Schwurszene und Coniuratio

Abstract

In the preceding volume Jochen Bleicken gave the well known oath scene on the coins of Rome and the Italic peoples a new reading: instead of connecting it, as before, with the religious swearing of treaties in foreign affairs, he relates it to a particular form of the soldier's oath and equates that with the irregular levy attested as coniuratio. The author sees in this a considerable step forward whose principle will prevail, and adds observations in order to build further on the result. A key position is held by Livy's account of the levy of 216, the year of Cannae; the paper sets out the passage in full and examines its wording, since the reading of the coin images depends on it as well.

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Suggested citation

Instinsky, Hans Ulrich: Schwurszene und Coniuratio. In: Jahrbuch für Numismatik und Geldgeschichte 14 (1964), pp. 83–87.

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