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Spolia in fortifications and the common builder in late antiquity / / by Jon M. Frey



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Autore: Frey Jon M. Visualizza persona
Titolo: Spolia in fortifications and the common builder in late antiquity / / by Jon M. Frey Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Leiden, Netherlands ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : Brill, , 2016
©2016
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (234 p.)
Disciplina: 725/.18
Soggetto topico: Fortification - Greece - History - To 1500
Building materials - Recycling - Greece - History - To 1500
Soggetto geografico: Aegina Island (Greece) Antiquities
Isthmía (Greece) Antiquities
Sparta (Extinct city)
Greece History, Military To 146 B.C
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Front Matter -- Introduction -- Themes -- Reuse as Repair: The “Inscription Wall” at Aegina -- Reuse as Reinterpretation: Section R at Sparta -- Reuse as Rejection: The Fortress at Isthmia -- Spoliation as Process, Military Strategy, and Democratization -- Works Cited -- Index of Names and Subjects.
Sommario/riassunto: Through intensive surveys of three fortifications in late Roman Greece, Frey reveals the untapped potential of spolia in demonstrating the critical role played by non-elites in bringing about the architectural and social changes that mark the end of classical antiquity. As his analysis demonstrates, when studied less as displaced objects to be classified by type and more as evidence for the construction process itself, spolia offer a unique opportunity to examine the ways in which common builders met the challenge of using pre-existing building materials to meet their contemporary architectural needs. This “bottom-up” approach offers an alternative to the traditional view that attributes change and innovation only to the genius of prominent individuals known to us in historical sources.
Titolo autorizzato: Spolia in fortifications and the common builder in late antiquity  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 90-04-28967-4
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910480069503321
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Serie: Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. . -Supplementum. . -History and archaeology of classical antiquity ; ; Volume 389.