Ethnic Identity and Aristocratic Competition in Republican Rome

by Gary D. Farney

• ISBN13: 9780521151801
• ISBN10: 0521151805
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-04-30
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

The ancient Romans are usually thought of as a monolithic ethnic group, though in fact they formed a self-consciously pluralistic society. In this book, Gary D. Farney explores how senators from Rome's Republican period celebrated and manipulated their ethnic identity to get ahead in Rome's political culture. He examines how politicians from these lands tried to advertise positive aspects of their ethnic identity, how others tried to re-create a negative identity into something positive, and how ethnic identity advertisement developed over the course of Republican history. Finally, in an epilogue, Farney addresses how the various Italic identities coalesced into a singular Italian identity in the Empire, and how Rome's experience with Italic groups informed how it perceived other groups, such as Gauls, Germans, and Greeks.

Author Biography

Gary D. Farney is associate professor of history at Rutgers University in Newark. A scholar of Roman history, he is a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome and has published in journals such as Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome, Historia, and Athenaeum.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
List of Abbreviations	p. xv
Duae Patriae	p. 1
Partners in Empire	p. 1
Two Homelands	p. 5
Roman Political Competition and Family Identity Advertisement	p. 11
Ancient Ethnic Identity and Modern Views of Ancient Ethnicity	p. 26
Determining Ethnic Identity	p. 34
Homo Romanus Natus in Latio	p. 39
A Roman Born in Latium	p. 39
Latium vetus versus Latium adiectum	p. 45
Latin Advertisement on Coins	p. 49
Latin Ethnic Identity and Legendary Genealogies	p. 53
Latin Cult Advertisement	p. 65
Latin Pride and Arrogance	p. 74
Romanus Atque Sabinus	p. 78
A Roman and a Sabine	p. 78
Sabinity and Coins	p. 82
Sabine Names: The Established Aristocracy and the Cognomen Sabinus	p. 88
Sabine prisca virtus	p. 97
Sabines and Spartans	p. 101
The Origins of the Sabine Stereotype: The Role of Cato the Elder	p. 105
Roman Sabines: Some Case Studies in the Advertisement of Sabine Identity	p. 112
Tusci AC Barbari	p. 125
Etruscans and Barbarians	p. 125
¿¿¿¿<$$$> and the Etruscan	p. 133
Genealogies for the Etruscan People	p. 140
The Politics of Ethnic Advertisement and Etruscan Family Genealogies	p. 144
Etruscan Ethnic Advertisement and Etruscan Names	p. 146
Disciplina Etrusca	p. 150
Etruscan Romans and the Disciplina Etrusca	p. 159
Attacks on Etruscan Romans	p. 164
Etruscan Epilogue: Political Success under the Julio-Claudians and Beyond	p. 171
Municipalia Illa Prodigia	p. 179
Small-Town Monsters	p. 179
From municipium to the Capital	p. 183
The Stereotypes of Italic Croups	p. 191
Italic Genealogies	p. 199
Sacred Springs and the Ethnic Sabellus	p. 206
Individual Advertisement of Italic Ethnic Identity	p. 210
"Rebel" Italy in the Empire	p. 220
Transferendo Huc Quod Usquam Egregium Fuerit	p. 229
Claudius and the Long-Haired Gauls	p. 229
Are You an Italian or a Provincial?	p. 233
The "Living Anachronism" and "Multiculturalism" of Rome	p. 243
Appendix: Catalog of Coins Advertising the Ethnic Identity of Rupublican and Augustan Moneyers	p. 247
Bibliography	p. 297
Index	p. 323
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