Dependency and Social Inequality in Pre-Roman Italy
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About this book
In the past, most studies on Pre-Roman societies in Italy (1st millennium BCE) focused on the elites, their representation and cultural contacts. The aim of this volume is to look at dependent and marginalized social groups, which are less visible and often even difficult to define (slaves, servants, freedmen, captives, ‚foreigners‘, athletes, women, children etc.). The methodological challenges connected to the study of such heterogeneous and scattered sources are addressed. Is the evidence representative enough for defining different forms of dependencies? Can we rely on written and pictorial sources or do they only reflect Greek and Roman views and iconographic conventions? Which social groups can’t be traced in the literary and archaeological record? For the investigation of this topic, we combined historical and epigraphical studies (Greek and Roman literary sources, Etruscan inscriptions) with material culture studies (images, sanctuaries, necropoleis) including anthropological and bioarchaeological methods. These new insights open a new chapter in the study of dependency and social inequality in the societies of Pre-Roman Italy.
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Introduction
1 - I Historical and Epigraphical Sources
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The Etruscans – a Society of Masters and Servants? A Modern Topos and its Origins
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Slaves, Freedpeople and Non-Citizens in the Etruscan World: Evidence from Epigraphy
49 - II The Iconography of Dependency in Visual Art
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Dependencies and Inequalities in Etruscan Funerary Painting
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(Not Only) Defeated and Enslaved. The Iconography of Captives in Etruscan Art and their Ambivalent Meaning
89 - III Dependencies and Status Differences in Urban and Sacral Spaces
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Plebeian Rituals and Peasant Cults? Religious Transformations in Etruria during the Sixth and Early Fifth Centuries BCE and their Socio- Political Context
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De-Monumentalisation and Disempowerment of the Chiefly House in Late Archaic Monte Iato (Western Sicily, 460/50 BCE)
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Natural Disaster, Climate Change, and Marginalized Social Agents in Pre-Roman Italy: Case Studies from Veneto and Puglia
195 - IV Dependencies, Status Differences and Funerary Archaeology
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Dependency and Social Inequality in Central Italy (Osteria dell’Osa, 950–580 BC)
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The Negotiation of Social Hierarchies in a Mountain Community of Pre-Roman Samnium, Central Italy
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Birds of a Feather Flock Together? Etruscan Sarcophagi as an Expression of Social Differences and Hierarchies within a Gens
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Herdsmen into Warriors. An Overview on Pastoralism and War in Ancient Central Italy
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Age and Class Discrimination in Etruscan Necropoleis? Some Evidence from Cerveteri
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Ultimus inter pares. Inequality within the Italic Communities in Romagna (Italy) between the Sixth and Fifth Centuries BC
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The Greek Colonies of Sicily During the First Millennium BCE: Status of Health as an Indicator of Social Inequality
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Valentina Caruso The Fettered Man from Populonia, Centro Velico
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Notes on Contributors
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