An original and unprecedented analysis of urbanization and state formation in Rome and Latium vetus from the Bronze Age to the Archaic Era.

Focuses on the economic history of the community of Rome from the Iron Age to the early Republic.

The trajectory of Rome from a small village in Latium vetus, to an emerging power in Italy during the first millennium BC, and finally, the heart of an Empire t

By the third century BC, the once-modest settlement of Rome had conquered most of Italy and was poised to build an empire throughout the Mediterranean basin. Wh

This book reorients the study of sacrifice, examining the locus of ritual action - the altars of Republican Rome and Latium.