… The author refers to the political identity of Roman Italy, but one can extend the matter to
the religious identity of pre-Roman and Roman Italy. Or rather: one can speak about Italy as a …

… responsible for the creation of an entity called Italy (Figure 1.1). In the end it … Italian landscape
to orient itself around the center (Morley, 1996). Yet we can argue for an Italy even before …

… known, which reached their zenith in all the provinces of Italy long before these came under
Roman domination. Before they were compelled to submit to the organizing and levelling …

… between Northern Italy and the rest of the peninsula that has been a fact of Italian life ever
since … have helped us to get clear in our minds before we go any further? Surely they are more …

… of the conquest of Italy before the First Punic War,3 and the main concern of this essay
will be to identify the structures which led Rome to expand in the period before 264,4 and to …

… II Italy before the Romans is a study of the bronze and iron ages in Italy from Iooo to 500 BC
… of non-material cultures, especially for central Italy. Conway's Vergilian Age is a somewhat …

… he history of Republican Italy is one of conquest and Roman … What it is emphatically not is
a linear process of Roman … , after the Social War and political unification, as well as before, …

… of Italy before the Roman domination come true. Without anyone of these kinds of evidence,
and without a careful combination of them, the picture is bound to be distorted and false. It is …

… world, however, Roman history before the Punic Wars is regarded as a marginal topic. It is
hardly ever taught in school or university courses, and almost no one chooses it as a subject …

… As has been pointed out before, this makes the Italy of Beloch and Brunt seem decidedly
underpopulated.On the other hand, the figure is considerably lower than the population of …