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Livy, Cicero and the stories of the origins - with MAURIZIO BETTINI Aimed at secondary school teachers SPEECH Both Livy in his Praefatio and Cicero in De republica propose a reading and reconstruction of the most archaic phases of Roman history that reveals the interest of the Romans in their "stories of the origins". Not documents for an event history, but rather illustrations of the customs and institutions that were alive and operating within their culture. A way of making history, and above all of making memory, that can be compared to the "cultural memory" of Maurice Halbwachs and Jan Assmann. SPEAKER Maurizio Bettini is full professor of Classical Philology at the University of Siena, where he founded the Centro Antropologia e Mondo Antico. He also wrote the new manual Homo sum, civis sum for schools for Sansoni.