Amy Russell is Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History at the University of Durham. Her research concerns Roman political history broadly defined, ranging from detailed analyses of the Republican tribunate of the plebs to new interpretations of the Augustan Ara Pacis.

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• 1. Introduction; 2. Roman concepts: publicus and privatus; 3. The definition of political space in the Forum Romanum; 4. The Forum between political space and private space; 5. Gods, patrons, and community in sacred space; 6. Greek, Roman, public, and private: the space of art and the art of space; 7. Pompey and the privatisation of public space on the Campus Martius; 8. Conclusion: the death of public space?

Amy Russell is Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History at the University of Durham. Her research concerns Roman political history broadly defined, ranging from detailed analyses of the Republican tribunate of the plebs to new interpretations of the Augustan Ara Pacis.

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• 1. Introduction; 2. Roman concepts: publicus and privatus; 3. The definition of political space in the Forum Romanum; 4. The Forum between political space and private space; 5. Gods, patrons, and community in sacred space; 6. Greek, Roman, public, and private: the space of art and the art of space; 7. Pompey and the privatisation of public space on the Campus Martius; 8. Conclusion: the death of public space?

Amy Russell is Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History at the University of Durham. Her research concerns Roman political history broadly defined, ranging from detailed analyses of the Republican tribunate of the plebs to new interpretations of the Augustan Ara Pacis.

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• 1. Introduction; 2. Roman concepts: publicus and privatus; 3. The definition of political space in the Forum Romanum; 4. The Forum between political space and private space; 5. Gods, patrons, and community in sacred space; 6. Greek, Roman, public, and private: the space of art and the art of space; 7. Pompey and the privatisation of public space on the Campus Martius; 8. Conclusion: the death of public space?