ProQuest Dissertations - Historia Antigua

Livy or in olherfasti. 157The consul and praetor lists are reasonably complete, but thelists of quaestors, aediles, and priesthoods are less complete. Nonetheless, significantenough numbers of tresviri are known to have held magistracies prior to their duty ascommissioners to draw conclusions about the pertinence of an office-related skill-set tothe choice of commissioners.ArchaeologyIn addition to an imperial bias, the ancient authors also provide a distinctly Romanocentricaccounting of the process of colonization. Unfortunately, there is no ancientItalian narrative to counterbalance the Roman view, just modern interpretations ofcolonial archaeology, epigraphy, and coinage.evidence is not without its problems, however. 160The interpretation of archaeologicalThe most significant of these is theassumption that the colonies did follow Roman religious patterns; Torelli follows thispattern and labels many of the temples in Paestum based on tentative similarities to thelandscape of Rome. 161Some authors avoid the complex issue of Roman influence on thecolonial landscape by avoiding discussing monumental structures in favor of smallervotive objects such as anatomical terracottas.Others undertake a case-by-case study of157 Gargola (1995), p. 60. Since the lists are incomplete, Gargola declines to perform analysis for howmany of the commissioners held each post. His primary motivation for enumerating the magistracies is todemonstrate that "colonial triumvirates formed a regular part of the mid-republican political order." (p. 60)Thus, the observation that most commissioners had held either the praetorship or the consulship prior tobecoming triumvir was sufficient.158 See Appendix 2 for a discussion of the offices and Chapter 3 for the skill-set.159 Lomas(2004),p.201.160 Alcock (2005), pp. 324-326; Rogers (2005), pp. 349-352; Stein (2005), pp. 7-9; and Dietler (2005), p.66.161 Torelli (1999b), pp. 43-88. Crawford (2006), p. 71 n. 58 also denounces Torelli's methodology.162 de Cazanove (2000), p. 75 "It is superfluous to dwell - as has been done repeatedly - on the imitation ofRome at work in the monumental and religious centers of the Latin colonies: the forum and the arx." Forother studies of terracottas, see Glinister (2000) and (2006) (in response to de Cazanove 2000).47