THE AGER VEIENTANUS IN THE REPUBLICAN PERIOD The article examines the population of the territory of Veii in the republican period. While the Roman conquest does not seem to have radically changed the Etruscan settlement pattern, perhaps leaving some of the former inhabitants on their lands, a much more serious break is detectable in the second century B.C., when there seems to have been a major economic and demographic crisis. This is not an isolated phenomenon, but one common to the territory along the Tiber, the west of Latium and the neighbourhood of Rome; it must be due to the upheavals initiated by the second Punic war and the unbalance caused in the region by the enormous political, demographic and economic growth of Rome. The late-republican territory of Veii looks like a depressed area, and shows no traces of the villa system of agricultural exploitation until the Augustan period.
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