Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World: A Companion to the City of Rome
Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World: A Companion to the City of Rome
Editors: Holleran, Claire and Claridge, Amanda
Publication Year: 2018
Publisher: Wiley
Price: Core Collection Only

ISBN: 978-1-40-519819-6
Category: History - History, Ancient
Image Count:
53
Book Status: Available
Table of Contents
A Companion to the City of Rome presents a series of original essays from top experts that offer an authoritative and up-to-date overview of current research on the development of the city of Rome from its origins until circa AD 600.
This book is found in the following Credo Collections:
Table of Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- List of Illustrations
- List of Tables
- List of Maps
- Introductory
- Source Material
- Historical Overview: From City-state to Christian Center
- The Urban Landscape
- A City of Stories
- Defining the City: The Boundaries of Rome
- The Development of the City: An Archaeological Perspective
- The People
- The Population
- Social Structure andthe plebs Romana
- The Army in Imperial Rome
- The Urban Infrastructure
- Rivers, Roads, and Ports
- Feeding Rome: The Grain Supply
- Water Supply and Sewers
- Streets and Street Life
- Urban Administration in Rome
- Living in Rome
- Housing
- The Imperial Thermae
- Libraries and Literary Culture in Rome
- Dying in Rome
- Hazards of Life in Ancient Rome: Floods, Fires, Famines, Footpads, Filth, and Fevers
- Funerary Practice in the City of Rome
- Roman Cemeteries and Tombs
- The Urban Economy
- The Labor Market
- Production in Rome
- The Retail Trade
- The Construction Industry
- Civic Life
- Temples, Colleges, and Priesthoods
- Entertainment
- Law and Lawcourts
- The Roman Church
- Political Space
- The Roman Triumph
- The Triumphal Procession
- Urban Commemoration: The Pompa Triumphalis in Rome
- Receptions of Rome
- Written Rome: Ancient Literary Responses
- The Renaissance: The “Discovery” of Ancient Rome
- Napoleonic Rome and “Roma Capitale”
- Mussolini and Rome
- The City of Ancient Rome on Screen