Colonisation and Veteran Settlement in Italy, 47-14 B. C

by Lawrence Keppie

Comprehensive study of the epigraphic and archaeological evidence for the settlement of Caesar and Augustus's veterans - and of the impact of colonisation on town and countryside in the last years of the Republic.

Genres: Roman History

Hardcover

First published December 1, 1983

About the author

Lawrence John Forbes Keppie is a Scottish historian and archaeologist. He attended Coatbridge High School and then studied classics at Glasgow University where he came under the influence of A.R. Burn, who first introduced him to epigraphy. After graduation he transferred to Balliol College, Oxford, where he studied Roman history and archaeology.

Professor Keppie started his digging career as a schoolboy on a medieval castle site in Cumbernauld, before moving on to participate in the Scottish Field School of Archaeology excavations at Birrens Roman fort under the directorship of Anne Robertson. The first excavation he directed himself was on a section of the Antonine Wall at Carleith in 1969.

Dr. Keppie was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland in 1971, of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 1978 and of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1995. He served as the Honorary Secretary of the Glasgow Archaeological Society, Vice President and then the 45th President of the Society from 1988 to 1991. He also served as a curator at the Hunterian Museum, Glasgow University.

Dr. Keppie's academic career throughout has been focused on Roman Scotland, Roman Italy and the Roman army. He is now retired.