180 BCE: MASS DEPORTATION AND THE ORDER OF ROMAN ITALY.

This paper offers a new discussion of the deportation of the Ligures Apuani that the Roman Republic carried out in 180 BCE, and of the impact and wider implications of the decision to establish two new communities of Ligurians in inland Samnium. The logic and practicalities of the operation are given close consideration, through sustained engagement with Livy's account, on the one hand, and of the documentary and archaeological record, on the other. Some wider implications are drawn on the role of this exceptional event in the trajectory of the Roman conquest of Italy and the longer-term processes of integration and exploitation that it entailed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]