Studies of the Roman city are currently shifting away from architecture towards a dynamic understanding of activities within the urban space. This volume focuses on the movement or flow of a Roman city's inhabitants and visitors, demonstrating how it contributes to our understanding of the way different elements of society interacted in space.
Studies of the Roman city are currently shifting away from architecture towards a dynamic understanding of activities within the urban space. This volume focuses on the movement or flow of a Roman city's inhabitants and visitors, demonstrating how it contributes to our understanding of the way different elements of society interacted in space.
Ray Laurence is Professor of Ancient History at Macquarie University. In 2006 he won the 'Longman-History Today New Generation Prize for book most likely to inspire the young to study history' for his volume Pompeii The Living City. David J. Newsome was awarded his PhD in 2010 from the University of Birmingham. He won the BABESCH-Byvanck Award in 2008 for his innovative research on traffic and urban change at Pompeii. Both have published widely on the Roman city.
Inhaltsangabe
* Dedication * Table of contents * Preface * Acknowledgments * Notes on Contributors * Introduction * Making Movement Meaningful * Part I: Articulating Movement and Space * 1: Diana Spencer: Movement and the Linguistic Turn: Reading Varro s de Lingua Latina * 2: Ray Laurence: Literature and the Spatial Turn: Movement and Space in Martial s Epigrams * 3: Akkelies van Nes: Measuring spatial visibility, adjacency, permeability and degrees of street life in Pompeii * 4: Eleanor Betts: Towards a Multisensory Experience of Movement in the City of Rome * Part II: Movement in the Roman city: infrastructure and organisation * 5: Jeremy Hartnett: The Power of Nuisances on the Roman Street * 6: Steven Ellis: Pes dexter: Superstition and the state in the shaping of shop-fronts and street activity in the Roman world * 7: Alan Kaiser: Cart Traffic Flow in Pompeii and Rome * 8: Eric E. Poehler: Where to Park? Carts, Stables and the Economics of Transport in Pompeii * 9: Hanna Stöger: The Spatial Organisation of the Movement Economy: The Analysis of Ostia s scholae * Part III: Movement and the Metropolis * 10: Claire Holleran: The Street Life of Ancient Rome * 11: Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis: The City in Motion: Walking for transport and leisure in the city of Rome * 12: David J. Newsome: Movement and Fora in Rome (the Late Republic to the first century CE) * 13: Francesco Trifilò: Movement, gaming and the use of space in the forum * 14: Diane Favro: Construction Traffic in Imperial Rome: Building the Arch of Septimius Severus * 15: Simon Malmberg and Hans Bjur: Movement and urban development at two city gates in Rome: the Porta Esquilina and Porta Tiburtina * Endpiece * From Movement to Mobility: Future Directions * Bibliography
* Dedication * Table of contents * Preface * Acknowledgments * Notes on Contributors * Introduction * Making Movement Meaningful * Part I: Articulating Movement and Space * 1: Diana Spencer: Movement and the Linguistic Turn: Reading Varro s de Lingua Latina * 2: Ray Laurence: Literature and the Spatial Turn: Movement and Space in Martial s Epigrams * 3: Akkelies van Nes: Measuring spatial visibility, adjacency, permeability and degrees of street life in Pompeii * 4: Eleanor Betts: Towards a Multisensory Experience of Movement in the City of Rome * Part II: Movement in the Roman city: infrastructure and organisation * 5: Jeremy Hartnett: The Power of Nuisances on the Roman Street * 6: Steven Ellis: Pes dexter: Superstition and the state in the shaping of shop-fronts and street activity in the Roman world * 7: Alan Kaiser: Cart Traffic Flow in Pompeii and Rome * 8: Eric E. Poehler: Where to Park? Carts, Stables and the Economics of Transport in Pompeii * 9: Hanna Stöger: The Spatial Organisation of the Movement Economy: The Analysis of Ostia s scholae * Part III: Movement and the Metropolis * 10: Claire Holleran: The Street Life of Ancient Rome * 11: Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis: The City in Motion: Walking for transport and leisure in the city of Rome * 12: David J. Newsome: Movement and Fora in Rome (the Late Republic to the first century CE) * 13: Francesco Trifilò: Movement, gaming and the use of space in the forum * 14: Diane Favro: Construction Traffic in Imperial Rome: Building the Arch of Septimius Severus * 15: Simon Malmberg and Hans Bjur: Movement and urban development at two city gates in Rome: the Porta Esquilina and Porta Tiburtina * Endpiece * From Movement to Mobility: Future Directions * Bibliography
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