Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
List of Illustrations
INTRODUCTION: SETTING THE SCENE
Chapter 1 Italy before the RomansElena Isayev
PART ONE: THE IMPACT OF ROME – UNIFICATION AND INTEGRATION
Chapter 2 Rome's encroachment upon ItalyRafael Scopacasa
Chapter 3 Italy and the Greek East, second century BC Celia E. Schultz
Chapter 4 The Social WarEdward Bispham
Chapter 5 Civil wars and triumvirateEdward Bispham
Chapter 6 Coming to terms with dynastic power, 30 BC-AD 69Alison E. Cooley
Chapter 7 Italy during the High Empire, from the Flavians to DiocletianAlison E. Cooley
Chapter 8 Late Roman and Late Antique Italy: from Constantine to JustinianNeil Christie
PART TWO: LOCAL AND REGIONAL DIVERSITY
2.1 Cultural diversity
Chapter 9 Funerary practicesEmma-Jayne Graham and Valerie M. Hope
Chapter 10 Diversity in Architecture and UrbanismMargaret Laird
Chapter 11 Language and Literacy in Roman ItalyKathryn Lomas
2.2 Greek Italy
Chapter 12 Roman NaplesKathryn Lomas
Chapter 13 Magna Graecia, 270 BC – AD 200Kathryn Lomas
2.3 Case-study: Becoming Roman in Cisalpina
Chapter 14 The changing face of Cisalpine identityClifford Ando, Chicago
PART THREE: TOWN AND COUNTRY
3.1 Settlement patterns
Chapter 15 UrbanizationJoanne Berry
Chapter 16 Urban PeripheriesPenelope Goodman
Chapter 17 VillasNigel Pollard
3.2 Case-studies of towns and their territories
Chapter 18 Republican and early imperial towns in the Tiber ValleySimon Keay and Martin Millett
Chapter 19 Cosa and the ager CosanusElizabeth Fentress and Phil Perkins
Chapter 20 Pompeii and the ager PompeianusRay Laurence
Chapter 21 OstiaJanet DeLaine
PART FOUR: ECONOMY AND SOCIETY
Chapter22 Regional interactionRebecca Benefiel
Chapter 23 Agricultural productionRobert Witcher
Chapter 24 Local elitesJohn Patterson
Chapter25 Sub-elitesJonathan Perry
