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List of Figures and T a bles Abbreviations page ix

Acknowledgments

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Introducing Neighborhoods at Rome and Elsewhere

Neighborhoods at Rome Deﬁning Neighborhoods
Deﬁning Vici in Ancient Rome Neighborhoods in Modern Thought Voluntary Associations

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Conclusion

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Neighborhoods in the Roman Republic

Dionysius of Halicarnassus and Neighborhood Religion The Middle Republic The Late Republic
Social Disaffection, Populares, and Community Action

Magistri Vici and Collegia Compitalicia

Neighborhoods in the Final Years of the Republic
Conclusion

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Republic to Empire

Julius Caesar The Triumvirate The Augustan Principate Before 7 b.c.e. A Statue for Mercurius on the Esquiline

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The Reforms of Augustus

The Mechanics of Reform The Ideology of Reform Neighborhood Religion Emperor and Neighborhood Conclusion

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The Artifacts of Neighborhood Culture

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Think Globally, Act Locally Altars in the Neighborhoods
Altar from the Vicus Statae Matris Vatican Inventory 311 Altar of the Vicus Aesculeti Altar of the Vicus Sandaliarius Ara Augusta of Lucretius Zethus
Two Augustan Neighborhoods
Vicus Compiti Acili Vicus of the Fasti Magistrorum Vici
Numerius Lucius Hermeros Some Other Dedications and Magistri Conclusion

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Conclusion

Appendix. Compital Dedications by Year

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Augustan Dedications Post Augustan Dedications

181 203 206 209 213

Restorations of Augustan Compital Shrines Unknown Date but Certainly Augustan and Compital Unknown Date but Possibly Augustan and Compital Monuments Relevant to the Study of the Augustan
Neighborhoods

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Notes

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Reference List Index: Neighborhood Ofﬁcers by Name General Index

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