Ancient Umbria: State, Culture, and Identity in Central Italy from the Iron Age to the Augustan Era - Hardcover

Bradley, Guy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0199245142 ISBN 13: 9780199245147

Verlag: OUP Oxford, 2000

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Book by Bradley Guy

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Críticas:

This monograph should take its place on our bookshelves as the standard work in English on this region (A. Cooley, Classical Review)

Umbria can act as a case-study for other areas of the Roman world, suggesting useful ways of approaching Romanization (A. Cooley, Classical Review)

Ancient Umbria 'will take an honourable place' alongside W. V. Harris' Rome in Etruria and Umbira (B. Levick, Greece and Rome))

Ancient Umbria is a very significant contribution to the regional history of ancient Italy . . .The result is a richly documented monograph which nevertheless remains highly readable (F. Cairns, Atti Accademia Properziana del Subasio)

Reseña del editor:

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.

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• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0199245142
• ISBN 13: 9780199245147
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 350