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  • 1 - Introduction

  • Edited by Charlotte R. Potts, University of Oxford
  • Book:
    Architecture in Ancient Central Italy
    Published online:
    31 March 2022
    Print publication:
    07 April 2022, pp 1-30

  • Summary

    This chapter serves as an introduction for what follows by placing the volume’s approach into the wider context of the past and current study of central Italic architecture. It points out some of the issues that underlie and join the subsequent analyses, including why so many major building projects were undertaken in Etruria, Rome, and Latium in this period, who and what was moving to create them, and how the results blur the boundaries of what has traditionally been considered ‘Roman’. Fundamentally, it argues not only for the value of central Italic architecture as a source for regional social and economic histories, but also for its potential contribution to the study of ancient architecture as a whole.