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Spoils in the Roman Republic

Boon and Bane

Marian Helm, Saskia T. Roselaar (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

467 Seiten

2023
Franz Steiner Verlag
978-3-515-13369-2 (ISBN)

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Warfare was a common occurrence in the Ancient World, and the Roman Republic was no exception in this regard. Rome was exceptionally successful in its military endeavours, which led to the conquest of the Italian Peninsula and the historically unique creation of a Mediterranean empire. The origins and motifs for this were complex and many-faceted, but there can be little doubt that the material rewards of military aggression played a central role in driving and maintaining annual warfare. Scholarship tends to interpret spoils in the context of a positive-sum game that allowed for the diffusion of social problems and the stabilisation of the Roman political system through the distribution of surplus resources. However, spoils regularly caused unrest and dissatisfaction, which suggests a more complex impact on Roman politics and society. This volume therefore investigates the socio-political, economic, and cultural impacts of spoils on the city of Rome and Roman Italy in order to gain a better understanding of the crucial role that externally acquired resources played in the context of Roman Republican expansion in the Mediterranean.

Marian Helm received his PhD from the Ruhr-Universität Bochum and is an assistant professor at the Department of Ancient History at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster. His research focuses on the Roman Republic, ancient military history, the settlement history of Latium, and the sacred landscape of the Saronic Gulf.

Saskia T. Roselaar was born in Alkmaar, the Netherlands, in 1980. She read Ancient History at the University of Utrecht. Then she moved to Leiden for her Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) on “The role of state-owned land in the Roman economy, 201-88 BC”, which she finished in 2008. From 2009-2011 she worked as a Newton International Research Fellow, on the project “Identity and integration in the Roman Republic”. She then held a two-year Nottingham Advanced Research Fellowship from 2011-2013. From 2015 Saskia T. Roselaar held a Visiting International Professorship at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum. This book is the result of this Professorship. Currently, Dr. Roselaar works as an independent scholar on various topics related to the history and economy of the Roman Republic.

Erscheinungsdatum	23.06.2023
Sprache	englisch
Maße	170 x 240 mm
Gewicht	939 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
Schlagworte	Colonization in the Roman Republic • Kongress Altphilologen • land distribution • Roman Coinage • Roman collective identity • Roman economy • Roman History • Roman infrastructure • roman republic • Roman slavery • Roman warfare • Spoils of War
ISBN-10	3-515-13369-0 / 3515133690
ISBN-13	978-3-515-13369-2 / 9783515133692
Zustand	Neuware