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Origo Gentis Romanae : Die Ursprünge des römischen Volkes
Origo Gentis Romanae : Die Ursprünge des römischen Volkes
Markus Sehlmeyer
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The so-called Origo gentis Romanae (hereafter OGR), a critical exposition of the prehistory of Rome from Saturn’s arrival in Italy through Romulus and Remus, survives with the De viris illustribus and Sextus Aurelius Victor’s De Caesaribus in two fifteenth-century manuscripts, both perhaps copied from what was described by its owner, the sixteenth-century erudite Jean Matal, as a codex antiquissimus. OGR was first attributed to Victor, then pronounced a humanist forgery by Niebuhr, but the identity of the author of the OGR is now agreed to be beyond recovery, though he cannot be Victor or whoever produced the De viris illustribus or the compiler of the tripartite Corpus Aurelianum of which the OGR is the first segment.
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