The Early Roman Expansion into Italy - Elite Negotiation and Family Agendas

List of contents

List of illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. Views of Roman imperialism through time; 2. The long-term context of Roman expansion: central Italian society and politics in the early first Millennium BCE; 3. The global context of Roman expansion: the central Mediterranean between the late fifth and the early third centuries BCE; 4. A heterogeneous conquest I: a cross section of polity biographies and types of conflicts; 5. A heterogeneous conquest II: family biographies and agendas; 6. The consequences of the expansion; 7. Conclusions; Works cited; Index.

About the author

Nicola Terrenato is the Esther B. Van Deman Collegiate Professor of Roman Studies at the University of Michigan, where he specializes in first-millennium BCE Italy, with particular reference to northern Etruria, early Rome and the period of the Roman conquest. Since 2007, he has directed the Gabii Project. He is co-editor of Italy and the West: Comparative Issues in Romanization (2001), Articulating Local Cultures: Power and Identity under the Expanding Roman Republic (2007), State Formation in Greece and Rome (2011), Roman Republican Villas: Architecture, Context, and Ideology (2012) and A Mid-Republican House from Gabii (2016).

Product details

• Authors: Nicola Terrenato, Terrenato Nicola
• Publisher: Cambridge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.08.2020
• EAN: 9781108436854
• ISBN: 978-1-108-43685-4
• Dimensions: 168 mm x 242 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 610 g
• Illustrations: 23 b/w illus. 21 maps, Zeichnungen, schwarz-weiss, Raster,schwarz-weiss, Karten, Worked examples or Exercises
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; HISTORY / Ancient / General, Italy, History of Art, Ancient Rome, Ancient History, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Classical style, History of art: ancient & classical art,BCE to c 500 CE