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Tracing the development of Rome over a span of 1200 years, The Topography and Monuments of Ancient Rome offers an overview of the changing appearance of the city and the social, political, and military factors that shaped it. C. Brian Rose places Rome's architecture, coinage, inscriptions and monuments in historical context and offers a nuanced analysis regarding the evolution of the city and its monuments over time. He brings an interdisciplinary approach to his study, merging insights gained from cutting-edge techniques in archaeological research, such as remote sensing, core-sampling, palaeobotany, neutron-activation analysis, and isotopic analysis, with literary, epigraphic, and numismatic evidence. Rose also includes reconstructions of the ancient city that reflect the rapid developments in digital technology and mapping in the last three decades. Aimed at scholars and students alike, Rose's study demonstrates how evidence can be drawn from a variety of approaches. It serves as a model for studying and viewing the growth and structure of ancient cities.
List of contents
1. Introduction; 2. Rome from the Bronze Age to the End of the Regal Period; 3. Rome from the Beginning of the Republic to the Pyrrhic War; 4. Rome from the First Punic War to the Late Second Century BCE; 5. Rome from the Rise of Marius to the Death of Caesar; 6. Rome from the Second Triumvirate through the Reign of Augustus; 7. Rome during the Julio-Claudian Emperors: 14-68 CE; 8. Rome from the Flavian Dynasty to Nerva, 69-98 CE; 9. The Rome of Trajan and Hadrian, 98-138 CE; 10. Rome from Antoninus Pius to Commodus; 11. Rome from Septimius Severus to Caracalla; 12. Rome from Macrinus to Aurelian, 217-275 CE; 13. Tetrarchic and Constantinian Rome, 284-330 CE.
About the author
C. Brian Rose is the James B. Pritchard Professor of Mediterranean Archaeology at the University of Pennsylvania and the Peter C. Ferry Curator-in-Charge of the Mediterranean Section at the Penn Museum. He has served as president of the Archaeological Institute of America and was awarded the AIA's Gold Medal for Distinguished Archaeological Achievement.
