This volume explores how Roman perceptions of streets influenced their decisions about where to place urban buildings. Using textual evidence as well as the physical evidence from Pompeii, Ostia, and Silchester, Alan Kaiser argues that ideals about the arrangement of space united the phenomenon of Roman urbanism.
This volume explores how Roman perceptions of streets influenced their decisions about where to place urban buildings. Using textual evidence as well ...
The streets of Roman cities have received surprisingly little attention until recently. Traditionally the main interest archaeologists and classicists had in streets was in tracing the origins and development of the orthogonal layout used in Roman colonial cities. Roman Urban Street Networks is the first volume to sift through the ancient literature to determine how authors used the Latin vocabulary for streets, and determine what that tells us about how the Romans perceived their streets. Author Alan Kaiser offers a methodology for describing the role of a street within the broader urban...
The streets of Roman cities have received surprisingly little attention until recently. Traditionally the main interest archaeologists and classici...
The 1931 excavation season at Olynthus, Greece, ushered a sea change in how archaeologists study material culture and was the nexus of one of the most egregious (and underreported) cases of plagiarism in the history of classical archaeology. Alan Kaiser draws on the private scrapbook that budding archaeologist Mary Ross Ellingson compiled during that dig, as well as her personal correspondence and materials from major university archives, to paint a fascinating picture of gender, power, and archaeology in the early twentieth century. Using Ellingson s photographs and letters as a guide,...
The 1931 excavation season at Olynthus, Greece, ushered a sea change in how archaeologists study material culture and was the nexus of one of the most...
