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suoi principali interessi riguardano l’epigramma greco e latino,
letterario ed epigrafico (dalle origini fino ad Ausonio),
l’elegia ellenistica e romana, la
Appendix Vergiliana
e il dramma senecano.
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The
Roman
Conquest
of
Cyprus
in Ancient Sources:
A
bellum
iustum
or
iniustum?
Georgios Vassiliades
https://doi.org/10.60983/003-1.2
ABSTRACT
Through the analysis of relevant Latin and Greek sources, this
chapter attempts to show how the Roman authors and, probably,
the Roman public opinion of the 50s BC morally evaluated the
annexation of Cyprus on the basis of the moral and legal
category of bellum iustum. It is concluded that the Roman
public opinion, whose viewpoint is reflected in contemporary and
later sources, were divided on the moral evaluation of their own
decision on the question of whether the annexation of Cyprus was
a bellum iustum or a bellum iniustum, by thus
adopting the arguments of Clodius or Cicero respectively.
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