A Companion to the Archaeology of the Roman Republic (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Evans, Jane Derose

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Produktbeschreibung

A Companion to the Archaeology of the Roman Republic offers a diversity of perspectives to explore how differing approaches and methodologies can contribute to a greater understanding of the formation of the Roman Republic. * Brings together the experiences and ideas of archaeologists from around the world, with multiple backgrounds and areas of interest * Offers a vibrant exploration of the ways in which archaeological methods can be used to explore different elements of the Roman Republican period * Demonstrates that the Republic was not formed in a vacuum, but was influenced by non-Latin-speaking cultures from throughout the Mediterranean region * Enables archaeological thinking in this area to be made accessible both to a more general audience and as a valuable addition to existing discourse * Investigates the archaeology of the Roman Republican period with reference to material culture, landscape, technology, identity and empire

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 752
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. März 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781118557167
• Artikelnr.: 38253495

Autorenporträt

Jane DeRose Evans is Professor of Art History at Temple University, where she is also affiliated with the Classics Department. She is the author of The Art of Persuasion: Political Propaganda from Aeneas to Brutus (1992) and The Joint Expedition to Caesarea Maritima: Excavation Reports v.6, The Coins and the Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine Economy of Palestine (2006).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations ix Notes on Contributors xiv Abbreviations xxi
Preface xxii Introduction 1 Jane DeRose Evans PART I Material Culture and
Its Impact on Social Configuration 13 1 Development of Baths and Public
Bathing during the Roman Republic 15 Fikret K. Yegül 2 Public Entertainment
Structures 33 Mantha Zarmakoupi 3 Republican Houses 50 Shelley Hales 4
Tombs and Funerary Monuments 67 Sylvia Diebner 5 Before Sigillata:
Black-Gloss Pottery and Its Cultural Dimensions 81 Roman Roth 6 Amphoras
and Shipwrecks: Wine from the Tyrrhenian Coast at the End of the Republic
and Its Distribution in Gaul 97 Fanette Laubenheimer 7 Coins and the
Archaeology of the Roman Republic 110 Jane DeRose Evans 8 Weapons and the
Army 123 Andrew L. Goldman 9 Bodies of Evidence: Skeletal Analysis in Roman
Greece and Cyprus 141 Susan Kirkpatrick Smith 10 Population and Demographic
Studies 155 Elio Lo Cascio PART II Archaeology and the Landscape 167 11
Looking at Early Rome with Fresh Eyes: Transforming the Landscape 169
Albert J. Ammerman 12 Survey, Settlement and Land Use in Republican Italy
181 Helena Fracchia 13 Agriculture and the Environment of Republican Italy
198 Helen Goodchild 14 No Holiday Camp: The Roman Republican Army Camp as a
Fine-Tuned Instrument of War 214 Michael Dobson 15 Reconstructing Religious
Ritual in Italy 235 Alison B. Griffith PART III Archaeology and Ancient
Technology 251 16 The Orientation of Towns and Centuriation 253 David
Gilman Romano 17 Scientia in Republican Era Stone and Concrete Masonry 268
Marie D. Jackson and Cynthia K. Kosso 18 Aqueducts and Water Supply 285 A.
Trevor Hodge 19 Roads and Bridges 296 Ray Laurence 20 Villas and
Agriculture in Republican Italy 309 Jeffrey A. Becker 21 Ports 323 Steven
L. Tuck PART IV The Archaeology of Identity 335 22 Material Culture, Italic
Identities and the Romanization of Italy 337 Tesse D. Stek 23 The
Importance of Being Elite: The Archaeology of Identity in Etruria (500-200)
354 P. Gregory Warden 24 Greeks, Lucanians and Romans at Poseidonia/Paestum
(South Italy) 369 Maurizio Gualtieri 25 Central Apennine Italy: The Case of
Samnium 387 Marlene Suano and Rafael Scopacasa 26 Early Rome and the Making
of "Roman" Identity through Architecture and City Planning 406 Ingrid
Edlund-Berry PART V The Archaeology of Empire during the Republic 427 27
Material Culture and Identity in the Late Roman Republic (c. 200-c. 20) 429
Miguel John Versluys 28 The Archaeology of Mid-Republican Rome: The
Emergence of a Mediterranean Capital 441 Penelope J.E. Davies 29 The Late
Republican City of Rome 459 Jane DeRose Evans 30 Cosa 472 Stephen L. Dyson
31 Becoming Roman Overseas? Sicily and Sardinia in the Later Roman Republic
485 R.J.A. Wilson 32 The Archaeology of Africa in the Roman Republic 505
David L. Stone 33 Hispania: From the Roman Republic to the Reign of
Augustus 522 Isabel Rodá 34 The Archaeology of Palestine in the Republican
Period 540 J. Andrew Overman 35 Greece and the Roman Republic: Athens and
Corinth from the Late Third Century to the Augustan Era 559 Michael C. Hoff
PART VI Republican Archaeology and the Twenty-First Century 579 36 Computer
Technologies and Republican Archaeology at Pompeii 581 Michael Anderson 37
Archaeology and Acquisition: The Experience of Republican Rome 598 Margaret
M. Miles References 611 Index 711

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Recipient of a PROSE Awards 2013 Honorable Mention

"This collection punches well above the weight of most of similar editorial enterprises. D. E. has impressively succeeded in gathering a body of work that does justice both to the complexity of the material and the diversity of the scholarly debate . . . Readers will encounter, as a rule, reliable and often insightful overviews of complex problems, with plenty of engagement with the ancient evidence and invaluable bibliographical information." (Journal of Classics Teaching, 1 June 2013)