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Journal Article
The Nadir of Historiography?
2024
Overview
Valerius Antias, a 1st century BCE Roman annalist, has often been accused of extensive fabrications. John Rich has recently tried to restore Antias’ reputation, suggesting that he used senatus consulta, but has faced a serious roadblock: Antias’ account of the senatus consultum freeing the Greeks in 196, preserved in Livy, contained clauses absent from Polybius’ version and which, therefore, have been rejected by scholarship. In contrast, this paper systematically evaluates these Valerian clauses and argues for their veracity. This has serious implications for the idea that annalists like Antias, and ultimately Livy, accurately conveyed senatorial decrees from the Middle Republic.
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Franz Steiner Verlag
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