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Il mos e la consuetudo nel De moribus di Marco Terenzio Varrone (in margine a Macr. Sat. 3.8.8-12 e Serv. Ad Aen. 7.601)
2016
Mores and consuetudo are two terms that in the legal language of the republican age indicate teo species of customary law. The paper is aimed at investigating the meanings of mos and consuetudo in to two passages of Varro's De moribus.
Vox Naturae: The Myth of Animal Nature in the Latin Roman Republic
2016
The paper examines the representation of animals as embodiment of nature in the culture of the late Roman republic. By discussing a selection of passages from Sallust, Cicero and Lucretius in conjunction with other Greek and Latin sources, the paper shows that the typically Western myth of 'animal nature' - the cultural belief that animal mirror a perennial state of nature, as opposed to human society - played a very important role in the ethical debate of the first century BC and took in this period a form which was bound to influence the centuries to come.