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Legions and locals : Roman provincial communities and their trophy monuments

This study considers five Roman trophy monuments in the context of global
versus local culture in the provinces: the Sullan trophy at Chaeroneia, Pompey’s trophy at
Panissars, Octavian’s campsite memorial at Nikopolis, Augustus’s Alpine trophy at La
Turbie, and Trajan’s Dacian trophy at Adamklissi.
Each trophy represents a unique case study of an identifiable Roman form and
tradition deemed appropriate for/by a provincial community. These individualized
characteristics imply localized negotiation of imperial or global ideas—specifically, a
non-Roman’s ability to manipulate Roman concepts emanating from the capital and/or
the desire for Romans to these ideas to appeal to a provincial audience. My study of
these trophies uncovers a widespread phenomenon that contradicts the assumption that
culture was dictated from the center to the periphery, from the elite to the non-elite and
from the urban to the rural in the Roman Empire. This dissertation is a response to Simon Keay’s and Nicola Terrenato’s
lamentation over the lack of comparative analysis for these recent theories and Andrew
Wallace-Hadrill’s challenge to concretize definitions of Romanization. In fact, I
demonstrate how these five Roman trophies featured themes legible to a broad audience
in the ancient world and specialized narratives that catered to the local scene. Altogether,
these case studies represent compelling examples of a much more dynamic kind of
Romanization than current scholarship admits. / text

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:UTEXAS/oai:repositories.lib.utexas.edu:2152/6904
Date05 February 2010
CreatorsIbarra, Alvaro
Source SetsUniversity of Texas
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
Formatelectronic
RightsCopyright is held by the author. Presentation of this material on the Libraries' web site by University Libraries, The University of Texas at Austin was made possible under a limited license grant from the author who has retained all copyrights in the works.

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