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Autore: Kaiser Alan Visualizza persona
Titolo: Roman urban street networks / / Alan Kaiser Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New York : , : Routledge, , 2011
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (263 p.)
Disciplina: 937
Soggetto topico: 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
Soggetto geografico: Rome Social life and customs
Rome Antiquities
Rome History, Local
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
Titolo autorizzato: Roman urban street networks  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-136-76006-7
1-283-15130-8
9786613151308
1-136-76007-5
0-203-82181-5
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910822923103321
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Serie: Routledge studies in archaeology ; ; 2.