1st Edition
The Routledge Handbook of the Archaeology of Urbanism in Italy in the Age of Roman Expansion
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 particularism. They present a significant re-evaluation of the process of Roman imperialism and the role of urbanization within it. Particular attention is paid to evidence for local agency in different regions and at different sites, but general trends are also highlighted. Various types of urban sites are examined, including indigenous urban centers that pre-date Rome’s conquest, colonies, both Greek and Roman, small centers in the hinterlands of larger urban entities, and the symbiotic relationship between urban centers and their rural territories. The volume challenges the existence of a standardized “Roman model” imposed on Rome’s vanquished enemies through conquest and highlights that this was a period of intense experimentation. Archeological data are used to challenge traditional text based historiographic models and reveal the complex interplay and tensions between Roman imperial control, local and regional traditions, and broader Mediterranean trends.
The book is of importance to archaeologists and ancient historians working on urbanism and Roman Imperialism, as well as those interested in early urbanism in the western Mediterranean and Europe and the comparative study of imperialism and colonialism across geographical areas and historical periods.
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, Queen’s University at Kingston.
Myles McCallum is a Professor of Roman Archaeology in the Ancient Studies program at Saint Mary’s University (Canada).
