Roman Influence On Campania

The most impressive archaeological find in Campania, was Pompeii . It was a archaeological preserved city due to the eruption of Mt Vesuvius, which preserved both the inhabitants and their city. Here archaeological evidence is abundant. This evidence tells its own story about the city and in turn reveals the Roman culture and influences were present.
The Romans didn’t arrive until 80BC, and at this time Sulla proceeded to colonize Pompeii . Tension between the locals and the colonist grew and with this, it started to have an impact on the town. The Romans started giving the land to the colonist, however,in the end they had to separate the groups to ease the ever growing tensions .
When Sulla arrivived, he reconstructed and repaired the city. He also redesigned the per-existing Pompeian houses for the new Roman colony. He wanted to bring them a more traditional Roman standard of living. Renovations made on existing homes lead to a bizzare interpretion as this faze of the …show more content…
North Etruria held onto many of their own beliefs and language. However, it was limited to mainly funerary and some political standings. The Roman culture was starting to influence the north Etruria culture funerary inscriptions that were once in oscan language was now changing to Latin inscription. In the end, they were assimilated into the Roman empire.
In the city of Volaterrae here one can see the spread of the Roman culture and influence, which had a major impact on South Etruria. This is evident in the inscriptions found at Volatterae other evidence was the building of a large roads networks linking the major and minor nucleated centres and providing access to the farmland within their territories . With the presence of the Romans in the city of Volaterrae, they constructed urban reservoirs to help relieve long term problems with water supply They also constructed a grand theatre