"In the Friendship of the Romans"

• Autores: Michael Snowdon
• Localización: Historia: zeitschrift für alte geschichte : revue d'histoire ancienne, ISSN 0018-2311, Vol. 63, Nº 4, 2014, págs. 422-444
• Idioma: alemán
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• Resumen

  • In an arbitration before the Roman senate (RDGE 9) Melitaia and Narthakion justified their claims to disputed lands first and foremost because they had possessed them "upon entering into the friendship of the Romans." This study first treats the historical context of this peculiar and little-discussed passage, which was not a common arbitral formula, before moving on to explore its implications for contemporary understanding of the social rules that circumscribed Greco-Roman interstate friendship. Finally, it examines the function of amicitia populi Romani in this interaction, particularly upon civic identity and the development of Roman hegemony in the region.