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Gravitas e prisci mores: sovrapposizione di sistemi etici tra repubblica e tardo impero

Beatrice Girotti    Alma Mater Studiorum, Università di Bologna, Italia    

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abstract

Ammianus seems to recover some ethics- and character-related concepts from previous (i.e. classical) historiography, which are obviously reworked according to personal thought and narrative strategies. The paper analyses the expressions gravitas and prisci mores in some passages from Ammianus. These passages and the related terminology in the Res Gestae are then compared to Livy, Tacitus and other authors, previous and contemporary to Ammianus, in order to highlight how some concepts representing a specific kind of virtue in the late antiquity lexicon undergo transformations.

Pubblicato
21 Dicembre 2020
Accettato
01 Settembre 2020
Presentato
05 Agosto 2020
Lingua
IT

Keywords: Exempla • Julian • xAmmianus • Livius • Lexicon

permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/Lexis/2724-1564/2020/02/012

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