"Qui primi coluisse Italiam dicuntur" (Gell. 1, 10, 1): Gli Ausoni-Aurunci tra mito delle origini e realtà etnografica

• Autores: Alessandro Pagliara
• Localización: Mélanges de l'Ecole française de Rome. Antiquité, ISSN 0223-5102, Vol. 126, Nº. 2, 2014 (Ejemplar dedicado a: "Origines" : percorsi di ricerca sulle identità etniche nell'Italia antica )
• Idioma: italiano
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  • Tzetzes� comment to three verses of Lycophron�s Alexandra represents the final outcome of the complex literary tradition about the remote Italic Ausones people, located at Nola in Campania by a fragment of Hecataeus of Miletus. A Pindar�s fragment contains one of the oldest attestations of the ethnic: this, according to the integration proposed by Wilamowitz, defines « Ausonius » Locri Epizefirii�s sea, in Calabria. The interplay between these two views � restricted to Campania or extended up to the entire South of Italy � determines the autoschediasmata characterizing even the historical sources on Ausones, largely indebted to the poetical tradition which uses Ausonia as a synonym of Italia; this usage then reaches Vergil through the Hellenistic epic poetry.