Sectores, sicarii, proditores. L'accusa di complicità nelle proscrizioni sillane e i loci dell'invettiva politica tardorepubblicana
Articolo
Data di Pubblicazione:
2022
Citazione:
Sectores, sicarii, proditores. L'accusa di complicità nelle proscrizioni sillane e i loci dell'invettiva politica tardorepubblicana / N. Donadio. - In: ANNALI DEL SEMINARIO GIURIDICO. - ISSN 1972-8441. - 65:(2022), pp. 73-99.
Abstract:
The purpose of this paper is to discuss some references of Cicero to the proscriptiones and to the propo-
nents of ferocious executions, disposed by Silla in the aftermath of the victory over the Marians. They did
not integrate simple occasions of moral disapproval against that period of barbarism (the dictatorship of
Sulla and the proscriptiones), but they actually constitute typical arguments of the political invective in
Rome at the end of the republican era, and realize the fundamental purpose of discrediting the opponent
of faction. Those references indeed help to represent the political opponent as an enemy of the Roman
republic (hostis publicus) and of the libertas of Romans; as a person out-law; as a pernicies, who is feared in
every human society like corsairs, brigands, robbers. Consequently, next to the tyrant and criminal mon-
ster model, another figure emerges in Cicero’s speeches: the figure of the sicarius et sector, who is involved
in the killing of the proscribed and in the looting of large fortunes.
Tipologia IRIS:
01 - Articolo su periodico
Keywords:
Proscriptions; sector and sicarius; loci argumentorum; adtributa personis; cruelty; political invective; hostis publicus
Elenco autori:
N. Donadio
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