as Turdetani the inhabitants of the Baetis valley and do not use Turdetania as a loose synonym of Baetica. Moreover, epigraphic sources show that Turdetanus was not used among Hispani for self-designation. It can be therefore argued that the current use of Turdetania among archaeologists as the name of a cultural complex of the lower Andalusia is a questionable artefact of modern historiography.

Work notes on the Tavola Cortonensis

by Mel Copeland

This is a PDF file of work on the Tavola Cortonensis, a bronze tablet found near Cortona, Italy dating circa. 600 B.C. These work notes relate the bronze tablet to other Etruscan texts, showing vocabulary and grammar from Etruscan GlossaryA.xls an index to about 2,300 Etruscan words that are similar to Latin, French, Italian and Romanian. Declension patterns follow those in Latin. The 2,300 words = the repeated words in 6,000 words of the major extant texts. The texts have been frozen in time, covering ~700-400 B.C., representing a lens to understanding the early formation of Indo-European languages, particularly the early Italic-Latin-Celtic languages, such as Italian, French & Romanian / Dacian. (By 45 BC. the language was a dead language - no one understood or could write Etruscan)

The GlossaryA spreadsheet works together with Indo-European Table 1 which refutes theories by the Pallottino school of thought that the Etruscan language is not Indo-European and an isolate, unlike any other language. It is very close to Latin and, curiously, Romanian, Italian and French. The Latin suffix, "us" shifts to "o" as in Italian (Titus vs Tito); first person conjugation patterns are similar to French and Romanian. This GlossaryA provides a quick look at the grammatical structure of the Etruscan language, how closely it coincides with Latin. A more detailed Declension Table can be seen on the Etruscan Phrases website. These PDF documents facilitate independent confirmation of the words in GlossaryA , the Grammar and Declension Table. All words can be examined from actual images of texts on the Etruscan Phrases website. Over 150 texts, with about 6,000 words can be examined at Etruscan Phrases.

The Etruscans surfaced in Italy about 1,000 B.C., reputed to have arrived from Lydia / Phrygia. The Phrygians originated near Macedonia in Thrace, according to Herodotus. One may therefore inquire whether the ancient Thracians (Dacians, Gettae, modern Romanians), spoke a language common to the Phrygians, at the time of the Trojan War and after (~1180 B.C.). The Thracians, Phrygians and Lydians (also dead languages) were allies of the Trojans, according to the Iliad. Etruscan Phrases finds a common vocabulary between Latin, Italian, French, Romanian, Etruscan and Phrygian. While French, Spanish, Italian and Romanian are considered Romance languages, showing a similar Latin heritage, Etruscan is not, of course, a Romance language, as it preceded Latin, at least in the written form (giving Rome its alphabet).

The Tavola Cortonensis, is important as a communication which appears to involve several army commanders and fortifications including Vulci.

Lucretia’s Story in Literature and the Rites of Regifugium and Equirrii, - in: Studies in Latin Literature and Roman History, vol. XI, ed. Carl Deroux, (Collection Latomus 272), Bruxelles 2003, p. 5-33.

by Aleksandr Koptev

Reconsidering the Roman King-list, in: Studies in Latin Literature and Roman History, vol. XIII, ed. C. Deroux, (Collection Latomus 315), Bruxelles 2008, p. 5-84.

by Aleksandr Koptev

Timaeus of Tauromenium and Early Roman Chronology, in: Studies in Latin Literature and Roman History, vol. XV, ed. C. Deroux, (Collection Latomus 323), Bruxelles 2010, p. 5-48.

by Aleksandr Koptev

Per una storiografia dell’architettura romana antica. [For an Historiography of Ancient Roman Architecture]

by Piero Cimbolli Spagnesi

In: CREMA LUIGI. Significato della architettura romana nei suoi sviluppi e nella sua posizione nella storia dell’arte antica. 2nd ed. P. Cimbolli Spagnesi editor. ROMA: Kappa; 2009, pp. V-XVI. ISBN 978-88-7890-994-6