Roman - Deep Blue - University of Michigan

How Romans Became "Roman": Creating Identity in an Expanding World by

Claudia I. Arno

A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor

of Philosophy (Greek and Roman History) in The University of Michigan

2012

Doctoral Committee: Professor David S. Potter, Co-Chair Professor Nicola Terrenato, Co-Chair Professor Bruce W. Frier Professor Raymond H. Van Dam

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To my family and friends, whose support is invaluable.

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Acknowledgements

I owe a great many individuals and institutions thanks for their support and assistance during the years I have been researching and writing this dissertation. I would first like to thank the University of Michigan Interdepartment Program in Greek and Roman History, which promotes the interdisciplinary study of Classics and History, and with which I am very proud to be associated. I am also grateful to the University of Michigan History and Classics Departments, whose cooperation makes IPGRH possible. I would especially like to thank my graduate colleagues in IPGRH, Classics, and History, who have made my graduate experience so enjoyable and rewarding.

The staffs at the Univeristy of Michigan and UCLA libraries, as well as the UCLA History Department, and in particular Professor David Phillips, were critical in helping me obtain access to research materials while I was living in Michigan, Los Angeles, and Boston. I would also like to express my deep admiration for Dr. Susan Lipshutz, who I unfortunately never had the opportunity to meet, but whose devotion to the success of women in academia inspired the creation of an award fund from which I received valuable support. The staff of the Michigan Classics Department, and especially Michelle Biggs, was incredibly helpful as I negotiated the logistics of completing my dissertation from California and Massachusetts.

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I wish to add some personal acknowledgments as well. My parents, Andrew Arno and Letitia Hickson, both of the Univeristy of Hawai'i, have consistently provided encouragement, support, and scholarly feedback, as have my in-laws, Charles and Elaine Brenner. Donna and Jim Wessel Walker, whose valued friendship we have enjoyed for many years, graciously opened their home during my final semester, while I was living in Boston and commuting each week to teach and work in Ann Arbor. Ruth Scodel kindly offered me the use of her car for that same semester. Together, their generosity made my life immeasurably easier. My husband, Samuel Brenner, who is also a historian and legal scholar, has provided a decade of support, encouragement, companionship, intellectual stimulation, and editing services.

I am indebted to my committee members: David Potter, Nic Terrenato, Bruce Frier, and Ray Van Dam. I am especially grateful to David Potter, who has always provided invaluable guidance and encouragement, and whose scholarship sets an ongoing standard to which I aspire. I am also especially grateful to Bruce Frier, who is not only a valuble teacher and advisor, but who, though his fund, has provided ongoing and welcome financial support for the graduate students in IPGRH. Deborah Boedeker at Brown University, Maud Gleason at Stanford University, and Sara Forsdyke at Michigan have provided welcome advice and guidance. I would also like to thank the faculty members at the Univeristy of Michigan, including H.D. Cameron, Sara Forsdyke, Ruth Scodel, Mira Seo, and Ray Van Dam, whom I have been privileged to work for and learn from as an instructor.

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