A Companion to the City of Rome: Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World

Author: Amanda Claridge Claire Holleran
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Category: Literary Studies: Classical, Early & Medieval, European History, Ancient History: To C 500 CE, Classical History / Classical Civilisation
Book Format: Hardcover

A Companion to the City of Rome presents a series of original essays from top experts that offer an authoritative and up-to-date overview of current research on the development of the city of Rome from its origins until circa AD 600. * Offers a unique interdisciplinary, closely focused thematic approach and wide chronological scope making it an indispensible reference work on ancient Rome * Includes several new developments on areas of research that are available in English for the first time * Newly commissioned essays written by experts in a variety of related fields * Original and up-to-date readings pertaining to the city of Rome on a wide variety of topics including Rome's urban landscape, population, economy, civic life, and key events

CLAIRE HOLLERAN is Senior Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History at the University of Exeter. She is co-editor of Demography and the Graeco-Roman World (with April Pudsey, 2011) and author of Shopping in Ancient Rome: the Retail Trade in the Late Republic and the Principate (2012). AMANDA CLARIDGE is Emeritus Professor of Roman Archaeology at Royal Holloway University of London. Her recent publications include Rome: An Oxford Archaeological Guide (2012) and Paper Museum of Cassiano dal Pozzo: Classical manuscript illustrations (with Ingo Herklotz, 2012).

Table Of Contents
Notes on Contributors xi
Preface xix


Abbreviations xxi


List of Illustrations xxiii


List of Tables xxvii


List of Maps xxix


PART I Introductory 1


1 Source Material:


i Archaeological Sources 3

Maria Kneafsey


ii Written Sources 9

Richard Flower


iii The Marble Plans 13

Pier Luigi Tucci


iv The Epigraphic Record 20

Boris Rankov


v Coins 24

Andrew Burnett


2 Historical Overview: From City ]state to Christian Center 29

Christopher Smith


PART II The Urban Landscape 53


3 A City of Stories 55

T.P. Wiseman


4 Defining the City: The Boundaries of Rome 71

Penelope J. Goodman


5 The Development of the City: An Archaeological Perspective
i From its Origins to the Second Century BCE 93

Amanda Claridge


ii From 100 BCE to 600 CE 115

Amanda Claridge


PART III The People 137


6 The Population 139

Elio Lo Cascio


7 Social Structure and the plebs Romana 155

David Noy


8 The Army in Imperial Rome 173

Jon Coulston


PART IV The Urban Infrastructure 197


9 Rivers, Roads, and Ports 199

Candace M. Rice


10 Feeding Rome: The Grain Supply 219

Giovanni Geraci (translated Claire Holleran)


11 Water Supply and Sewers 247

Harry B. Evans


12 Streets and Street Life 263

J. Bert Lott


13 Urban Administration in Rome 279

John R. Patterson


PART V Living in Rome 297


14 Housing:


i The Development and Role of the Roman Aristocratic Domus 299

Hannah Platts


ii Insulae 317

Janet DeLaine


15 The Imperial Thermae 325

Janet DeLaine


16 Libraries and Literary Culture in Rome 343

Matthew Nicholls


PART VI Dying in Rome 363


17 Hazards of Life in Ancient Rome: Floods, Fires, Famines, Footpads, Filth, and Fevers 365

Gregory S. Aldrete


18 Funerary Practice in the City of Rome 383

Valerie M. Hope


19 Roman Cemeteries and Tombs 403

Barbara E. Borg


PART VII The Urban Economy 425


20 The Labor Market 427

Laurens E. Tacoma


21 Production in Rome 443

Dennis Kehoe


22 The Retail Trade 459

Claire Holleran


23 The Construction Industry 473

Janet DeLaine


PART VIII Civic Life 491


24 Temples, Colleges, and Priesthoods 493

Joerg Rupke


25 Entertainment 511

David Potter


26 Law and Lawcourts 527

Leanne Bablitz


27 The Roman Church 541

John Curran


28 Political Space 559

Elizabeth H. Pearson


PART IX The Roman Triumph 581


29 The Triumphal Procession 583

Geoffrey S. Sumi


30 Urban Commemoration: The Pompa Triumphalis in Rome 599

Diane Favro


PART X Receptions of Rome 619


31 Written Rome: Ancient Literary Responses 621

Diana Spencer
32 The Renaissance: The "Discovery" of Ancient Rome 643

Brian A. Curran


33 Napoleonic Rome and "Roma Capitale" 673

Pier Luigi Tucci


34 Mussolini and Rome 683

Borden Painter
35 The City of Ancient Rome on Screen 699

Monica S. Cyrino


Index 715


Topographical Index 731


Source Index 739
About Claire Holleran
Amanda Claridge is emeritus Professor of Roman Archaeology at Royal Holloway University of London. Her recent publications include Rome: An Oxford Archaeological Guide (2010) and (with Ingo Herklotz) Paper Museum of Cassiano dal Pozzo: Classical manuscript illustrations (2012). Claire Holleran is Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History at the University of Exeter. She is co-editor of the upcoming Demography and the Graeco-Roman World (with April Pudsey, 2011) and author of Shopping in Ancient Rome: the Retail Trade in the Late Republic and the Principate (2012).

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