Jeremy Hartnett

Roman Street (eBook, PDF)

Urban Life and Society in Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Rome

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Every day Roman urbanites took to the street for myriad tasks, from hawking vegetables and worshipping local deities to simply loitering and socializing. Hartnett takes readers into this thicket of activity as he repopulates Roman streets with their full range of sensations, participants, and events that stretched far beyond simple movement. As everyone from slave to senator met in this communal space, city dwellers found unparalleled opportunities for self-aggrandizing display and the negotiation of social and political tensions. Hartnett charts how Romans preened and paraded in the street, and how they exploited the street's collective space to lob insults and respond to personal rebukes. Combining textual evidence, comparative historical material, and contemporary urban theory with architectural and art historical analysis, The Roman Street offers a social and cultural history of urban spaces that restores them to their rightful place as primary venues for social performance in the ancient world.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Mai 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781316984154
• Artikelnr.: 48203383

Autorenporträt

Jeremy Hartnett is Associate Professor and Chair of Classics at Wabash College, Indiana, where he holds the Anne and Andrew T. Ford Chair in the Liberal Arts. He is the author of numerous articles and chapters on Roman urban history, the history of photography, and collegiate pedagogy, and has been awarded fellowships and grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Michigan Society of Fellows, and the Archaeological Institute of America.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I. Repopulating the Street: 1. Street forms, street movements
2. Life in the street
3. The street's social environment
Part II. The Street and its Architectural Border: 4. Sidewalks under siege: houses, owners, and urban context
5. House facades and the architectural language of self-presentation
6. The 'in' and the 'out': streetside benches and urban society
Part III. The Street in Microcosm: 7. On the edge of the civic: a Herculaneum street
8. A contentious commercial street in Pompeii
Epilogue.