Granius Flaccus
Granius Flaccus (active in the 1st century BC) was an antiquarian and scholar of Roman law and religion, probably in the time of Julius Caesar and Augustus.
Religious scholar
Granius wrote a book De indigitamentis ("On Forms of Address"), on the
Granius was used as a source on ancient Roman religion by the
Granius maintained that the Genius and the Lar were one and the same.[7] He shared the view of Varro that the res divinae for both Apollo and Father Liber were celebrated on Mount Parnassus.[8] It is sometimes unclear whether references to "Flaccus" refer to him or to Verrius Flaccus.
Jurist
Granius is cited as an authority in the
The point of law cited in the Digest involves distinguishing a girlfriend (amica) from a
This Granius is sometimes identified with Granius Licinianus; the latter, however, is almost always dated to the time of Hadrian.
References
- ^ Mary Beard, J.A. North and S.R.F. Price. Religions of Rome: A History (Cambridge University Press, 1998), vol. 1, p. 152; Matthias Klinghardt, "Prayer Formularies for Public Recitation: Their Use and Function in Ancient Religion," Numen 46 (1999), p. 44; William Warde Fowler, The Roman Festivals of the Period of the Republic (London, 1908), p. 89.
- ^ Eleanor G. Huzar, "Emperor Worship in Julio-Claudian Egypt," Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt II.18.5 (1990), p. 3106.
- ^ Censorinus 3.2: in libro quem ad Caesarem de indigitamentis scriptum reliquit; French translation.
- ^ Macrobius, Saturnalia 1.18.4.
- ^ Four times, and a possible fifth as "Flaccus," who may also be Verrius Flaccus.
- ^ George E. McCracken, Arnobius of Sicca: The Case Against the Pagans (Newman Press, 1949), pp. 35, 36, 216, 221–222, 258, 364–365. The passage involving Aristotle, Minerva, and the Moon is 3.6.
- ^ Censorinus 3.2.
- ^ Macrobius, Saturnalia 1.18.4, Bill Thayer's edition at LacusCurtius.
- ^ Cicero does not actually mention Granius or the book; the dating is by scholarly inference.
- H.J. Rose, A Handbook of Latin Literature (London, 1936, 1996), pp. 29–30.
- ^ If he is the "Flaccus" referenced in a gloss to Aeneid 12.234 (frg. 8 Huschke).
- ^ Numam Pompilium, cum sacra Romanis conderet, voto impetrasses, ut omnes dii falsum iuramentum vindicarent; John Scheid, "Oral Tradition and Written Tradition in the Formation," in Religion and Law in Classical and Christian Rome (Franz Steiner, 2006), p. 28, note 55.
- ^ A. Arthur Schiller, Roman Law: Mechanisms of Development (Mouton, 1978), pp. 140–143.
- ^ Gloria Ferrari, Figures of Speech: Men and Maidens in Ancient Greece (University of Chicago Press, 2002), p. 307; Henry John Roby, An Introduction to the Study of Justinian's Digest (Cambridge University Press, 1886), p. cxxiv.
- ^ Rose, Handbook of Latin Literature, p. 29; Digest 50.16.144: Granius Flaccus in libro de iure Papiriano scribit pellicem nunc volgo vocari, quae cum eo, cui uxor sit, corpus misceat: quosdam eam, quae uxoris loco sine nuptiis in domo sit, quam pallakyn Graeci vocant.
External links
- The fragments of Granius Flaccus, conflated with those of Granius Licinianus, are collected by Philipp Eduard Huschke, Iurisprudentiae anteiustinianae quae supersunt (Leipzig, 1889, 4th ed.), pp. 107–109 online.