| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 560 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Series |
Blackwell companions to the ancient world |
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Blackwell companions to the ancient world
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| Contents |
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 DeLaine / 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed April 6, 2016) |
| Subject |
HISTORY -- Europe -- Italy.
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Civilization
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| SUBJECT |
Italy -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85068936
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Rome -- Civilization.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85115094
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Italy -- Civilization -- To 476.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh98001216
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| Subject |
Italy
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Rome (Empire)
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Cooley, Alison, editor
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| ISBN |
9781118993101 |
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1118993101 |
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9781118993125 |
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1118993128 |
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9781119092261 |
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1119092264 |
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9781118993118 |
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111899311X |
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