La tradizione epitomatoria liviana in età imperiale

Bessone, Luigi; Haase, Wolfgang

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“…30 Sulle opere che compongono la ampia galassia delle epitomi dell'opera liviana cf. Bessone 1982Bessone , 1235Bessone -1244 31 Di Asconio ci sono giunti i commenti a sole cinque orazioni (In Pisonem, Pro Scauro, Pro Milone, Pro Cornelio, In toga candida), a cui si aggiunge il commento spurio ai primi tre libri (e inizio del quarto) delle Verrine attribuito allo Pseudo-Asconio (databile al IV-V sec. d.C.).…”

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“…XIV 190 come riferito a Livio intero e non a una sua epitome cf. Ascher 1969;Butrica 1983e Leary 1996mentre contra Galdi 1922, 32-33;Bessone 1982, 1230-1235e Sansone 1981 La datazione delle Periochae, in assenza di appigli cronologici certi quali riferimenti a fatti coevi al loro autore, è affidata prevalentemente all'individuazione di elementi linguistici tipici della latinità tarda: tra questi si segnalano i più evidenti, come l'uso postclassico del termine ducatus nel senso di comando militare (= imperium) in Per. 96 e 113 e quello di citra con il significato di sine in Per.…”

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Le Periochae liviane (e le altre): per la definizione di un ‘genere’

Ricchieri

2022

Erga-Logoi. Rivista Di Storia, Letteratura, Diritto E Culture Dell'antichità

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Livy’s Periochae have always been studied to assess their dependence from Livy and their contribution to our knowledge of his lost books. This article approaches them as a self-standing text and compares them to other summaries of ancient texts which go under the same name (e.g. periochae to Terence, Homer and Lucan). It is suggested that Livy’s Periochae should be viewed not only as one of the many epitomes of Livy which spread in Late antiquity, but also as representative of a literary ‘genre’ to which other late antique summaries of major classical works belong.

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Le Periochae liviane (e le altre): per la definizione di un ‘genere’

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2022

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“…Cf. also Bessone (1979) and Alonso-Núñez (1983). For Florus' biography, and the possible identity of epitomator, rhetor, and poet, see Jal (1967), II.130-6, and Bessone (1993), 102-7.…”

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“…Examples of texts often used to help define Florus as something other than ‘true’ epitome, by contrast, include Festus’ Breuiarium rerum gestarum populi Romani, Eutropius’ Breuiarium historiae Romanae , and the works attributed to Aurelius Victor. On Livian epitome, see Bessone (1982).…”

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The Empire in the Epitome: Florus and the Conquest of Historiography

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2019

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Sorting out just what Florus’ condensed work of history is has proved a significant impediment to an understanding of what it might mean. F.R.D. Goodyear's terse précis of Florus ‘The historian’—carefully decoupled from ‘The orator’ and ‘The poet’—in the Cambridge History of Classical Literature begins tellingly: ‘Florus’ outline of Roman history, ending with Augustus, was in late antiquity inaccurately described as an epitome of Livy.’ This is accurate enough. Despite the transmitted title, Epitoma(e) de Tito Liuio (also Bellorum omnium annorum septingentorum libri n. duo), Florus’ work is notably distinct from, say, Justin's abridgment of Pompeius Trogus or the Livian Periochae. Livy looms large in Florus’ history, but at no point in the text is he signaled by name, and numerous structural and thematic features mark this diminutive work's divergence from its huge predecessor. Florus’ Tableau (Jal's chosen title) simply doesn't read as mere paraphrase of Ab urbe condita. He frequently reshuffles, omits, or contradicts material found in Livy, or covers content that Livy does not include, or does not reach chronologically. Alongside Livy, Cato, Caesar, Sallust, Virgil, Seneca the Elder, Lucan, and (seemingly) Tacitus are conspicuous presences in Florus. Much has been said about how Florus fails to be a proper epitome. However, and perhaps more significantly as regards the reception of Florus’ quirky historiography, Goodyear's emphatic non-definition reinforces a summary dismissal of Florus’ value as a text. That is to say, in such a portrayal (and in that of many others), Florus suffers double punishment. He ‘has little to say which is new or remarkable’, but at the same time definitely fails as a reliable compiler. Derivative, and yet faithless: whatever Florus may be, he is something worse than epitome.

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La tradizione epitomatoria liviana in età imperiale

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Le Periochae liviane (e le altre): per la definizione di un ‘genere’

Le Periochae liviane (e le altre): per la definizione di un ‘genere’

The Empire in the Epitome: Florus and the Conquest of Historiography

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