Urban dreams and realities in antiquity remains and representations of the ancient city / edited by Adam Kemezis.
| Other author | Kemezis, Adam M., 1977- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2015] |
| Description | xiv, 533 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | Mnemosyne, supplements. History and archaeology of classical antiquity, 2352-8656 ; volume 375 |
| Contents | Introduction / Adam M. Kemezis -- PART 1. CITY AS SPACE I : REMAINS ON THE GROUND -- In defense of Arkadia : the city as a fortress / Matthew Maher -- The Mundus of Caere and early Etruscan urbanization / Fabio Colivicchi -- "Fighting over a shadow?" : Hellenistic Greek cities and Greco-Roman cities as fora and media for multi-level social signaling / LuAnn Wandsnider -- Constructing an Oscan cityscape : Pompeii and the Eítuns inscriptions / Tanya K. Henderson -- Unravelling the reality of a 'city' on the Deccan Plateau / Aloka Parasher-Sen -- Monumentalising the ephemeral in ancient Rome / Steven Hijmans -- PART 2. CITY AS SPACE II. LANDSCAPES IN LITERATURE -- Future city in the heroic past : Rome, Romans and Roman landscapes in Aeneid 6-8 / Eric J. Kondratieff -- Reading the civic landscape of Augustan Rome : Aeneid 1.421-429 and the building program of Augustus / Darryl A. Phillips -- The predatory palace : Seneca's Thyestes and the architecture of tyranny / Daniel B. Unruh -- Imperial Roman cities as places of memory in Augustine's confessions / Owen M. Ewald -- PART 3. CITY AS IDENTITY I: CULTURES IN STONE -- Sacred exchange : the religious institutions of emporia in the Mediterranean world of the later Iron Age / Megan Daniels -- Greek poleis in the Near East and their Parthian overlords / Josef Wiesehöfer -- Civic identity in Roman Ostia : some evidence from dedications (inaugurations) / Christer Bruun -- Chariot racing in Hispania Tarraconensis : urban Romanization and provincial identity / Raymond L. Capra -- PART 4. CITY AS IDENTITY II : COMMUNITIES ON PAPER -- The seat of kingship : (re)constructing the city in Isaiah 24-27 / Ian Douglas Wilson -- Remembering pre-Israelite Jerusalem in late Persian Yehud : mnemonic preferences, memories and social imagination / Ehud Ben Zvi -- Memory and the Greek city in Strabo's geography / Edward Dandrow -- The ekklēsia of early Christ-followers in Asia Minor as the eschatological New Jerusalem : counter-imperial rhetoric? / Ralph J. Korner -- From kinship to state : the family and the ancient city in nineteenth-century ethnology / Emily Varto. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2014036723 |
| ISBN | 9789004277359 (hardback : alkaline paper) |
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