Campus Martius

Campus Martius
Author: Paul W. Jacobs, II
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 277
Release: 2015-01-19
Genre: History
ISBN: 1316194337

A mosquito-infested and swampy plain lying north of the city walls, Rome's Campus Martius, or Field of Mars, was used for much of the period of the Republic as a military training ground and as a site for celebratory rituals and occasional political assemblies. Initially punctuated with temples vowed by victorious generals, during the imperial era it became filled with extraordinary baths, theaters, porticoes, aqueducts, and other structures - many of which were architectural firsts for the capitol. This book explores the myriad factors that contributed to the transformation of the Campus Martius from an occasionally visited space to a crowded center of daily activity. It presents a case study of the repurposing of urban landscape in the Roman world and explores how existing topographical features that fit well with the Republic's needs ultimately attracted architecture that forever transformed those features but still resonated with the area's original military and ceremonial traditions.

Detroit and Rome

Detroit and Rome
Author: Michele V. Ronnick
Publisher: The Regents of the Univ of Michigan
Total Pages: 145
Release: 2005
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0933691092

A comparative study of urban form and the reuse of buildings in modern Detroit and Rome (Italy). This exhibition catalog includes 3 U scholarly essays and 25 catalog entries describing the Usage history of buildings in Detroit & Rome.

The Column of Antoninus Pius

The Column of Antoninus Pius
Author: Lise Vogel
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 244
Release: 1973
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780674143258

Shortly after the death in 161 of Antoninus Pius, his sons dedicated a column to him as a funerary monument. The form of the column in general and the reliefs on the pedestal in particular raise problems central to the understanding of Roman art. In this first thorough study, illustrated with nearly 100 photographs, Lise Vogel restores the column to its rightful place as one of the major monuments of Roman art. In addition, she re-evaluates the meaning of the column of Antoninus Pius in the context of the development of second century Roman imperial sculpture.

Imaginary Kings

Imaginary Kings
Author: Olivier Hekster
Publisher: Franz Steiner Verlag
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2005
Genre: History
ISBN: 9783515087650

This volume looks at various ways in which royal images functioned within different ideological frameworks in the ancient Near East, Greece and Rome. It argues that visibility lies at the heart of power, especially under monarchic rule. The contributions highlight how, throughout the ancient Mediterranean, patterns can be detected in the use of royal images. There seem to have been continuous (re)negotiations between innovation and tradition, East and West, and between aerealAe and aeimaginaryAe kings. Contents Richard Fowler / Olivier Hekster: Imagining kings: From Persia to Rome Lindsay Allen: Le roi imaginaire: An audience with the Achaemenid king Peter Thonemann: The tragic king: Demetrios Poliorketes and the city of Athens Margherita Facella: Roman perception of Commagenian royalty Matthew Gisborne: A curia of kings: Sulla and royal imagery Richard Fowler: aeMost fortunate rootsAe: Tradition and legitimacy in Parthian royal ideology Olivier Hekster: Captured in the gaze of power: Visibility, games and Roman imperial representation Ted Kaizer: Kingly priests in the Roman Near East? Bibliography Index

Sfera E Il Labirinto

Sfera E Il Labirinto
Author: Manfredo Tafuri
Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
Total Pages: 383
Release: 1990
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780262700399

"Tafuri's work is probably the most innovative and exciting new form of European theory since French poststructuralism and this book is probably the best introduction to it for the newcomer. ..."

Life and Death in the Roman Suburb

Life and Death in the Roman Suburb
Author: Allison L. C. Emmerson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 301
Release: 2020
Genre: History
ISBN: 0198852754

Life and Death in the Roman Suburb introduces new ways of understanding Roman cities as well as ancient attitudes towards death and the dead. Drawing on recent archaeological projects from across Italy, Emmerson shows how Roman cities created suburbs where the living and the dead came together in a new type of urban neighbourhood.

Armies and Politics in the Early Medieval West

Armies and Politics in the Early Medieval West
Author: Bernard S. Bachrach
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 279
Release: 2024-10-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 1040248462

In these articles Professor Bachrach starts by looking at aspects of the ’barbarian’ occupation of the land of the Roman Empire, from Britain to the Alan settlements in southern Gaul. His particular interest, however, is in the political and, above all, in the military structures that grew out of the Early Middle Ages. He has sought to demonstrate that there was a fundamental continuity in military organisation and tactics from the Merovingian through the Carolingian period. As he shows, there is no reason to connect the origins of ’feudalism’ with Charles Martel’s wish to create a force of cavalry, and it is a fallacy that he grasped the potential of the stirrup for enabling mounted shock combat. On the contrary, its use in the West progressed only slowly, and it had nothing to do with the origins or growth of feudalism. Le professeur Bachrach débute par l’analyse de certains aspects de l’occupation barbare des terres de l’empire romain, de la Grande-Bretagne aux campements alans en Gaule méridionale. Il s’attache en suite aux structures politiques et, surtout, militaires qui furent issues du Haut Moyen Age. Selon lui, et il tente d’en faire ici la démonstration, l’organisation et les tactiques militaires ont fait preuve d’une continuité fondamentale de l’époque mérovingienne à celle des Carolingiens. Comme il le demontre, il n’y a pas lieu d’établir de liens entre l’origine du féodalisme et le désir qu’avait Charles Martel de créer une cavalerie; il est également tout à fait erroné de dire que ce dernier s’était rendu compte du potentiel de l’étrier en tant que facteur de mener des combats à cheval de choc. Bien contraire, l’utilisation de l’étrier à l’Ouest ne fit que progresser lentement et aucun rapport n’existe entre cet instrument et l’origine ou la croissance de la féodalité.

Walking Tours of Ancient Rome: A Secular Guidebook to the Eternal City (Mercury Guides)

Walking Tours of Ancient Rome: A Secular Guidebook to the Eternal City (Mercury Guides)
Author: Gary M. Devore
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 416
Release: 2008-04-12
Genre: Rome (Italy)
ISBN: 0615194974

This guidebook is designed for tourists and scholars who are interested in exploring first-hand the grandeur and magnificence that was ancient Rome through a Humanist, secular, and freethinking lens. Twelve walking tours are designed around districts of the city. Two appendices also describe day trips that are possible from the city center: the ruins of Rome's port city of Ostia and the remains of the emperor Hadrian's splendid villa at Tivoli.