«Legatorum facta»: la ejemplaridad de los embajadores romanos

Abstract

The increase of the number of legatus as international ambassador in politics since the Second Punic War, helped the election of certain legati as leaders of episodes of exemplariness with the purpose of encourage certain behaviour in the Roman political diplomacy during the Middle Republic. This exemplariness was expanded by two means: through the erection of honorific statues in Forum, and by granting the role of celebrated exempla of classical literature and history to some famous ambassadors and their no less famous legationes.