1st Edition

The Routledge Handbook of the Archaeology of Urbanism in Italy in the Age of Roman Expansion

Edited By Fabio Colivicchi, Myles McCallum Copyright 2024
588 Pages 20 Color & 206 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

588 Pages 20 Color & 206 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

588 Pages 20 Color & 206 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The Routledge Handbook of the Archaeology of Urbanism in Italy in the Age of Roman Expansion explores trends in urbanism across Italy in the period when Rome extended its power across the entire peninsula, Sicily, Sardinia, and Corsica. Chapters present the most up-to-date archaeological data in the first broad and detailed treatment of this topic, superseding traditional academic... Read more

Fabio Colivicchi and Myles McCallum

Introduction

 

 

Part 1. Italian urbanism in the broader context

 

1 Jamie Sewell

Post-Conquest Urbanism in Hellenistic Italy: Peninsular Perspectives

 

 

Part 2. Etruria and Latium

 

2 Fabio Colivicchi

The First Steps of Roman Conquest: Etruria and Latium

 

3 Fabio Colivicchi

Diverging Narratives: Archaeology, Historical Sources and Urban Trajectories in South Etruria

 

4 Daniele F. Maras

Falerii: One Name, Two Towns

 

5 Nicola Terrenato and Rachel Opitz

The Creation of Falerii Novi and the Roman conquest: Archaeological and Historical Perspectives

 

6 Marcello Mogetta and Andrew C. Johnston

Filling in the Gaps: the Urban Development of Early and Mid-Republican Gabii

 

7 Francesco Maria Cifarelli

The Urban Form in Latium Adiectum in the Mid-Republican Period: Geo-Political Dynamics, Institutions, Cultural Models and Urban Experiences

 

8 Seth Bernard

Populonia and North Etruria

 

9 Andrea U. De Giorgi

The Foundation of Cosa. Context, Plans, and Resources

 

 

Part 3. Campania and the Apennines

 

10 Fabio Colivicchi

Early Roman Expansion into Campania and the Apennines

 

11 Rafael Scopacasa

More Than Meets the Eye. Fortified Settlements and Micro-Scale Community in Samnium ca. 300–100 BCE

 

12 Alfonso Santoriello and Luigina Tomay

Beneventum. Continuity and Discontinuity in the Urban and Rural Organization

 

13 Amedeo Rossi

Urban Settlement, Rural Landscape and “Romanization” in Campania Between Neapolis and Suessula

 

14 Marco Giglio

Pompeii. New Data on Urban Development Between the Fourth and the First Centuries BCE

 

15 Carmine Pellegrino and Antonia Serritella

Rome and the Plain of Paestum: Historical Aspects and Archaeological Evidence

 

 

Part 4. The Adriatic Region

 

16 Fabio Colivicchi

From Sea to Sea: Rome on the Adriatic

 

17 Giuseppe Lepore and Michele Silani

The Birth of the City and the Urbanization of the Ager Gallicus (Fourth-First Century BCE)

 

18 Frank Vermeulen

Assessing the Impact of Roman Colonization on Early Urbanisation Dynamics in Central Adriatic Italy, with a Focus on Northern Picenum

 

 

Part 5. South Italy

 

19 Myles McCallum

South Italy Before and After the Conquest

 

20 Elizabeth C. Robinson

Larinum and the Lower Biferno Valley, 400 BCE – 50 BCE

 

21 Myles McCallum

Urban Trends in the Interior of Puglia (Peucetia) and Basilicata (Oenotria/Lucania): The Case of the Basentello Valley

 

22 Maria Luisa Marchi

Roman Colonization and Urbanization in Southern Italy: the Case of Daunia

 

23 Jeremia Pelgrom, Jesús García Sánchez, Tesse D. Stek

Reconsidering the Impact of Roman Expansionism on Daunian Population Centres in the Melfese Area: New Data on the Primary Settlements of Venosa, Banzi, and Lavello

 

24 G. Francesco La Torre

Urbanization and the Process of Romanization in Today’s Calabria

 

 

Part 6. Sicily, Sardinia, and Corsica

 

25 Fabio Colivicchi

The First Provinces: Sicily, Sardinia, and Corsica

 

26 Lorenzo Campagna

Urbanism in Sicily at the Birth of the Roman Province

 

27 D. Alex Walthall

Morgantina Under Roman Rule: Continuity & Change

 

28 Ciro Parodo and Dario D’Orlando

Urbanization in Roman Sardinia from the Third to the First Century BCE

 

Part 7: Roman conquest and urbanization: a reappraisal

 

29 Nicola Terrenato

Urbanism in Italy in the Age of Roman Expansion

 

30 Fabio Colivicchi and Myles McCallum

Anything to Do with Conquest?

 

Biography

Fabio Colivicchi is Professor in the Department of Classics and Archaeology at Queen’s University at Kingston (Canada).

Myles McCallum is Professor in the Ancient Studies Program at Saint Mary’s University (Canada).