Ancient Italy

Regions Without Boundaries

Edited by Guy Bradley, Elena Isayev, and Corinna Riva

Ancient Italy
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Edited by Guy Bradley, Elena Isayev, and Corinna Riva

Distributed for Liverpool University Press

368 pages | 60 halftones, 13 maps | 7 x 10 | © 2007
Cloth $99.95 ISBN: 9780859898133 Published March 2008 For sale in North and South America only
Ancient Italy is the first English-language volume to provide a detailed archaeological portrait of the pre-Roman peoples of Italy—the Ligurians and Celts, the Veneti, the Picens, Etruscans, Faliscans, Latins, Samnites, peoples of Campania, and the populations of Italy’s southeastern regions. Addressing themes in the study of the ancient world such as settlement and landscape, identity, literature, and religious and funerary ritual, as well as social and cultural interaction, Ancient Italy introduces each region and its communities, summarizes recent scholarship, provides site-specific maps, and considers key issues in the region’s contemporary historiography. Designed to provide an important tool for researchers working on the ancient Mediterranean, this accessible volume provides a clear starting point for anyone interested in the peoples of ancient Italy.
Contents

List of Illustrations

List of Contributors

List of Abbreviations

Preface

Maps

 

1 Why Italy?     

   Elena Isayev

 

2 The Ancient Veneti: Community and State in Northern Italy     

    Kathryn Lomas

 

3 At the Margins of Italy: Celts and Ligurians in North-West Italy     

    Ralph Häussler

 

4 The Archaeology of Picenum: The Last Decade     

    Corinna Riva

 

5 Etruria and the Etruscans: Recent Approaches     

    Vedia Izzet

 

6 The Faliscans     

    Letizia Ceccarelli and Simon Stoddart

 

7 Latium and the Latins: The Hinterland of Rome     

    Christopher Smith

 

8 The Samnites     

    Edward Bispham

 

9 Ancient Campania: Cultural Interaction, Political Borders and Geographical Boundaries                                                                                        

   Mariassunta Cuozzo

 

10 Duanians, Peucetians and Messapians? Societies and Settlements in South-East Italy     

     Edward Herring

 

11 Romanization: The End of the Peoples of Italy?       

    Guy Bradley

 

Index

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