L’attitude à l’égard des thaumata anthropologiques à Rome (Ier s. av. – Ier ap. J.-C) : encore sur les Pygmées de Philodème
Résumé
At the end of the first cent. BC, despite traditional disapproval, members of the Roman élite surrounded themselves, under the Hellenistic influence, with human freaks, especially dwarfs. Traces of the controversy as regards those thaumata can still be detected in sources relating to Octavian and Antony, especially Suetonius, Porphyrio and an important passage of Philodemus’ De signis about Pygmies brought by Antony from Hyria.