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Appartenenza e alterità: sull’idea di cittadinanza nell’esperienza giuridica romana

2022

The paper discusses a plethora of ideas regarding the concept of Roman citizenship, which is addressed in the light of a theory of fellowship (meaning ‘to be part of a given community’) and a theory of otherness (meaning ‘a relationship with someone who is not part of a given community’). There will be a brief overview of the development of citizenship in Ancient Roman history (during the period of Kings, Republican and Imperial Rome). Several interpretations of well-known phrases, such as ‘civis Romanus sum’ or ‘adipisci civitatem ob virtutem’, are discussed and many phenomena are analyzed, such as the expulsion of the Latin population from Rome in the second century B.C. The purpose of th…