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A Companion to the City of Rome provides an authoritative and up-to-date overview of current research on the development of the city of Rome from its legendary foundations as a settlement on the banks of the Tiber up until circa AD 600.
List of contents
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
About the author
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).
Summary
A Companion to the City of Rome presents a series of 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.
