Urban dreams and realities in antiquity

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Adam M. Kemezis
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Table of 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.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Leiden, Boston
Series
Mnemosyne, supplements. History and archaeology of classical antiquity -- Volume 375, Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava, Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava -- v. 375.

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Dewey Decimal Class
307.76009/01
Library of Congress
HT153 .U724 2015, HT153.U724 2014, HT153 .U724 2014

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xiv, 533 pages
Number of pages
533

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Open Library
OL28411732M
ISBN 10
9004277358
ISBN 13
9789004277359, 9789004283893
LCCN
2014036723
OCLC/WorldCat
889181441, 900534467

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