Urban space and urban history in the Roman world

Author(s)

• Flohr, Miko

Bibliographic Information

Urban space and urban history in the Roman world

edited by Miko Flohr

（Studies in Roman space and urbanism）

Routledge, 2021

• : hbk

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This volume investigates how urban growth and prosperity transformed the cities of the Roman Mediterranean in the last centuries BCE and the fi rst centuries CE, integrating debates about Roman urban space with discourse on Roman urban history. The contributions explore how these cities developed landscapes full of civic memory and ritual, saw commercial priorities transforming the urban environment, and began to expand signifi cantly beyond their wall circuits. These interrelated developments not only changed how cities looked and could be experienced, but they also affected the functioning of the urban community and together contributed to keeping increasingly complex urban communities socially cohesive. By focusing on the transformation of urban landscapes in the Late Republican and Imperial periods, the volume adds a new, explicitly historical angle to current debates about urban space in Roman studies. Confronting archaeological and historical approaches, the volume presents developments in Italy, Africa, Greece, and Asia Minor, thus significantly broadening the geographical scope of the discussion and offering novel theoretical perspectives alongside well- documented, thematic case studies. Urban Space and Urban History in the Roman World will be of interest to anyone working on Roman urbanism or Roman history in the Late Republic and early Empire.

Table of Contents

From urban space to urban history - an introduction Miko Flohr PART I. EXPERIENCING THE CITY Political space and the experience of citizenship in the city of Rome: architecture and interpellation Amy Russell Emotion and the city: the example of Pompeii Annette Haug Hilltops, heat, and precipitation: Roman urban life and the natural environment Miko Flohr PART II. COMMUNITY, IDENTITY, AND URBAN SPACE Topographical permeability and the dynamics of public space in Roman Minturnae Patric-Alexander Kreuz Antique statuary and urban identity in Roman Greece Christopher P. Dickenson Women in the forum: the cases of Italy and Roman North Africa Cristina Murer Religion in the urban landscape: the special case of Rome Marlis Arnhold PART III. COMMERCE AND THE URBAN LANDSCAPE Sacred transactions: religion and markets in Roman urbanism Elizabeth Fentress Fora and commerce in Roman Italy Miko Flohr The archaeology of urban workshops in the Roman Maghreb Touatia Amraoui The ports of Roman Lycia: urbanism, networks, and hierarchies Candace M. Rice PART IV. URBAN LIFE BEYOND THE CITY WALLS Urban borderscapes in Roman Italy: arenas for social, political and cultural interaction Saskia Stevens The tabernae outside Porta Ercolano in Pompeii and their context Sandra Zanella Roman roads as an indicator of urban life: the Via Appia near Rome Stephan T.A.M. Mols and Eric Moormann

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Details

• NCID: BC06666029
• ISBN:
  • 9780367406226
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: London ; New York
• Pages/Volumes: xvii, 327 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • DC23 : 937
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Cities and towns -- Rome
  • LCSH : Urbanization -- Rome -- History
  • LCSH : Rome -- History -- Republic, 510-30 B.C
  • LCSH : Rome -- History -- 30 B.C.-476 A.D
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BC06665434