Numa Pompilius et la Rome sacrée

regards croisés d'Augustin et de Thémistios

Most of Augustine's reflexions about Numa Pompilius are concentrated in the City of God; as for Themistios, he alludes to the second Roman king in his Oratio 13, which he plausibly pronounced during the Decennalia of Gratian's reign, on August 24th 376 AD, as he was the guest of the Roman Senate, wh...

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Author:Philippe Bruggisser
Published: S.n., s.l., 2009
Volume:55
Pages:3-22
Language:French
Periodical:Revue d'études augustiniennes et patristiques
Number:1
Format:Article
Topic:- Biography > Background > Roman World > Rome/Roman Empire > myth of Rome
- Works > De civitate Dei > civ. Dei II
- Works > De civitate Dei > civ. Dei III
- Works > De civitate Dei > Topics > [Critique du paganisme]
- Works > Studies on Vocabulary/Themes > Topics - Latin vocabulary > N > Numa Pompilius
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Summary:Most of Augustine's reflexions about Numa Pompilius are concentrated in the City of God; as for Themistios, he alludes to the second Roman king in his Oratio 13, which he plausibly pronounced during the Decennalia of Gratian's reign, on August 24th 376 AD, as he was the guest of the Roman Senate, while the Emperor was waited in the City. According to A., Numa instaured a real impiousness, but it was a true piety according to T. For A., the Senate took part to a religious imposture; for T., it was the warrant of a holy heritage. The same past is either considered as a reference to abandon for A., or one to perpetuate for T. Though A. does not answer T., the comparison of their points of view makes much sense. At a distance of some years or decades, A. and T. appear as the representatives of ways of thinking and argumentative technics which, when confronted to each other, illuminate themselves, as they are applied to the same period of Roman history, in its relation to the Sacred.