Origines gentium
EJ Bickerman - Classical philology, 1952 - journals.uchicago.edu
EJ Bickerman
Classical philology, 1952•journals.uchicago.eduHalicarnassus states that at this time the origins of Rome were still unknown to the Greeks.
He, then, sets forth the classic story of Romulus and Remus as" the most credible" report of
the foundation of Rome. Thus. in the seventh generation, as Dionysius reckons, of Rome's
universal dominion, the Greek subjects of C-aesar Augustus continued to believe false
opinions (as Dionysius says) on the beginnings of the imperial city and neglected the
authorised Roman version. 1 I Dionysius is not exaggerating. Some twenty-five Greek …
He, then, sets forth the classic story of Romulus and Remus as" the most credible" report of
the foundation of Rome. Thus. in the seventh generation, as Dionysius reckons, of Rome's
universal dominion, the Greek subjects of C-aesar Augustus continued to believe false
opinions (as Dionysius says) on the beginnings of the imperial city and neglected the
authorised Roman version. 1 I Dionysius is not exaggerating. Some twenty-five Greek …
Halicarnassus states that at this time the origins of Rome were still unknown to the Greeks. He, then, sets forth the classic story of Romulus and Remus as" the most credible" report of the foundation of Rome. Thus. in the seventh generation, as Dionysius reckons, of Rome's universal dominion, the Greek subjects of C-aesar Augustus continued to believe false opinions (as Dionysius says) on the beginnings of the imperial city and neglected the authorised Roman version. 1
I Dionysius is not exaggerating. Some twenty-five Greek accounts of the origins of Rome have come down to us, diligently collected by Dionysius himself, Plutarch, and Latin savants. 2 None of them agrees with the accepted Roman tradition. They are mostly jejune inferences from the name of the city to the person of the supposed founder or foundress: Romus or Roma. The Greeks dispensed with any imaginative effort
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