Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.32728/flux.2019.1.1
(Re-)Founding Italy: The Social War, Its Aftermath and the Construction of a Roman-Italic Identity in the Roman Republic
Filippo Carlà-Uhink
; University of Potsdam
Abstract
The Social War (91-88 BCE) is one of the most significant episodes in Roman history: from this war, in which Rome fought against her Italic allies, emerged the elite that would lead the Republic in the last decades of its existence and that would provide the senatorial aristocracy of the early imperial age. The Italic rebels were defeated militarily, yet they achieved their political aims. As such, this war – and its elaboration and memorialization in Roman cultural memory – provides a very interesting case study about how "victory" and "defeat" are constructed discursively after a disruptive war, and how its narration is "functionalized" for a re-foundation of the civic body.
Keywords
ancient Italy; ancient Rome; social war; senatorial aristocracy; cultural memory
Hrčak ID:
230778
URI
Publication date:
21.12.2019.
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