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Record Nr.

UNISA996204971303316

Autore

Bispham Edward

Titolo

From Asculum to Actium [[electronic resource] ] : the municipalization of Italy from the Social War to Augustus / / Edward Bispham

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : Oxford University Press, c2007

ISBN

1-281-15038-X

9786611150389

0-19-152829-3

1-4356-2209-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (585 p.)

Collana

Oxford classical monographs

Disciplina

937.05

937/.05

Soggetti

Cities and towns - Rome

Acculturation - Rome

Italic peoples - Cultural assimilation

Municipal government - Rome

Rome Social conditions

Rome History Republic, 265-30 B.C

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally presented as author's thesis (doctoral)--Jesus College, Oxford University.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [511]-548) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Making Italy : Terra Italia -- Roman Italy : the second century -- Allies : Latins and Italians in the second century -- Municipalization and the politics of enfranchisement of Italy -- 'Leges dare' and 'constituere' : municipal charters -- The simple Quattuorvirate ('nude dictus') -- 'Quattuoruiri Iure dicundo' -- 'Quattuoruiri quinquennales', and other variations -- The Duovirate --Tota Italia : Remaking Italy?

Sommario/riassunto

Rome's once independent Italian allies became communities of a new Roman territorial state after the Social War of 91-87 BC. Edward Bispham examines how the transition from independence to subordination was managed, and how, between the opposing tensions of local particularism, competing traditions and identities, aspirations for integration, cultural change, and indifference from Roman central authorities, something new and dynamic appeared in the jaded world of



the late Republic.Bispham charts the successes and failures of the attempts to make a new political community (Roman Italy), and new