Romanization in italy

[taira1180]

Anyone knows a good book about the romanization (or latinization if you prefer) of italy? About when the celts, etruscs, samnites, etc, etc stopped to think about them as celts and etruscs but as romans? I have until now only find references in several books (the last etruscs stopped to speak their language in claudius imperium, the celts 2 centuries before, the samnites sometime after Sulla, the greeks never stopped), but a book with all the info would be apreciate.

[Gaivs Antonivs Satvrninvs]

Salve, Tiara,
Do you think Livy's "Early History of Rome: vol 1-5" would be of any use to you? It certainly covers alot of ground about the establishment of the city.

Also, by Googling the" latinization of Italy" I was able to find several very interesting articles by scholars, some of whom suggest it was the language which drove the change.

[Lusitano]

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[lisa]

I recommend Simon Keay and Nicola Terrenato, eds., Italy and the West. Comparative issues in Romanization. Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2001.

About half of the book addresses Romanization in Italy.
You can see a review of the book here [url:2bcsl71p]http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/2002/2002-07-23.html[/url]

[taira1180]

Thanks for all the replies!

[Dan Diffendale]

There's also Mario Torelli's Studies in the Romanization of Italy.