Rethinking the Roman City: The Spatial Turn and the Archaeology of Roman Italy by Dunia Filippi

Author:Dunia Filippi [Filippi, Dunia]
Format: pdf
Tags: The spatial turn has brought forward new analytical imperatives about the importance of space in the relationship between physical and social networks of meaning. This volume explores this in relation to approaches and methodologies in the study of urban space in Roman Italy. As a consequence of these new imperatives, sociological studies on ancient Roman cities are flourishing, demonstrating a new set of approaches that have developed separately from •traditional• historical and topographical analyses. Rethinking the Roman City represents a convergence of these different approaches to propose a new interpretive model, looking at the Roman city and one of its key elements: the forum. After an introductory discussion of methodological issues, internationally known specialists consider three key sites of the Roman world • Rome, Ostia, and Pompeii. Chapters focus on physical space and/or the use of those spaces to interrelate these different approaches. The focus then moves to the Forum Romanum, considering the possible analytical trajectories available (historical, topographical, literary, comparative, and sociological), and the diversity of possible perspectives within each of these, moving towards an innovative understanding of the role of the forum within the Roman city. This volume will be of great value to scholars of ancient cities across the Roman world, as well as historians of urban society and development throughout the ancient world., ancient urbanism, Methodological approaches to the archaeology of roman italy, archaeology of ostia, Topography and Classical Archaeology, pompeii, roman city, Henri Lefebvre, ostia, ancient city, ostia and urban space, spatial turn in roman archaeology, archaeology of pompeii, Roman urban space, spatial turn, Archaeology of Roman Italy, forum romanum, roman forum, ostia antica, pompeii and urban space, Methodological approaches to the spatial turn, roman urbanism, public space in rome, Methodological approaches to roman urbanism, archaeology and the roman forum
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2022-07-15T02:15:55.533572+00:00


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