Building Mid-Republican Rome - Labor, Architecture, and the Urban Economy

Building Mid-Republican Rome provides the first interdisciplinary account of a seminal phase of Rome's history, when the early stages of imperial conquest radically transformed the city's physical appearance along with its socioeconomic institutions.

List of contents

• Chapter 1: Introduction: Building as historical process


• Chapter 2: Materials and supply


• Chapter 3: Rome from the Sack of Veii to the Gallic Sack


• Chapter 4: A cost analysis of the Republican circuit walls


• Chapter 5: The nobilitas and economic innovation: censors, coinage, and contracts


• Chapter 6: The labor supply of Mid-Republican Rome


• Chapter 7: Technological change in Roman stonemasonry before concrete


• Chapter 8: Conclusion


• Appendix 1: Cost analysis of ashlar masonry in volcanic tuff


• Appendix 2: Catalog of public building projects, 396 - 168 BCE


• Bibliography and Abbreviations

About the author

Seth Bernard is Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Toronto.

Summary

Building Mid-Republican Rome provides the first interdisciplinary account of a seminal phase of Rome's history, when the early stages of imperial conquest radically transformed the city's physical appearance along with its socioeconomic institutions.

Additional text

Many of the topics are considered holistically and intertwine over several chapters, rendering the author's arguments more persuasive. The volume comes together to provide a vivid description of the mounting sophistication of Rome during the mid-Republican period. This is an excellent and ably presented book, balancing a wide-ranging approach with intricate detail.

Product details

• Authors: Bernard , Seth Bernard, Seth (Assistant Professor Bernard
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2021
• EAN: 9780197608265
• ISBN: 978-0-19-760826-5
• No. of pages: 336
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Pre and early history; Non-fiction book; HISTORY / Ancient / Rome, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, ARCHITECTURE / History / Ancient & Classical, Economic history, Ancient World, Ancient Rome, History of Architecture, Ancient History, Archaeology by period / region, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Urban communities, Classical Greek & Roman archaeology