Making the Middle Republic: New Approaches to Rome and Italy, c.400-200 BCE

ISBN-13: 9781009327985 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023

Seth Bernard; Lisa Marie Mignone; Dan-El Padilla Peralta

Opis

Shows the importance of the Middle Republic for the broader study of Roman and Mediterranean history, with the forging in Italy of new political relationships, new economic practices, and new sociocultural structures. Employs a range of approaches from numismatics to bioarchaeology, landscape archaeology, fiscal sociology, art history, and beyond.

Recenzje

'… samples of excellent research on … disparate and demanding topics.' T. P. Wiseman, Times Literary Supplement

Spis treści

1. Introduction: a middle in the making Seth Bernard, Lisa Mignone and Dan-el Padilla Peralta; 2. Italian descent in middle Republican Roman magistrates: the flipside of the conquest Parrish Wright and Nicola Terrenato; 3. The long shadow of tributum in the long fourth century James Tan; 4. Paying for conquest in the early middle republic Nathan Rosenstein; 5. Building up slaveries in ancient Italy and the central Sudan Walter Scheidel; 6. The strangeness of Rome's early heavy bronze Liv M. Yarrow; 7. Rural transformation in middle republican central Italy: the archaeological perspective Tymon de Haas; 8. Towards an agroecology of the Roman expansion: republican agriculture and animal husbandry in context Angela Trentacoste and Lisa Lodwick; 9. No longer archaic, not yet Hellenistic: urbanism in transition Domenico Palombi; 10. On architecture's agency in fourth-century Rome Penelope J. E. Davies; 11. Becoming historical in Oscan Campania Seth Bernard; 12. Becoming political: middle republican quandaries Christopher Smith.