Styling Romanisation: Pottery and Society in Central Italy

Styling Romanisation: Pottery and Society in Central Italy

by Roman Roth
ISBN-10:
0521875676
ISBN-13:
9780521875677
Pub. Date:
07/19/2007
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
ISBN-10:
0521875676
ISBN-13:
9780521875677
Pub. Date:
07/19/2007
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Styling Romanisation: Pottery and Society in Central Italy

Styling Romanisation: Pottery and Society in Central Italy

by Roman Roth

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Overview

What was the impact of Romanisation on non-elite life in central Italy during the late third and second centuries BC? Focusing on the increasing spread of black-gloss pottery across the peninsula, this text demonstrates the importance of the study of such everyday artefacts as a way of approaching aspects of social history that are otherwise little documented. Placing its subject within the wider debate over cultural identity in the Roman world, the book argues that stylistic changes in such objects of everyday use document the development of new forms of social representation among non-elite groups in Roman Italy. In contrast to previous accounts, the book concludes that, rather than pointing to a loss of regional cultural identities, the ceramic patterns suggest that the Romanisation of Italy provided new material opportunities across the social scale.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780521875677
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 07/19/2007
Series: Cambridge Classical Studies
Pages: 254
Product dimensions: 0.67(w) x 8.50(h) x 5.51(d)

About the Author

Roman Roth is a Junior Research Fellow at Peterhouse, Cambridge.

Table of Contents

Introduction; 1. Romanisation; 2. Black-gloss wares and the Romanisation of Italy; 3. Style and society in central Italy during the Hellenistic period; 4. Volterra; 5. Capena; 6. Ceramics and the Romanisation of central Italy; 7. Conclusion.
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