História exemplar na escritura liviana: a representação da família romana.

Abstract

Livy (59 B.C. – 17 A.C.), Roman historian, coming from Patavium (Pádua), wrote on a great work titled Ab Urbe Condita Libri (Rome History), its composed by on hundred forty two books, of whom survived until nowadays are thirty-five. The guide of his writing is the remembering of narratives from the past, from royalty and republic, with the objective of produce a virtuous for a civic practice of his period, like this, contributing for the ideological and reformer project of princeps, imperator and augusts Octavian. The work addressed for the populous romanorum whose vices, believe, where shaking the identity of the Roman people, for the attention given to luxury, the richness and the non-compliance of their general civic practices, saw the history (magistra uitae) as a means of Rome return to it first identity, the identity of being the Lady of the world. Livy recovers the exempla of people and familes for the elaboration of his civic guide. Therefore, the present work analyses how are related the individual and families exempla and their respective context that were mimicked.