Italici an Itali? Name Used by the Italian Insurgents of the Social War (91–87 B.C.) to Call Themselves
Italici an Itali? Name Used by the Italian Insurgents of the Social War (91–87 B.C.) to Call Themselves

Summary/Abstract: During the Social War, certain linguistic choices must have hadparticular importance for the rebel Italian allies who fought against Rome.This article aims to demonstrate why the insurgents were likely to have re-jected the term Italici and adopted the name Itali as their self-designation.A thorough analysis of the meanings and connotations of Greek and Latinterms used for the inhabitants of Italy clearly indicates that during thewar the ethnonym Itali allowed the rebel Italians to radically dissociatethemselves from the Romans and strengthen their own common identity.

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