Urban dreams and realities in antiquity : : remains and representations of the ancient city / / edited by Adam Kemezis.

• Superior document: Mnemosyne, Supplements. History and Archaeology of Classical Antiquity, Volume 375
• TeilnehmendeR: Kemezis, Adam M., 1977-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands : : BRILL,, 2015.; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum. History and archaeology of classical antiquity ; Volume 375.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (547 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

A unique variety of approaches to all aspects of urban culture in the ancient world can be found in Urban Dreams and Realities in Antiquity , a collection of 19 essays addressing ancient cities from an interdisciplinary perspective. As the title indicates, the volume considers both how ancient people lived in their cities as physical structures and how they thought with them as ideas and symbols. Essays in this volume deal with texts and sites from Spain to South India, but there is a particular focus on the archaeology and epigraphy of Roman-era Italy, civic identity in the Roman provinces, the Hebrew Bible and Early Christian literature, Vergil and other imperial Latin authors.

Table of Contents

Front Matter / Adam M. Kemezis -- Introduction / Adam M. Kemezis -- In Defense of Arkadia: The City as a Fortress / Matthew Maher -- The Mundus of Caere and Early Etruscan Urbanization / Fabio Colivicchi -- “Fighting Over a Shadow?”: Hellenistic Greek Cities and Greco-Roman Cities as Fora and Media for Multi-Level Social Signaling / LuAnn Wandsnider -- Constructing an Oscan Cityscape: Pompeii and the Eítuns Inscriptions / Tanya K. Henderson -- Unraveling the Reality of a ‘City’ on the Deccan Plateau / Aloka Parasher-Sen -- Monumentalising the Ephemeral in Ancient Rome / Steven Hijmans -- Future City in the Heroic Past: Rome, Romans, and Roman Landscapes in Aeneid 6–8 / Eric J. Kondratieff -- Reading the Civic Landscape of Augustan Rome: Aeneid 1.421–429 and the Building Program of Augustus / Darryl A. Phillips -- The Predatory Palace: Seneca’s Thyestes and the Architecture of Tyranny / Daniel B. Unruh -- Imperial Roman Cities as Places of Memory in Augustine’s Confessions / Owen M. Ewald -- Sacred Exchange: The Religious Institutions of Emporia in the Mediterranean World of the Later Iron Age / Megan Daniels -- Greek Poleis in the Near East and Their Parthian Overlords / Josef Wiesehöfer -- Civic Identity in Roman Ostia: Some Evidence from Dedications (Inaugurations) / Christer Bruun -- Chariot Racing in Hispania Tarraconensis: Urban Romanization and Provincial Identity / Raymond L. Capra -- The Seat of Kingship: (Re)Constructing the City in Isaiah 24–27 / Ian Douglas Wilson -- Remembering Pre-Israelite Jerusalem in Late Persian Yehud: Mnemonic Preferences, Memories and Social Imagination / Ehud Ben Zvi -- Memory and the Greek City in Strabo’s Geography / Edward Dandrow -- The Ekklēsia of Early Christ-Followers in Asia Minor as the Eschatological New Jerusalem: Counter-Imperial Rhetoric? / Ralph J. Korner -- From Kinship to State: The Family and the Ancient City in Nineteenth-Century Ethnology / Emily Varto -- Index / Adam M. Kemezis.