A Companion to Roman Italy

Alison E. Cooley is Professor in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Warwick, UK. Her publications include Res Gestae divi Augusti (2009), The Cambridge Manual of Latin Epigraphy (2012), and Pompeii and Herculaneum: A Sourcebook (2014).

List of Illustrations vii

List of Tables xii

Notes on Contributors xiii

Acknowledgements xvi

Introduction: Setting the Scene 1

1 Italy Before the Romans 2
Elena Isayev

Part I The Impact of Rome – Unification and Integration 33

2 Rome’s Encroachment on Italy 35
Rafael Scopacasa

3 Italy and the Greek East, Second Century BC 57
Celia E. Schultz

4 The Social War 76
Edward Bispham

5 The Civil Wars and the Triumvirate 90
Edward Bispham

6 Coming to Terms with Dynastic Power, 30 BC–AD 69 103
Alison E. Cooley

7 Italy during the High Empire, from the Flavians to Diocletian 121
Alison E. Cooley

8 Late Roman and Late Antique Italy: from Constantine to Justinian 133
Neil Christie

Part II Local and Regional Diversity 155

2.1 Cultural Diversity 157

9 Funerary Practices 159
Emma‐Jayne Graham and Valerie M. Hope

10 Diversity in Architecture and Urbanism 181
Margaret L. Laird

11 Language and Literacy in Roman Italy 217
Kathryn Lomas

2.2 Greek Italy 235

12 Roman Naples 237
Kathryn Lomas

13 Magna Graecia, 270 BC–AD 200 253
Kathryn Lomas

2.3 Case-study: Becoming Roman in Cisalpina 269

14 The Changing Face of Cisalpine Identity 271
Clifford Ando

Part III Town and Country 289

3.1 Settlement Patterns 291

15 Urbanization 293
Joanne Berry

16 Urban Peripheries 308
Penelope J. Goodman

17 Villas 330
Nigel Pollard

3.2 Case-studies of Towns and their Territories 355

18 Republican and Early Imperial Towns in the Tiber Valley 357
Simon Keay and Martin Millett

19 Cosa and the Ager Cosanus 378
Elizabeth Fentress and Phil Perkins

20 Pompeii and the Ager Pompeianus 401
Ray Laurence

21 Ostia 417
Janet DeLaine

Part IV Economy and Society 439

22 Regional Interaction 441
Rebecca R. Benefiel

23 Agricultural Production in Roman Italy 459
Robert Witcher

24 Local Elites 483
John R. Patterson

25 Sub‐Elites 498
Jonathan S. Perry

Index 513