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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461308203321

Autore

Kaiser Alan

Titolo

Roman urban street networks / / Alan Kaiser

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2011

ISBN

1-283-15130-8

9786613151308

1-136-76007-5

0-203-82181-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (263 p.)

Collana

Routledge studies in archaeology ; ; 2

Disciplina

937

Soggetti

Streets - Rome - History

Plazas - Rome - History

Street life - Rome - History

City and town life - Rome - History

Public spaces - Rome - History

Cities and towns - Rome - History

City planning - Rome - History

Electronic books.

Rome Social life and customs

Rome Antiquities

Rome History, Local

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Simultaneously published in the UK"--T.p. verso.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Textual evidence for Roman perceptions of streets and plazas -- Defining and analyzing street networks in the archaeological record -- Pompeii -- Ostia -- Silchester -- Empúries -- Streets, space, and Roman urbanism.

Sommario/riassunto

The streets of Roman cities have received surprisingly little attention until recently. Traditionally the main interest archaeologists and classicists had in streets was in tracing the origins and development of the orthogonal layout used in Roman colonial cities. Roman Urban Street Networks is the first volume to sift through the ancient literature



to determine how authors used the Latin vocabulary for streets, and determine what that tells us about how the Romans perceived their streets. Author Alan Kaiser offers a methodology for describing the role of a street within the broade