Controlling Travel: Deportation, Islands and the Regulation of Senatorial Mobility in the Augustan Principate

Drogula, Fred K.

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“…Paratore 1933, 221-222. 56 See Braginton 1944Amiotti 1995;Claassen 1999;Bingham 2003;Santalucia 2004;Gaertner 2007;Baslez 2008;Cohen 2008;Guerin-Beauvois 2008;Rivière 2008;Drogula 2011;Kelly 2012;Rapske 2013. 57 The Roman law included punishment by banishment to the islands fairly late: lex Iulia de adulteriis coercendis, issued against adulterers by Augustus, was passed in 18 BC.…”

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The Aegean Imaginarium: Selected Stereotypes and Associations Connected with the Aegean Sea and Its Islands in Roman Literature in the Period of the Principate

Kołoczek¹

2020

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This article is devoted to the rarely addressed problem of Roman stereotypes and associations connected with the Aegean Sea and its islands in the works of Roman authors in the first three centuries of the Empire. The image of the Aegean islands in the Roman literature was somewhat incongruously compressed into contradictory visions: islands of plenty, desolate prisons, always located far from Italy, surrounded by the terrifying marine element. The positive associations stemmed from previous cultural contacts between the Aegean and Rome: the Romans admired the supposedly more developed Greek civilisation (their awe sometimes underpinned by ostensible disparagement), whereas their elites enjoyed their Aegean tours and reminisced about past glories of Rhodes and Athens. The negative associations came from the islands’desolation and insignificance; the imperial authors, associating the Aegean islets with exile spots, borrowed such motifs from classical and Hellenistic Greek predecessors. The Aegean Sea, ever-present in the rich Greek mythical imaginarium, inspired writers interested in myth and folklore; other writers associated islands with excellent crops and products, renowned and valued across the Empire.

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The Aegean Imaginarium: Selected Stereotypes and Associations Connected with the Aegean Sea and Its Islands in Roman Literature in the Period of the Principate

Kołoczek¹

2020

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“…11 Imperial control over elite movement was designed to minimize opportunities for the latter to conspire against the government. For the regulation of the elite, see (Drogula 2011), but also (Moatti 2000, p. 938ff); and (Tacoma 2016, p. 88). 12 (Moatti 2000, p. 945ff).…”

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Historicizing Migration and Displacement: Learning from the Early Roman Empire in the Time of the Nation-State. Response to Lachenicht, Susanne. Learning from Past Displacements? The History of Migrations between Historical Specificity, Presentism and Fractured Continuities. Humanities 2018, 7, 36

Baroud

2020

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My response to Susanne Lachenicht’s thought-provoking article is a brief attempt to take up her call to write histories that lead not to absolute certainties but to more understanding of the complexities of the past. I focus on documentation, border control, and citizenship in the Early Roman Empire to illustrate some of the radically different ways these were conceptualized and practiced in a premodern multiethnic empire like Rome than in a contemporary nation-state today. Passports, for example, and border control as we know it, did not exist, and migration was not tied to citizenship status. But the account I offer is deliberately tentative and full of qualifications to emphasize the real methodological challenges the study of this subject poses on account of fragmentary literary and material records and the numerous difficulties of interpreting these. I conclude by pointing out both the benefits and the limitations of framing history as a discipline from which one can learn. On the one hand, understanding how seemingly universal categories such as ‘citizen’ and ‘migrant’ are dynamic and constructed rather than static and natural can nuance public debates in nation-states which receive high numbers of migrants (like Germany, Lachenicht’s starting point) by countering ahistorical narratives of a monolithic and sedentary identity. On the other hand, knowledge of the past does not necessarily lead to moral edification.

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“…Goodyear 1981, 2.378-79, agrees that Germanicus' action seems like willful disobedience. For a discussion of the imperial policy of forbidding senators to enter Egypt without the emperor's permission, see Drogula 2011. Furthermore, Germanicus had sacrificed his own desire for personal glory in a significant demonstration of his loyalty to Tiberius; although he very much wanted to continue his German campaigns, he abandoned them and returned to Rome in obedience to his uncle's summons (Tac. Ann.…”

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Who Was Watching Whom?: A Reassessment of the Conflict between Germanicus and Piso

Drogula¹

2015

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Despite Tacitus' insinuations to the contrary, Cn. Calpurnius Piso (cos. 7 b.c.e.) was no friend and loyal supporter of Emperor Tiberius. The emperor offered Piso the command of Syria in an effort to win over the political support of this prestigious-but-recalcitrant senator. As a safeguard should Piso attempt something treacherous in this powerful command, Tiberius gave Piso the province at a time when Germanicus Caesar-the emperor's loyal adopted son and heirwould be in the East resolving a number of economic problems in the eastern provinces. Thus Piso was not sent to watch the prince, but to be watched by him.

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Controlling Travel: Deportation, Islands and the Regulation of Senatorial Mobility in the Augustan Principate

Cited by 8 publications

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The Aegean Imaginarium: Selected Stereotypes and Associations Connected with the Aegean Sea and Its Islands in Roman Literature in the Period of the Principate

The Aegean Imaginarium: Selected Stereotypes and Associations Connected with the Aegean Sea and Its Islands in Roman Literature in the Period of the Principate

Historicizing Migration and Displacement: Learning from the Early Roman Empire in the Time of the Nation-State. Response to Lachenicht, Susanne. Learning from Past Displacements? The History of Migrations between Historical Specificity, Presentism and Fractured Continuities. Humanities 2018, 7, 36

Who Was Watching Whom?: A Reassessment of the Conflict between Germanicus and Piso

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