Monumentality and the Roman Empire: architecture in the Antonine age
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Main Author: Thomas, Edmund, (Edmund V.) (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford Oxford University Press 2007
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
Monumental form -- Principles of monumental form in antiquity -- The contribution of Antoninus Pius -- The symbolic significance of architectural form -- Patrons and the monumentality of architecture -- Creating form: architects in the Antonine age -- Monuments of city and empire -- Buildings, politics, and the monumentality of Antonine cities -- The cities and the emperor -- Imperial architecture -- Monuments and memory -- Preserving the monuments of the past -- Building the monuments of the future -- Responses to monuments -- Experiencing and responding to architecture -- The architectural descriptions of Lucian of Samosata -- Maps -- The Roman empire (western provinces) -- The Roman empire (central and eastern provinces) -- Roman Italy -- The 'restoration of Italy' by Antoninus Pius -- Roman Asia Minor -- Roman Africa
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xxvi, 378 p.)
ISBN:1441607218
9781441607218

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