ProQuest Dissertations - Historia Antigua
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incorporation through cult works also to meld the Latin and the Roman colonists into amore coherent whole. Indeed there is much evidence for the worship of common Latindeities in the colonies. 14V. ConclusionsThe pervading assumption that Roman colonization was controlled by a nebulous 'Rome'or by 'the senate' does not hold up in the face of the evidence for the role of the colonialcommissioners in the foundation process. Osborne defines the statist overtones ofcolonization as the notion in modern scholarship that the foundation of a colony is not thegoal, but a means to political and cultural control. 147If the Roman state or the senate as abody did want to use colonies as a way to control Italy, there would be more concreteevidence that the senate as a body mandated the political and cultural structure of everycolony; in short, that the senate deliberately acted to 'civilize' the local Italian population.Instead, the evidence we have indicates that an individual magistrate introduced a motionto found a colony, and the senate as a body merely decided whether it would be expedientfor a certain number of colonists to be sent there to form a Latin or citizen colony. Thesenate issued a consultum to this effect, which appointed a magistrate to arrange for a lawand for a commission. These consulta and the leges which arose out of them were ad hocmeasures; they did not conform to a preset model of colonization. The commissionerssometimes cooperated amongst themselves to submit their names to the presidingSee the discussions of Diana, Hercules, and Minerva in Chapter 5.Osborne (1998), pp. 251-252.143
magistrate as a pre-formed committee, and the presiding magistrate presented the comitiatributa with one or more options of committees to elect to found the colonies.After that, it was the commissioners themselves who decided what colonists toenroll, how to get them to their new home, how that new home was best organized giventhe terrain and the number of people, and who the magistrates and priests were. Thecommissioners were most often experienced military men, and so their role in thecolonial foundation sprung from their experience from former magistrates. It isunderstandable that the colonies are similar to one another since they were created out ofsimilar military, organizational, and religious experience. 148Even so, the colonies areneither identical to one another nor indistinguishable from the model of Rome. This isbecause the only point of contact between the Roman senate and the foundation of thecolony was the three commissioners, who planned the dilectus, transmitted the colonialcharter, and organized the physical space of the colony, sometimes introducing cults ortemples. The colonists themselves organized the calendar, the laws, and the basicreligious structure of the colony. Thus, if one studies the character of the coloniesthemselves, as Osborne urges, it becomes obvious that they were not founded by a Romanstatist agenda, but that they reflect the experience of the individuals who founded themand the needs of the individuals who inhabited them.Bispham (2006), n. 31 p. 130. This is Bispham's 'colonial office of the mind.'144
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magistrate as a pre-formed committee, and the presiding magistrate presented the comitiatributa with one or more options of committees to elect to found the colonies.After that, it was the commissioners themselves who decided what colonists toenroll, how to get them to their new home, how that new home was best organized giventhe terrain and the number of people, and who the magistrates and priests were. Thecommissioners were most often experienced military men, and so their role in thecolonial foundation sprung from their experience from former magistrates. It isunderstandable that the colonies are similar to one another since they were created out ofsimilar military, organizational, and religious experience. 148Even so, the colonies areneither identical to one another nor indistinguishable from the model of Rome. This isbecause the only point of contact between the Roman senate and the foundation of thecolony was the three commissioners, who planned the dilectus, transmitted the colonialcharter, and organized the physical space of the colony, sometimes introducing cults ortemples. The colonists themselves organized the calendar, the laws, and the basicreligious structure of the colony. Thus, if one studies the character of the coloniesthemselves, as Osborne urges, it becomes obvious that they were not founded by a Romanstatist agenda, but that they reflect the experience of the individuals who founded themand the needs of the individuals who inhabited them.Bispham (2006), n. 31 p. 130. This is Bispham's 'colonial office of the mind.'144
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