Processes of integration and identity formation in the Roman Republic / edited by S.T. Roselaar.

• Superior document: Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum. History and archaeology of classical antiquity, v. 342
• TeilnehmendeR: Roselaar, Saskia T.
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum. History and archaeology of classical antiquity ; v. 342.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (414 p.)
• Notes: This volume is the result of a conference held at the University of Manchester in July 2010, which focused on issues related to integration and identity in the Roman Republic.

This volume is the result of a conference, held at Manchester in July 2010, on processes of integration and identity formation in the Roman Republic. This book focuses especially on day-to-day contexts in which Romans and Italians interacted, which are essential for understanding long-term developments. The book discusses settlement patterns (e.g. Roman colonies), the Roman army, and the administration of Italy, as well as the long-term consequences of contact, such as growing social and economic networks, linguistic, religious, and cultural changes, transformations of identity in Rome and Italy, and demands for Roman citizenship by Italians. It combines new archaeological evidence with literary and epigraphic evidence, and thus gives an overview of current research on integration and identity in the Roman Republic.

Table of Contents

Introduction: integration and identity in the Roman Republic / Saskia -- T. Roselaar -- Regionalism: towards a new perspective of cultural -- Change in central Italy, c. 350-100 BC / Roman Roth -- The beginning of the first Punic War and the concept of Italia / Federico Russo -- Identity construction and boundaries: hellenistic Perugia / Skylar Neil -- Reconsidering socii in Roman Armies before the Punic Wars / Patrick Kent -- Integration and Armies in the Middle Republic / Nathan S. Rosenstein -- Appian, allied ambassadors, and the rejection of 91: why the Romans chose to fight the bellum sociale / Seth Kendall -- The Lex Licinia Mucia and the Bellum Italicum / Fiona Tweedie -- Mediterranean trade as a mechanism of integration between Romans and Italians / Saskia T. Roselaar -- Outposts of Integration? Garrisoning, Logistics and Archaeology in North-Eastern Hispania, 133-82 BC / Toni Naco del Hoyo & Jordi Principal -- Samnite economy and the competitive environment of Italy in the fifth to third centuries BC / Daniel C. Hoyer -- The Weakest Link: elite social networks in Republican Italy / Kathryn Lomas -- Contact, Co-operation, and Conflict in Pre-Social War Italy / John R. Patterson -- Rome and Antium: Pirates, Polities and identity in the Middle Republic / Ed H. Bispham -- A localized approach to the study of integration and identity in southern Italy / Elizabeth C. Robinson -- Settlement structures and institutional 'Continuity' in Capua until the Deductio Coloniaria of 59 BC / Osvaldo Sacchi -- Integration, Identity, and Language Shift: Strengths and Weaknesses of the 'Linguistic' Evidence / David Langslow -- Problems and audience in Cato's Origines / Eleanor Jefferson -- Juno Sospita: A Foreign Goddess through Roman Eyes / Rianne Hermans -- Feronia. The role of an italic goddess in the process of cultural integration in Republican Italy / Massimiliano Di Fazio -- Tiburnus, Albunea, Hercules Victor: The Cults of Tibur between Integration and Assertion of Local Identity / Elisabeth Buchet.