Rome, Ostia, Pompeii Movement and Space

by Laurence, Ray; Newsome, David J.

• ISBN13: 9780199583126
• ISBN10: 0199583129
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-02-20
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Rome, Ostia, Pompeiicaptures how studies of the Roman city are currently shifting away from architecture towards a dynamic understanding of activitieswithinthe urban space. This is becoming a defining feature of new and innovative research on the nature of ancient urbanism and is underpinned by an understanding of the relationship between space and society - the two sides of the core dialectic of the 'Spatial Turn' in cultural studies. In this volume a new generation of scholars provide detailed case studies of the three best known cities from antiquity, Pompeii, Ostia, and Rome, and focus on the movement or flow of a Roman city's inhabitants and visitors, demonstrating how this movement contributes to our understanding of the way different elements of society interacted in space. Through a uniquely broad range of historical issues, such as the commoditization of movement in patronage relationships, the appropriation of 'architectural space' by 'movement space', the importance of movement and traffic in influencing representations of ancient urbanism and the Roman citizen, this volume studies movement as it is found both at the city gate, in the forum, in the portico, and on the street, and as it is represented in the text and on the page. Throughout this book, the authors are concerned with the residues of movement - the impressions left by the movement of people and vehicles, both as physical indentations in the archaeological record and as impressions upon the Roman urban consciousness. The volume's interdisciplinary approach will inform the understanding of the city in classics, ancient history, archaeology and architectural history, as well as cultural studies, town planning, urban geography, and sociology.

Author Biography

Ray Laurence is Professor of Roman History and Archaeology at the University of Kent. In 2006 he won the 'Longman-History Today New Generation Prize for book most likely to inspire the young to study history' for his volume Pompeii The Living City.

David J. Newsome was awarded his PhD in 2010 from the University of Birmingham. He won the BABESCH-Byvanck Award in 2008 for his innovative research on traffic and urban change at Pompeii. Both have published widely on the Roman city.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	p. xiii
List of Tables	p. Xvii
Notes on Contributors	p. xix
Introduction: Making Movement Meaningful	p. 1
Articulating Movement and Space
Movement and the Linguistic Turn: Reading Varro's De Lingua Latina	p. 57
Literature and the Spatial Turn: Movement and Space in Martial's Epigrams	p. 81
Measuring Spatial Visibility, Adjacency, Permeability, and Degrees of Street Life in Pompeii	p. 100
Towards a Multisensory Experience of Movement in the City of Rome	p. 118
Movement in the Roman City: Infrastructure and Organization
The Power of Nuisances on the Roman Street	p. 135
Pes Dexter. Superstition and the State in the Shaping of Shopfronts and Street Activity in the Roman World	p. 160
Cart Traffic Flow in Pompeii and Rome	p. 174
Where to Park? Carts, Stables, and the Economics of Transport in Pompeii	p. 194
The Spatial Organization of the Movement Economy: The Analysis of Ostia's Scholae	p. 215
Movement and the Metropolis
The Street Life of Ancient Rome	p. 245
The City in Motion: Walking for Transport and Leisure in the City of Rome	p. 262
Movement and Fora in Rome (the Late Republic to the First Century ce)	p. 290
Movement, Gaming, and the Use of Space in the Forum	p. 312
Construction Traffic in Imperial Rome: Building the Arch of Septimius Severus	p. 332
Movement and Urban Development at Two City Gates in Rome: The Porta Esquilina and Porta Tiburtina	p. 361
Endpiece: From Movement to Mobility: Future Directions	p. 386
Bibliography	p. 402
Index	p. 441
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