The Fortifications Of Pompeii And Ancient Italy

Author : Ivo Van der Graaff
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429868405

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The Fortifications of Pompeii and Ancient Italy by Ivo Van der Graaff Pdf

The fortifications of Pompeii stand as the ancient city’s largest, oldest, and best preserved public monument. Over its 700-year history, Pompeii invested significant amounts of money, resources, and labor into re-building, maintaining, and upgrading the walls. Each intervention on the fortifications marked a pivotal event of social and political change, signalling dramatic shifts in Pompeii’s urban, social, and architectural framework. Viewing the role of the defences as purely military in nature is over-simplified. Their fate was intertwined with that of Pompeii; their construction materials, methods and aesthetics reflect the political, social, and urban development of the city. This study redefines Pompeii’s fortifications, as a central monument that physically and symbolically shaped the city. It considers the internal and external forces that morphed its appearance, and traces how the fortifications served to foster a sense of community. The defences emerge as a dynamic, ideologically freighted monument, subject to manipulation and appropriation that was critical to the image and identity of Pompeii. The book is a unique narrative of the social and urban development of the city from foundation to the eruption of Vesuvius, through the lens of the monument most critical to its independence and survival.

Author : Dunia Filippi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351115407

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Rethinking the Roman City by Dunia Filippi Pdf

The spatial turn has brought forward new analytical imperatives about the importance of space in the relationship between physical and social networks of meaning. This volume explores this in relation to approaches and methodologies in the study of urban space in Roman Italy. As a consequence of these new imperatives, sociological studies on ancient Roman cities are flourishing, demonstrating a new set of approaches that have developed separately from "traditional" historical and topographical analyses. Rethinking the Roman City represents a convergence of these different approaches to propose a new interpretive model, looking at the Roman city and one of its key elements: the forum. After an introductory discussion of methodological issues, internationally-know specialists consider three key sites of the Roman world – Rome, Ostia and Pompeii. Chapters focus on physical space and/or the use of those spaces to inter-relate these different approaches. The focus then moves to the Forum Romanum, considering the possible analytical trajectories available (historical, topographical, literary, comparative and sociological), and the diversity of possible perspectives within each of these, moving towards an innovative understanding of the role of the forum within the Roman city. This volume will be of great value to scholars of ancient cities across the Roman world, well as historians of urban society and development throughout the ancient world.

Author : Annette Haug,M. Taylor Lauritsen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110732214

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Principles of Decoration in the Roman World by Annette Haug,M. Taylor Lauritsen Pdf

This book explores the manner in which architectural settings and action contexts influenced the perception of decoration in the Roman world. Crucial to the relationship between ancient viewers and media was the concept of decor, a term employed by Vitruvius and other Roman authors to describe the appropriateness of particular decorative elements to the environment in which they were located. The papers in this volume examine a diverse range of decorated spaces, from press rooms to synagogues, through the lens of decor. In doing so, they shed new light on the decorative principles employed across Roman Italy and beyond.

Author : Annette Haug,Adrian Hielscher,Anna-Lena Krüger
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2023-08-21
Category : Art
ISBN : 9783111248097

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Neighbourhoods and City Quarters in Antiquity by Annette Haug,Adrian Hielscher,Anna-Lena Krüger Pdf

Studies on ancient urbanity either concerns individual buildings or the city as a whole. This volume, instead, addresses a meso-scale of urbanity: the socio-spatial organisation of ancient cities. Its temporal focus is on Late Republican and Imperial Italy, and more specifically the cities of Pompeii and Ostia. Referring to a praxeological and phenomenological perspective, it looks at neighbourhoods and city quarters as basic categories of design and experience. With the terms 'neighbourhood and 'city quarter' the volume proposes two different methodological approaches: Neighbourhood here refers to the face-to-face relation between people living next to each other - thus the small-scale environment centred around a house and an individual. Neighbourhoods thus do not constitute a (collectively defined) urban territory with clear borders, but are rather constituted by individual experiences. In contrast, city quarters are understood as areas that share certain characteristics.

Author : Pedar W. Foss
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000557183

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Pliny and the Eruption of Vesuvius by Pedar W. Foss Pdf

Pliny and the Eruption of Vesuvius is a forensic examination of two of the most famous letters from the ancient Mediterranean world: Pliny the Younger’s Epistulae 6.16 and 6.20, which offer a contemporary account of the eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79. These letters, sent to the historian Tacitus, provide accounts by Pliny the Younger about what happened when Mt Vesuvius exploded, destroying the surrounding towns and countryside, including Pompeii and Herculaneum, and killing his uncle, Pliny the Elder. This volume provides the first comprehensive full-length treatment of these documents, contextualized by evidence-rich biographies for both Plinys, and a synthesis of the latest archaeological and volcanological research which answers questions about the eruption date. A new collation of sources results in a detailed manuscript tradition and an authoritative Latin text, while commentaries on each letter offer copiously referenced insights on their structure, style, and meaning. Pliny and the Eruption of Vesuvius offers a thorough companion to these letters, and to the eruption, which will be of interest not only to those working on Vesuvius, Pompeii, and Herculaneum, and the works of Pliny but also to general readers, Latin students, and scholars of the Roman world more broadly.

Author : Beatrix Busse,Ingo H. Warnke,Jennifer Smith
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110634754

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Place-Making in the Declarative City by Beatrix Busse,Ingo H. Warnke,Jennifer Smith Pdf

This volume looks at the concept of the declarative city from an interdisciplinary perspective, comprising literary and linguistic studies, arts and art history, discourse analysis, as well as urban planning. The various contributions demonstrate the semiotic complexity and inconsistency of declarative and discursive practices in different social, cultural, aesthetic, and historical contexts.

Author : Marcello Mogetta
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-24
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781108845687

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The Origins of Concrete Construction in Roman Architecture by Marcello Mogetta Pdf

A study of the innovation and transfer of the building technology at the root of ancient Rome's architectural revolution.

Author : Allison L. C. Emmerson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198852759

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Life and Death in the Roman Suburb by Allison L. C. Emmerson Pdf

Defined by borders both physical and conceptual, the Roman city stood apart as a concentration of life and activity that was legally, economically, and ritually divided from its rural surroundings. Death was a key area of control, and tombs were relegated outside city walls from the Republican period through Late Antiquity. Given this separation, an unexpected phenomenon marked the Augustan and early Imperial periods: Roman cities developed suburbs, built-up areas beyond their boundaries, where the living and the dead came together in densely urban environments. Life and Death in the Roman Suburb examines these districts, drawing on the archaeological remains of cities across Italy to understand the character of Roman suburbs and to illuminate the factors that led to their rise and decline, focusing especially on the tombs of the dead. Whereas work on Roman cities has tended to pass over funerary material, and research on death has concentrated on issues seen as separate from urbanism, Emmerson introduces a new paradigm, considering tombs within their suburban surroundings of shops, houses, workshops, garbage dumps, extramural sanctuaries, and major entertainment buildings, in order to trace the many roles they played within living cities. Her investigations show how tombs were not passive memorials, but active spaces that facilitated and furthered the social and economic life of the city, where relationships between the living and the dead were an enduring aspect of urban life.

Author : Michael Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2023-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009249041

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Urban Life in the Distant Past by Michael Smith Pdf

The book describes a novel approach to early cities that is transdisciplinary, scientific, historical, and based on social-science knowledge.

Author : Steven J. R. Ellis,Allison L. C. Emmerson,Kevin D. Dicus
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 779 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-04
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780192692542

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The Porta Stabia Neighborhood at Pompeii Volume I by Steven J. R. Ellis,Allison L. C. Emmerson,Kevin D. Dicus Pdf

This is the first of four volumes that present the results from the University of Cincinnati's archaeological excavations of the Porta Stabia neighborhood at Pompeii. These excavations targeted two town blocks on either side of the via Stabiana (insulae VIII.7 and I.1), which comprised modest houses, shops, workshops, food and drink outlets, and hospitality buildings. The present volume describes and documents the phased, structural development of this neighborhood over several centuries. The earliest discernible activity here dates to the 6th century BCE, with the insulae taking their definitive shape only in the 2nd century BCE. It is from this time that production activities dominate the neighborhood, only to be wholly replaced by retail-oriented street-fronts from the early 1st century CE. Underpinning this narrative of urban development is a focus on the social and structural making of the Porta Stabia neighborhood, along with an interest in both the micro- (urban site formation processes) and macro-contextualization of the site (setting the results within a larger historic and urban framework).

Author : Thomas Henry Dyer
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783752522723

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Pompeii: Its History, Buildings, and Antiquities by Thomas Henry Dyer Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1867.

Author : Nic Fields
Publisher : Osprey Publishing
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2008-03-18
Category : History
ISBN : 1846031982

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The Walls of Rome by Nic Fields Pdf

Having defeated a Germanic invasion of northern Italy, the Emperor Aurelian surrounded Rome with a powerful circuit of walls. This great fortification is one of the best preserved of all city walls in the Roman Empire and remains a dramatic feature of Rome today, representing the most emblematic and the most enduring monument of Aurelian's age. Nothing else so eloquently demonstrates that, by Aurelian's day, the empire was on the defensive. Although embellished, strengthened and restored many times down the ages, Aurelian's original structure remained the basis of the city's defences through to the mid-19th century, when the Republican forces under Giuseppe Garibaldi managed for some time to withstand the French, and is still discernible today along much of the walls' circuit. This title describes Aurelian's Wall in detail with cut-away cross sections, and investigates its historical purpose and military effectiveness within the general context of late Roman fortifications. A final section follows the history of the Wall's continued use beyond the Romano-Byzantine period, and provides an invaluable tourist aid.

Author : Emidio De Albentiis
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780892369416

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Secrets of Pompeii by Emidio De Albentiis Pdf

The remains of the ancient city of Pompeii, frozen in time following the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in a.d. 79, have provided invaluable evidence of daily life, not only in Rome's provinces, but in its larger urban centers as well. This book provides a fascinating look at how ancient Romans interacted in their public squares and marketplaces, how they worshipped, decorated their homes, and spent their leisure time--at the theater, in the gymnasium, and in the baths and brothels. Illustrated with photographs of architectural remains and exquisite details from a range of ancient artworks, including wall paintings, sculptures, mosaics, and carved reliefs, the book offers a glimpse into a lost world.

Author : John Murray (Firm)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1858
Category : Italy
ISBN : HARVARD:HNNZR4

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A Handbook for Travellers in Southern Italy by John Murray (Firm) Pdf

Author : Mariana Starke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 736 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1836
Category : Europe
ISBN : NYPL:33433002690513

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Travels in Europe ... by Mariana Starke Pdf