Rome

An Oxford Archaeological Guide
3rd Auflage
ISBN: 978-0-19-883776-3
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 704 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 138 mm x 216 mm

The city of Rome is the largest archaeological site in the world, capital and showcase of the Roman Empire and the centre of Christian Europe. Whether exploring Rome in person or wishing to understand it from afar, the Oxford Archaeological Guide is an essential resource for academics, students, historians, visitors, and all readers interested in the ancient city and the Roman world.

The guide presents detailed archaeological explanations and historical background to both the most famous and lesser known sites of the city, combined with practical on-site information, including itineraries, museum tips, and glossaries. Amanda Claridge and Christopher Siwicki place Rome in the context of the development of the empire, highlighting the nature of Roman achievement, and explaining how Rome came to be the largest city in the ancient world. Accessibly written, it draws on the latest discoveries and the best of recent scholarship, to illuminate ancient Rome for experts and new-comers alike.

For this expanded new edition the text has been extensively revised in line with recent discoveries, openings, and scholarship. Numerous new sites and illustrations have been added, the itineraries re-organized and expanded to suit the many changes that have taken place in the fifteen years since the previous edition, and the practical information, bibliography, and references fully updated.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Claridge, Amanda

Siwicki, Christopher

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- How to use this Guide

- Introduction

- Historical Overview

- Chronological Table

- Documentary Sources

- Glossary

- 1: The Roman Forum

- 2: The Upper Via Sacra

- 3: The Palatine

- 4: Field of Mars

- 5: Capitoline Hill

- 6: Circus Flaminius to Circus Maximus

- 7: Colosseum Valley and Esquiline Hill

- 8: Caelian Hill and the Inner Via Appia

- 9: Lateran-Porta Maggiore

- 10: The Viminal

- 11: Pyramid-Testaccio

- 12: Across the Tiber

- 13: Parks of the Appia Antica

- 14: Other Sites Outside the Walls

- 15: Catacombs

- 16: Museums

- Visit and ticket information

- References and Further Reading

- Illustrations Acknowledgements

- Index

Über Autor(innen)

Amanda Claridge was Reader in Classical Archaeology, Royal Holloway, University of London, and was formerly Lecturer in Archaeology at St John's College, Oxford. Assistant Director of the British School in Rome from 1980 to 1994, she was the author of numerous publications on Roman archaeology. Her wider archaeological activities included fieldwork in Italy, North Africa, and Turkey, and the study of Roman marbles and sculptural techniques, on which she is a noted authority.

Christopher Siwicki is a research fellow at the British school at Rome, where he is also director of the undergraduate and postgraduate taught courses on the history, archaeology, and topography of the ancient city. He has previously held research fellowships at the Norwegian Institute in Rome and the Warburg Institute, and lecturing positions at John Cabot University, the University of Exeter, and the University of Lincoln.