Titel
Poetic Baggage: Representations of Camp Followers in the Latin Verse Inscriptions
Abstract
Each unit of the Roman army constituted a major logistic operation that cannot be reduced to the fighting men who formed their core and purpose. While camp followers are depicted in literary sources especially as an hindrance to war operations, inscriptions provide a different picture of the world that gravitated around the military forts and fortresses. In the military settlements that guarded the limes, the presence of paramilitary and non-military personnel did not represent a burden, but an important part of the military economy, which in some cases even led to the emergence of a new business class. In this paper, we provide an anthology of verse inscriptions dedicated by, or to, camp followers, with a view to showcase how their everyday interactions with the army were conceptualised and verbalised, ultimately contributing to a richer picture of the limes social ecosystem.
Stichwort
Carmina Latina EpigraphicaRoman Verse InscriptionsRoman EpigraphyRoman ArmyRoman Army Studies
Objekt-Typ
Sprache
Englisch [eng]
Persistent identifier
https://phaidra.univie.ac.at/o:2067185
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Titel
Electrum
Band
31
ISSN
1897-3426
Erscheinungsdatum
17.05.2024
Seitenanfang
153
Seitenende
183
Verlag
Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland
Erscheinungsdatum
17.05.2024
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