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List of contents
- From urban space to urban history – an introduction
Miko Flohr
PART I. EXPERIENCING THE CITY
- Political space and the experience of citizenship in the city of Rome: architecture and interpellation
Amy Russell
- Emotion and the city: the example of Pompeii
Annette Haug
- Hilltops, heat, and precipitation: Roman urban life and the natural environment
Miko Flohr
PART II. COMMUNITY, IDENTITY, AND URBAN SPACE
- Topographical permeability and the dynamics of public space in Roman Minturnae
Patric-Alexander Kreuz
- Antique statuary and urban identity in Roman Greece
Christopher P. Dickenson
- Women in the forum: the cases of Italy and Roman North Africa
Cristina Murer
- Religion in the urban landscape: the special case of Rome
Marlis Arnhold
PART III. COMMERCE AND THE URBAN LANDSCAPE
- Sacred transactions: religion and markets in Roman urbanism
Elizabeth Fentress
- Fora and commerce in Roman Italy
Miko Flohr
- The archaeology of urban workshops in the Roman Maghreb
Touatia Amraoui
- The ports of Roman Lycia: urbanism, networks, and hierarchies
Candace M. Rice
PART IV. URBAN LIFE BEYOND THE CITY WALLS
- Urban borderscapes in Roman Italy: arenas for social, political and cultural interaction
Saskia Stevens
- The tabernae outside Porta Ercolano in Pompeii and their context
Sandra Zanella
- Roman roads as an indicator of urban life: the Via Appia near Rome
Stephan T.A.M. Mols and Eric Moormann
About the author
Miko Flohr is Lecturer in Ancient History at Leiden University. His research focuses on the archaeology of urban economies in Roman Italy. He published the monograph The World of the Fullo: Work, Economy and Society in Roman Italy (2013), and co-edited the volumes Craftsmen and Traders in the Roman World (2016), and The Economy of Pompeii (2017). He is currently preparing a monograph on the architectural and economic history of the taberna and co-editing Companion to Cities in the Greco-Roman World.
Summary
This volume investigates how urban growth and prosperity transformed the cities of the Roman Mediterranean in the last centuries BCE and the first centuries CE, integrating debates about Roman urban space with discourse on Roman urban history.
