Attilio Mastino, Geography, Geopolitics, Epigraphy,
Conference de l’AIEGL, Bordeaux 31 August 2022
L’épigraphie au XXIe siècle, XVI Congressus internationalis Epigraphiae Graecae et Latinae,
Dear friends
(Film https://youtu.be/l8l_8caQ2w0) The military strategy to liberate Europe after the different forms of fascism that contributed to the myth of Imperial Rome, I believe is encapsulated in the events of the American landing in Morocco, the story of which was told in Patton. This film narrated the story in pure Hollywood style and was awarded many Oscars.
It featured an improbable General Patton played by George C. Scott as he rambles on about the war at the end of 1942. He is in Volubilis, standing before the arch built by the procurator M. Aurelius Sebastenus to celebrate the singularis indulgentia [erga] universos et [nova] supra omnes [retro] principes of Caracalla in his 20th and last Potestas tribunicia.
Reconstructed by Louis Chatelain and André Piganiol in the restoration work of 1935, the double inscription commemorates the Emperor as Germanicus Maximus, the victor over the Germanic peoples. It would be expecting too much to imagine that the director could have thought of the campaign against Hitler and the Germans and the victorious Alamannic war 1800 years earlier.
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