Traffic Systems of Pompeii

List of contents

• Table of Contents:


• Preface


• Acknowledgements


• List of Figures


• List of Tables


• Chapter One: Introduction


• Chapter 2: The Development of Pompeii's Urban Street Network


• Chapter Three: Surfaces of the Streetl


• Chapter Four: Architecture of the Street


• Chapter Five: Evidence of Traffic


• Chapter Six: The Traffic Systems of Pompeii


• Chapter 7: World of the Mulio


• Chapter Eight: Traffic in the Roman World


• Chapter Nine: Conclusion


• Bibliography


• Index

About the author

Eric E. Poehler is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Co-Director of the Pompeii Quadriporticus Project. He has published widely on Roman urbanism, infrastructure, and architectural history.

Summary

The Traffic Systems of Pompeii is the first sustained examination of the development of road infrastructure in Pompeii--from the archaic age to the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in 79 CE--and its implications for urbanism in the Roman empire.

Additional text

This is the strangest and most delightful history of the city of Pompeii that you'll ever read.

Product details

• Authors: Eric E Poehler, Eric E. Poehler, Eric E. (Associate Professor Poehler
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.11.2017
• EAN: 9780190614676
• ISBN: 978-0-19-061467-6
• No. of pages: 296
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches; HISTORY / Ancient / Rome, TRANSPORTATION / General, Social & cultural history, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Ancient & Classical, Archaeology, Ancient World, Ancient Rome, Social and cultural history, Ancient History, Anthologies: general, Archaeology by period / region, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Transport: general interest, BCE to c 500 CE, European history: the Romans, BCE period – Protohistory, Classical Greek & Roman archaeology, c 1000 to c 500 BCE (Italian period of Antiquity)