Omnium Annalium Monumenta: Historical Writing and Historical Evidence in Republican Rome

554 Pages·2017·9.343 MB·English

by  Kaj Sandberg, Christopher Smith

Omnium Annalium Monumenta: Historical Writing and Historical Evidence
in Republican Rome
Historiography of Rome
and Its Empire
Series Editors
Carsten Hjort Lange (Aalborg, Denmark)
Jesper Majbom Madsen (SDU, Denmark)
Editorial Board
Rhiannon Ash (Oxford, UK)
Henning Börm (Konstanz, Germany)
Alain Gowing (University of Washington, USA)
Adam Kemezis (Alberta, Canada)
Christina S. Kraus (Yale, USA)
J.E. Lendon (University of Virginia, USA)
Josiah Osgood (Georgetown, USA)
John Rich (Nottingham, UK)
Federico Santangelo (Newcastle, UK)
Catherine Steel (Glasgow, UK)
Frederik J. Vervaet (Melbourne, Australia)
Johannes Wienand (Düsseldorf, Germany)
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Omnium Annalium Monumenta:
Historical Writing and Historical
Evidence in Republican Rome
Edited by
Kaj Sandberg
Christopher Smith
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Contents
Preface ix
List of Figures x
Abbreviations xii
Notes on Contributors xiv
Introduction 1
Christopher Smith
PART 1
The Origins of the Annalistic Tradition
1 Fabius Pictor, Ennius and the Origins of Roman Annalistic
Historiography 17
John Rich
2 L’“archéologie” de Rome dans les Annales d’Ennius: poetica fabula ou
annalium monumentum? 66
Martine Chassignet
3 The Discovery of Numa’s Writings: Roman Sacral Law and the Early
Historians 90
Hans Beck
PART 2
Antiquarians and Historians
4 On the Edges of History 115
Christopher Smith
5 Diligentissumus investigator antiquitatis? ‘Antiquarianism’ and
Historical Evidence between Republican Rome and the Early Modern
Republic of Letters 137
Duncan MacRae
vi contents
6 Inspired Leaders versus Emerging Nations: Varro’s and Cicero’s Views
on Early Rome 157
Vera Binder
7 Which One is the Historian? A Neglected Problem in the Study of
Roman Historiography 182
Tim Cornell
PART 3
History and Oratory
8 How Much History did the Romans Know? Historical References in
Cicero’s Speeches to the People 205
Francisco Pina Polo
9 Ciceronian Constructions of the Oratorical Past 234
Henriette van der Blom
10 Cicero, Documents and the Implications for History 257
Andrew Riggsby
PART 4
The Literary Construction of History
11 Livy’s Battle in the Forum between Roman Monuments and Greek
Literature 279
Dennis Pausch
12 Echi dalle tragedie tebane nelle storie di Roma arcaica 301
Marianna Scapini
13 Figures of Memory. Aulus Vibenna, Valerius Publicola and Mezentius
between History and Legend 322
Massimiliano Di Fazio
Contents vii
PART 5
History and Monuments
14 Monumenta, Documenta, Memoria: Remembering and Imagining the
Past in Late Republican Rome 351
Kaj Sandberg
15 Visibility Matters. Notes on Archaic Monuments and Collective
Memory in Mid-Republican Rome 390
Gabriele Cifani
16 Aedificare, res damnosissima. Building and Historiography in Livy,
Books 5–6 404
Seth Bernard
17 Memoria by Multiplication: The Cornelii Scipiones in Monumental
Memory 422
Karl-J. Hölkeskamp
18 Constructing, Deconstructing and Reconstructing Civic Memory in
Late Republican Rome 477
Penelope J. E. Davies
Index Locorum 513

Preface
The papers collected in this volume were originally presented at two confer-
ences, organised by Kaj Sandberg and Christopher Smith at the Institutum
Romanum Finlandiae and the British School at Rome in 2009 and 2013. We
are grateful to both institutions for their support as well as to the Institutum
Romanum Finlandiae Foundation and the Jenny and Antti Wihuri Fund for addi-
tional funding.
We owe a debt of gratitude to several people who have assisted us in the
preparation of this volume. Steven Cruikshank (John Cabot University) made
an early contribution to bringing the chapters together, and Jasmin Lukkari
(University of Helsinki) helped us with the preparation of the index and with
the proofreading. Moreover, we are very grateful for advice and support from
Martin Jehne, Kai Brodersen, and the anonymous readers who provided most
valuable suggestions. Finally, we thank Carsten Hjort Lange and Jesper Majbom
Madsen for welcoming us into their series, Historiography of Rome and Its
Empire.