Lire, relire la bibliothèque des sciences de l'Antiquité Guillaume de Méritens de VilleneuveRelire « The Allegiance of Labienus » (JRS, 28, 1938) et dépasser l'inertie historiographique autour des travaux de Ronald Syme . . . . . . L'atelier de l'histoire : les chantiers historiographiques Actualité du théâtre antique » (coordonné par Malika Bastin-Hammou) (n° 5) Claire Lechevalier La génération sacrifiée des enfants des Atrides. Électre /Oreste mis en scène par Ivo Van Hove à la Comédie-Française . . . . . . . . . . . Les mots de l'Antiquité (coordonné par Magali Soulatges) (n°11) Florent Libral Conjurer le spectre d'Épicure ? Noms et définitions de l'atome dans la philosophie d'Emmanuel Maignan (1601-1676) . . . . . . . . . . . Antiquités numériques (coordonné par Elodie Guillon) (n° 2)

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The epigram on Casca and his amica senex (p. 120 FPL4 Bl.), whose author’s name is given by the manuscripts of Varro L. 7.28 as Papinius and by those of Priscian Inst. Gramm. 3.11 as Pomponius or Pompnius, is to be attributed to Pompilius, whom Varro also cites in two other places (L. 7.93; Men. frg. 356 A.). Pompilius is not to be considered a tragedian but a writer of early satura following in the footsteps of Ennius and Pacuvius and paving the way for Lucilius. The evidence for this thesis, which was already stated in the 19th century but has been disregarded in recent times, is collected and vindicated.

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From the ancient Life of Persius we learn that the poet was a cognatus of Arria the Younger, the wife of Thrasea Paetus. Furthermore, we are told that he was pietatis erga matrem et sororem et amitam exemplo sufficientis. As evidence for his piety towards his mother and his sister the biographer mentions that Persius bequeathed his property to them. But we can also find another act of piety towards a relative mentioned in the poet's biography: a laudatory poem on Arria the Elder. Some considerations about the dates of birth and death of both Arria the Younger and the Elder, Thrasea, and Persius' father corroborate the assumption that Arria the Elder may have been Persius' aunt.