Nicola Terrenato

Esther B. Van Deman Collegiate Professor of Roman StudiesDirector, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
he/him

terrenat@umich.edu

Office Information:

Rm 2135 Angell Hall, 435 S State St, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1003

Classical Archaeology; IPAH; Classics; Classical Studies

Education/Degree:

PhD, University of Pisa

About

Books

P. Brocato, M. Ceci, N. Terrenato, eds., 2019, Ricerche nell’area dei templi di Fortuna e Mater Matuta (Roma) 2. Arcavacata di Rende, Univ. della Calabria.

N. Terrenato, 2019, The early Roman expansion into Italy. Elite negotiation and family agendas, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. Winner, 2021 AIA J. Wiseman Book Award

P. Brocato, N. Terrenato, eds., 2017, Nuovi studi sulla Regia di Roma, Cosenza, Pellegrini.

R. Opitz, M. Mogetta, N. Terrenato, eds., 2016, A Mid-Republican House from Gabii, (The Gabii Archaeological Reports, 1), Ann Arbor, UM Press (https://www.fulcrum.org/concern/monographs/n009w229r).

P. Brocato, M. Ceci, N. Terrenato, eds., 2016, Ricerche nell’area dei templi di Fortuna e Mater Matuta (Roma). Arcavacata di Rende, Univ. della Calabria.

J. A. Becker, N. Terrenato, eds., 2012, Roman Republican Villas: Architecture, Context, and Ideology, Papers and Monographs of the American Academy in Rome 32, Ann Arbor, UM Press.

N. Terrenato, D.C. Haggis, eds., 2011, State Formation in Italy and Greece. Questioning the Neoevolutionist Paradigm, Oxford, Oxbow.

P. Van Dommelen, N. Terrenato, eds., 2007, Articulating local cultures: Power and identity under the expanding Roman Republic, Portsmouth, JRA.

S. Keay, N. Terrenato, eds., 2001, Italy and the West. Comparative issues in Romanization, Oxford, Oxbow.

N. Terrenato, ed., 2000, Archeologia Teorica, Florence, Insegna del Giglio.

M. Munzi, N. Terrenato, eds., 2000, Volterra. Il teatro e le terme, Florence, Insegna del Giglio.

F. Cambi, N. Terrenato, 1994, Introduzione all'archeologia dei paesaggi, Roma, Nuova Italia Scientifica.

Select Articles

A. Brock, L. Motta, N. Terrenato, 2021, “On the banks of the Tiber: Opportunity and Transformation in Early Rome”, Journal of Roman Studies, 111, 1-30.

N. Terrenato, 2021, “The Romanization of Rome. Cultural dynamics in the architecture of Hellenistic Italy”, in O. Belvedere, J. Bergemann, eds., Imperium Romanum: Romanization between Colonization and Globalization, Palermo, Palermo University Press, 77-88.

M. Naglak, N. Terrenato, 2020, “Central Italian Elite Groups as Aristocratic Houses in the Ninth to Sixth centuries BCE”, in S. Bell, P. Du Plessis, eds., Roman Law before the Twelve Tables, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 25-40.

P. Brocato, N. Terrenato, 2017, “The Archaic Temple of S. Omobono: New Discoveries and Old Problems”, in P. Lulof, C. Smith, eds., The Age of Tarquinius Superbus, Leuven, Peeters, 97-106.

A. Brock, N. Terrenato, 2016, “Rome in the bronze age. Late Second Millennium BC Radiocarbon Dates from the Forum Boarium in Rome, Italy”, Antiquity, 90, 654-664.

D. Diffendale, P. Brocato, N. Terrenato, A. Brock, 2016, "Sant'Omobono: an interim status quaestionis", JRA, 1-36.

N. Terrenato, 2015, “The archetypal imperial city. Rome and the burdens of empire”, in N. Yoffee, ed., Early Cities in Comparative Perspective, vol. 3 of The Cambridge World History, Cambridge, CUP, 513-531.

N. Terrenato, 2014, “Private Vis, Public Virtus. Family agendas during the early Roman expansion”, in T. Stek, J. Pelgrom, eds., Roman Republican Colonization. New Perspectives from Archaeology and Ancient History, Rome, Palombi, 45-59.

N. Terrenato, A.J. Ammerman, 1996, "Visibility and Site Recovery in the Cecina Valley Survey, Italy", Journal of Field Archaeology, 23, 91-109.

N. Terrenato, 1998, "Tam firmum municipium: the Romanization of Volaterrae and its cultural implications", Journal of Roman Studies, 88, 94-114.

N. Terrenato, 2001, "The Auditorium site and the origins of the Roman villa", Journal of Roman Archaeology, 14, 5-32.

N. Terrenato, 2002, "Ancestor Cults: the perception of ancient Rome and Italian culture", in R. Hingley, ed., Images of Rome, Portsmouth, Journal of Roman Archaeology Supplementary Series 44, pp. 71-89.

N. Terrenato, 2002, "The innocents and the skeptics. Classical Archaeology and Antiquity", Antiquity, 76, 1104-11.

N. Terrenato, 2004, "Sample size matters! The paradox of global trends and local surveys", in S. Alcock, J. Cherry, eds., Side-by-Side Surveys: Comparative Religion Studies in the Mediterranean World, Oxford, Oxbow, 36-48.

N. Terrenato, 2005, "The deceptive archetype. Roman colonialism and post-colonial thought", in H. Hurst, S. Owen, eds., Ancient Colonizations. Analogy, Similarity, and Difference, London, Duckworth, 59-72.

N. Terrenato, 2007, "The essential countryside: farms, villages, sanctuaries, tombs", in S. Alcock, R. Osborne, eds., Classical Archaeology, London, Blackwell, 139-161.

N. Terrenato, 2008, "The cultural implications of the Roman conquest", in E. Bispham, ed., Roman Europe, (The short Oxford History of Europe), Oxford, OUP, pp. 234-264.

J. Becker, M. Mogetta, N. Terrenato, 2009, "A new plan for an ancient Italian city: Gabii revealed", American Journal of Archaeology, 113.4, 629-42.

N. Terrenato, 2010, "Early Rome", in A. Barchiesi, W. Scheidel, eds., Oxford Handbook of Roman Studies, Oxford, OUP, 507-518.

N. Terrenato, P. Brocato, G. Caruso, A. M. Ramieri, H. W. Becker, I. Cangemi, G. Mantiloni, C. Regoli, 2012, “The S. Omobono sanctuary in Rome. Assessing eighty years of fieldwork and exploring perspectives for the future”, Internet Archaeology, 31, http://intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue31/terrenato_index.html

Field(s) of Study

Roman Republican Archaeology, Roman Imperialism, Early Rome, Field survey methods