Becoming Roman The Origins of Provincial Civilization in Gaul [Paperback]

Studies the 'Romanization' of Rome's Gallic provinces in the late Republic and early empire.This book is a study of the processes conventionally termed Romanization through an analysis of the experience of Roman rule over the Gallic province of the empire in the period 200 BC--AD 300. It examines how and why Gallo-Roman civilization emerged from the confrontation between the iron-age cultures of Gaul and the civilization we call classical. It develops an original synthesis and argument that will form a bridge between the disciplines of classics and archaeology and will be of interest to all students of cultural change.This book is a study of the processes conventionally termed Romanization through an analysis of the experience of Roman rule over the Gallic province of the empire in the period 200 BC--AD 300. It examines how and why Gallo-Roman civilization emerged from the confrontation between the iron-age cultures of Gaul and the civilization we call classical. It develops an original synthesis and argument that will form a bridge between the disciplines of classics and archaeology and will be of interest to all students of cultural change.This book studies the processes conventionally termed Romanization through an analysis of the experience of Roman rule over the Gallic province of the empire in the period 200 BC-AD 300. It examines how and why Gallo-Roman civilization emerged from the confrontation between the iron-age cultures of Gaul and the civilization we call classical. It develops an original synthesis and argument that will form a bridge between the disciplines of classics and archaeology and will be of interest to all students of cultural change.1. On Romanization; 2. Roman power and the Gauls; 3. The civilising ethos; 4. Mapping cultural change; 5. Urbanising the Gauls; 6. The culture of the countryside; 7. Consuming Rome; 8. Keeping faith? 9. Being Roman in Gaul. [Woolf] has, however, produced a study that any serious student of the ancient world mulc)