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The Aurelian Wall and the Refashioning of Imperial Rome, AD 271–855
This book explores the relationship between the city of Rome and the Aurelian Wall during the six centuries following its construction in the 270s AD, a period when the city changed and contracted almost beyond recognition, as it evolved from imperial capital into the spiritual center of Western Christendom. The Wall became the single most prominent feature in the urban landscape, a dominating presence which came bodily to incarnate the political, legal, administrative, and religious boundaries of urbs Roma, even as it reshaped both the physical contours of the city as a whole and the mental geographies of 'Rome' that prevailed at home and throughout the known world. With the passage of time, the circuit took on a life of its own as the embodiment of Rome's past greatness, a cultural and architectural legacy that dwarfed the quotidian realities of the post-imperial city as much as it shaped them.
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Brill's Companion to the Classics, Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany
Brill's Companion to the Classics, Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany explores how political propaganda constantly manipulated and reinvented the legacy of ancient Greece and Rome in order to create consensus and historical legitimation for the Fascist and National Socialist dictatorships.
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gardens of Sallust
Pleasure gardens, or
horti , offered elite citizens of ancient Rome a
retreat from the noise and grime of the city, where they could
take their leisure and even conduct business amid lovely
landscaping, architecture, and sculpture. One of the most
important and beautiful of these gardens was the
horti Sallustiani , originally developed by the Roman
historian Sallust at the end of the first century B.C. and
later possessed and perfected by a series of Roman emperors.
Though now irrevocably altered by two millennia of human
history, the Gardens of Sallust endure as a memory of beauty
and as a significant archaeological site, where fragments of
sculpture and ruins of architecture are still being
discovered.
In this ambitious work, Kim Hartswick undertakes the first
comprehensive history of the Gardens of Sallust from Roman
times to the present, as well as its influence on generations
of scholars, intellectuals, and archaeologists. He draws from
an astonishing array of sources to reconstruct the original
dimensions and appearance of the gardens and the changes they
have undergone at specific points in history. Hartswick
thoroughly discusses the architectural features of the garden
and analyzes their remains. He also studies the sculptures
excavated from the gardens and discusses the subjects and uses
of many outstanding examples.
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Pompeii, a different perspective : via dell 'Abbondanza, a long road, well-traveled
\"The book presents the high-resolution digital orthographic photomosaics of the faًcades of the city blocks along the street [via d'Abbondanza], provides historical and factual information about the buildings, and describes the process used to create the images.\"--page 2.
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Spatial Christianisation in Context
This book is the first to closely examine the location of the earliest purpose-built Christian buildings inside the city of Rome in their contemporary context.
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