Les colonies latines et les frontières régionales de l’Italie

Despite their artificial origin, the Augustan regions generally coincide with the pre-existing ethnic blocs. This article inquires into the way in which the regional boundaries were established, based on what references and what facts. The testimony of Horace (Satires, II, 1, 34-39), a native of the...

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Main Author: Olivier de Cazanove
Format: Article
Language:Spanish
Published: Casa de Velázquez 2005-11-01
Series:Mélanges de la Casa de Velázquez
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/mcv/2060
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author Olivier de Cazanove
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Les colonies latines et les frontières régionales de l’Italie
Mélanges de la Casa de Velázquez
Ancient Italy
Augustan regions
Ethnic boundaries
Horace
Latin colonies
author_facet Olivier de Cazanove
author_sort Olivier de Cazanove
title Les colonies latines et les frontières régionales de l’Italie
title_short Les colonies latines et les frontières régionales de l’Italie
title_full Les colonies latines et les frontières régionales de l’Italie
title_fullStr Les colonies latines et les frontières régionales de l’Italie
title_full_unstemmed Les colonies latines et les frontières régionales de l’Italie
title_sort les colonies latines et les frontières régionales de l’italie
publisher Casa de Velázquez
series Mélanges de la Casa de Velázquez
issn 0076-230X
2173-1306
publishDate 2005-11-01
description Despite their artificial origin, the Augustan regions generally coincide with the pre-existing ethnic blocs. This article inquires into the way in which the regional boundaries were established, based on what references and what facts. The testimony of Horace (Satires, II, 1, 34-39), a native of the Latin colony of Venusia, reveals the notion of ethnic frontiers that prevailed in Italy between the Social War and the Augustan era. Venusia is a buffer zone between Apulia and Lucania and helps define the boundaries of the latter two. Far from being exclusive to Venusia, such an inter-border situation was a distinctive feature of all Latin colonies lying within the bounds (terrestrial or maritime) of the future Italian regions and founded later than 312 BC. Conceived as advance outposts of the empire of Rome, they also helped to fix ethnic boundaries between which the foreign body of Latinitas was introduced.
topic Ancient Italy
Augustan regions
Ethnic boundaries
Horace
Latin colonies
url http://journals.openedition.org/mcv/2060
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