The Republican Aventine and Rome's social order Mignone, Lisa creator author. text bibliography History. miu 2016 2016 monographic eng print xi, 243 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm "The Republican Aventine and Rome's Social Order is about one hill in particular, the Aventine, and its segregation from and integration into the residential fabric of Rome. My chronological focus is the Roman Republic, with studies peering into the Augustan principate. Throughout the text, all dates are BCE unless otherwise noted, and the title's reference to Roman social order reflects this monograph's twin themes: the plebs and urban stability. First, this book destabilizes the long-standing scholarly tradition that the Aventine was the citadel and headquarters for Rome's politically vibrant plebs. Second, it demonstrates that the development of the Aventine as a region mirrors the overall evolution of the urbs. The caput mundi was characterized by an extraordinary degree of socioeconomic integration, and the book concludes by proposing that this transurban heterogeneity may have contributed to the city's relative tranquility up until the final decades of the republic. This book aims to offer a deeply textured reconstruction of the Aventine as a literary and conceptual construct, on the one hand, and as a physical space, on the other. The city map is intentionally blank. Though we know which monuments stood on the Aventine in the Republic, we do not know where they stood. The ruins that have been recovered remain anonymous or assigned amid great conjecture. This book is not a topographical manual or an archaeological survey guide. It does not seek to attach famous figures to known archaeological sites or to assign residents to a map. A flurry of recent and ongoing scholarship has made that sort of work possible. The publication of the Lexicon Topographicum Urbis Romae in particular ensures that Rome's cultural geography will remain a very fertile and dynamic field within classical studies. The contribution of this monograph is that it applies fresh, critical readings to the literary tradition, material culture, and comparative urban studies, to offer a new assessment of one of Rome's canonical hills and to theorize broadly about republican Rome's residential practices"--Preface. Introduction: The Republican Aventine, the Plebeian District Par Excellence -- Aventine Withdrawal : Geographies of Secession -- Land Confiscation on the Aventine : Ager Publicus and the Lex Icilia de Aventino Publicando -- The Aventine's Development and Residents : Non Alter Populus -- The Aventine's Residents in the Archaeological Record : Promisce Urbs Aedificata -- Zoning Rome's Residents -- Conclusion: Plebs Habitat Diversa Locis -- Epilogue: Modern Secessions of Conscience : Constructing the Plebeian Aventine -- Appendix 1: Ceres, the So-Called Aventine Triad, and the Case of Mistaken Geography -- Appendix 2: The Authenticity of Dionysius' Archaic Bronze Stele and Its Contents. Lisa Marie Mignone. Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-235) and index. e-it--- e------ Social classes Italy Rome History To 1500 City and town life Italy Rome History To 1500 Dwellings Social aspects Italy Rome History To 1500 Social integration Italy Rome History To 1500 Social stability Italy Rome History To 1500 Human geography Italy Rome History To 1500 Aventine Hill (Italy) History Rome (Italy) Social conditions Rome (Italy) History To 476 Rome History Republic, 510-30 B.C HISTORY / Ancient / Rome SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology City and town life Dwellings Social aspects Human geography Social classes Social conditions Social integration Social stability Italy Aventine Hill Italy Rome Rome (Empire) To 1500 fast DG66 .M54 2016 937/.63 HIS002020 SOC003000 9780472119882 0472119885 9780472121939 2016019930 DLC 160427 20160810142637.0 in00003721741 eng