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Author:   Roger B. Ulrich (Dartmouth College) ,  Caroline K. Quenemoen (Rice University)
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Imprint:   Wiley-Blackwell
Dimensions:   Width: 18.80cm , Height: 3.10cm , Length: 25.40cm
Weight:   1.216kg
ISBN:  

9781405199643

ISBN 10:   1405199644
Pages:   616
Publication Date:   19 November 2013
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations viii Contributors xiii Maps/General Images xviii Introduction 1 1. Italic Architecture of the Earlier First Millennium BCE 6 Jeffrey A. Becker 2. Rome and Her Neighbors: Greek Building Practices in Republican Rome 27 Penelope J.E. Davies 3. Creating Imperial Architecture 45 Inge Nielsen 4. Columns and Concrete: Architecture from Nero to Hadrian 63 Caroline K. Quenemoen 5. The Severan Period 82 Edmund V. Thomas 6. The Architecture of Tetrarchy 106 Emanuel Mayer 7. Architect and Patron 127 James C. Anderson, jr. 8. Plans, Measurement Systems, and Surveying: The Roman Technology of Pre-Building 140 John R. Senseney 9. Materials and Techniques 157 Lynne C. Lancaster and Roger B. Ulrich 10. Labor Force and Execution 193 Rabun Taylor 11. Urban Sanctuaries: The Early Republic to Augustus 207 John W. Stamper 12. Monumental Architecture of Non-Urban Cult Places in Roman Italy 228 Tesse D. Stek 13. Fora 248 James F.D. Frakes 14. Funerary Cult and Architecture 264 Kathryn J. McDonnell 15. Building for an Audience: The Architecture of Roman Spectacle 281 Hazel Dodge 16. Roman Imperial Baths and Thermae 299 Fikret K. Yegül 17. Courtyard Architecture in the Insulae of Ostia Antica 324 Roger B. Ulrich 18. Domus/Single Family House 342 John R. Clarke 19. Private Villas: Italy and the Provinces 363 Mantha Zarmakoupi 20. Romanization 381 Louise Revell 21. Streets and Facades 399 Ray Laurence 22. Vitruvius and his Influence 412 Ingrid D. Rowland 23. Ideological Applications: Roman Architecture and Fascist Romanità 426 Genevieve S. Gessert 24. Visualizing Architecture Then and Now: Mimesis and the Capitoline Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus 446 Melanie Grunow Sobocinski 25. Conservation 462 William Aylward Glossary 480 References 501 Index 565

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<p> This comprehensive volume of almost 600 pages deserves praise. Its 25 chapters have a chronological as well as a thematic focus, and cover the broader Roman Empire as well as specific case studies. (Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 1 March 2015) <p> The Companion is an important study that opens up new avenues for discussion and consideration, challenges what is currently perceived to be the approved wisdom on Roman architecture and encourages a new approach to understanding the material culture of a society that remains evident and influential in our own. (Reference Reviews, 1 October 2014) <p> Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through graduate students. (Choice, 1 June 2013) <p>

This comprehensive volume of almost 600 pages deserves praise. Its 25 chapters have a chronological as well as a thematic focus, and cover the broader Roman Empire as well as specific case studies. (Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 1 March 2015) The Companion is an important study that opens up new avenues for discussion and consideration, challenges what is currently perceived to be the approved wisdom on Roman architecture and encourages a new approach to understanding the material culture of a society that remains evident and influential in our own. (Reference Reviews, 1 October 2014) Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through graduate students. (Choice, 1 June 2013) The line-up of contributers is extremley impressive, with most chapters written by the very scolors whose names immediately sprang to my own mind on seeing their titles (The Journal of Roman Studies, May 2016)

<p> The Companion is an important study that opens up newavenues for discussion and consideration, challenges what iscurrently perceived to be the approved wisdom on Roman architectureand encourages a new approach to understanding the material cultureof a society that remains evident and influential in ourown. (Reference Reviews, 1 October 2014) <p> Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-divisionundergraduates through graduate students. (Choice, 1 June 2013) <p>

Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through graduate students. ( Choice , 1 June 2013)

This comprehensive volume of almost 600 pages deserves praise. Its 25 chapters have a chronological as well as a thematic focus, and cover the broader Roman Empire as well as specific case studies. (Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 1 March 2015) The Companion is an important study that opens up new avenues for discussion and consideration, challenges what is currently perceived to be the approved wisdom on Roman architecture and encourages a new approach to understanding the material culture of a society that remains evident and influential in our own. (Reference Reviews, 1 October 2014) Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through graduate students. (Choice, 1 June 2013)

Author Information

Roger B. Ulrich is Ralph Butterfield Professor of Classics at Dartmouth College, where he teaches Roman Archaeology and Latin and directs Dartmouth’s Rome Foreign Study Program in Italy. He is the author of The Roman Orator and the Sacred Stage: The Roman Templum Rostratum(1994) and Roman Woodworking (2007). Caroline K. Quenemoen is Professor in the Practice and Director of Fellowships and Undergraduate Research at Rice University. Previously she taught courses in Greek and Roman art and archaeology at Rice. Her research focuses on Roman architecture, including articles on the House of Augustus.

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