Migration, mobility and place in ancient Italy /
Isayev, Elena,author.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Statistical uncertainties: mobility in the last 250 years BC -- Routeways, kinship and storytelling -- Mixed communities: mobility, connectivity and co-presence -- Why choose to come together and move apart? Convergence and redistribution of people and power -- Plautus on mobility of the every-day -- Polybius on mobility and a comedy of the Hostage Prince -- Polybius on the moving masses and those who moved them -- Social war: reconciling differences of place and citizenship -- Mapping the moving Rome of Livy's Camillus speech -- Materialising Rome and Patria -- Conclusion: everyday and unpredictable mobility.
Social structure
Social mobility
Immigrants
Emigration and immigration.
Immigrants.
Social conditions.
Social mobility.
Social structure.