As in the rest of the Italic territories, in the Middle-Adriatic area the Hellenistic period affected profoundly the local institutional, social and economic framework, as a dialectic response to the Roman armed intervention. In the Abruzzo region, new territorial, political and ethnic-based units aroused, well known as Sabines, Aequi, Vestini, Marrucini, Paeligni, Pentri, Frentani, who were not clearly recorded until the chronological horizon under exam, as between the Iron Age and the Late Archaic period the local communities were characterized by a lower complexity degree of organization. This ethnic formation process has been acknowledged by some scholars as the result of intentional choices made since the second half of the 5th century BC, by the peoples who populated the territory in question, such as in the case of the Samnite Campania. Rome became part of this historic setting at the end of the 4th century BC, imposing new perspectives and orientating the development and the transformations of the Italic communities
Rite and Function: Continuity and Transformation in Hellenistic Abruzzo
Valeria Acconcia
2021-01-01
Abstract
As in the rest of the Italic territories, in the Middle-Adriatic area the Hellenistic period affected profoundly the local institutional, social and economic framework, as a dialectic response to the Roman armed intervention. In the Abruzzo region, new territorial, political and ethnic-based units aroused, well known as Sabines, Aequi, Vestini, Marrucini, Paeligni, Pentri, Frentani, who were not clearly recorded until the chronological horizon under exam, as between the Iron Age and the Late Archaic period the local communities were characterized by a lower complexity degree of organization. This ethnic formation process has been acknowledged by some scholars as the result of intentional choices made since the second half of the 5th century BC, by the peoples who populated the territory in question, such as in the case of the Samnite Campania. Rome became part of this historic setting at the end of the 4th century BC, imposing new perspectives and orientating the development and the transformations of the Italic communitiesI documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
