ABOUT THE BOOK
Series: Studi ciprioti, vol. 1
In 58 BCE, Cyprus, an island rich in natural resources and an ancient stronghold of the Ptolemaic dynasty in the Eastern Mediterranean, was declared property of the Roman people. The decision was promoted by the tribune P. Clodius Pulcher, who had Cato the Younger appointed as leader of the expedition in charge of confiscating the patrimony of the king of the island. Clodius and Cato shared multiple interests in a crucial area for Roman expansion and formed an unlikely and unexpected partnership. The conquest of Cyprus saw Roman foreign policy shaped by internal political debate and the ambitions of the great personalities of the day. This book investigates how the Romans acquired Cyprus and bolstered the connectivity of the island, which became part of an extensive commercial and strategic network. The legal basis, motives, development and effects of the conquest are the object of a thorough investigation, carried out through the close scrutiny of a rich set of ancient documents, some of which have only recently been discovered or have not yet been fully appraised by scholars.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Lorenzo Calvelli is a tenured Lecturer in Ancient History at the Ca' Foscari University of Venice. He was a Marie Curie graduate student at University College London and earned a PhD in «History and Archaeology of the Mediterranean countries» thanks to a cotutelle agreement between Ca' Foscari and the Université Paris X. He was a post-doctoral fellow at the Warburg Institute in London, at the Villa I Tatti in Florence (The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies), and at the Centro di Studi e Ricerche sui Diritti Antichi in Pavia. His research interests focus on classical and late-antique epigraphy, on architectural spolia and antiquarian collections in Venice and Rome, on early Christianity in the Adriatic region, and on the reception of antiquity. He is the author of numerous scholarly contributions on these topics, among which his monograph Cipro e la memoria dell'antico fra Medioevo e Rinascimento (Venice, 2009) He is a member of the Editorial Board of the series «Mediterranean Nexus», published by Brepols, and an Associate Editor of the online periodical «Current Epigraphy», based in the UK.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Prefazione p. 9
Introduzione p. 11
1 I provvedimenti legislativi del 58 a.C. p. 25
2 Le motivazioni della conquista p. 99
3 La missione di Catone a Cipro p. 161
4 Il rientro di Catone a Roma p. 243
Conclusioni p. 305
Abbreviazioni p. 323
Bibliografia p. 325
Indici p. 361
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