Book by Eva Hagen
Einer der berühmtesten antiken Mythen erzählt von der Ankunft des Trojaners Aeneas in Latium; ein... more Einer der berühmtesten antiken Mythen erzählt von der Ankunft des Trojaners Aeneas in Latium; eines der bekanntesten Daten der Geschichte ist die Gründung Roms durch seinen Nachfahren Romulus im Jahr 753 v. Chr. Doch vor der Etablierung dieser kanonischen Erzählungen gab es einen großen Reichtum an mythhistorischen Vorstellungen über die Ursprünge Roms und der Latiner, an deren Anfang Hesiods Verse über den eponymen Heros Latinos als Sohn des Odysseus und der Kirke stehen. Eva Hagen untersucht drei vorkanonische Traditionsstränge über den Stammvater Latinus zwischen Hesiod und dem 3. Jahrhundert v. Chr. Aktualisierungen und Variationen zwischen archaischem griechischem Epos und den Anfängen der römischen Vulgata geben Aufschluss über die Entwicklung ethnischer Identitäten im Tyrrhenischen Italien und die Verhältnisse zwischen Latium und Rom, der herausragendsten Stadt der Region. Aus den weitgehend fragmentarisch überlieferten Genealogien und Erzählungen rekonstruiert die Autorin lebendige Diskurse über epische, ethnische und städtische Identitäten sowie göttliche, einheimische, griechische und trojanische Wurzeln und diskutiert mögliche politische und soziale Funktionen.
PhD Thesis by Eva Hagen
PhD thesis Freiburg im Breisgau, discussed, 2017
Ich untersuche drei vorkanonische Traditionsstränge über Stammvater Latinus zwischen Hesiod und d... more Ich untersuche drei vorkanonische Traditionsstränge über Stammvater Latinus zwischen Hesiod und dem 3. Jh. v. Chr. Aktualisierungen und Variationen zwischen archaischem griechischem Epos und den Anfängen der römischen Vulgata geben Aufschluss über die Entwicklung ethnischer Identitäten im Tyrrhenischen Italien und die Verhältnisse zwischen Latium und Rom. Aus den weitgehend fragmentarisch überlieferten Genealogien und Erzählungen werden lebendige Diskurse über epische ethnische und städtische Identitäten sowie göttliche, einheimische, griechische und trojanische Wurzeln rekonstruiert und mögliche soziale Funktionen diskutiert.
I examine three pre-canonical strands of tradition about ancestor Latinus between Hesiod and the 3rd century B.C. Updates and variations between archaic Greek epic and the beginnings of the Roman Vulgate shed light on the development of ethnic identities in Tyrrhenian Italy and the relations between Latium and Rome. From the largely fragmentary genealogies and narratives that have survived, lively discourses on epic ethnic and urban identities as well as divine, indigenous, Greek and Trojan roots are reconstructed and possible social functions discussed.
Papers by Eva Hagen
Based on an analysis of the various aetiologies of the Palatine and the increasing importance of ... more Based on an analysis of the various aetiologies of the Palatine and the increasing importance of the hill in the Roman foundation narratives, a new interpretation of the evidence is proposed. Instead of privileging the main tradition of the vulgate, while disregarding the other, mostly worse documented stories as literary constructions without any social value, it is argued that the ‘cumulative creation of sense’
(kumulative Sinnstiftung ) was a central characteristic of Roman (and Greek) memory culture. Not only did narratives aim at the constitution and preservation of identity, they also constantly enriched the myth-historical and topographical imaginary. The concept of ‘cumulative creation of sense’, here proposed for the first time, can help to understand why there was not one linear development of a foundation tradition, in this case of the Palatine Hill, but several discourses could and did coexist.
E. Calandra et. al. (eds.), "Lazio e Sabina 10, 2013", 359-361., Jun 2014
Dal 4 al 13 maggio 2013 un gruppo internazionale di giovani studiosi si è riunito a Roma per il w... more Dal 4 al 13 maggio 2013 un gruppo internazionale di giovani studiosi si è riunito a Roma per il workshop 'Landscape and Memory in Ancient Latium', iniziativa promossa dall'Istituto Archeologico Germanico e dal Reale Istituto Neerlandese a Roma.
In: E. Calandra, G. Ghini & Z. Mari (eds.) Lazio a Sabina 10 (2013), Rome 2014, 359-361
Dal 4 al 13 maggio 2013 un gruppo internazionale di giovani studiosi si è riunito a Roma per il w... more Dal 4 al 13 maggio 2013 un gruppo internazionale di giovani studiosi si è riunito a Roma per il workshop 'Landscape and Memory in Ancient Latium', iniziativa promossa dall'Istituto Archeologico Germanico e dal Reale Istituto Neerlandese a Roma.
Dal 4 al 13 maggio 2013 un gruppo internazionale di giovani studiosi si è riunito a Roma per il w... more Dal 4 al 13 maggio 2013 un gruppo internazionale di giovani studiosi si è riunito a Roma per il workshop 'Landscape and Memory in Ancient Latium', iniziativa promossa dall'Istituto Archeologico Germanico e dal Reale Istituto Neerlandese a Roma.
Relatore ospite: Feriae Latinae. Memory and place -Christopher Smith (British School at Rome) Of ... more Relatore ospite: Feriae Latinae. Memory and place -Christopher Smith (British School at Rome) Of huts and houses. The domestic landscape of Latium Vetus in the 7 th and 6 th c. BC -Greta Günther (Universität Innsbruck) People and the state. The development of Crustumerium between 800 and 450 BC. -Jorn Seubers (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen) Remembering Rome's foundation outside the city: Lavinium and Alba Longa as Augustan 'Erinnerungsräume'? -Raphael Hunsucker (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen) Relatrice ospite: Alföldi's "Early Rome and the Latins": invented tradition (almost) fifty years on -Emma Dench (Harvard University) La fondazione delle città latine: mito e identità -Clara di Fazio (Università di Roma "La Sapienza") Local and Roman memories of Tusculum and Praeneste between self-assertion and rapprochement -Eva Hagen (DAI Rom/Universität Freiburg) Tibur's urban landscape in the II nd and I st c. B. C.: asserting the identity of a Latin city -Elisabeth Buchet (Paris IV Sorbonne) The reconstructed memory of the leges agrariae in Ancient Latium: the landscape as a subject of ideological elaboration -Nicolas Meunier (Université catholique de Louvain) Sessione 2: (Non) urban landscapes Relatore ospite: Best forgotten? Landscape and memory in the land of Saturn -Robert Witcher (Durham University) Along the way: the burial landscape of the Appian way as a system of memorial places -Mariateresa Curcio (Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne/Università di Roma "La Sapienza"), Rachele Dubbini (Università Roma Tre) Landscape archaeological approaches to Roman settlement patterns in southern coastal Lazio -Michael Teichmann (DAI Rom/Universität Kiel)
Talks by Eva Hagen
Die Literatur Roms zeichnet sich von ihrem Beginn an durch einen großen Reichtum an Aitiologien a... more Die Literatur Roms zeichnet sich von ihrem Beginn an durch einen großen Reichtum an Aitiologien aus, dessen angemessene Einschätzung m. E. noch aussteht. Ihre Etikettierungen in der Forschung als antiquarische Spekulationen, poetische Erfindungen oder Entlehnungen von griechischen Vorbildern implizieren, dass man ihnen nur geringe Bedeutung für ‚die Römer‘ zugesteht. In diesem Beitrag soll nun das Konzept der „Intentionalen Geschichte“ (H.-J. Gehrke), das betont, dass Erzählungen über die Vergangenheit stets mit einem Sinnstiftungsanspruch entstehen, auch für das Phänomen der Mehrfacherklärungen fruchtbar gemacht werden. Um dem Problem der Vielfalt an Erklärungen für ein und denselben Namen zu begegnen, ziehe ich dazu die Beobachtung der „Ambiguitätstoleranz“ (u. a. Th. Bauer) heran, die es in vormodernen Gesellschaften möglich machte, dass unterschiedliche, auch gegensätzliche Ansichten, Deutungen und Interpretationen nebeneinander vorgebracht und toleriert werden konnten. Die Kreation immer neuer Aitiologien neben bereits bestehenden Erzählungen und Theorien lässt sich schließlich als Mittel einer „kumulativen Sinnstiftung“ (E. Hagen) im vorchristlichen Rom erklären.
Memories are essential to the creation and preservation of identities, and a collective memory – ... more Memories are essential to the creation and preservation of identities, and a collective memory – in its nuances of social, communicative and cultural memory – is considered a necessary basis for the of identities of groups. This function of reference to the past has been studied extensively for many historical periods in the last decades, but also particularly with regard to ancient Rome. In my PhD thesis I want to leave the predominantly Romano-centric perspective and look at Rome’s Latin neighbours. Despite their geographical, political and cultural closeness to Rome, I argue that the Latin towns have to be studied as separate communities that, on a local scale, still conserve and dispute mythical and historical memories different from Rome, just as Latin towns still do nowadays.
In my paper, I present my methodological approach to Latin memories by discussing some examples from Tusculum and Praeneste. Since first hand source material from Latin towns is scarce, consisting almost exclusively in epigraphic and archaeological evidence, I use three steps in order to carve out genuine local Latin memory cultures.
In the first step, I analyse the literary evidence of memories of Latium. Accounts by Livy, Dionysius of Halicarnassus and references by all the other authors have to be analysed critically taking into consideration the respective rules of the literary genres. The literary presentation of Latin towns is conditioned by the authors’ primary interests in the stories they are telling, and literary fiction must always be kept in mind as an important element in the creation and tradition of historical narratives.
The second step is due to the fact that the literature mentioning our Latin towns is Roman, or at least Romano-centric. The choice of what should be included into literature has been made in Rome and the view on the Latin towns is always one from the outside. Therefore special attention must be paid to the urban Roman discourses and the historical circumstances in which Latin history was discussed on the one hand and to the relationship between Rome and the Latins that influenced the eventual presentation of their history on the other.
In the last step, I eventually turn to the memory culture in the Latin towns. What kind of memories did they have and how did their view on their mythical and historical past change in times of political opposition and rapprochement to Rome? In which forms, institutions and spaces did the citizens of Latin towns articulate and cultivate their collective memories? Considering genre and urban Roman biases on Latin past in the literary sources, special methodological care is needed, when using them for the Latins. Epigraphic and archaeological evidence are therefore of paramount importance.
Workshops and conferences by Eva Hagen
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PhD Thesis by Eva Hagen
I examine three pre-canonical strands of tradition about ancestor Latinus between Hesiod and the 3rd century B.C. Updates and variations between archaic Greek epic and the beginnings of the Roman Vulgate shed light on the development of ethnic identities in Tyrrhenian Italy and the relations between Latium and Rome. From the largely fragmentary genealogies and narratives that have survived, lively discourses on epic ethnic and urban identities as well as divine, indigenous, Greek and Trojan roots are reconstructed and possible social functions discussed.
Papers by Eva Hagen
(kumulative Sinnstiftung ) was a central characteristic of Roman (and Greek) memory culture. Not only did narratives aim at the constitution and preservation of identity, they also constantly enriched the myth-historical and topographical imaginary. The concept of ‘cumulative creation of sense’, here proposed for the first time, can help to understand why there was not one linear development of a foundation tradition, in this case of the Palatine Hill, but several discourses could and did coexist.
Talks by Eva Hagen
In my paper, I present my methodological approach to Latin memories by discussing some examples from Tusculum and Praeneste. Since first hand source material from Latin towns is scarce, consisting almost exclusively in epigraphic and archaeological evidence, I use three steps in order to carve out genuine local Latin memory cultures.
In the first step, I analyse the literary evidence of memories of Latium. Accounts by Livy, Dionysius of Halicarnassus and references by all the other authors have to be analysed critically taking into consideration the respective rules of the literary genres. The literary presentation of Latin towns is conditioned by the authors’ primary interests in the stories they are telling, and literary fiction must always be kept in mind as an important element in the creation and tradition of historical narratives.
The second step is due to the fact that the literature mentioning our Latin towns is Roman, or at least Romano-centric. The choice of what should be included into literature has been made in Rome and the view on the Latin towns is always one from the outside. Therefore special attention must be paid to the urban Roman discourses and the historical circumstances in which Latin history was discussed on the one hand and to the relationship between Rome and the Latins that influenced the eventual presentation of their history on the other.
In the last step, I eventually turn to the memory culture in the Latin towns. What kind of memories did they have and how did their view on their mythical and historical past change in times of political opposition and rapprochement to Rome? In which forms, institutions and spaces did the citizens of Latin towns articulate and cultivate their collective memories? Considering genre and urban Roman biases on Latin past in the literary sources, special methodological care is needed, when using them for the Latins. Epigraphic and archaeological evidence are therefore of paramount importance.
Workshops and conferences by Eva Hagen
https://webmagazine.unitn.it/evento/lettere/71388/5-treffen-des-netzwerks-historiai-antike-geschichtsschreibung-und
I examine three pre-canonical strands of tradition about ancestor Latinus between Hesiod and the 3rd century B.C. Updates and variations between archaic Greek epic and the beginnings of the Roman Vulgate shed light on the development of ethnic identities in Tyrrhenian Italy and the relations between Latium and Rome. From the largely fragmentary genealogies and narratives that have survived, lively discourses on epic ethnic and urban identities as well as divine, indigenous, Greek and Trojan roots are reconstructed and possible social functions discussed.
(kumulative Sinnstiftung ) was a central characteristic of Roman (and Greek) memory culture. Not only did narratives aim at the constitution and preservation of identity, they also constantly enriched the myth-historical and topographical imaginary. The concept of ‘cumulative creation of sense’, here proposed for the first time, can help to understand why there was not one linear development of a foundation tradition, in this case of the Palatine Hill, but several discourses could and did coexist.
In my paper, I present my methodological approach to Latin memories by discussing some examples from Tusculum and Praeneste. Since first hand source material from Latin towns is scarce, consisting almost exclusively in epigraphic and archaeological evidence, I use three steps in order to carve out genuine local Latin memory cultures.
In the first step, I analyse the literary evidence of memories of Latium. Accounts by Livy, Dionysius of Halicarnassus and references by all the other authors have to be analysed critically taking into consideration the respective rules of the literary genres. The literary presentation of Latin towns is conditioned by the authors’ primary interests in the stories they are telling, and literary fiction must always be kept in mind as an important element in the creation and tradition of historical narratives.
The second step is due to the fact that the literature mentioning our Latin towns is Roman, or at least Romano-centric. The choice of what should be included into literature has been made in Rome and the view on the Latin towns is always one from the outside. Therefore special attention must be paid to the urban Roman discourses and the historical circumstances in which Latin history was discussed on the one hand and to the relationship between Rome and the Latins that influenced the eventual presentation of their history on the other.
In the last step, I eventually turn to the memory culture in the Latin towns. What kind of memories did they have and how did their view on their mythical and historical past change in times of political opposition and rapprochement to Rome? In which forms, institutions and spaces did the citizens of Latin towns articulate and cultivate their collective memories? Considering genre and urban Roman biases on Latin past in the literary sources, special methodological care is needed, when using them for the Latins. Epigraphic and archaeological evidence are therefore of paramount importance.
https://webmagazine.unitn.it/evento/lettere/71388/5-treffen-des-netzwerks-historiai-antike-geschichtsschreibung-und