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Antonino Pinzone, « Aspetti temporali e spaziali nei frammenti diodorei sulle guerre servili siciliane », Actes du Groupe de Recherches sur l’Esclavage depuis l’Antiquité, ID : 10670/1.urxgvf
A careful and deeper reading of the fragments of the Historical Library of Diodorus Siculus about the servile wars of the second century B. C., highlights how the author (or rather its source, Posidonius) has made conscious use of pre-established models, drawing on the behavioral skills of the bonus imperator (especially the celeritas in agundo, i. e. the speed of intervention), and on common prejudices of anthropological nature, an area where the famous historian and philosopher of Apamea was the leading expert in antiquity.