[lit-ideas] The Three Tribes of Rome: Tites, Ramnes, Luceres
- From: jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
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- Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2010 22:48:32 -0400
Geary:
i "We all belong to some tribe."
This requires formalisation. Consider "T" to symbolise "tribe".
Consider:
ii "Every nice girl loves a sailor"
iii. "A man gets run over by a car in this street once a day"
--- Re iii: "I wonder how the chap survives" is NOT appropriate. It is
not implicated that it´s the SAME man.
Re ii: While it is conceivable that every nice girls loves THE SAME
sailor, that is implicated, more than entailed.
Re Geary´s i. We all belong to some tribe -- or other. If we all, x, y,
z, belonged to the SAME tribe (not other) then? ... reductio ad
absurdum.
Helmut Rix unearthed the three tribes of the Romans: they were the
Tites, the Ramnes and the Luceres. They corresponded to three ethnias:
the sexiest were the Tites, or Latins or Romans. Then came the Sabines
-- the Luceres -- whose women had a reputation for being "facile". The
Ramnes were the Etruscans, who nobody could understand (clearly).
Helmut concludes:
"Bullshit". He doesn´t use that word. He writes: "The evidence that the
three tribes were indicated by different streets on the map of Rome is
pretentious. The Romans kept very poor maps. It was thus likely that a
Titi could meet with a Ramni or a Luceri at the colisseum, or
something. Whey they belonged, OFFICIALLY, to different tribes, they
mixed pretty freely -- especially women."
--- The reproduction of the Luceres with the Tites in fact had Gellius
Atticus cliaim that the tribes were "four" and proposed "quabes" as the
term -- but his bold pronouncement was soon suppressed.
Up to this day, you can still NOTE who belongs to what. Etc. Unless
you don´t.
JL Speranza
Bordighera
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