The city in the Roman West, c.250 BC-c.AD 250

"The city is widely regarded as the most characteristic expression of the social, cultural and economic formations of the Roman Empire. This was especially true in the Latin-speaking West, where urbanism was much less deeply ingrained than in the Greek-speaking East but where networks of cities grew...

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Autor principal: Laurence, Ray, 1963-
Autor Corporativo: ebrary, Inc
Otros Autores: Esmonde Cleary, A. S. (A. Simon), Sears, Gareth, 1977-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Lenguaje:inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
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  • Machine generated contents note: Introduction; 1. The creation of an urban culture; 2. Colonisation and the development of Roman urbanism; 3. City foundation, government and urbanism; 4. The reception of Roman urbanism in the West; 5. Town planning, competition and the aesthetics of urbanism; 6. Defining a new town: walls, streets and temples; 7. Assembling the city: forum and basilica; 8. Assembling the city: baths and urban life; 9. Assembling the city: theatres and sacred space; 10. Assembling the city: amphitheatres; 11. The Roman city in ca.AD 250: an urban legacy of Empire?; Bibliography; Index.