From the Romans to the Railways

The Fate of Antiquities in Asia Minor
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-90-04-22219-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 13, 476 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 879 g

Reihe: Technology and Change in History

This multi-disciplinary account of the fate of ancient monuments and technologies in Asia Minor studies the processes and their results with the help of archaeology, history, construction engineering, and travel documentation. To clarify changes, their causes and repercussions, it compares infrastructure engineering (transportation, water management, utilitarian architecture) in antiquity with developments over the past 200 years, using the accounts of European travellers and then of excavations. It analyses patterns of and reasons for the deterioration of material life, documenting the perceptions and understanding of Roman antiquities and engineering by populations living amidst ancient Roman art and architecture, roads, and aqueducts. These are complemented by travellers' accounts of the myriad aspects of the plundering of archaeological sites and antiquities.

Zielgruppe

Those interested in classical antiquities, their supporting technologies, and their post-antique history; in the literature of exploration and travel; and in the competitive stocking of European museums.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Greenhalgh, Michael

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Geschichte der Architektur, Baugeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: Klassisch (Griechisch & Römisch)
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Fälschung, Kunstraub
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike Klassische Archäologie

Über Autor(innen)

Michael Greenhalgh, M.A., Ph.D. (1967), from 1987 Sir William Dobell Foundation Professor of Art History at the Australian National University, now Visiting Fellow. Author of many books and papers on the survival and re-use of the antique around the Mediterranean, including Marble Past, Monumental Present (2009) and Constantinople to Córdoba (2012).