Abstract EN:

This study addresses the subject of public life in roman North Africa. The principal sources are archeological remains, especially historical inscriptions, public records, literary works, as well as mosaics and reliefs. A few problems are here dealt with: the Romanization of North Africa culture and its continuation into late antiquity and also the conflict with Christianity that resulted from this wave of acculturalization. This study illustrates the successful diffusion of roman culture in North Africa, though this adaptation was directly related to the diffusion of roman citizenship. The crisis which rocked Rome during the 3rd century did not have a great effect upon this established system of funding and presenting such public spectacles, which remained throughout the christianized empire and there is even evidence which suggests that such festivals continued in those provinces overrun by the invading barbarians, such as the vandals in North Africa.