Becoming Roman: The Origins of Provincial Civilization in Gaul

by Greg Woolf

• ISBN13: 9780521789820
• ISBN10: 0521789826
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-07-31
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

This book studies the processes conventionally termed "Romanization" through an analysis of the experience of Roman rule over the Gallic province of the empire in the period 200 BC-AD 300. It examines how and why Gallo-Roman civilization emerged from the confrontation between the iron-age cultures of Gaul and the civilization we call classical. It develops an original synthesis and argument that will form a bridge between the disciplines of classics and archaeology and will be of interest to all students of cultural change.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	viii
Preface	ix
Abbreviations	xiv
On Romanization	1	(23)
Roman power and the Gauls	24	(24)
The civilizing ethos	48	(29)
Mapping cultural change	77	(29)
Urbanizing the Gauls	106	(36)
The culture of the countryside	142	(27)
Consuming Rome	169	(37)
Keeping faith?	206	(32)
Being Roman in Gaul	238	(12)
List of works cited	250	(40)
Index	290