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List of ancient Italic peoples

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This list of ancient Italic peoples includes names of Indo-European peoples speaking Italic languages or otherwise considered Italic in sources from the late early 1st millennium BC to the early 1st millennium AD.

Ancestors

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Map 1: Indo-European migrations as described in The Horse, the Wheel, and Language by David W. Anthony
Map 2: Possible area of origin and migration route of Proto-Italic speaking people towards Italian peninsula
Map 3: Ethnicities of today's Italy in 400 BC. The Italic tribes lived at this point in the south-central part of the Italian peninsula.
Map 4: Ethnolinguistic map of Italy in the Iron Age, before the Roman expansion and conquest of Italy
Map 5: The linguistic and peoples landscape of Central Italy at the beginning of Roman expansion

Other possible Italic peoples

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Usually[when?] they are included as an Italic people by many[quantify] scholars.[who?] However other scholars[who?] argue[where?] that they could have been a transitional people between Celts and Italics, a Celticized Italic people or a Para-Celtic people.

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Barthold Georg Niebuhr (1845). The History of Rome, Volume 1, p. 154.
  2. ^ Gary D. Farney, Guy Bradley, eds. (2017). The Peoples of Ancient Italy, P. 478.
  3. ^ Barthold Georg Niebuhr (1845). The History of Rome, Volume 1, p. 154.
  4. ^ Š. Batović, Liburnska kultura, Matica Hrvatska i Arheološki muzej Zadar, Zadar, 2005, UDK: 904 (398 Liburnija), ISBN 953-6419-50-5, pages 64-66

Further reading

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  • Gianna G. Buti e Giacomo Devoto, Preistoria e storia delle regioni d'Italia, Sansoni Università, 1974
  • Giovanni Pugliese Carratelli, Italia, omnium terrarum alumna, Officine grafiche Garzanti Milano, Garzanti-Schewiller, 1990
  • Giacomo Devoto, Gli antichi Italici, 2a ed. Firenze, Vallecchi, 1951.
  • Gary D. Farney, Guy Bradley (edits.) (2018). The Peoples of Ancient Italy. Boston, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter.
  • Sabatino Moscati, Così nacque l'Italia: profili di popoli riscoperti, Società editrice internazionale, Torino 1998.
  • Niebuhr, Barthold Georg. (1835). The History of Rome. Philadelphia: Thomas Wardle
  • Francisco Villar, Gli Indoeuropei e le origini dell'Europa, Bologna, Il Mulino, 1997. ISBN 88-15-05708-0
  • Vittore Pisani, Lingue preromane d'Italia. Origini e fortune, 1978.

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  • [1] - Source texts of ancient Greek and Roman authors
  • [2] - Strabo's work The Geography (Geographica). Books 5 and 6 are about Italy (each region has a chapter).