This book seeks to provide a comprehensive overview of the visual impact of the rows of colonnades defining the great avenues of numerous Eastern cities of the Roman Empire. The book will offer an explanation for this extraordinary development in town planning as a tool of empire-building.
This book seeks to provide a comprehensive overview of the visual impact of the rows of colonnades defining the great avenues of numerous Eastern cities of the Roman Empire. The book will offer an explanation for this extraordinary development in town planning as a tool of empire-building.
Ross Burns is Adjunct Professor at Macquarie University, Sydney. He graduated in History and Archaeology from Sydney University, 1966 and spent 37 years in the Australian Foreign Service including posts as Ambassador in the Middle East, South Africa and Greece. Since 2003, he hascompleted a PhD at Macquarie University in Sydney (2009) and authored several books on the history of Syria- Monuments of Syria (1992, 1999, 2009), Damascus, A History (2005), Aleppo, A History (2016).
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Introduction PART A - ARCHITECTURAL TRADITIONS 1: The Hellenistic city in the Eastern context 2: Alexandria-'View Planning' Embraces the City 3: Greek and Roman Precedents in the Early Empire 4: Framework for the Development of Cities in the Early Years of the Roman presence PART B-EVOLUTION OF THE COLONNADED AXIS 5: Provincial Cities in the Early Empire 6: Urban Development in Practice-Client Kings 7: Urban Development in Practice-Province of Syria 8: Urban Development in Practice-Asia Minor and North Africa 9: The New Environment of the Early Second Century 10: The Colonnaded Axis Reaches its Peak 11: Antonines and Severans-End of User Pays? 12: A Singular Experiment Conclusion-Seeing the City as a Whole Appendix 1-Results of the American-French Excavations in Antioch Appendix 2-Table of Roman-era Cities and Colonnaded Streets Discussed
Introduction PART A - ARCHITECTURAL TRADITIONS 1: The Hellenistic city in the Eastern context 2: Alexandria-'View Planning' Embraces the City 3: Greek and Roman Precedents in the Early Empire 4: Framework for the Development of Cities in the Early Years of the Roman presence PART B-EVOLUTION OF THE COLONNADED AXIS 5: Provincial Cities in the Early Empire 6: Urban Development in Practice-Client Kings 7: Urban Development in Practice-Province of Syria 8: Urban Development in Practice-Asia Minor and North Africa 9: The New Environment of the Early Second Century 10: The Colonnaded Axis Reaches its Peak 11: Antonines and Severans-End of User Pays? 12: A Singular Experiment Conclusion-Seeing the City as a Whole Appendix 1-Results of the American-French Excavations in Antioch Appendix 2-Table of Roman-era Cities and Colonnaded Streets Discussed
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