La ‘carcerazione di massa’ a Roma tra fine monarchia e gli inizi della repubblica

The paper focuses on the use of lautumiae in Ancient Rome. These sites were stone quarries from which the building materials for the construction of the city were extracted, and the oldest among them date back to the end of the Etruscan monarchy. In Varro's definition these places are described as prisons. The research connects the extractive use of the lautumiae with the needs of containment of the Romans. In fact, some caves when the mining material was exhausted, were reused as mass imprisonment camps.