The Roman Street - Urban Life and Society in Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Rome

By combining textual evidence, comparative historical material, and contemporary urban theory with architectural and art historical analysis, this book charts the street's key role in the social and political lives of Romans and restores its rightful place as the primary venue for social performance in the ancient world.

List of contents

Introduction; Part I. Repopulating the Street: 1. Street forms, street movements; 2. Life in the street; 3. The street's social environment; Part II. The Street and its Architectural Border: 4. Sidewalks under siege: houses, owners, and urban context; 5. House facades and the architectural language of self-presentation; 6. The 'in' and the 'out': streetside benches and urban society; Part III. The Street in Microcosm: 7. On the edge of the civic: a Herculaneum street; 8. A contentious commercial street in Pompeii; Epilogue.

About the author

Jeremy Hartnett is Associate Professor and Chair of Classics at Wabash College, Indiana, where he holds the Anne and Andrew T. Ford Chair in the Liberal Arts. He is the author of numerous articles and chapters on Roman urban history, the history of photography, and collegiate pedagogy, and has been awarded fellowships and grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Michigan Society of Fellows, and the Archaeological Institute of America.

Summary

By combining textual evidence, comparative historical material, and contemporary urban theory with architectural and art historical analysis, this book charts the street's key role in the social and political lives of Romans and restores its rightful place as the primary venue for social performance in the ancient world.

Product details

• Authors: Jeremy Hartnett, Jeremy (Wabash College Hartnett, Hartnett Jeremy
• Publisher: Cambridge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2020
• EAN: 9781107513532
• ISBN: 978-1-107-51353-2
• Dimensions: 255 mm x 180 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 660 g
• Illustrations: 93 b/w illus. 9 colour illus. 7 tables, Zeichnungen, schwarz-weiss, Raster,schwarz-weiss, Tabellen, schwarz-weiss
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Pre and early history, antiquity; HISTORY / Ancient / Rome, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, Ancient World, Ancient Rome, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, Archaeology by period / region, Classical Greek & Roman archaeology