A History of Earliest Italy (Routledge Revivals) - 9781138020221

Taylor & Francis

A History of Earliest Italy (Routledge Revivals)Author(s): Missimo Pallottino\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138020221, 978-1138020221\nSynopsis\nIn A History of Earliest Italy, first published in 1984, Professor Pallottino illumines the wide variety of peoples, languages, and traditions of culture and trade that constituted the pre-Roman Italic world. \n\nSince the written sources are fragmentary, archaeology provides the central reservoir for evidence of the societies and institutions of the varied peoples of early Italy. This incisive and immensely readable account unfolds from the Bronze Age to the unification of the Italian peninsula and Sicily by Rome following the flourishing Archaic period. It examines the relationships among the peoples of the peninsula and the influence of Mycenae and Greece in trade and colonisation. \n\nIn telling the story of the early stages of the eternal dialogue between nation.