The Urbanisation of Rome and Latium Vetus: From the Bronze Age to the Archaic Era
Cambridge University Press, 2/10/2014
EAN 9781107030350, ISBN10: 1107030358
Hardcover, 428 pages, 26 x 18.5 x 3 cm
Language: English
This book focuses on urbanization and state formation in middle Tyrrhenian Italy during the first millennium BC by analyzing settlement organization and territorial patterns in Rome and Latium vetus from the Bronze Age to the Archaic Era. In contrast with the traditional diffusionist view, which holds that the idea of the city was introduced to the West via Greek and Phoenician colonists from the more developed Near East, this book demonstrates important local developments towards higher complexity, dating to at least the beginning of the Early Iron Age, if not earlier. By adopting a multidisciplinary and multi-theoretical framework, this book overcomes the old debate between exogenous and endogenous by suggesting a network approach that sees Mediterranean urbanization as the product of reciprocal catalyzing actions.
1. Urbanization and state formation in Middle Tyrrhenian Italy
historical questions and theoretical models
2. The Latin landscape, data and methodology
3. The city scale
Rome from a small Bronze Age village to the great city of the Archaic Age
4. The territory scale
definition and dating of the Ager Romanus antiquus
5. The territory scale
the Roman hinterland from the Bronze Age to the Republican period
6. The regional scale
settlement pattern analysis in Latium vetus from the Bronze to the Archaic Age
7. Multidimensional and multi-theoretical approach to the urbanization and state formation in Latium vetus.