Helm / Roselaar Spoils in the Roman Republic

Boon and Bane
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-3-515-13370-8
Verlag: Franz Steiner
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Deutsch, Englisch, 467 Seiten, E-Book-Text

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Helm, Marian

Roselaar, Saskia T.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike Römische Geschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Roselaar, Saskia T.
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.

Helm, Marian
Marian Helm wurde an der Ruhr-Universität Bochum promoviert und ist derzeit wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Seminar für Alte Geschichte der Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität Münster. Seine Forschungsschwerpunkte sind die Römische Republik, antike Militärgeschichte, Siedlungsgeschichte Latiums sowie die Sakrallandschaft des Saronischen Golfes.