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Rome
Rome's most important and controversial archaeologist shows why the myth of the city's founding isn't all myth Andrea Carandini's archaeological discoveries and controversial theories about ancient Rome have made international headlines over the past few decades. In this book, he presents his most important findings and ideas, including the argument that there really was a Romulus--a first king of Rome--who founded the city in the mid-eighth century BC, making it the world's first city-state, as well as its most influential. Rome: Day One makes a powerful and provocative case that Rome was established in a one-day ceremony, and that Rome's first day was also Western civilization's. Historian...
The House of Augustus
A radical reexamination of the textual and archaeological evidence about Augustus and the Palatine Caesar Augustus (63 BC–AD 14), who is usually thought of as the first Roman emperor, lived on the Palatine Hill, the place from which the word “palace” originates. A startling reassessment of textual and archaeological evidence, The House of Augustus demonstrates that Augustus was never an emperor in any meaningful sense of the word, that he never had a palace, and that the so-called "Casa di Augusto" excavated on the Palatine was a lavish aristocratic house destroyed by the young Caesar in order to build the temple of Apollo. Exploring the Palatine from its first occupation to the presen...
La fondazione di Roma raccontata da Andrea Carandini
«Ho avuto la fortuna di scavare per tanti anni nei luoghi citati dalla leggenda, dove Roma sarebbe stata fondata e dove avrebbero vissuto i primi re. Ho raccolto in questi scavi tante testimonianze materiali, esterne alla tradizione letteraria, eppure risalenti a quei tempi lontani e che richiamano quegli eventi e le azioni di quei leggendari personaggi. Ecco perché non credo che la leggenda sulle origini di Roma sia una favola ma piuttosto una tradizione in cui verità e finzione sono entrambe presenti e intimamente mescolate. Distinguere e separare l'una dall'altra provando a risalire a quanto effettivamente accadde nei primi tempi della città è un compito difficile, un percorso pieno di ostacoli, in cui capiterà di pescare dalla memoria letteraria degli antichi, ma anche di scendere sotto terra, attingendo dalla memoria accumulata nel terreno, sotto i nostri piedi di moderni Romani.»
Unwritten Rome
In Unwritten Rome, a new book by the author of Myths of Rome, T.P. Wiseman presents us with an imaginative and appealing picture of the early society of pre-literary Rome—as a free and uninhibited world in which the arts and popular entertainments flourished. This original angle allows the voice of the Roman people to be retrieved empathetically from contemporary artefacts and figured monuments, and from selected passages of later literature.How do you understand a society that didn’t write down its own history? That is the problem with early Rome, from the Bronze Age down to the conquest of Italy around 300 BC. The texts we have to use were all written centuries later, and their view of early Rome is impossibly anachronistic. But some possibly authentic evidence may survive, if we can only tease it out – like the old story of a Roman king acting as a magician, or the traditional custom that may originate in the practice of ritual prostitution. This book consists of eighteen attempts to find such material and make sense of it.
A Critical History of Early Rome
"A remarkable book,in which Forsythe uses his thorough knowledge of the ancient evidence to reconstruct a coherent and eminently plausible picture which in turn illuminates early Roman society more immediately than any other category of evidence is able to do. Forsythe displays his impressive ability to demonstrate to what extent and why the tradition that dominates the extant historical narratives is not credible."—Kurt Raaflaub, author of The Discovery of Freedom in Ancient Greece "An excellent synthetic treatment of early Roman history found in both modern literary and archaeological materials."—Richard Mitchell, author of Patricians and Plebeians
La forza del contesto
Come estrarre dai beni inanimati, immersi nel sonno della storia, il potenziale capace di risvegliarli? Andrea Carandini si racconta attraverso l'archeologia, grande passione della sua vita, in pagine di straordinaria vividezza, originalità e profondità. L'archeologo somiglia al saggio investigatore, che si avvale di un metodo universale e di tanti specifici sussidi. Ma somiglia anche a un direttore d'orchestra, a cui non sfuggono suoni imperfetti di archi, arpe, legni, ottoni e percussioni; o piuttosto a un regista, al quale non sfugge il dettaglio errato di un vestito o l'incongruità di un arredo. Perciò l'archeologia deve trattare tutti gli oggetti e tutte le relazioni fra di essi, in...
Archaeology, Ideology and Urbanism in Rome from the Grand Tour to Berlusconi
Reviews the complex relationship between Rome's rich archaeology, changing cultural and ideological agendas, and its urban development.
Architecture and Politics in Republican Rome
This book argues that Republican Rome and its component buildings were inextricably intertwined with government, which they perpetuated and challenged.
