Monumentality in Etruscan and Early Roman Architecture : : Ideology and Innovation / / ed. by Michael Thomas, Gretchen E. Meyers.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Colantoni, Elizabeth,; Davies, Penelope J. E.,; Edlund-Berry, Ingrid E. M.,; Hopkins, John N.,; Meyers, Gretchen E.,; Thomas, Michael L.,; Tuck, Anthony,; Warden, P. Gregory,; Winter, Nancy A.,
• TeilnehmendeR: Edlund-Berry, Ingrid E. M.
• HerausgeberIn: Meyers, Gretchen E.,; Thomas, Michael,
• Place / Publishing House: Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (200 p.)

Every society builds, and many, if not all, utilize architectural structures as markers to define place, patron, or experience. Often we consider these architectural markers as “monuments” or “monumental” buildings. Ancient Rome, in particular, is a society recognized for the monumentality of its bu...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Note on abbreviations
• I Introduction the experience of monumentality in etruscan and early roman architecture
• II Straw to stone, huts to houses: transitions in building practices and society in protohistoric latium
• III The performance of death Monumentality, burial practice, and community identity in central Italy’s urbanizing period
• IV Monumentalization of the Etruscan round Moulding in sixth-century BCE central Italy
• V Monumental embodiment somatic symbolism and the Tuscan temple
• VI The Capitoline temple and the effects of Monumentality on roman temple design
• VII On the introduction of stone entablatures in republican temples in Rome
• afterword reflections
• About the contributors
• Index