ProQuest Dissertations - Historia Antigua

uilt a capitolium in a colony, they would ideologically be assuming the role of theTarquins. This would imply the counter position of the colony as Republic, which wouldinvite the rejection of Roman rule by the colony just as the monarchy was rejected byRome. This is not an idea that the Roman magistrates would foster in the colonies,especially in light of the refusal of the colonists to provide troops during the HannibalicWar, and their subsequent two-fold punishment. 1 9The ideological difficulty of founding a capitolium disappears if the colonistsrequest such a temple themselves. Then, they are aligning with the Roman Republic andpose no threat of uprising. The requisite is a desire for Romanitas, which only began withthe large citizen colonies founded by Lepidus, and the example of the Luna capitolium inthe second century BCE. The underlying theme of the suggestions that Roman senatorsdid not trust foreigners to properly cultivate the gods and that they would have avoidedaligning themselves with the Tarquins ideologically is that the Roman senate would haveno reason to stamp Roman religion onto the colonies. Indeed, archaeological evidencedemonstrates that colonial religion followed Mediterranean, Italic, Latin, local, andRoman religious customs, even in the worship of Jupiter, Juno, and Minerva.Livy 27.9 for the offense and 29.15 for the punishment.237