Research Catalog

Title

Urbanism and empire in Roman Sicily / Laura Pfuntner.

Author

Pfuntner, Laura,

Publication

• Austin : University of Texas Press, 2019.
• ©2019

Details

Description

viii, 306 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm

Subject

• Antiquities
• Cities and towns > Sicily > History
• Cities and towns
• Italy > Sicily
• Rome (Empire)
• Rome > Territorial expansion
• Sicily (Italy) > Antiquities
• Sicily (Italy) > History > To 800
• Territorial expansion
• To 800
• Urbanization > Sicily > History
• Urbanization

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-293) and index.

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.

ISBN

• 1477317228
• 9781477317235 (canceled/invalid)
• 9781477317242 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2018007911