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Titolo: [ANT] Publio Elvio Pertinace

E' naturalmente il successore di Commodo.Trovo delle divergenze sul luogo
di nascita.I più sostengono che sia nato ad Alba,ma anche altri piccoli
centri, in Umbria, ne rivendicano i natali.Avete fonti attendibili?
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 luogo di nascita.
Questa è una fonte:
Dione Cassio, Storia Romana, (epitome) LXXIV, 3: _en de ho Pertìnax Lìgys ex
Albes Pompeìas_ : "Pertinace era Ligure, da Alba Pompeia".
Un'altra fonte è l' Historia Augusta, nel cap. su Pertinace (di Giulio
Capitolino) I,1,2:
"natus est Pertinax in Appennino in villa matris"
Un luogo imprecisato appenninico, quindi (ma altri leggono Villa Martis,
come toponimo, di qui le "divergenze"...)
PS:
Riassume bene, in maniera deliziosamente aneddotica, la questione-umbra
Thayer (il benemerito Mr. LacusCurtius, che ogni tanto fa capolino su
FISA...) sul proprio sito, facendo anche ben capire perchè si debba
accordare fiducia a Dione Cassio:
"In the spring of 2004, when I was living in the small central Italian town
of Umbertide for a few months and had come back from a walk to the even
smaller town of Pietralunga some 25 km away in the Umbrian Apennines, my
grocer greeted my account of the place (and its maybe Roman road) with
"Pietralunga? Ah yes, of course, Pertinax was from there." My 21c Umbrian
grocer is thus the living end of a tradition going back to the Late Antique
account of the Historia Augusta. Now the Apennines are a mountain chain
extending several hundred miles: what the evidence is that would link
Pertinax specifically to Pietralunga rather than to any of hundreds of other
small places down the backbone of Italy, I don't know yet, but I rather
suspect that some zealous native of the area must have written a book in the
16c or so; after all if Claudian (VI Cons. Hon. 504) puts the apparently
famous temple of the Apennine Jove in this general area, and Peutinger's
Table (see Müller's facsimile) actually sets it in Gubbio, 19 km SE of
Pietralunga, well the Apennine-born emperor can't be too far away, can he.
At any rate, once a theory of this type gets loose, it acquires currency by
the mere fact of having been said a long time ago and put in a book; the
student will do well to remember that books are the worst enemies of
knowledge, and that we should not believe a thing we read.
As to where Pertinax was from in reality, on the surface it's just Dio's
word against that of the Historia Augusta - but I'll take Dio's without
hesitation: the general grounds that the Historia Augusta is late and
unreliable don't help, but there are even better grounds to believe Dio,
since he attended Pertinax' funeral, at which a full formal eulogy of the
man was pronounced, in which surely his birth and parentage were covered
with the usual careful Roman regard for truth in such matters - and Dio, as
a senator, would have had a good seat from which to hear Severus' speech.
Even the Historia Augusta itself, after telling us, vaguely, that Pertinax
was born in the Apennines, never mentions them again, while referring on the
other hand to Pertinax' father's business establishment in Liguria (iii.3)
as a place he came home to, and to his own business holdings in the Ligurian
town of Vada Sabatia (ix.4). The two locales, by the way, are mutually
exclusive: any mountains in Liguria would have been described as part of the
Alps, not the Apennines".
Non ho tempo, purtroppo, di approfondire la questione (non sono uno storico,
ma un filologo), spero che, nel frattempo, questo possa bastare.
Un saluto,
Nico

 accordare fiducia a Dione Cassio:
Ero abbastanza certo di Alba, ma la sicurezza esposta
da alcuni mass media -soprattutto in estate- imponeva
una qualche verifica.
Tra i luoghi citati nell'aneddoto  che si propongono come culle 
d' imperatori ve ne sono altri, tutti  stranamente 
concentrati su quella splendida area  umbra, importante
per altri versi nelle vicende Romane.
Ti ringrazio per la risposta, sei stato molto gentile.
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