Processes of cultural change and integration in the Roman world
By: edited by Saskia T. Roselaar
Series: Mnemosyne supplements. History and archaeology of classical antiquity -- volume 382
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 314
ISBN-13: 9789004294547; 9789004294554
Subjects: Provinces; Acculturation; Administration; Assimilation (Sociology); Congresses; Indigenous peoples; Social conditions; History; Roman provinces
Description: "Processes of Cultural Change and Integration in the Roman World is a collection of studies on the interaction between Rome and the peoples that became part of its Empire between c. 300 BC and AD 300. The book focuses on the mechanisms by which interaction between Rome and its subjects occurred, e.g. the settlements of colonies by the Romans, army service, economic and cultural interaction. In many cases Rome exploited the economic resources of the conquered territories without allowing the local inhabitants any legal autonomy. However, they usually maintained a great deal of cultural freedom of expression. Those local inhabitants who chose to engage with Rome, its economy and culture, could rise to great heights in the administration of the Empire. Contributors are: Patricia Argüelles, Aitor Blanco-Peréz, Elisabeth Buchet, Christopher Burden-Strevens, Tamara Dijkstra, Leonardo Gregoratti, Maurizio Gualtieri, Alfred Hirt, Enora Le Quéré, Josipa Lulić, Daniele Miano, Alexander Rubel, Rafael Scopacasa, Christopher Sparey-Green, Marleen Termeer, and Fiona Tweedie"--
Notes: This volume is the result of a conference held at the University of Nottingham in July 2013, which focused on processes of integration in the Roman world. This meeting was a follow-up to an earlier conference, held at Manchester in 2010, which looked at processes of integration in the Roman Republic (see LCCN 2012007861). Both conferences started from the idea that, despite the amount of recent scholarship on integration in the ancient world and the impact these had on formation of identities, there are still aspects of these issues that are not fully understood.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Collection of 17 essays, with 16 in English and 1 in German.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : processes of cultural change and integration in the Roman world / Saskia T. Roselaar; title: Theorizing Romanization : cognition and cultural change in Roman provinces : a case of religious change in Roman Dalmatia / Josipa Lulić; title: An allied view of integration : Italian elites and consumption in the second century BC / Rafael Scopacasa; title: Minting apart together : bronze coinage production in Campania and beyond in the third century BC / Marleen Termeer; title: The archaeology of 'integration' in western Lucania : a review of recent work / Maurizio Gualtieri; title: Volaterrae and the gens Caecina / Fiona C. Tweedie; title: Iniungi delectus : the recruitment of Britons in the Roman army during the conquest : the evidence from Dorset / Christopher Sparey-Green; title: Apamea and the integration of a Roman colony in western Asia Minor / Aitor Blanco-Pérez; title: Burial and commemoration in the Roman colony of Patras / Tamara Dijkstra; title: Akkulturation und Integration in der römischen Dobruscha : das Fallbeispiel der römischen Siedlung Ibida (Slava Rusă) in Rumänien / Alexander Rubel; title: Roman exploitation and new road infrastructures in Asturia Transmontana (Asturias, Spain) / Patricia A. Argüelles Álvarez; title: Mines and economic integration of provincial 'frontiers' in the Roman Principate / Alfred M. Hirt; title: The 'opportunistic exploitation' of Melos : a case study of economic integration and cultural change in the Roman Cyclades / Enora Le Quéré; title: Roman traders as a factor of Romanization in Noricum and in the eastern transalpine region / Leonardo Gregoratti; title: Spreading virtues in republican Italy / Daniele Miano; title: Literary topoi and the integration of central Italy / Elisabeth Buchet; title: 'Ein völlig romanisierter Mann'? : identity, identification, and integration in the Roman History of Cassius Dio and in Arrian / Christopher Burden-Strevens.