Strategies and family conflicts in Roman Tripolitania
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https://doi.org/10.17648/rom.v0i3.8643Keywords:
Roman Empire, Provincial Elites, Oea, Apuleius of Madaurus, ApologyAbstract
The term provincial elite reproduces a generalization that covers the heterogeneity associated to the so-called ordo decurionum. The characterization of a elite politically and culturally homogeneous within several Roman cities – or romanized – in the North Africa, replicates a model often denied by the sources. The reality of these local aristocracies demonstrates the existence of different groups with distinct and divergent interests related through reciprocal political relations of alliance. With these assumptions in mind, we analyze the conflict that opposed Apuleius of Madaurus, a North African author of the mid-second century, with part of the aristocracy of the city of Oea, highlighting the different strategies undertaken by members of the local ordo decurionum who wished to be integrated into the imperial Roman society.
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