Contents

Introduction: Integration and Identity in the Roman Republic

Regionalism: Towards a New Perspective of Cultural Change in Central Italy, c. 350–100 BC

The Beginning of the First Punic War and the Concept of Italia

Identity Construction and Boundaries: Hellenistic Perugia

Reconsidering Socii in Roman Armies before the Punic Wars

Integration and Armies in the Middle Republic

Appian, Allied Ambassadors, and the Rejection of 91: Why the Romans Chose to Fight the Bellum Sociale

The Lex Licinia Mucia and the Bellum Italicum

Mediterranean Trade as a Mechanism of Integration between Romans and Italians

Outposts of Integration? Garrisoning, Logistics and Archaeology in North-Eastern Hispania, 133–82 BC

Samnite Economy and the Competitive Environment of Italy in the Fifth to Third Centuries BC

The Weakest Link: Elite Social Networks in Republican Italy

Contact, Co-operation, and Conflict in Pre-Social War Italy

Rome and Antium: Pirates, Polities, and Identity in the Middle Republic

A Localized Approach to the Study of Integration and Identity in Southern Italy

Settlement Structures and Institutional ‘Continuity’ in Capua until the Deductio Coloniaria of 59 BC

Integration, Identity, and Language Shift: Strengths and Weaknesses of the ‘Linguistic’ Evidence

Problems and Audience in Cato’s Origines

Juno Sospita: A Foreign Goddess through Roman Eyes

Feronia. The Role of an Italic Goddess in the Process of Cultural Integration in Republican Italy

Tiburnus, Albunea, Hercules Victor: the Cults of Tibur between Integration and Assertion of Local Identity

General Conclusion

Bibliography

Index