The Early Roman Expansion into Italy
- Title
- The Early Roman Expansion into Italy
- Creator(s)
- Terrenato, Nicola
- Date
- 2019
- Number of Pages
- 348
- Language
- eng
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Place Published
- Cambridge New York Port Melbourne New Delhi Singapore
- ISBN
- 978-1-108-43685-4
- Abstract
- This book presents a radical new interpretation of Roman expansion in Italy during the fourth and third centuries BCE. Nicola Terrenato argues that the process was accomplished by means of a grand bargain that was negotiated between the landed elites of central and southern Italy, while military conquest played a much smaller role than is usually envisaged. Deploying archaeological, epigraphic, and historical evidence, he paints a picture of the family interactions that tied together both Roman and non-Roman aristocrats and that resulted in their pooling power and resources for the creation of a new political entity. The book is written in accessible language, without technical terms or quotations in Latin, and is heavily illustrated.
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