Omnium Annalium Monumenta: Historical Writing and Historical Evidence in Republican Rome Historiography of Rome and Its Empire Series Editors Carsten Hjort Lange (Aalborg, Denmark) Jesper Majbom Madsen (SDU, Denmark) Editorial Board Rhiannon Ash (Oxford, UK) Henning Börm (Konstanz, Germany) Alain Gowing (University of Washington, USA) Adam Kemezis (Alberta, Canada) Christina S. Kraus (Yale, USA) J.E. Lendon (University of Virginia, USA) Josiah Osgood (Georgetown, USA) John Rich (Nottingham, UK) Federico Santangelo (Newcastle, UK) Catherine Steel (Glasgow, UK) Frederik J. Vervaet (Melbourne, Australia) Johannes Wienand (Düsseldorf, Germany) Volume 2 The titles published in this series are listed at brill.com/hre Omnium Annalium Monumenta: Historical Writing and Historical Evidence in Republican Rome Edited by Kaj Sandberg Christopher Smith LEIDEN | BOSTON Cover image: View of the Forum Romanum, Rome. Photo by Penelope J. E. Davies. 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Contents Preface ix List of Figures x Abbreviations xii Notes on Contributors xiv Introduction 1 Christopher Smith PART 1 The Origins of the Annalistic Tradition 1 Fabius Pictor, Ennius and the Origins of Roman Annalistic Historiography 17 John Rich 2 L’“archéologie” de Rome dans les Annales d’Ennius: poetica fabula ou annalium monumentum? 66 Martine Chassignet 3 The Discovery of Numa’s Writings: Roman Sacral Law and the Early Historians 90 Hans Beck PART 2 Antiquarians and Historians 4 On the Edges of History 115 Christopher Smith 5 Diligentissumus investigator antiquitatis? ‘Antiquarianism’ and Historical Evidence between Republican Rome and the Early Modern Republic of Letters 137 Duncan MacRae vi contents 6 Inspired Leaders versus Emerging Nations: Varro’s and Cicero’s Views on Early Rome 157 Vera Binder 7 Which One is the Historian? A Neglected Problem in the Study of Roman Historiography 182 Tim Cornell PART 3 History and Oratory 8 How Much History did the Romans Know? Historical References in Cicero’s Speeches to the People 205 Francisco Pina Polo 9 Ciceronian Constructions of the Oratorical Past 234 Henriette van der Blom 10 Cicero, Documents and the Implications for History 257 Andrew Riggsby PART 4 The Literary Construction of History 11 Livy’s Battle in the Forum between Roman Monuments and Greek Literature 279 Dennis Pausch 12 Echi dalle tragedie tebane nelle storie di Roma arcaica 301 Marianna Scapini 13 Figures of Memory. Aulus Vibenna, Valerius Publicola and Mezentius between History and Legend 322 Massimiliano Di Fazio Contents vii PART 5 History and Monuments 14 Monumenta, Documenta, Memoria: Remembering and Imagining the Past in Late Republican Rome 351 Kaj Sandberg 15 Visibility Matters. Notes on Archaic Monuments and Collective Memory in Mid-Republican Rome 390 Gabriele Cifani 16 Aedificare, res damnosissima. Building and Historiography in Livy, Books 5–6 404 Seth Bernard 17 Memoria by Multiplication: The Cornelii Scipiones in Monumental Memory 422 Karl-J. Hölkeskamp 18 Constructing, Deconstructing and Reconstructing Civic Memory in Late Republican Rome 477 Penelope J. E. Davies Index Locorum 513 Preface The papers collected in this volume were originally presented at two confer- ences, organised by Kaj Sandberg and Christopher Smith at the Institutum Romanum Finlandiae and the British School at Rome in 2009 and 2013. We are grateful to both institutions for their support as well as to the Institutum Romanum Finlandiae Foundation and the Jenny and Antti Wihuri Fund for addi- tional funding. We owe a debt of gratitude to several people who have assisted us in the preparation of this volume. Steven Cruikshank (John Cabot University) made an early contribution to bringing the chapters together, and Jasmin Lukkari (University of Helsinki) helped us with the preparation of the index and with the proofreading. Moreover, we are very grateful for advice and support from Martin Jehne, Kai Brodersen, and the anonymous readers who provided most valuable suggestions. Finally, we thank Carsten Hjort Lange and Jesper Majbom Madsen for welcoming us into their series, Historiography of Rome and Its Empire.