Scipio in Spain and the Sucro Incident

  • TITLU în română: Scipio în Spania şi incidentul de la Sucro
  • Subiect: Scipio's handling of the mutiny at Sucro confirms what we learn from other episodes in the great general's career: that he was skilful, prudent and stern like a true Roman, but was also ready, if need be, to resort to stratagems worthy of a Carthaginian. Perhaps, however, the most striking aspect of the whole incident is the appearance in Livy's account of a Latin and an Umbrian ringleader. It is significant that Livy, whose requirements in choosing his sources included credibility, mentions the two Italians repeatedly without commenting on their origins. They are objectionable and degrading, not because they are not Roman, but because they are of low condition. Their Italian background serves merely to identify them as individuals and to Livy did not appear unnatural for his narrative. Seen against the many thousands of Italian soldiers who were so large a factor in the development of Roman Spain, the Umbrian and the Latin at Sucro illustrate, even though indirectly and not in the best light, the assimilation that went on in the Roman army and could already be taken for granted even in the third century B.C.
  • Limba de redactare: engleză
  • Secţiunea: Comunicări şi studii
  • Vezi publicația: Studii Clasice: StCl
  • Editura: Editura Academiei Republicii Socialiste România
  • Loc publicare: Bucureşti
  • Anul publicaţiei: 1986
  • Referinţă bibliografică pentru nr. revistă: anul 1986; subtitlu: Profesorului D. M. Pippidi, omagiu la cea de a 80-a aniversare
  • Paginaţia: 77-84
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