Collective identities and the multiplication of the border: the case of the Sabines in pre-Roman central Italy

Monti, Dario
(2023) Borders? Borders! Separations Lines, Joining Spaces. — Location: Universität Basel - Departement Altertumswissenschaften (27.November.2023)

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Italy before Roman unification is presented to us by Roman and Greek historical sources as a polychrome mosaic of peoples, with fairly defined borders. However, if we discard this perspective and instead look at the archaeological and epigraphic evidence, the image changes significantly. The boundaries between these peoples often seem to lose their sharpness, forming a picture of gradients and nuances. Nevertheless, by taking a holistic approach to the data, it is possible to identify some lines of difference that seem to materialize the borders between various levels of coexisting collective identities. This issue will be addressed in the paper through the case study of the Sabines, one of the main pre-Roman peoples of central Italy. According to sources, they would also have been the ancestors of other neighboring peoples. This information is proposed to be read diachronically, tracing the genesis of new collective identities – identities that would have then materialized in a multiplication of the border. Therefore, the paper aims to explore the relationship between identity and border: at various levels of overlapping collective identities, there would correspond various levels of material and immaterial borders.
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Monti, D. (2023). Collective identities and the multiplication of the border: the case of the Sabines in pre-Roman central Italy. Borders? Borders! Separations Lines, Joining Spaces., Universität Basel - Departement Altertumswissenschaften. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/245861