Public and Private in the Roman House and Society
Author | : Kaius Tuori |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Architecture domestique |
ISBN | : 9780991373062 |
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Author | : Kaius Tuori |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Architecture domestique |
ISBN | : 9780991373062 |
Author | : Amy Russell |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 247 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 1107040493 |
This book explores how public space in Republican Rome was an unstable category marked, experienced, and defined by multiple actors and audiences.
Author | : Andrew Wallace-Hadrill |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2022-05-10 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 0691244154 |
Few sources reveal the life of the ancient Romans as vividly as do the houses preserved by the eruption of Vesuvius. Wealthy Romans lavished resources on shaping their surroundings to impress their crowds of visitors. The fashions they set were taken up and imitated by ordinary citizens. In this illustrated book, Andrew Wallace-Hadrill explores the rich potential of the houses of Pompeii and Herculaneum to offer new insights into Roman social life. Exposing misconceptions derived from contemporary culture, he shows the close interconnection of spheres we take as discrete: public and private, family and outsiders, work and leisure. Combining archaeological evidence with Roman texts and comparative material from other cultures, Wallace-Hadrill raises a range of new questions. How did the organization of space and the use of decoration help to structure social encounters between owner and visitor, man and woman, master and slave? What sort of "households" did the inhabitants of the Roman house form? How did the world of work relate to that of entertainment and leisure? How widely did the luxuries of the rich spread among the houses of craftsmen and shopkeepers? Through analysis of the remains of over two hundred houses, Wallace-Hadrill reveals the remarkably dynamic social environment of early imperial Italy, and the vital part that houses came to play in defining what it meant "to live as a Roman."
Author | : Harriet I. Flower |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 519 |
Release | : 2014-06-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107032245 |
This second edition examines all aspects of Roman history, and contains a new introduction, three new chapters and updated bibliographies.
Author | : Steven Rutledge |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 421 |
Release | : 2012-04-26 |
Genre | : Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | : 0199573239 |
Ancient Rome as a Museum considers how cultural objects from the Roman Empire came to reflect, construct, and challenge Roman perceptions of power and identity. Rutledge argues that Roman cultural values are indicated in part by what sort of materials Romans deemed worthy of display and how they chose to display, view, and preserve them.
Author | : J. A. Baird |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 519 |
Release | : 2022-07-21 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 1108845266 |
Explores the possible dialogues between textual and archaeological sources in studying housing in the ancient Mediterranean world.
Author | : Clifford Ando |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2015-03-10 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 3110367033 |
The public/private distinction is fundamental to modern theories of the family, religion and religious freedom, and state power, yet it has had different salience, and been understood differently, from place to place and time to time. The volume brings together essays from an international array of experts in law and religion, in order to examine the public/private distinction in comparative perspective. The essays focus on the cultures and religions of the ancient Mediterranean, in the formative periods of Greece and Rome and the religions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Particular attention is given to the private exercise of religion, the relation between public norms and private life, and the division between public and private space and the place of religion therein.
Author | : Janet DeLaine |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 293 |
Release | : 2024-05-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0192699997 |
Roman Architecture casts new light not only on many familiar monuments of the city of Rome, but also on less well-known examples from across the Roman empire. Rome and its empire were fundamental to the development of western architecture, and its forms and motifs remain significant elements of our own built environments. Roman Architecture places the varied architecture of ancient Rome, from its humble apartment blocks to its grand public structures, within the broader context of Roman society. It takes as its starting point the writings of the Roman architect Vitruvius, as one voice in a broader contemporary debate about the nature and value of architecture. What did the Romans themselves think architecture was for? What was built, by whom and why? How was architecture represented in text and image? The interplay of type and variation that are the hallmark Roman architecture are here traced back to the human actions and choices from which they originated. Janet DeLaine explores how the desires of patrons for novelty and individuality were met by architects and builders working within the practical constraints of available materials and the moral prescriptions of religious and social norms to create new forms. Ranging from early Rome to the late empire, this volume casts new light on many familiar monuments of the city of Rome, but also on less well-known examples from across the empire. Through an examination of the key types of buildings at the heart of Roman society and their decoration, it reveals the symbolic meaning of architecture in terms of competitive power displays and commemoration, and it explores how architecture helped to define being 'Roman' at different times and in different places of the empire.
Author | : Miko Flohr |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 463 |
Release | : 2020-05-25 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1000071472 |
This volume investigates how urban growth and prosperity transformed the cities of the Roman Mediterranean in the last centuries BCE and the fi rst centuries CE, integrating debates about Roman urban space with discourse on Roman urban history. The contributions explore how these cities developed landscapes full of civic memory and ritual, saw commercial priorities transforming the urban environment, and began to expand signifi cantly beyond their wall circuits. These interrelated developments not only changed how cities looked and could be experienced, but they also affected the functioning of the urban community and together contributed to keeping increasingly complex urban communities socially cohesive. By focusing on the transformation of urban landscapes in the Late Republican and Imperial periods, the volume adds a new, explicitly historical angle to current debates about urban space in Roman studies. Confronting archaeological and historical approaches, the volume presents developments in Italy, Africa, Greece, and Asia Minor, thus significantly broadening the geographical scope of the discussion and offering novel theoretical perspectives alongside well- documented, thematic case studies. Urban Space and Urban History in the Roman World will be of interest to anyone working on Roman urbanism or Roman history in the Late Republic and early Empire.
Author | : Aloys Winterling |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 177 |
Release | : 2009-07-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1405179694 |
Politics and Society in Imperial Rome offers fresh new interpretations of the politics, society, and culture Rome's imperial era. Argues that the early principate was fundamentally incompatible with the persisting structures of the Roman Republic Demonstrates how these contradictory systems affected the development of Roman society Includes case studies on the imperial court and the emperor Caligula, as well as chapters on the scholarship of Theodor Mommsen and Christian Meier