The Foundations of Roman Italy

ISBN-13: 9781138815308 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 466 str.

Joshua Whatmough

Opis

This book presents a picture of pre-Roman Italy as complete and as faithful as modern discovery could make it, when it was originally published in 1937. The evidence of archaeology is combined with the testimony of historical tradition and non-Latin dialects in a balanced account of elements no less diverse than those of modern Europe. This description of Italy in the middle of the last millennium B.C. illuminates the success of Rome in achieving a united Italy, where others had failed - an achievement which paved the way for the course over of events over centuries.

Spis treści

Preface  1. Introduction  2. The Land  3. Prehistoric Peoples and Their Civilizations  4. Ancient Tribes and Their Dialects  5. Liguria  6. Transpadane Gaul  7. Venetia and the Raeti  8. The Regio AEmilia, the Ager Gallicus, and Umbria  9. Etruria and the Faliscans  10. Picenum  11. The Latins and Neighbouring Tribes  12. Samnium and the Central Italic Tribes – Campania  13. Apulia and Calabria  14. Lucania  15. The Land of the Bruttii  16. Sicily and the Other Islands  17. Religion, Literature, and Government  18. The Unification of Italy

O autorze

Joshua Whatmough