The Roman Municipia of Malta and Gozo

Contents

Preface

Chapter 1: The Romanisation of the Maltese islands

Chapter 2: The Vallii in Gozo

Chapter 3: Quintus Lutatius Longinus and his wife Iunia

Chapter 4: Reading CIL, X, 7506. A case of elite friendships?

Chapter 5: Publicia Irene and her daughter Publicia Glycera: their social status, religious identity and perceptions of afterlife

Chapter 6: Iulia Domna and her maternal ideology in the perception of the Gozitan municipes

Chapter 7: Religion in the exercise of power: the religious and political context of a priestly dedication to Iulia Augusta

Chapter 8: Sponsoring a temple to Apollo

Chapter 9: The initiative of the islands’ procurator to preserve the temple of Proserpina

Chapter 10: The Gozo municipium in late Roman times

Bibliography

General Index

About the Author

George Azzopardi is a practising archaeologist from Gozo who specialises in the Roman epigraphy of the Maltese islands. His main research interests centre on the Classical period, with the phenomenon of continuity from earlier – sometimes even prehistoric – traditions as a marked focus, be it religious, social, or political.