Resumen de Une prosopographie des Italiques à travers les sources littéraires romaines: quels enseignements?
This article analyses the contribution of literary sources to our knowledge of the Italics. It focuses on the Abruzzi, where prosopographical research has identified twenty Italics who lived between the beginning of the 5th century BC and the Social War. It first examines the contexts and motives for the appearance of these names in the literary sources. Names appear in two very different contexts: in wars where these peoples served as allies of Rome and where some of their most illustrious members would have made an assault on uirtus; and in the Social War, due to the harshness of the conflict and the maintenance of family memory by those who managed to join the Roman aristocracy one or two generations later. The analysis then focuses on the distribution of occurrences according to the types of literary sources, focusing in particular on the over-representation of occurrences in Orosius and Silius Italicus and on their under-representation in Greek-speaking authors. Finally, it discusses the way in which these Italics from Abruzzi viewed Rome.
