Cooley, Alison E.
A Companion to Roman Italy
A Companion to Roman Italy investigates the impact of Rome in all its forms—political, cultural, social, and economic—upon Italy’s various regions, as well as the extent to which unification occurred as Rome became the capital of Italy.
- The collection presents new archaeological data relating to the sites of Roman Italy
- Contributions discuss new theories of how to understand cultural change in the Italian peninsula
- Combines detailed case-studies of particular sites with wider-ranging thematic chapters
- Leading contributors not only make accessible the most recent work on Roman Italy, but also offer fresh insight on long standing debates
Keywords: Rome; Romans; Italy; Roman Italy; Naples; Cosa; Ostia; state-formation; ethnicity; urbanization; funerary practices; elite; sub-elite; colonization; Greek; Oscan; Etruscan; Latin; Tiber Valley; Cisalpina; Pompeii; late antiquity; villas; architecture; Social War; literacy; urban peripheries; agriculture; Republic; Empire, Roman Studies, Roman Culture, Ancient & Classical History, Roman History, Roman Culture, Ancient & Classical History
- Editor
- Cooley, Alison E.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
- Publication year
- 2013
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Series
- Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
- Page amount
- 576 pages
- Category
- History
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (ePUB)
- 9781118993101
- Printed ISBN
- 9781444339260