Understanding Integration in the Roman World

Elena Muñiz-Grijalvo is Professor of Ancient History at the Universidad Pablo de Olavide (Seville) and co-director of a Master's program in Religious Studies. Her publications include Himnos a Isis (Trotta, 2006), Ruling the Greek World (Franz Steiner, 2015), Empire and Religion (Brill, 2017) and Processions and the Construction of Communities in Antiquity (Routledge, 2023). Rosario Moreno Soldevila is Professor of Latin at the Universidad Pablo de Olavide (Seville). She has published monographs, editions, translations and articles on different Latin authors and works, especially on Martial, including Martial, Book IV: A Commentary (Brill, 2006) and A Prosopography to Martial’s Epigrams (De Gruyter, 2019). Contributors are: Carmen Alarcón Hernández, Juan R. Ballesteros, Rocío Gordillo Hervás, Fernando Lozano Gómez, Rose MacLean, Alberto Marina Castillo, Rosario Moreno Soldevila, Elena Muñiz-Grijalvo, Frederick G. Naerebout, Francisco Pina Polo, Louise Revell, Mirella Romero Recio, Cristina Rosillo-López.

Contents


List of Figures and Tables


Abbreviations


Notes on Contributors





1 Foreword: Understanding Integration in the Roman World


 Elena Muñiz-Grijalvo and Rosario Moreno Soldevila





Part 1: Integration: A Conceptual Battlefield


2 Integration Revisited: How to Address Culture Change in the Roman Empire. An Agony in Three Fits


 Frederick G. Naerebout





3 Vox diversa: Theoretical Proposals about “Integration”


 Alberto Marina Castillo





Part 2: Non-elite and Local Processes of Integration


4 Nationes of Enslaved and Freed Romans


 Rose MacLean





5 Integration and Self-Integration of Foreigners in the Roman Census during the Roman Republic


 Cristina Rosillo-López





6 The (Non)Integration of Romans and Italians in Hispania during the Republic


 Some Reflections


 Francisco Pina Polo





7 Local Citizenship and Non-elite Integration in Roman Iberia


 Louise Revell





Part 3: Integration of Diversity in the Social and Cultural Spheres


8 Roman Women Who Feed: Epula and Integration in Hispania during the Principate


 Carmen Alarcón Hernández





9 Gaining Citizenship: Agonistic Paths to Integration in the Roman Empire


 Rocío Gordillo Hervás





10 Literature and Integration in Martial and Pliny the Younger


 Rosario Moreno Soldevila





11 Madness as a Form of Marginality and Barbarism in the Imperial Roman Political Discourse


 Juan R. Ballesteros





Part 4: Integration of Diversity in the Religious Sphere


12 Unlikely Imperial Gods. A Reflection on Some Unexpected Results of the Integration of Emperors into Local Greek Panthea


 Fernando Lozano Gómez





13 Estrangement and Rapprochement: The Alleged Egyptian Origin of Graeco-Roman Processions


 Elena Muñiz-Grijalvo





14 Sanctuary Narratives and Seafarers’ Votive Offerings


 Integration, Continuity and Persistence of Maritime Risk Management Strategies


 Mirella Romero Recio





Index