Author

Contributions

  • ebrary, Inc - Contributor

Publication

2009 - Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Language

English

Word Count

65,750 words, Guess

Page Count

263 pages

Physical Format

Electronic resource

Identifiers

  • Internet Archivecultplacescultur00stek
  • ISBN-139789089641779
  • ISBN-139789048511433
  • ISBN-109089641777
  • ISBN-109048511437
and 6 more

Classifications

  • LCCBL803 .S74 2009eb
  • LCCBL803 .S74 2009
  • LCCGN700-890
and 1 more
  • LCCDF

Description

Summary: This study throws new light on the Roman impact on Italic religious structures in the last four centuries BC and, more generally, on the complex processes of change and accommodation set in motion by the Roman expansion in Italy. Cult places had a pivotal function among the various 'Italic' tribes known to us from the ancient sources, which had been gradually conquered and subsequently controlled by Rome. Through an analysis of archaeological, literary and epigraphic evidence from rural cult places in Central and Southern Italy including a case study on the Samnite temple of San Giovanni in Galdo, the authors investigate the fluctuating function of cult places in among the non-Roman Italic communities, before and after the establishment of Roman rule.

Subjects

Series Statement

  • Amsterdam archaeological studies -- 14

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