Rome engulfed first her near neighbours, then Italy and finally much of the known world. Her expansion was so successful that the history and culture of her main rivals, the Samnites, is too often overlooked. The author describes Samnium and the language of the Samnites, then reconstructs their culture, religion, economy and governmental system. Professor Salmon discusses their policy in Italy and their relations with Rome. The subsequent description of the three Samnite Wars and the Pyrrhic War critically reinterprets the ...
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Rome engulfed first her near neighbours, then Italy and finally much of the known world. Her expansion was so successful that the history and culture of her main rivals, the Samnites, is too often overlooked. The author describes Samnium and the language of the Samnites, then reconstructs their culture, religion, economy and governmental system. Professor Salmon discusses their policy in Italy and their relations with Rome. The subsequent description of the three Samnite Wars and the Pyrrhic War critically reinterprets the principally Roman evidence for the military history of Roman Italy. Professor Salmon presents evidence about Samnium in the political organisation and civilisation of Roman Italy, and includes an important discussion of the Social War from the Italian point of view rather than from the purely Roman viewpoint. Originally published in 1967, much of the evidence collected and interpreted by Professor Salmon in this study - involving art, archeaology, topography and literary sources - was not generally accessible at the time. A fresh insight was offered into the history of Republican Rome as well as Samnium itself.
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Very Good in Very Good-dust jacket. 0521061857. Bumping to corners. Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). DJ spine a bit browned. Small sticker damage to front panel of DJ.; Samnites were a tribe, or group of Italian tribes, related to the Latins, the primary ethnic group in the city of Rome. They occupied the more mountainous inland areas of the peninsula and at one time rivaled the Romans in their power--Their defeat and eventual assimilation into a Romanized peninsula was one of the earliest and most significant steps in the establishment of what was to be the Roman Empire.; 460 pages.
