CLAS 335 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Magna Graecia, Luxury Goods
13 Feb 2018
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(cid:402)(cid:401) bce: tota italia is a novel kind of unity for italy: compare the social war in 9(cid:399)-89. Italy had par(cid:2210)cipated and been profoundly shaped by the civil wars; already documents are dated with the consuls. Principate: con(cid:2210)nued disappearance of local cultural di erences. Experience people had as they become part of the roman empire and lose local iden(cid:2210)ty. Lack of immediate disappearance partly geography, partly ethnicity of populace. Po valley parceled out to veterans a(cid:91)er ac(cid:2210)um. Osco-umbrian hard to nd a(cid:91)er c. (cid:400)(cid:399)(cid:399) bce. People were driven o their land so the land could be used to se(cid:130)le roman veterans. Local police, government, and law persist at least un(cid:2210)l (cid:400)st century ce. Italy s(cid:2210)ll primary source for recruitment (cid:336)to army, to senate(cid:337) through julio-claudian period. Decline likely from mid- rst century, but hard to document (cid:336)resources go either directly to rome, or to the provinces(cid:337): primarily literary evidence. Around same (cid:2210)me that non-italians could join army.
