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(2020) CASALI Evander and the Invention.Pdf NOS SUMUS ROMANI QUI FUIMUS ANTE… MEMORY OF ANCIENT ITALY EGeA VOL. 6 Direction : Lorenz E. Baumer, Philippe Collombert Comité scientifique : Michel Aberson (Universités de Lausanne et de Genève), Miroslav Novak (Universität Bern), Joachim Quack (Universität Heidelberg), François Queyrel (EPHE, Paris) Comité scientifique du projet «E pluribus unum ? L’Italie, de la diversité pré- romaine à l’unité augustéenne» : Michel Aberson (Université de Lausanne, Université de Genève), Lorenz Baumer (Université de Genève), Maria Cristina Biella (Sapienza Università di Roma), Edward Bispham (University of Oxford), Tim Cornell (University of Manchester), Massimiliano Di Fazio (Università di Pavia), Maurizio Harari (Università di Pavia), Damien Nelis (Université de Genève), Nicholas Purcell (University of Oxford), Christoph Riedweg (Uni versität Zürich, ancien directeur de l’Institut Suisse de Rome), Pierre Sánchez (Université de Genève), Federico Santangelo (University of Newcastle), Christopher Smith (University of St-Andrews), Michel Tarpin (Université Grenoble-Alpes), Rudolf Wachter (Université de Lausanne, Universität Basel), Manuela Wullschleger (Universi- té de Genève). MICHEL ABERSON, MARIA CRISTINA BIELLA, MASSIMILIANO DI FAZIO, EGeA MANUELA WULLSCHLEGER (eds) VOL. 6 NOS SUMUS ROMANI QUI FUIMUS ANTE… Direction : Lorenz E. Baumer, Philippe Collombert MEMORY OF ANCIENT Comité scientifique : Michel Aberson (Universités de Lausanne et de Genève), Miroslav Novak (Universität Bern), Joachim Quack (Universität Heidelberg), François Queyrel (EPHE, Paris) ITALY Comité scientifique du projet «E pluribus unum ? L’Italie, de la diversité pré- romaine à l’unité augustéenne» : Michel Aberson (Université de Lausanne, Université de Genève), Lorenz Baumer (Université de Genève), Maria Cristina Biella (Sapienza Università di Roma), Edward Bispham (University of Oxford), Tim Cornell (University of Manchester), Massimiliano Di Fazio (Università di Pavia), Maurizio Harari (Università di Pavia), Damien Nelis (Université de Genève), Nicholas Purcell (University of Oxford), Christoph Riedweg (Uni versität Zürich, ancien directeur de l’Institut Suisse de Rome), Pierre Sánchez (Université de Genève), Federico Santangelo (University of Newcastle), Christopher Smith (University of St-Andrews), Michel Tarpin (Université Grenoble-Alpes), Rudolf Wachter (Université de Lausanne, Universität Basel), Manuela Wullschleger (Universi- té de Genève). 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Toute utilisation en dehors des strictes limites de la loi sur le copyright est interdite et punissable sans le consentement explicite de la maison d’édition. Ceci s’applique en particulier pour les reproductions, traductions, microflms, ainsi que le stockage et le traitement sous forme électronique. Printed in Germany www.peterlang.com Information bibliographique publiée par «Die Deutsche Nationalbibliothek» «Die Deutsche Nationalbibliothek» répertorie cette publication dans la «Deutsche Table of Contents Nationalbibliografe»; les données bibliographiques détaillées sont disponibles sur Internet sous ‹http://dnb.d-nb.de›. Nous remercions les institutions, les fondations et les associations qui ont soutenu le colloque et/ou la publication de ce volume : Michel Aberson, Maria Cristina Biella, Massimiliano Di Fazio, Manuela Wullschleger Premessa 7 Christopher Smith The Augustan Invention of Italy Reconsidered 11 Edward Bispham Historisch-vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft The Regiones of Italy: between Republic and Principate 23 Federico Santangelo Patterns of Advancement, Demotion, and Frustration in Late Republican Italy 53 Will Broadhead New Citizens in the Late Republican Army: from Ethnic Contingents to the Professional Legion 67 Roberto Fiori ISSN 2296-8628 • ISBN 978-3-0343-2889-0 (Print) Roman Law and the Laws of the Italian Peoples: Relations and Influences 83 E-ISBN 978-3-0343-3913-1 (E-PDF) • E-ISBN 978-3-0343-3914-8 (EPUB) E-ISBN 978-3-0343-3915-5 (MOBI) • DOI 10.3726/b16234 Eugenio Polito Etruscan and Italic Memories through Images in the Late Republic and Early Empire 95 Cette publication a fait l’objet d’une évaluation par les pairs. Rudolf Wachter The Making of Latin in the Midst of the Other Languages of Italy in the Late © Peter Lang SA Editions scientifques internationales Republic 109 Berne 2020 Eric Orlin Tous droits réservés. Mos et Ritus Sacrorum: Religion in the Construction of Augustan Italy 119 Bernard Mineo Cette publication est protégée dans sa totalité par copyright. Toute utilisation en dehors des strictes limites de la loi Reflets hellénistiques sur l’Étrurie livienne? 129 sur le copyright est interdite et punissable sans le consentement Sergio Casali explicite de la maison d’édition. Ceci s’applique en particulier pour Evander and the Invention of the Prehistory of Latium in Virgil’s Aeneid 145 les reproductions, traductions, microflms, ainsi que le stockage Mathilde Simon et le traitement sous forme électronique. Les peuples de l’Italie au miroir de la géographie augustéenne 169 Printed in Germany Valentina Arena Varro and Italy: the de Lingua Latina and the Gauls 183 www.peterlang.com 6 Table of Contents Gary D. Farney Italian Identity and the Western Provinces: Roman Emperors and Italian Origins 201 Clément Chillet La recherche sur le passé : entreprise culturelle ou instrument politique ? Du projet augustéen à Caligula 215 Andrew Gallia Italian Heritage and the Shifting Frontiers of Romanitas, from Claudius to Trajan 231 Sergio Casali Evander and the Invention of the Prehistory of Latium in Virgil’s Aeneid* 1. Inventing Cacus know well, since he is Hermes’ son2; for example, Cacus’ terrified flight from Hercules is described Some years ago, as an introduction to a chapter on with a metaphor which ‘does not seem found the ‘development of the Aeneas legend’, I wrote before Virgil’3: pedibus timor addidit alas ‘fear a couple of pages on Evander as a prototype of had given wings to his feet’, Aen., 8.224 – winged the Greek historian or erudite who teaches the feet, like those of Hermes/Mercury4. Trojans/Romans about their own past, even that An interesting example of Evander’s of the most remote periods1. He incorporates, manipulative attitude is his relocation of Cacus magnifies, and explains from a Hellenocentric to the Aventine, while he usually lived on the point of view. The story of Hercules and Cacus is Palatine, more specifically, on the Germalus – instructive from this standpoint. Evander wants to certainly near to, or, better still, at the top of the dignify his own past in the eyes of his prestigious Scalae Caci5. Now, who lives on the Germalus Trojan guest, and so he transforms a banal cattle- in Aeneid 8? Evander himself, of course. Vergil rustling episode into an extraordinary meeting does not actually give us explicit indications, but between Good and Evil; the human shepherd there is a whole nexus of hints and suggestions Cacus of the pre-Virgilian tradition becomes which allow us to locate Evander’s home with a monster belching flames, who however also precision. At the end of the tour, which takes up recalls the figure of Hermes stealing Apollo’s lines 306–368, Aeneas and Evander probably go cattle, a story Evander must be understood to up the Palatine, where, of course, the Arcadian * I wish to thank the organizers, especially Massimiliano fundamental are Musti 1984a and 1985; see also Di Fazio and Manuela Wullschleger, for having invited Cornell 1995, p. 58–59, 68–70; Mavrogiannis 2003, me to the Oxford conference, and all the participants for p. 85–141. Neither Delcourt 2001 nor Papaioannou their interesting questions and remarks, in particular Tim 2003 are particularly useful from a Virgilian point of Cornell and Stephen Heyworth. Versions of this paper view. For recent briefer treatments see Hogg 2013; were read at the Scuola Normale of Pisa, Turin, Princeton, Hardie 2014. Columbia, Brown, Harvard, the College of William and 2 So, literally, Dion. H., 1.31.1 and Paus., 8.43.2; Virgil Mary, the University of Virginia, Potsdam, and Rostock, is vaguer (Aen., 8.138–139 (Aeneas to Evander) uobis and I’d like to thank members of those audiences for Mercurius pater est, | quem candida Maia Cyllenae their valuable comments. Thanks also to Luigi Galasso, gelido conceptum uertice fudit), but Mercury is in any Patricia Johnston, Diana Spencer, Krešimir Vuković, and case a direct ancestor of Evander. Fabio Stok, for their careful reading of several versions of 3 Fordyce 1977, ad loc. the paper and thoughtful comments. 4 Casali 2010, p. 39. 1 Casali 2010, p. 37–40. On Evander’s ‘myth-making’ 5 See Pensabene 1999, p. 239–240; also Aronen 1993, see also Secci 2013. On Evander in Virgil still p. 132–133. 146 Sergio Casali
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