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Rome, Ostia, Pompeii: Movement and Space. (Hardcover)
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Rome, Ostia, Pompeii: Movement and Space. (Hardcover)
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Rome, Ostia, Pompeii captures how studies of the Roman city are
currently shifting away from architecture towards a dynamic
understanding of activities within the urban space. This is
becoming a defining feature of new and innovative research on the
nature of ancient urbanism and is underpinned by an understanding
of the relationship between space and society - the two sides of
the core dialectic of the 'Spatial Turn' in cultural studies. In
this volume a new generation of scholars provide detailed case
studies of the three best known cities from antiquity, Pompeii,
Ostia, and Rome, and focus on the movement or flow of a Roman
city's inhabitants and visitors, demonstrating how this movement
contributes to our understanding of the way different elements of
society interacted in space. Through a uniquely broad range of
historical issues, such as the commoditization of movement in
patronage relationships, the appropriation of 'architectural space'
by 'movement space', the importance of movement and traffic in
influencing representations of ancient urbanism and the Roman
citizen, this volume studies movement as it is found both at the
city gate, in the forum, in the portico, and on the street, and as
it is represented in the text and on the page.
Throughout this book, the authors are concerned with the residues
of movement - the impressions left by the movement of people and
vehicles, both as physical indentations in the archaeological
record and as impressions upon the Roman urban consciousness. The
volume's interdisciplinary approach will inform the understanding
of the city in classics, ancient history, archaeology and
architectural history, as well as cultural studies, town planning,
urban geography, and sociology.
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