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Introduction -- Statistical uncertainties: mobility in the last 250 years BC -- Routeways, kinship and storytelling -- Mixed communities: mobility, connectivity and co-presence -- Why choose to come together and move apart? Convergence and redistribution of people and power -- Plautus on mobility of the every-day -- Polybius on mobility and a comedy of the Hostage Prince -- Polybius on the moving masses and those who moved them -- Social war: reconciling differences of place and citizenship -- Mapping the moving Rome of Livy's Camillus speech -- Materialising Rome and Patria -- Conclusion: everyday and unpredictable mobility.;Migration, Mobility and Place' in Ancient Italy challenges prevailing conceptions of a natural tie to the land and a demographically settled world. It argues that much human mobility in the last millennium BC was ongoing and cyclical. In particular, outside the military context "the foreigner in our midst" was not regarded as a problem. Boundaries of status rather than of geopolitics were those difficult to cross. The book discusses the stories of individuals and migrant groups, traders, refugees, expulsions, the founding and demolition of sites, and the polit

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Author

Isayev, Elena

Publisher

Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9781107130616

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Sociology, Social Science