Mystifications around the Consul Espurio Cassio Vecellino
Abstract
The data transmitted by the Greek-Latin authors about the Consul Espurio Cassio Vecellino (VI-V century B.C.) are examined. The analysts of the 2nd and 1st centuries B.C. reworked and falsified the facts and presented Cassio's acts as a precedent of those performed by the Gracchi. The condemnation and execution of the consul was presented as an example to follow against the aspirants to affectatio regini. Finally, two statues that tradition linked to Spurious Cassio are analyzed and a series of considerations are made about his death and the opinion that the plebs and the Cassia gens had about his person in the last centuries of the Roman Republic.
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