THE LATE ANTIQUE AFTERLIFE OF ROMAN EXEMPLARITY: THE CASE OF SCIPIO NASICA IN LIVY, AB VRBE CONDITA BOOK 29 AND AUGUSTINE, DE CIVITATE DEI 1.30–2.5.
This article calls for a new understanding of the relationship between classicizing and Christian discourses of exemplarity through a close reading of the figure of Scipio Nasica in Livy, Ab urbe condita Book 29 and Augustine, De ciuitate Dei Books 1–2. Nasica, whose selection as a uir optimus by th...
| Publicado en: | Classical Quarterly Vol. 71; no. 2; pp. 676 - 688 |
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