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Document Details : Title: Roman Commanders and Hellenistic Kings Subtitle: On the 'Hellenization' of the Republican Triumph Author(s): ITGENSHORST, T. Journal: Ancient Society Volume: 36 Date: 2006 Pages: 51-68 DOI: 10.2143/AS.36.0.2017828 Abstract : This article discusses the traditional view that the Roman victory ritual underwent a substantial change during the late Republic influenced by the opulence of the Hellenistic courts. The Greek descriptions of republican triumphs (which in the past have been the most important argument in favor of the ‘hellenization’ of the triumph) are here seen in their proper historical and literary context of hellenism. After stressing the profound differences between the republican victory ritual and the Hellenistic pompai it is argued that one may well speak of ‘hellenization’ as a literary phenomenon on the part of the Greek authors (Polybius, Diodorus, Dionysius, Plutarch), but not of ‘hellenization’ as a cultural process which had an effect on the performance of the victory rite in Rome itself. |
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