The Italic People of Ancient Apulia: New Evidence from Pottery for Workshops, Markets, and Customs

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The focus of this book is on the Italic people of Apulia during the fourth century BC, when Italic culture seems to have reached its peak of affluence. Scholars have largely ignored these people and the region they inhabited. During the past several decades archaeologists have made significant progress in revealing the cultures of Apulia through excavations of habitation sites and un-plundered tombs, often published in Italian journals. This book makes the broad range of recent scholarship - from new excavations and contexts to archaeometric testing of production hypotheses to archaeological evidence for reconsidering painter attributions - available to English-speaking audiences. In it thirteen scholars from Italy, the United States, Great Britain, France, and Australia present targeted essays on aspects of the cultures of the Italic people of Apulia during the fourth century BC and the surrounding decades.

T. H. Carpenter is Charles J. Ping Professor of Humanities and Distinguished Professor of Classics at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. He is author of numerous books and articles on Greek and South Italian iconography. K. M. Lynch is Associate Professor in the Classics Department at the University of Cincinnati. She is author of The Symposium in Context, which won the 2013 Wiseman Prize from the Archaeological Institute of America. She is a specialist in Athenian pottery and its export to the Western and Eastern Mediterranean. E. G. D. Robinson is a senior lecturer in the Department of Archaeology at the University of Sydney. His fieldwork has been conducted in Puglia (I Fani, Alezio) and Basilicata (Tolve). His principal research interest is cross-cultural contact in South Italy.

'This useful and authoritative volume ... provides much-needed context from archaeological evidence. A major contribution ...' C. King, Choice 'This book has a good thematic focus, and the short summaries at the beginning of each part are helpful. A wide range of different studies are presented, and the reader will learn much about Apulian red-figure pottery as well as gain further insights into Italic culture of the fourth century. A useful addition, particularly for a book focusing on vases, is an online site (www.cambridge.org/apulia) including illustrations found in the book (many in color) as well as many additional images.' Bryn Mawr Classical Review