Le vocabulaire des marais et marécages dans l’historiographie latine de la République romaine et du Principat

Abstract

The study of the vocabulary pertaining to marshes and swamps among the Latin historians of the Roman Republic and of the Principatus shows that the terms used by these authors help to specify the environment of certain events – essentially military ones. The choice of these words is partly subject to the fact that in Rome, history is not a science, but a literary genre, most often at the service of an ideology or (a desire for) propaganda.