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The countryside of Metapontum in the Roman period - ERMINIA LAPADULA, edited by Joseph Coleman Carter, THE CHORA OF METAPONTO 4. THE LATE ROMAN FARMHOUSE AT SAN BIAGIO (Institute of Classical Archaeology/Packard Humanities Institute, University of Texas Press, Austin 2012). Pp. xiv + 263, many figs. including colour. ISBN 978-0-292-72877-6. $75.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 November 2014

Maurizio Gualtieri*
Affiliation:
Università degli Studi di Perugia, maurizio@ualberta.ca

Abstract

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2 Cf. Lepore, E., “Per una fenomenologia storica del rapporto città-territorio in Magna Grecia,” in Romanelli, P. and Stazio, A. (edd.), La città e il suo territorio. Atti Taranto 7 (Naples 1968) 2966 Google Scholar; G. Vallet, “La cité et son territoire dans les colonies grecques d’Occident,” ibid. 67-142.

3 Supra n.1.

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8 The date of the 3rd c. A.D. indicated on the plan of the site (fig. 1.3) is obviously an error, as well as the quote from M. Torelli (4 n.16), which undoubtedly refers to the transformations of the rural landscape in inland Lucania during the 3rd c. B.C. (not A.D.).

9 Supra n.5.

10 See 221 and n.52 in the volume under review, and the emblematic formulation of the conventional view in Russi, A., “La romanizzazione, il quadro storico: età repubblicana e imperiale,” in Adamesteanu, D. (ed.), Storia della Basilicata I. L’Antichità (Bari 1999) 487554 Google Scholar.

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17 Stazio and Pugliese Carratelli ibid.

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