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The Samnites' Ferro'in A v8 Christopher Smitlt Oakle¡ 5.P.ry97-zoo5.A Comrnentary on Liøy Booþs W-X.4 volumes. Oxford. CHAPTER 8 Ogilvie, R.ry65.A Commentary on Liay Books z-5. Oxford. Pasqualini, A. (ed.) ryg6.Alba Longa: mito, storia archeologia. Rome. Peroni, R. 1988.'Comunità e insediamento in Italia fra età del bronzo e prima età del The Samnites' ferro'in A. Momigliano and A. Schiavone (eds) Storìa di Roma L Turin, pp.T-37. Qrilici, L.1978. Collatia. Rome. Edzuard Bispham Qrilici, L. ry78. An te mn ae. Rome. Qrilici, L.ry82. La Ciaità diArtena. Rome. Qrilici, L.ry86. Fidenae. Rome. L. tgg3. Ficulea. Rome. Qrilici, (for Susan Kane) Qrilici, L. and Qrilici Gigli, S. r98o. Crusturnerium.Rome. Qrilici Gigli, S. ry92. I Tolsci. Rome. Sallares, R. zooz. Malaria and Rome: A History of Malaria in Italy. Oxford. 'llncient Introduction Salmon, E.T r97o. Roman Colonization Under the Republic.Ithaca,NY. Shatzman, L tg75. Senatorial Wealth and Ronan Politics. Collection Latomus r4z. Brussels. From the fourth century sc Greeks began to write of a people whom they Sherwin-White, A.N. ry73. The Roman Citizenship. Oxford. Smith, CJ.ryg6. Earþ Rome and Latium: Econom! and SocieQ c.rooo-Soo ¡c. Oxford. called Saunitai; they were follou¡ed by the Romans, who called them Samnites; Smith, CJ.ryg7.'Sewius Tullius, Cleisthenes, and the Emergence of the Polis in Central the respective names for their territory are Saunia and Samnium (Fìgure 33). *safin Italy'in L. Mitchell and P. J. Rhodes (eds) The Deaelopnnent of the Polis in Archaic What they called themselves is not known; a case can be made for (only Gr e ec e. London, pp. zo8-16. oblique cases of the word are preserved-the asterisk indicates a nominative Smith, CJ. ,ggg.'Reviewing A¡chaic Latium: Settlement, Burials, and Religion at form hypothesized by philologists). Whether all the peoples whom we today Satricurri Jfu{ 12,pp. 453-15. call Samnites called themselves *safin throughout their history is disputed; Smith, CJ. zoo5. 'The Beginnings of Urbanization at Rome' R. Osborne and B. in the geographical application of the Greek and Latin ethnics varies over time, Cunliffe (eds) Medìterranean Urbanization 8oo-6oo ¡c. Proceedings of the British becoming progressively naffower (Musti :784: Tagl\amonte ry96, 4-6, 8). We Academy rz6. Oxford, pp. 9r-rrr. understand the roughly one hundred and thirty inscribed texts in their language Smith, CJ. zo o6.The Roman Clan:TheGensfromAncient Ideology to ModernAnthropology. Cambridge. (Rix zooz, Zg-%),but we do not know what that language was called; scholars Thomas, R. andWilson,A.,r994.'Water Supply for Roman Farms in Latium and South use the Latin-derived name, Oscan. Etruria' PBSR 49, pp. 139-96. From the fifth century onlvards we can speak properly of Samnites. Used of Thomsen, R. r98o. King Seroius Tullius:A Historical Syntltesei. Copenhagen. any earher period 'Samnite'is simply shorthand for 'the Iron Age inhabitants of Torelli, M. 1984. Lavinio e Roma: riti iniziatici e ntatrinonio tra archeologia e storia. the area later called Samnium' (in terms of modern regions: Molise, southern Rome. Abruzzo and eastern Campania). Graeco-Roman sources also mention Samnite Toubert, P.rgTS.Les structures du Latium rnedieval. Rome. 'tribes': the Pentri, Hirpini, Caricini and Caudini, and the only coastal group, \Miseman,T.P. zoo4. Tlte Mltths of Rone. Exeter. the Frentani. The latter are referred to as a 'Samnitic people'by Strabo (5.+.r), Zaccaria Ruggiu, A. zoo3. More regio viøere: Il banchetto aristoratico e lø casa romana di but were politically autonomous (Rutter 2oor,7+, no. 6zo, for their coinage). età arcaica. Quaderni di Eutopia 4. Rome. Zanker,P. (ed.) Hellenisrnus in Mittelitalien. Göttingen. ry76. r Emma Dench first aroused my interest in Samnium. Michael Crawford and Emmanuele Curti first took me there; over the last dozen years I have accrued further debts in workng in Molise and Abruzzc the chief of these are to Oliver Gilkes and Will Bowden, with whom I first turned over Samnite turf; to the late John Lloyd; to Gary Lock, Neil Christie and Andrew \Milson, with whom I began work in the Sangro Valley; to the past and cu¡rent members of the Sangro Valley Project, some of whose work I have drawn on in this chapter, and who discussed aspects of it with me (especially Bradley Sekedat, Elan Love, China Shelton and Keith Swift), and especially to Susan Kane, who has taught me far mo¡e than I think she suspects; to Guy Bradley and Oliva Menozzi. My thanks are also owed to collaborators in the Soprintendenza Archeologica delT'Abruzzo,whose support and open-handedness made ever¡hing possible, and continue to make it enjoyable: Sabatino Letta, Sandra Lapenna, Vincenzo D'Ercole, Silvano Agostini and especially Amalia Faustoferri; and to the people of Tornareccio. r8o Edzoard Bispbam Tbe Samnites r8r 0 50 100 km :i-':F RE TANI N- rllarra''lre PALI-ANO Appiant accounts of the Samnites as o the Samnite Wars. The cultural stefeogpes, including the role the bther', were al¡eady entrenched by the time Romans began to write history. In terms of ideological outlooþ the surviving sorrrces could not help but see the or culturally IN GALDO Samnites refracted through the lenses of contemporary discourse, specific way ograPher FREGELI-AE o Sltrabo (Mu to make i.: sense of the '3'r)' Another important matrix for expressing such relationships does, however, have a claim tã be indigenous in origin: the myth of the úer søcruln or sacred i-'i'-ì 33 Map of Samnium (drawn by Howard Mason with additions by Guy Bradley) The Pentri, Hirpini and Frentani are the tribes of most historical importance culture have led scholars to take the Sacred Spring myth seriously-perhaps (Oakley rgg5,7-8). There were almost certainly other'sub-tribes'that attained ephemeral political autonomy within Samnium, but barely scratched the surface of the historical record. This historical record, or its literary, as opposed to epigraphic, component, is entirely Graeco-Roman. There may have been an indþnous Oscan literature, but effectively we know nothing about it. The Romans, their enemy in the 'Samnite \Mars'that decided the hegemony of Italy in the later fourth and early came to be different'as much as 'how we are related'. In any case, their creation third cen¡rries nc (Cornell ry89; zoo4),could not be expected to give impartial must postdate the emergence of separate historical state-entities (Pentri, Hirpini accounts.They did not: Roman writers variously present the Samnites as austere etc.), and thus cannot be coeval with supposed prehistoric migrations. mountain-dwelling pastoralists, wortþ foes, exotic barba¡ian magicians or as The evidence of literary sources, inscriptions and coins is supplemented the last bastion of traditional Italian virtues. Such categories, however, refused to annually by archaeological evidence. In his seminal Sannium and the Samnites, remain stable, and it seems that the Samnites,like other Italian peoples, engaged Salmon could write'investigation of Samnite sites has not been extensive' (1967, knowingly in the strategies others used to construct them, rather than allowing rz). Three major sites had been excavated at the ¡rn of the nineteenth and exogenous roles to be simply forced on them (Dench 1995; Curti et aJ. ry96, twentieth centuries: the cemetery at Alfedena, the nearby hilltop settlement at r8r-88). Curino (La Regina 1976, zrg-23) and the sacred complex at Pietrabbondante r82 Edzoard Bispham The Samnites r83 34 Pietrabbondante (photograph: Edward Bispham) (Fìgure 34) (ongoing when Salmon wrote in 1967, see pl. 6 for the situarion The lronAge (r.rooo-5oo Bc) then; contrast Tagliamonte 1996, pls )CflII-)O(V. r; and Fìgure 34). Since then excavation has radically changed our picture of Samnite society (La Regina rssg). Much Samnite material culture has a'homespun quality and a smallness of scale' (Lloyd r9gr, r84; cf. Morel r99r), compared with that of contemporary Tyrrhenian Italy. Yet it also reveals a society more dynamic, sophisticated and open to outside influences than previously thought. Salmon, who, ironically, was period. well aware of the importance of archaeological evidence, had bought profoundly into the pictures of the Samnites propagated by Graeco-Roman sources: his Settlement Samnites were one-dimensional, austere highland warriors. A more sensitive examination of the agendas of the sources, and the ethnographic tropes and The region which this chapter is concerned passed,_like the rest of Ital¡ historical contingencies behind their accounts, has been provided by Dench with througÉ transformatiåns at the Bronze/Iron Age transition. These (1995). We now understand much better how Samnites were perceived, and how profound chang"es themselves in increased socio-economic complexity. Th:y they perceived others. manifested were-cataþsed, but not caused, by interaction both with other Italians (notably, In one particularrespect, archaeologyhas drasticallychanged ourunderstanding but not exclusively, the Etruscans) who were undergoing similar changes, and of Samnium: this is through intensive and extensive field survey (Dench zoo4 with Greek settlérs, who from the mid-eighth century ¡c had a profound for the contextualization of this work).This form of investigation, concentrating impact on southern and1yestern Italy (Barker rg95a,49-6o,r/7)' Nevertheless, on the broader settlement pattern across the whole ancient landscape, has the outcomes of these processes differed both between and within regions of redressed in part a bias in previous research towards the ornamental (Iron Age Itaþ as a function of differential permeability to outside influences, and uneven grave goods) and the monumental (Samnite sanctuaries, Roman towns). The natural resources. Thus Etruria went on to become a land of cities, with an vast majority of the inhabitants of the ancient world lived and worked in the aristocracy whose world was essentially urban; Samnium, by contrast, remained countryside; in Samnium this settlement pattern was especially marked, and a land of dispersed settlement, with a correspondingly different society.
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