‎Vyron Antoniadis, Charikleia Papageorgiadou (eds) ‎
‎Epirus under the Romans. Economic Dynamics and the Countryside‎

‎, Brepols, 2026 Paperback, Pages: 430, Size:170 x 240 mm, Language: English. ISBN 9789603711131.‎

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‎Summary The edited volume Epirus under the Romans: Economic Dynamics and the Countryside reassesses Epirus, a region long dismissed as peripheral within the Greco-Roman world. Moving beyond narratives of decline after 167 BC, the volume draws on archaeological and historical evidence to explore how the region was transformed, adapted and integrated into Roman economic structures. The chapters investigate themes including the development of settlements and fortified centres before the Roman conquest, and the subsequent restructuring of rural territories through land division and the exploitation of agricultural and pastoral resources. They also examine the emergence of villae rusticae and large agricultural estates, and the foundation of Nicopolis as a dominant urban and economic hub. Case studies address trade and monetary circulation, shifting patterns of rural investment, and, in some areas, the resilience of inland and coastal economies. Further contributions draw on material culture, including mosaics, and on epigraphic evidence, while also developing spatial approaches to rural connectivity and widening the perspective through comparative discussion beyond the region. Taken together, the volume demonstrates that Epirus was defined not by marginality within the Roman world, but by the interaction of its people and landscape, where pastoral and agricultural traditions were reconfigured within the wider economic systems of the Roman Mediterranean. TABLE OF CONTENTS List of Authors Introduction PANAGIOTIS N. DOUKELLIS Economie et societe en Epire romaine: les ant c dents FRANK DAUBNER What to Do With Butrint? An Epirote Tribe Obtains an Urban Centre ADOLFO J. DOMINGUEZ Organisation of the Territory and Economy in Hellenistic Epirus SOPHIA ZOUMBAKI Rome's Economic Policy in Western Greece in the 3rd and 2nd c. BC: From the Longstanding Italian Interests in the Regionto the Case of Ambracia CHARIKLEIA PAPAGEORGIADOU Romans in Western Greece. What About Money? ATHANASIOS D. RIZAKIS Large-Scale Farming in Greece Under the Roman Empire: The Villa as a Symbol of Economic, Social and Cultural Change in the Greek Countryside VASSILIKI LAMPROU, KASSIANI LAZAR?, ANTONIA TZORTZATOU Farmsteads and Rural Villas in Roman Thesprotia. Foundation, Distribution and Character ?OULIA K. KATSADIMA, YPATIA FAKLARI, GUILLERMO PASCUAL BERLANGA Sellades: Preliminary Observations on an Agricultural Complex in the Area of the Ambracian Gulf in Roman Times GEORGIA PLIAKOU The Hinterland of Epirus During Roman Times. Rural Settlements in the Molossian Territory VASSILIKI GIANNAKI, ANASTASIA GIOVANOPOULOU, LEONIDAS LEONTARIS, IULIA STAMOU ??? ??????? ????????? ???? ???????? ????????? VYRON ANTONIADIS Beyond the Grid: Rural Spatial Organisation and Connectivity in the Territory of Nicopolis THALIA KYRKOU ???????? ??? ??????? ?????? ??? ??????????? ??? ??????? ?????? GEORGE A. ZACHOS Roman Aitolia: The Wind of Change MILENA MELFI Why Another Hadrianopolis? DIMITRIS N. SAKKAS To Set It Right. The Restoration and Dating of SEG 24, 423 and Its Associated Fragments From Nicopolis Tables of Figures Index‎