A Companion to Ethnicity in the Ancient Mediterranean

Romans and Italians 443 (a) (b) Figure 29.3 Obverse and Reverse of 307/1ab: Dioscuri of Tusculum. Courtesy of Rutgers Uni- versi ...

444 Gary D. Farney Figure 29.5 Reverse of 344/1a: Rape of Sabine Women. Courtesy of Rutgers University Libraries, Special Collec ...

Romans and Italians 445 Figure 29.6 Reverse of 344/1b: Killing of Tarpeia. Courtesy of Rutgers University Libraries, Special Col ...

446 Gary D. Farney haruspicy (i.e., from the entrails of sacrificed animals), the so-calleddisciplina Etrusca. The Roman state s ...

Romans and Italians 447 few even had citizenship. However, the familiar pattern emerges eventually: those from groups closer to ...

448 Gary D. Farney of the Samnites. For example, Cato the Elder claimed that “all Ligurians are liars,” and that he was unable t ...

Romans and Italians 449 uncovered so far: that genealogy was often used to “explain” ethnic reputation, that the Romans frequent ...

450 Gary D. Farney “Sabellus” five of the first times it appears in extant literature, all in very positive ways, and once calli ...

Romans and Italians 451 Epilogue In an important essay, Cornell (1991, with Ampolo 1991) expounded upon Rome’s view of itself af ...

452 Gary D. Farney behind this, if not the phenomenon itself, actually existed earlier. As elsewhere, one must be careful not to ...

Romans and Italians 453 Giardina, Andrea. 1994. “L’identità incompiuta dell’Italia romana.” In Claude Nicolet, ed., L’Italie d’A ...

454 Gary D. Farney De La Genière, Juliette, ed. 1991.Épéios et Philoctète en Italie: Données Archéologiques et Traditions Légend ...

CHAPTER 30 Roman Elite Ethnicity Parshia Lee-Stecum An Elite Discourse In 47 or 48CE,the emperor Claudius spoke to the Senate in ...

456 Parshia Lee-Stecum More than a demonstration of the constant innovation that the Roman constitution had undergone, and more ...

Roman Elite Ethnicity 457 from the first centuryBCEonward, but draws upon a much older tradition (Horsfall 1987; Wiseman 1995: 5 ...

458 Parshia Lee-Stecum 2010: 18–19). Even a single ethnic affiliation might be used to project a variety of mean- ings. The Virg ...

Roman Elite Ethnicity 459 culminates in a formal treaty between the Romans and Sabine communities (Hemker 1985: 41–8; Joplin 199 ...

460 Parshia Lee-Stecum Roman mission, expressed in the famous passage from Book 6 of the poem, “to war down the proud” (Aeneid6. ...

Roman Elite Ethnicity 461 Cicero,Republic2.14, and Florus 2.6.1). Regardless of the realities of inter-marriage or movement amon ...

462 Parshia Lee-Stecum sources hostile to Rome could configure the ethnic diversity of the Romans in terms of mongrel descent: T ...