The Definition Of Public Space In Republican Rome
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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 | : Paul Erdkamp |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 647 |
Release | : 2013-09-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521896290 |
Rome was the largest city in the ancient world. As the capital of the Roman Empire, it was clearly an exceptional city in terms of size, diversity and complexity. While the Colosseum, imperial palaces and Pantheon are among its most famous features, this volume explores Rome primarily as a city in which many thousands of men and women were born, lived and died. The thirty-one chapters by leading historians, classicists and archaeologists discuss issues ranging from the monuments and the games to the food and water supply, from policing and riots to domestic housing, from death and disease to pagan cults and the impact of Christianity. Richly illustrated, the volume introduces groundbreaking new research against the background of current debates and is designed as a readable survey accessible in particular to undergraduates and non-specialists.
Author | : Jan Gadeyne |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 435 |
Release | : 2016-04-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1317081706 |
This volume provides readers interested in urban history with a collection of essays on the evolution of public space in that paradigmatic western city which is Rome. Scholars specialized in different historical periods contributed chapters, in order to find common themes which weave their way through one of the most complex urban histories of western civilization. Divided into five chronological sections (Antiquity, Middle Ages, Renaissance, Baroque, Modern and Contemporary) the volume opens with the issue of how public space was defined in classical Roman law and how ancient city managers organized the maintenance of these spaces, before moving on to explore how this legacy was redefined and reinterpreted during the Middle Ages. The third group of essays examines how the imposition of papal order on feuding families during the Renaissance helped introduce a new urban plan which could satisfy both functional and symbolic needs. The fourth section shows how modern Rome continued to express strong interest in the control and management of public space, the definition of which was necessarily selective in this vastly extensive city. The collection ends with an essay on the contemporary debate for revitalizing Rome's eastern periphery. Through this long-term chronological approach the volume offers a truly unique insight into the urban development of one of Europe’s most important cities, and concludes with a discuss of the challenges public space faces today after having served for so many centuries as a driving force in urban history.
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 | : Christopher Smith |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2012-03-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0191612464 |
The essays in this volume address central problems in the development of Roman imperialism in the third and second century BC. Published in honour of the distinguished Oxford academic Peter Derow, they follow some of his main interests: the author Polybius, the characteristics of Roman power and imperial ambition, and the mechanisms used by Rome in creating and sustaining an empire in the east. Written by a distinguished group of international historians, all of whom were taught by Derow, the volume constitutes a new and distinctive contribution to the history of this centrally important period, as well as a major advance in the study of Polybius as a writer. In addition, the volume looks at the way Rome absorbed religions from the east, and at Hellenistic artistic culture. It also sheds new light on the important region of Illyria on the Adriatic Coast, which played a key part in Rome's rise to power. Archaeological, epigraphic, and textual evidence are brought together to create a sustained argument for Rome's determined and systematic pursuit of power.
Author | : Claudia Moatti |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 409 |
Release | : 2015-09-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521895782 |
This book analyses the developments in critical reasoning that transformed the conception of tradition, authority, knowledge and power in the late Republic.
Author | : Henrik Mouritsen |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 215 |
Release | : 2017-03-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107031885 |
A very readable introduction exploring much-contested issues and debates, and providing an original synthesis of this important topic.
Author | : Jorg Rupke |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 329 |
Release | : 2012-05-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0812206576 |
Roman religion as we know it is largely the product of the middle and late republic, the period falling roughly between the victory of Rome over its Latin allies in 338 B.C.E. and the attempt of the Italian peoples in the Social War to stop Roman domination, resulting in the victory of Rome over all of Italy in 89 B.C.E. This period witnessed the expansion and elaboration of large public rituals such as the games and the triumph as well as significant changes to Roman intellectual life, including the emergence of new media like the written calendar and new genres such as law, antiquarian writing, and philosophical discourse. In Religion in Republican Rome Jörg Rüpke argues that religious change in the period is best understood as a process of rationalization: rules and principles were abstracted from practice, then made the object of a specialized discourse with its own rules of argument and institutional loci. Thus codified and elaborated, these then guided future conduct and elaboration. Rüpke concentrates on figures both famous and less well known, including Gnaeus Flavius, Ennius, Accius, Varro, Cicero, and Julius Caesar. He contextualizes the development of rational argument about religion and antiquarian systematization of religious practices with respect to two complex processes: Roman expansion in its manifold dimensions on the one hand and cultural exchange between Greece and Rome on the other.
Author | : Claudia Moser |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 227 |
Release | : 2019-01-17 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 1108428851 |
This book reorients the study of sacrifice, examining the locus of ritual action - the altars of Republican Rome and Latium.
Author | : Carlos Machado |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 342 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0198835078 |
Between 270 and 535 AD the city of Rome experienced dramatic changes. The once glorious imperial capital was transformed into the much humbler centre of western Christendom in a process that redefined its political importance, size, and identity. Urban Space and Aristocratic Power in Late Antique Rome examines these transformations by focusing on the city's powerful elite, the senatorial aristocracy, and exploring their involvement in a process of urban change that would mark the end of the ancient world and the birth of the Middle Ages in the eyes of contemporaries and modern scholars. It argues that the late antique history of Rome cannot be described as merely a product of decline; instead, it was a product of the dynamic social and cultural forces that made the city relevant at a time of unprecedented historical changes. Combining the city's unique literary, epigraphic, and archaeological record, the volume offers a detailed examination of aspects of city life as diverse as its administration, public building, rituals, housing, and religious life to show how the late Roman aristocracy gave a new shape and meaning to urban space, identifying itself with the largest city in the Mediterranean world to an extent unparalleled since the end of the Republican period.