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Subject(s)

• Italic peoples—History [Browse]
• Italy—History—To 476 [Browse]

Series

• Routledge revivals. [More in this series]
• Routledge Revivals

Summary note

In A History of Earliest Italy, first published in 1984, Professor Pallottino illumines the wide variety of peoples, languages, and traditions of culture and trade that constituted the pre-Roman Italic world. Since the written sources are fragmentary, archaeology provides the central reservoir for evidence of the societies and institutions of the varied peoples of early Italy. This incisive and immensely readable account unfolds from the Bronze Age to the unification of the Italian peninsula and Sicily by Rome following the flourishing Archaic period. It examines the relations

Notes

First published in 1984 by Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of description

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 28, 2014).

Language note

English

Contents

• Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Biographical Note; Preface; 1. Defining 'Italic History'; Defining 'Italy'; Giuseppe Micali and nineteenth-century historical thought; New directions: the Rome-Italy dialectic; Current approaches; Towards a unified historical image of the Italic world; 2. Origins; The nature of the problem; The formative elements: archaeological aspects; The advent and spread of Indo-European languages; Heroic tradition and the evidence for a historical view of the late Bronze Age
• The birth of historical Italy3. The Flowering of Italy in the Archaic Period (Eighth to Fifth Centuries BC); Greek colonisation; Etruscan expansion and the remainder of Italy; East Greek influences and the development of the Greek colonies and Tyrrhenian cities; Struggles for control of the Tyrrhenian Sea; Institutional developments and political disruption: the period of the tyrants; 4. The Age of Crisis (Fifth to Fourth Centuries BC); The overall picture: decline of the Greek-Tyrrhenian coastal settlements; The spread of the eastern Italic peoples
• Other movements of inland peoples: Iapygians, Sicels, Gauls'Peripheral' developments and 'outside' influences: Greek-Tyrrhenian Italy and Syracusan and Athenian policies in the fifth century; Italy and the wars of the fourth century; 5. Roman Unification and Italic Continuity; Two parallel 'histories'; The pacification of Italy; The Tyrrhenian, eastern Italic and Greek heritage in Roman policy; Federated Italy: the Italic world between the third and first centuries BC; The final clash between Italic consciousness and Rome: the Social War; Epilogue: survivals and revivals; Chronological Table
• BibliographyAdditional Bibliography; Acknowledgements; Index

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ISBN

• 1-317-69681-6
• 1-315-77855-6
• 9781315778556

OCLC

881840627

Doi

10.4324/9781315778556

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