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Fondee en terre thrace par le roi Philippe II de Macedoine, la cite
grecque de Philippes fut, au cours de l'automne 42 av. J.-C., le theatre
de l'affrontement decisif entre l'armee des republicains Brutus et
Cassius et celle des heritiers de Cesar, Antoine et Octave. A l'issue de
la bataille, Antoine decida de tirer profit du vaste territoire
environnant pour y etablir les veterans des legions qui avaient combattu
et pour fonder une colonie romaine. S'appuyant sur une riche
documentation epigraphique, ce livre reconstitue la structure et le
fonctionnement des institutions de l'entite politique qui fut substituee
a la cite grecque a cette occasion, ainsi que la formation des elites
dirigeantes de la colonie et les dynamiques demographiques, sociales et
culturelles qui animerent ce groupe durant plus de trois siecles, de la
fondation de la colonie a la fin du IIIe s. apr. J.-C. Par le biais de
comparaisons avec les autres colonies fondees par Rome dans les
provinces orientales de l'Empire, avec les cites grecques et avec les
municipes et colonies d'Occident, l'etude s'efforce de replacer
Philippes dans le cadre general des communautes locales de l'Empire
romain, aussi bien que dans son contexte regional immediat. A travers
l'exemple de Philippes, ce livre montre que, bien loin d'avoir ete des
images statiques de Rome comme le pretend la formule celebre
d'Aulu-Gelle, les colonies, quoique dotees d'institutions calquees sur
un archetype elabore a Rome, en etaient plutot des ramifications
vivantes et autonomes, sensibles a leur environnement provincial et
disposant chacune d'une coloration particuliere.
Founded
on Thracian soil by Macedonian king Philip II, Philippi witnessed the
final battle between the Republican army of Brutus and Cassius and the
army of Antony and Octavian, the heirs to Caesar. In the aftermath of
the battle, which took place in the fall of 42 BCE, Antony decided to
take advantage of the large surrounding territory, settling the veterans
of the legions who had fought there and founding a Roman colony. Relying
on extensive epigraphic evidence, this book explores how the political
community that was founded in place of that Greek city was structured
and how it functioned, as well as traces the rise of the colony’s ruling
elite and the demographic, social, and cultural dynamics of this group
over the course of more than three centuries, from the establishment of
the colony until the end of the third century CE. Through the systematic
comparison of this colony with others that were settled by Rome in the
Eastern provinces of the Empire, along with other Greek cities and the
Western municipia and colonies, this book places Philippi within the
general framework of both the local communities of the Roman Empire and
its regional context. Through the example of Philippi, this book argues
that, though colonies were provided with set institutions patterned
after the Roman model, far from being static copies of Rome as assumed
by Gellius, they were living and autonomous offshoots influenced in turn
by their provincial environment, and ultimately each colony developed
its own specific and unique identity.
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Fondee en terre thrace par le roi Philippe II de Macedoine, la cite
grecque de Philippes fut, au cours de l'automne 42 av. J.-C., le theatre
de l'affrontement decisif entre l'armee des republicains Brutus et
Cassius et celle des heritiers de Cesar, Antoine et Octave. A l'issue de
la bataille, Antoine decida de tirer profit du vaste territoire
environnant pour y etablir les veterans des legions qui avaient combattu
et pour fonder une colonie romaine. S'appuyant sur une riche
documentation epigraphique, ce livre reconstitue la structure et le
fonctionnement des institutions de l'entite politique qui fut substituee
a la cite grecque a cette occasion, ainsi que la formation des elites
dirigeantes de la colonie et les dynamiques demographiques, sociales et
culturelles qui animerent ce groupe durant plus de trois siecles, de la
fondation de la colonie a la fin du IIIe s. apr. J.-C. Par le biais de
comparaisons avec les autres colonies fondees par Rome dans les
provinces orientales de l'Empire, avec les cites grecques et avec les
municipes et colonies d'Occident, l'etude s'efforce de replacer
Philippes dans le cadre general des communautes locales de l'Empire
romain, aussi bien que dans son contexte regional immediat. A travers
l'exemple de Philippes, ce livre montre que, bien loin d'avoir ete des
images statiques de Rome comme le pretend la formule celebre
d'Aulu-Gelle, les colonies, quoique dotees d'institutions calquees sur
un archetype elabore a Rome, en etaient plutot des ramifications
vivantes et autonomes, sensibles a leur environnement provincial et
disposant chacune d'une coloration particuliere.
Founded
on Thracian soil by Macedonian king Philip II, Philippi witnessed the
final battle between the Republican army of Brutus and Cassius and the
army of Antony and Octavian, the heirs to Caesar. In the aftermath of
the battle, which took place in the fall of 42 BCE, Antony decided to
take advantage of the large surrounding territory, settling the veterans
of the legions who had fought there and founding a Roman colony. Relying
on extensive epigraphic evidence, this book explores how the political
community that was founded in place of that Greek city was structured
and how it functioned, as well as traces the rise of the colony’s ruling
elite and the demographic, social, and cultural dynamics of this group
over the course of more than three centuries, from the establishment of
the colony until the end of the third century CE. Through the systematic
comparison of this colony with others that were settled by Rome in the
Eastern provinces of the Empire, along with other Greek cities and the
Western municipia and colonies, this book places Philippi within the
general framework of both the local communities of the Roman Empire and
its regional context. Through the example of Philippi, this book argues
that, though colonies were provided with set institutions patterned
after the Roman model, far from being static copies of Rome as assumed
by Gellius, they were living and autonomous offshoots influenced in turn
by their provincial environment, and ultimately each colony developed
its own specific and unique identity.