Note e discussioni
A New Fragment of Strabo in P.Oxy. 5584: Preliminary Remarks
Published 2025-02-26
Keywords
- ancient biography ,
- Roman Republic,
- de viris illustribus ,
- C. Scribonius Curio ,
- Strabo’s Historika hypomnemata
Abstract
This paper provides an overview of P.Oxy. 5584. The papyrus, published in 2023, contains a series of lives, albeit fragmentary, of some generals and politicians from the Roman Republic: Sulla, Caesar, Curio (trib. pl. 50 BC), Lepidus the Elder (cos. 78 BC), Lepidus the Younger (triumvir) and Appius Claudius Caecus. The text, which can be assigned to the de viris illustribus genre, sheds new light on the features and reception of Strabo’s Ἱστορικὰ ὑπομνήματα, providing a new fragment of this work.