La cronologia della legazione di Scipione Emiliano a Oriente

Zanin, Manfredi (2023). La cronologia della legazione di Scipione Emiliano a Oriente. Revue des Études Anciennes, 125(1), pp. 55-72. Université Bordeaux Montaigne

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This paper provides a new discussion of the date of the Roman embassy led by P. Cornelius Scipio Aemilianus to the Greek East. Based on an analysis of the main sources on the embassy (the excerpta Constantiniana of Diodorus Siculus, Cicero’s Lucullus and De re publica, as well as the works of Plutarch and Strabo), the paper argues that the traditional reconstruction, which has been defended most of all by Alan E. Astin, who argued that the embassy took place in 140-139 BCE, after Scipio’s censorship, must be considered the right one, forcing us to reject the revisionist attempt of Harold B. Mattingly to date the embassy prior to Aemilianus’ censorship.

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