The Politics of Public Space in Republican Rome

Russell, Amy

doi:10.1017/cbo9781139629041

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“…By the late Republic, statues adorned basilicas, sanctuaries, shrines 14 , and temples (Map.2. a, b, d), theatres, gardens, houses, and baths 15 (Map.2.…”

Section: Setting and Displaymentioning

confidence: 99%

Greek Originals: New Visual Language in the City of Rome

Elmageed¹,

Zayed²

2023

مجلة کلیة الآثار . جامعة القاهرة

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This paper aims at reconstructing a monumental view of Pliny's record, using both GIS and Photoshop programs, depending on the photos of the Roman copies of these originals. This part in the history of classical art has been dealt with by other researchers based on literary evidence only. However, in this paper, reconstructing this literary evidence into a clear picture to be seen and read easily by researchers interested in this field is examined. The paper also sheds some light on the artistic and social impact of this picture's existence in the city of Rome, and finally discusses the rise of the neo-Attic school of art.

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“…By the late Republic, statues adorned basilicas, sanctuaries, shrines 14 , and temples (Map.2. a, b, d), theatres, gardens, houses, and baths 15 (Map.2.…”

Section: Setting and Displaymentioning

confidence: 99%

Greek Originals: New Visual Language in the City of Rome

Elmageed¹,

Zayed²

2023

مجلة کلیة الآثار . جامعة القاهرة

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“…These classifications do not negate the complexity of urban space, instead, they serve as an exploratory method to assess how different buildings, associated with specific types of social activity, shaped movement patterns within Ostia's urban landscape. All excavated buildings that compose the late second century CE city were classified into one of these five categories following their general architectural function (Flohr 2013;Heinzelmann 2005;Meiggs 1973;Packer 1971;Russell 2016). There is a certain degree of speculation within these classifications.…”

Section: Ostia's Urban Landscapementioning

confidence: 99%

Rethinking Approaches for the Study of Urban Movement at Ostia

Crawford

2019

Computational Social Sciences

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Despite a range of existing approaches for examining movement within ancient cities, the study of movement intent has received limited attention. This paper begins to address this gap by considering how pedestrian movement can be studied at Ostia, Rome's ancient port, by transitioning focus to what structured movement routes, namely the built environment and social activity. Using the UNA (Urban Network Analysis) Toolbox developed for ArcGIS, betweeness centrality is calculated in relation to different types of buildings. The results, when associated with Ostia's streets, provide a visualization of potential areas of movement specific to certain social activities that occurred within the urban landscape. This provides a novel methodological approach for assessing different forms of directed movement within ancient urban landscapes.

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“…. have been seized as [Pompey] dismantled Mithridates' enormous treasuries', and that 'the live trees Pliny reports were carried in the triumph must be the same as those which later graced the portico and gardens' (Russell, 2016: 163; see also Kuttner, 1999: 345, 356). While this is impossible -Pliny reports that the trees were ebony trees, which do not grow in the temperate climate of Rome (Plin.…”

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Trajanic Trees: The Dacian Forest on Trajan's Column

Fox

2018

Pap. Br. Sch. Rome

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Trajan's Column stands in the centre of Rome as a proud monument to Trajan's triumph over Dacia in the early second century. On its 29 m tall shaft, a helical frieze depicts the events of the two wars which won the province for the Roman Empire. There are 224 trees to be found throughout this relief, 222 of which are native to Dacia. These trees have traditionally been treated as scene dividers and background material to the column's action. This article, which begins by exploring the identification of the trees in previous scholarship, argues that they are in fact crucial to the column's narrative of industry and conquest. The discussion of identification is followed by an examination of the numerous tree-felling scenes on the column as a metaphor for conquest. The article closes with a detailed analysis of contrasting representations of the two leaders on the column, Trajan and Decebalus, one an urban emperor, the other a forest king. By directing attention towards the arboreal population of the column, this article argues that trees cannot be dismissed as mere background detail, but play an active and significant role in the communication of ideas about triumph, imperialism and the conquest of nature.

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The Politics of Public Space in Republican Rome

Cited by 122 publications

References 184 publications

Greek Originals: New Visual Language in the City of Rome

Greek Originals: New Visual Language in the City of Rome

Rethinking Approaches for the Study of Urban Movement at Ostia

Trajanic Trees: The Dacian Forest on Trajan's Column

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