ERC Consolidator Grant · 2019
Ordering, Constructing, Empowering: Fragments of the Roman Republican Antiquarians
This project will radically transform our understanding of Roman Republican culture by establishing a new framework for the elaboration of knowledge and the religious and institutional structures of the Roman Republic. We will do so through the first systematic and comprehensive account of a group of Republican writers, who laid out a new way of ordering knowledge, and in the process, described the world for their contemporaries as well as for us. This knowledge revolution re-shaped the Roman intellectual horizon and was understood until the 19th century as a distinctive ‘antiquarian’ moment. Scattered through inaccessible collections of legal, historical, grammatical material, the…
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