期刊名称：Prandium: The Journal of Historical Studies at U of T Mississauga
出版年度：2021
卷号：10
期号：1
语种：English
出版社：University of Toronto Mississauga
摘要：The Social War of the early 80s BC functioned as a formal end to the independence aspirations of non-Roman Italian peoples. While they may have acted simply as an auxiliary extension of the Roman state since the 3rd century BC, the Italian allies, or socii, had their own languages, government magistracies, gods, cultural traditions, and a separate political status from a Roman citizen – an identity that frequently clashed with the proto-imperial structures of the late Republic. This paper analyses the situation of the socii in the century leading up to the Social War, focusing on economic conditions and development, trade, land use, and Roman colonisation. Data will be drawn from archaeological excavations, especially of Italian sanctuaries that underwent monumentalisation in the 2nd century BC, as well as epigraphy and literary sources. The paper will conclude that an inferior economic situation could not have been the guiding motivator for the revolt of the socii, which was additionally influenced by fears of Italian cultural decline in the face of a continuously expanding Roman state.
