Split : Književni krug Split, 2014, pp. The late French epigraphy expert Xavier Loriot suggested that Lucius Artorius Castus's expedition against the Armenians (as he reads the main inscription) could have taken place in 215 AD, under the reign of emperor Caracalla, or perhaps later, in 232 AD, under the reign of Severus Alexander (when P. Aelius Hammonius led a Cappadocian force in Severus's Persian war). [21][23] The title is given in the singular on the memorial plaque, though, so we might have a scribal error on the sarcophagus. LAC later oversaw an expedition of troops with some sort of British connection, either to Gaul or Armenia. For example, Lucius Artorius Castus was not contemporaneous with the Saxon invasions of Britain in the 5th century CE which gave rise to the Arthurian legends, and some of the earliest written references to Arthur are of him fighting against the Saxons. So how many legions the word LEGG refers to? med.-finales del siglo II o comienzos-med. This would be in agreement with native Welsh tradition regarding Arthur, although his activities are placed many decades earlier than the medieval sources assign to him. Although he probably achieved a significant amount of fame in his own lifetime, Castus would likely have faded forever into the dark corners of history if not for his name. An undated, unprovenanced inscription on a stamp, supposedly discovered in Rome but recorded as being in Paris in the 19th century[15] reads: As inscription shows the text is in the genitive form. Carrara, Francesco, De scavi di Salona nel 1850, Abhandlung der koeniglichen Boehmischen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften, 5 s, 7, 1851/1852, p. 23. Jackson, Thomas Graham, Dalmatia, the Quarnero and Istria, Volume 2, Oxford, 1887, pp. In Rome: Total War: Barbarian Invasion, one of the historical battle scenarios features the Battle of Badon Hill with Lucius Artorius Castus as commander of the Romano-British forces. Lucius Artorius Castus, Primus Pilus of the legion V Macedonica, Prefect of the Legion VI Victrix [....]. Halsall, Guy, Worlds of Arthur: Facts and Fictions of the Dark Ages, OUP Oxford, 2013, p. 147ff. While there are literary references to (and a small amount of archaeological evidence for) minor unrest in northwestern Gaul during this time period[30] – often referred to as, or associated with, the rebellion of the Bagaudae, there is no evidence that the Bagaudae were connected with the Armorici/Armoricani, or any other particular tribe or region for that matter, making the possible reference to the Armorici/Armoricani somewhat strange (especially since Armorica otherwise experienced a period of prosperity in the late 2nd century AD,[31] when Malcor, et al. Ritterling, E. "Legio", RE XII, 1924, col. 106. They acted as third-in-command to the legionary commander, the Legatus legionis, and senior tribune and could assume command in their absence. On the other hand, adversus Armenios isn't attested in written or epigraphic sources and Lucius Verus's campaigns against Parthians were meant to free the allied kingdom of Armenia from the invasion of Vologases IV king of Parthians. 115–120, The Lucius Artorius Castus Inscriptions: A Sourcebook, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lucius_Artorius_Castus&oldid=983583521, Historical figures as candidates of King Arthur, Articles with Italian-language sources (it), Articles with unsourced statements from November 2016, Wikipedia articles with WorldCat-VIAF identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. No dates are given in either inscription, making it difficult to offer a precise date for them, no less Lucius Artorius Castus's floruit. And Castus was an Equestrian. Although the inscriptions cannot be precisely dated, Castus probably served in the Roman army some time between the mid-late 2nd century AD[7] or early to mid-3rd century AD.[8][9]. The sarcophagus inscription, which was broken into two pieces at some point prior to the 19th century and set into the wall of the Church of St Martin in Podstrana Croatia, reads (note that "7" is a rendering of the symbol used by scribes to represent the word centurio; ligatured letters are indicated with underlines): Manfred Clauss of the Epigraphik-Datenbank Clauss-Slaby (EDCS), following the readings and expansions provided in CIL 03, 01919; CIL 03, 08513; CIL 03, 12813; Dessau 2770; IDRE-02, 303, expands the text as: Hans-Georg Pflaum offered[10] a slightly different expansion: Linda A. Malcor and her colleagues offered[12] a different expansion: "To the Spirits of the Departed, Lucius Artorius Castus, for himself, the centurion of the leg. Lucius lived in … Helsinki 1987, p. 68, Herbig, Gust., "Falisca", Glotta, Band II, Göttingen, 1910, p. 98. 13-76. [50][51][52][53], Due to the significant differences between the persons and careers of the historical Lucius Artorius Castus and the traditional King Arthur, the consensus of mainstream historians is that it is very unlikely the former inspired the latter. II Adiutrix, also the centurion of the leg. The legio V Macedonica after 185 CE was called Pia Fidelis or Pia Constans (shortened as P.F. 29–40. **Birley follows Pflaum's expansion of the text where [duaru]m "of two" is reinstated before Britanicimiarum. Loriot, Xavier, "Un mythe historiographique : l'expédition d'Artorius Castus contre les Armoricains", Bulletin de la société Nationale des Antiquaires de France, 1997, pp. III Gallica, also the centurion of the leg. [1] Ele serviu com distinção na província romana da Britânia. 「Lucius Artorius Castus」という名前の人のプロフィールを表示Facebookに参加して、Lucius Artorius Castusさんや他の知り合いと交流しましょう。Facebookは、人々が簡単に情報をシェアできる、オープンでつながりのある世界の構築をお believe that Castus's expedition took place). 333–338, Olli Salomies: Die römischen Vornamen. Página dedicada a la serie cumbre de Makoto Yukimura, Vinland Saga. A member of the gens Artoria (possibly of Messapic[1][2][3] or Etruscan origin[4][5][6]), he has been suggested as a potential historical basis for King Arthur. Lucius Artorius Castus was een militaire aanvoerder in het Romeinse leger uit de 2e eeuw.Volgens sommige historici was hij de historische figuur achter de legendarische Koning Arthur. siglo III) fue un comandante militar romano. Dixon, Karen R., Southern, Pat, The Roman cavalry: from the first to the third century AD, Routledge, London, 1997, p. 240, Egbert, James Chidester, Introduction to the study of Latin inscriptions, American Book Company, New York, 1896, p. 447, Galliou, Patrick, Jones, Michael, The Bretons, Blackwell, Oxford (UK)/Cambridge (MA), 1991, Gilliam, J. Frank. Cambi, Nenad, "Lucije Artorije Kast: njegovi grobišni areal i sarkofag u Podstrani (Sveti Martin) kod Splita", in: N. Cambi, J. Matthews (eds. [40] Three Croatian archaeologists examined the inscriptions in 2012, as part of an international conference on Lucius Artorius Castus organized by authors Linda Malcor and John Matthews: Nenad Cambi, Željko Miletić, and Miroslav Glavičić. V Macedonica, also the primus pilus of the same, praepositus of the classis Misenensis, twice the praefect of the leg. Er war ein Mitglied der gens Artoria und wird für einen möglichen Kandidaten für die historische Basis von König Arthur gehalten. Furthermore, no classical sources mention any military action taken against the Armorici/Armoricani (which was in origin a regional name that encompassed a number of different tribes) in the 2nd or 3rd centuries. 14224, Mommsen, Theodor, Demandt, Barbara, Demandt, Alexander, A history of Rome under the emperors, Routledge, London & New York, 1999 (new edition), pp. [citation needed], Centurion and Primus Pilus of Legio V Macedonica. [11] Previous editors have preferred to restore the word as alarum "to/for the alae", which may make better sense if duci legg is to be understood as the title dux legionum. Lucius Artorius Castus (fl. Barber, Richard, The Figure of Arthur, Longman, 1972. pp. Adversus *Arm[oric(an)o]s or Adversus *Arme[nio]s? (centenarius indicates that he received a salary of 100,000 sesterces per year). Split : Književni krug Split, 2014, pp. Split : Književni krug Split, 2014, pp. ), Lucius Artorius Castus and the King Arthur Legend: Proceedings of the International Scholarly Conference from 30th of March to 2nd of April 2012, Cambi, Nenad; Matthews, John (eds.). The Artorii family have roots in Italy, potentially of Messapic or Etruscan origin; LAC might have been born to a branch of the family that settled in. [49] Some legionaries tried to make a certain "Priscus" (likely Titus Caunius Priscus) emperor. D'A. [39] Nothing further is known of him. Goldsworthy, Adrian Keith, The Roman army at war: 100 BC-AD 200, Oxford University Press, 1998, Haverfield, Francis, The Romanization of Roman Britain, Oxford, 1912, p. 65. The memorial plaque, which was discovered not far away from the first inscription and was also broken at some point prior to the 19th century, reads: Which Clauss (following CIL 03, 12791 (p 2258, 2328,120); CIL 03, 14224; IDRE-02, 304), expands: 17 The two known inscriptions that detail the career of Lucius Artorius Castus place him firmly in Britain as a soldier who at one point in his career held the … The film asserts that Arthur's Roman name was "Artorius Castus", and that Artorius was an ancestral name derived from that of a famous leader. This evolution in the meaning of the word "dux” started in the second century under Marcus Aurelius. Hübner, Emil, "Exercitus Britannicus", Hermes XVI, 1881, p. 521ff. In 1924, Kemp Malone was the first to suggest the possibility that Lucius Artorius Castus was the inspiration for the figure of Arthur in medieval European literature. [citation needed] As a research consultant for the film King Arthur (2004), Linda Malcor's hypotheses regarding Lucius Artorius Castus were the primary inspiration for the screenplay. Before finishing his military career, Castus led an expedition of some note as a Dux Legionum, a temporary title accorded to officers who were acting in a capacity above their rank, either in command of a collection of troops (generally combined vexillations drawn from legions[26]) in transit from one station to another or in command of a complete unit (the former seems to be the case with Castus, since the units are spoken of in the genitive plural).[27]. Smith, R. E., "Dux, Praepositus", Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, Bd. See actions taken by the people who Throughout the 2nd century AD and into the 3rd, the headquarters of the VI Victrix was at Eboracum (modern York). 176–179. Furthermore, in linguistics we have the dissimilation process (L↔R, N↔M).In our case, because of the dissimilation of Latin terms, BRITAN(N)ICINUS becomes BRITAN(N)ICIMUS>BRITAN(N)ICIMIUS nominative of the word BRITAN(N)ICIMIARUM in the inscription.[38]. Miembro de la gens Artoria (posiblemente de origen Mesapio [1] [2] [3] o Etrusco), se ha sugerido como base histórica potencial para el rey Arturo. Marcella Chelotti, Vincenza Morizio, Marina Silvestrini, Le epigrafi romane di Canosa, Volume 1, Edipuglia srl, 1990, pg. [36][37] No units of this name are believed to have been active in Britain during the late 2nd century. [21][23] For most who had attained this rank, it would be their last before retirement. Página dedicada a la serie cumbre de Makoto Yukimura, Vinland Saga. Britannicinus, Britannicanus, Britannicianus are some examples and are equivalent. [35] Though the name of the unit was derived from its early service in Britain, the unit was not generally composed of ethnic Britons. Name Artorius = LAC's family name, his nomen gentile. Lucius Artorius Castus (fl. Green, Thomas (Caitlin), Arthuriana: Early Arthurian Tradition and the Origins of the Legend, Lulu, 2009, pp. Split : Književni krug Split, 2014, pp. The beginning of the last line of the inscription has always been reconstructed as “vivus ipse sibi et suis” with the VI of VIVVS, for some reason, following gladi even though the bottom line, which is centered, had plenty of room for it. 2.3K likes. The alternate, "Armenian" translation was supported in 1881 by the epigrapher and classical scholar Emil Hübner, and most recently taken up again by the historian and epigrapher Xavier Loriot, who (based on the contextual and epigraphic evidence) suggests a floruit for Castus in the early mid-3rd century AD[29] (Loriot's analysis of the inscription has recently been adopted by the Roman historians Anthony Birley[11] and Marie-Henriette Quet).[32]. Lucius Artorius Castus est le nom d'un chevalier romain, dux qui quitta l' île de Bretagne avec une armée de légionnaires bretons pour marcher sur l' Armorique et y étouffer un soulèvement. [33][34] This word fits the gap in the Castus inscription perfectly. The use of "armatos" in an inscription is confirmed by CIL 02, 05439. Linda A. Malcor, Antonio Trinchese, and Alessandro Faggiani, "Missing Pieces: A New Reading of the Main Lucius Artorius Castus Inscription". 309–334, Birley, Anthony, The Roman Government of Britain, Oxford, 2005, p. 355, Breeze, David John, Dobson, Brian, Roman Officers and Frontiers, Franz Steiner Verlag, 1993, p. 180. The possibility, however unlikely or remote, is nonetheless real that he was remembered in local tales that grew in the retelling. For many years it has been believed that Castus's expedition was against the Armoricans (based on the reading ADVERSUS ARM[....]S, reconstructed as "adversus *Armoricanos" – "against the Armoricans" – by Theodor Mommsen in the CIL and followed by most subsequent editors of the inscription), but the earliest published reading of the inscription, made by the Croatian archaeologist Francesco Carrara(in Italian) in 1850, was ADVERSUS ARME[....],[28] with a ligatured ME (no longer visible on the stone, possibly due to weathering, since the stone has been exposed to the elements for centuries and was reused as part of a roadside wall next to the church of St. Martin in Podstrana; the mutilated word falls along the broken right-hand edge of the first fragment of the inscription). Although Artorius was not contemporaneous with the Saxon invasions of Britain in the 5th century, it is possible, albeit remotely (gi… The first unit mentioned on Castus's inscription is the legio III Gallica – for most of the 2nd and 3rd centuries the unit was stationed in Syria. I. II. See actions taken by the people who Castus was appointed procurator centenarius of the province of Liburnia with ius gladii, the power to put anyone, even Senators, to death. VI Victrix, the Dux of the three British legions against armed men, the procurator centenarius of the province of Liburniae with 'ius gladi' six times, he himself while alive built this for himself and his family. The VI Victrix and the II Augusta legions kept rebelling. 2nd century AD) was a Roman military commander. This article is within the scope of the Military history WikiProject.If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the project and see a list of open tasks.To use this banner, please see the full instructions. Glavičić, Miroslav, "Artorii u Rimskoj Provinciji Dalmaciji", in: N. Cambi, J. Matthews (eds. Split : Književni krug Split, 2014, pp. ), A dictionary of Greek and Roman antiquities, Volume 1, Edition 3, John Murray, London, 1890, p. 798, Southern, Pat, Dixon, Karen R., The Late Roman Army, Routledge, London, 1996, p. 59, Tully, Geoffrey D., "A Fragment of a Military Diploma for Pannonia Found in Northern England? Mommsen, Theodor (ed. Traditionally assigned to the late 5th or early 6th century CE. mid-late 2nd century AD or early-to-mid 3rd century AD) was a Roman military commander. What is known of Artorius comes from inscriptions on fragments of a sarcophagus, and a memorial plaque, both found in Podstrana on the Dalmatian coast. 59–70. 363–436. saeculo 2) fuit dux militaris Romanus, de cuius fama alii credunt esse ortas fabulas Arturianas. In fact, the rendered expansion will be Lucii Artorii Casti which means: (It belongs to) Lucius Artorius Castus. Tutto ciò che sappiamo di Lucio Artorio Casto è davvero poco, in quanto proviene da un´epigrafe ritrovata a Podstrana, sulla costa della Dalmazia, in Croazia, composta di 2 frammenti poco leggibili. [16] We cannot tell whether or not Castus had a lengthy career as a legionary soldier before attaining the centurionate, or whether he was directly commissioned at this rank, as the vast majority of career centurions' inscriptions do not mention any ranks that they might have held below the centurionate. It is interesting that the title is spelled (P)RAEFF on Castus's sarcophagus – doubled letters at the end of abbreviated words on Latin inscriptions usually indicated the plural (often dual) and some legions are known to have had multiple praefecti castrorum. Ciro Santoro, La Nuova Epigrafe Messapica "IM 4. Scholars now believe that the pieces of Castus's sarcophagus date to no later than 200 (Kirigin and Marin 1989:143), which means that Lucius Artorius Castus most likely died prior to that date. 12791 (p 2258, 2328,120); no. III, no. 166–7, Kennedy, David, "The 'ala I' and 'cohors I Britannica'", Britannia, Vol. The evidence for this reading lies in the widespread unrest in Britannia. "The Dux Ripae at Dura", Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association, Vol. The Legio VI Victrix was based in Britain from c. 122 AD onward, though their history during the 3rd century AD is rather hazy. LUCIUS ARTORIUS CASTUS AND THE CREATION OF THE KING ARTHUR LEGEND AND PODSTRANA IN ANTIQUE Podstrana, 31. ožujak – 1. travanj 2012. As of 2009, the two stone fragments bearing this inscription have been removed from the wall of the Church of St. Martin for scientific analysis and restoration; they have since been replaced by a copy. [36] ****The words Praeposito, Duci are in the dative case and therefore "centurioni" and all the offices are. A member of the gens Artorius (possibly of Messapic[1][2][3] or Etruscan origin[4][5][6]), he has 311–312, Peachin, Michael, Iudex vice Caesaris: deputy emperors and the administration of justice during the Principate, Volume 21 of Heidelberger althistorische Beiträge und epigraphische Studien, F. Steiner, 1996, p. 231, Petolescu, C.C., Inscriptiones Daciae Romanae. At the very least, nominally Christian – according to the, High-ranking, career officer in the Roman army; served in the infantry as a centurion, and late in his career (likely as an older man), he served as Camp Prefect in Britain, and finally as, Associated with knights (an anachronism) and cavalry. Charlton Thomas Lewis, An elementary Latin dictionary, Harper & Brothers, 1899, p. 505. Lucius Artorius Castus. 85–87. Dobson, B., "The Significance of the Centurion and 'Primipilaris' in the Roman Army and Administration," Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt II.1 Berlin/NY 1974 392- 434. ), Lucius Artorius Castus and the King Arthur Legend: Proceedings of the International Scholarly Conference from 30 March to 2 April 2012 / Cambi, Nenad; Matthews, John (eds.). Lucius Artorius Castus (c 141 -c 195) was 2nd century Roman soldier whom some have argued was the original King Arthur. 111–130. He became procurator centenarius (governor) of Liburnia, a part of Roman Dalmatia, today's Croatia. In an inscription from Sirmium in Pannonia dating to the reign of the emperor Gallienus (CIL 3, 3228), we have mention of vexillations of legions *Brittan(n)icin(arum) ("militum vexill(ationum) legg(ionum) ]G]ermaniciana[r(um)] [e]t Brittan(n)icin(arum)") – another form that is very similar to the *Britan(n)icimiarum from Castus's inscription. Photo with permission taken from Pointers, free personal travel guide and website for the promotion of tourism … Actually, Britanicimiarum is not a mistake by the carver but a variant of Britannicianarum. Lucius Artorius Castus as King Arthur in modern entertainment. In short, there were multiple armed men causing troubles all over Britannia, and the Latin for "armed men" in the accusative form is ARMATOS. What little is known of Lucius Artorius Castus comes from inscriptions on fragments of a sarcophagus, and a memorial plaque, found in Podstrana, on the Dalmatian coast in Croatia. 2nd century AD) was a Roman military commander. 2K likes. 29–40. "against the Armenians", since no other national or tribal name beginning with the letters *Arme- is known from this time period.[29]. 36 (2005), pp. Lucius Artorius Castus is the real name of the character Askeladd in the manga Vinland Saga, who is descended from Arthur himself. LUCIUS ARTORIUS CASTUS: NO SARMATIAN CONNECTION 7/4/2020: After an exhaustive and lively discussion with Linda Malcor and her colleagues, I have come to the conclusion that the Armenios identification for the ARM- of the LAC inscription has a major problem of its own. Facebook is showing information to help you better understand the purpose of a Page. This title (generally given to Equites) indicated a special command over a body of troops, but somewhat limited in action and subject to the Emperor's control.[19]. Miletić, Željko, "Lucius Artorius Castus i Liburnia", in: N. Cambi, J. Matthews (eds. His floruit ("prime time") is, however, pushed a few centuries later so that he is made a contemporary of the invading Saxons in the 5th century CE. The hypothesis has been heavily criticized by prominent Arthurian scholars due to the historical Artorius Castus having very little in common with the Arthurian legends and the arguments relying excessively on speculation and wishful thinking. Malone, Kemp. 37-38. Cambi, Nenad, "Lucije Artorije Kast: njegovi grobišni areal i sarkofag u Podstrani (Sveti Martin) kod Splita", in: N. Cambi, J. Matthews (eds. Keppie, Lawrence, Legions and veterans: Roman army papers 1971–2000, Franz Steiner Verlag, 2000, p. 168. or P.C. ルキウス・アルトリウス・カストゥス (Lucius Artorius Castus、生没年不明だが2世紀後半から3世紀前半) は、古代ローマの軍人。アーサー王のモデルになったとの説がある。, アルトリウスについての情報は現クロアチアのダルマチアの海岸にある石棺などに断片的に見られる。これらに日付は記載されていないものの、これが「石棺の時代」と称される2世紀頃のものと考えられていること、石棺の記述でアルトリウスがドゥクス（隊長）だとしている事から、アルトリウスはヘロディアヌスが言及している、185年にアルモリカ（北ブルターニュ）へ遠征を行った名称不明の軍事指導者と同一人物だと考えられている。, アルトリウス氏族 (Artorius, gens Artoria) を名乗っている事から、アルトリウスは南イタリアにあるカンパニア州の出身だと考えられている。石棺によれば、アルトリウスは第3軍団ガッリカの百人隊に所属していたが、第6軍団フェッラタに、それから 第5軍団マケドニアに異動したと言う。そして、第5軍団マケドニアでアルトリウスは筆頭百人隊長に昇進した。そこでローマ海軍（ナポリ湾艦隊）の隊長になり、続いて第6軍団ウィクトリクスの隊長になった。, この第6軍団ウィクトリクスは122年からブリタンニアに駐在するものであり、アルトリウスはおそらくハドリアヌスの長城の警備に付いたと考えられている。明確な論拠はないものの、サルマタイ人とともに過ごしたと考えられている。第6軍団ウィクトリクスが反乱を起こした時、アルトリウスは忠誠を守りぬいたらしく、ローマ皇帝ペルティナクスはアルトリウスをドゥクスに昇進させ、歩兵大隊とともにアルモリカに派遣させた。その派遣先において、アルトリウスは暴動の鎮圧に成功している。, 軍を退役後、ダルタマティア地方のある街の長官となった。アルトリウスについてこれ以上の情報は不明であるが、ローマの歴史家カッシウス・ディオの父親はダルマティアの長官であり、近所にアルトリウスが存在したことからカッシウス・ディオが題材とした史料は直接アルトリウスのものであった可能性がある。, アーサー王のモデルがアルトリウスではないか、という学説は1924年、ケンプ・マローン (Kemp Malone) によって発表された。, アーサー王伝説の時期、すなわちサクソン人のブリテン侵入は5世紀であり、アルトリウスは2世紀の人間であるから、2人は同時代の人間とは言えない。しかし、現地で記憶されていたアルトリウスの伝説が語り継がれ、形を変えて作り直されたと考える余地はある。, アルトリウスをアーサー王として扱った作品に、映画『キング・アーサー』（2004年）があげられる。この映画では、サクソン人の侵入とアルトリウスの人生を重ねるため、300年ばかりアルトリウスの生年をずらしている。, ラテン語の史書で初めてアーサーの名前が出たのは、西暦800年ごろ、ウェールズ人のネンニウスの著書、『ヒストリア・ブリットヌム』である。, だが、多くの学者はネンニウスはウェールズに伝わる「アーサー王の12の戦い」を題材にしたと考えている。「アルトリウス」という名前はローマの部族の名前であるが、同時に「アルトリウス」の名ははケルト起源である可能性もある。ケルト語で熊の男 (artos viros) が名の起源とも解釈できるからである。, https://ja.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=ルキウス・アルトリウス・カストゥス&oldid=71493795. 8513; no. Glavičić dates Lucius Artorius Castus's military career to the middle- through late-2nd century AD and proposes that he was the first governor of the province of Liburnia, which Glavičić suggests was only established as a separate province from Dalmatia circa 184–185 AD. 16, I-III" di Ostuni ed nomi in Art-, Ricerche e Studi, Volume 12, 1979, p. 45-60, Wilhelm Schulze, Zur Geschichte lateinischer Eigennamen (Volume 5, Issue 2 of Abhandlungen der Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, Philologisch-Historische Klasse, Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften Göttingen Philologisch-Historische Klasse), 2nd Edition, Weidmann, 1966, p. 72, pp. Gilliam, J. Frank. Others tried to assassinate Pertinax. 1919 (p 1030, 2328,120); no. The legio V Macedonica was based in Roman Dacia throughout the 2nd century and through most of the 3rd – the unit took part in battles against the Marcomanni, Sarmatians and Quadi. 328–9, Linda A. Malcor's 1999 article about Lucius Artorius Castus in, This page was last edited on 15 October 2020, at 02:07. Castus's position in the Legio VI Victrix, Prefect of the Legion (Praefectus Legionis), was equivalent to that of the Praefectus Castrorum. If Carrara's reading is correct, the phrase is most likely to be reconstructed as "adversus *Armenios", i.e. Armenia, on the other hand, was the location of several conflicts involving the Romans during the 2nd and 3rd centuries. In the third century CE the title "dux” designated an officer holding a rank above his usual rank. Klebs, Elimar, Dessau, Hermann, Prosopographia imperii romani saec. No definitive proof, however, has yet been established that Lucius Artorius Castus was the "real" King Arthur. Al wat bekend is over Castus is afkomstig van inscripties in een graftombe (), gevonden in … The one thing that everyone agrees on is that in the late second century there were three legions in Britannia: the II Augusta, the XX Valeria Victrix, and the VI Victrix. 367ff. III, Deutsche Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, p. 155, Littleton, C. Scott, Malcor, Linda, From Scythia to Camelot: A Radical Reassessment of the Legends of King Arthur, the Knights of the Round Table and the Holy Grail, New York, Garland, 2000, Loriot, Xavier, "Un mythe historiographique : l'expédition d'Artorius Castus contre les Armoricains", Bulletin de la Société nationale des antiquaires de France, 1997, pp. 263–278. The last line is complete, with VVS standing for VIVVS, and that the VI is a number that belongs where it was placed: after gladi. March 31 … Translated into Latin, "three legions” gives us "LEGG TRIUM”. Lúcio Artório Casto (em latim: Lucius Artorius Castus; fl. ), Lucius Artorius Castus and the King Arthur Legend: Proceedings of the International Scholarly Conference from 30th of March to 2nd of April 2012, Cambi, Nenad; Matthews, John (eds.). Lucius_Artorius_Castus Blog Teams Submissions Contests Expert Lucius_Artorius_Castus Aryan Chauhan, India From IIT Guwahati Contest rating: 1715 (max. 85–86, Malcor, Linda, "Lucius Artorius Castus, Part 1: An Officer and an Equestrian" Heroic Age, 1, 1999, Malcor, Linda, "Lucius Artorius Castus, Part 2: The Battles in Britain" Heroic Age 2, 1999, Malone, Kemp, "Artorius," Modern Philology 23 (1924–1925): 367–74, Medini, Julian, Provincija Liburnija, Diadora, v. 9, 1980, pp. 261, 264. [44] The possibility that Lucius Artorius Castus was the inspiration for the figure of Arthur in medieval European literature was first suggested by Kemp Malone in 1924 and has recently been championed by authors C. Scott Littleton and Linda Malcor (who was a research consultant for the 2004 movie King Arthurand on whose hypotheses regarding Artorius the screenplay was based). 72, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1941, p. 163. ), so Castus served in this unit as centurion and primus pilus before 185 CE (in the inscription these nicknames are missing). [58], In the manga Vinland Saga, Lucius Artorius Castus is the real name of the half-Danish half-Welsh character Askeladd, who is descended from the Romano-British Artorius (full name not given) who fought the Saxons centuries before. Ciro Santoro, "Per la nuova iscrizione messapica di Oria", La Zagaglia, A. VII, n. 27, 1965, P. 271-293. J. D. Boulton, "Classic Knighthood as Nobiliary Dignity", in: Stephen Church, Ruth Harvey (ed. Lucius Artorius Castus was the origin for the legend of King Arthur, and a military leader from Britannia, a province of the Roman Empire that would later become England and Wales. The regional names Armoricani or Armorici are not attested in any other Latin inscriptions, whereas the country Armenia and derivatives such as the ethnic name Armenii and personal name Armeniacus are attested in numerous Latin inscriptions. Pflaum, H.-G. Les Carrières procuratoriennes équestres sous le Haut-Empire romain, 3 vols. [48] More recent champions have included authors C. Scott Littleton and Linda Malcor. Miletić dates Lucius Artorius Castus's military career to circa 121–166 AD and his procuratorship of the province of Liburnia to circa 167–174 AD. Glavičić, Miroslav, "Artorii u Rimskoj Provinciji Dalmaciji", in: N. Cambi, J. Matthews (eds. "The Dux Ripae at Dura", Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association, Vol. Castus could have overseen vexillations of troops guarding Hadrian's Wall, but his inscriptions do not provide us with any precise information on where he might have served while in Britain. Frank Anthony Carl Mantello, A. G. 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