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• Romulus et Rémus, Pierre et Paul: Du fratricide à la concorde fraternelle

  171–178

  Dominique Briquel

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  Ancient authors present the founding of Rome as done either by one conditor, Romulus, or by two conditores, Romulus and Remus. Use of singular or plural was not really significant, as everyone knew that the twin brothers had a different destiny and that Rome was founded, as such, by Romulus alone. But use of the plural conditores as founders of the city is common in Christian texts: it was a way for Christian authors to emphasize that from its very beginnings Rome was affected by crime of the most scandalous sort, Romulus killing his own brother. By contrast Christians could find in their own tradition a model of perfect brotherhood, or at least brotherhood in Christ, viz. Peter and Paul, who were the common founders of Roma Christiana. Peter and Paul were the figures that Christians could set against Romulus and Remus, as founders of the new Christian city.

• SHA, Vita Cari 2-3: un excerptum di biologismo storico

  107–135

  Luigi Bessone

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  38

  Nell’applicazione del biologismo alla storia di Roma, l’excursus di SHA, Car. 2-3 segna il punto d’arrivo di un percorso tracciato da Varrone Reatino con il De vita populi Romani; la reviviscenza tardoantica del poligrafo si verifica attraverso vari autori, in primis Agostino, che presenta alcuni passi del De civitate Dei decisivi per chiarire punti controversi comuni all’HA e al Seneca di Lattanzio, risalenti entrambi in ultima analisi a Varrone. Da costoro, oltre che da Floro, il più aderente nel rispettare la demarcazione varroniana al 264 fra adulescentia e iuventus, ha preso le mosse il sedicente Vopisco, caratteristico nel riproporre la tripartizione delle singole età peculiare di Varrone, a quanto asserito da Servio. Tutti gli epigoni varroniani, a partire da Seneca, hanno postdatato al principato postaugusteo la diagnosi di senectus imperii a causa dell’amissa libertas, suggerita a Varrone dall’esperienza triumvirale e della dittatura di Cesare.

• Proemi, tempi e tecniche delle Storie di Livio

  83–100

  Luigi Bessone

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  Livy’s book I, first published on its own after January of 27, when Octavian received the title Augustus, republished probably with books II-V, to form a unified first pentad, was written roughly in the years 33-32, certainly before the battle of Actium. This is clear from certain passages and it casts light on Livy’s method, involving a long interval between writing and publication, with continuous revision of the text; books CXXI ff., editi post excessum Augusti, can thus have been composed in the years 6-14 A.D., when Livy went back to Padua.