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Sparta
(14,168 words)
Losemann, Volker (Marburg/Lahn) I. Image and Interpretation (CT) [German version] A. Introduction: Sparta as a Model (CT) Apart from Rome, no ancient community has been more admired or repudiated than Sparta (S.). In the 'Spartan tradition' [75] stretching from Antiquity to the modern age, we are time and again confronted by 'antithetical patterns of perception' (Stefan Rebenich) which have their origins in the contrasting Classical images of ancient Athens and S. The 'images' and 'stories' evoked by S. are of a…
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Flavus
(213 words)
Roman
cognomen (‘golden yellow’, ‘blond’, probably named after the hair colour), in the Republican period for C. Alfius [I 6] F., the family of the Decimii, Sp. Larcius F. and L. Lucretius Triticipinus F. Elvers, Karl-Ludwig (Bochum) [German version] [1] Of the Cheruscan tribal aristocracy, father of Italicus, also after AD 9 on the side of Rome Brother of Arminius, of the Cheruscan tribal aristocracy. Son of Segimerus, son-in-law of the Chatti princeps Actumerus (Tac. Ann. 11,16,1), father of Italicus [1. 201f.]. F. remained on the side of Rome…
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Inguiomerus
(153 words)
[German version] Respected aristocrat of the Cherusci tribe initially friendly to Rome, brother of Segimerus, who with his nephew Arminius later waged war on Germanicus [2] (Tac. Ann. 1,60,1). Badly wounded in the futile attempt, against the advice of Arminius, to storm the camp of Aulus Caecina [II 8] Severus (Tac. Ann. 1,68), I. fled from the battle at Idistaviso (Tac. Ann. 2,17,5) and remained without success at the Angrivarian Wall (Tac. Ann. 2,21,2). As he no longer wished to obey his nephew Arminius, he went over in AD 17 with a band of followers (
cum manu clientium) to the side…
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Arminius
(929 words)
[German version] The image of A. is highly influenced by the epithet ‘Liberator of Germania’ (
liberator haud dubie Germaniae, Tac. Ann. 2,88), coined by Tacitus. A. was of a noble family of the (
stirps regia, Tac. Ann. 11, 16) Cherusci, he was son of Segimerus, lived to the age of 37 and held a position of power (
potentia, Tac. Ann. 2,88) for 12 years. Based on this information, the most probable years of his birth and death were 16 BC and AD 21, respectively. Biographical information up until the battle with Varus (AD 9) is sparse. As leader of German tribes (
ductor popularium), A. learned La…
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Segestes
(202 words)
[German version] Most important pro-Roman leader of the Cherusci, opponent of Arminius. Like the latter and like Flavus [1], S. held Roman citizenship (Tac. Ann. 1,58,1). He warned P. Quinctilius [II 7] Varus, in vain, of Arminius's conspiracy (Vell. 2,118,4; Flor. Epit. 2,30,33; Cass. Dio 56,19,3) and advised taking all the leaders (including Arminius and S. himself) into custody (Tac. Ann. 1,55,2; 58,2). After the Varus catastrophe in 9 AD S. had - according to his account before Germanicus [2]…
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Thusnelda
(144 words)
[German version] The daughter of the Cherusci leader Segestes (Str. 7,1,4), T. was known as 'the woman in the shadow of Arminius' [1. 121], who abducted her. Pregnant by Arminius and still devoted to him, she fell back under the power of her father (as Tacitus impressively describes) and, a Roman prisoner from AD 15, she gave birth to Thumelicus (Tac. Ann. 1,55-59). In AD 17, Thumelicus accompanied her in the triumph of Germanicus [2] (Str. 7,1,4). Aside from the reception history of Arminius hims…
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National Socialism
(19,312 words)
Losemann, Volker (Marburg/Lahn) I. National Socialist Ideology and Classical Studies (CT) [German version] A. Introduction (CT) After initially discussing how some specifically National Socialist (NS) issues in several areas were affected by the interplay with Antiquity, we shall attempt to shed light on the political implications of the scholarly study of both ancient history in Germany and other areas of Classical Studies. As we look at individuals, institutions and concepts - in the universities and beyond -…
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Segimerus
(81 words)
[German version] Leader of the Cherusci, father of Arminius, also recorded as Sigimerus. (Vell. Pat. 2,118,2). It is unclear whether the S. who is mentioned by Cassius Dio (56,19,2) as a co-conspirator of Arminius is identical with this S. or with the identically named brother of Segestes; this S., with his son Sesithacus, capitulated to the Romans in AD 15 (Tac. Ann. 1,71,1; Str. 7,1,4). The 'conspirator' may even be a third S. [1. 142] Losemann, Volker (Marburg/Lahn) Bibliography
1 D. Timpe, Arminius-Studien, 1970.
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Barbarians
(1,945 words)
[German version] Initially the term B. refers, from a Greek perspective, to groups speaking foreign languages. ‘Hellenes-Barbarians’ fit as ‘asymmetrical alternative terms’ [5. 218-229] into a pattern well known in ethnology: foreigners who are different are termed B. and distinguished from one's own culture by means of a value judgement based on strongly ethnocentric and hellenocentrically determined concepts. The antithesis is more frequently comprehensible, with the ancient image of B. having …
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Maroboduus
(773 words)
[German version] King of the Marcomanni of a noble family (
genere nobilis, Vell. Pat. 2,108,2). In Rome, Maroboduus received the ‘favours’ of Augustus (Str. 7,1,3) early on - more is not known. After returning to his people, M. made himself king (Vell. Pat. 2,108,2) and after 9 BC, he went with the Marcomanni and other Suebian groups - probably with Roman approval - from the Main region into Bohemia which had become sparsely populated after the Boii had moved away ( Boiohaemum, Str. 7,1,3; Tac. Germ. 42,1)…
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Italicus
(172 words)
Common Roman cognomen. Most famously the poet Silius I. Elvers, Karl-Ludwig (Bochum) [German version] [1] King of the Cherusci from 47 AD Son of the Cheruscan Flavus (the brother of Arminius) and of a daughter of the Chatti leader Actumerus, born and raised in Rome. Because the quarrelling nobility demand I. as king of the Cherusci, emperor Claudius [III 1] installs this last offshoot of the
stirps regia as king in AD 47 (Tac. Ann. 11,16); this shows the new development of Romano-Germanic relations since the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest. Driven out afte…
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Segimundus
(137 words)
[German version] Son of Segestes, the leader of the Cherusci (Str. 7,1,4). Elected priest of the imperial altar of the Ubii (Ara Ubiorum) in AD 9, he tore up his priest's fillets during Arminius' revolt and fled to the rebels (Tac. Ann. 1,57,2). The priestly office and the altar may be evidence of an Augustean province of Germania; they underline the close cooperation between the Cherusci and the Romans. In AD 15 his father, under siege by Arminius, sent him to seek help from Germanicus [2]. Germa…
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Thumelicus
(118 words)
[German version] Son of Arminius and Thusnelda, presumably born in Roman captivity in AD 15, and paraded in Germanicus' [2] triumph in AD 17 (Str. 7,1,4). A description of how the boy was raised in Ravenna and fell victim to ridicule, referred to by Tacitus (Tac. Ann. 1,58,6), is lost. When the Cherusci requested Rome for Italicus [1] as king in AD 47, T. was no longer alive (Tac. Ann. 11,16,1). T. is the hero of a tragedy,
Der Fechter von Ravenna, which appeared in 1854 under the pseudonym Friedrich Halm; its authorship has been fiercely debated [2. 414]. Losemann, Volker (Marburg/Lahn) Biblio…
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