Archimedes and the Roman Imagination

Jaeger, Mary

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“…For reasons of rhetorical effect, Marcellus is offered as a picture of restraint. For Cicero's use of Marcellus as a contrasting exemplum in the Verrines , see Jaeger 2008: 89–90; cf. Gruen 1992: 96.…”

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“… 58 For Marcellus weeping at the thought of Archimedes' death, see Firmicus Maternus, Mathesis 6.30.26, quoted by Jaeger 2008: 82. …”

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“… 66 Jaeger 2008: 98: ‘Anchises does not name the “others” who will be better sculptors, orators, and astronomers … but nothing rules out projecting an image of Syracuse onto the outline of these “others”. After all, Syracuse's art was famous, tradition credited the invention of systematic rhetoric to Syracusans, and Archimedes was a “unique watcher of the sky” (Livy 23.34.2).…”

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Seeing Marcellus inAeneid6

Freudenburg

2017

J. Rom. Stud.

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This paper will examine the claims of the excudent alii (‘others will hammer out’) priamel of Aeneid 6.847–53 within the immediate context of the parade's end, where Marcellus, parading the spolia opima, is used to exemplify the claims made about fine and speculative arts belonging to the Greeks, and war and the arts of empire to the Romans. It will be shown that certain, highly specific memories of the elder Marcellus are cued by the priamel that run directly counter to Anchises’ claims. The paper will look at how these claims are spoken in character, and driven by specific narrative motives, and it will relate the mismatch of exemplified to exemplifier to certain larger patterns within the Aeneid of things being left unsaid only to stand out all the more by being left unsaid. The paper concludes with a speculative essay on the necessary reductions and revisions that go into the making, and reading, of culturally instrumentalized monuments.

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“… 58 For Marcellus weeping at the thought of Archimedes' death, see Firmicus Maternus, Mathesis 6.30.26, quoted by Jaeger 2008: 82. …”

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