Inside Ancient Lucania
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The Archaeology Of Lucanian Cult Places
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Author : Ilaria Battiloro
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-08-10
The Archaeology Of Lucanian Cult Places written by Ilaria Battiloro and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-10 with History categories.
With the emergence and structuring of the Lucanian ethnos during the fourth century BC, a network of cult places, set apart from habitation spaces, was created at the crossroads of the most important communication routes of ancient Lucania. These sanctuaries became centers of social and political aggregation of the local communities: a space in which the community united for all the social manifestations that, in urban societies, were usually performed within the city space. With a detailed analysis of the archaeological record, this study traces the historical and archaeological narrative of Lucanian cult places from their creation to the Late Republican Age, which saw the incorporation of southern Italy into the Roman state. By placing the sanctuaries within their territorial, political, social, and cultural context, Battiloro offers insight into the diachronic development of sacred architecture and ritual customs in ancient Lucania. The author highlights the role of material evidence in constructing the significance of sanctuaries in the historical context in which they were used, and crucial new evidence from the most recent archaeological investigations is explored in order to define dynamics of contact and interaction between Lucanians and Romans on the eve of the Roman conquest.
Inside Ancient Lucania
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Author : Elena Isayev
language : en
Publisher: University of London Press
Release Date : 2007
Inside Ancient Lucania written by Elena Isayev and has been published by University of London Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Archaeology categories.
A traveller today on a journey through the mountainous landscape of ancient Lucania would find it difficult to believe the high density of settlement which this corner of south-west Italy sustained in the fourth century BC. Networks incorporating much of the peninsula, Greece, Sicily, Epirus, Macedon and Carthage all found a foothold here. Ancient narratives, largely focusing on military contexts, give little sense of the nature of activity in the area, but the remains of material culture provide an image of thriving communities, not organised on the city-state model, which were active participants in the culture and power struggles of the Mediterranean in the period before Roman hegemony. This study brings together historical and archaeological approaches to create a better understanding of the socio-cultural diversity of the region, as well as the construction and transformation of community identities especially in the period of profound change and decline prior to the Hannibalic War. It compels a reassessment of the literary source narratives and a conception of how the written record was formed. In so doing it challenges the models of 'primitive' mountainous societies along with the polarities often used to define and isolate them: rural-urban; pastoral-agricultural; barbarian-civilised.
Migration Mobility And Place In Ancient Italy
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Author : Elena Isayev
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2017-08-31
Migration Mobility And Place In Ancient Italy written by Elena Isayev and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-31 with History categories.
This book examines the nature of human mobility, attitudes to it, and constructions of place over the last millennium BC in Rome and Italy. It demonstrates that there were high rates of mobility, challenging the perception of sites and communities as static and ethnically oriented entities.
A Companion To Ethnicity In The Ancient Mediterranean
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Author : Jeremy McInerney
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2014-08-25
A Companion To Ethnicity In The Ancient Mediterranean written by Jeremy McInerney and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-25 with Literary Criticism categories.
A Companion to Ethnicity in the Ancient Mediterranean presents a comprehensive collection of essays contributed by Classical Studies scholars that explore questions relating to ethnicity in the ancient Mediterranean world. Covers topics of ethnicity in civilizations ranging from ancient Egypt and Israel, to Greece and Rome, and into Late Antiquity Features cutting-edge research on ethnicity relating to Philistine, Etruscan, and Phoenician identities Reveals the explicit relationships between ancient and modern ethnicities Introduces an interpretation of ethnicity as an active component of social identity Represents a fundamental questioning of formally accepted and fixed categories in the field
The Peoples Of Ancient Italy
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Author : Gary D. Farney
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2017-11-20
The Peoples Of Ancient Italy written by Gary D. Farney and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-20 with History categories.
Although there are many studies of certain individual ancient Italic groups (e.g. the Etruscans, Gauls and Latins), there is no work that takes a comprehensive view of each of them—the famous and the less well-known—that existed in Iron Age and Roman Italy. Moreover, many previous studies have focused only on the material evidence for these groups or on what the literary sources have to say about them. This handbook is conceived of as a resource for archaeologists, historians, philologists and other scholars interested in finding out more about Italic groups from the earliest period they are detectable (early Iron Age, in most instances), down to the time when they begin to assimilate into the Roman state (in the late Republican or early Imperial period). As such, it will endeavor to include both archaeological and historical perspectives on each group, with contributions from the best-known or up-and-coming archaeologists and historians for these peoples and topics. The language of the volume is English, but scholars from around the world have contributed to it. This volume covers the ancient peoples of Italy more comprehensively in individual chapters, and it is also distinct because it has a thematic section.
Ancient Italy
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Author : Guy Jolyon Bradley
language : en
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Release Date : 2007
Ancient Italy written by Guy Jolyon Bradley and has been published by Liverpool University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with History categories.
A collection of essays on the peoples and communities of ancient, and mainly pre-Roman Italy.
The Spartacus War
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Author : Barry Strauss
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2009-03-17
The Spartacus War written by Barry Strauss and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-03-17 with History categories.
An authoritative account from an expert author: The Spartacus War is the first popular history of the revolt in English. The Spartacus War is the extraordinary story of the most famous slave rebellion in the ancient world, the fascinating true story behind a legend that has been the inspiration for novelists, filmmakers, and revolutionaries for 2,000 years. Starting with only seventy-four men, a gladiator named Spartacus incited a rebellion that threatened Rome itself. With his fellow gladiators, Spartacus built an army of 60,000 soldiers and controlled the southern Italian countryside. A charismatic leader, he used religion to win support. An ex-soldier in the Roman army, Spartacus excelled in combat. He defeated nine Roman armies and kept Rome at bay for two years before he was defeated. After his final battle, 6,000 of his followers were captured and crucified along Rome's main southern highway. The Spartacus War is the dramatic and factual account of one of history's great rebellions. Spartacus was beaten by a Roman general, Crassus, who had learned how to defeat an insurgency. But the rebels were partly to blame for their failure. Their army was large and often undisciplined; the many ethnic groups within it frequently quarreled over leadership. No single leader, not even Spartacus, could keep them all in line. And when faced with a choice between escaping to freedom and looting, the rebels chose wealth over liberty, risking an eventual confrontation with Rome's most powerful forces. The result of years of research, The Spartacus War is based not only on written documents but also on archaeological evidence, historical reconstruction, and the author's extensive travels in the Italian countryside that Spartacus once conquered.
Ancient Samnium
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Author : Rafael Scopacasa
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2015
Ancient Samnium written by Rafael Scopacasa and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with History categories.
Thinking Ancient Samnium focuses on the region of Samnium in Italy, where a rich blend of historical, literary, epigraphic, numismatic, and archaeological evidence supports a fresh perspective on the complexity and dynamism of a part of the ancient Mediterranean that is normally regarded as marginal. This volume presents new ways of looking at ancient Italian communities that did not leave written accounts about themselves but played a key role in the early development of Rome, first as staunch opponents and later as key allies. It combines written and archaeological evidence to form a new understanding of the ancient inhabitants of Samnium during the last six centuries BC, how they identified themselves, how they developed unique forms of social and political organisation, and how they became entangled with Rome's expanding power and the impact that this had on their daily lives.
Archaeology On The Apulian Lucanian Border
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Author : Alastair Small
language : en
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Release Date : 2022-05-26
Archaeology On The Apulian Lucanian Border written by Alastair Small and has been published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-05-26 with Social Science categories.
The broad valley of the Bradano river and its tributary, the Basentello, separates the Apennine mountains in Lucania from the limestone plateau of the Murge in Apulia in southeast Italy. This book aims to explain how the pattern of settlement and land use changed in the valley over the whole period from the Neolithic to the late medieval.
The Oxford Handbook Of Pre Roman Italy 1000 49 Bce
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Author : Marco Maiuro
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2024
The Oxford Handbook Of Pre Roman Italy 1000 49 Bce written by Marco Maiuro and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024 with Architecture categories.
The Oxford Handbook of Pre-Roman Italy provides a comprehensive account of the many peoples who lived on the Italian peninsula during the last millennium BCE. Written by more than fifty authors, the book describes the diversity of these indigenous cultures, their languages, interactions, and reciprocal influences. It gives emphasis to Greek colonization, the rise of aristocracies, technological innovations, and the spread of literacy, which provided the urban texture that shaped the history of the Italian peninsula.