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9 - No Longer Archaic, Not Yet Hellenistic

Urbanism in Transition

from Part III - Architecture and Art

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 April 2023

Seth Bernard
Affiliation:
University of Toronto
Lisa Marie Mignone
Affiliation:
New York University
Dan-el Padilla Peralta
Affiliation:
Princeton University, New Jersey
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Summary

The chapter aims to illustrate the transformations that took place in the urban centers of Latium vetus during the 4th and 3th centuries BCE, the chronological period that includes the last, turbulent decades of the political autonomy of the cities of Latium and that sees, after the dissolution of the Latin League, the constitutional redefinition of the subjected communities and their inclusion in the political, military, and economic dynamics of Rome. At the same time, the chapter proposes to evaluate the role of Latin urban culture in the process of Roman expansion in Latium adiectum and in the wider colonial phenomenon: This shows extensive territorial reorganization and newly founded urban centers which are hardly “Roman” and are more related to or derived from the urban Latin tradition (for in terms of settlement principles, spatial organization, use of materials, and construction techniques). The communities of ancient Latium, in fact, must have had a primary role in the process of conquest and “Romanization” of the Peninsula, a process that because of its dynamics, its manifestations, and its outcomes, would be more correctly defined as “Latinization.”

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Making the Middle Republic
New Approaches to Rome and Italy, c.400-200 BCE
, pp. 193 - 209
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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