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• The Destruction of the City: Loss in the Greek and Roman Memory

  19-36

  Fanni Jancsovics

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  290

  The appearance of the ethnically “Other” naturally has an impact on a society’s own identity. It provokes the confirmation or rephrasing of identity. The loss and destruction caused by an ethnically “Other” group creates an especially deep conflict in the society’s self-definition. This paper focuses on such events and the collective memory concerning these, through the case study of the Persian sack in 490 BC and one hundred years later the Gallic siege of Rome.

• Textkritische und interpretatorische Überlegungen zu Catull. 55,9-12

  161–170.

  Heiko Ullrich

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  66

  Since the apparently corrupt passages in Catull. 55,9 and 11 respectively now hide the identity of the pessimae puellae in 55,10 a solution to the porblem is proposed by interpreting Ellis' reducta pectus in 11 as a description of a certain statue that may be that of the Greek poet Anyte or Telesilla, present in Pompey's portico according to the testimony of Tatian, whose names now hide behind the corrupt auelte sic ipse and could be restored to the direct address A Anyte et Telesilla.

• The Comoedia Togata, a ‘Roman’ Literary Genre?

  227-245

  Guiseppe Eugenio Rallo

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  281

  This paper aims to shed fresh light on the Togata. By analysing the extant fragments, I will investigate if and in what sense it may be defined as a ‘Roman’ literary genre. I will focus on its ‘Roman-ness’, and I will highlight that it is a complex concept, without the ‘nationalistic’ connotations that one normally gives to the notion. I will demonstrate that the Togata is ‘Roman’ because it betrayed an attempt at creating a genre distinguished from the Palliata, and it had a widespread ‘Roman’ patina, with settings, names, and stereotypes which one would not find in other contemporary genres, in particular the Palliata. At the same time, I will also reflect on the fact that the Togata was a multifarious genre, with Latin, Italic, and Greek elements, and I will show that this was, paradoxically, another aspect of its ‘Roman-ness’.