RATIONES RERUM 20: Articolo Francesca Gazzano

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Rationes Rerum 20

FRANCESCA GAZZANO
Ombre macedoni e translatio imperii in Valerio Massimo: un’ipotesi di lettura

In Valerius Maximus’ Memorable Deeds and Sayings, the exempla dedicated to protagonists and episodes of Hellenistic history reveal some peculiarities in the presentation of the data resulting from the personal intervention of the author, who tries to minimize the Asiatic dimension of Alexander’s empire and of the reigns of his successors, in particular the Seleucids. Valerius’ idiosyncratic portrayal of the Macedonian rule is framed in an ideological-propagandistic perspective and in the context of the debate on the translatio imperii and the universality of Roman empire.