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STEPHEN L. DYSON
Community and Society
in Roman Italy
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Despite its formidable political and military
power, the Roman state left the administration
of most daily affairs to local political units.
Roman bureaucracy was especially limited in
Italy itself, where there were few military forces
and even fewer officials. Yet historians have
generally focused on Rome and its governing
class, leaving the study of suburban and rural
areas to antiquarians and local historians.
In Community and Society in Roman Italy,
Stephen L. Dyson examines rural communities
as functioning, largely autonomous societies.
Dyson traces the major outlines of community
development from the end of the war with
Hannibal to the early Middle Ages. He shows
how local communities responded to changes
in the greater Roman society while still retain¬
ing their distinctive identity. He examines the
“typical” Roman community during the High
Empire and explores the life cycle of rural
inhabitants, showing how individuals—the
aristocrats, the free poor, and the slaves—
developed in relation to the society as a whole.
Throughout, Dyson integrates traditional
sources, such as literary and epigraphical mate¬
rials, with the growing body of archaeological
evidence and relates the Roman community to
community studies in other historical cultures.
Like historians of the French Annales school,
he stresses the slowly changing aspect of life in
these social systems. Setting forth a new model
for understanding Roman communities, Com¬
munity and Society in Roman Italy will interest
historians, archaeologists, and classicists, espe¬
cially those with an interest in everyday life in
Roman antiquity.
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Stephen L. Dyson is professor of classics and
chair of the Department of Classics at the State
University of New York, Buffalo. His previous
books include The Creation of the Roman Fron¬
tier and The Roman Villas of Buccino.
Ancient Society and History
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