Abstract
In recent years, scholarship concerning Roman colonization has shifted away from usage of the Romanization model. Instead, focus has shifted towards understanding cultural hybridity as a mechanism to understand the relationship between Rome and its colonies. The process of colonization is best understood by examining Cisalpine Gaul, Etruria, and Samnium. These groups were chosen because they reflect different scales of prior interaction with Rome and the different methods used by Rome. how Roman colonizing practices focused on legal incorporation and how Rome reacted when this process was coerced rather than negotiated. Through this, women played a distinct role as preservers of local identity markers, visible in funerary, religious, and epigraphic evidence.