Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Format (B × H): 197 mm x 254 mm, Gewicht: 904 g
Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Format (B × H): 197 mm x 254 mm, Gewicht: 904 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-884857-8
Verlag: Oxford University Press
This volume addresses the treatment and perception of historic buildings in Imperial Rome, examining the ways in which public monuments were restored in order to develop an understanding of the Roman concept of built heritage. It considers examples from the first century BC to the second century AD, focusing primarily on the six decades between the Great Fire of AD 64 and the AD 120s, which constituted a period of dramatic urban transformation and architectural innovation in Rome. Through a detailed analysis of the ways in which the design, materiality, and appearance of buildings - including the temple of Jupiter Capitolinus and hut of Romulus - developed with successive restorations, the case is made for the existence of a consistent approach to the treatment of historic buildings in this period. This study also explores how changes to particular monuments and to the urban fabric as a whole were received by the people who experienced them first-hand, uncovering attitudes to built heritage in Roman society more widely. By examining descriptions of destruction and restoration in literature of the first and second centuries AD, including the works of Seneca the Younger, Pliny the Elder, Martial, Tacitus, and Plutarch, it forms a picture of the conflicting ways in which Rome's inhabitants responded to the redevelopment of their city. The results provide an alternative way of explaining key interventions in Rome's built environment and challenge the idea that heritage is a purely modern phenomenon.
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Fachgebiete
- Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Geschichte der Architektur, Baugeschichte
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike Klassische Archäologie
- Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Museumskunde, Materielle Kultur, Erinnerungskultur
Weitere Infos & Material
- Frontmatter
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Abbreviations
- 0: Introduction: Starting from an Unexpected Premise
- 1: Definitions and Parameters
- Architectural history in ancient Rome
- Scholarship on architectural restoration
- Defining heritage
- The building site that was Rome
- The architectural spirit of the age
- 2: Restoration: Why, Who, How
- No ruins in Rome
- Agency in design
- Patrons and architects
- The role of emperors
- Innovative restoration
- Architectural continuity
- 3: The Restorations of the Temple of Jupiter Capitolinus
- Part 1: Four temples
- Uncertain plans: substructures and superstructures
- Catulus' temple
- Vespasian's temple
- Domitian's temple
- Part 2: Building on the same footprint
- Architecture and religion
- Haruspices and building
- Vestinus' decision to assemble the haruspices
- A historic building in a modern guise
- 4: The Casa Romuli Anomaly
- The two homes of Romulus
- The peculiar appearance of the casa Romuli
- The casa Romuli and Augustan ideology
- Huts as exempla
- The wooden bridge over the Tiber
- Conclusion
- 5: Ancient Responses to Restoration
- Silent structures
- Jupiter Capitolinus, the people's temple
- Cicero on the Capitolium
- Martial on the Capitolium
- Architecture and morality
- Plutarch on the Capitolium
- Conclusion
- 6: Roman Thoughts on the Rebuilding of Rome
- Seneca on the fires of Lyon and Rome
- Martial's building site
- Tacitus on the destruction of Rome
- Irreplaceable losses
- Shade and oppression in rebuilt Rome
- A better city
- Conclusion
- 7: Conclusion
- Where next: a tentative idea?
- Endmatter
- Bibliography
- Index
