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Villas and Vicinitas: The Social, Economic and Political Role of
Roman Republican Villas
means that led to increased interactions between Romans and locals and therefore aided the On the other hand,
1 The Roman Villa: an Historical Introduction
2 Roman Villas: A Study in Social Structure
Roman Villas,
3 New Men in the Roman Senate, 4 Roman Villas in Central Italy: A Social and Economic History,
It is therefore, reasonable to say that the change in the nature
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5 If
loci for elite interaction,vicinitas
vicinus (a amicus, hospis
Pro Cluentio and Pro Sestio, as well as a section of the Commentariolum Petitionis .
vicinus,
(villa maritima
association with local communities through the association of patronatus
domus in Rome or another city
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vicinus and
Literary descriptions of “Villa Culture” in the Late Republic
One of the
but
aristocratic
7 vehentur;; and Varro
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9
10
sions, either built in rural setting, or on the coast, which were simultaneously the seat of leisure
a pars rustica, or a pars urbana
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“It was not without
Catilinae Conuratio,
”
“
concerned with agriculture, but “while in these times, on the other hand, the effort is to
11 Odyssey,
Agr. 12 Praefatio, de leg. . Romans on the Bay of Naples: A social and culture Study of the Villas and their Owners from 150 BC – AD 400.
13 Varro RR Viri magni nostri maiores non sine causa praeponebant rusticos Romanos urbanis. Ut ruri enim qui in villa vivunt ignaviores, quam qui in agro uersantur in aliquo opere faciendo, sic qui in oppido sederent, quam qui rura colerent, desidiosiores putabant.
14 Cat. operae pretium est, quom domos atque villas cognoveris in urbium modum
15 Varro RRtionem. Illi enim faciebant ad fructum rationem, hi faciunt ad libidines indomitas
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Here, he
pro Caelio, he claims that
”
to solidify his role in the vicinitasTusculum Disputations
16 Varro RR “nunc contra villam urbanam quam maximam ac politissimam habeant dant
17 Cic. Cael. accusatores quidem libidines, amores, adulteria, Baias, actas, convivia, comissationes, cantus, symphonias, navigia iactant.18 ad Fam. 19 The Classical Weekly
de Fin de Leg. as well as the Academica ad Att. 20 Tusc. Nostra autem memoria Philo, quem nos frequenter audivimus, instituit alio tempore rhetorum praecepta tradere, alio philosophorum: ad quam nos consuetudinem a familiaribus nostris adducti in Tusculano, quod datum est temporis nobis, in eo consumpsimus. Itaque cum ante meridiem dictioni operam dedissemus, sicut pridie feceramus, post meridiem in Academiam
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Tusculum Disputations
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had deversoria, smaller accommodations located on the road for staying during lengthy
hospitium. diversoria
otiumotium and negotium.
Economic life at Villas
villa maritima – villa rustica (as long as the
villa rustica
villa maritima luxuria otium has been
descendimus;; in qua disputationem habitam non quasi narrantes exponimus, sed eisdem fere verbis, ut actum disputatumque est.)21 de Or., de Fin., de Div, de Rep Brut OratTop. de Leg.
de Fato Catullus, Cicero and the Society of Patrons, 22 Ad Att.23 deversoria ad Att.
24 ad Att.ad Att.
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“No Roman villaensemble
villa
Lex
Claudia
their own fundi maritimi
25 villa Urban Society in Roman Italy26 Community and Society in Roman Italy,
otium,
27 ad Att Tusculanum et Pompeianum valde me delectant, nisi quod me, illum ipsum vindicem aeris alieni, aere non Corinthio sed hoc circumforaneo obruerunt
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29 Verr.30
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otium
fundi maritimi
(piscinae)
st
piscinae piscinae
in these vivaria
31 Varro RR 32
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36 Varro RR 37 Varro RR
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piscinae. garum.
Lex Claudiatrade, the piscinae
mercatores,
38 Rust. 39 Cic. Ad. Att.
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41
Ad Att. 42 Ad Att.
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villa rusticavilla rustica,
pars rustica, pars urbana, pars fructaria
life of Tiberius Gracchus
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44 Tiberius Gracchus 8.3.45
46
Journal of Roman Studies,
47 Item si ea oppida aut vici in vicinia aut etiam divitum copiosi agri ac villae, unde non care emere possis quae opus sunt in fundum, quibus quae supersint venire possint, ut quibus-
non numquam etiam, quam si colendo in tuo ea parare possis.)48
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Ager Cosanus,
villae rusticae throughout
Italy,
Social Function of Villas in the Archaeology
villae in his home city, in the region Romana
villaNew men in the roman
senate
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JRS 50
51 Pro Sestio;; also ad. Fam 52
53 Agr.
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homines novi
atria must be close to the
54 Purcell 55 Dyson
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57 Ep.
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is near the entrance, then the
.
atrium, triclinium and oecus, since
pars urbana of a
st
the tablinium cubiculii tricliniioecii
which is surrounded by more oecii and triclinii.
domus
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ruri, praeterquam quod in urbe atria proxima ianuis solent esse, ruri ab pseudourbanis statim peristylia, deinde tunc atria habentia circum porticus pavimentatas spectantes ad palestras et ambulationes.61 JRS62 Excavations at the Roman Villa of “Sette Finestre” in Etruria, 1975-9;;
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In addition to these,
libraries,
domus here, he later claims pars urbana
Tusculum Disputations ad Att.
pars rustica, pars urbana
65 Item feneratoribus et publicanis commodiora et speciosiora et ab insidiis tuta, forensibus autem et disertis elegantiora et spatiosiora ad conventos excipiundos, nobilibus vero,
regalia alta, atria et peristylia amplissima, silvae ambulationesque laxiores ad decorem maiestatis perfectae;; praeterea bybliothecas, basilicas non dissimili modo quam publicorum operum
66
praeterquam quod in urbe atria proxima ianuis solent esse, ruri ab pseudourbanis statim peristylia, deinde tunc atria habentia circum porticus pavimentatas spectantes ad palestras et ambulationes.67
Myth, History and Culture in Republican Rome: Studies in Honor of T.P.Wiseman,
pars urbana
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villa suburbana. atrium
and tablinium, associates at his urban domus villa suburbana
the pars urbana oecus
usual for oeci corinthiiimages in the oecus
Trojan
battles,
68 pars rustica.69
oecus. 70 The Wall Paintings from the Oecus of the Villa of Publius Fannius Synistor in Boscoreale, (71 etiam atriis et peristylis, constitutae sunt ab antiquis ex certis rebus certae rationes
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If this is
Ex eo antiqui, qui initia expolitionibus instituerunt, imitati sunt primum crustarum marmorearum
-turas imitarentur, patentibus autem locis, uti exhedris, propter amplitudines parietum scaenarum frontes tragico more aut comico seu satyrico designarent, ambulationibus vero propter spatia longitudinis varietatibus topiorum ornarent a certis locorum proprietatibus imagines exprimentes;;
pastores. Nonnulli locis item signorum melographiam habentes deorum simulacra seu fabularum dispositas explicationes, non minus troianas pugnas seu Ulixes errationes per topia, ceteraque, quae sunt eorum similibus rationibus ab rerum natura procreata
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73 Ep. Ad Lucilium Sat. Satire 74
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villa suburbana
vicini
Neighbours in Rome and Italy
vicinitas.
to that of his amici, hospites and clients, with whom they are often vicinitas
which bound together in countless ways the nobility of Rome and of Italy.
vicinus would entail some of the same mutual
vicinitas overlaps with amicitia, hospitia
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78
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80
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that role of a vicinus
vicinitas
vicinitas created
vicinitas
De Legibus,
81 Patronage in Ancient Society,
82 In the Pro Roscio municeps Amerinus fuit, cum genere et nobilitate et pecunia non modo sui municipi, verum etiam eius vicinitatis facile primus, tum gratia atque hospitiis
Rosc. Am. Clu. 5, “A. Cluentius habitus fuit, pater huiusce, iudices, homo non solum municipi Larinatis ex quo erat sed etiam regionis illius et vicinitatis virtute, existimatione, nobilitate princeps
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novus homo nobiles
necessarius
necessitudo if that was
Rowland refers to a necessarius as another, stronger form of amicitia, and was yet another
vicini, necessitudovicinitas amicitia,
clientela and hospitia.
83 Leg. vir magnus et nobis omnibus amicus L. Lucullus ferebatur, quasi commodissime
oportere quod iis qui inferioris ordinis essent liceret. Non vides Luculle a te id ipsum natum ut illi cuperent quibus id si tu non faceres non liceret?);; 84 Commentariolum petitionis,
novus homo. 85 Rowland, The Classical Journal86 vicini pro Caecina an tuus colonus aut vicinus aut cliens aut libertus” (or whether it was one of your
pro Caecina si alieni ac mercennarii, non si tuus procurator quam si vicinus aut libertus tuus, non si coactis hominibus quam si voluntariis. It
pro Roscio Amerino proferre, ne longius abeam, vel tribulis vel vicinos meos qui suos liberos” (
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being “amicitiae, consuetudines, vicinitates, clientelae, ludi denique et dies festi.”
amici and clientelaeamicus
consuetudines.vicinus seem similar to an amicus
Pro Cluentio,
Instead of clientela¸ in this vicini amici and hospites,
vicinus is not a hospis.vicinus
amicus would vicinus
the same neighborhoods, and then a hospis, vicini:
amici, vicini and hospitii
87 Red. Pop.88 Clu conservate A. Cluentium, restituite incolumem municipio;; amicis, vicinis, hospitibus quorum studia videtis reddite89
90 . Pro Clu. age vero, vicinorum quantum studium, quam incredibilis benivolentia, quanta cura est! non illi in libellis laudationem decretam miserunt, sed homines honestissimos, quos
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common rusticani, quos nossemus omnes.”
pro Cluentio also demonstrates that there are limits to the owed to vicini.
then, being unable to refuse anything to these, my good and honourable friends,
wanted
nossemus omnes, huc frequentis adesse et hunc praesentis laudare voluerunt. adsunt Ferentan, homines nobilissimi, Marrucini item pari dignitate;; Teano Apulo atque Luceria equites Romanos, homines honestissimos, laudatores videtis;; Boviano totoque ex Samnio cum laudationes honestissimae missae sunt, tum homines amplissimi nobilissimique venerunt. iam qui in agro Larinati prae
dictu est quam sint solliciti, quam laborent. non multi mihi ab uno sic diligi videntur ut hic ab his universis.)91 Clu. hic tum C. Fabricius, is de quo ante dixi, qui liberto damnato sibi illud impendere periculum videret, quod mihi cum Aletrinatibus vicinitatem et cum plerisque eorum magnum usum esse sciebat, frequentis eos ad me domum adduxit. qui quamquam de homine sic ut necesse erat existimabant, tamen quod erat ex eodem municipio, suae dignitatis esse arbitrabantur eum quibus rebus possent defendere, idque a me ut facerem et ut causam Scamandri susciperem petebant, in qua causa patroni omne periculum continebatur. ego, qui neque illis talibus viris ac tam amantibus mei rem possem ullam negare neque illud crimen tantum ac tam manifestum esse arbitrarer, sicut ne illi ipsi quidem qui mihi tum illam causam commendabant arbitrabantur, pollicitus eis sum me omnia quae vellent esse facturum
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pro Cluentio.
Pro Cluentio,
de agri cultura,
familiam
vicinitas
92 Clu. hic tum Fabricius non modo ad me meos vicinos et amicos Aletrinatis non adduxit sed ipse eis neque defensoribus uti postea neque laudatoribus potuit. rem enim integram hominis non alieni quamvis suspiciosam defendere humanitatis esse putabamus, iudicatam labefactare conari impudentiae.”93
against
(accusat paternus amicus, C. Postumus, vetus, ut ait ipse, vicinus ac necessarius, qui necessitudinis causas compluris protulit, simultatis nullam commemorare potuit pro Mureno 94 Agr. Vicinis bonus esto;; familiam ne siveris peccare. Si te libenter vicinitas
ris, iumentis, materie adiuvabunt;; siquid bona salte usus venerit, benigne defendent.”
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defendent,
vicinus Phillipics vicinitas to
Phillipic
vicinus, since Varro can In de
Domo Sua
vicinus
vicinitas vicinus,
vicini.
to Rome
, only that I see
95 Off.96 Phil. -tatis tuae. non enim te dominus modo illis sedibus9 sed quivis amicus, vicinus, hospes, procurator arcebit.)
97 Dom. in fundum autem vicini consulis non instrumentum aut ornamenta villae, sed etiam arbores transferebantur.)
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salutatio. It seems
domus
interaction with his clientela
vicinitas.
Here, Cumano,multitudo to be
salutationes
to those of Licius Visidius,
98 Ad Att. non villam frequentia Formianorum ad quam partem basilicae tribum Aemiliam. sed omitto vulgus;; post horam quartam molesti ceteri non sunt. C. Arrius proximus est vicinus, immo ille quidem iam contubernalis, qui etiam se idcirco Romam ire negat ut hic mecum totos dies philosophetur. ecce ex altera parte Sebosus, ille Catuli familiaris. quo me vertam? statim me hercule Arpinum irem, ni te in Formiano commodissime exspectari viderem dumtaxat ad pr. Nonas Maias;; vides enim quibus hominibus aures sint deditae meae. 99 De oratore 100 Ad. Att. 5.2 (habuimus in Cumano quasi pusillam Romam. tanta erat in his locis multtudo101 Ad Att
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otium
vicini
In his pro Plancio
quasi parenti et custodi salutis meae
102 Phil. eques could
103 BCiv Sull. 104
105 Cael.106
107 Pro Planc. “quia familiaris esset meus, quia vicinus, quia huius parente semper plurimum essem usus.108 Pro Planc. novus homoan, associated with the publicani non nullis rebus inferiorem quam te, genere dico et nomine, superiorem aliis, municipum, vicinorum, societatum studio, meorum temporum memoria, parem virtute, integritate, modestia aedilem factum esse miraris?” Pro Plancio109 ille Catuli familiaris
st
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vicinitas and vicini vicinitas
vicini
Conclusion
together in Ad. Att. 110 Ad. Att cum haec maxime scriberem, ecce tibi Sebosus! nondum plane ingemueram, “salve” inquit Arrius. hoc est Roma decedere111
Brutus, saying “His enim rebus in
quo consilio aut qua mente feceris ut in epulo Q. Arri, familiaris mei familiaris
in ad Quintus Ad Attvicinus .
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villa maritima. otium and social life.
similar to those of amici or clientelaotium
and negotium
how relations of vicinitasvicini, contributing to
tota Italia.
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