Rethinking the Roman City

The Spatial Turn and the Archaeology of Roman Italy

Dunia Filippi

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English

Routledge
29 January 2024

Classical history & classical civilisation; Classical Greek & Roman archaeology; Urban communities

Series: Studies in Roman Space and Urbanism

"The spatial turn has brought forward new analytical imperatives about the importance of space in the relationship between physical and social networks of meaning. This volume explores this in relation to approaches and methodologies in the study of urban space in Roman Italy.

As a consequence of these new imperatives, sociological studies on ancient Roman cities are flourishing, demonstrating a new set of approaches that have developed separately from ""traditional"" historical and topographical analyses. Rethinking the Roman City represents a convergence of these different approaches to propose a new interpretive model, looking at the Roman city and one of its key elements: the forum. After an introductory discussion of methodological issues, internationally-know specialists consider three key sites of the Roman world – Rome, Ostia and Pompeii. Chapters focus on physical space and/or the use of those spaces to inter-relate these different approaches. The focus then moves to the Forum Romanum, considering the possible analytical trajectories available (historical, topographical, literary, comparative and sociological), and the diversity of possible perspectives within each of these, moving towards an innovative understanding of the role of the forum within the Roman city.

This volume will be of great value to scholars of ancient cities across the Roman world, well as historians of urban society and development throughout the ancient world."

Edited by: Dunia Filippi
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781032161877
ISBN 10: 1032161876
Series: Studies in Roman Space and Urbanism
Pages: 252
Publication Date: 29 January 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

List of figures List of contributors Acknowledgements PART 1 Methodological approaches Chapter 1 Topography between two worlds: William Gell and Antonio Nibby Andrew Wallace-Hadrill with Martin Millett Chapter 2 Some thoughts on current trends in the archaeology of urban contexts and rural landscapes in the Mediterranean world Stefano Campana PART 2 Cities with optimal data: Rome, Ostia and Pompeii Chapter 3 Topography and Classical Archaeology: Landscape biography Paolo Carafa Chapter 4 Sensory-spatial history at Ostia: The embodied space of street porticoes Jeffrey D. Veitch Chapter 5 Rethinking Relationships between Ostia and Portus Simon Keay Chapter 6 Visual communication in the streets of Pompeii Annette van Haug and Philipp Kobutsch PART 3 A key public space in the Roman city: The Forum Chapter 7 Archaeologists in the Roman Forum Dunia Filippi Chapter 8 Historians in the Forum Nicholas Purcell Chapter 9 Children and Public Space in Early Imperial Rome Ray Laurence Chapter 10 Transformations of public space in the cities of Italy under the Principate: the case of the Forum John Patterson Index

"Dunia Filippi, former advanced Marie Slodowska-Curie Fellow, is affiliated Researcher at the Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge, UK. She is interested in urban and social settlement, the topography of ancient Rome during its long life span, residential building and archaeological theory and methodology. She has reconstructed the topography of the 8th Augustan region ""Forum Romanum Magnum"". She has recently co-edited the edition of the excavation over twenty years at the North Slope of the Palatine hill, in Rome (a 100 ha stratigraphic deposit between the 12th cent. BCE and the 14th cent. CE)."

Reviews for Rethinking the Roman City: The Spatial Turn and the Archaeology of Roman Italy

"""...The book offers an excellent collection of thought-provoking essays, each foregrounding firm perspectives on the study of space of antiquity. They illustrate robust ways to gauge the nucleation and evolution of ancient space in the Roman period."" - Bryn Mawr Classical Review"