«Nos sumus Romani qui fuimus ante…» Memory of ancient Italy (Etudes genevoises sur l’Antiquité Book 6)

In 2011 Michel Aberson, Maria Cristina Biella, Massimiliano Di Fazio and Manuela Wullschleger (two Italians and two Swiss, two archaeologists and two historians of antiquity) met in Geneva at the Fondation Hardt pour l'étude de l'Antiquite classique and decided to undertake a challenging project together: to organize three conferences on the peoples of central Italy, taking into consideration the key milestones in their history, from their independence, through their relations with Rome and ending with the (re)construction of their identities within the Roman world. Underpinning the project, which immediately found the support of many colleagues and institutions, was the idea of bringing historians, archaeologists, linguists and specialists of Latin literature together to collaboratively create a comprehensive picture of these significantly multifaceted and sometimes even conflicting topics. The present volume is the outcome of the third conference of the series E pluribus unum? Italy from the Pre-Roman fragmentation to the Augustan Unity , held at the University of Oxford in October 2016; it deals with the specific moments of conscious rediscovery of conquered peoples’ contribution to Roman culture from the late Republic and during the Empire. These influences can be recognized particularly during the Late Republic and Augustan period, and the final outcome is the formation of a connective tissue, which can be described as the cement of the "unaccomplished identity" of ancient Italy. The volume investigates the issue from different perspectives in order to avoid the adoption of a Romanocentric perspective. Cover Copyright information Contents Premessa: The Augustan Invention of Italy Reconsidered Bibliography The Regiones of Italy: The Regiones Regio IX Regio VII Regio I Regio III Regio II Regio IV Regio V Regio VI Regio VIII Regio XI Regio X Pliny’s Italy Deconstructing the ‘Augustan’ Lists Whose regiones? Conclusions Bibliography Patterns of Advancement, Demotion, and Frustration in Late Republican Italy Bibliography New Citizens in the Late Republican Army: from Ethnic Contingents to the Professional Legion New-citizen soldiers in the immediate aftermath of the Social War From the Social War to the Age of Augustus Conclusion Bibliography Roman Law and the Laws of the Italian Peoples: Relations and Influences* Bibliography Etruscan and Italic Memories through Images in the Late Republic and Early Empire* The Making of Latin in the Midst of the Other Languages of Italy in the Late Republic Bibliography Mos et Ritus Sacrorum: Religion in the Construction of Augustan Italy Bibliography Reflets hellénistiques sur l’Étrurie livienne? I. L’arrivée à Rome de Tarquin et de Tanaquil. A. La version livienne. B. Comparaison de la version livienne avec d’autres traditions. - Fabius Pictor à travers Diodore ? - Cicéron - Denys d’Halicarnasse. II. Véies ou Alexandrie : le miroir brisé de Rome. - La fin de Véies -Véies et Alexandrie. Bibliographie Evander and the Invention of the Prehistory of Latium in Virgil’s Aeneid* 1. Inventing Cacus 2. Evander’s political agenda: Mezentius 3. Evander’s version of the history of Latium 4. Obliterating the contradictions 5. Aeneas’ kinship diplomacy Bibliography Les peuples de l’Italie au miroir de la géographie augustéenne Une Italie unifiée, objet d’un éloge réducteur. Entre vision unitaire et résurgence de l’histoire Le cas des Samnites Une hiérarchie des peuples ? Bibliographie Varro and Italy: the de Lingua Latina and the Gauls* Italian Identity and the Western Provinces: Roman Emperors and Italian Origins* La recherche sur le passé : entreprise culturelle ou instrument politique ? Du projet augustéen à Caligula* Italian Heritage and the Shifting Frontiers of Romanitas, from Claudius to Trajan The project ±E pluribus unum»? Italy from the pre-Roman fragmentation to the Augustan unity aims to give (thanks to a set of three volumes) a picture of the peoples of ancient pre-Roman central Italy and of the contribution made by them to the formation of the ±unaccomplished identity» of the Italian peninsula during the late-Republic and Empire. Each book is the outcome of a conference, dedicated to a specific chronological period and to its problems. 0The first volume, centred on the phase preceding the Roman conquest of the peninsula, takes into consideration a selection of peoples: Sabini, Umbri, Piceni, Samnites, Campani, Lucani, Volsci, Falisci, Capenates and Latini. For each of them the following themes are tackled in detail: the emergence of the ethnos in ancient written sources and the possibility of recognizing a cultural specificity in the archaeological record, the link between the ethnos and the territory, and the relationship with the neighbouring ethne. 0The peoples are analysed individually each by a couple of scholars, highlighting the expression of diverse European academic traditions from different scientific The project "E pluribus unum"? Italy from the pre-Roman fragmentation to the Augustan unity aims to give (thanks to a set of three volumes) a picture of the peoples of ancient pre-Roman central Italy and of the contribution made by them to the formation of the "unaccomplished identity» of the Italian peninsula during the late-Republic and Empire. The present volume is the outcome of the third conference of the series E pluribus unum? Italy from the Pre-Roman fragmentation to the Augustan Unity, held at the University of Oxford in October 2016; it deals with the specific moments of conscious rediscovery of conquered peoples' contribution to Roman culture from the late Republic and during the Empire. These influences can be recognized particularly during the Late Republic and Augustan period, and the final outcome is the formation of a connective tissue, which can be described as the cement of the "unaccomplished identity" of ancient Italy. The volume investigates the issue from different perspectives in order to avoid the adoption of a Romanocentric perspective