Social dynamics and conflicts in Middle Thyrrenian archaic age
(2019) Central Mediterranean Prehistory Workshop — Location: University of Nottingham (29.May.2019)
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- The Archaic age (6th-5th c. BC) in central-Tyrrhenian Roman and Etruscan Italy represents an important moment of crisis for existing power structures. In the previous phase, during the Orientalising age (mainly during 7th c. BC), the great demand for sumptuous goods by the Etruscan and Roman principes contributed to the creation of a middle-class, mainly composed of craftworkers, that probably tried to seize some of the aristocracy's political power to match their newly acquired economic status. The archaeological and historical data of socio-political conflicts, for example the reorganisation of aristocratic spaces into public areas with temples, or the emergence of tyrannical powers, might be seen as evidence of discontinuities in the existing aristocratic-driven power which, at least in part, shifted in the hands of lower socio-political classes. In this contribution I shall try to highlight crucial archaeological and historical evidence related to social disorders and changing in the structure of power during the 6th-5th c. BC by comparing their outcomes in the Etruscan and Roman areas.
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Monti, D. (2019). Social dynamics and conflicts in Middle Thyrrenian archaic age. Central Mediterranean Prehistory Workshop, University of Nottingham. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/245866