A Companion to Roman Italy

A Companion to Roman Italy explores the diversity and regionality of the Italian peninsula, exploring at what point the forces of cohesion transformed Italy from a landmass jutting into the Mediterranean to a powerful political entity centered around Rome. It investigates the impact of Rome in all its forms—political, cultural, social, and economic—upon Italy’s various regions, as well as the extent to which unification occurred as Rome became the capital of Italy. Leading contributors not only make accessible the most recent work on Roman Italy, but also present new archaeological data on Roman Italy alongside new theories on understanding cultural change in the Italian peninsula. Contributions focus particularly on the themes of the changing relationship between Rome and the rest of Italy, and the extent to which Rome acted as a model for other Italian towns; how Italy’s privileged position within the Roman empire gradually evolved; the interconnectedness of different parts of the peninsula; the interaction between town and country; and the distinctiveness of the regions of Italy in terms of their cultures and societies.

Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors List of Illustrations   INTRODUCTION: SETTING THE SCENE Ch. 1   ‘Italy before the Romans’ Elena Isayev PART ONE: THE IMPACT OF ROME – UNIFICATION AND INTEGRATION Ch. 2 ‘Rome’s encroachment upon Italy′ Rafael Scopacasa Ch .3 ‘Italy and the Greek East, second century BC’  Celia E. Schultz Ch. 4   ‘The Social War’ Edward Bispham Ch. 5 ‘Civil wars and triumvirate’ Edward Bispham Ch. 6 ‘Coming to terms with dynastic power, 30 BC–AD 69’ Alison E. Cooley Ch. 7 ‘Italy during the High Empire, from the Flavians to Diocletian’ Alison E. Cooley Ch. 8 ‘Late Roman and Late Antique Italy: from Constantine to  Justinian’ Neil Christie PART TWO: LOCAL AND REGIONAL DIVERSITY 2.1  Cultural diversity Ch. 9 ‘Funerary practices’ Emma–Jayne Graham and Valerie M. Hope Ch. 10 ‘Diversity in Architecture and Urbanism’ Margaret Laird  Ch. 11 ‘Language and Literacy in Roman Italy’ Kathryn Lomas 2.2  Greek Italy Ch. 12 ‘Roman Naples’ Kathryn Lomas Ch. 13 ‘Magna Graecia, 270 BC – AD 200’ Kathryn Lomas 2.3  Case–study: Becoming Roman in Cisalpina Ch. 14 ‘The changing face of Cisalpine identity’ Clifford Ando, Chicago PART THREE: TOWN AND COUNTRY 3.1  Settlement patterns Ch. 15 ‘Urbanization’ Joanne Berry Ch. 16  ‘Urban Peripheries’ Penelope Goodman Ch. 17  ‘Villas’ Nigel Pollard 3.2 Case–studies of towns and their territories Ch. 18 ‘Republican and early imperial towns in the Tiber Valley’ Simon Keay and Martin Millett Ch. 19 ‘Cosa and the ager Cosanus ’ Elizabeth Fentress and Phil Perkins Ch. 20 ‘Pompeii and the ager Pompeianus ’ Ray Laurence Ch. 21 ‘Ostia’ Janet DeLaine PART FOUR: ECONOMY AND SOCIETY Ch.22 ‘Regional interaction’  Rebecca Benefiel Ch. 23 ‘Agricultural production’  Robert Witcher Ch. 24 ‘Local elites’ John Patterson Ch.25 ‘Sub–elites’ Jonathan Perry

Alison E. Cooley is Professor in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Warwick, UK. Her publications include Res Gestae divi Augusti (2009), The Cambridge Manual of Latin Epigraphy (2012), and Pompeii and Herculaneum: A Sourcebook (2014).