Companion to Roman Architectur

Herausgegeben von Ulrich, Roger B.; Quenemoen, Caroline K.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This Companion provides a comprehensive review of the critical issues and approaches that have transformed scholarly understanding of Roman architecture in the last 20 years. It serves as an indispensable teaching and reference work for English-speaking undergraduates and graduates.

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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

Produktdetails

• Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World .
• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 1A405199640
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 616
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Dezember 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 37mm
• Gewicht: 1229g
• ISBN-13: 9781405199643
• ISBN-10: 1405199644
• Artikelnr.: 35451442

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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

"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)