Rome

A Living Portrait of an Ancient City
Erscheinungsjahr 2010
ISBN: 978-0-8018-9254-7
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Buch, Englisch, 488 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 788 g

Reihe: Ancient Society and History

Stephen L. Dyson has spent a lifetime studying and teaching the history of ancient Rome. That unparalleled knowledge is reflected in his magisterial overview of the Eternal City.

Rather than look only at the physical development of the city—its buildings, monuments, and urban spaces—Dyson also explores its social, economic, and cultural histories. This unique approach situates Rome against a background of comparative urban history and theory, allowing Dyson to examine the dynamic society that once thrived there. In his personal effort to reconstruct the city, Dyson populates its streets with the hurried politicians, hawking vendors, and animated students that once lived, worked, and studied there, bringing the ancient city to life for a new generation of students and tourists.

Dyson follows Rome as it developed between the third century BC and the fourth century AD, dividing the great megalopolis into distinct neighborhoods and locales. He shows how these communities, each with its own unique customs and colorful inhabitants, eventually grew into the great imperial capital of the Italian Empire.

Dyson integrates the full range of sources available—literary, artistic, epigraphic, and archaeological—to create a comprehensive history of the monumental city. In doing so, he offers a dramatic picture of a complex and changing urban center that, despite its flaws, flourished for centuries.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dyson, Stephen L

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Städtebau, Stadtplanung (Architektur)
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike Römische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Preface
1. Approaching the Ancient City
2. The Creation of the Ancient Megalopolis of Rome
3. Rome after Hannibal
4. From Sulla to Octavian
5. The Creation of the Imperial City
6. The Consolidation of the Imperial City
7. The Antonine City
8. Neighborhoods, Pathways, and Rituals of the Imperial City
9. Supply, Service, and Productivity: The Urban Economy of Ancient Rome
10. The People of Imperial Rome
11. On the Fringe: Rome beyond the Pomerium
12. The Prelude to the Christian City
Notes
Glossary of Latin Terms
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Dyson, Stephen L
Stephen L. Dyson is a professor of classics at the University at Buffalo and has spent his career writing about archaeology and Roman history. His numerous books include In Pursuit of Ancient Pasts: A History of Classical Archaeology in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, The Roman Countryside, and Community and Society in Roman Italy, also published by Johns Hopkins.