Italy Before Rome: A Sourcebook

ISBN-13: 9780367146481 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 300 str.

Katherine McDonald

Opis

This book brings together sources translated from a wide variety of ancient languages to showcase the rich history of pre-Roman Italy, including its cultures, politics, trade, languages, writing systems, religious rituals, magical practices, and conflicts.

Spis treści

List of maps and figures; List of tables; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations and conventions; Maps; Timeline of major events; Introduction; Chapter 1: Origins; Chapter 2: Etruscan Life and Death; Chapter 3: Great Greece; Chapter 4: From Samnites to Italians; Chapter 5: Alphabets, Literacy and Names; Chapter 6: Gods and Humans; Chapter 7: Rituals and Sacrifice; Chapter 8: Magic and Divination; Chapter 9: Italy at War; Index locorum; Subject Index

O autorze

Katherine McDonald is an Assistant Professor in Roman History at Durham University, UK, and has previously worked at Cambridge and Exeter. Her previous work includes Oscan in Southern Italy and Sicily: Evaluating Language Contact in a Fragmentary Corpus.