Ancient Umbria State, Culture, and Identity in Central Italy from the Iron Age to the Augustan Era

by Bradley, Guy

• ISBN13: 9780199245147
• ISBN10: 0199245142
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-03-22
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This book, the first full-scale treatment of ancient Umbria in any language, takes a balanced view of the region's history in the first millennium BC, focusing on local actions and motivations as much as the effect of outside influences and Roman policies.

Table of Contents

List of plates	viii
List of figures	x
List of maps	xii
Abbreviations	xiii
Note on citation of words in Umbrian and other non-Latin Italic languages	xv
Approaching the history of ancient Umbria	1	(28)
Umbria before the Roman conquest	29	(74)
The Roman conquest and colonization of Umbria	103	(52)
Urbanism and society in Umbria between the conquest and the Social War	155	(35)
Romanization, the Social War, and integration into the Roman state	190	(56)
Umbria in Italy: some comparisons and conclusions	246	(24)
Appendix 1. Architectural terracottas and temple podia in the Sixth Augustan Region (Umbria) in the first millennium BC	270	(11)
Appendix 2. Umbrian inscriptions	281	(13)
Appendix 3. Latin inscriptions dating to before the Social War	294	(7)
Appendix 4. Firmly attested treaties formed by Rome during the conquest of Italy, 338-264 BC	301	(1)
Bibliography	302	(21)
Index	323