A Companion to Roman Architecture (eBook)

Roger B. Ulrich, Caroline K. Quenemoen (Herausgeber)

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2013
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-1-118-32513-1 (ISBN)

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A Companion to Roman Architecture presents a comprehensive review of the critical issues and approaches that have transformed scholarly understanding in recent decades in one easy-to-reference volume.

• Offers a cross-disciplinary approach to Roman architecture, spanning technology, history, art, politics, and archaeology
• Brings together contributions by leading scholars in architectural history
• An essential guide to recent scholarship, covering new archaeological discoveries, lesser known buildings, new technologies and space and construction
• Includes extensive, up-to-date bibliography and glossary of key Roman architectural terms

Roger B. Ulrich is Ralph Butterfield Professor of Classics at Dartmouth College, where he teaches Roman Archaeology and Latin and directs Dartmouth's Rome Foreign Study Program in Italy. He is the author of The Roman Orator and the Sacred Stage: The Roman Templum Rostratum(1994) and Roman Woodworking (2007).

Caroline K. Quenemoen is Professor in the Practice and Director of Fellowships and Undergraduate Research at Rice University. Previously she taught courses in Greek and Roman art and archaeology at Rice. Her research focuses on Roman architecture, including articles on the House of Augustus.

Inhalt

List of Illustrations viii

Contributors xiii

Maps/General Images xviii

Introduction 1

1. Italic Architecture of the Earlier First Millennium BCE
6

Jeffrey A. Becker

2. Rome and Her Neighbors: Greek Building Practices in
Republican Rome 27

Penelope J.E. Davies

3. Creating Imperial Architecture 45

Inge Nielsen

4. Columns and Concrete: Architecture from Nero to Hadrian
63

Caroline K. Quenemoen

5. The Severan Period 82

Edmund V. Thomas

6. The Architecture of Tetrarchy 106

Emanuel Mayer

7. Architect and Patron 127

James C. Anderson, jr.

8. Plans, Measurement Systems, and Surveying: The Roman
Technology of Pre-Building 140

John R. Senseney

9. Materials and Techniques 157

Lynne C. Lancaster and Roger B. Ulrich

10. Labor Force and Execution 193

Rabun Taylor

11. Urban Sanctuaries: The Early Republic to Augustus
207

John W. Stamper

12. Monumental Architecture of Non-Urban Cult Places in Roman
Italy 228

Tesse D. Stek

13. Fora 248

James F.D. Frakes

14. Funerary Cult and Architecture 264

Kathryn J. McDonnell

15. Building for an Audience: The Architecture of Roman
Spectacle 281

Hazel Dodge

16. Roman Imperial Baths and Thermae 299

Fikret K. Yegül

17. Courtyard Architecture in the Insulae of Ostia Antica
324

Roger B. Ulrich

18. Domus/Single Family House 342

John R. Clarke

19. Private Villas: Italy and the Provinces 363

Mantha Zarmakoupi

20. Romanization 381

Louise Revell

21. Streets and Facades 399

Ray Laurence

22. Vitruvius and his Influence 412

Ingrid D. Rowland

23. Ideological Applications: Roman Architecture and Fascist
Romanità 426

Genevieve S. Gessert

24. Visualizing Architecture Then and Now: Mimesis and the
Capitoline Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus 446

Melanie Grunow Sobocinski

25. Conservation 462

William Aylward

Glossary 480

References 501

Index 565

Rezensionen

"This comprehensive volume of almost 600 pages deserves praise. Its 25 chapters have a chronological as well as a thematic focus, and cover the broader Roman Empire as well as specific case studies." (Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 1 March 2015)

"The Companion is an important study that opens up new avenues for discussion and consideration, challenges what is currently perceived to be the approved wisdom on Roman architecture and encourages a new approach to understanding the material culture of a society that remains evident and influential in our own." (Reference Reviews, 1 October 2014)

"Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through graduate students." (Choice, 1 June 2013)

"The line-up of contributers is extremley impressive, with most chapters written by the very scolors whose names immediately sprang to my own mind on seeing their titles" (The Journal of Roman Studies, May 2016)

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 10.10.2013
• Reihe/Serie: Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
• Reihe/Serie: Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
• Reihe/Serie: Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Architektur
• Schlagworte: APPROACHES • archaeological • Architectural History & Styles • Architecture • Architektur • Architektur- u. Stilgeschichte • Classical • Classical Studies • Companion • Critical • Discoveries • Draws • Enduring • Experts • Historical • Humanistische Studien • Kultur der römischen Antike • Kultur der römischen Antike • legacy • New • Order • Overview • Physical • Römische Geschichte • Roman • Roman Culture • Roman History • Rom /Architektur, Bautechnik • Römische Geschichte • scholarly • selective • Transformed • Understanding • Volume • World
• ISBN-10: 1-118-32513-3 / 1118325133
• ISBN-13: 978-1-118-32513-1 / 9781118325131