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Architecture and Politics in Republican Rome (Paperback)
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Architecture and Politics in Republican Rome is the first book to
explore the intersection between Roman Republican building
practices and politics (c.509-44 BCE). At the start of the period,
architectural commissions were carefully controlled by the
political system; by the end, buildings were so widely exploited
and so rhetorically powerful that Cassius Dio cited abuse of visual
culture among the reasons that propelled Julius Caesar's colleagues
to murder him in order to safeguard the Republic. In an engaging
and wide-ranging text, Penelope J. E. Davies traces the journey
between these two points, as politicians developed strategies to
manoeuver within the system's constraints. She also explores the
urban development and image of Rome, setting out formal aspects of
different types of architecture and technological advances such as
the mastery of concrete. Elucidating a rich corpus of buildings
that have been poorly understand, Davies demonstrates that
Republican architecture was much more than a formal precursor to
that of imperial Rome.
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