The Cambridge Companion to Ancient RomeThe Cambridge Companion to Ancient Rome offers thirty-one original essays by leading historians, classicists and archaeologist on the largest metropolis of the Roman Empire. While the Colosseum, imperial palaces and Pantheon are famous features of the Roman capital, Rome is addressed in this volume primarily as a city in which many thousands of men and women were born, lived, and died. The clearly written and succinct chapters discuss numerous issues related to the capital of the Roman Empire: from the monuments and the games to the food- and water supply, from policing and riots to domestic housing, from death and disease to pagan cults and the impact of Christianity. Richly illustrated and designed as a readable survey accessible to all audiences, the Companion explains ground-breaking new research against the background of current debate and reaches a level of sophistication that will be appreciated by the experts. |
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Table des matières
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The urban topography of Rome | 131 |
GLENN R STOREY | 151 |
IO Regions and neighbourhoods | 169 |
I2 Suburban surroundings | 205 |
The Tiber and river transport | 229 |
Traffic and land transportation in and near Ronie | 246 |
Sex and the city | 369 |
Civic rituals and political spaces in republican | 389 |
Policing and security | 410 |
Riots | 425 |
Romans play on city of the Games | 441 |
The urban sacred landscape | 461 |
festivals holidays and the calendar | 478 |
Cemeteries and catacombs | 497 |
The food supply of the capital | 262 |
providing | 278 |
I7 Water supply drainage and waterrnills | 297 |
I8 Industries and services | 317 |
Labour and employment | 336 |
Professional associations | 352 |
What difference did Christianity make? | 522 |
teXt image and imagination | 541 |
Roma Aeterna | 558 |
Bibliography | 575 |
Index | 605 |
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aediles ancient Rome animals aqueducts archaeological architecture associations Augustan Augustus Basilica brothels building Caesar calendar Campus Martius capital Cassius Dio century BC Chapter Christian Cicero Circus Circus Maximus citizens city of Rome city’s civic Claudius collegia collegium commemorate construction cult defined domus early elite emperor empire evidence example figure find fire first century floods floors flow Forum Boarium Forum Romanum fourth century freeborn freedmen Frontinus funerary grain Greek houses imperial important influence inhabitants inscriptions insulae labour Late Antiquity late Republic Livy LTUR Ludi magistrates manumission Maximus modern monuments neighbourhoods Nero ofRome ofthe Ostia Palatine period plebs Pliny political pomerium Pompeii population prostitutes reflected regions religious republican riots ritual role Roman Rome’s second century significant slaves social sources space specific status streets structures Suetonius supply Tacitus temple third century Tiber tombs tradition urban Vespasian Vicus walls
