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Urbanism and empire in Roman Sicily /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pfuntner, Laura (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Austin : University of Texas Press, [2019]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Sicily (Italy) > Antiquities.
Sicily (Italy) > History > To 800.
Urbanization > Italy > Sicily > History.
Cities and towns > Italy > Sicily > History.
Rome > Territorial expansion.
Table of Contents:
  • Urban abandonment in the late Republic and early Principate (CA. 50 BC-AD 50)
  • Urban abandonment in the high Empire (CA. AD 50-250)
  • The southwestern coast : economic integration, political privilege, and urban survival
  • The northeastern coast : civil war and colonization
  • Eastern Sicily : from Syracusan to Roman hegemony
  • Roman urbanism in Sicily
  • New forms of settlement in Roman imperial Sicily.