https://www.peren-revues.fr/eugesta/1071 Entrées d’index fr 0 https://www.peren-revues.fr/eugesta/1560 Ancient sources suggest that Tarpeia, a historical-mythological figure whose date varied between the Romulean period and the Gallic Wars, had a tomb on the Capitoline Hill; however, these sources have not been seen as credible by modern scholarship. This article contextualizes Dionysius of Halicarnassus’ discussion of Tarpeia’s tomb in both the Roman Antiquities and modern studies of Roman religion, and suggests the manner in which honors would have been paid to her. mar., 01 oct. 2024 15:44:54 +0200 jeu., 19 déc. 2024 18:12:43 +0100 https://www.peren-revues.fr/eugesta/1560 https://www.peren-revues.fr/eugesta/1069 This essay examines the exemplary force of the women in Livy’s first book. A close reading of the Tarpeia and Horatia episodes reveals that Livy does not permit his reader to come to any firm conclusion about the moral lesson these stories offer. On the contrary: the historian emphasizes the indeterminacy of these episodes in two ways. First, Livy positions Tarpeia and Horatia both as Roman daughters and as potential allies to the foreign men who claim their allegiance; they thus are simultaneously insiders and outsiders and assist Rome’s assimilation of others while also threatening Rome’s integrity. Second, Livy mentions multiple and conflicting versions of the stories themselves, leaving it to the reader to choose and construct a narrative. Like Tarpeia and Horatia, Livy’s readers are faced with a fragmented and fragmentary picture that resists exemplary categorization as good/imitable or bad/inimitable. jeu., 16 juin 2022 09:31:45 +0200 ven., 24 févr. 2023 14:28:27 +0100 https://www.peren-revues.fr/eugesta/1069