Cities and civic life in late Hellenistic Roman Sicily, Cahiers du Centre Gustave Glotz 25 (2014) 165-208
<p style="text-align:justify;"> This paper offers an overview and reassessment of the evidence for the cities and civic life in Sicily in the last two centuries BC, the period of the Roman Republican prouincia. The paper begins with a brief critique of the traditional historical nar...
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| description | <p style="text-align:justify;"> This paper offers an overview and reassessment of the evidence for the cities and civic life in Sicily in the last two centuries BC, the period of the Roman Republican prouincia. The paper begins with a brief critique of the traditional historical narrative and the extent to which this has been bound up in questionable assessments of city status, constructed primarily on the basis of the literary evidence. This critique is underpinned by an Appendix, which contains a detailed analysis of the interpretation of a key passage of Cicero (In Verrem 3.12-13). This first part is followed by three sections which offer an indicative overview of evidence for institutional civic life on the island, brief consideration of the constitutional form of Sicilian cities in the period (increasingly timocratic, dominated by a narrow elite), and a survey of the current state of the evidence for urban monumentalisation on the island. These elements are then brought together in a discussion of Sicilian elite behaviour in the urban context and within the wider historical context. A theme which runs throughout the paper is the extent to which ‘Roman’ Sicily can be usefully understood by comparison with patterns in polis life in the Late Hellenistic eastern Mediterranean, albeit moderated in various ways by the early encroachment of Roman provincial government. </p> |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:a2868b7a-1494-408a-b45a-0a01f6df50382022-03-27T02:20:49ZCities and civic life in late Hellenistic Roman Sicily, Cahiers du Centre Gustave Glotz 25 (2014) 165-208Journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:a2868b7a-1494-408a-b45a-0a01f6df5038Symplectic Elements at OxfordEditions de Boccard2015Prag, J <p style="text-align:justify;"> This paper offers an overview and reassessment of the evidence for the cities and civic life in Sicily in the last two centuries BC, the period of the Roman Republican prouincia. The paper begins with a brief critique of the traditional historical narrative and the extent to which this has been bound up in questionable assessments of city status, constructed primarily on the basis of the literary evidence. This critique is underpinned by an Appendix, which contains a detailed analysis of the interpretation of a key passage of Cicero (In Verrem 3.12-13). This first part is followed by three sections which offer an indicative overview of evidence for institutional civic life on the island, brief consideration of the constitutional form of Sicilian cities in the period (increasingly timocratic, dominated by a narrow elite), and a survey of the current state of the evidence for urban monumentalisation on the island. These elements are then brought together in a discussion of Sicilian elite behaviour in the urban context and within the wider historical context. A theme which runs throughout the paper is the extent to which ‘Roman’ Sicily can be usefully understood by comparison with patterns in polis life in the Late Hellenistic eastern Mediterranean, albeit moderated in various ways by the early encroachment of Roman provincial government. </p> |
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| title_short | Cities and civic life in late Hellenistic Roman Sicily, Cahiers du Centre Gustave Glotz 25 (2014) 165-208 |
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