Varro’s <i>picta Italia</i> (RR I. ii. 1) and the Odology of Roman Italy

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“…Roth has argued that a visualization of Roman Italy displayed in the Temple of Tellus featured a similar hodological depiction of roads radiating from a foregrounded Rome, while Ando has discussed how this perspective can also be seen in the deictic language of Roman law, where terms like 'here' and 'there' denote what is in Rome and what is in other places. 43 The conception is also part of an augural worldview and influenced the location of certain sanctuaries. 44 Though a product of the third century, this habit of mind was not short-lived.…”

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“…By the time of the reform, the comitia centuriata was already a venerable institution (Livy 1. 43.12, Dion. Hal.…”

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“…Hölkeskamp Livy, discussing Servius Tullius' institutions at 1. 43.12, displays his antiquarian learning: equites enim uocabantur primi; octoginta inde primae classis centuriae; ibi si uariaret, quod raro incidebat, institutum ut secundae classis uocarentur, nec fere unquam infra ita descenderunt, ut ad infimos peruenirent. nec mirari oportet hunc ordinem, qui nunc est post expletas quinque et triginta tribus duplicato earum numero centuriis iuniorum seniorumque, ad institutam ab Ser.…”

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GEOGRAPHY AND THE REFORM OF THE COMITIA CENTVRIATA

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This article examines the reform of the comitia centuriata in the mid to late third century b.c.e. This involved demoting in voting order the six most prestigious cavalry centuries, distributing the centuries of the first class two per tribe, and assigning one tribe's iuniores to vote first as the centuria praerogatiua. The article argues that this gave more equitable representation to rich citizens from more distant parts of Roman territory, but still preserved the essential military character of the assembly by ensuring that the serving men voted first in any election for consuls and praetors.

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“…By the time of the reform, the comitia centuriata was already a venerable institution (Livy 1. 43.12, Dion. Hal.…”

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GEOGRAPHY AND THE REFORM OF THE COMITIA CENTVRIATA

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The Cultural History of Augustan Rome

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Perhaps the most striking connection to have been discovered in recent decades between an ancient text and an Augustan monument in the city of Rome is the solar meridian in the Campus Martius. 1 The text in question is Pliny's Natural History (36.72-3), which records that Augustus created a scientific instrument integrated with an obelisk he had erected in the Campus Martius. Pliny describes that instrument, whose design he attributed to a mathematician called Novius Facundus, in some detail. It consisted of a gilded ball on top of the obelisk and bronze markers embedded in a pavement, which was as long as the noontime shadow cast by the ball on the shortest day of the year. The markers permitted the position of the shadow of the ball to be measured every day at noon as the shadow of the obelisk became shorter with the lengthening days and then as it grew longer again with the shortening days. Pliny's account was long ago recognized as describing a solar meridian, which is to say a line running precisely north from the obelisk, which measured the progress of the noontime shadow every day through the sidereal year. 2 In 1980 the text of Pliny was confirmed by a remarkable discovery. The German Archeological Institute (DAI), at the instigation of its president, Edmund Buchner, conducted excavations directly to the north of the original location of the obelisk. There, beneath a building on Via di Campo Marzio, the excavators discovered part of a pavement with

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