A Companion to Roman Italy E-Book

• Herausgeber: John Wiley & Sons
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Serie: Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 1501

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2016

Beschreibung

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

Leseprobe

Table of Contents

Cover

Title Page

List of Illustrations

List of Tables

Notes on Contributors

Acknowledgements

INTRODUCTION: Setting the Scene

CHAPTER 1: Italy Before the Romans

1.1 Introduction

1.2 Forces of Centralization – InterpretingSettlement Patterns

1.3 Single Communities – Cemeteries

1.4 Individual Networks and Mobility

1.5 Community Organization Beyond Territory

1.6 Supra-Community Organization

1.7 Sanctuaries as

Fora

1.8 Free Agents and Organization ofInstant Communities

1.9 Conclusion

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PART I: The Impact of Rome – Unification and Integration

CHAPTER 2: Rome’s Encroachment on Italy

2.1 Introduction

2.2 The Early Years (Circa 509–390

BC

)

2.3 Italy Encounters Rome (Circa 390–264

BC

)

2.4 The Impact of Roman Encroachment: Italy in the Third and Early Second Centuries

BC

2.5 Roman Encroachment and Cultural Change

2.6 Conclusion

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CHAPTER 3: Italy and the Greek East, Second Century BC

3.1 Introduction

3.2 Romans and Greeks to 205

BC

3.3 Romans and Greeks in the Second Century

BC

3.5 Resistance

3.6 Conclusion

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CHAPTER 4: The Social War

1

4.1 Introduction

4.2 Italian Grievances and Aspirations

4.3 Which Italians?

4.4 Attitudes to the Citizenship

4.5 The War

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CHAPTER 5: The Civil Wars and the Triumvirate

5.1 Rome and Italy: Ideological Imbrication?

5.2 Out of the Frying Pan into the Fire

5.3 Practical Developments

5.4 Political Involvement

5.5

Tota Italia

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CHAPTER 6: Coming to Terms with Dynastic Power, 30 BC–AD 69

6.1

Tota Italia

6.2

Domus Augusta

and

Familia Caesaris

6.3 The Economic Impact of Dynastic Power

6.4 The End of the Dynasty

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CHAPTER 7: Italy during the High Empire, from the Flavians to Diocletian

7.1 Rebuilding After Civil Wars

7.2 Italy and the Emperors

7.3 The Impact of Women on the Landscapes of Italy

7.4 Patterns in City Life

7.5 Administration of Italy

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CHAPTER 8: Late Roman and Late Antique Italy

8.1 Introduction

8.2 Constantine and a New Order

8.3 Emperors, Invaders and Italy,

AD

340–490

8.4 Changed Landscapes

8.5 From Ostrogoths to Lombards

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PART II: Local and Regional Diversity

2.1 Cultural Diversity

CHAPTER 9: Funerary Practices

9.1 Introduction

9.2 A “Roman” Way of Death?

9.3 Inhumation and Cremation

9.4 Rituals and Graves

9.5 Monuments

9.6 Epitaphs

9.7 Bones and Bodies

9.8 Conclusions

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CHAPTER 10: Diversity in Architecture and Urbanism

10.1 Introduction

10.2 Cultural Diversity in Early Italy

10.3 The Etruscans

10.4 Early Latium and Rome: Between Etruria and Greece

10.5 Geographical Diversity

10.6 Republican Italy: Rome, Colonies and Allied Towns

10.7 Rome in the Principate

10.8 Urban Change in Augustan Italy

10.9 Conclusion

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CHAPTER 11: Language and Literacy in Roman Italy

11.1 Introduction

11.2 Languages in Pre-Roman Italy

11.3 The Diffusion of the Latin Language and Alphabet

11.4 Literacy: The Uses of Writing in Ancient Italy

11.5 Language, Literacy and Cultural Identities

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2.2 Greek Italy

CHAPTER 12: Roman Naples

12.1 Introduction

12.2 Naples: Greek, Campanian, and Roman

12.3 Public Building and Civic Identities: The Reshaping of an Urban Environment

12.4 Institutions in Transition: The Municipal Administration of Roman Naples

12.5 The Cultural Life of Roman Naples

12.6 Public and Private: Identities in the Funerary Record

12.7 Conclusions

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2.3 Case-study: Becoming Roman in

Cisalpina

CHAPTER 13: Magna Graecia, 270 BC–AD 200

13.1 Introduction

13.2 Roman Conquest: Magna Graecia Before the Social War

13.3 Reorganizing Magna Graecia

13.4 Economic Development

13.5 Magna Graecia and the Greek World

13.6 Cities and Urban Development

13.7 Urban Society and Culture: Cultural Identities Between Greece and Rome

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CHAPTER 14: The Changing Face of Cisalpine Identity

14.1 Gaul, Transapadana, Italy. What’s in a Name?

14.2 The Archaic Background: The Arrival of the Gauls

14.3 First Roman Forays Acrossthe Apennines, 290–218

BC

14.4 The Transformation of the Landscape, 201–148

BC

14.5 Citizenship and Belonging

14.6 Conclusion: An Epitaph for Cremona

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PART III: Town and Country

3.1 Settlement Patterns

CHAPTER 15: Urbanization

15.1 Introduction

15.2 Defining Urbanization

15.3 The Development of Cities in Italy

15.4 The Historical Context of Urbanization in Roman Italy in the Republican Period

15.5 Regional Diversity

15.6 Case Studies: Poseidonia/Paestum and Cosa

15.7 Patterns of Public Building

15.8 The Role of the City in Roman Italy

15.9 Conclusion

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CHAPTER 16: Urban Peripheries

16.1 Introduction

16.2 The Urban Periphery in Roman Italy

16.3 Spurs for Periurban Development

16.4 The Role of the Urban Periphery

16.5 Conclusion

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CHAPTER 17: Villas

17.1 Introduction

17.2 Definitions

17.3 Origins, Chronology, and Development

17.4 Geography

17.5

Fructus

and

Luxuria

: Production andLuxury in the Italian Villa

17.6

Otium

and

Negotium

in Villa Lifestyles: Literary Evidence

17.7 Villas in Archaeology: Case Studies (Villa dei Papiri; Settefinestre; Villa Regina)

17.8 Decline?

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3.2 Case-studies of Towns and their Territories

CHAPTER 18: Republican and Early Imperial Towns in the Tiber Valley

18.1 Introduction

18.2 Historical Background

18.3 Settlement Patterns and Economy

18.4 Key Issues in the Development of Roman Towns in the Middle and Lower Tiber Valley

18.5 Discussion

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CHAPTER 19: Cosa and the

Ager Cosanus

19.1 Cosa

19.2 The

Ager Cosanus

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CHAPTER 20: Pompeii and the

Ager Pompeianus

20.1 Landscape History and Cultural Memory

1

20.2 The Landscape of the City and the Country

20.3 Emulation and Local Elite Identities

20.4 Homes in the City and the Countryside

20.5 Urban Spectacle

20.6 Pompeii and the History of Italy

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CHAPTER 21: Ostia

21.1 Introduction

1

21.2 The Foundation of Ostia

21.3 The

Colonia Maritima

21.4 The Creation of a

Façade Maritime

21.5 The Formation of the Imperial City

21.6 Commercial City

21.7 Housing

21.8 From the Third Century to Late Antiquity

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PART IV: Economy and Society

CHAPTER 22: Regional Interaction

22.1 Regional Interaction and Local Networks

22.2 Market-Days in Roman Italy

22.3 A Cultural Network for Gladiatorial Spectacles

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CHAPTER 23: Agricultural Production in Roman Italy

23.1 Introduction

23.2 Ancient Texts and Archaeology

23.3 Animals: The ‘Other’ Mediterranean Triad

23.4 Plants: The Original Mediterranean Triad

23.5 Aristocrats and Agrobusiness

23.6 On the Family Farm

23.7 Conclusions

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CHAPTER 24: Local Elites

24.1 Introduction

24.2 The Roman Conquest and the Italian Elites

24.3 “Dim Characters with Fantastic Names”: The Roman Revolution and the “Victory of the Italians”

24.4 The Italian Elites Under the Principate

24.5 Conclusion

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CHAPTER 25: Sub-Elites

25.1 Introduction

25.2 Working in Wool and Working for Status?:

Lanarii

25.3 Getting from Point A to Point B and Getting Ahead?: and