Poteri e strategie familiari di Volterra

Limina, Valentina [UCL]

The book provides a new interpretation of Roman Volterra in the centuries 1st BC – 5th AD by analysing local élites and their long-term, versatile family strategies. Thus, the book aims to demonstrate how the local Etruscan families integrated into the Roman Empire. The book integrates Northern Etruria into the Roman Empire by combining written historical sources, archaeological and epigraphic materials, and toponymy. Reconstructing family politics and culture, society, and the development of the ancient landscape, it provides advancements in the knowledge of the city’s archaeological and historical aspects. In addition, it highlights the role of local elites and their versatile strategies in shaping the development of the ancient landscape, advancing knowledge of the Roman community. Lineage structures, marriage alliances, political and cultural strategies, factional stances, economic entanglements, religious specialisms, and cultural preferences, reconstructed for some key families, reconstruct a community between tradition and innovation in the transition to the Roman Imperial world.