Thesis title: Monumenti pubblici e committenza privata nell’Etruria romana
This work examines public monuments and systems of patronage in the Augustan Regio VII (Etruria) from the fourth century BC to the third century AD, with the aim of identifying broader patterns in architectural practice. Building on E. Papi’s work on southern Etruria, the study revisits the existing evidence, bringing the data into line across different contexts, and expands the geographical scope to include northern Etruria. This wider perspective allows for a more integrated and nuanced interpretation of the phenomenon. Even though the growth of urban centres and the development of network of town are generally seen as a sign of Roman civilization, someone could hardly define unequivocally what really was a city in antiquity and which features did make it “roman”. Nevertheless, since the last decades of the Republic, in most of the cities of Italy, a standard set of monuments began to be built, clearly related to the Roman conquest: temples, theatres and amphitheatres, baths, basilicas transformed the urban landscape and the patterns of the towns. Dealing with different sources of information such as stratigraphical excavations, non-invasive surveys and epigraphical data, the changes in urban spaces could be seen in diachrony and make it possible to outline social dynamics and the formation of the Roman identity in the communities