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<p>Acknowledgements</p> <p>Notes on Contributors</p> <p>List of Illustrations</p> <p><b>INTRODUCTION: SETTING THE SCENE</b></p> <p>Chapter 1 Italy before the Romans<br /><i>Elena Isayev</i></p> <p><b>PART ONE: THE IMPACT OF ROME – UNIFICATION AND INTEGRATION</b></p> <p>Chapter 2 Rome's encroachment upon Italy<br /><i>Rafael Scopacasa</i></p> <p>Chapter 3 Italy and the Greek East, second century BC <br /><i>Celia E. Schultz</i></p> <p>Chapter 4 The Social War<br /><i>Edward Bispham</i></p> <p>Chapter 5 Civil wars and triumvirate<br /><i>Edward Bispham</i></p> <p>Chapter 6 Coming to terms with dynastic power, 30 BC-AD 69<br /><i>Alison E. Cooley</i></p> <p>Chapter 7 Italy during the High Empire, from the Flavians to Diocletian<br /><i>Alison E. Cooley</i></p> <p>Chapter 8 Late Roman and Late Antique Italy: from Constantine to Justinian<br /><i>Neil Christie</i></p> <p><b>PART TWO: LOCAL AND REGIONAL DIVERSITY</b></p> <p>2.1 Cultural diversity</p> <p>Chapter 9 Funerary practices<br /><i>Emma-Jayne Graham and Valerie M. Hope</i></p> <p>Chapter 10 Diversity in Architecture and Urbanism<br /><i>Margaret Laird</i></p> <p>Chapter 11 Language and Literacy in Roman Italy<br /><i>Kathryn Lomas</i></p> <p>2.2 Greek Italy</p> <p>Chapter 12 Roman Naples<br /><i>Kathryn Lomas</i></p> <p>Chapter 13 Magna Graecia, 270 BC – AD 200<br /><i>Kathryn Lomas</i></p> <p>2.3 Case-study: Becoming Roman in Cisalpina</p> <p>Chapter 14 The changing face of Cisalpine identity<br /><i>Clifford Ando, Chicago</i></p> <p><b>PART THREE: TOWN AND COUNTRY</b></p> <p>3.1 Settlement patterns</p> <p>Chapter 15 Urbanization<br /><i>Joanne Berry</i></p> <p>Chapter 16 Urban Peripheries<br /><i>Penelope Goodman</i></p> <p>Chapter 17 Villas<br /><i>Nigel Pollard</i></p> <p>3.2 Case-studies of towns and their territories</p> <p>Chapter 18 Republican and early imperial towns in the Tiber Valley<br /><i>Simon Keay and Martin Millett</i></p> <p>Chapter 19 Cosa and the ager Cosanus<br /><i>Elizabeth Fentress and Phil Perkins</i></p> <p>Chapter 20 Pompeii and the ager Pompeianus<br /><i>Ray Laurence</i></p> <p>Chapter 21 Ostia<br /><i>Janet DeLaine</i></p> <p><b>PART FOUR: ECONOMY AND SOCIETY</b></p> <p>Chapter22 Regional interaction<br /><i>Rebecca Benefiel</i></p> <p>Chapter 23 Agricultural production<br /><i>Robert Witcher</i></p> <p>Chapter 24 Local elites<br /><i>John Patterson</i></p> <p>Chapter25 Sub-elites<br /><i>Jonathan Perry</i></p>

<b>Alison E. Cooley</b> is Professor in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Warwick, UK. Her publications include<i> Res Gestae divi Augusti</i> (2009), <i>The Cambridge Manual of Latin Epigraphy</i> (2012), and <i>Pompeii and Herculaneum: A Sourcebook</i> (2014).

<p><i>A Companion to Roman Italy</i> explores the diversity and regionality of the Italian peninsula, exploring at what point the forces of cohesion transformed Italy from a landmass jutting into the Mediterranean to a powerful political entity centered around Rome. It investigates the impact of Rome in all its forms—political, cultural, social, and economic—upon Italy's various regions, as well as the extent to which unification occurred as Rome became the capital of Italy.</p> <p>Leading contributors not only make accessible the most recent work on Roman Italy, but also present new archaeological data on Roman Italy alongside new theories on understanding cultural change in the Italian peninsula. Contributions focus particularly on the themes of the changing relationship between Rome and the rest of Italy, and the extent to which Rome acted as a model for other Italian towns; how Italy's privileged position within the Roman empire gradually evolved; the interconnectedness of different parts of the peninsula; the interaction between town and country; and the distinctiveness of the regions of Italy in terms of their cultures and societies.</p>

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