Laura Pfuntner

Urbanism and Empire in Roman Sicily

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Examining patterns of urban settlement and abandonment across several centuries, this book offers the first comprehensive overview of Sicily's strategic importance to ancient Rome and broader Mediterranean-wide networks.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Texas Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 159mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 667g
• ISBN-13: 9781477317228
• ISBN-10: 1477317228
• Artikelnr.: 52423943

Autorenporträt

By Laura Pfuntner

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgments
* Introduction
* 1. Urban Abandonment in the Late Republic and Early Principate (ca.
50 BC-AD 50)
* 2. Urban Abandonment in the High Empire (ca. AD 50-250)
* 3. The Southwestern Coast: Economic Integration, Political Privilege,
and Urban Survival
* 4. The Northeastern Coast: Civil War and Colonization
* 5. Eastern Sicily: From Syracusan to Roman Hegemony
* 6. Roman Urbanism in Sicily
* 7. New Forms of Settlement in Roman Imperial Sicily
* Conclusion
* Notes
* Bibliography
* Index