Chapters in this book

1. FrontmatterI
2. ContentsV
3. Introduction1
4. Themes in the Study of the Ancient Italian Peoples
5. How to Fit Italy into Greek Myth?11
6. Strabo and Italian Ethnic Groups27
7. Ancient Italian Numismatics35
8. Epigraphy and Nomenclature63
9. Problems in Identifying Central Italic Ethnic Groups89
10. Ethnicity105
11. Languages of Ancient Italy127
12. Religions of Ancient Italy149
13. Economy and Demography of Italy173
14. The Roman Conquest of Italy191
15. The Italians in the Second Punic War215
16. The Social War231
17. The Italians in Roman armies255
18. The impact of Roman expansion and colonization on ancient Italy in the Republican period. From diffusionism to networks of opportunity269
19. Beyond Romanisation: settlement, networks and material culture in Italy, c. 400‒90 BC295
20. The Peoples of Ancient Italy
21. The Bruttii321
22. The Pre-Roman Peoples of Apulia (1000‒100 BC)337
23. The Lucanians369
24. The Campanians385
25. The Samnites419
26. The Aurunci and Sidicini447
27. The Volscians and Hernicians461
28. The Latins473
29. The Aequi499
30. The Marsi509
31. The Vestini519
32. The Sabines543
33. The Faliscans and the Capenates559
34. The Picentes / Piceni579
35. The Umbri603
36. The Etruscans637
37. The Ligurians673
38. The Veneti701
39. The Galli719
40. Contributors755
41. Index761