The Business of Being Roman: Power, Citizenship, and Provincial Administration in North Africa

ancient north africa histories cities and landscapes

Oxford Ancient History Faculty Seminar Hilary Term 2023 Tuesdays 4pm at the Ioannou Centre, 66 St Giles

Ancient North Africa: Histories, Cities, and Landscapes

Week 8 (7 March) Sailakshmi Ramgopal (Columbia University)

The Business of Being Roman: Power, Citizenship, and Provincial Administration in North Africa

The expansion of Rome's power in the second century BCE presented both the Republic and ordinary Roman citizens with a problem: the growing presence of Romans beyond Italy. This paper attends to a single dimension of this change by exploring the formation of voluntary associations by Romans who lived as minorities in provincial cities and the roles that such groups played in relationships between Rome and the cities of North Africa.

Organisers:

Jo Quinn (josephine.quinn@classics.ox.ac.uk), Niccolò Mugnai, Monica Hellström, Tim Smith