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Elio Lo Cascio, « Pompei dalla città sannitica alla colonia sillana : le vicende istituzionali », Publications de l'École Française de Rome (documents), ID : 10670/1.ee4f52...
The recent monographs by Jongman and Mouritsen have introduced further elements for re-opening the discussion on the institutional events of Pompeii in the transitional phase from the Samnite city to the colony, and on the limits within which one can speak of an eclipse of the old Oscan ruling class, which would have lasted several decades. A renewed examination of the documentation -chiefly the statistical analysis of the programmata antiquissima as well as the rereading of the famous passage of the Pro Sulla on the dissent between old Pompeiane and colonists -permits formulating some hypotheses about the ways through which these two nuclei would have been integrated. An integration that would have foreseen, at least in the first phase, their unequal division among the electoral districts, as well as the probable confinement of the old Pompeians to the urban centre. The fact that the increase in population following the colonial foundation not only was absorbed in a non-traumatic way, but indeed may have apparently accentuated the prosperity of the city, is a further strong argument for excluding the general interpretation of the Pompeian economy as that typical of a "consumer-city", recently put forward by Jongman.