ProQuest Dissertations - Historia Antigua

of the new order.In Rome, it has been argued that Flavius intended the temple ofConcordia to represent a new way of conceiving the community of patrician and plebeianelites, as they merged into a new oligarchy for Rome. 4Concordia's message of new order and the melding of parts of the populationcould have corresponding significance within the context of the colony of Fregellae. It isimportant to recognize that the evidence for this particular goddess in the forum temple atFregellae is tentative: it rests on the location of the temple and the assumption that thegoddess was transferred from Fregellae to Fabrateria Nova. This evidence allows us toposit the attribution of the forum temple at the time of the destruction of the city, but doesnot indicate at which phase of the temple the cult was adopted. The first phase of thetemple can be dated concurrently with the foundation of the colony. At this time, therewas little requirement for the political or social implications of a cult of Concordia.Moreover, Concordia had not yet been introduced into Rome, and the colonists may ormay not have had their own contact with the Greek towns of Southern Italy.For the second phase of the forum temple (early second century), the Hellenisticstyle and Greek artist for the temple demonstrate contact between the Fregellans andGreeks, probably gained through the former's participation in Rome's war againstAntiochus III of Syria, c. 190 BCE. 41The colonists, or at least their magistrates, wouldalso have been aware of the temple in Rome and its connotations. Livy's and Cicero's39 Curti (2000), pp. 80-81.40 Curti (2000), p. 81. See also Colonna (1981), p. 232 for the joining of patrician and plebeian elite.41 Several friezes preserved in the Museo Archeologico di Fregellae in Ceprano depict trophies, a wingedVictory with an oracular tripod, and ships. These friezes most likely adorned the tablinum of a house whichbelonged to one of the Fregellans that participated in the war against Antiochus. Coarelli (1998), pp. 63-64.161