Vita e Pensiero

This paper deals with a passage from Solinus normally attributed to M. Varro and offers a new editorial solution.

In Ovid’s mythological poetry, the rare adjective pudibundus defines some female characters (first of all, Philomela; but also Lucretia, Echo and the incestuous heroines: Canace, Byblis and Myrrha) characterized by the impossibility, or difficulty, of speaking...

My contribution aims to offer a new reading of fr. 1 Cardauns from Varro’s Divine Antiquities. In this fragment the association of the Sabin goddess Vacuna with Victoria can be linked to the dedication of the work to Caesar and to the political context of the Civil War...

Virgil reflects knowledge of Varro’s Divine Antiquities (Antiquitates rerum divinarum) in the Aeneid. Virgil responded to and transformed Varronian material, and related it to his Homeric framework and the other literary traditions that he used...

Introduction to the Proceedings of the Conference ‘Rethinking Religion in Rome: Crisis of the Republic and Representation of Gods’.

In spring of 56 BC Cicero delivered a speech before the senate in which he attempted to prove that a recent earthquake prodigy arose as a result of the actions of his political opponent, Publius Clodius. Cicero employs evidence that resembles Varro’s three different ways of treating the divine: the mythic, the civic, and the philosophical...

The article analyzes the testimonies regarding the revival phenomenon in Republican tragedy. Based upon an outline given as a starting point, in which a Republican tragedy may be distinguished from an Augustan matrix, it discusses socio-political reasons, which have led to the various cultural changings in between 2nd and 1st centuries BC, and specifically the transformation of the theater perception by the public and by the same playwrights...

The aim of the present contribute is to provide an outline of the theatralical forms in Rome during the first century BC, collecting literary texts with contemporary archaeological sources, epigraphic documents and papyri...