Appius Claudius Caecus et la construction de la via Appia

Humm, Michel

doi:10.3406/mefr.1996.1958

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“…Thus, saving of time does not explain per se the construction of the road. As a consequence, some authors tried to frame Via Appia in the more general cultural horizon of the Hellenistic influxes on Rome [22], viewing it as a "Hellenistic road", celebrating the successes of its builder. Clear connections between astronomical events and Hellenistic monumental architecture have been recently found in the orientation of the urban plan of Alexandria [23,24] and in the funerary monument of Antiochos I at Mount Nemrud [25].…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Uncovering a masterpiece of Roman engineering: The project of Via Appia between Colle Pardo and Terracina

Magli

Realini

Reguzzoni

et al. 2014

Journal of Cultural Heritage

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Uncovering a masterpiece of Roman engineering: The project of Via Appia between Colle Pardo and Terracina

Magli

Realini

Reguzzoni

et al. 2014

Journal of Cultural Heritage

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“…1 Quilici 2013, 77. 2 Considerazioni storiche in Mazzarino 1968;Mazzarino 1969;Humm 1996;Patterson 1999a;Bruni et al 2001;Mazzotta 2022. 3 Stat.…”

Section: Roma 14 Febbraio 2023unclassified

Storie Intorno Agli Scipioni

D'Andrea

2023

Archeologia E Arte Antica

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Molteplici sono le tematiche affrontate in questo libro; volendo sintetizzare, per creare una linea di lettura unica e omogenea, si può asserire che in esso si sviluppano essenzialmente tre storie. Il punto di partenza è un magazzino archeologico, ricavato all’interno di un caseggiato (cosiddetta insula), costruito nella metà del III secolo d.C. sopra il sepolcro dei Corneli Scipioni, sito al primo miglio dell’antica via Appia. La costruzione della tomba appartenuta alla celebre gens repubblicana e lo sviluppo di un’area funeraria tra le più antiche vie Appia e Latina costituiscono il perno intorno al quale ruota la prima parte del libro, dedicata all’analisi topografica e archeologica del paesaggio e dei suoi monumenti dalla Repubblica alla tarda antichità. Le vere novità di questo lavoro si trovano tuttavia nella seconda e nella terza parte del volume. Poco esplorata era infatti la storia ottocentesca e novecentesca del recupero dei monumenti e delle trasformazioni di una vigna in area archeologica, che qui viene narrata attraverso le foto d’epoca e le voci dei protagonisti conservate nei documenti d’archivio e trascritte in appendice. Decisamente poco nota era anche la collezione epigrafica custodita nel magazzino, argomento della terza parte del libro: le iscrizioni pubblicate nel catalogo rappresentano un necessario quanto importante passo avanti nella documentazione disponibile e diventano la fonte primaria impiegata per la ricostruzione del paesaggio funerario antico. Tre ambiti di ricerca dunque coesistono e s’intrecciano tra le pagine di questo volume: l’archeologia, la storia ottocentesca e novecentesca di un settore urbano di Roma, l’epigrafia latina. Seguendo un percorso circolare, la narrazione parte dall’analisi di una necropoli alle porte della città antica, attraversa la storia moderna di una vigna e la sua trasformazione in area archeologica e infine ritorna a esaminare il paesaggio antico, attraverso lo studio delle iscrizioni sepolcrali ivi rinvenute.

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“…The image of Roman town foundation is overshadowed by the mythology of Rome's founder Romulus -said to have been the creator of Roma Quadrata on the Palatine in 753 BC. The important point of this mythological tradition is that it emerges in the fourth to third centuries BC, when Rome was founding colonial towns laid out in geometric or orthogonal patterns (Wiseman 1995;Humm 1986). Both the idea of the mythical founder and the ideal of a geometrical pattern had their origin in Greek culture from whence they were incorporated into Rome's history.…”

Section: An Aesthetic Cosmologymentioning

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“…Other examples, however, point to a fundamental cosmological consideration. Terracina, founded in 299 BC, was overlooked by the monumental sanctuary of Jupiter Anxur and connected to Rome by the Via Appia, which Humm (1986) has demonstrated to have been laid out along Pythagorean principles, with the alignment of the road focused on the Temple of Diana on the Aventine in Rome. In this case, mathematics and cosmography intersect in the creation of the new landscape of the Via Appia and the Pontine marshes.…”

Section: An Aesthetic Cosmologymentioning

confidence: 99%

Were Cities Built as Images?

Carl¹,

Kemp²,

Laurence

et al. 2000

CAJ

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Many ancient city sites display a remarkable regularity in their plan which has led to considerable debate on the symbolism and intentionality which may lie behind these arrangements. Grid plan cities of the Greek and Roman world were discussed by Haverfield almost a century ago, but it was above all the cities of South and East Asia analyzed by Wheatley in his influential Pivot of the Four Quarters (1971) which has given new emphasis to the potential of meaning and significance. Such planned cities necessarily incorporate an essential tension between praxis — the practical day-to-day needs of the urban community — and idealism, the desire to impose on those practical concerns a city-plan which expresses a symbolic or cosmological image. Contemporary texts, where they exist, may help towards an answer, but the physicality of the city plan itself provides the crucial ground for argument as to whether symbolic or ideological imperatives governed the actual outcome. Cities may be conceptualized in ideal terms without ever taking on the physical attributes of any ideal form. The contributors to this Viewpoint approach the issue from a diversity of standpoints and with reference to different geographical areas. Were cities built as images? Did powerful belief systems combined with strong centralized control give rise to cities where the moat represented the encircling sea and the raised cathedral the mountain-dwelling of the gods? Or are such readings more the product of Western analysis and wishful thinking than the original intentions of their builders? The discussion here is opened by an architectural historian, who places city-planning firmly within the Western intellectual tradition, and considers it in particular as a product of Greek geometry. A series of regional specialists then take up the baton and assess the evidence for symbolic city planning in Egypt, the Roman world, South and Southeast Asia, and Mesoamerica. How far did cities of the Classical world conform to ideas set out by Aristotle and Vitruvius? Were the regulations of the Artashastra really adopted as a practical guide for city lay-out in South Asia? The balance of evidence — of what may have been intended, against what was actually laid out on the ground — provides fertile ground for a stimulating diversity of opinions.

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Appius Claudius Caecus et la construction de la via Appia

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Uncovering a masterpiece of Roman engineering: The project of Via Appia between Colle Pardo and Terracina

Uncovering a masterpiece of Roman engineering: The project of Via Appia between Colle Pardo and Terracina

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