Sur deux discours-programmes : à propos d'A.K. 3,10,3-11,11

Abstract

The debate opposing Mettius Fufetius and Tullus Hostilius is anything but a mere scholarly controversy. On the contrary, it places itself under the sign of the αρχαία και φιλόσοφος ρητορική so dear to the heart of Dionysius of Halicarnassus. His manner is both that of the political thinker wishing to explain the everlastingness of an empire considered as having no end and that of the historian for whom Rome was a Greek city, and even the most Greek of Greek cities.