Processes of integration and identity formation in the Roman Republic
By: edited by S.T. Roselaar
Series: Mnemosyne supplements--History and archaeology of classical antiquity -- v. 342
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9789004229112
Subjects: Cultural assimilation; Group identity; Congresses; Italic peoples; History
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.

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