Roselaar S.T. (ed.) Processes of Integration and Identity Formation in the Roman Republic

Leiden – Boston: Brill, 2012. – 415 p. – (Mnemosyne Supplements. History and Archaeology of Classical Antiquity. Vol. 342).
ISSN: 0169-8958.ISBN: 978-90-04-22911-2 (hardback)
ISBN: 978-90-04-22960-0 (e-book)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.Saskia T. Roselaar. Introduction: Integration and Identity in the Roman Republic
Roman Roth. Regionalism: Towards a New Perspective of Cultural Change in Central Italy, c. 350–100 BC
Federico Russo. The Beginning of the First Punic War and the Concept of Italia
Skylar Neil. Identity Construction and Boundaries: Hellenistic Perugia
Patrick Kent. Reconsidering socii in Roman Armies before the Punic Wars
Nathan S. Rosenstein. Integration and Armies in the Middle Republic
Seth Kendall. Appian, Allied Ambassadors, and the Rejection of 91: Why the Romans Chose to Fight the Bellum Sociale
Fiona C. Tweedie. The Lex Licinia Mucia and the Bellum Italicum
Saskia T. Roselaar. Mediterranean Trade as a Mechanism of Integration between Romans and Italians
Toni Ñaco del Hoyo & Jordi Principal. Outposts of Integration? Garrisoning, Logistics and Archaeology in North-Eastern Hispania, 133–82 BC
Daniel C. Hoyer. Samnite Economy and the Competitive Environment of Italy in the Fifth to Third Centuries BC
Kathryn Lomas. The Weakest Link: Elite Social Networks in Republican Italy
John R. Patterson. Contact, Co-operation, and Conflict in Pre-Social War Italy
Edward Bispham. Rome and Antium: Pirates, Polities, and Identity in the Middle Republic
Elizabeth C. Robinson. A Localized Approach to the Study of Integration and Identity in Southern Italy
Osvaldo Sacchi. Settlement Structures and Institutional ‘Continuity’ in Capua until the Deductio Coloniaria of 59 BC
David Langslow. Integration, Identity, and Language Shift: Strengths and Weaknesses of the ‘Linguistic’ Evidence
Eleanor Jefferson. Problems and Audience in Cato’s Origines
Rianne Hermans. Juno Sospita: A Foreign Goddess through Roman Eyes
Massimiliano Di Fazio. Feronia. The Role of an Italic Goddess in the Process of Cultural Integration in Republican Italy
Elisabeth Buchet. Tiburnus, Albunea, Hercules Victor: The Cults of Tibur between Integration and Assertion of Local Identity
Saskia T. Roselaar. General Conclusion