By Andrew Erskine
Andrew Erskine follows the direction and personality of Roman growth in the course of the Republic and Early Empire. He concentrates at the influence of Roman rule at the topic and the influence of empire on imperial energy, subject matters that experience lengthy been arguable between glossy students. perspectives on Roman imperialism have ordinarily been expert by means of modern perceptions of foreign energy relations—one cause scholars interact with the topic so conveniently.
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The recently conquered Gauls did come over to his side and so too did much of the South but crucially central Italy stayed loyal, just as it had in the time of Pyrrhos. With the Carthaginians failing to gain control of the sea and the Romans increasingly successful in Spain, Hannibal’s campaign lost momentum. Finally, after some fifteen years in Italy, he was forced to return to Africa to face the Roman general P. Scipio Africanus at Zama in 202. Rome did not destroy Carthage but the terms were harsh.
In Latium Latin was spoken, further north in Etruria there was Etruscan, over in the North-West among the Gauls there was Celtic, while Oscan was widespread among the mountain peoples such as the Samnites, Lucanians and Bruttians. The southern coast was populated by Greek cities, such as Naples and Tarentum, and further round the coast visitors to the heel of Italy might have found themselves addressed in some form of Messapic. So dominant was Rome and its culture to become that these languages largely disappeared, at least as languages leaving a written record (Lomas 2009, Clackson and Horrocks 2007: 37–84, Häussler 2002).
Indd 17 24/3/10 17:00:12 18 Roman Imperialism have suggested that Polybios may, with hindsight, have overstated Roman concerns about Carthage and their initial objective may have been to curb Syracuse, a city with a long history of involvement with the Greeks of South Italy. If that was a motive, however, they soon shifted their attention in the direction of Carthage. Polybios’ account is often thought to derive from the history of the Roman senator Fabius Pictor whom he certainly used for his narrative of the First Punic War, but he also used the pro-Carthaginian Greek historian Philinos.