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
Table of Content
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
List of Illustrations
INTRODUCTION: SETTING THE SCENE
Chapter 1 Italy before the Romans
Elena Isayev
PART ONE: THE IMPACT OF ROME – UNIFICATION AND INTEGRATION
Chapter 2 Rome’s encroachment upon Italy
Rafael Scopacasa
Chapter 3 Italy and the Greek East, second century BC
Celia E. Schultz
Chapter 4 The Social War
Edward Bispham
Chapter 5 Civil wars and triumvirate
Edward Bispham
Chapter 6 Coming to terms with dynastic power, 30 BC-AD 69
Alison E. Cooley
Chapter 7 Italy during the High Empire, from the Flavians to Diocletian
Alison E. Cooley
Chapter 8 Late Roman and Late Antique Italy: from Constantine to Justinian
Neil Christie
PART TWO: LOCAL AND REGIONAL DIVERSITY
2.1 Cultural diversity
Chapter 9 Funerary practices
Emma-Jayne Graham and Valerie M. Hope
Chapter 10 Diversity in Architecture and Urbanism
Margaret Laird
Chapter 11 Language and Literacy in Roman Italy
Kathryn Lomas
2.2 Greek Italy
Chapter 12 Roman Naples
Kathryn Lomas
Chapter 13 Magna Graecia, 270 BC – AD 200
Kathryn Lomas
2.3 Case-study: Becoming Roman in Cisalpina
Chapter 14 The changing face of Cisalpine identity
Clifford Ando, Chicago
PART THREE: TOWN AND COUNTRY
3.1 Settlement patterns
Chapter 15 Urbanization
Joanne Berry
Chapter 16 Urban Peripheries
Penelope Goodman
Chapter 17 Villas
Nigel Pollard
3.2 Case-studies of towns and their territories
Chapter 18 Republican and early imperial towns in the Tiber Valley
Simon Keay and Martin Millett
Chapter 19 Cosa and the ager Cosanus
Elizabeth Fentress and Phil Perkins
Chapter 20 Pompeii and the ager Pompeianus
Ray Laurence
Chapter 21 Ostia
Janet De Laine
PART FOUR: ECONOMY AND SOCIETY
Chapter22 Regional interaction
Rebecca Benefiel
Chapter 23 Agricultural production
Robert Witcher
Chapter 24 Local elites
John Patterson
Chapter25 Sub-elites
Jonathan Perry
About the author
Alison E. Cooley is Professor in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Warwick, UK. Her publications include Res Gestae divi Augusti (2009), The Cambridge Manual of Latin Epigraphy (2012), and Pompeii and Herculaneum: A Sourcebook (2014).
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