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Rome and the North-Western Mediterranean
Integration and connectivity c. 150-70 BC
Inbunden, Engelska, 2022
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To date, Rome’s intervention to the West from the mid-2nd century BC has not really been looked at with any sense of overview. Instead, there has been an unconnected series of micro-regional studies looking at particular areas, from the River Ebro in Spain round to Italy on the land front, and from the Balearic Islands to Corsica, Sardinia and even Sicily as regards the seaborne aspect. In contrast, this volume pushes the historical and archaeological debates about Rome’s expansion beyond these traditional geographical boundaries and the discipline-based previous research. The entire north-western Mediterranean is treated as a micro-region and is addressed using various interdisciplinary approaches. The result is to provide an innovative and comprehensive overview of the north-western Mediterranean in a period of historical crossroads, aided particularly by focusing on the connectivity and integration within this region as two interrelated issues. While Republican Rome enforced itself as an expansive power towards the West, all sorts of polities, military operations and individuals also played a significant role in creating interconnectivity and integration of the north-western Mediterranean into a new hybrid reality. In order to uncover such processes of hybridisation, contributors to this volume were encouraged to focus on the historical, archaeological and numismatic material from several areas within the region, and to incorporate aspects of interdisciplinary methodologies in order to address the region’s military, political, social and economic interconnections with Italy, Rome and each other within the overall period.
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Sieges and siege-related activities played a significant role in the development of Rome’s power in Hispania and Gaul during the late-Roman Republic. They were made possible by the efficient Roman ‘military machine’ available to commanders during this period – a constantly adapting and improving army, highly regularised encampments and lethal artillery.The narration of Caesar’s sieges by Caesar himself and his literary successor Hirtius, makes them seem unusual and inventive, probably to emphasise Caesar’s brilliance as a military commander. They were not that different or new though, as shown by the close similarity between established Hellenistic siege practices and the general evidence of sieges in Gaul and Hispania.It can often seem that siege fieldworks were ‘operation-specific’ to sieges, but essentially just mining and ramps were siege-only techniques. Most of the other works were simply implementations of the normal repertoire of the army’s fortifications, just as the artillery and weaponry were used in all types of conflicts. This becomes apparent when looking at the wide variety of Roman military installations emerging in the Iberian Peninsula.Sieges are not mere mechanical exercises in military technology and tactics, as often seems in academic discussions, but people are at the centre of it all, with troops and besieged suffering alike. Sieges are consequently considered here within ‘warfare ecology’ – the severe environmental impact, the suffering health and well-being of all involved, even changes to the smellscape, much of which continued for the besieged long after the siege had ended and troops had departed.