
A Companion to the City of Rome
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original essays from top experts that offer an authoritative and
up-to-date overview of current research on the development of the
city of Rome from its origins until circa AD 600.
* Offers a unique interdisciplinary, closely focused thematic
approach and wide chronological scope making it an indispensible
reference work on ancient Rome
* Includes several new developments on areas of research that are
available in English for the first time
* Newly commissioned essays written by experts in a variety of
related fields
* Original and up-to-date readings pertaining to the city of Rome
on a wide variety of topics including Rome's urban landscape,
population, economy, civic life, and key events
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CLAIRE HOLLERAN is Senior Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History at the University of Exeter. She is co-editor of Demography and the Graeco-Roman World (with April Pudsey, 2011) and author of Shopping in Ancient Rome: the Retail Trade in the Late Republic and the Principate (2012).
AMANDA CLARIDGE is Emeritus Professor of Roman Archaeology at Royal Holloway University of London. Her recent publications include Rome: An Oxford Archaeological Guide (2012) and Paper Museum of Cassiano dal Pozzo: Classical manuscript illustrations (with Ingo Herklotz, 2012).
Content
Notes on Contributors xi Preface xix
Abbreviations xxi
List of Illustrations xxiii
List of Tables xxvii
List of Maps xxix
PART I Introductory 1
1 Source Material:
i Archaeological Sources 3 Maria Kneafsey
ii Written Sources 9 Richard Flower
iii The Marble Plans 13 Pier Luigi Tucci
iv The Epigraphic Record 20 Boris Rankov
v Coins 24 Andrew Burnett
2 Historical Overview: From City?]state to Christian Center 29 Christopher Smith
PART II The Urban Landscape 53
3 A City of Stories 55 T.P. Wiseman
4 Defining the City: The Boundaries of Rome 71 Penelope J. Goodman
5 The Development of the City: An Archaeological Perspective i From its Origins to the Second Century BCE 93 Amanda Claridge
ii From 100 BCE to 600 CE 115 Amanda Claridge
PART III The People 137
6 The Population 139 Elio Lo Cascio
7 Social Structure and the plebs Romana 155 David Noy
8 The Army in Imperial Rome 173 Jon Coulston
PART IV The Urban Infrastructure 197
9 Rivers, Roads, and Ports 199 Candace M. Rice
10 Feeding Rome: The Grain Supply 219 Giovanni Geraci (translated Claire Holleran)
11 Water Supply and Sewers 247 Harry B. Evans
12 Streets and Street Life 263 J. Bert Lott
13 Urban Administration in Rome 279 John R. Patterson
PART V Living in Rome 297
14 Housing:
i The Development and Role of the Roman Aristocratic Domus 299 Hannah Platts
ii Insulae 317 Janet DeLaine
15 The Imperial Thermae 325 Janet DeLaine
16 Libraries and Literary Culture in Rome 343 Matthew Nicholls
PART VI Dying in Rome 363
17 Hazards of Life in Ancient Rome: Floods, Fires, Famines, Footpads, Filth, and Fevers 365 Gregory S. Aldrete
18 Funerary Practice in the City of Rome 383 Valerie M. Hope
19 Roman Cemeteries and Tombs 403 Barbara E. Borg
PART VII The Urban Economy 425
20 The Labor Market 427 Laurens E. Tacoma
21 Production in Rome 443 Dennis Kehoe
22 The Retail Trade 459 Claire Holleran
23 The Construction Industry 473 Janet DeLaine
PART VIII Civic Life 491
24 Temples, Colleges, and Priesthoods 493 Jörg Rüpke
25 Entertainment 511 David Potter
26 Law and Lawcourts 527 Leanne Bablitz
27 The Roman Church 541 John Curran
28 Political Space 559 Elizabeth H. Pearson
PART IX The Roman Triumph 581
29 The Triumphal Procession 583 Geoffrey S. Sumi
30 Urban Commemoration: The Pompa Triumphalis in Rome 599 Diane Favro
PART X Receptions of Rome 619
31 Written Rome: Ancient Literary Responses 621 Diana Spencer 32 The Renaissance: The "Discovery" of Ancient Rome 643 Brian A. Curran
33 Napoleonic Rome and "Roma Capitale" 673 Pier Luigi Tucci
34 Mussolini and Rome 683 Borden Painter 35 The City of Ancient Rome on Screen 699 Monica S. Cyrino
Index 715
Topographical Index 731
Source Index 739
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