Game of Scipios: Habsburg Interpretations, Adaptations, and Uses of Scipio Africanus in Early Modern Europe
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Abstract At the turn of sixteenth century, Habsburgs formulated a distinct dynastic identity that centered around their claims ancient ancestry. They promoted this through an elaborate symbolic apparatus extensively evoked historical and mythological figures from antiquity. This article identifies one such strand in Habsburgs’ repertoires upon identification with Scipio Africanus (236/235–183 BC), famous Roman general celebrated for his campaigns against Carthage. By tracing uses Scipio, offers reassessment dynasty's relationship these images. Traditionally, shared have been understood to be source strength, providing degree unity uniformity dynasty scattered across early modern Europe. argues ought not taken granted. While attachment interpretations hero differed each other ways were revealing individual needs, ambitions, struggles as well rivalries animosities within dynasty. The different—ultimately competing—uses demonstrate while reliance on presented significant advantage, it also rendered them uniquely vulnerable.
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عنوان ژورنال: Austrian History Yearbook
سال: 2023
ISSN: ['0067-2378', '1558-5255']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0067237823000188