Far from being peoples without history, early Italians lived among a multitude of textual and material markers that spoke volumes about their own past. For the first time, this book gives a rich and resonant voice to non-Latin speakers throughout the peninsula, emphasizing the role of their historical narratives, typically overshadowed by those of the Romans.
Seth Bernard is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Toronto and the author of Building Mid-Republican Rome: Labor, Architecture, and the Urban Economy.