Ancient Umbria
Journal Data
| Type | SOURCE_BOOK |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
| ISBN-13 | 9780199245147 |
| Open Library | OL8016541W |
| Total publications | 11 |
| Coverage period | 2000 - 2000 |
| Language | EN |
| Cited by | 28 |
| h-index | 1 |
| i10-index | 1 |
How should we understand the ways in which the regions of Italy were affected by Roman imperialism? This book, which is the first full-scale treatment of ancient Umbria in any language, takes a balanced view of the region's history in the first millennium BC, focusing on local actions and motivations as much as the effect of outside influences and Roman policies. Through a careful reading of all the types of evidence it provides an important challenge to traditional treatments emphasising the 'Romanization' of the region, arguing that this is a poor explanation for the complexity of local societies in the late Republican period. Instead it proposes that other trends, particularly the organization of states, help to explain the fascinating plurality of identities that are evident in the imperial period and allow us to appreciate the diversity of local societies that emerged in both mountain and lowland areas of Umbria
Firmly attested treaties formed by Rome during the conquest of Italy, 338–264 BC
Subject Ancient Roman History Collection: Oxford Scholarship Online
Latin inscriptions dating to before the Social War
Subject Ancient Roman History Collection: Oxford Scholarship Online
Umbrian inscriptions
The Roman conquest and colonization of Umbria
This chapter covers the Roman conquest and reorganization of Umbria in the late fourth and third centuries BC and the involvement of Umbria in the Hannibalic War. We saw in Chapter 2 that settlement had begun on many of the later city sites by the time of the conquest, and in most cases went back for several centuries. Archaeological evidence shows that there were important social changes in the Iron Age, which I suggested could be understood as …
Approaching the history of ancient Umbria
During the Roman imperial period, Umbria, the sixth of the eleven regions of ancient Italy, was made up of almost forty different communities, most of which can be identified with the hill towns characterizing the area today. In some cases, people had already lived on these sites for a thousand years; almost all had been occupied for at least half a millennium. These towns had their own distinct local identities and, we can suspect, local histori…
Umbria in Italy
The aim of this last, concluding chapter is to summarize the position reached on a range of important issues in the history of Umbria in the first millennium BC and, where it is instructive, to compare this picture with the evidence for Picenum. Although different in many ways, the pattern of settlement in Picenum does show some important similarities with that in Umbria. In both regions there is archaeological evidence (in the form of cemeteries…
Urbanism and society in Umbria between the conquest and the Social War
This chapter is, as far as I know, the first attempt to collate and analyse systematically the published evidence for urban centres and rural sanctuaries in Umbria in the period between the conquest and the Social War, and to investigate the relationship between these two types of site. The extent of the evidence has not been fully appreciated, and is usually referred to only in vague general terms.
Architectural terracottas and temple podia in the Sixth Augustan Region (Umbria) in the first millennium BC
Subject Ancient Roman History Collection: Oxford Scholarship Online
Romanization, the Social War, and integration into the Roman state
The change in the sense of identity of allied Italians in the period between the Roman conquest and the death of Augustus (AD 14) is an extremely important factor in the history of Italy. In the conventional picture, Italians moved from thinking of themselves in terms of their local ethnic group, whether Umbrian, Marsic, Samnite, or whatever, to regarding them¬ selves as being Roman.
Umbria before the Roman conquest
The aim of this chapter is to examine the processes affecting Umbrian communities in the Iron Age (c.900-300 BC), a period conventionally ended by the Roman conquest. A variety of geographical areas need to be assessed, in which increasing social complexity leads to a wide range of different social and political ‘trajectories’. The most important shift in terms of the long-term history of the region is that many settlements in the lowlands begin …
Ancient Umbria
How should we understand the ways in which the regions of Italy were affected by Roman imperialism? This book, which is the first full-scale treatment of ancient Umbria in any language, takes a balanced view of the region's history in the first millennium BC, focusing on local actions and motivations as much as the effect of outside influences and Roman policies. Through a careful reading of all the types of evidence it provides an important chal…
Ancient Umbria
How should we understand the ways in which the regions of Italy were affected by Roman imperialism? This book, which is the first full-scale treatment of ancient Umbria in any language, takes a balanced view of the region's history in the first millennium BC, focusing on local actions and motivations as much as the effect of outside influences and Roman policies. Through a careful reading of all the types of evidence it provides an important chal…
Firmly attested treaties formed by Rome during the conquest of Italy, 338–264 BC
Subject Ancient Roman History Collection: Oxford Scholarship Online
Latin inscriptions dating to before the Social War
Subject Ancient Roman History Collection: Oxford Scholarship Online
Umbrian inscriptions
The Roman conquest and colonization of Umbria
This chapter covers the Roman conquest and reorganization of Umbria in the late fourth and third centuries BC and the involvement of Umbria in the Hannibalic War. We saw in Chapter 2 that settlement had begun on many of the later city sites by the time of the conquest, and in most cases went back for several centuries. Archaeological evidence shows that there were important social changes in the Iron Age, which I suggested could be understood as …
Approaching the history of ancient Umbria
During the Roman imperial period, Umbria, the sixth of the eleven regions of ancient Italy, was made up of almost forty different communities, most of which can be identified with the hill towns characterizing the area today. In some cases, people had already lived on these sites for a thousand years; almost all had been occupied for at least half a millennium. These towns had their own distinct local identities and, we can suspect, local histori…
Umbria in Italy
The aim of this last, concluding chapter is to summarize the position reached on a range of important issues in the history of Umbria in the first millennium BC and, where it is instructive, to compare this picture with the evidence for Picenum. Although different in many ways, the pattern of settlement in Picenum does show some important similarities with that in Umbria. In both regions there is archaeological evidence (in the form of cemeteries…
Urbanism and society in Umbria between the conquest and the Social War
This chapter is, as far as I know, the first attempt to collate and analyse systematically the published evidence for urban centres and rural sanctuaries in Umbria in the period between the conquest and the Social War, and to investigate the relationship between these two types of site. The extent of the evidence has not been fully appreciated, and is usually referred to only in vague general terms.
Architectural terracottas and temple podia in the Sixth Augustan Region (Umbria) in the first millennium BC
Subject Ancient Roman History Collection: Oxford Scholarship Online
Romanization, the Social War, and integration into the Roman state
The change in the sense of identity of allied Italians in the period between the Roman conquest and the death of Augustus (AD 14) is an extremely important factor in the history of Italy. In the conventional picture, Italians moved from thinking of themselves in terms of their local ethnic group, whether Umbrian, Marsic, Samnite, or whatever, to regarding them¬ selves as being Roman.
Umbria before the Roman conquest
The aim of this chapter is to examine the processes affecting Umbrian communities in the Iron Age (c.900-300 BC), a period conventionally ended by the Roman conquest. A variety of geographical areas need to be assessed, in which increasing social complexity leads to a wide range of different social and political ‘trajectories’. The most important shift in terms of the long-term history of the region is that many settlements in the lowlands begin …
Ancient Umbria
How should we understand the ways in which the regions of Italy were affected by Roman imperialism? This book, which is the first full-scale treatment of ancient Umbria in any language, takes a balanced view of the region's history in the first millennium BC, focusing on local actions and motivations as much as the effect of outside influences and Roman policies. Through a careful reading of all the types of evidence it provides an important chal…