TY - BOOK ID - 4884813 TI - The Republican Aventine and Rome's social order PY - 2016 SN - 9780472119882 9780472121939 0472121936 0472119885 PB - Ann Arbor University of Michigan Press DB - UniCat KW - Social classes KW - City and town life KW - Dwellings KW - Social integration KW - Social stability KW - Human geography KW - Classes sociales KW - Vie urbaine KW - Habitations KW - Intégration sociale KW - Stabilité sociale KW - Géographie humaine KW - History KW - Social aspects KW - Histoire KW - Aspect social KW - Aventine Hill (Italy) KW - Rome (Italy) KW - Rome KW - Aventin, Mont (Italie) KW - Rome (Italie) KW - Social conditions. KW - Conditions sociales KW - Social science KW - Ancient KW - Rome. KW - Archaeology. KW - History. KW - Anthropo-geography KW - Anthropogeography KW - Geographical distribution of humans KW - Social geography KW - Anthropology KW - Geography KW - Human ecology KW - Stability, Social KW - Social history KW - Sociology KW - Progress KW - Inclusion, Social KW - Integration, Social KW - Social inclusion KW - Belonging (Social psychology) KW - Domiciles KW - Homes KW - Houses KW - One-family houses KW - Residences KW - Residential buildings KW - Single-family homes KW - Buildings KW - Architecture, Domestic KW - House-raising parties KW - Household ecology KW - Housing KW - City life KW - Town life KW - Urban life KW - Sociology, Urban KW - Class distinction KW - Classes, Social KW - Rank KW - Caste KW - Estates (Social orders) KW - Social status KW - Class consciousness KW - Classism KW - Social stratification KW - Aventine (Italy) KW - Aventino, Monte (Italy) KW - Monte Aventino (Italy) KW - Intégration sociale KW - Stabilité sociale KW - Géographie humaine KW - Rome (Italy : Commune) KW - Rome (Italy : Governatorato) KW - Rūmah (Italy) KW - Roma (Italy) KW - Rom (Italy) KW - Rím (Italy) KW - Rzym (Italy) KW - Comune di Roma (Italy) KW - Social conditions KW - Rome (Italy : Comune) KW - Social classes - Italy - Rome - History - To 1500 KW - City and town life - Italy - Rome - History - To 1500 KW - Dwellings - Social aspects - Italy - Rome - History - To 1500 KW - Social integration - Italy - Rome - History - To 1500 KW - Social stability - Italy - Rome - History - To 1500 KW - Human geography - Italy - Rome - History - To 1500 KW - Aventine Hill (Italy) - History KW - Rome (Italy) - Social conditions KW - Rome (Italy) - History - To 476 KW - Rome - History - Republic, 510-30 B.C. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:4884813 AB - "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 ass essment of one of Rome's canonical hills and to theorize broadly about republican Rome's residential practices"--Preface. "The Aventine--one of Rome’s canonical seven hills--has long been identified as the city’s plebeian district, which housed the lower orders of society and served as the political headquarters, religious citadel, and social bastion of those seeking radical reform of the Republican constitution. Lisa Marie Mignone challenges the plebeian-Aventine paradigm through a multidisciplinary review of the ancient evidence, demonstrating that this construct proves to be a modern creation. Mignone uses ancient literary accounts, material evidence, and legal and semantic developments to reconstruct and reexamine the history of the Aventine Hill. Through comparative studies of premodern urban planning and development, combined with an assessment of gang violence and ancient neighborhood practices in the latter half of the first century BCE, she argues that there was no concentration of the disadvantaged in a "plebeian ghetto." Thus residency patterns everywhere in the caput mundi, including the Aventine Hill, likely incorporated the full spectrum of Roman society." -- Publisher's description ER -