Roman agrarian policies and the Italian countryside 133-91 BC
This thesis is an investigation into the economic background to the Social War (91-88 BC), a rebellion against the Roman Republic by Rome's allies in Italy, and examines the allied reception of Roman agrarian schemes in the decades prior to the Social War, with particular attention to free small-scale farmers. It has been argued that the consequences of the Gracchan agrarian reforms contributed to the decision of the Italians to revolt in 91 BC. The history of the Gracchan period, however, suffers from limited documentary sources. Furthermore, as Romano-centric preconceptions underlay many modern studies in which the Social War was understood as a fight for the Roman citizenship, the Gracchan reforms and the post-Gracchan agrarian policies have not been fully explored from an allied perspective. After reviewing the demographic approach to the 'second-century rural crisis' which allergedly prompted the Gracchan reforms, the thesis attempts to understand the operations of the Gracchan reforms in the territories of the Latin and Italian states via an archaeological case-study of the Latin town of Luceria in northern Apulia, where large areas of the Roman land division and settlement system known as centuriation
Kim, Young-chae
Roman agrarian policies and the Italian countryside 133-91 BC. This thesis is an investigation into the economic background to the Social War (91-88 BC), a rebellion against the Roman Republic by Rome's allies in Italy, and examines the allied reception of Roman agrarian schemes in the decades prior to the Social War, with particular attention to free small-scale farmers. It has been argued that the consequences of the Gracchan agrarian reforms contributed to the decision of the Italians to revolt in 91 BC. The history of the Gracchan period, however, suffers from limited documentary sources. Furthermore, as Romano-centric preconceptions underlay many modern studies in which the Social War was understood as a fight for the Roman citizenship, the Gracchan reforms and the post-Gracchan agrarian policies have not been fully explored from an allied perspective. After reviewing the demographic approach to the 'second-century rural crisis' which allergedly prompted the Gracchan reforms, the thesis attempts to understand the operations of the Gracchan reforms in the territories of the Latin and Italian states via an archaeological case-study of the Latin town of Luceria in northern Apulia, where large areas of the Roman land division and settlement system known as centuriation
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