The city in the Roman West, c.250 BC-c.AD 250 / Ray Laurence, Simon Esmonde Cleary, Gareth Sears.
"The city is widely regarded as the most characteristic expression of the social, cultural and economic formations of the Roman Empire. This was especially true in the Latin-speaking West, where urbanism was much less deeply ingrained than in the Greek-speaking East but where networks of cities...
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| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | xiv, 355 p. :; ill., plans. |
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Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Introduction; 1. The creation of an urban culture; 2. Colonisation and the development of Roman urbanism; 3. City foundation, government and urbanism; 4. The reception of Roman urbanism in the West; 5. Town planning, competition and the aesthetics of urbanism; 6. Defining a new town: walls, streets and temples; 7. Assembling the city: forum and basilica; 8. Assembling the city: baths and urban life; 9. Assembling the city: theatres and sacred space; 10. Assembling the city: amphitheatres; 11. The Roman city in ca.AD 250: an urban legacy of Empire?; Bibliography; Index.