
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
Notes on Contributors
Gregory S. Aldrete is the Frankenthal Professor of History and Humanistic Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. He is the author of Reconstructing Ancient Linen Body Armor: Unraveling the Linothorax Mystery (with S. Bartell and A. Aldrete, 2013), The Long Shadow of Antiquity: What Have the Greeks and Romans Done for Us? (with A. Aldrete, 2012), Daily Life in the Roman City: Rome, Pompeii, and Ostia (2009), Floods of the Tiber in Ancient Rome (2007), and Gestures and Acclamations in Ancient Rome (1999), and is the editor of The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Daily Life Volume I: The Ancient World (2004).
Leanne Bablitz is Professor of Roman History at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. She is the author of Actors and Audience in the Roman Courtroom (2007), as well as numerous articles on Roman law and social history.
Barbara E. Borg is Professor of Classical Archaeology at the University of Exeter. She has published widely on Greek and Roman art and archaeology. Her most recent publications include Crisis and Ambition: Tombs and Burial Customs in Third-Century CE Rome (2013) and her edited Blackwell Companion to Roman Art (2015). She is currently working on a Leverhulme-funded micro-history of a small part of the Roman suburbium from the first century BCE to the fourth century CE.
Andrew Burnett was Deputy Director of the British Museum. He is the author of Coinage in the Roman World (1987, reprinted 2004) and, with colleagues, of Roman Provincial Coinage (1992-continuing).
Amanda Claridge is Emeritus Professor of Roman Archaeology in the Department of Classics at Royal Holloway University of London. She has also taught at the University of Oxford and Princeton University and was Assistant Director of the British School at Rome from 1980 to 1994. Her publications include Rome: An Oxford Archaeological Guide (2nd edition, 2010) and many articles on Roman art, archaeology, architecture and topography.
Jon Coulston is Lecturer in Ancient History and Archaeology in the School of Classics, University of St. Andrews. He achieved a doctorate on the subject of Trajan's Column from the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. His publications concentrate on the Roman army, especially iconography and military equipment, Roman sculpture in Rome and the provinces, and on the archaeology of the city of Rome. With Mike Bishop he is the author of Roman Military Equipment (2006), and with Hazel Dodge he is the editor of Ancient Rome. The Archaeology of the Eternal City (2000).
Brian A. Curran was Professor of Art History at Pennsylvania State University. He was the author of The Egyptian Renaissance (2007) and co-author (with Anthony Grafton, Pamela Long, and Benjamin Weiss) of Obelisk: A History (2009). He died in 2017.
John Curran is Senior Lecturer in Romano-Jewish Relations at The Queen's University of Belfast. He is the author of Pagan City and Christian Capital: Rome in the Fourth Century (2000) as well as recent studies of Roman Judaea and the family of Herod the Great. He is currently working on a study of Rome's relations with the Jews of Judaea from 63 BCE to the fall of Jerusalem in 70 CE.
Monica S. Cyrino is Professor of Classics at the University of New Mexico. Her research focuses on the representation of classical antiquity in popular entertainment media. She is the author of Big Screen Rome (2005) and Aphrodite (2010), and the editor of Rome, Season One: History Makes Television (2008), Screening Love and Sex in the Ancient World (2013), and Rome, Season Two: Trial and Triumph (2015). She has served as an academic consultant on several recent film and television productions.
Janet DeLaine was Associate Professor of Roman Archaeology at the University of Oxford, and is now Emeritus Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford. Her research focuses on Roman architecture and urbanism in the Mediterranean, especially the Roman building industry, Roman baths, and the urban development of Ostia.
Harry B. Evans is Professor Emeritus of Classics at Fordham University. He is the author of Water Distribution in Ancient Rome: The Evidence of Frontinus (1994); Aqueduct Hunting in the Seventeenth Century: Raffaello Fabretti's De aquis et aquaeductibus veteris Romae (2002); and Exploring the Kingdom of Saturn: Kircher's Latium and Its Legacy (2012), as well as articles on Roman topography and Latin literature.
Diane Favro is Professor Emeritus of Architecture and Urban Design at UCLA. She is author of The Urban Image of Augustan Rome (1998) and articles on research applications of digital simulations and women in architecture, and co-author of a forthcoming book on Roman architecture and urbanism. She served as President of the Society of Architectural Historians and is the 2017-18 Samuel H. Kress Professor at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC.
Richard Flower is Senior Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History at the University of Exeter. His main research interests lie in the field of Late Antiquity, focusing on the construction of authority, especially in rhetorical texts and encyclopedic literature. He is the author of Emperors and Bishops in Late Roman Invective (2013) and, together with Christopher Kelly and Michael Stuart Williams, he edited Unclassical Traditions I: Alternatives to the Classical Past in Late Antiquity (2010) and Unclassical Traditions II: Perspectives from East and West in Late Antiquity (2011).
Giovanni Geraci is ordinary (full) professor of Roman History and Papyrology in the University of Bologna. His main research field is history of the political, administrative and economic systems, institutions, and structures of the Hellenistic and Roman world, with particular focus on Hellenistic, Roman, and Late Antique Egypt. He has also published critical editions of both Greek and Latin inscriptions and of Greek papyri of the Hellenistic, Roman, and Late Antique age. He is Director and General Editor of scientific periodicals and a series on relevant aspects of the study of administrative patterns and structures of the ancient world. He is a member of international research groups on supply of corn and on its preservation and storage systems in the Mediterranean countries from antiquity to modern times.
Penelope J. Goodman is Senior Lecturer in Roman History at the University of Leeds. She has a particular interest in the spatial characteristics of Roman urbanism. Her first monograph, The Roman City and its Periphery: from Rome to Gaul (2007), explored the demarcation of Roman urban centers and the uses of space just beyond their boundaries. She has also published articles on the locations of temples in Roman Gaul and Britain, the peripheries of Italian cities, and the spatial distribution of Roman urban industry.
Claire Holleran is Senior Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History at the University of Exeter. She is the author of Shopping in Ancient Rome: the Retail Trade in the Late Republic and the Principate (2012), and co-editor of Demography and the Graeco-Roman World. New Insights and Approaches (2011) with April Pudsey, and Diet and Nutrition in the Roman World (forthcoming) with Paul Erdkamp.
Valerie M. Hope is a Senior Lecturer in Classical Studies at the Open University. She is the author of Constructing Identity: The Funerary Monuments of Aquileia, Mainz and Nîmes (2001); Death in Ancient Rome: A Sourcebook (2007); and Roman Death (2009), as well as articles on the commemoration of Roman soldiers and gladiators, and Roman mourning rituals. She also co-edited Death and Disease in the Ancient City (2000), Memory and Mourning: Studies on Roman Death (2011), and War as Spectacle. Ancient and Modern Perspectives on the Display of Armed Conflict (2015).
Dennis Kehoe is professor in the Department of Classical Studies and the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities (2010-2013) at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana. His research interests focus on the role of law and legal institutions in the ancient economy, particularly in the Roman Empire.
Maria Kneafsey has recently submitted her PhD thesis at the University of Exeter. Her doctoral work traced the development of Rome's city boundaries between the third and sixth centuries CE through an examination of the art, archaeology, and text of the late antique city.
Elio Lo Cascio is Professor of Roman History at Sapienza Università di Roma. His main areas of research are the institutional, administrative and economic history of Rome, and Roman population history. His publications include Il princeps e il suo impero. Studi di storia amministrativa e finanziaria romana (2000); Crescita e declino. Studi di storia dell'economia romana (2009); and the edited volumes Roma imperiale. Una metropoli antica (2000); Production and public powers in antiquity (2000, with D.W. Rathbone); L'impatto della "peste antonina" (2012).
J. Bert Lott is the Matthew Vassar, Jr. Professor of Greek and Roman Studies at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New...
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