Los términos hospes/hospita presentan distintos significados en la epigrafía romana, relacionados en unos casos con la noción de extranjero, en otros con el hospedaje, e incluso con el concubinato. ...En este trabajo analizamos la presencia de estos vocablos en la epigrafía militar del Imperio romano, en la cual manifiestan una relación conyugal.
This article attempts to read the phenomenon of collective resistance in the Roman army of the Late Republic as political action. Taking my inspiration from post-colonial theories of popular power, I ...contend that we should not understand acts of collective resistance in military settings as simple events activated by a singular cause, but rather as expressions of individual and collective grievances with the status quo. Indeed, the variant practices of military recruitment in the Late Republic, and the exploitative nature of Rome’s imperial rule put oppressed groups – Italians, provincials, and former slaves – in constant contact with the state apparatus. Thus, military service offered an essential space for political action in the first century BC. These findings help us to better understand how popular power could be realized beyond traditional institutional settings in this period.
Several elements suggest that Polybius’ description of the Roman army in Book VI of his
depicts a rather outdated military system, making it hard to accept it as an up-to-date portrait of the legions ...by the mid-second century BC. After all, the Roman army had been experiencing a series of changes since the mid-third century that were affecting both the army’ structure and how citizens experienced military service. This paper argues that the famous episode of Spurius Ligustinus (Livy 42.34) contains several suggestions about the nature of these changes and their social ramifications. Although Livy embellished his source for rhetorical reasons, this episode still offers crucial evidence not only on the Roman army but especially, through the figure of Ligustinus himself, on the mid-Republican citizen-soldiers. Through a careful examination of key sections of this episode this paper aims to explore how, by this point, the army already presented features traditionally associated with Gaius Marius and his reforms, thus further emphasizing the outdatedness of Polybius’ description. By offering the very unique profile of an individual Roman citizen of the mid-second century and his relationship with military service, the speech of Ligustinus depicts a more believable and up-to-date representation of military service during the crucial decades of Roman Mediterranean expansion.
This article aims to re-examine the exemptions from military service that were given to the Jews in the Late Republic, conserved to us in Josephus' writings. The extent of these exemptions and their ...number are part of a long, extensive scholarly debate. This article wishes to prove that there were only two original exemptions, one issued by Lentulus and one by Julius Caesar, that were limited in their extent, and that there was never a general exemption for all the Jews. It will also be shown that the other exemptions are only edicts renewing the previous two. Moreover, it will be proven that the Jews served no less than their percentage in the general population, and that extensive Jewish service started in the middle of the 1st century BCE. By showing this and highlighting the vast number of Jews that were in the domain of the Roman Republic at the time, especially in the city of Rome, the current article will stress that there was no logical reason to give a general exemption to the Jews in a time of war. And so, an attempt to delve into the logic behind the exemptions, their extent, and the reason for their creation, will be made. Another aspect which will be addressed is the role of the local Roman administration in issuing edicts, their extensive understanding of the different minorities, including the Jews, and the legislative tradition of not creating precedence.
Entre los yacimientos de las islas Baleares relativos a la presencia del ejército romano destaca el caso de Ses Salines. Conocido desde los años 80 del siglo XX, la información disponible de este ...yacimiento urbano, fruto de hallazgos casuales, era demasiado débil para hacer una interpretación fiable. El objetivo de este trabajo es presentar los datos procedentes de trabajos realizados desde 2014, principalmente de la excavación del foso defensivo y de la revisión planimétrica del mismo. Para ello, entre otros métodos, se han utilizado dataciones ceramológicas y por C14 de huesos de fauna. Entre los resultados destaca su datación en 120-100 a. C., hecho que permite relacionarlo con la conquista romana del 123 a. C., así como su identificación como fuerte militar o castellum que podría haber alojado a una cohorte en el sur de la isla.
Feeding the Roman Army in Britain Guest, Peter; Ma, Hongjiao; Mion, Leïa ...
Antiquity,
10/2023, Letnik:
97, Številka:
395
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How did the Roman Empire supply and maintain its frontier garrisons? What was the impact on populations and landscapes of conquered territories? The Feeding the Roman Army in Britain project will ...answer these questions by establishing how soldiers were provisioned and how frontiers operated as economic as well as militarised zones.
ROMAN ARMY AND SALT EXPLOITATION IN DACIA Bîrliba, Lucrețiu; Asăndulesei, Andrei
Journal of Ancient History and Archaeology,
01/2019, Letnik:
6, Številka:
3
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The authors study the connections between salt resources, salt exploitation and Roman army in Dacia. Even though salt resources are attested almost across the entire province of Dacia (excepting ...perhaps the western part), the eastern part is the richest not only in salt deposits, but also salt springs. Salt was important not only for the troops (food — nutrition and preservation, hide and leather processing, horses’ and other animals’ alimentation), but also for the civilian population. The army needed salt not only for its own purposes, but for distributing it in the rest of the province. However, despite the important role of the army concerning the salt resources’ protection, we have to pay attention also at he other missions the troops were charged with.
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