The book opens with a description of the peoples of Italy at around the end of the fourth century B.C. It describes the early success of Roman diplomacy and for

This innovative book uses social network analysis to trace the origins of pre-Roman Italian peoples from their earliest exchange networks.

This book makes recent scholarship on the Italic people of fourth-century BC Apulia available to English-speaking audiences.

Although there are many studies of certain individual ancient Italic groups (e.g. the Etruscans, Gauls and Latins), there is no work that takes a comprehensive

A collection of essays on the peoples and communities of ancient, and mainly pre-Roman Italy.