A Companion to the City of Rome

Herausgeber: Holleran, Claire; Claridge, Amanda

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Produktbeschreibung

A Companion to the City of Rome presents a series of original essays from top experts that offer an authoritative and up-to-date overview of current research on the development of the city of Rome from its origins until circa AD 600.

Produktdetails

• Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
• Verlag: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 800
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. September 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 47mm
• Gewicht: 1486g
• ISBN-13: 9781405198196
• ISBN-10: 1405198192
• Artikelnr.: 42342082

Autorenporträt

CLAIRE HOLLERAN is Senior Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History at the University of Exeter. She is co-editor of Demography and the Graeco-Roman World (with April Pudsey, 2011) and author of Shopping in Ancient Rome: the Retail Trade in the Late Republic and the Principate (2012). AMANDA CLARIDGE is Emeritus Professor of Roman Archaeology at Royal Holloway University of London. Her recent publications include Rome: An Oxford Archaeological Guide (2012) and Paper Museum of Cassiano dal Pozzo: Classical manuscript illustrations (with Ingo Herklotz, 2012).

Inhaltsangabe

Notes on Contributors xi Preface xix Abbreviations xxi List of
Illustrations xxiii List of Tables xxvii List of Maps xxix PART I
Introductory 1 1 Source Material: i Archaeological Sources 3 Maria Kneafsey
ii Written Sources 9 Richard Flower iii The Marble Plans 13 Pier Luigi
Tucci iv The Epigraphic Record 20 Boris Rankov v Coins 24 Andrew Burnett 2
Historical Overview: From City?]state to Christian Center 29 Christopher
Smith PART II The Urban Landscape 53 3 A City of Stories 55 T.P. Wiseman 4
Defining the City: The Boundaries of Rome 71 Penelope J. Goodman 5 The
Development of the City: An Archaeological Perspective i From its Origins
to the Second Century BCE 93 Amanda Claridge ii From 100 BCE to 600 CE 115
Amanda Claridge PART III The People 137 6 The Population 139 Elio Lo Cascio
7 Social Structure and the plebs Romana 155 David Noy 8 The Army in
Imperial Rome 173 Jon Coulston PART IV The Urban Infrastructure 197 9
Rivers, Roads, and Ports 199 Candace M. Rice 10 Feeding Rome: The Grain
Supply 219 Giovanni Geraci (translated Claire Holleran) 11 Water Supply and
Sewers 247 Harry B. Evans 12 Streets and Street Life 263 J. Bert Lott 13
Urban Administration in Rome 279 John R. Patterson PART V Living in Rome
297 14 Housing: i The Development and Role of the Roman Aristocratic Domus
299 Hannah Platts ii Insulae 317 Janet DeLaine 15 The Imperial Thermae 325
Janet DeLaine 16 Libraries and Literary Culture in Rome 343 Matthew
Nicholls PART VI Dying in Rome 363 17 Hazards of Life in Ancient Rome:
Floods, Fires, Famines, Footpads, Filth, and Fevers 365 Gregory S. Aldrete
18 Funerary Practice in the City of Rome 383 Valerie M. Hope 19 Roman
Cemeteries and Tombs 403 Barbara E. Borg PART VII The Urban Economy 425 20
The Labor Market 427 Laurens E. Tacoma 21 Production in Rome 443 Dennis
Kehoe 22 The Retail Trade 459 Claire Holleran 23 The Construction Industry
473 Janet DeLaine PART VIII Civic Life 491 24 Temples, Colleges, and
Priesthoods 493 Jörg Rüpke 25 Entertainment 511 David Potter 26 Law and
Lawcourts 527 Leanne Bablitz 27 The Roman Church 541 John Curran 28
Political Space 559 Elizabeth H. Pearson PART IX The Roman Triumph 581 29
The Triumphal Procession 583 Geoffrey S. Sumi 30 Urban Commemoration: The
Pompa Triumphalis in Rome 599 Diane Favro PART X Receptions of Rome 619 31
Written Rome: Ancient Literary Responses 621 Diana Spencer 32 The
Renaissance: The "Discovery" of Ancient Rome 643 Brian A. Curran 33
Napoleonic Rome and "Roma Capitale" 673 Pier Luigi Tucci 34 Mussolini and
Rome 683 Borden Painter 35 The City of Ancient Rome on Screen 699 Monica S.
Cyrino Index 715 Topographical Index 731 Source Index 739