Le triomphe africain de 46 et l'idéologie césarienne

Abstract

The fourfold triumph (over Gaul, Egypt, the Pontus, and Africa) which was celebrated by Cesar during Summer 46 has impressed the collective memory of the Ancients. Particularly, 20 texts emphasize the originality of the african triumph which marks from the three others in four ways. It was decreed even before the beginning of the hostilities. Octave was a party to it when he did not join in the war. Some portraits of roman getting killed generals and memories of citizens dead in Africa appeared in it. At last, an extraordinary pageant came Cesar home on this triumph evening. Collated with the meaning of the triumph, the politics lead by Cesar, the perception of the suicide by roman society, the african triumph — far be a triumph of civil war — appears as a symbolical political movement. Cesar wants to blot the memories of the past civil war out. He proposes for the present time a peace and reconciliation program. He secures the future by introducing a successor.