ProQuest Dissertations - Historia Antigua

since they could not keep the gods happy.Thus, it would not fit with the assumptionof superior Roman religious knowledge to give a colony a cult to the most Roman ofgods, especially a Latin colony. Even a capitolium in a colony of Roman citizens wouldimply that the Capitoline Triad had been removed from their accustomed location on theCapitoline Hill. Conversely, the colonists did not ask for temples to Jupiter until afterLuna established a capitolium, which indicates that Romanitas, or the quality of beingidentical to Rome, was not an important factor to the colonists of the early secondcentury. The benefits of being Roman really became attractive to the Italians in the latesecond and early first centuries. 147Second, the Capitoline temple was the symbol of the foundation of the Republic, ameans of keeping time in Rome, and the religious focus of the consular activities. 148Although it was planned and funded by the Tarquins, it became the symbol of the newRoman government. What would be the ideological implication of creating this mostRoman of temples immediately upon the foundation of a new colony? Since the Romanpeople of the late sixth century wanted to remake their government into a Republic, theyhad essentially to take over the role of the Tarquins and rework the kingship, a positioninimical to Romans for the next half century. The appropriation of the Tarquin-madeCapitoline Temple was the physical symbol of the revolution. If the Roman magistrates146 Davies (2004) pp. 60-61 in reference to Livy 2.44.12, 10.11.2, and especially 40.58.3-7, which detailsthe fall of the Bastarnae to a storm and the gods' ill favor. It is necessary to acknowledge that this may bean early to mid-Republican attitude, or it may be a late Republican imposition onto Livy's material. In lightof the lack of capitolia in the colonies of the early second century, as well as evocatio rituals, theassumption that the enemies lost to Rome because they did not have a good rapport with the gods seems tobe present in the middle Republic.147 Torelli (1999), p. 39 f. and 56.148 Purcell (2003), p. 30.236