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Finding Ancient Rome
Second edition, updated March 2023 Ancient Rome is still with us, more than ever. Every year, with new metro lines, roadworks, digs, restorations and repairs, new discoveries are made and old errors corrected – and new questions raised. This electronic book is intended as both a walking guide to ancient Rome and a resource for the city and the people who left their mark on history. Each of the eight excursions illustrates an aspect of the city from the foundation to the fall, and in passing explains the bits of modern Rome whose roots lie in that distant past. These walks are not meant to be a tourist guide of the "Rome in 3 days" style nor a nutshell guide to the well-documented and overrun sites such as the Colosseum and the Forum. Instead, they lead through the city itself, along paths that have been trod for thousands of years.
The Religion of the Romans
Contributing to our understanding of ancient history, the author guides the reader through the fascinating world of Roman religion, describing its unique characteristics and bringing its peculiarities into stark relief.
Orthographic Traditions and the Sub-elite in the Roman Empire
Explores the history of spelling in Latin to reveal that sophisticated education in literacy was not restricted to the elite.
Rome, Empire of Plunder
An interdisciplinary exploration of Roman cultural appropriation, offering new insights into the processes through which Rome made and remade itself.
Paris: The 'New Rome' of Napoleon I
Napoleon I employed a myriad of media through which to promote his propaganda and his universal hegemony. Classical Rome - home to the great Caesars - was central to his ambitious visions for the transformation of Paris into an imperial metropolis of unprecedented magnitude. Exploring the interrelationship between antiquity, the display of power and the reinvention of Paris, this volume evaluates how the Roman world and post-antique exploitations of Rome influenced Napoleonic Paris, and how Napoleon promoted his authority by appropriating Rome's triumphal architecture and its associated symbolism to relocate 'Rome' in his own times. The volume shows how consideration of Louis XIV's legacy is crucial to understanding the evolution of Napoleon's fascination with imperial Rome. It also charts Napoleon's manipulation of the populist rhetoric of Republican France (and Rome) as he moved from being a general fighting for the Revolutionary cause to become the 'absolute' ruler of a new empire.
Oscan in the Greek Alphabet
By examining Greek-alphabet Oscan inscriptions, this book shines light on the linguistics, bilingualism and epigraphy of ancient Southern Italy.
The Altars of Republican Rome and Latium
This book reorients the study of sacrifice, examining the locus of ritual action - the altars of Republican Rome and Latium.
Commemorating the Dead
The distinctions and similarities among Roman, Jewish, and Christian burials can provide evidence of social networks, family life, and, perhaps, religious sensibilities. Is the Roman development from columbaria to catacombs the result of evolving religious identities or simply a matter of a change in burial fashions? Do the material remains from Jewish burials evidence an adherence to ancient customs, or the adaptation of rituals from surrounding cultures? What Greco-Roman funerary images were taken over and "baptized" as Christian ones? The answers to these and other questions require that the material culture be viewed, whenever possible, in situ, through multiple disciplinary lenses and i...
Floods of the Tiber in Ancient Rome
Publisher description
Arte Veneta 74
Bibliografia dell'arte veneta (2016). Appendice del n. 74/2017 della rivista omonima, la Bibliografia dell'arte veneta costituisce un repertorio di pubblicazioni, edite nell'arco di un anno (2016), dedicate ad argomenti di interesse storico-artistico veneto al quale gli studiosi possono fare riferimento come strumento di aggiornamento e orientamento. Un modo per facilitare l'accesso a un ausilio fondamentale per gli studi.
