Table of Contents
List 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
