Note Sulla Tradizione Annalistica Relativa Al Teatro 'A Lupercali in Palatium Versus'

The stone theater built in Rome by C. Cassius Longinus in 154 BC was destroyed by a senate persuaded by Scipio Nasica. Although scholars have questioned its reality, the theatrum lapideum affair was a political fight characterized by the mutual hostility of the antagonists Cassius and Nasica. The ancient sources played a part in this struggle using their own weapons: the manipulation of history and the creation of myths.