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UC Davis UC Davis Previously Published Works UC Davis UC Davis Previously Published Works Title Celebrating the Severans: Commemorative Politics and the Urban Landscape in High Imperial Sicily Permalink https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9z0063xd Journal Latomus, 75(2) Author Pfuntner, Laura Publication Date 2016-07-01 Peer reviewed eScholarship.org Powered by the California Digital Library University of California Celebrating the Severans: Commemorative Politics and the Urban Landscape in High Imperial Sicily 1. Introduction Sicily is often characterized as resistant or immune to the dramatic processes of social and cultural change that affected the Mediterranean basin during Rome’s most intensive period of imperial expansion in the late Republic and the early Principate, and then as socially, politically, and culturally isolated from the wider Mediterranean world for the rest of the imperial period. 1 The usual evi- dence cited of Sicilian communities’ resistance or apathy to the cultural and material trappings of Roman imperial power is the limited use of Latin in pub- lic and private inscriptions, 2 as well as the lack of explosive urban growth and monumentalization on the island. For example, relatively few imperial-era, purpose-built administrative buildings (curiae, basilicae), leisure structures (bath houses, theaters, amphitheaters) or cult buildings have been identified in Sicily, even within the island’s six Augustan colonies. 3 1 Scholarship on the processes of cultural change in Rome and its empire that were described as “Romanization” for much of the twentieth century is extensive. A. WALLACE- HADRILL, Rome’s Cultural Revolution, Cambridge, 2008, p. 7-32, and D.J. MATTINGLY, Imperialism, Power, and Identity: Experiencing the Roman Empire, Princeton, 2010, p. 22-42 and p. 203-245, offer notable critiques of “Romanization” and other similarly restrictive terms for describing cultural change in ancient communities, and put forward the alternative concepts of “bi-/multi-lingualism” and “discrepancy”, respectively. 2 For the (lack of an) epigraphic culture – especially in Latin – in Roman-era Sicily, see J.R.W. PRAG, Epigraphy by Numbers: Latin and the Epigraphic Culture in Sicily, in A.E. COOLEY (ed.), Becoming Roman, Writing Latin? Literacy and Epigraphy in the Latin West, Portsmouth, R.I., 2002, p. 15-31. However, the discovery and ongoing pub- lication of Latin inscriptions from Segesta, Halaesa, and other cities are forcing a revi- sion of our understanding of epigraphic practices in Roman Sicily: see, e.g., O. TRIBU- LATO, Siculi bilingues? Latin in the Inscriptions of Early Roman Sicily, in O. TRIBULATO (ed.), Language and Linguistic Contact in Ancient Sicily, Cambridge, 2012, p. 291-325. 3 The six Augustan coloniae are Tyndaris, Tauromenium (modern Taormina), Catina (modern Catania), Syracuse, Thermae Himeraeae (modern Termini Imerese), and Pan- hormus (modern Palermo); see R.J.A. WILSON, Sicily under the Roman Empire: The Archaeology of a Roman Province, 36 BC-AD 535, Warminster, 1990, 35-40 for founda- tion dates. Catania is the only Sicilian city in which multiple imperial-era bath complexes have been found, and only three cities are known to have acquired amphitheaters (Catania, Thermae, and Syracuse – all Augustan colonies). Latomus 74, 2015 2 LAURA PFUNTNER Sicily’s supposed political, social, and cultural isolation from the wider Roman world is usually attributed to the general neglect of the province by imperial authorities, the dominance of senatorial and imperial estates, and to the apathy of local elites, who showed little interest in civic euergetism and exhib- ited limited social mobility. 4 The relative paucity of monumental and epigraphic evidence, as well as the general silence of Roman historical writers on events in Sicily after the early Augustan period, led past generations of scholars to describe Sicily under the Principate as an island without history – in the words of BIAGIO PACE, “una pagina bianca”. 5 However, the view of Sicily as an economically, politically, and culturally isolated and impoverished province in the centuries after Augustus is increas- ingly being questioned in the light of new archaeological and epigraphic evi- dence, and it is perhaps most improbable for the Severan era (193-235 C.E.). 6 Sicily lay at the heart of the Severan empire, between Italy and Africa, and some of its cities experienced a relative burst in epigraphic activity, and possibly also in monumental construction, under the Severan emperors and in succeeding decades. These activities, their causes, and their consequences for the urban landscape will be the focus of this article. 4 In an important article on early imperial Agrigentum, D. VERA (Augusto, Plinio il Vecchio e la Sicilia in età imperiale. A proposito di recenti scoperte epigraphiche e arche- ologiche ad Agrigento, in Kōkalos 42, 1996, p. 31-58) cited these interrelated factors to explain why relatively few Sicilians reached the Roman senatorial ranks during the Prin- cipate, compared to natives of other central and western Mediterranean provinces. 5 Arte e civiltà della Sicilia antica 1. I fattori etnici e sociali, 2nd ed., Milan, 1958; quoted by VERA, Augusto [n. 4], p. 31. Cf. M.I. FINLEY’s conclusion that “Sicily had effectively lost its identity, other than geographical, at least to the outside world. To the emperors and the senatorial aristocracy, Sicily had from the early imperial period become an outlying district of Italy” (Ancient Sicily, 2nd ed., London, 1979, p. 154). See also, more recently, W. ECK’s characterization of Roman imperial Sicily as “geschichtslos” (Senatorische Familien der Kaiserzeit in der Provinz Sizilien, in ZPE 113, 1996, p. 109- 128, at p. 109). 6 L. CAMPAGNA, Exploring Social and Cultural Changes in Provincia Sicilia: Reflec- tions on the Study of Urban Landscapes, in F. COLIVICCHI (ed.), Local Cultures of South Italy and Sicily in the Late Republican Period: Between Hellenism and Rome, Ports- mouth, RI, 2011, p. 161-183; D. MALFITANA, The View from the Material Culture Assemblage of Late Republican Sicily, ibid., p. 185-201; and P. PERKINS, Aliud in Sicilia? Cultural Development in Rome’s First Province, in P. VAN DOMMELEN / N. TERRENATO (eds.), Articulating Local Cultures: Power and Identity under the Expanding Roman Republic, Portsmouth, R.I., p. 33-53, are examples of recent research that challenges or nuances notions of “decline” in late Republican / early imperial Sicily. Cf. F. COARELLI et al., I Romani in Sicilia e nel Sud dell’Italia, Udine, 2006, p. 50-61 for a recent negative characterization of the imperial period. See D. MALFITANA et al., Economy and Trade of Sicily During the Severan Period: Highlights Between Archaeology and History, in AJAH 6.8, 2013, p. 415-462 for the economy of Sicily in the Severan period, and G. GERMANÀ, Alcune osservazioni sulla Sicilia durante il periodo dei Severi, ibid., p. 227-254 for epigraphy and material culture. CELEBRATING THE SEVERANS 3 The commemorative activities of Sicilian cities under the Severans also have relevance for broader discussions of urban life in the High Roman Empire. Modern scholarly assessments of the Severan era are mixed, likely reflecting our Roman sources’ ambiguity or hostility towards the dynasty. 7 On the one hand, the period witnessed urban growth and promotion in many regions, and so in some respects it may be seen as the culmination of the Anto- nine “golden age” of urban embellishment. On the other hand, some scholars have emphasized the pressures on communities, the increased signs of compul- sion, the tensions between local populations and imperial authorities, and the beginnings of urban decay that the monumental building projects and effusive dedications of the Severan era seek to conceal. The period can be viewed pes- simistically, therefore, as a precursor to the so-called “third century crisis” that marked the beginning of the end of Roman urbanism in the Western Mediter- ranean. 8 One criticism that can be leveled at recent assessments of urban develop- ment under the Severans is that they lean heavily on a few types of evidence (mostly monumental building projects) from a small number of provinces (mainly Africa). 9 As R.J.A. Wilson points out regarding Sicily, 10 a lack of new building under the Severans may not necessarily be evidence of a lack of vitality, especially in regions like Sicily where most cities had been founded centuries earlier, and already possessed the basic amenities of urban life. In addition, the diverse histories and political, economic, and social circumstances of urban communities in the various provinces should make it clear that the significance of the Severan era cannot be assessed in broad strokes, for the 7 See S. WALKER, Dignam Congruentemque Splendori Patriae: Aspects of Urban Renewal under the Severi, in M. HENIG (ed.), Architecture and Architectural Sculpture in the Roman Empire, Oxford, 1990, p. 138-142, and the essays in S. SWAIN et al. (eds.), Severan Culture, Cambridge, 2004 (especially A. WILSON, Urban Development in the Severan Empire, p. 290-326) for the mixed legacy of the Severan dynasty for provincial cities. See C. ANDO, Imperial Rome AD 193 to 284: The Critical Century, Edinburgh, 2012 for a more general assessment of the dynasty’s legacy; and P. EICH, Politik und Administration unter den Severern, in N. SOJC / A. WINTERLING / U. WULF-RHEIDT (eds.), Palast und Stadt im severischen Rom, Stuttgart, 2013, p. 85-104, at p. 85-89 for an over- view of ancient and modern appraisals of the Severans. 8 See, e.g., J. KOEHLER, More Water for Rome: Nothing New in the Eternal City? Water-Related Monuments as Part of the Severan Building Program, in AJAH 6.8, 2013, p. 117-150, at p. 127-130 for a positive assessment of the Severans’ impact on the infra- structure of Rome. The pessimistic view of the Severan period goes back to E. GIBBON, who described Septimius Severus as “the principal author of the decline of the Roman empire” (The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, London, 1776, vol.
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