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Origins of the Colonnaded Streets in the Cities of the Roman East (Hardcover)
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Origins of the Colonnaded Streets in the Cities of the Roman East (Hardcover)
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The colonnaded axes define the visitor's experience of many of the
great cities of the Roman East. How did this extraordinarily bold
tool of urban planning evolve? The street, instead of remaining a
mundane passage, a convenient means of passing from one place to
another, was in the course of little more than a century
transformed in the Eastern provinces into a monumental landscape
which could in one sweeping vision encompass the entire city. The
colonnaded axes became the touchstone by which cities competed for
status in the Eastern Empire. Though adopted as a sign of cities'
prosperity under the Pax Romana, they were not particularly 'Roman'
in their origin. Rather, they reflected the inventiveness,
fertility of ideas and the dynamic role of civic patronage in the
Eastern provinces in the first two centuries under Rome. This study
will concentrate on the convergence of ideas behind these great
avenues, examining over fifty sites in an attempt to work out the
sequence in which ideas developed across a variety of regions-from
North Africa around to Asia Minor. It will look at the phenomenon
in the context of the consolidation of Roman rule.
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