Autore: Flower, Harriet I.
Titolo: The Freedom of the Rhodians: Cato the Elder and Demosthenes
Rivista/Miscellanea: In : Catalina Balmaceda (ed.), « Libertas » and « res publica » in the Roman Republic: ideas of freedom and Roman politics, Leiden-Boston, Brill, 2020. XII-269 p.
Anno edizione: 2020
Pagine: 84-103
Parole chiave: Éloquence - Eloquenza - Eloquence, Politique - Politica - Politics
Descrizione: It comes as no surprise that Cato’s famous speech on behalf of the Rhodians, originally delivered in the Senate in 167 BC, provides the earliest extant example of the use of libertas in an international political context and it will be the focus for my discussion. This speech also contains the first use of amicitia in the context of an external political alliance with a foreign state, as well as providing important attestations of superbia, again in inter-state relations, and even of the word imperium, as applied to Rome’s role in the East. These other
three words, however, have received more scholarly attention than the term libertas. The theme of Cato’s speech is the libertas of the Rhodians rather than the more commonly attested debate about libertas within the political community of the Romans, which we see in many later sources such as Livy and Cicero [Author].
Sigla autore: Flower 2020
Titolo: The Freedom of the Rhodians: Cato the Elder and Demosthenes
Rivista/Miscellanea: In : Catalina Balmaceda (ed.), « Libertas » and « res publica » in the Roman Republic: ideas of freedom and Roman politics, Leiden-Boston, Brill, 2020. XII-269 p.
Anno edizione: 2020
Pagine: 84-103
Parole chiave: Éloquence - Eloquenza - Eloquence, Politique - Politica - Politics
Descrizione: It comes as no surprise that Cato’s famous speech on behalf of the Rhodians, originally delivered in the Senate in 167 BC, provides the earliest extant example of the use of libertas in an international political context and it will be the focus for my discussion. This speech also contains the first use of amicitia in the context of an external political alliance with a foreign state, as well as providing important attestations of superbia, again in inter-state relations, and even of the word imperium, as applied to Rome’s role in the East. These other
three words, however, have received more scholarly attention than the term libertas. The theme of Cato’s speech is the libertas of the Rhodians rather than the more commonly attested debate about libertas within the political community of the Romans, which we see in many later sources such as Livy and Cicero [Author].
Sigla autore: Flower 2020
