UID:
almafu_9959695946902883
Format:
1 online resource (xx, 625 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-107-42381-3
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1-139-02597-X
Series Statement:
Cambridge companions to the ancient world
Content:
Rome was the largest city in the ancient world. As the capital of the Roman Empire, it was clearly an exceptional city in terms of size, diversity and complexity. While the Colosseum, imperial palaces and Pantheon are among its most famous features, this volume explores Rome primarily as a city in which many thousands of men and women were born, lived and died. The thirty-one chapters by leading historians, classicists and archaeologists discuss issues ranging from the monuments and the games to the food and water supply, from policing and riots to domestic housing, from death and disease to pagan cults and the impact of Christianity. Richly illustrated, the volume introduces groundbreaking new research against the background of current debates and is designed as a readable survey accessible in particular to undergraduates and non-specialists.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Nov 2015).
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The emergence of the city / Alexandre Grandazzi -- Population size and social structure / Neville Morley -- 3. Disease and death / Walter Scheidel -- Slaves and freedmen / Elisabeth Herrmann-Otto -- Immigration and cosmopolitanization / Claudia Moatti -- Marriages, families, households / Beryl Rawson -- Pack animals, pets, pests, and other non-human beings / Michael MacKinnon -- The urban topography of Rome / Elisha Ann Dumser -- Housing and domestic architecture / Glenn R. Storey -- Regions and neighbourhoods / J. Bert Lott -- Monumental Rome / R. Don Miller -- (Sub)urban surroundings / Robert Witcher -- The Tiber and river transport / Steven L. Tuck -- Traffic and land transportation in and near Rome / Ray Laurence -- The food supply of the capital / Paul Erdkamp -- Counting bricks and stacking wood : providing the physical fabric / Shawn Graham -- Water supply, drainage and watermills / Christer Bruun -- Industries and services / Wim Broekaert and Arjan Zuiderhoek -- Labour and employment / Cameron Hawkins -- Professional associations / Jinyu Liu -- Sex and the city / Thomas A.J. McGinn -- Civic rituals and political spaces in Republican and Imperial Rome / Adam Ziolkowski -- Policing and security / Benjamin Kelly -- Riots / Gregory S. Aldrete -- 'Romans, play on!': city of the Games / Nicholas Purcell -- The urban sacred landscape / Andreas Bendlin -- Structuring time : festivals, holidays and the calendar / Michele Renee Salzman -- Cemeteries and catacombs / Leonard V. Rutgers -- What difference did Christianity make? / A.D. Lee -- The city in ruins : text, image and imagination / Catharine Edwards -- Roma aeterna / Ingrid Rowland.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-72078-8
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-89629-0
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
Keywords:
Aufsatzsammlung
