Rethinking the Roman City (eBook, PDF)

The Spatial Turn and the Archaeology of Roman Italy
Redaktion: Filippi, Dunia

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Produktbeschreibung

The spatial turn has brought forward new analytical imperatives about the importance of space in the relationship between physical and social networks of meaning. This volume explores this in relation to approaches and methodologies in the study of urban space in Roman Italy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. März 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351115414
• Artikelnr.: 63439205

Autorenporträt

Dunia Filippi, former advanced Marie Slodowska-Curie Fellow, is affiliated Researcher at the Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge, UK. She is interested in urban and social settlement, the topography of ancient Rome during its long life span, residential building and archaeological theory and methodology. She has reconstructed the topography of the 8th Augustan region "Forum Romanum Magnum". She has recently co-edited the edition of the excavation over twenty years at the North Slope of the Palatine hill, in Rome (a 100 ha stratigraphic deposit between the 12th cent. BCE and the 14th cent. CE).

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
PART 1
Methodological approaches
Chapter 1
Topography between two worlds: William Gell and Antonio Nibby
Andrew Wallace-Hadrill with Martin Millett
Chapter 2
Some thoughts on current trends in the archaeology of urban contexts and
rural landscapes in the Mediterranean world
Stefano Campana
PART 2
Cities with optimal data: Rome, Ostia and Pompeii
Chapter 3
Topography and Classical Archaeology: Landscape biography
Paolo Carafa
Chapter 4
Sensory-spatial history at Ostia: The embodied space of street porticoes
Jeffrey D. Veitch
Chapter 5
Rethinking Relationships between Ostia and Portus
Simon Keay
Chapter 6
Visual communication in the streets of Pompeii
Annette van Haug and Philipp Kobutsch
PART 3
A key public space in the Roman city: The Forum
Chapter 7
Archaeologists in the Roman Forum
Dunia Filippi
Chapter 8
Historians in the Forum
Nicholas Purcell
Chapter 9
Children and Public Space in Early Imperial Rome
Ray Laurence
Chapter 10
Transformations of public space in the cities of Italy under the
Principate: the case of the Forum
John Patterson
Index