Community and Society in Roman Italy

Selected by Choice Magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title

Stephen L. Dyson examines rural communities as functioning, largely autonomous societies. Dyson traces the major outlines of community development from the end of the war with Hannibal to the early Middle Ages. He shows how local communities responded to changes in the greater Roman society while still retaining their distinctive identity. He examines the typical Roman community during the High Empire and explores the life cycle of rural inhabitants, showing how individuals- the aristocrats, the free poor, and the slaves- developed in relation to society as a whole.

Author: Stephen L. Dyson
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 07/01/2001
Pages: 400
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.11lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.89d
ISBN: 9780801867606

About the Author

Stephen L. Dyson is Park Professor of Classics at the University at Buffalo and past president of the Archaeological Institute of America. He has done extensive archaeological fieldwork in Italy and has published on the Roman frontier, Roman community, and the history of classical archaeology.

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