Styling Romanisation Pottery and Society in Central Italy

Name: Styling Romanisation Pottery and Society in Central Italy
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ISBN: 9780521875677

ISBN-10: 0521875676

ISBN-13: 9780521875677

Edition: 2007

Authors: Roman Ernst Roth

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What was the impact of Romanisation on non-elite life in central Italy during the late third and second centuries BC? Focusing on the increasing spread of black-gloss pottery across the peninsula, Dr Roth demonstrates the importance of the study of such everyday artefacts as a way of approaching aspects of social history that are otherwise little documented. Placing its subject within the wider debate over cultural identity in the Roman world, the book argues that stylistic changes in such objects of everyday use document the development of new forms of social representation among non-elite groups in Roman Italy. In contrast to previous accounts, the book concludes that, rather than…

Book details

List price: $109.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 7/19/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 254
Size: 0.67" wide x 8.50" long x 5.51" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English



Introduction



Romanisation



Black-gloss wares and the Romanisation of Italy



Style and society in central Italy during the Hellenistic period



Volterra



Capena



Ceramics and the Romanisation of central Italy



Conclusion