Urban dreams and realities in antiquity : remains and representations of the ancient city /

Urban dreams and realities in antiquity : remains and representations of the ancient city /

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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Other Authors: Kemezis, Adam M., 1977-

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2015]

Series: Mnemosyne, Supplements 375.
Mnemosyne Supplements Online, Volumes 204-407, ISBN: 9789004322288.

Subjects:

Public spaces > Social aspects.
Sociology, Urban.
Collective memory.
Group identity.
City planning > Social aspects > History. > Greece
City planning > Social aspects > History. > Rome
City planning > Social aspects > History. > Middle East
Cities and towns, Ancient > Greece > History.
Cities and towns > Rome > History.
Cities and towns, Ancient > Middle East > History.
Cities and towns.
Cities and towns, Ancient.
City planning > Social aspects.
Greece.
Middle East.
Rome (Empire)
History.

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Call Number: HT153 .U724 2015

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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.