
Styling Romanisation
Pottery and Society in Central Italy
Roman Roth(Author)
Cambridge University Press
Published on 19. July 2007
Book
Hardback
254 pages
978-0-521-87567-7 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 145 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
494 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-521-87567-7 (9780521875677)
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07/2011
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Roman Roth is a Junior Research Fellow at Peterhouse, Cambridge.
Content
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.