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Casi di corruzione nei Rerum Gestarum libri di Ammiano Marcellino

Rosalia Marino

subject

Linguistics and LanguageHistoryHistoryLiterature and Literary TheoryCorruptionburocraziamedia_common.quotation_subjectcorruptionlcsh:DE1-100Language and LinguisticsPhenomenology (philosophy)Politicslcsh:History of Lawlcsh:History of the Greco-Roman Worldrerum gestarum librisocial classes.Classicsammiano marcellinocorruzioneOrder (virtue)Valuation (finance)media_commonceti socialilcsh:KJ2-1040burocracyHistoriographylcsh:Greek language and literature. Latin language and literatureammianus marcellinuslcsh:PAHumanities

description

The paper provides food for thought on the issue of corruption in Ammianus Marcellinus’ History pointing out the need for revising the criteria of valuation of this phenomenology in order to assess it in modern conceptual terms. As a consequence Ammianus’ Res Gestae have to be analysed moving from the political, economic and social contexts as they stem not only from historiographical sources, but also from the Codes, enabling scholars to test the level of bias of the historian who was stubbornly anchored to the values of tradition that, in his opinion, coincided with the ordo’s privileges.

10.7358/erga-2020-001-marihttps://www.ledonline.it/index.php/Erga-Logoi/article/view/2017