The politics of public space in Republican Rome /
"Taking public space as her starting point, Amy Russell offers a fresh analysis of the ever-fluid public/private divide in Republican Rome. Built on the 'spatial turn' in Roman studies and incorporating textual and archaeological evidence, this book uncovers a rich variety of urban sp...
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Language: | English |
Imprint: | Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2016. |
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Online Access: | http://assets.cambridge.org/97811070/40496/cover/9781107040496.jpg |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Roman concepts: publicus and privatus
- 3. The definition of political space in the Forum Romanum
- 4. The Forum between political space and private space
- 5. Gods, patrons, and community in sacred space
- 6. Greek, Roman, public, and private: the space of art and the art of space
- 7. Pompey and the privatisation of public space on the Campus Martius
- 8. Conclusion: the death of public space?