Seth Bernard (Assistant Professor, Department of Classics, Universi

Building Mid-Republican Rome

Labor, Architecture, and the Urban Economy

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Building Mid-Republican Rome provides the first interdisciplinary account of a seminal phase of Rome's history, when the early stages of imperial conquest radically transformed the city's physical appearance along with its socioeconomic institutions.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. September 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 580g
• ISBN-13: 9780190878788
• ISBN-10: 0190878789
• Artikelnr.: 52406283

Autorenporträt

Seth Bernard is Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Toronto.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: Introduction: Building as historical process
Chapter 2: Materials and supply
Chapter 3: Rome from the Sack of Veii to the Gallic Sack
Chapter 4: A cost analysis of the Republican circuit walls
Chapter 5: The nobilitas and economic innovation: censors, coinage, and contracts
Chapter 6: The labor supply of Mid-Republican Rome
Chapter 7: Technological change in Roman stonemasonry before concrete
Chapter 8: Conclusion
Appendix 1: Cost analysis of ashlar masonry in volcanic tuff
Appendix 2: Catalog of public building projects, 396 - 168 BCE
Bibliography and Abbreviations