The widespread practice of mercenary military service must have contributed to the ancient perception of the pre-Roman Italic peoples as bellicose. For the Campani, the practice represented, at least in part, a relevant economic activity of a dominant class (equites Campani) or even of the male representatives of the minores gentes. For the Samnites, Lucani, and Bruttii, however, it continued to fulfill a fundamental demographic and economic function, along with other forms of mobility or the violent appropriation of goods (war, banditry). For these populations, mercenary practices were a longstanding historical phenomenon, which this chapter reconstructs in broad strokes between the sixth and third centuries BCE.
Italic Mercenaires in the Pre-Roman Period
Gianluca Tagliamonte
2024-01-01
Abstract
The widespread practice of mercenary military service must have contributed to the ancient perception of the pre-Roman Italic peoples as bellicose. For the Campani, the practice represented, at least in part, a relevant economic activity of a dominant class (equites Campani) or even of the male representatives of the minores gentes. For the Samnites, Lucani, and Bruttii, however, it continued to fulfill a fundamental demographic and economic function, along with other forms of mobility or the violent appropriation of goods (war, banditry). For these populations, mercenary practices were a longstanding historical phenomenon, which this chapter reconstructs in broad strokes between the sixth and third centuries BCE.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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