Romanitas și gens togata. Embleme ale romanității
Registers of Identity Landmarks in Roman Literature

Summary/Abstract: References to identity landmarks which cross our entire human existence, involving a prolific game of the variations that affect humans’ identity, of categories (i.e. genre, social, ethnical, professional, religious), as well as the very human condition are omnipresent in the Latin literature, in a variety of registers, from the burlesque to the tragical, from the ironical, humoristic or satirical reflexivity to the solemn, severe emphasizing, from the contingent notations to the systematic questioning, aiming at exhaustiveness. This paper identifies and emphasizes some of these hypostases and tonalities, resulting in a mosaic portrayal, with some missing pieces, yet very interesting and attractive, of the Roman representation of humans and humanity, from the point of view of their eternal and general characteristics, on the one hand, and their shallowness and caducity, on the other.

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