Troyanos, pastores y nobles. Apuntes sobre la Roma primitiva
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La tradición literaria sobre la Roma
Arcaica se elaboró en torno a dos corrientes
historiográficas, una que tomaba como
argumento el relato griego, en el que el
Lacio fue punto de llegada de sucesivas
expediciones coloniales griegas, desde
tiempos anteriores a Troya, y otra, en
que sin despreciar esta visión mítica, la
complementaba con la llegada continua de
gentes ajena a los héroes, de la extracción
más baja y común, que armonizaba con el
sentimiento de identidad de los romanos
como pueblo. A partir de ahí, la historiografía
augústea maneja el pasado remoto y los
tiempos contemporáneos, reconstruyendo
aquel con episodios novelescos, reliquias
de anticuarios, etiologías, mitos y sucesos
contemporáneos, que luego utiliza como
modelos éticos y paradigmas, al servicio de
la retórica, para los romanos de su propio
tiempo
The literary tradition about Archaic Rome is weaved from two historiographic models, one of which is used as argument the greek report, what relates that Latium were an arrival point of greek colonial consecutive expeditions, since the time before of fall of Troia, and another one which is respectful with the former, but adds to the myth and heroes, the constant arrival of peoples of the lowest and humblest origins, what is agreed with identity feelings of the majority of the romans, as a nation. From there onward, the historiography of Augustus epoch work with the primitive and contemporaneous times reconstructing the first ones, with romantic episodes, remains of antiquities, aethiologies, myths and events of the present, that later the historians are using as ethic models and paradigms, in benefit of the rethoric, for the romans of his very time
The literary tradition about Archaic Rome is weaved from two historiographic models, one of which is used as argument the greek report, what relates that Latium were an arrival point of greek colonial consecutive expeditions, since the time before of fall of Troia, and another one which is respectful with the former, but adds to the myth and heroes, the constant arrival of peoples of the lowest and humblest origins, what is agreed with identity feelings of the majority of the romans, as a nation. From there onward, the historiography of Augustus epoch work with the primitive and contemporaneous times reconstructing the first ones, with romantic episodes, remains of antiquities, aethiologies, myths and events of the present, that later the historians are using as ethic models and paradigms, in benefit of the rethoric, for the romans of his very time












