An in-depth analysis of Varro’s sentence (quoted by Nonius) on Gracchus judiciary law having created a two-headed city shows how the polygrapher artfully combined Plato’s political considerations on constitutional change with Roman priestly lore (haruspicina). Varro’s sympathies for the optimates find in this sentence its best expression. Posidonius may have been an intermediate stage in the use of these Platonic ideas to understand Roman political history.
{"title":"Varro and the Two-Headed City","authors":"Pedro López Barja de Quiroga","doi":"10.5209/geri.92815","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5209/geri.92815","url":null,"abstract":"An in-depth analysis of Varro’s sentence (quoted by Nonius) on Gracchus judiciary law having created a two-headed city shows how the polygrapher artfully combined Plato’s political considerations on constitutional change with Roman priestly lore (haruspicina). Varro’s sympathies for the optimates find in this sentence its best expression. Posidonius may have been an intermediate stage in the use of these Platonic ideas to understand Roman political history.","PeriodicalId":504892,"journal":{"name":"Gerión. Revista de Historia Antigua","volume":" 65","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141824694","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Luis Romero Novella, El foro de Los Bañales de Uncastillo: Arquitectura y programas epigráficos, escultóricos y decorativos (=Monografías “Los Bañales” 4), Uncastillo, Fundación Uncastillo y Facultad de Filosofía y Letras de la Universidad de Navarra, 2023, 526 pp. [ISBN: 978-84-09-53855-3]","authors":"Luka García de la Barrera","doi":"10.5209/geri.95002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5209/geri.95002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":504892,"journal":{"name":"Gerión. Revista de Historia Antigua","volume":" 22","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141823975","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Marco V. García Quintela, El sacrificio animal galaico-lusitano. Estudio comparativo de Historia de las Religiones (=Colección Historia, 378), Sevilla, Editorial Universidad de Sevilla, 2021, 250 pp. [ISBN: 978-84-472-3097-6]","authors":"Javier Herrera Rando","doi":"10.5209/geri.95001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5209/geri.95001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":504892,"journal":{"name":"Gerión. Revista de Historia Antigua","volume":" 12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141824408","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This paper begins with an overview of some of the difficulties with modern conceptions – as formulated especially by Ugo Coli, Frederik Vervaet, and Carsten Lange – of the Triumvirate rei publicae constituendae as an instance of the so-called magistracies ad tempus incertum. According to these scholars, the Triumvirate could be legally retained past the term stipulated by statutory provisions. Drawing upon the notion that the contemporaries perceived the Triumvirate as a temporary formalization of personalized informal power, which would persist and effectively control both the sphere militiae and the sphere domi even after its holders ceased to be triumvirs and formally became promagistrates, this paper puts forth a hypothesis to elucidate the use of the term ἀντάρχοντες (typically denoting promagistrates) in an Aphrodisias inscription from ca. 39/38 BCE. In this text, ἀντάρχοντες refers to those who could convene the Roman Senate. The understanding of the Triumvirate holds pivotal significance as a prerequisite for any interpretation of this inscription, but the latter tells us more about the Realpolitik of the late republican promagistracy than the formalities of the Triumvirate. In unraveling the reasons for which the inscription attributes to the ἀντάρχοντες the authority that promagistrates never formally possessed, we must account for the possibility that the text collapses one’s legal rights and statuses from distinct temporal contexts and one’s capacity to take informal political initiative, into a single construction. However, this reading becomes plausible only when we take into consideration the previous experience of the Romans and provincials with some powerful promagistrates interfering with Roman city politics.
本文首先概述了乌戈-科利(Ugo Coli)、弗雷德里克-维尔瓦特(Frederik Vervaet)和卡斯滕-兰格(Carsten Lange)等人提出的现代概念的一些难点,即三巨头制(the Triumvirate rei publicae constituendae)是所谓的 "不确定的临时政体"(magistracies ad tempus incertum)的一个实例。根据这些学者的观点,三巨头可以在法律规定的任期结束后合法保留。同时代的人认为三巨头制是个人化非正式权力的临时正式化,即使在三巨头制持有者不再是三巨头制持有者并正式成为地方行政长官之后,三巨头制仍将继续存在并有效控制民兵领域和多米领域、本文提出了一个假设,以解释约公元前 39/38 年的阿佛洛狄西亚斯铭文中使用的ဏντάρχοντες 一词(通常指地方行政长官)。公元前 39/38 年。在这段文字中,Āντάρχοντες指的是那些可以召集罗马元老院的人。对三巨头的理解是解释该碑文的先决条件,具有举足轻重的意义,但与三巨头的形式相比,后者告诉我们更多的是共和晚期行政长官的现实政治。在解释碑文为何赋予ဏντάρχοντες行政长官从未正式拥有的权力时,我们必须考虑到这样一种可能性,即碑文将一个人在不同时间背景下的合法权利和地位以及一个人采取非正式政治举措的能力合并为一个单一的结构。然而,只有当我们考虑到罗马人和外省人以前的经历,即一些有权势的地方长官干预罗马城市政治时,这种解读才变得可信。
{"title":"The Triumvirate rei publicae constituendae, ἀντάρχοντες in an Inscription from Aphrodisias, and the Late Republican Promagistracy","authors":"Roman M. Frolov","doi":"10.5209/geri.92870","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5209/geri.92870","url":null,"abstract":"This paper begins with an overview of some of the difficulties with modern conceptions – as formulated especially by Ugo Coli, Frederik Vervaet, and Carsten Lange – of the Triumvirate rei publicae constituendae as an instance of the so-called magistracies ad tempus incertum. According to these scholars, the Triumvirate could be legally retained past the term stipulated by statutory provisions. Drawing upon the notion that the contemporaries perceived the Triumvirate as a temporary formalization of personalized informal power, which would persist and effectively control both the sphere militiae and the sphere domi even after its holders ceased to be triumvirs and formally became promagistrates, this paper puts forth a hypothesis to elucidate the use of the term ἀντάρχοντες (typically denoting promagistrates) in an Aphrodisias inscription from ca. 39/38 BCE. In this text, ἀντάρχοντες refers to those who could convene the Roman Senate. The understanding of the Triumvirate holds pivotal significance as a prerequisite for any interpretation of this inscription, but the latter tells us more about the Realpolitik of the late republican promagistracy than the formalities of the Triumvirate. In unraveling the reasons for which the inscription attributes to the ἀντάρχοντες the authority that promagistrates never formally possessed, we must account for the possibility that the text collapses one’s legal rights and statuses from distinct temporal contexts and one’s capacity to take informal political initiative, into a single construction. However, this reading becomes plausible only when we take into consideration the previous experience of the Romans and provincials with some powerful promagistrates interfering with Roman city politics.","PeriodicalId":504892,"journal":{"name":"Gerión. Revista de Historia Antigua","volume":" 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141826647","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Yolanda Peña Cervantes, De tornos y tornillos. Tecnologías de prensado de la uva y la aceituna en el mundo romano y tardoantiguo (=Arqueologías históricas 1), Granada, Comares, 2023, 187 pp., 79 ilust. y 6 tab. en color [ISBN: 978-84-1369-507-5]","authors":"Eva Zarco Martínez","doi":"10.5209/geri.95006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5209/geri.95006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":504892,"journal":{"name":"Gerión. Revista de Historia Antigua","volume":" 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141826543","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Álvaro Gómez Peña, Luis Gethsemaní Pérez Aguilar y Jesús Rodríguez Mellado (coords.), “Y líbranos del mal, Amén”. La protección contra el mal en la historia (=Spal Monografías 49), Sevilla, Editorial Universidad de Sevilla, 2023, 196 pp. [ISBN 978-84-472-2567-5]","authors":"Marta Bermúdez Cordero","doi":"10.5209/geri.95009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5209/geri.95009","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":504892,"journal":{"name":"Gerión. Revista de Historia Antigua","volume":" 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141827045","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Isaac Moreno Gallo (coord.), Ingeniería hidráulica romana. VI congreso internacional de las obras públicas romanas. Santo Domingo de la Calzada 7, 8 y 9 de noviembre de 2019, Logroño, Instituto de Estudios Riojanos, 2023, 308 pp. [ISBN 978-84-9960-170-0]","authors":"Javier Martínez Jiménez","doi":"10.5209/geri.95007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5209/geri.95007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":504892,"journal":{"name":"Gerión. Revista de Historia Antigua","volume":" 23","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141824997","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Laura Buitrago – Ricardo del Molino – Ángela Parra López, (eds.), Ecos Pompeyanos: recepción e influjo de Pompeya y Herculano en España y América Latina, Bogotá, Universidad Externado de Colombia, 2023, 319 pp. [ISBN: 978-628-7620-56-8]","authors":"Sebastián Uribe Rodríguez","doi":"10.5209/geri.95012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5209/geri.95012","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":504892,"journal":{"name":"Gerión. Revista de Historia Antigua","volume":" 44","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141824286","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Eletto questore, C. Flavio Fimbria fu incaricato da Cinna di accompagnare L. Valerio Flacco (cos. 86 a. C.), diretto in Asia Minore per combattere contro Mitridate ed estromettere Silla dal comando della guerra. Nel resoconto di Appiano (Mith. 51-53; 59-60) – il più esteso che si abbia sull’attività di Fimbria in Asia – questo valoroso militare è un exemplum negativo che si oppone alla figura positiva di Silla. Questo articolo propone alcune riflessioni sulla testimonianza di Strabone (13. 1. 27 = C 594) a proposito della distruzione di Ilio operata da Fimbria. Il brano, il cui valore di testimonianza non è stato pienamente riconosciuto, rientra nel più ampio tema delle città scomparse o decadenti, delle quali Strabone è solito riportare le notizie storiche più importanti. Dal confronto fra il testo di Strabone e quello di Appiano sembra che i due autori abbiano rielaborato notizie tratte da una fonte favorevole a Silla se non addirittura notizie desunte dell’Autobiografia del dittatore. Inoltre, il confronto proposto ci permetterà di riflettere su come Strabone rielaborasse le fonti a sua disposizione.
弗拉维乌斯-芬布里亚(C. Flavius Fimbria)被选为奎斯特(Quaestor),受钦那委托陪同瓦莱里乌斯-弗拉库斯(L. Valerius Flaccus,约公元前 86 年)前往小亚细亚,与米特里达提斯(Mithridates)作战,并将苏拉赶下战争指挥台。在阿皮安的记载(Mith. 51-53; 59-60)中,这位英勇的士兵是一个反面典型,与苏拉的正面形象形成鲜明对比。本文对斯特拉波关于芬布里亚摧毁伊利翁的证词(13.这段话的见证价值尚未得到充分认识,它是斯特拉波通常报道的最重要历史消息中关于消失或衰败城市这一更广泛主题的一部分。从斯特拉波的文本和阿庇安的文本的对比来看,这两位作者似乎都对有利于苏拉的消息进行了再加工,如果不是从独裁者的《自传》中摘录的消息的话。此外,拟议的比较还能让我们反思斯特拉波是如何对他所掌握的资料进行再加工的。
{"title":"C. Flavio Fimbria nei Geographika di Strabone: alcune osservazioni su Str. 13. 1. 27 = C 594","authors":"Francesco Carriere","doi":"10.5209/geri.92729","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5209/geri.92729","url":null,"abstract":"Eletto questore, C. Flavio Fimbria fu incaricato da Cinna di accompagnare L. Valerio Flacco (cos. 86 a. C.), diretto in Asia Minore per combattere contro Mitridate ed estromettere Silla dal comando della guerra. Nel resoconto di Appiano (Mith. 51-53; 59-60) – il più esteso che si abbia sull’attività di Fimbria in Asia – questo valoroso militare è un exemplum negativo che si oppone alla figura positiva di Silla. Questo articolo propone alcune riflessioni sulla testimonianza di Strabone (13. 1. 27 = C 594) a proposito della distruzione di Ilio operata da Fimbria. Il brano, il cui valore di testimonianza non è stato pienamente riconosciuto, rientra nel più ampio tema delle città scomparse o decadenti, delle quali Strabone è solito riportare le notizie storiche più importanti. Dal confronto fra il testo di Strabone e quello di Appiano sembra che i due autori abbiano rielaborato notizie tratte da una fonte favorevole a Silla se non addirittura notizie desunte dell’Autobiografia del dittatore. Inoltre, il confronto proposto ci permetterà di riflettere su come Strabone rielaborasse le fonti a sua disposizione.","PeriodicalId":504892,"journal":{"name":"Gerión. Revista de Historia Antigua","volume":" 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141824532","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Diferenciar entre el origen de la iniciativa y el de la financiación de los proyectos edilicios nos permite analizar con mayor precisión las fórmulas de financiación, las fases ejecutivas y los mecanismos administrativos asociados a cualquier acto constructivo de una obra pública romana. Sin embargo, a menudo es complejo definir de manera precisa la participación concreta de todos los agentes involucrados en el proceso. Presentamos una propuesta metodológica, basada en el estudio de 49 indicadores extraídos del análisis de 231 inscripciones edilicias adscribibles a los siglos I a.C. – III d.C. y procedentes de las provincias hispanas y norteafricanas, que permitirá rastrear el origen de ambos conceptos en cada proyecto edilicio y definir con mayor precisión las tareas que realizaron los actores referenciados en los tituli. Clasificamos cada indicador según su pertenencia a las esferas imperial, municipal o privada y evaluamos su fiabilidad en base a ejemplos concretos.
{"title":"Iniciativa y financiación de las obras públicas romanas. Una propuesta metodológica para su diferenciación a partir de la información epigráfica","authors":"Santiago Sánchez de la Parra Pérez","doi":"10.5209/geri.92387","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5209/geri.92387","url":null,"abstract":"Diferenciar entre el origen de la iniciativa y el de la financiación de los proyectos edilicios nos permite analizar con mayor precisión las fórmulas de financiación, las fases ejecutivas y los mecanismos administrativos asociados a cualquier acto constructivo de una obra pública romana. Sin embargo, a menudo es complejo definir de manera precisa la participación concreta de todos los agentes involucrados en el proceso. Presentamos una propuesta metodológica, basada en el estudio de 49 indicadores extraídos del análisis de 231 inscripciones edilicias adscribibles a los siglos I a.C. – III d.C. y procedentes de las provincias hispanas y norteafricanas, que permitirá rastrear el origen de ambos conceptos en cada proyecto edilicio y definir con mayor precisión las tareas que realizaron los actores referenciados en los tituli. Clasificamos cada indicador según su pertenencia a las esferas imperial, municipal o privada y evaluamos su fiabilidad en base a ejemplos concretos.","PeriodicalId":504892,"journal":{"name":"Gerión. Revista de Historia Antigua","volume":" 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141826398","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}