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  3. The Urbanisation of Rome and Latium Vetus
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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
January 2014
Print publication year:
2014
Online ISBN:
9781139343404
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139343404
Subjects:
Ancient History, Classical Studies, Classical Archaeology, Archaeology
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Book description

This book focuses on urbanization and state formation in middle Tyrrhenian Italy during the first millennium BC by analyzing settlement organization and territorial patterns in Rome and Latium vetus from the Bronze Age to the Archaic Era. In contrast with the traditional diffusionist view, which holds that the idea of the city was introduced to the West via Greek and Phoenician colonists from the more developed Near East, this book demonstrates important local developments towards higher complexity, dating to at least the beginning of the Early Iron Age, if not earlier. By adopting a multidisciplinary and multi-theoretical framework, this book overcomes the old debate between exogenous and endogenous by suggesting a network approach that sees Mediterranean urbanization as the product of reciprocal catalyzing actions.

Reviews

'… applying new techniques to unpublished data, Fulminante convincingly demonstrates the early rise of Rome as the most powerful player within the network of city states which gradually emerged across Latium Vetus … the book is a most important achievement.'

Peter Attema Source: Antiquity

'Francesca Fulminante's book represents an important contribution, since it provides a new basis for the debate on changing settlement patterns in Early Iron Age and Archaic Latium. It should be read not only by archaeologists, but also by historians and other scholars interested in the origins of Rome and Mediterranean urbanisation.'

Gabriel Zuchtriegel Source: Bryn Mawr Classical Review

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