The Samnites

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Introduction 1
4. Themes in the Study of the Ancient Italian Peoples
5. How to Fit Italy into Greek Myth? 11
6. Strabo and Italian Ethnic Groups 27
7. Ancient Italian Numismatics 35
8. Epigraphy and Nomenclature 63
9. Problems in Identifying Central Italic Ethnic Groups 89
10. Ethnicity 105
11. Languages of Ancient Italy 127
12. Religions of Ancient Italy 149
13. Economy and Demography of Italy 173
14. The Roman Conquest of Italy 191
15. The Italians in the Second Punic War 215
16. The Social War 231
17. The Italians in Roman armies 255
18. The impact of Roman expansion and colonization on ancient Italy in the Republican period. From diffusionism to networks of opportunity 269
19. Beyond Romanisation: settlement, networks and material culture in Italy, c. 400‒90 BC 295
20. The Peoples of Ancient Italy
21. The Bruttii 321
22. The Pre-Roman Peoples of Apulia (1000‒100 BC) 337
23. The Lucanians 369
24. The Campanians 385
25. The Samnites 419
26. The Aurunci and Sidicini 447
27. The Volscians and Hernicians 461
28. The Latins 473
29. The Aequi 499
30. The Marsi 509
31. The Vestini 519
32. The Sabines 543
33. The Faliscans and the Capenates 559
34. The Picentes / Piceni 579
35. The Umbri 603
36. The Etruscans 637
37. The Ligurians 673
38. The Veneti 701
39. The Galli 719
40. Contributors 755
41. Index 761