The Politics of Public Space in Republican Rome

ISBN-13: 9781107040496 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 248 str.

Amy Russell

Opis

This book explores how public space in Republican Rome was an unstable category marked, experienced, and defined by multiple actors and audiences.

Spis treści

1. Introduction; 2. Roman concepts: publicus and privatus; 3. The definition of political space in the Forum Romanum; 4. The Forum between political space and private space; 5. Gods, patrons, and community in sacred space; 6. Greek, Roman, public, and private: the space of art and the art of space; 7. Pompey and the privatisation of public space on the Campus Martius; 8. Conclusion: the death of public space?