Understanding Integration in the Roman World

Elena Muñiz Grijalvo, Rosario Moreno Soldevila (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

258 Seiten

2023
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-54561-8 (ISBN)

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Drawing on recent debates on cultural contact, this book offers a series of examples that invite to interpret integration in the Roman Mediterranean as the creation of an imperial scale, a common frame of reference for the inhabitants of the Roman world.

Integration is a buzzword in the 21st century. However, academics still do not agree on its meaning and, above all, on its consequences. This book offers numerous examples showing that the inhabitants of the Roman Mediterranean were “integrated”, i.e. were aware of the existence of a common framework of coexistence, without this necessarily resulting in a process of cultural convergence. For instance, the Spanish poet Martial explicitly refused to be considered the brother of the Greek Charmenion (10.65): paradoxically, while reaffirming their differences, his satirical epigram confirms the existence of a common frame of reference that encompassed them both. Understanding integration in the Roman world requires paying attention to the complex and varied responses to diversity in Roman times.

Elena Muñiz-Grijalvo is Professor of Ancient History at the Universidad Pablo de Olavide (Seville) and co-director of a Master's program in Religious Studies. Her publications include Himnos a Isis (Trotta, 2006), Ruling the Greek World (Franz Steiner, 2015), Empire and Religion (Brill, 2017) and Processions and the Construction of Communities in Antiquity (Routledge, 2023). Rosario Moreno Soldevila is Professor of Latin at the Universidad Pablo de Olavide (Seville). She has published monographs, editions, translations and articles on different Latin authors and works, especially on Martial, including Martial, Book IV: A Commentary (Brill, 2006) and A Prosopography to Martial’s Epigrams (De Gruyter, 2019). Contributors are: Carmen Alarcón Hernández, Juan R. Ballesteros, Rocío Gordillo Hervás, Fernando Lozano Gómez, Rose MacLean, Alberto Marina Castillo, Rosario Moreno Soldevila, Elena Muñiz-Grijalvo, Frederick G. Naerebout, Francisco Pina Polo, Louise Revell, Mirella Romero Recio, Cristina Rosillo-López.

Contents

List of Figures and Tables

Abbreviations

Notes on Contributors

1 Foreword: Understanding Integration in the Roman World

Elena Muñiz-Grijalvo and Rosario Moreno Soldevila

Part 1: Integration: A Conceptual Battlefield

2 Integration Revisited: How to Address Culture Change in the Roman Empire. An Agony in Three Fits

Frederick G. Naerebout

3 Vox diversa: Theoretical Proposals about “Integration”

Alberto Marina Castillo

Part 2: Non-elite and Local Processes of Integration

4 Nationes of Enslaved and Freed Romans

Rose MacLean

5 Integration and Self-Integration of Foreigners in the Roman Census during the Roman Republic

Cristina Rosillo-López

6 The (Non)Integration of Romans and Italians in Hispania during the Republic

Some Reflections

Francisco Pina Polo

7 Local Citizenship and Non-elite Integration in Roman Iberia

Louise Revell

Part 3: Integration of Diversity in the Social and Cultural Spheres

8 Roman Women Who Feed: Epula and Integration in Hispania during the Principate

Carmen Alarcón Hernández

9 Gaining Citizenship: Agonistic Paths to Integration in the Roman Empire

Rocío Gordillo Hervás

10 Literature and Integration in Martial and Pliny the Younger

Rosario Moreno Soldevila

11 Madness as a Form of Marginality and Barbarism in the Imperial Roman Political Discourse

Juan R. Ballesteros

Part 4: Integration of Diversity in the Religious Sphere

12 Unlikely Imperial Gods. A Reflection on Some Unexpected Results of the Integration of Emperors into Local Greek Panthea

Fernando Lozano Gómez

13 Estrangement and Rapprochement: The Alleged Egyptian Origin of Graeco-Roman Processions

Elena Muñiz-Grijalvo

14 Sanctuary Narratives and Seafarers’ Votive Offerings

Integration, Continuity and Persistence of Maritime Risk Management Strategies

Mirella Romero Recio

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	30.09.2023
Reihe/Serie	Impact of Empire ; 47
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	580 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
ISBN-10	90-04-54561-1 / 9004545611
ISBN-13	978-90-04-54561-8 / 9789004545618
Zustand	Neuware