The city in the Roman West, c.250 BCc-c. AD 250 /
"The city is widely regarded as the most characteristic expression of the social, cultural and economic formations of the Roman Empire. This was especially true in the Latin-speaking West, where urbanism was much less deeply ingrained than in the Greek-speaking East but where networks of cities...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2011.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- 1. The creation of an urban culture
- 2. Colonisation and the development of Roman urbanism
- 3. City foundation, government and urbanism
- 4. The reception of Roman urbanism in the West
- 5. Town planning, competition and the aesthetics of urbanism
- 6. Defining a new town: walls, streets and temples
- 7. Assembling the city: forum and basilica
- 8. Assembling the city: baths and urban life
- 9. Assembling the city: theatres and sacred space
- 10. Assembling the city: amphitheatres
- 11. The Roman city in ca. AD 250: an urban legacy of Empire?
- Bibliography
- Index.