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, this text 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 pointing to a loss of regional cultural identities, the ceramic patterns suggest that the Romanisation of Italy provided new material opportunities across the social scale.
By:
Roman Roth (University of Cambridge) Imprint: Cambridge University Press Country of Publication: United Kingdom Dimensions:
Height: 216mm,
Width: 17mm,
Spine: 140mm
Weight: 470g ISBN:9780521875677 ISBN 10: 0521875676 Series:Cambridge Classical Studies Pages: 254 Publication Date:19 July 2007 Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
Format:Hardback Publisher's Status: Active
Introduction; 1. Romanisation; 2. Black-gloss wares and the Romanisation of Italy; 3. Style and society in central Italy during the Hellenistic period; 4. Volterra; 5. Capena; 6. Ceramics and the Romanisation of central Italy; 7. Conclusion.
Roman Roth is a Junior Research Fellow at Peterhouse, Cambridge.
