Publications

Authors:

Pelloso, Carlo

Title:

RITO DI PURIFICAZIONE DAL PARRICIDIO O ESECUZIONE CAPITALE DEL PARRICIDA? ALCUNE CONSIDERAZIONI A MARGINE DELLA PRO SEXTO ROSCIO AMERINO

Year:

2021

Type of item:

Articolo in Rivista

Tipologia ANVUR:

Articolo su rivista

Language:

Italiano

Format:

A Stampa

Referee:

Sì

Name of journal:

STUDIA ET DOCUMENTA HISTORIAE ET IURIS

ISSN of journal:

1026-9169

N° Volume:

LXXXVII

:

Pontificia Universita Lateranense:Piazza S Giovanni Laterano 4, 00120 Vatican City:011 39 6 69886401, Fax: 011 39 6 69886508

Page numbers:

109-133

Keyword:

parricidium; poena cullei; procuratio prodigii; Cicero.

Short description of contents:

Cicero describes parricide not only as the most heinous crime, but also as a violation of natural order. Its dreadful punishment, i.e. the sack, is a ritual apparently laden with symbolic implications: yet, although the crime at issue inspires horror and revulsion like few others, the identification of the perpetrator with a monstrum in its legal and religious sense (i.e. a divine omen of misfortune for Rome) is fascinating but questionable. Accordingly, this essay argues that the poena cullei can hardly be identified with forms of reconciliatory rituals between humans and gods related to the so-called procuratio prodigii.

Product ID:

132161

Handle IRIS:

11562/1086353

Last Modified:

February 24, 2023

Bibliographic citation:

Pelloso, Carlo, RITO DI PURIFICAZIONE DAL PARRICIDIO O ESECUZIONE CAPITALE DEL PARRICIDA? ALCUNE CONSIDERAZIONI A MARGINE DELLA PRO SEXTO ROSCIO AMERINO «STUDIA ET DOCUMENTA HISTORIAE ET IURIS» , vol. LXXXVII , 2021 , pp. 109-133

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