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Architectural Restoration and Heritage in Imperial Rome (Hardcover)
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Architectural Restoration and Heritage in Imperial Rome (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Studies in Ancient Culture Representation
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This volume addresses the treatment and perception of historic
buildings in Imperial Rome, examining the ways in which public
monuments were restored in order to develop an understanding of the
Roman concept of built heritage. It considers examples from the
first century BC to the second century AD, focusing primarily on
the six decades between the Great Fire of AD 64 and the AD 120s,
which constituted a period of dramatic urban transformation and
architectural innovation in Rome. Through a detailed analysis of
the ways in which the design, materiality, and appearance of
buildings - including the temple of Jupiter Capitolinus and hut of
Romulus - developed with successive restorations, the case is made
for the existence of a consistent approach to the treatment of
historic buildings in this period. This study also explores how
changes to particular monuments and to the urban fabric as a whole
were received by the people who experienced them first-hand,
uncovering attitudes to built heritage in Roman society more
widely. By examining descriptions of destruction and restoration in
literature of the first and second centuries AD, including the
works of Seneca the Younger, Pliny the Elder, Martial, Tacitus, and
Plutarch, it forms a picture of the conflicting ways in which
Rome's inhabitants responded to the redevelopment of their city.
The results provide an alternative way of explaining key
interventions in Rome's built environment and challenge the idea
that heritage is a purely modern phenomenon.
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