Pub Date : 2018-12-17DOI: 10.7358/ERGA-2018-002-VALE
A. Valentini
The birth’s dates of Germanicus and Agrippina’s sons, for the importance of their children in the Augustan line of succession, has been the focus of many studies over the years. Comparing ancient documents and modern studies, this paper aims to provide an accurate overview of this question.
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Pub Date : 2018-12-17DOI: 10.7358/ERGA-2018-002-LAND
Franca Landucci
The concept of translatio imperii which, in the most wellknown and widespread scheme in the ancient world, consists in the succession Assyrians - Medes - Persians - Macedonians, has by now become an interpretative category of world history. In the ancient world, the first traces of the translatio imperii, even if still only Asian, can be found in Herodotus. After then the Macedonian world is added during the Hellenistic period and, starting from the 2nd century BC, the power of Rome, often described by Roman historiography as the final and definitive one. Christian historiography too uses the scheme of the translatio imperii, joining the models of Greek-Roman and Jewish historiography, as we see in the Historiae adversus paganos by Paulus Orosius, written between 417 and 418 AD, in the hope (or better in the illusion) that the continuity of the Roman empire (by then become Christian) was still assured.
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Pub Date : 2018-12-17DOI: 10.7358/ERGA-2018-002-FORM
C. Formenti
The most ancient Vitae Horatii are four: the one attributed to Svetonius, the biography contained in the commentary of Porphyrio and the two Vitae transmitted from the manuscripts of the Pseudacronian scholia. The reconstruction of the diffusion of the Vitae in the manuscript tradition and the comparison of their content allow to identify the relationships between them. Secondly, the work focuses on the two Pseudacronian Vitae, in order to establish whether they are an integral part of these scholia; furthermore, the first Vita seems to be an accessus to Horace.
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Pub Date : 2018-12-17DOI: 10.7358/erga-2018-002-zerb
M. Zerbinati
The institution of ostracism has been considered a central practice of the Athenian democracy during the fifth century B.C.: the purpose of its establishment was to prevent tyranny. Anyway, according to Athenaion Politeia (22, 6), from Xanthippos’ ostracism (484) Athenians started to use the practice to remove from Athens any person who seemed to be too great, even if unconnected with tyranny. Among the ostraka against Xanthippos found during the Agora Excavations, one seems to be remarkable because it contains an elegiac couplet which stated why the father of Perikles should be ostracized. Interpretations of the text differ in details, but the general sense is that Xanthippos should be condemned because he did most wrong of all the leaders. Analyzing the inscription and the events of the Aeginetan War (Her. VI 88-93), this paper supposes that the ostracism of Xanthippos could have been caused by the rising figure of Themistokles, who condemned the Alkmeonid associate for his failed attack against Aegina. In fact, this defeat elicited a sacrilege against one of Nikodromos’ supporter. As the word ἀλeιτeρο῀ ν, inscribed on the ostrakon, seems to suggest, this event could have been related to the Cylonian curse.
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Pub Date : 2018-06-14DOI: 10.7358/ERGA-2018-001-ZANI
Manfredi Zanin
Around the year 108 B.C., the triumvir monetalis M. Herennius issued denarii which bore the portrait of Pietas on the obverse and one of the Catanean brothers carrying his parent on the reverse. This article aims to demonstrate that previous interpretations of these types as narrow allusions to the history of the gens are fallacious. Accordingly, new arguments are provided in order to give value to the political-ideological context of the last decades of the II century B.C.: in these years, pietas emerged alongside libertas as a fundamental value of the popularis ideological construct. This tradition was inspired by the oratorical and literary self-representation of Gaius Gracchus, that made his pietas erga fratrem and the pious portrayal of the family an important pillar of his legitimiz ing agenda. The political heirs of the Gracchi, such as C. Memmius and L. Apuleius Saturninus, continued to claim vengeance for the killed brothers and to blame the behaviour of the optimates – so that pietas remained a profitable slogan of the popularis political tradition. In this respect, Aetna’s eruptions in the Gracchan period and their explanation as prodigia formed an ideal humus for actualising the type of the Catanean brothers as catalyzing reference to the pietas popularis.
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Pub Date : 2018-06-14DOI: 10.7358/ERGA-2018-001-NARA
Rafael Naranjo
Although different scholars have noticed the adscription of the geographer Strabo to the artistic and ideological movements of atticism and classicism, we offer a more deeper analysis of this issue, with special attention to some points that, according to us, have not been examined enough, like the relation of classicism with the fact that Strabo adopted Polybius as his direct predecessor, his positive vision of Homer or the constant references to Isocrates’ pedagogical and panhellenic ideas. We provide numerous details that, according to us, prove these facts throughout his geographical work.
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Pub Date : 2018-06-14DOI: 10.7358/ERGA-2018-001-GALL
L. Gallo
The essays analyses the testimonies regarding Hegesippos, an Athenian politician who was active in the age of Demosthenes and for some time was one of his main supporters. His political activity was not intense until the second half of the Forties, when he became one of the leaders of the anti-Macedonian group, as it is showed by his speech On Halonnesos. In the Lykourgan age, instead, he did not have a relevant role on the Athenian political scene anymore.
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Pub Date : 2018-06-14DOI: 10.7358/ERGA-2018-001-DIET
Gertrud Dietze-Mager
The Politeiai are one of Aristotle’s historical works. Several hundreds of fragments have come down to us. While Aristotle’s Nomima barbarika recorded the customs of the barbaric ethne, the Politeiai are generally considered to be a collection of polisconstitutions. A closer look reveals, however, that alongside a majority of Greek poleis Aristotle also included several ethne in his Politeiai, namely those in the North(west) of the Greek mainland and on the Peleponnesus. This article tries to shed light on Aristotle’s reasons for selecting these ethne. On the basis of key passages in the Politics, the author argues that their presence in the Politeiai indicates that Aristotle considered them as Hellenic, and, although inferior in status to the polis, capable of having a politeia. In Aristotle’s time, nearly all of the ethne known to have been included in the Politeiai had formed koina. While Aristotle did not explicitly discuss the federal state, he acknowledged its existence both in the Politics and the Politeiai, obviously inspired by the political reality of his time in which the koina played an increasingly prominent role, illustrated by their presence as members in Hellenic treaties alongside the poleis.
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Pub Date : 2018-06-14DOI: 10.7358/ERGA-2018-001-BARB
S. Barbantani
The paper is the first part of S. Barbantani’s contribution Lyric for the Rulers, Lyric for the People: The Transformation of Some Lyric Subgenres in Hellenistic Poetry, in E. Sistakou (ed.), Hellenistic Lyricism: Traditions and Transformations of a Literary Mode (Trends in Classics 9, 2), Berlin - Boston 2017, 339-399 (which discusses encomiastic lyric, epinikion in Callimachus, Posidippus and inscriptional epigram, literary epithalamia, threnoi and epikedeia, poems in stichic lyric meters, Carmina popularia, anthologies for symposiastic use and mimes). This contribution analyses how some of the main lyric genres, developed in archaic and classical Greek poetry, underwent transformation in the Hellenistic period, following social, political and cultural changes. The paper specifically explores lyric poetry produced ‘for the gods’ (hymns, esp. paeans, preserved on stone and on papyrus).
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Pub Date : 2018-06-14DOI: 10.7358/ERGA-2018-001-SANC
Carmen Sánchez-Mañas
Women other than the Pythia are excluded from the consultation and reception of oracles, but they are nevertheless present in the oracular passages of Herodotus’ Histories. This paper focuses on the roles that they play in these passages, with the aim of determining the extent of their visibility. To this end, an analysis is conducted on the basis of their belonging or non-belonging to the community of male consultants or recipients of oracles. The examination shows that female presence in Herodotean oracular passages is quantitatively significant, diverse and pivotal in revealing interactions between the domestic and public domains within the communities involved in these passages.
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