(Re)moving the Masses: Colonisation as Domestic Displacement in the Roman Republic

(Re)moving the Masses: Colonisation as Domestic Displacement in the Roman Republic

Metaphors move—and displace—people. This paper starts from this premise, focusing on how elites have deployed metaphors of water and waste to form a rhetorical consensus around the displacement of non-elite citizens in ancient Roman contexts, with reference to similar discourses...

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Main Author: Evan Jewell
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2019-03-01
Series:Humanities
Subjects:
Roman colonisation
colonists
waste
metaphors
plebeians
freedmen
elite
non-elite
Julius Caesar
Cicero
Roman oratory
displacement
domestic
migration
Romulus
asylum
penal colonies
convicts
volition
popularis
marginality
land distribution
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/8/2/66

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