Ordering, Constructing, Empowering: Fragments of the Roman Republican Antiquarians

Project Information

FRRAnt

Grant agreement ID: 866400

DOI

10.3030/866400

EC signature date 18 December 2019

Start date 1 November 2020

End date 30 April 2027

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 902 704,00

EU contribution

€ 1 902 704,00

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THE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
United Kingdom

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (17)

The Goddess of Silence. Revising the Ritual of Tacita Muta

Author(s): Domenico Giordani
Published in: Classical Antiquity, 2026, ISSN 0278-6656
Publisher: University of California Press

Varro's Antiquitates Rerum Humanarum : defining Roman Republican antiquarianism

Author(s): Domenico Giordani
Published in: Materiali e discussioni per l'analisi dei testi classici, Issue 92.1, 2024, Page(s) 85-135, ISSN 0392-6338
Publisher: Fabrizio Serra Editore
DOI: 10.19272/202401701003

Varrone e/in Plinio il Vecchio: capolavori greci nel paesaggio letterario di RomaVI, pp. 181-191 (ISSN: 22797297)

Author(s): Antonino Pittá
Published in: Thiasos – Rivista di archeologia e architettura antica, Issue 13.2, Supplementum, 2024, Page(s) 181-191, ISSN 2279-7297
Publisher: Quasar Edizioni

The Roman Democracy of Fergus Millar

Author(s): Valentina Arena
Published in: REVISTA DE HISTORIOGRAFÍA (RevHisto), 2025, Page(s) 177-201, ISSN 2445-0057
Publisher: Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
DOI: 10.20318/revhisto.2025.9722

Quintipore Clodio e Pompilio: due casi di polemica letteraria nelle Satire Menippee di Varrone?

Author(s): Martina Farese
Published in: Bollettino di Studi Latini, Issue 54.2, 2024, Page(s) 648-658, ISSN 0006-6583
Publisher: Paolo Loffredo Editore Srl

‘Otia’ come ‘alii labores’ alla corte di Onorio: modelli letterari e modelli etici in Claudiano

Author(s): Antonino Pittá
Published in: Scienze dell’Antichità, Issue 30.2, 2024, Page(s) 465-492, ISSN 1123-5713
Publisher: Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Antichità, Sapienza – Università di Roma

Pliny’s Varro: Source, Inspiration, Competition’

Author(s): Richard Marshall
Published in: Aevuum Antiquum, 2027, ISSN 1121-8932
Publisher: Vita e Pensiero

Varro, the Name-givers, and the Lawgivers: the Case of the Consuls

Author(s): Valentina Arena
Published in: Polis, The Journal for Ancient Greek and Roman Political Thought, Issue 38 (3), 2021, Page(s) 588-609, ISSN 2051-2996
Publisher: Brill
DOI: 10.1163/20512996-12340352

Saturae Menippeae and Varro Menippeus

Author(s): Marshall, Richard M.A.
Published in: Paideia : rivista di filologia, ermeneutica e critica letteraria, Issue LXXVII, 2022, Page(s) 175-201, ISSN 2239-6381
Publisher: Casalini
DOI: 10.1400/290598

New Light on the History of the <i>Codex Arcerianus </i>and the Fate of Varro’s <i>De geometria </i>and <i>De arithmetica</i>

Author(s): Richard Marshall,
Published in: Revue d'Histoire des Textes, Issue 19, 2025, Page(s) 187-232, ISSN 0373-6075
Publisher: Brepols Publishers
DOI: 10.1484/j.rht.5.137113

On figs. Varro, Brutus and the Raven

Author(s): Giordani, D
Published in: Classical Quarterly, 2027, ISSN 0009-8388
Publisher: Oxford University Press

Riflessioni sulle posizioni di Varrone in riferimento alle teorie cronologiche di Dicearco di Messina

Author(s): Martina Farese
Published in: Spolia. Journal of Medieval Studies, Issue 9 (2023), 2023, Page(s) 1-16, ISSN 1824-727X
Publisher: La Giustizia Penale e Spolia srl

Tra norma linguistica e prassi poetica: giochi di parole e composti nominali in Varrone

Author(s): Martina Farese
Published in: Classico Contemporaneo, 2024, Page(s) 79-101, ISSN 2421-4744
Publisher: G.B. Palumbo Editore

The Catalogus geometrarum from the Corpus Agrimensorum. Part I: Text, Translator, and the Aratean Tradition

Author(s): Marshall, R. M.
Published in: Mnemosyne, Issue 76(4), 2022, Page(s) 665-694, ISSN 0026-7074
Publisher: Brill
DOI: 10.1163/1568525x-bja10144

Arbitrium and potestas in Ancient Rome: On Quentin Skinner’s Liberty as Independence

Author(s): Valentina Arena
Published in: Journal of History of European Ideas, 2025, ISSN 1873-541X
Publisher: Routledge/Taylor and Francis

The Catalogus geometrarum from the Corpus Agrimensorum. Part II: The Biography of Euclid the Mathematician

Author(s): Marshall, R. M.
Published in: Mnemosyne, Issue 76.5 (published online ahead of print 2022), 2022, Page(s) 1-20, ISSN 0026-7074
Publisher: Brill
DOI: 10.1163/1568525x-bja10143

Introduction to ‘Writing orality’

Author(s): Bernardo Ballesteros, Domenico Giordani, Jordan Miller, James Parkhouse, Flaminia Pischedda
Published in: Manuscript and Text Cultures (MTC), Issue 2, 2024, Page(s) 1-10, ISSN 2752-3470
Publisher: Centre for Manuscript and Text Cultures
DOI: 10.56004/v2.2int

Book chapters (5)

Rights in Roman Republican Thought

Author(s): Valentina Arena
Published in: The Cambridge History of Rights, Vol. 1: The Ancient World. Eds C. Ando , M. Canevaro , B. Straumann, 2025, Page(s) 202-236, ISBN 978-1-108-83735-4
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

The Notion of Bellum Civile in the Last Century of the Republic

Author(s): Valentina Arena
Published in: The Triumviral Period: Civil War, Political Crisis and Socioeconomic Transformations. Pina Polo, F, (ed.) Series: Libera Res Publica, Monografías sobre la República romana, 2, 2020, Page(s) 101-126, ISBN 9788413400969
Publisher: Prensas Universitarias de Zaragoza

Caesar from the Campus Martius to the Vici: Towards a New Idea of the Roman People?

Author(s): Valentina Arena
Published in: Caesar's Visions and Impact on the Roman Empire. Revisiting the Arcaheological and Historical Record for the 40s BC (Krešimir Matijević, Rubina Raja, Jörg Rüpke), 2025
Publisher: Brepols

'Saecula compara, Vetustas'. Motivi antiquari nel primo libro delle ‘Silvae’ di Stazio,

Author(s): Antonino PIttá
Published in: Usages des mots, usages des choses. Quatre études sur la littérature et les artifacts, L. E. Bauer and M. Royo (eds.), Issue Cahiers EGeA, 4, 2024, Page(s) 85-131
Publisher: Peter Lang

The Censors between Public and Private: An Antiquarian Perspective

Author(s): Valentina Arena
Published in: The Roman Censorship: Perceptions and Realities (A.A. Antoniou, K. Webb and T. Smith eds), 2025, Page(s) 175-190
Publisher: de Gruyter

Non-peer reviewed articles (3)

A Wolf in Wolf’s Clothing: Lupa Capitolina

Author(s): Valentina Arena and Antonino Pittá
Published in: The Antiquary Supplement. Annual Review 2024/25. Fakes, Forgeries and Fallacies. Uncovering the Truth behind the Myths., 2025, Page(s) 10, ISSN 3049-9518
Publisher: Society of Antiquaries

Roman Republican Antiquarianism: Back to the Future

Author(s): Valentina Arena
Published in: Aether, Issue 2022, 2022, ISSN 2976-5544
Publisher: Research Aether

Rev. to: Aude Cohen-Skalli (éd.), Historiens et érudits à leur écritoire. Les oeuvres monumentales à Rome entre République et Principat

Author(s): Antonino Pittá
Published in: Athenaeum, Issue 112.2, 2024, Page(s) 551-554, ISSN 0004-6574
Publisher: Universita degli Studi di Pavia

Conference proceedings (6)

Un popolo di pastori e contadini? Paesaggio italico e identità romana nell’opera di Varrone

Author(s): Martina Farese
Published in: Experiencing the Landscape in Antiquity 3, A. Cristilli, G. Di Luca, A. Gonfloni, E.S. Capra (eds), Issue BAR International Series 3178, 2024, Page(s) 117-122
Publisher: BAR Publishing

Servi callidi, servi poeti e servi fuggitivi nelle Satire Menippee

Author(s): Martina Farese
Published in: Personaggi in scena: il servus, G. Bandini and C. Pentericci (eds), 2024, Page(s) 60-75
Publisher: Carroccio Editore

Euhemeristic translations: Ennius as interpres in the sacra historia

Author(s): Stephen Blair
Published in: Ennius Beyond Epic, J. Hill and C.W. Marshall (eds.), 2025
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Natural History by Numbers: Varro and the Doxographical Tradition, in V. Arena and S. Blair (eds.), The Hellenistic World of Roman Republican Antiquarianism

Author(s): Richard Marshall
Published in: 2027
Publisher: Cambridge

Alien Wisdom, Local Knowledge. Alexander Polyhistor and Ethnophilology in Rome

Author(s): Domenico Giordani
Published in: The Hellenistic World of Roman Republican Antiquarianism, V. Arena and S. Blair (eds), 2027
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Etnografie salentine: frammenti di dottrina antiquaria tra Solino, Servio e Pseudo-Probo

Author(s): Giordani, D
Published in: Il mondo di Solino : atti del convegno : Roma, 16-17 febbraio 2023, Istituto italiano per la storia antica, G. Zecchini (ed.), 2024
Publisher: L'Erma di Bretschneider

Other (1)

Review of Jason S. Nethercut: Ennius Noster. Lucretius and the Annales. New York: Oxford UP 2021. 260 S.

Author(s): Stephen Blair
Published in: Gnomon. Kritische Zeitschrift für die gesamte klassische Altertumswissenschaft, Issue 95.7, 2023, Page(s) 600-4
Publisher: VERLAG C.H.BECK
DOI: 10.17104/0017-1417-2023-7-600

Monographic books (1)

The Hellenistic World of Roman Republican Antiquarianism

Author(s): Valentina Arena and Stephen Blair (eds.)
Published in: 2027
Publisher: Cambridge University Press