The Urbanization of Archaic Rome: Interview with Dr. Francesca Fulminante

Tides of History

Wondery / Patrick Wyman

Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 June 2023

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

How and why did so many people come to Rome in the Archaic Period, and how did it become a city? Dr. Francesca Fulminante is an expert on the archaeology of ancient Italy, particularly the process of urbanization that turned small villages into some of the great cities of the ancient world. Rome was both unique and a part of these larger processes that took place not just near the Eternal City, but also in nearby Latium and Etruria.

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0:00.0	Hey, Prime Members, you can listen to Tides of History, add free on Amazon Music.
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0:06.2	Hi everybody, from Wondery, welcome to another episode of Tides of History.
0:21.9	It is great to have you all here and thanks for joining me.
0:25.8	Trying to get back to the early history of Rome when it was one city in central Italy
0:29.4	among many rather than the heart of a continent spanning empire is no easy task.
0:34.0	Our later ideas about Rome and its importance, not to mention later Romans' ideas about
0:38.1	their past can fundamentally distort our understanding of what was actually going on in the first
0:42.4	half of the First Millennium BC.
0:44.3	And it's not exactly easy to dig down to the earliest layers of the city of Rome either.
0:49.2	People have been living there continuously for thousands of years, digging up the distant
0:52.6	past to make way for the present and future.
0:55.4	And where that distant past still exists, it's buried under millennia of occupation.
1:00.1	But that doesn't mean we can't know anything about early Rome and the world of which it
1:03.6	was a part.
1:04.9	Today's guest is an expert on the archaeology of Italy during that time and has done
1:08.3	absolutely fascinating research on the process that led Italy from a land of villages and
1:12.8	farmers to one of cities and urban aristocrats.
1:15.8	Dr. Francesca Fulminante is Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Anthropology and
1:19.9	Archaeology at the University of Bristol, affiliated professor at the University of Rome
1:23.7	at Tre and lecturer at the Institute of Continuing Education in Oxford.
1:28.2	She has published on a wide variety of topics ranging from religion to transportation networks
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