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Record Nr.

UNINA9910154590903321

Titolo

Vrbes extinctae : archaeologies of abandoned classical towns / / edited by Neil Christie and Andrea Augenti

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Routledge, , 2016

ISBN

1-351-87412-8

0-367-88805-X

1-315-23446-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (424 pages) : illustrations

Altri autori (Persone)

AugentiAndrea

ChristieNeil

Disciplina

930.1

Soggetti

Extinct cities

Cities and towns - Rome

Urban archaeology

Rome Civilization

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 2012 by Ashgate Publishing.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Vrbes extinctae : histories and archaeologies / Neil Christie -- 2. Classe : archaeologies of a lost city in north Italy / Andrea Augenti -- 3. Potentia : a lost new town / Frank M.R. Vermeulen -- 4. After the rats : Cosa in the late empire and early Middle Ages / Enrico Cirelli and Elizabeth Fentress -- 5. Urban change on the Balearics in late antiquity / Miguel Angel Cau -- 6. Recopolis : vrbs relicta? : an historico-archaeological debate / Isabel Velazquez and Gisella Ripoll -- 7. Deciphering 'lost' urban landscapes at Cyrene / Gareth Sears. [et al.] -- 8. An 'Ice Age setting on the Roman Empire' : post-Roman Butrint between strategy and serendipity / Will Bowden and Richard Hodges -- 9. Memory and loss in the late antique cities of Knossos and Sparta / Rebecca Sweetman -- 10. Hierapolis of Phrygia : the drawn-out demise of an Anatolian city / Paul Arthur -- 11. Dura Deserta : the death and afterlife of Dura-Europos / J.A. Baird -- 12. Calleva Atrebatum (Silchester, Hampshire, UK) : an early medieval extinction / Mike Fulford -- 13. Concluding remarks : a tale of many (lost) cities : past, present and future / Andrea Augenti.