Stefano Rozzi (Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici, Università di Torino)
Legioni, un esercito “non” violento? [Legions, a “non” violent army?]
Keywords: violenza, crudelitas, discordia, feritas, ferocitas, furor, immanitas, impietas, inhumanitas, vis, βία, δεινός, θυμικός, σφοδρός, trattati militari, de re militari.
Abstract: Legions, a “non” violent army? The aim of this paper is to examine some preliminary ways to investigate the lack of violent words in the Roman military literature both in Latin and Greek. The absence of this kind of terminology could have its roots in a certain way of thinking caused by social and anthropological environment. The paper suggests some research topics that can be explored to track down the origin of this phenomenon.