Artifacts from Ancient Rome

James B. Tschen-Emmons (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

360 Seiten

2014
Greenwood Press (Verlag)
978-1-61069-619-7 (ISBN)

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When Roman objects and artifacts are properly analyzed, they serve as valuable primary sources for learning about ancient history. This book provides the guidance and relevant historical context students need to see relics as evidence of long-past events and society.

Artifacts from Ancient Rome is a unique social history that explores major aspects of daily life in a long-ago era via images of physical objects and historical information about these items. This book also affords "hands-on training" on how to approach primary sources.

The author—a historian also trained as an archaeologist—begins by explaining the concept of using artifacts to understand and "see" the past and providing a primer for effectively analyzing artifacts. Entries on the artifacts follow, with each containing an introduction, a description of the artifact, an explanation of its significance, and a list of further sources of information. Readers of the book will not only gain a composite impression of daily life in ancient Rome through the study of artifacts from domestic life, religion, war, transportation, entertainment, and more, but will also learn how to best understand and analyze primary sources for learning.

James B. Tschen Emmons, PhD, teaches history at North Idaho College and mythology at Northern Virginia Community College.

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
How to Evaluate Artifacts
Chronology of Events
COMMUNICATIONS AND RECORD KEEPING
Abacus
Calendar
Graffiti
Inkwell
Seal Ring
Wax Tablet
COOKING AND FOOD
Amphora
Bread Oven
Cooking Pot
Dining Couch
ENTERTAINMENT
Dice and Tavern Game Board
Lyre
Mosaic of a Boxer
Theatrical Mask
Toys
GROOMING, CLOTHING, AND ACCESSORIES
Fibula
Perfume Bottle
Phalera
Portrait Bust
Razor
Sandals
Strigil
Toga Praetexta
HOUSEHOLD ITEMS
Cave Canem Mosaic
Drainpipes
Oil Lamp
Public Toilets
Sundial
RELIGION AND FUNERARY PRACTICES
Aedicule Memorial
Bulla
Catacombs
Curse Tablet
Lar
Sistrum
Votive Male Torso
TOOLS AND WEAPONS
Ballista
Coin Mold
Fasces
Gladius
Scales and Steelyard
Scalpels and Bronze Scissors
TRANSPORTATION
Farm Cart
Horse Bit
Milestone
Rostrum
Select Bibliography
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.9.2014
Reihe/Serie	Daily Life through Artifacts
Zusatzinfo	51 bw illus
Sprache	englisch
Maße	216 x 279 mm
Gewicht	1276 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10	1-61069-619-0 / 1610696190
ISBN-13	978-1-61069-619-7 / 9781610696197
Zustand	Neuware