ProQuest Dissertations - Historia Antigua

mentions of the Fregellan emissaries to Rome on behalf of the Latins in 209 BCE and 177BCE demonstrate at least that two of the Fregellan political elite saw the Roman templeof Concordia, which had been built in the Roman forum in 304 BCE. 42In the third phase of the temple (second century), the descendants of the originalLatin and Roman colonists were dealing with the influx of Samnite and Paelignicolonists. Concordia and her ability to safe-guard the melding of different but parallelclasses of the population would have resonated with the Fregellan elites and their newSabellic counterparts. 43I suggest that the temple in the forum of Fregellae took on adedication to Concordia during the second century, either through Greek influence or outof need for the political and social implications of the cult as introduced in Rome, orboth. 44If the latter is the case, then the religious landscape of Fregellae acted as a canvason which the colonists' anxiety over the changing population was made manifest andameliorated.The three other urban and suburban cult places in Fregellae have not yet beenexcavated. 45There is a small temple west of the forum but east of the river; votiveterracottas have been found there, but there is no other information about the sanctuary orits attribution. 46In the northeastern quadrant of the city, fragments of terracottaarchitectural pieces surfaced in a test trench dug in 1992, but again there is no42 209 BCE: Livy 27.9.2 ff., 10.3 f.; 177 BCE: Cic. Brut. 170.4j See Coarelli (1998), pp. 40-41 for the blending of parallel classes of the population.44 Before assimilation to Concordia, this temple may have been dedicated to any deity. It is dangerous tospeculate which one without risking a hypothesis based on (or in arbitrary opposition to) the notion thatRoman and Latin colonies tried to duplicate a Roman religious landscape.45 Coarelli (1998), p. 61.46 Nicosia (1979), pp. 28-34; Crawford (1985), p. 93.162