Marzano A. Roman Villas in Central Italy. A Social and Economic History

Leiden - Boston: Brill, 2007. – 843 p. – (Columbia Studies in the Classical Tradition. Vol. 30).
ISSN: 0166-1302
ISBN: 978-90-04-16037-8Drawing on documentary sources and archaeological evidence this book offers a socio-economic history of elite villas in Roman Central Italy and brings a new perspective to the debate on the slave-based villa system and the crisis of Italian villas in the imperial period.Abbreviations
List of IllustrationsVillae Maritimae
The Villa Maritima in Ancient Literary Sources
The Archaeological EvidenceVillae Maritimae as Economic Enterprises
Fish-breeding and salinae
Figlinae and Agriculture
Real-Estate SpeculationVillae Rusticae and the Ideological Realm
The Villa Rustica in Ancient Literary SourcesThe Archaeology of Rural Villas
Wool and Textile ProductionThe Villa Schiavistica Model
Reinterpreting the Archaeological Data
Ergastula in Country VillasVilla Topography: Infrastructure and Imperial Villas
Villas and Infrastructure
Villas and Imperial PropertiesVilla Topography and Involvement with NeighborsThe Chronology of Villas and the Second-century Crisis
ConclusionsCatalogue
Introduction to the Catalogue
Latium
Tuscany
Umbria
Index of Villa Sites
List of Villa PlansAppendix A. Chronology of Villa Sites
Appendix B. Data for Villa Sites in Latium
Appendix C. Data for Villa Sites in Tuscany
Appendix D. Data for Villa Sites in UmbriaGeneral IndexIndex Locorum