The Politics of Public Space in Republican Rome - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Politics of Public Space in Republican Rome write by Amy Russell. This book was released on 2016. The Politics of Public Space in Republican Rome available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores how public space in Republican Rome was an unstable category marked, experienced, and defined by multiple actors and audiences.
The Definition of Public Space in Republican Rome
The Definition of Public Space in Republican Rome - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Definition of Public Space in Republican Rome write by Amy Russell. This book was released on 2011. The Definition of Public Space in Republican Rome available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This dissertation uses a combination of literary and archeological evidence to ask how Romans understood and defined public space in Rome during the Republic. The definition of concepts of `public' and `private' in Roman culture differed from that current in modern Western discourse, but just like modern definitions, it was ambiguous and manipulable. Taking public space as a starting-point offers new insights into the Roman concepts, and a behavioural approach, aided by insights from space syntax theory, allows for a partial reconstruction of the diversity of spatial experience in the city. Traditionally, lack of behavioural control has been associated with private space, but for the majority of the population, who were not householders, it was public spaces which were characterised by greater freedom of access and behaviour. Public space was not a monolith, but offered a variety of spatial experiences and was experienced differently by different groups. Moreover, just as the space of the Roman elite house was more `public' than we might naively suspect, public space in the city of Rome was determined by and thoroughly saturated by the private. The Republican Forum Romanum incorporated domestic and commercial space as well as political space, which itself was never neutrally `public' but always contested. The grand victory porticoes of the Campus Martius mark out sacred space but also space associated with an individual general, and their architecture and decoration increasingly mark them as semi-private, until eventually Pompey's theatre-portico complex incorporates not only a curia but also his own house. We see attempts to exploit the ambiguities of existing discourses of public and private, creating spaces like victory complexes and basilicas. Although Latin uses publicus and privatus as a natural and exclusive pair, the terms were in fact contested even in ancient times, and very little space in Rome was entirely public or entirely private.
The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Rome
The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Rome - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Rome write by Paul Erdkamp. This book was released on 2013-09-05. The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Rome available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Rome was the largest city in the ancient world. As the capital of the Roman Empire, it was clearly an exceptional city in terms of size, diversity and complexity. While the Colosseum, imperial palaces and Pantheon are among its most famous features, this volume explores Rome primarily as a city in which many thousands of men and women were born, lived and died. The thirty-one chapters by leading historians, classicists and archaeologists discuss issues ranging from the monuments and the games to the food and water supply, from policing and riots to domestic housing, from death and disease to pagan cults and the impact of Christianity. Richly illustrated, the volume introduces groundbreaking new research against the background of current debates and is designed as a readable survey accessible in particular to undergraduates and non-specialists.
Perspectives on Public Space in Rome, from Antiquity to the Present Day
Perspectives on Public Space in Rome, from Antiquity to the Present Day - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Perspectives on Public Space in Rome, from Antiquity to the Present Day write by Jan Gadeyne. This book was released on 2016-04-22. Perspectives on Public Space in Rome, from Antiquity to the Present Day available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume provides readers interested in urban history with a collection of essays on the evolution of public space in that paradigmatic western city which is Rome. Scholars specialized in different historical periods contributed chapters, in order to find common themes which weave their way through one of the most complex urban histories of western civilization. Divided into five chronological sections (Antiquity, Middle Ages, Renaissance, Baroque, Modern and Contemporary) the volume opens with the issue of how public space was defined in classical Roman law and how ancient city managers organized the maintenance of these spaces, before moving on to explore how this legacy was redefined and reinterpreted during the Middle Ages. The third group of essays examines how the imposition of papal order on feuding families during the Renaissance helped introduce a new urban plan which could satisfy both functional and symbolic needs. The fourth section shows how modern Rome continued to express strong interest in the control and management of public space, the definition of which was necessarily selective in this vastly extensive city. The collection ends with an essay on the contemporary debate for revitalizing Rome's eastern periphery. Through this long-term chronological approach the volume offers a truly unique insight into the urban development of one of Europe’s most important cities, and concludes with a discuss of the challenges public space faces today after having served for so many centuries as a driving force in urban history.
The Cambridge Companion to the Roman Republic
The Cambridge Companion to the Roman Republic - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Cambridge Companion to the Roman Republic write by Harriet I. Flower. This book was released on 2014-06-23. The Cambridge Companion to the Roman Republic available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This second edition examines all aspects of Roman history, and contains a new introduction, three new chapters and updated bibliographies.
