Description
Book SynopsisThis Companion provides a comprehensive review of the critical issues and approaches that have transformed scholarly understanding of Roman architecture in the last 20 years. It serves as an indispensable teaching and reference work for English-speaking undergraduates and graduates.
Trade Review"This comprehensive volume of almost 600 pages deserves praise. Its 25 chapters have a chronological as well as a thematic focus, and cover the broader Roman Empire as well as specific case studies." (Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 1 March 2015)
"The Companion is an important study that opens up new avenues for discussion and consideration, challenges what is currently perceived to be the approved wisdom on Roman architecture and encourages a new approach to understanding the material culture of a society that remains evident and influential in our own." (Reference Reviews, 1 October 2014)
"Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through graduate students." (Choice, 1 June 2013)
"The line-up of contributers is extremley impressive, with most chapters written by the very scolors whose names immediately sprang to my own mind on seeing their titles" (The Journal of Roman Studies, May 2016)
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations viii
Contributors xiii
Maps/General Images xviii
Introduction 1
1. Italic Architecture of the Earlier First Millennium BCE 6
Jeffrey A. Becker
2. Rome and Her Neighbors: Greek Building Practices in Republican Rome 27
Penelope J.E. Davies
3. Creating Imperial Architecture 45
Inge Nielsen
4. Columns and Concrete: Architecture from Nero to Hadrian 63
Caroline K. Quenemoen
5. The Severan Period 82
Edmund V. Thomas
6. The Architecture of Tetrarchy 106
Emanuel Mayer
7. Architect and Patron 127
James C. Anderson, jr.
8. Plans, Measurement Systems, and Surveying: The Roman Technology of Pre-Building 140
John R. Senseney
9. Materials and Techniques 157
Lynne C. Lancaster and Roger B. Ulrich
10. Labor Force and Execution 193
Rabun Taylor
11. Urban Sanctuaries: The Early Republic to Augustus 207
John W. Stamper
12. Monumental Architecture of Non-Urban Cult Places in Roman Italy 228
Tesse D. Stek
13. Fora 248
James F.D. Frakes
14. Funerary Cult and Architecture 264
Kathryn J. McDonnell
15. Building for an Audience: The Architecture of Roman Spectacle 281
Hazel Dodge
16. Roman Imperial Baths and Thermae 299
Fikret K. Yegül
17. Courtyard Architecture in the Insulae of Ostia Antica 324
Roger B. Ulrich
18. Domus/Single Family House 342
John R. Clarke
19. Private Villas: Italy and the Provinces 363
Mantha Zarmakoupi
20. Romanization 381
Louise Revell
21. Streets and Facades 399
Ray Laurence
22. Vitruvius and his Influence 412
Ingrid D. Rowland
23. Ideological Applications: Roman Architecture and Fascist Romanità 426
Genevieve S. Gessert
24. Visualizing Architecture Then and Now: Mimesis and the Capitoline Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus 446
Melanie Grunow Sobocinski
25. Conservation 462
William Aylward
Glossary 480
References 501
Index 565
