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The Architecture of the Ancient Greek Theatre
In this volume the leading experts on ancient Greek theatre architecture present new excavation results and new analyses of individual monuments. Many well-known theatres such as the one of Dionysos in Athens and others at for instance Messene, Sikyon, Chaironeia in Greece and Aphrodisias in Turkey have been re-examined since their original publication with stunning results. New research also includes less well-known or newly discovered ancient Greek theatres in Albania, Turkey, Cyprus and Sicily. Further studies on the history of research, regional theatrical developments, terminology and function, as well as a perspective on Roman theatres built in Greek traditions make this volume a comprehensive book of new research for specialist scholars as well as for students and the interested public. Fundamental publications on the topic have not been presented for many years, and this book aims to form a new foundation for the study of theatre architecture.
Material World
Scholars from ancient and early modern studies, art history, literary criticism, philosophy, and the history of science explore the interplay between nature, science, and art in influential ancient texts and their reception in the Renaissance.
Karia and the Dodekanese
The papers in Karia and the Dodekanese, Vol. I, focus on regional developments and interregional relations in western Asia Minor and the Dodekanese during the Late Classical and Early Hellenistic period. Throughout antiquity, this region was a dynamic meeting place for eastern and western civilizations. Cultural achievements of exceptional and everlasting importance, including significant creations of ancient Greek literature, philosophy, art and architecture, originated in the coastal cities of western Anatolia and the adjoining Aegean islands. In the fourth century BC, the eastern cities experienced a new economic boom, and a revival of Archaic culture, sometimes termed ‘The Ionian Renai...
Il castello di Giulio II ad Ostia Antica
Attraverso un’approfondita analisi storica, artistica, archeologica e architettonica il volume, articolato in diversi e complementari saggi, offre un prezioso contributo per la conoscenza di uno dei più caratteristici ed emblematici monumenti del territorio ostiense e consente di valorizzare al meglio una realtà architettonica ancor oggi sostanzialmente inalterata. La visione che si è scelto di dare del monumento, seguendo una strada alternativa rispetto alle trattazioni tradizionali, è quella multidisciplinare, legata alle molteplici chiavi di lettura che l’edificio stesso propone a chi vi si avvicina. In particolare, si sono volute mettere in evidenza alcune caratteristiche architettoniche dell’edificio, quali il bagno papale e gli affreschi dello scalone, che in precedenza non erano mai state adeguatamente analizzate. Risultano particolarmente significativi i contributi riguardanti il recentissimo restauro di una parte degli affreschi dello scalone monumentale per le novità scaturite nel corso dell’intervento.
La Pianura Bolognese nel Villanoviano. Insediamenti della prima età del Ferro (Soprintendenza Archeologica dell'Emilia Romagna, Studi e documenti di Archeologia, 5)
In occasione della Mostra aperta a Villanova di Castenaso sulla più recente attività archeologica svolta sul territorio che ha dato il nome a una delle più caratteristiche culture italiane della prima età del Ferro – la ‘Villanoviana’ – l’Amministrazione comunale, unitamente alla Soprintendenza Archeologica dell’Emilia-Romagna, ha promosso la pubblicazione di questo volume che costituisce ad un tempo il Catalogo della Mostra stessa e la messa a punto delle conoscenze attuali sul territorio e sui sistemi insediativi nella Pianura Bolognese in un periodo compreso tra IX e VI secolo a.C. L’ambizioso programma si è articolato attraverso la suddivisione della materia per specif...
Origins of the Colonnaded Streets in the Cities of the Roman East
The colonnaded axes define the visitor's experience of many of the great cities of the Roman East. How did this extraordinarily bold tool of urban planning evolve? The street, instead of remaining a mundane passage, a convenient means of passing from one place to another, was in the course of little more than a century transformed in the Eastern provinces into a monumental landscape which could in one sweeping vision encompass the entire city. The colonnaded axes became the touchstone by which cities competed for status in the Eastern Empire. Though adopted as a sign of cities' prosperity under the Pax Romana, they were not particularly 'Roman' in their origin. Rather, they reflected the inventiveness, fertility of ideas and the dynamic role of civic patronage in the Eastern provinces in the first two centuries under Rome. This study will concentrate on the convergence of ideas behind these great avenues, examining over fifty sites in an attempt to work out the sequence in which ideas developed across a variety of regions-from North Africa around to Asia Minor. It will look at the phenomenon in the context of the consolidation of Roman rule.
