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Urban Space and Urban History in the Roman World book cover

1st Edition

Urban Space and Urban History in the Roman World

Edited By Miko Flohr Copyright 2020
348 Pages 126 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

348 Pages 126 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

348 Pages 126 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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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... Read more
  1. From urban space to urban history – an introduction

    2. Miko Flohr

    PART I. EXPERIENCING THE CITY

  2. Political space and the experience of citizenship in the city of Rome: architecture and interpellation

    3. Amy Russell

  3. Emotion and the city: the example of Pompeii

    4. Annette Haug

  4. Hilltops, heat, and precipitation: Roman urban life and the natural environment

    5. Miko Flohr

    PART II. COMMUNITY, IDENTITY, AND URBAN SPACE

  5. Topographical permeability and the dynamics of public space in Roman Minturnae

    6. Patric-Alexander Kreuz

  6. Antique statuary and urban identity in Roman Greece

    7. Christopher P. Dickenson

  7. Women in the forum: the cases of Italy and Roman North Africa

    8. Cristina Murer

  8. Religion in the urban landscape: the special case of Rome

    9. Marlis Arnhold

    PART III. COMMERCE AND THE URBAN LANDSCAPE

  9. Sacred transactions: religion and markets in Roman urbanism

    10. Elizabeth Fentress

  10. Fora and commerce in Roman Italy

    11. Miko Flohr

  11. The archaeology of urban workshops in the Roman Maghreb

    12. Touatia Amraoui

  12. The ports of Roman Lycia: urbanism, networks, and hierarchies

    13. Candace M. Rice

    PART IV. URBAN LIFE BEYOND THE CITY WALLS

  13. Urban borderscapes in Roman Italy: arenas for social, political and cultural interaction

    14. Saskia Stevens

  14. The tabernae outside Porta Ercolano in Pompeii and their context

    15. Sandra Zanella

  15. Roman roads as an indicator of urban life: the Via Appia near Rome

Stephan T.A.M. Mols and Eric Moormann

Biography

Miko Flohr is Lecturer in Ancient History at Leiden University. His research focuses on the archaeology of urban economies in Roman Italy. He published the monograph The World of the Fullo: Work, Economy and Society in Roman Italy (2013), and co-edited the volumes Craftsmen and Traders in the Roman World (2016), and The Economy of Pompeii (2017). He is currently preparing a monograph on the architectural and economic history of the taberna and co-editing Companion to Cities in the Greco-Roman World.

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