In this contribution the author shows how the vow of the ver sacrum, an ancient Italic custom, which implied the sacrifice to the gods of all new born in a certain spring, had turned over time, for people, into an essentially migratory practice, since they, instead of being immolated, were expelled from the territory once they became adults. In fact, in fulfillment of the promise, there were often mass generational migrations. From a precise Livian testimony it is also clear that, in 217 BC, the ver sacrum had remained in Rome in the form of a sacrificial offering of animals only; however, the twenty-year deferment of its execution is attributed by the author, rather than to the discipline of the fulfillment of the condition affixed to the vote, to the significant survival, in some of its elements, of the regime of the ver sacrum intended as a migratory rite.
In questo contributo l’autore mostra come il voto del ver sacrum, antico rito italico, che implicava il sacrificio agli dei di tutti i nuovi nati in una certa primavera, si fosse trasformato nel tempo, per gli umani, in una pratica essenzialmente migratoria, dato che essi, anziché immolati, venivano espulsi dal territorio una volta divenuti adulti. Pertanto, in adempimento della promessa si assisteva sovente a migrazioni generazionali di massa. Da una precisa testimonianza liviana si evince peraltro che, nel 217 a.C., il ver sacrum si era mantenuto a Roma nella forma di offerta sacrificale di soli animali; tuttavia, il differimento di venti anni della sua esecuzione viene imputato dall’autore, più che alla disciplina dell’avveramento della condizione apposta al voto, alla significativa sopravvivenza, in qualche suo elemento, del regime del ver sacrum inteso come rito migratorio.
Il ‘ver sacrum'. Considerazioni in merito a regime e sviluppo storico di un antico rito migratorio
FRANCHINI L
2020-01-01
Abstract
In this contribution the author shows how the vow of the ver sacrum, an ancient Italic custom, which implied the sacrifice to the gods of all new born in a certain spring, had turned over time, for people, into an essentially migratory practice, since they, instead of being immolated, were expelled from the territory once they became adults. In fact, in fulfillment of the promise, there were often mass generational migrations. From a precise Livian testimony it is also clear that, in 217 BC, the ver sacrum had remained in Rome in the form of a sacrificial offering of animals only; however, the twenty-year deferment of its execution is attributed by the author, rather than to the discipline of the fulfillment of the condition affixed to the vote, to the significant survival, in some of its elements, of the regime of the ver sacrum intended as a migratory rite.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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