Urban dreams and realities in antiquity : : remains and representations of the ancient city / / edited by Adam Kemezis.
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 peopl...
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| Superior document: | Mnemosyne, Supplements. History and Archaeology of Classical Antiquity, Volume 375 |
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| 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. |
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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.