1st Edition

A History of Earliest Italy (Routledge Revivals)

By Missimo Pallottino Copyright 1984
254 Pages
by Routledge

254 Pages
by Routledge

254 Pages
by Routledge

In A History of Earliest Italy , first published in 1984, Professor Pallottino illumines the wide variety of peoples, languages, and traditions of culture and trade that constituted the pre-Roman Italic world. Since the written sources are fragmentary, archaeology provides the central reservoir for evidence of the societies and institutions of the varied peoples of early Italy. This incisive... Read more

Biographical Note; Preface 1. Defining ‘Italic History’ 2. Origins 3. The Flowering of Italy in the Archaic Period (Eighth to Fifth Centuries BC) 4. The Age of Crisis (Fifth to Fourth Centuries BC) 5. Roman Unification and Italic Continuity; Chronological Table; Bibliography; Additional Bibliography; Acknowledgements; Index

Biography

Pallottino, Missimo