62 research outputs found
Continuità in (una) crisi? I motivi di una giornata di studio
No full textDettagliato e aggiornato status quaestionis sulla crisi del III° secolo con particolare attenzione al contesto balcanico-danubiano
Testimonianze epigrafiche per una sintesi sulla proprietá imperiale nel territorio riminese
No full textRecensione a Mattia Vitelli Casella, La Liburnia settentrionale nell'antichità: geografia, istituzioni e società (Collana Studi di storia della Rivista storica dell'antichità 21), Bologna: Pàtron editore, 2021
No full textRecensione a Mattia Vitelli Casella, La Liburnia settentrionale nell'antichità: geografia, istituzioni e società (Collana Studi di storia della Rivista storica dell'antichità 21), Bologna: Pàtron editore, 202
Le iscrizioni pro salute imperatoris nella provincia romana di Dalmazia
No full textThe author analyses the inscriptions from the province with the formula pro salute
imperatoris. This can not be taken as a proof of imperial cult, but of loyalty to the
imperial power. It is interesting to notice the geographic and chronologic distribution
of the documents, from which we see that they come mainly from official ambiences,
connected to imperial property or army. Anyway are worth remarking also documents
erected by private people or municipalities who related their welfare with that of the
emperor. The biggest concentration of testimonies is under the Severian dynasty, as
already verified elsewhere
The knowledge of the edges of the world in Strabo’s work as a result of Roman conquests: some reflections based on Str. 1.2.1 and 2.5.12
No full textDuring the first century BC, the most remote regions of the oikoumene were directly known thanks to the Roman military expeditions. Strabo, who had the intention to describe the whole world following Augustus’ ideology, received and accepted a lot of this recent information unknown to the previous historiographers, above all Polybius and Posidonius. I pay attention firstly to which improvement he brings to the previous knowledge in regions newly discovered, secondly which way he presents the inhabitants of these areas. In order to answer the questions, the focus is especially on Northern Europe, among the regions announced as new discoveries by the author at the beginning of his work
Qualche considerazione storica sulle ghiande missili di Ossero/Osor: in margine a CIL I2, 887; 888
No full textIl contributo è incentrato su due ghiande missili plumbee romane iscritte, ritrovate a Ossero, nel golfo del Quarnaro, nel 1878, assieme ad altre 20 anepigrafi. Furono pubblicate nei corpora epigrafici, ma poi andarono disperse. L’autore riconsidera le letture, propone una nuova interpretazione, indi svolge delle considerazioni storiche sulla circostanza a cui possono risalire i reperti. Alla luce della posizione strategica di Apsorus per le rotte marittime nell’Adriatico orientale, non stupisce che la città sia stata centro di un assedio tra la tarda Repubblica e l’epoca augustea. Tra le ipotesi quella che si ritiene più probabile è che le ghiande siano state utilizzate durante la guerra civile tra Cesare e Pompeo.The contribution is devoted to two Roman inscribed lead sling-shots, which were found in 1878 in Ossero (modern Osor), located in Kvarner Gulf, together with other 20 anepigraphic. The inscribed ones were published in the epigraphic corpora and afterwards went lost. The author reconsiders the readings and proposes also a new interpretation; then, he makes some considerations about the events to which the findings can be related. Because of its strongly strategic location along the maritime routes of Eastern Adriatic, is not surprising that Apsorus was besieged between late Republic and Augustan age. Among the hypotheses the author sees the civil war between Cesar and Pompey as the most probable one
Il transito degli Argonauti nell’Adriatico settentrionale e centrale: note geografiche ad A.R. 4. 335-587
No full textThe author traces the sea route of the Argonauts along the eastern Adriatic coast from the Quarnaro to Planca Cape, as described in the Argonautica by Apollonius of Rhodes. The focal points of this text are:
- The confirmed identification of the two Brigeides islands with Cherso e Lussino in the light of new data;
- The localization of the Hylloi in the Zara peninsula;
- The new identification of Dyskélados with the island of Zuri because of its etymon which could refer to dangerous navigational point and because of rich shipwrecks found around it
La battaglia del Canale di Maltempo/Tihi kanal (49 a.C.) nel golfo del Quarnaro/Kvarner: note topografiche
No full textThis paper will offer a new reconstruction of the battle between Caesarians and Pompeians in the Tihi kanal (49 BC). In particular, the possibility that
Antonius’ forces under siege in the Bejavac peninsula built the rafts for escaping from Krk will be considered. Moreover,
it seems unlikely that the Pompeian soldiers saw the enemies while they were setting out to evacuate and did nothing
to stop them. Therefore, either the view of the preparations was prevented by an obstacle, like a hill, or the Caesarians
built the rafts, hidden in the fortifications discovered along the northern side of Voz Bay. As for the final battle and the
suicide of the Venetian Opitergians, this can plausibly be located on the small island of Sv. Marko, although no mention
of this particular is made by our sources, or on the mainland. Apropos this, the author also hypothesizes that the
Caesarian reinforcements led by Basilus, who had their encampment on the mainland, had been previously defeated by
the Pompeians
Appunti per una storia sociale ed economica dell’ager Ariminensis: il contributo delle iscrizioni
No full textL’articolo è dedicato al contributo fornito dalle attestazioni epigrafiche per delineare popolamento, società ed economia dell’ager della romana Ariminum. Il primo punto affrontato è la definizione del territorio da prendere in considerazione e quindi il problema degli antichi confini con il fiume Tavollo come limite meridionale e l’esclusione della media Valmarecchia. Dallo spazio così delimitato provengono 56 iscrizioni, innanzitutto sepolcrali tratte da sepolcreti prediali, poiché la campagna centuriata era per lo più occupata da fattorie e villae, come già verificato dall’archeologia. Grazie all’apporto dell’epigrafia veniamo a conoscenza del fatto che le persone erano generalmente ingenui, piccoli proprietari terrieri di origine italica. Quanto all’economia, l’attività più praticata era naturalmente quella agricola, rivolta soprattutto alla coltura di cereali, vino e olivo, ma ben attestati sono anche gli ateliers ceramici, spesso annessi alle abitazioni. Alcune concentrazioni di iscrizioni corrispondono ad antichi villaggi sorti lungo le strade in un quadro altrimenti di popolamento sparso. Eccezioni alla condizione sociale citata sono liberti ricchi, ad esempio seviri, e schiavi presenti solo nella parte meridionale del territorio, dove si trovavano grandi villae per la produzione vinicola.This paper addresses the contribution that epigraphy can provide to describe settlement, society and economy in the territory of Roman Ariminum. First, the author has to determine the space taken into account and therefore has to deal with the issue of ancient borders, of accepting the river Tavollo on South and excluding the middle Marecchia valley. In the so defined territory 56 inscriptions were found, above all sepulchral ones coming from predial necropolises, because the soil was mostly occupied by farms and villas in centuriated countryside, as already verified by archaeologic excavations. Thanks to the available inscriptions we learn that people are most freemen, little landowners and all of them seem to be of Italic origin. As for economy, the most practiced work was of course agriculture, devoted in particular to vineyard, cereals and olive, but brick workshops were very common as well and often were annexed to villas. Some concentrations of epigraphic documents correspond to ancient villages located along the main roads among the widespread settlement. Exceptions to the above outlined situation are some freedmen and slaves: the former ones often were rich, e.g. seviri, the latter ones let suppose that in the Southern part of the territory were located big villas for wine production
Quali centri abitati nell'Illirico di Strabone? Appunti per un'indagine
No full textIl breve contributo è dedicato agli insediamenti attestati nella sezione illirica della Geografia di Strabone (VII 5, 1-12): sono all’incirca 20 e offrono una grande varietà di tipologia, dalle città costiere alle fortezze d’altura. Come osservato per altre regioni, l’autore è attento al fenomeno urbano, ma le denominazioni cambiano e non emerge chiaramente un criterio nella scelta e nella classificazione dei centri, attribuibile anche all’assenza di un’armonizzazione tra le fonti seguite. È sorprendente che manchi ogni riferimento alle colonie romane dell’Adriatico orientale, certamente già dedotte quando venne composta l’opera.In this short contribution, the author pays attention to the settlements attested in the Illyrian section of Strabo's Geography (VII 5, 1-12). They are about 20 in total and present different labels and entities, from the fortresses to the coastal towns of Mediterranean style. As in most regions, it emerges that, despite the importance ascribed to the idea of polis within the work, what is missing is a final consistency in choosing and listing the settlements, given that is not interested either in updating or harmonizing the available sources. A striking aspect is the absence of the colonies along the Adriatic coast, which were for sure already established when Strabo wrote his Geography
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