Autore: Motta, Daniela
Titolo: “Poeni foedifragi, crudelis Hannibal, reliqui iustiores” (off. I 38). Cicerone e gli exempla a proposito delle guerre puniche
Rivista/Miscellanea: "Maia", NS 73, 1
Luogo edizione: Brescia
Editore: Morcelliana
Anno edizione: 2021
Pagine: 35-47
Parole chiave: Histoire - Storia - History, Politique - Politica - Politics
Descrizione: [Motta, Daniela] [Abstract] In a section of the De officiis, Book I, Cicero deals with the justice of warfare. He asserts that the enemies defeated who were not cruel and savage should be spared, so the maiores utterly detroyed Carthage and Numantia (I 35). In I 38 Cicero refers to the wars undertaken by Romans, distinguishing the ones waged de imperio (as the Punic wars) from the others fighted uter esset (as the wars against Celtiberi and Cimbri): the first must be fought less cruelly, but Cicero justifies the destruction of Carthage with de sentence Poeni foedifragi, crudelis Hannibal, reliqui iustiores, probably containing a quotation from Ennius’s Annales. These passages, examined in comparison with historical exempla from other works of Cicero, highlight the differences from Greek historiographical attitude about Roman imperialism. In Cicero’s opinion the change of the Roman foreign policy must be identified not with the destruction of enemy cities but with Sulla’s age. The quotation of Ennius, with is archaic aura, strengthens Cicero’s lecture of Roman history according to the traditionalist view of the maiores.
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Link: https://www.torrossa.com/en/resources/an/4915956
Sigla autore: Motta 2021
Titolo: “Poeni foedifragi, crudelis Hannibal, reliqui iustiores” (off. I 38). Cicerone e gli exempla a proposito delle guerre puniche
Rivista/Miscellanea: "Maia", NS 73, 1
Luogo edizione: Brescia
Editore: Morcelliana
Anno edizione: 2021
Pagine: 35-47
Parole chiave: Histoire - Storia - History, Politique - Politica - Politics
Descrizione: [Motta, Daniela] [Abstract] In a section of the De officiis, Book I, Cicero deals with the justice of warfare. He asserts that the enemies defeated who were not cruel and savage should be spared, so the maiores utterly detroyed Carthage and Numantia (I 35). In I 38 Cicero refers to the wars undertaken by Romans, distinguishing the ones waged de imperio (as the Punic wars) from the others fighted uter esset (as the wars against Celtiberi and Cimbri): the first must be fought less cruelly, but Cicero justifies the destruction of Carthage with de sentence Poeni foedifragi, crudelis Hannibal, reliqui iustiores, probably containing a quotation from Ennius’s Annales. These passages, examined in comparison with historical exempla from other works of Cicero, highlight the differences from Greek historiographical attitude about Roman imperialism. In Cicero’s opinion the change of the Roman foreign policy must be identified not with the destruction of enemy cities but with Sulla’s age. The quotation of Ennius, with is archaic aura, strengthens Cicero’s lecture of Roman history according to the traditionalist view of the maiores.
Opere:
Link: https://www.torrossa.com/en/resources/an/4915956
Sigla autore: Motta 2021
