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Book SynopsisA 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.
Trade Review'A Companion to Roman Italy will be of interest to a wide public and shows that the study of the Greek and Roman civilizations is anything but dry as dust .' - Peter Wellburn, Reference Reviews, Vol 30 No 8. The wonderful thing about A Companion To Roman Italy is the sheer breadth of subject matter. Within this book are essays by twenty four academics whose contributions build toward a coherent and deeply insightful picture of Italy under Roman rule, covering the political, cultural, economic, social, and historical relationships of those peninsular regions surrounding the eternal city. - Marc Ollard, UNRV.com
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations vii
List of Tables xii
Notes on Contributors xiii
Acknowledgements xvi
Introduction: Setting the Scene 1
1 Italy Before the Romans 2
Elena Isayev
Part I The Impact of Rome – Unification and Integration 33
2 Rome’s Encroachment on Italy 35
Rafael Scopacasa
3 Italy and the Greek East, Second Century BC 57
Celia E. Schultz
4 The Social War 76
Edward Bispham
5 The Civil Wars and the Triumvirate 90
Edward Bispham
6 Coming to Terms with Dynastic Power, 30 BC–AD 69 103
Alison E. Cooley
7 Italy during the High Empire, from the Flavians to Diocletian 121
Alison E. Cooley
8 Late Roman and Late Antique Italy: from Constantine to Justinian 133
Neil Christie
Part II Local and Regional Diversity 155
2.1 Cultural Diversity 157
9 Funerary Practices 159
Emma‐Jayne Graham and Valerie M. Hope
10 Diversity in Architecture and Urbanism 181
Margaret L. Laird
11 Language and Literacy in Roman Italy 217
Kathryn Lomas
2.2 Greek Italy 235
12 Roman Naples 237
Kathryn Lomas
13 Magna Graecia, 270 BC–AD 200 253
Kathryn Lomas
2.3 Case-study: Becoming Roman in Cisalpina 269
14 The Changing Face of Cisalpine Identity 271
Clifford Ando
Part III Town and Country 289
3.1 Settlement Patterns 291
15 Urbanization 293
Joanne Berry
16 Urban Peripheries 308
Penelope J. Goodman
17 Villas 330
Nigel Pollard
3.2 Case-studies of Towns and their Territories 355
18 Republican and Early Imperial Towns in the Tiber Valley 357
Simon Keay and Martin Millett
19 Cosa and the Ager Cosanus 378
Elizabeth Fentress and Phil Perkins
20 Pompeii and the Ager Pompeianus 401
Ray Laurence
21 Ostia 417
Janet DeLaine
Part IV Economy and Society 439
22 Regional Interaction 441
Rebecca R. Benefiel
23 Agricultural Production in Roman Italy 459
Robert Witcher
24 Local Elites 483
John R. Patterson
25 Sub‐Elites 498
Jonathan S. Perry
Index 513
