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SUMMARY:Border Town: Tharros and the Roman Frontier in Sardinia - Patrick 
 Hayes\, Classics
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CONTACT:Prof. Nebojša Radić
DESCRIPTION:The imperial limes in Roman history has been examined at lengt
 h in scholarship (e.g. Breeze\, 2021) but the question of a Republican per
 iod frontier\, often neglected\, still needs to be addressed. Sardinia\, a
 s Rome’s second provincia\, makes for an interesting case study in the d
 evelopment of the Roman frontier. The island\, previously under the domini
 um of Carthage for over two centuries\, was conquered by the Romans in 238
  BCE during the interbellum period between the First and Second Punic Wars
  (Dyson and Rowland\, 2007:128). In Sardinia\, the Romans were presented w
 ith two threats\, the hostile Nuragic tribes who inhabited the interior of
  the island and the threat posed by the Carthaginians at sea. \n \nThis pa
 per will firstly discuss how the Romans conquered the island and the immed
 iate consequences of Roman annexation. It will then analyse the archaeolog
 ical site of Tharros\, a Punic-Roman city on Sardinia’s west coast\, to 
 determine the consequences of Roman dominium at a civic level\, particular
 ly in light of recent excavations undertaken by the Tharros Archaeological
  Research Project (TARP) which suggest a different pre-imperial urban conf
 iguration at the site (Ellis et al.\, 2021). Specifically\, this paper pro
 poses that the city of Tharros was one part of a wider system of highly de
 fensible Sardinian cities which formed a Republican period frontier in ter
 ms of its ability to restrict Carthaginian movements in the central wester
 n Mediterranean. This is demonstrated by Hannibal’s chosen Alpine route 
 to avoid the island and its supporting navy under Cnaeus Servilius entirel
 y.
LOCATION:1 Newnham Terrace\, Darwin College
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