The Peoples of Ancient Italy.

Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Themes in the Study of the Ancient Italian Peoples -- How to Fit Italy into Greek Myth? -- Strabo and Italian Ethnic Groups -- Ancient Italian Numismatics -- Epigraphy and Nomenclature -- Problems in Identifying Central Italic Ethnic Groups -- Ethnicity -- Languages of Ancient Italy -- Religions of Ancient Italy -- Economy and Demography of Italy -- The Roman Conquest of Italy -- The Italians in the Second Punic War -- The Social War -- The Italians in Roman armies -- The impact of Roman expansion and colonization on ancient Italy in the Republican period. From diffusionism to networks of opportunity -- Beyond Romanisation: settlement, networks and material culture in Italy, c. 400‒90 BC -- The Peoples of Ancient Italy -- The Bruttii -- The Pre-Roman Peoples of Apulia (1000‒100 BC) -- The Lucanians -- The Campanians -- The Samnites -- The Aurunci and Sidicini -- The Volscians and Hernicians -- The Latins -- The Aequi -- The Marsi -- The Vestini -- The Sabines -- The Faliscans and the Capenates -- The Picentes / Piceni -- The Umbri -- The Etruscans -- The Ligurians -- The Veneti -- The Galli -- Contributors -- Index.

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