Migration, Mobility and Place in Ancient ItalyMigration, Mobility and Place in Ancient Italy challenges prevailing conceptions of a natural tie to the land and a demographically settled world. It argues that much human mobility in the last millennium BC was ongoing and cyclical. In particular, outside the military context 'the foreigner in our midst' was not regarded as a problem. Boundaries of status rather than of geopolitics were those difficult to cross. The book discusses the stories of individuals and migrant groups, traders, refugees, expulsions, the founding and demolition of sites, and the political processes that could both encourage and discourage the transfer of people from one place to another. In so doing it highlights moments of change in the concepts of mobility and the definitions of those on the move. By providing the long view from history, it exposes how fleeting are the conventions that take shape here and now. |
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Mobility in the Last 250 Years | 18 |
RoutewaysKinshipandStorytelling 71 | 71 |
Terracotta Antefix from Veii temple Apollo Portonaccio Sanctuary | 107 |
Mobility Connectivity | 108 |
Blackfigure Hydria depicting pirates turning into dolphins | 113 |
8c Bronze griffin and lion door decorations Archaic Torre di | 148 |
Civita di Tricarco Temple Complex P Basemap J Dutertre | 157 |
Inscription from the temple of Apollo Messene Messana | 169 |
6 | 191 |
18a Detail of Mappa Mundi dated to circa 1300 Hereford Cathedral | 194 |
8 | 266 |
9 | 311 |
Mobility without Personal Agency | 430 |
9b Civita di Tricarico central plateau settlement and intermediary | 151 |
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abroad allowed already ancient appear argues authors became become Carthage Carthaginian centre century BC Chapter Cicero citizens citizenship colony comedies communities connected consider context continued created cultural discussion early elite especially ethnic Etruscan evidence example existence extent families figures forces foreigners fourth Gauls Greek groups hostages human importance increasing individuals influence initial inscriptions interest Italian Italy land later Latin living Livy material meaning Mediterranean mercenaries migration military mobility move movement names narrative nature networks noted opportunities origin particular peninsula period Plautus political Polybius Polybius’s population position possible presented Punic question record reference region relation remains residence result role Roman Rome Rome’s second century BC settlement slaves social space status story studies substantial suggests term territory third trade