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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781942703321

Autore

Laurence Ray <1963->

Titolo

The city in the Roman West, c. 250 BC-c. AD 250 / / Ray Laurence, Simon Esmonde-Cleary, Gareth Sears [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2011

ISBN

1-139-17956-X

1-107-21885-3

1-283-38245-8

1-139-18925-5

9786613382450

0-511-97588-0

1-139-18795-3

1-139-19055-5

1-139-18333-8

1-139-18564-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiv, 355 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Classificazione

HIS002000

Disciplina

307.760937

Soggetti

Cities and towns - Rome

Urbanization - Rome

Sociology, Urban - Rome

City planning - Rome

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 320-348) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Machine generated contents note: 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.



Sommario/riassunto

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 grew up during the centuries following conquest and occupation. This up-to-date and well-illustrated synthesis provides students and specialists with an overview of the development of the city in Italy, Gaul, Britain, Germany, Spain and North Africa, whether their interests lie in ancient history, Roman archaeology or the wider history of urbanism. It accounts not only for the city's geographical and temporal spread and its associated monuments (such as amphitheatres and baths), but also for its importance to the rulers of the Empire as well as the provincials and locals.