Pub Date : 2020-09-17DOI: 10.1017/9781108656917.007
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Pub Date : 2020-09-17DOI: 10.1017/9781108656917.008
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Pub Date : 2020-09-17DOI: 10.1017/9781108656917.002
B. Hartmann, Roman Scriba
The history of the Roman scribae is best characterised by a Republican hero. While the prototypical Republican hero was a man of war, Cnaeus Flavius (A.73), our scribal hero, wielded a sharp pen rather than an edged sword. His conquest was not territory, but knowledge. We owe the most picturesque version of Flavius’ heroic deeds to Cicero. Flavius, in defiance of his post as a subaltern clerk of the Republican state, discloses to the people legal documents jealously guarded by a small elite. On a daily basis, Flavius diligently learns parts of the texts by heart and subsequently commits them to writing. By eventually publishing the legal rules he manages to trick his superordinates and, in Cicero’s words, ‘peck out the eyes of the raven’. Flavius’ release of the fasti and legis actiones – later aptly known as the ius civile Flavianum – publicised knowledge pivotal for the initiation of legal action. This knowledge was power and thanks to the scriba it finally left the hands of the privileged few. Cn. Flavius’ motives and, in fact, even the particulars of his life are obscured by conflicting narratives of the Republican annalistic tradition. It may come as no surprise that the story of our scribal hero was politically charged. Set at the very end of the fourth century bc, Flavius’ career had by the Middle Republic become an epitome of the Struggle of the Orders. The son of a freedman, backed by the plebs and through his apparitorial post as scriba closely associated with its champion, the censor Appius Claudius Caecus, managed to snatch the ius civile from the aristocracy, and later be elected curule aedile and tribune of the plebs himself only to be despised as a social and political upstart by his new peers in the Roman senate.
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