The presentation of Scipio Africanus: Hellenization and Roman elite display in the 3rd and 2nd Centuries BCE

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Sarah Prince
Keyword(s):  
Scipio Africanus

Ex librariolis Latinis (et recentioribus)

2002 ◽  
Vol 46 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 193-198
Author(s):  
István Borzsák
Keyword(s):  
Scipio Africanus ◽  
De Legibus

A librarioliszót (Cicero, De legibus I 2,7), akár a librarium('könyvszekrény'), akár a librarius('könyvmásoló') szóból származtatjuk, így, kicsinyítő formájában alkalmasnak éreztük arra, hogy a mindenkori másolók (jegyzetelők, kivonatolók, kommentálók) gyakorlatában megfigyelhető hibákból (félrefogásokból, lapsus-okból) összegyűjtött alkalmi csokor címében szerepeltessük. Előfordul ilyesmi nemcsak antik szövegek másolásában, a „Scholiastenweisheit”zavaró vagy megmosolyogtató példáiban, a közkézen forgó szótárak gépiesen átvett és figyelmetlenül rövidített értelmezéseiben, krónika-breviatorok felületességeiben, exemplum-gyűjtemények tételeinek átugrásában stb. Így torzulhat pl. Scipio, „az afrikai vitéz”(vagyis Scipio Africanus), a karját elégető Scaevolává, így válhat az egyik karthagóiHanno „szicíliaihadvezérré”, egy másik meg (a vakmerő felfedező) „a karthagói konzervatív párt fejévé”stb. stb.

I. ‘Delenda est Carthago’

1946 ◽  
Vol 8 (03) ◽  
pp. 117-128 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. E. Adcock
Keyword(s):  
Second Century ◽  
Moral Issue ◽  
Main Question ◽  
Middle Years ◽  
Scipio Africanus

The odious behaviour of the Romans in the events that led to the destruction of Carthage has earned the condemnation of historians who see in it, as they have a right to do, a moral issue. The unattractiveness of the Carthaginians, whose history has been written for us by their enemies, is no defence: the bad name does not justify this execution. But the problem remains why the Senate acted as it did, and the examination of it may throw light on Roman policy and the temper of the Roman mind in the middle years of the second century. We need not suppose that the Senate decided to destroy Carthage rather than listen any longer to Cato ending all hissententiaein the Curia with the words ‘ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam’. The motives that led Cato, who after Pydna had spoken up for the Rhodians and apparently had quoted with approval a plea of Scipio Africanus against the destruction of Carthage after Zama, to urge the destruction of Carthage axe part of the investigation. But the main question is why the Senate in the end adopted his policy, if policy it can be called.

Decline in the Roman Republic

2021 ◽  
pp. 7-15
Author(s):  
Edward J. Watts
Keyword(s):  
Roman Republic ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Land Reforms ◽  
Economic Changes ◽  
New Class ◽  
Scipio Africanus ◽  
Second Punic War

The rhetoric of Roman decline appears in some of the earliest surviving Latin literary texts (like Plautus’s Trinummus). Cato the Elder built much of his political brand around the idea that greed, extravagance, and, later, Greek influence undermined Roman virtue. He defended the lex Oppia, a sumptuary law, and directed attacks against figures in the mode of Scipio Africanus. This sort of attack particularly resonated as economic changes and the rise of a new class of super-wealthy Romans emerged in the decades after the end of the Second Punic War. By the 130s, Tiberius Gracchus used similar attacks on the greed and extravagance of Roman and Italian elites to push for aggressive land reforms. Tiberius’s unwillingness to be bound by constitutional norms, however, represented a new sort of decline that ultimately prompted his murder by a mob led by Scipio Nasica.

In Black and White: Pizzetti, Mussolini and "Scipio Africanus"

2004 ◽  
Vol 145 (1887) ◽  
pp. 25
Author(s):  
Franco Sciannameo
Keyword(s):  
Black And White ◽  
Scipio Africanus

Scipio Africanus: Soldier and Politician

1971 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 144
Author(s):  
John Ferguson ◽  
H. H. Scullard ◽  
E. T. Salmon
Keyword(s):  
Scipio Africanus
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