Theodor GEORGESCU (Universitatea din București)
IMAGINEA ROMEI ÎN CULTURA ROMÂNĂ PRIN OCHII AUTORILOR DE LIMBĂ GREACĂ VECHE
Keywords: Rome, Romanian culture, Reception of Rome, Ancient Greek writers.
Abstract: The Image of Rome in Romanian Culture through the Eyes of Ancient Greek Writers. In every country’s culture, the image of Antiquity has been built over time, mainly through the efforts of those who studied its written sources. In Romanian culture, Rome was primarily what we had learned from Titus Livius or Tacitus or from many other Latin authors, translated into Romanian especially since the 20th century. After the 1950s, several Greek authors were translated in Romania, such as Appian, Plutarch, Polybius, Cassius Dio, and Diodorus of Sicily, whose works either reveal details or nuances that shed new light on the Rome we knew until then, or show that certain episodes, well known from Latin historians, actually originated in a Greek source.