Urban dreams and realities in antiquity : remains and representations of the ancient city / edited by Adam Kemezis.
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- 9789004283893
- 9004283897
- 1322343519
- 9781322343518
- Public spaces -- Social aspects
- Sociology, Urban
- Collective memory
- Group identity
- City planning -- Social aspects -- Greece -- History
- City planning -- Social aspects -- Rome -- History
- City planning -- Social aspects -- Middle East -- History
- Cities and towns, Ancient -- Greece -- History
- Cities and towns -- Rome -- History
- Cities and towns, Ancient -- Middle East -- History
- Social Identification
- Espaces publics -- Aspect social
- Sociologie urbaine
- Mémoire collective
- Identité collective
- Villes antiques -- Grèce -- Histoire
- urban sociology
- group identity
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Urban
- Cities and towns
- Cities and towns, Ancient
- City planning -- Social aspects
- Collective memory
- Group identity
- Public spaces -- Social aspects
- Sociology, Urban
- Greece
- Middle East
- Rome (Empire)
- 307.76009/01 23
- HT153 .U724
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / Adam M. Kemezis -- PART I. CITY AS SPACE I : REMAINS ON THE GROUND -- In defense of Arkadia : the city as a fortress / Matthew Maher -- The Mundus of Caere and early Etruscan urbanization / Fabio Colivicchi -- "Fighting over a shadow?" : Hellenistic Greek cities and Greco-Roman cities as fora and media for multi-level social signaling / LuAnn Wandsnider -- Constructing an Oscan cityscape : Pompeii and the Eituns inscriptions / Tanya K. Henderson -- Unravelling the reality of a 'city' on the Deccan plateau / Aloka Parasher-Sen -- Monumentalising the ephemeral in ancient Rome / Steven Hijmans -- PART II. CITY AS SPACE II. LANDSCAPES IN LITERATURE -- Future city in the heroic past : Rome, Romans & Roman landscapes in Aeneid 6-8 / Eric J. Kondratieff -- Reading the civic landscape of Augustan Rome : Aeneid 1.421-429 and the building program of Augustus / Darryl A. Phillips -- The predatory palace : Seneca's Thyestes and the architecture of tyranny / Daniel B. Unruh -- Imperial Roman cities as places of memory in Augustine's confessions / Owen M. Ewald -- PART III. CITY AS IDENTITY I: CULTURES IN STONE -- Sacred exchange : the religious institutions of emporia in the mediterranean world of the later iron age / Megan Daniels -- Greek poleis in the Near East and their Parthian overlords / Josef Wiesehofer -- Civic identity in Roman Ostia : some evidence from dedications (inaugurations) / Christer Bruun -- Chariot racing in Hispania Tarraconensis : urban Romanization and provincial identity / Raymond Capra -- PART IV. CITY AS IDENTITY II : COMMUNITIES ON PAPER -- The seat of kingship : (re)constructing the city in Isaiah 24-27 / Ian Douglas Wilson -- Remembering pre-Israelite Jerusalem in late Persian Yehud : mnemonic preferences, memories and social imagination / Ehud Ben Zvi -- Memory and the Greek city in Strabo's geography / Edward Dandrow -- The ekklesia of early Christ-followers in Asia Minor as the eschatological New Jerusalem : counter-imperial rhetoric? / Ralph J. Korner -- From kinship to state : the family and the ancient city in nineteenth-century ethnology / Emily Varto.
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Urban Dreams and Realities is a collection of articles on cities in ancient cultures, both their physical and conceptual aspects. A wide range of subjects and disciplinary perspectives are represented, especially the archaeology, epigraphy and literature of the Roman Empire.
English.
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