@article{THESIS,
      recid = {1648},
      author = {Ramgopal, Sailakshmi},
      title = {Romans Abroad: Associations of Roman Citizens from the  Second Century BCE to the Third Century CE},
      publisher = {University of Chicago},
      school = {Ph.D.},
      address = {2016-06},
      number = {THESIS},
      pages = {224},
      abstract = {The expansion of Roman power beyond the Italian peninsula  resulted in the appearance of Roman citizens in non-Roman  legal-cultural contexts across the Mediterranean. Many  formed associations of Roman citizens, which convened to  socialize, practice cult, and establish business  connections. Until now, scholarship on these associations  has focused on their legal status and functions. By  contrast, “Romans Abroad” considers their cultural impact  on their host cities. Examining epigraphic and literary  evidence for their encounters with non-Roman individuals  and cities from the second century BCE through the third  century CE in Gaul, Hispania, Dalmatia, Africa, Moesia  Inferior, Greece, and Asia. Drawing on theoretical  frameworks from the field of anthropology, it argues that  these associations employed a range of strategies to  acquire influence in their local communities and proclaim  to themselves and their non-Roman neighbors their place in  the broader Roman political community. Further, the nature  of these strategies varied across geographic and  chronological contexts due to the particularities of local  social, political, and cultural variables. Ultimately, the  data that this project collects contributes a new  understanding of how colonizing processes can occur through  the voluntary acts of individuals in the absence of state  actors.},
      url = {http://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/1648},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.1648},
}